waste will tell you what the government is planning to do about it. and will tell you about the unconventional ways some former world leaders want to fight the war on drugs. hello there we've got plenty of showers across southeast asia at the moment but on the satellite picture you can also make out the swirling mass of cloud here with a very well defined eye that is a typhoon and it is gradually pulling away towards the north that means force in the philippines it should avoid us and for the time being we're looking at sunshine and showers nothing more sinister than that elsewhere over the next few days that would also be some brightness but some rather hefty downpours the exception really is in the south for us in java at across into bali it should be fine and settled

over towards australia and forcing darwin it's the dry season at the moment so you wouldn't expect any rain but we do have just the faintest shadow of a cloud there that will to some rather hefty downpours twenty nine millimeters of rain there just in two hours it really was very very wet but it looks like it's going to stay dry over the next few days instead the showers there likely to be around the coast of sydney hair that's likely to be one or two rather shop once a temperature of fifteen degrees their force on wednesday and as we head through into the day the temperatures should rise this time up to twenty one further towards the west should be fine and settled for us in perth a maximum here of twenty degrees so the inland i suppose of w.a. there will be a bit more clout or more to show its. when i think of my nature i think of potential when i think a potential i think will be what is not i think people need to do to get into their

own and do something that they can be called tom it's impossible i think it was a challenge. the reason a child we're going to talk. money is being cautious on and this is my. my my dear on al-jazeera. oh you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the e.u. says it's working on a plan that would allow it to trade with iran the aim is to get around u.s. sanctions that follows president's trumps decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal this year he's threatened to punish those who do business with tehran

. in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition says it will open humanitarian corridors between data and sana'a in coordination with the un fighting over the port of her day that has stopped aid agencies from reaching millions of people the un's humanitarian chief says famine could strike at any time. the u.s. is warning russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria russia sending the s. three hundred system a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti-aircraft fire. brings main opposition party will begin voting shortly on what and how to respond to the government's bragg's it talks with the if the brakes the talks with the e.u. fail labor party members are deciding whether it should back a second referee referendum if it can't get a general election leader jeremy coleman has said he'd prefer an election of another public vote on the e.u.

membership. dean barber is live for a sin live. just explain to us why this vote is so important. will has i'm just firstly a bit about what labor has or hasn't decided on sunday night after many hours of difficult talks they came up with what they call a composite motion and that's what they're voting on in the next few hours it's almost certain to pass now is the result of basically a lot of campaigning by particularly young labor members who have very much in favor of remaining close to the european union and many of them remaining in the european union and he breaks it and what they came up put up with was a text which says that if labor fails to get a general election then it will keep all of its options on the table which includes campaigning for

a people's votes now the wording according to the shadow secretary kiss starmer there was wording removed which would have said a people's vote on the deal so now it means there could be a people's vote could be meaning either vote for the deal which the government has struck with brussels all vote to stay in the european union john mcdonald the shadow chancellor seemed to suggest that wasn't on the cards but he's been contradicted now quite firmly in the last few hours by his starmer who said that the rooms clearly rule to keep the option in all voting to stay in the european union why does this matter because when the leadership over all along saying that their preferred option is going for a general election well it's not clear that they could force one there are many tory rebels who would likely vote against a reason miles and deal with brussels hard but such as if you like but it's not clear the math adds up to give them a majority with labor to defeat that so hot some people say the only way to get out

of the empire's would be another referendum something that something is in labor say would be undemocratic but it's generally pop. interestingly enough to stomach also refused to rule out labor supporting an extension of the article fifty process which is the negotiating process itself so in theory one way out could be to extend the leaving date if you like so that person wouldn't pull out on march the twenty ninth next year but the life for us there in the now the united states has approved the sale of three hundred thirty million dollars in military equipment to taiwan and include spare parts and support for f. sixteen fighter jets and other military aircraft the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island which has been doing for nearly forty years china considers taiwan part of its territory and opposes all u.s. military sales and russ feingold is an asia political risk analyst he says this new

deal with taiwan will not help relations between china and the u.s. we simply don't know how long taiwan could withstand a military attack from china but from the u.s. perspective anything that you can do such as sell these spare parts or what is likely in the future additional weapon sales does help taiwan prevent a chinese attack given that it's a relatively small dollar amount and spare parts by itself it would in anger china however the totality of the circumstances are certainly indicative that this will contribute to more tension between the u.s. and china and we've seen so many issues arise just in the last week or two whether it's u.s. military patrols in the south china sea the tyrant's and now this announcement of sale weapons sales to taiwan so it's one more issue got will now be on the agenda then clearly they'll be

a period of recriminations from both sides. world leaders are in new york for the u.n. general assembly as secretary general is expected to paint a grim picture of the state of affairs around the world and call on countries to work together a year after president donald trump's fiery address they're threatening to totally destroy north korea he's now striking a much softer tone mike hanna reports from the u.n. . president trump arrives highlighting one major change in his position since derisively labeling north korea's leader a little rocket man a year ago. you wrote a letter beautiful letter. asking for a second meeting we will be doing that secretary will work that out in the future looks like it will be very very well tremendous progress for north korea certainly

since we got here it was a different world it was a very dangerous time this is a lot it's just one year later a much different tack. many periods president trump could prove best disruptive as the intense security measures imposed in midtown manhattan. but no signs of gridlock in the first public event he hosted opening a session on the global drug problem with a few surprise of the united nations and its secretary general we also thank the secretary general for joining us and our special guest and as our special guest he's come a great friend and he's doing a wonderful job at a very very complex situation but a beautiful situation and i've always said the united nations has tremendous potential and that potential is being met slowly but surely it's being met little mention at the stage of u.s. action against united nations entities threats to dismantle the human rights

council the suspension of funding to the relief and works agency. and the unilateral withdrawal from both the paris climate accord and the iranian nuclear agreement positions at all it's with what many of the leaders view as the problem philosophy of the united nations it should not rely only on the political interests of a few as an impasse between the major powers often impedes the entire organizations ability to act. the united nations can only succeed to the degree that we as global leaders provide visionary leadership that transcends our ideological differences. through national interests over the road from the united nations the stark black monolith called the trump international tower which like it will loom over the rest of the week's proceedings

mike hanna al-jazeera united nations are sweden's prime minister stephan love and has lost a no confidence vote following this month's elections you have to step down after members of parliament voted to remove the center right social democratic leader the elections in september left nine of the main right or left bloc with an outright majority. a pope francis has arrived in estonia on the final leg of his tour of the baltic region ahead of the catholic church is helping stoniest celebrate one hundred years since its original independence from russia in one thousand nine hundred eight paid his respects to the victims of the holocaust in the region during his visit which is included lithuania and latvia. a u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has again denied accusations of sexual misconduct he defended himself in a t.v. interview a day after a second accuser came forward john hendren has more. you know. as protesters

faced arrest to demonstrate against president donald trump's supreme court pick brett kavanaugh is striking back. appearing with his wife on fox news a day after not one but two new accusers emerged he insists he's been wrongly accused saying the truth is i have never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise i'm not questioning and have not question that perhaps dr ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone in some place would i know is that i've never sexually assaulted anyone kevin i was seventeen when his original accuser christine blousy forward says he tried to rape her cavanaugh and ford are scheduled to break their silence at a senate hearing on thursday but the white house considered that too late president trump is standing behind his nominee for the united states highest court since a fine man and we certainly hope he's going to be confirmed as quickly republican leaders in congress aren't backing down either this is what the so-called

resistance has become a smear campaign pure and simple democrats would let a few and conveyed of things like a complete lack of evidence or accusers requests for confidentiality to get between them and a good smear. it's just spectacle. on sunday kavanagh's nomination was struck with back to back bombshell first the new yorker magazine published the account of deborah ramirez who says the cavanagh exposed himself to her while they were both students in a university then the lawyer for stormy daniels the woman who was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars by president trump's lawyer to deny that she had an affair with the president says that he has another client who says that she also was assaulted by kevin and now the republicans who run the senate judiciary committee are considering whether to go ahead with the thursday hearing or to postpone it to

investigate further with just six weeks to go before the november midterm elections that could shift control of congress and the supreme court nomination to democrats john hendren al-jazeera washington. and the international drug control system is failing that is the finding of a new report published by twelve former world leaders they're calling for some drugs to be legalized since banning them has proved ineffective john heilemann reports from mexico this new report on drug policy has a fair amount of weight behind it it's been put together by a group including twelve x. heads of state and its message is simple and stock prohibition has failed it says and the world needs to legalize and regulate drugs. the yeah that's true see what we've done for century has been a mistake prohibition doesn't work it's causing a lot of damage it should be eliminated and instead we should have policies based on brake elation. the group some veiled the report in mexico because it says that

nowhere better to shows the failure of prohibition there's been a full frontal assault on cartels here for a decade but it's just because turf. is kingpins of phoolan and others have to take their place. as well as such human cost the report also emphasizes the vast amounts being lost to governments in the form of taxes from what is the largest illicit market in the world the former leaders has got a lot of suggestions of models for legalisation from state monopolies to purely personal production they also talked about the vulnerable people at the bottom of the drug world if legalization happens so little boys little girls that are in the drug trade what happens to the mothers who are smuggling from one country to the other at the risk of their lives so our next step is really proposition that the for the punishment of these of these people reintegration in society development of

measures of integration the incoming mexican government is in step with that talking about an amnesty for some of those on the lowest rungs of organized crime as well as possibly legalizing marijuana and opium that's been incredibly controversial and what is still a very socially conservative region but a growing number of countries worldwide are taking a look at what legalization could mean. thailand says it will no longer take in other countries electronic trash so far this year seen an influx of waste arriving in the country after china enforced a similar ban line hey reports. these are not images normally associated with one of the world's most popular tourist destinations through a combination of consumption poor infrastructure and practices thailand is one of the world's largest contributors of ocean waste many of its beaches and waterways are clogged with rubbish it's also one of the region's biggest importers of waste

but is making a move to stop it within six months the government says it will ban imports of hundreds of types of scrap electronics. in the proposal we suggest banning the import of used electrical appliances which total four hundred thirty two items last year thailand imported fifty three thousand tons of waste which is recycled for precious metal or plastic but it can also contain hazardous materials this year it's almost matched that amount already a result of china stopping some waste imports in january in thailand only a few companies are licensed to import a waste but corruption and weak law enforcement mean a lot more is brought into the country illegally or that's your task. to the car lot. to the letter to the town's friends and. a partner. this has been saying is

next on the hit list is plastic thailand plans to ban plastic imports within the next two years but like the ban on the waste the plan is light on detail but what it may do is focus attention on domestic plastic use at the moment less than a quarter is recycled already used. thailand has been slow to wake up to its waste problem until the new laws are implemented and enforced there will be skepticism about the government's commitment to clean up wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. this is al jazeera let's get a round up of the top stories the e.u. says it's working on a way to keep trading with iran despite u.s. sanctions president truck pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal earlier this year and put sanctions on businesses that deal with iran european union and other countries that signed on to the nuclear

deal now want to find a way for businesses to avoid u.s. countermeasures e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate legitimate financial transactions with iran and this will allow european companies to continue to trade with iran in accordance with european union low and could be open to other partners in the woods in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition says it will open humanitarian corridors between her data and sana'a in coordination with the un fighting over the port of data has stopped aid agencies from reaching millions of people un humanitarian affairs chief is warning that a famine could strike at any time the u.s. is warning russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria it's sending the s. three hundred system a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti aircraft

fire russia blames israel for that incident. united states has approved the sale of three hundred thirty million dollars in military equipment to taiwan that includes spare parts and support for f. sixteen fighter jets and other plates the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island which it's done for nearly forty years. sweden's prime minister stephan north and has lost a confidence vote following this month's elections you have to step down after members of parliament voted to remove the center right social democrat leader the elections left no bloc with an outright majority of britain's main opposition party is trying to work out its response to the government's briggs's talks with the e.u. if they fail labor party members may back a second referendum if it can't get a general election leader jeremy corbyn has said he'd prefer an election over another public vote on e.u. membership those are the headlines we're back with more after my nigeria.

you. were. right. let me ask will we give you five or ten years. what would you be doing where would you be women who want to be able to you because if we were young to be careful of your resume your hand i do sure you really want to answer ok you're ok just to have you know i am i ask you with a question i'm not asked and if you don't get the answer right at you leave this really readily. and i'm serious of other. ok you know what i just did i've just

presented to you what life would always do life would try to scare you but only the bull would only those who are able to keep and or if you want to be threatened i saw that she was going to put i'm down but here it is among with talk now. and she put it off and i love the bonus that i see now that is the attitude i want all of you to have one of the questions that i asked anybody i interviewed is tell me how your field before and what you did about it because i think fill your might be an opportunity. i'm a social entrepreneur i told by the many should have nigeria on our walk is focused on young people. all of the. right keep going. on.

in mind that you know that one is potentially what the majority makes me. is the fact that for many years we basically said all the government to government shoe those shoes those that issued. anything he would install. when else much younger than i access to a computer and i went out of my way to not use it and so that's is a key part of what i do not training young people connecting them with opportunities from technologies. to get them into what they're going to and this is what the population multiplies it's called small nigeria out through because you will find people from almost every

tried to every time the. in my study and i don't do school which is why i got all those you know idea and passion about technology from i was told by a teacher i would never want us to not use computers because you know i was really tiny and he was the big money said no you kind of fantasies there were like you. i cry cannot be a movie really is that you did not have tears in your eyes when you get into the flow of the girls who look at you as a woman's voice so i think after cry between the principal's office on my class i you know when you africa right inside i moved outside inside before somebody said something up ok and you got to be born until tomorrow on to every five of you right

or you don't want to know so you create it inside and i'm. the kind of guy you don't turn on to do something i would do it if you told me it's impossible i think it was a challenge like you're saying or. i'm only talking with intuit you're going there we're told he said see you are you sure . he's in there now if you're. in one incident and that's because what we offer it's very simple scene you have this community doesn't exactly inspire hope but if you go through this process you will become a role model for everyone else in the community.

all of them this is what i learned in my short years of going from the young man who was told he would never want to not use computers to becoming a one who travels the world to discuss the same thing called computers but there's a blend what if we put together to start the curriculum here what it really is and if you thought you could be introduced into this. we're transforming center. what i basically want to communicate to them is one thing these seven weeks will change your life if you allow them to.

my dearest the. last year i wanted to write an exam the exam was visibly on. so there is no i came to be was just learning. a new weapon even. people who are very very collegiate and i even had to think in that it is only. when i came to him while i was really surprised that even if it could be thousands of very wonderful for me. color sat down. in a condom propre. or in a nylon. bag and were made into. the schools who answer your own words is a clash with their parents or ours out some. very very well

or the lessons even the lessons i went we were not able to do where wanted to. money. state of the field is training new and help over the next few years right what do you see yourself you know over the next two to three years. i've been. to be with ok well i'll be doing what he was walking the street in before. so how did you hear about this. impression i'm getting is that. somebody told me all of us thought i was like all that stuff. you know and that's this.

you should never have life or something you don't want to but i mean honestly you know you think it's an opportunity you just want of life or you should you should get some wonderful mission. with all sorts of people from d.c. interested to see. this is the only opportunity all getting my life to. this. point i mean it's an even if i live in the nice it's an opportunity that little bit of worth it if. you're. the kind of people who are looking for from very very blue background who would otherwise not be able to afford this kind of training that's one of the things that if you are selected you will then form this program to make money from your skills to pick

opus and we're looking for is someone who is already on a path to unemployment and to the bottom of the pyramid but we can tell that they're just looking for one opportunity you know to make themselves better because once you have one person you have literally. my name is in my care for a friend of my would me about being winded in words and creating new persons and he brought to the form i was like there was these that i don't usually believe what you've been like get into the simple diet as it plays out and you're so impact into you without you being a dying or is like wow is this happening in this place so i say ok let me give it a try i had to call man i saw it i saw it for myself i'm it was a really wonderful. yeah there's my whole reality.

there's my mom. leaving for. then the sister doesn't fall as you would make it eleven years and my mom and my older sister sleep under thirty and my older brother stays on this place on this chair yeah and i myself i sleep here is where i sleep. so that's my old. missing. gary and. it's full. of his drug use has been something else to some people knows me to d.d. don't really know would have passed through. that was even one of the the the that my mom she nearly wanted to drown inside the ocean but my. been very small

so out there on. me in my court. because i know what she wanted to do she wanted to get us they had seen. it you. told us all computer genius that you did in nigeria but we're different in the sense that our training is more focused is not even for coastal niceties so what we see is that our work is. a youth equal opportunities that's why we go to the life program it's focused on life skills because these are kids who have been beaten by life so we visit to make them understand you can actually do something we have i.c.t. meters or so one of the four different things we do it is financial radius and the last part of it is and to produce a ship it's a busy week on the show you or i would use something you know and i would imagine i would tell you no this done within the show you are basically means open your eyes

because that opportunities the reason you can see them is because you don't open your eyes wide you know. if. i see many people in their street just delays in the chain if i can call more from dad. workers. if p.v. could transform my income in my mindset my way of reasoning leave those people out there they can also possible. be anything between fifteen and eighteen million most of the people you would find that young people who just left school and are trying to eke out a living for themselves. every day does your hair money spent there's

a reason why there's always late when my dear abby is there always later you will. i was one of your forty. if it was do not waste the resources it's. my point is this life in prison opportunities and people would take it in different ways one opportunity you have right now is the seven retreat an opportunity i look forward to that of one young man or that one young woman who will become the face of this nigerian needs more kind of people because they need to inspire our children. they need to bring it creative constructive thinking trigger its mind so they can see it can see the future of the council car they can have a big show in the future will anybody have these on these our screens. knows what about you know. i don't mean wendy oh you mean you can. eat.

a good scene. and teach. people to be psychic yet. is it that. keeps them in this corner and say oh only. one passion whereas just because i want them to compact sedan well the first thing goes beyond just when you've got information from practical happiness responding you i don't think you know it's definitely what's missing. is brain but our young people sees ok that this is very very being in fact he's advised you see.

what we tell everyone when they come for the dream and you don't only lend you also need to spread where you live and it's interesting to see how things are like michael and take on construction and then turn it into something got to leave out and so when i asked them i wasn't surprised by the way to have thought one of the reasons the dream that is because that was sure to. let me just. let me. meagan plead. the best. for.

you. if. i don't like so when i'm in the car what i do then is to cut off on social media a conversation that up and because i believe that you know in this time and age it's the least opportunity that i have to contribute to national conversation. but it's time for be all you can be right he ought to be ninety nine point nine and our special guest for all of. those who media the internet practically every night during our. phone we've seen the level of involvement and completely so i said to people that all the you know inserting of our social media technology for sometime around two thousand and nine by two thirds and we

began to see citizens use the same platform to save themselves so somebody you're responsible you know but it put a person online so we had to see if this person saved up or some campaign by twenty fourteen we saw one of the most important ones was bring back our girls where one tweet from an event was were treated by someone else and then went all over the ward and became a movement going to twenty fifteen is the same a mentor of social media what we were beginning to see ok so fantastic you know what this conversation doesn't end here we know that you have a lot to say so thank you very much as if your you can be us take it offline so i don't have one of interest. things about radio is that you have more read you don't you have internet and so when i get a chance to discuss issues in radio especially when it has to do with technology i'm excited because then i know i can reach out to more people online and well feeling that. one thing. is that he says well on boy i was.

thinking. you. know this mission will basically have a network and you're going to community like a refinery listed by the washer and so you have a floating around. you know running no take this is a long walk even so i think around the yeah. yeah. on my top of one of the first few things i had a problem with was the right in the shot description of myself. so it was easy for me to see you know i said for development consultant or a city expert but i also wanted to cut short the spirit of all this i mean the t.v. does it. was.

there we were here so. you're right we were. good afternoon. my name is being done. and i'm one of those who don't online. offline it's sad that we're still here so as i speak to you today. my wife and i any time within the next two weeks we expecting our first baby and that instinct of a father is beginning to come down i can imagine what it will feel like for you father . intent on voluntary initially what i thought was an if in that was littered with technology youth and i joined in the same reason why i got involved with a government could not that was about young people it was about nigeria and the

only thing i knew i knew to do at a time was through psychologic. so to do. websites. what worries me is we've reached where less than a million in a country where we need to reach thirty four million now that doesn't happen in the night when you know the the numbers for poverty levels in niger and neutral our work is to make sure that every young person that we train is able to rise not just above the poverty line but is able to take the tire family above

the poverty line then our times we ask ourselves what os to do this. for me and my mother. i hope to go deeper into studying more about what i do what i love doing like music is. it when i get angry i can go to music and play my guitar and i come back to myself. my hope in life is that by goes greece as god blesses me i'm going to take the country to go and rest and and just because she's she's done she's. the rest she needs to enjoy life for it before she goes back to go. see.

me because he said was. he said when he was. not scared of anything and then all of a while. i hear you're going to be a very very has a past. and you can never be like this and he goes it was we had on this. thing the first thing that hit me was do i want to visit a child in which. there were things that i. didn't want us to myself because i was

raised here but i think you miss we don't know if because of the reason a child in the country. and i also don't want my child asking me to. that he wanted. to make my job it was enough. i've got to see what i. live. by the way is what he's going to do. it to ted. and was more than i'm to join his beautiful. bookmark for. the.

top like his. first baby was is tough like you. thought him. and this is my natural. when i think of my nightshirt i think of potential and i think of real life. when i think of potential i think of what it is not when i think of auction i think of young people who are literally future into your own hands and do something that they can be proud of and others can also be proud of

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millions already short of food but there could be a deal on getting help in via humanitarian corridors. a chance to speak to the world the u.n. general assembly is just hours away in new york also ahead. i'm wayne hay reporting from thailand a major importer exporter and producer of waste will tell you what the government is planning to do about it and install football's governing body nine their world player of the year. look at mortgage. crisis in mint fail to ending ronaldo and messi is dominance of individual global. top story relations between iran and the united states and the whole nuclear deal will be high on many agendas of course of the united nations in the coming days but

already the european union has made its position very clear it's working on a way for its countries to continue trading with iran despite the threat of u.s. sanctions we're live in tehran in just a minute but first for the news our she have protons you know from washington. the e.u. was reported to have been discussing what it calls a special purpose or vehicle for several weeks and on monday night the e.u. foreign policy chief said it would be going ahead e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate legit to make financial transactions with it on and this will allow european companies to continue to trade we get on in accordance with european union low and could be open to other partners in the what the plans discussed in the past have involved an entity being set up to act as a go between or clearing house which we run and other nations to facilitate commercial transactions for example if a country or company wants to buy iranian oil it would send money to or perhaps

engage in a barter system involving this entity which will handle the transaction with iran the same were true in reverse for iran's dealings with the rest of the world the idea is to bypass commercial and central banks who are fearful of being frozen out of the u.s. financial system if they help circumvent the new sanctions being imposed by the trumpet ministration against iran in the vendor however the details have yet to be worked out and there is some skepticism that the system will work especially given the large number of european companies already tailing their business dealings with iran. those meeting at the u.n. also announced that around remained in compliance with the nuclear deal and pledged their commitment to remain participants the meeting on the sidelines of the un general assembly didn't just involve european foreign ministers but the foreign ministers of russia and china as well meeting with iran coming as it did on the eve before donald trump addresses the u.n. general assembly in what's been billed as an attempt to really blast iran for its

activity this was a sign of real international solidarity here in new york she ever chancy al-jazeera new york. ok that's the picture from washington's same bus robbie as our correspondent in the iranian capital tehran zain let's just talk about oil on the ground what's the reality of that situation. well peter one of the way that iran currently sells oil is that it loads it up onto tankers and sails it out into international waters and sells it from there to countries like china for instance and it's hacks like that it's activities like that that has allowed iran to maintain a revenue stream and continue to generate income from oil sales officials we've spoken to have said over and over again that their oil sales have not fallen. and remain largely the same from before the twenty fifty nuclear deal was negotiated during the negotiations and then thereafter until now oil sales have remained the

same so international demand market forces dictate that the math is on iran side so unless the trumpet ministration and the white house is willing to accept a a a price hike unless the international oil market is willing to see oil prices go up something that the president donald trump has lobbied oil producing nations against letting happen then really the math will remain on iran side so oil sales aren't expected to fall and even president hassan rouhani in new york said that the idea of reduced reducing iranian oil sales to zero barrels a day is little more than hyperbole here's what he had to say this is an empty promise. and it's no threat that is empty of credibility perhaps on this path we will sustain certain pressures but certainly the united states would not reach its objective now the nitty gritty zain of the u.n. general assembly just a couple of hours away now i mean what does the iranian leadership want to see

coming out of those discussions. well with the latest attack on saturday in a vase against a military parade for iranian veterans of the iraq war really iran pushing its right to preserve its own national security is likely to take a big portion of those meetings iran is likely to be seen bashing its traditional enemies like the united states saudi arabia and israel and now as well the united arab emirates but really this u.n.g.a. for iran and rouhani attending is all about peddling influence they they want to be seen to be able to reenergize the campaign to preserve the twenty fifteen nuclear deal to join comprehensive plan of action i'm going to throw a few numbers that you this time last year to buy one dollar here in iran you had to pay thirty eight thousand reales when president hassan rouhani plane hit the tarmac in new york that price had risen to one hundred fifty thousand results and

that number the difference between those two numbers represents a few different things it represents some internal mismanagement but really it represents what the trumpet ministrations policies against iran have been able to accomplish in terms of hurting iran's economy here on the ground and so what you're running leaders are likely to be seen doing is not only blaming the united states for their internal troubles to help them politically domestically but they'll be pushing their partners the the four remaining signatories plus one to the nuclear deal to do something quicker than they have been to try to help save some of the economic benefit for iran from the nuclear deal but as far as the numbers seem to be saying there's been a lot of moral victories a lot of rhetoric but not enough action on the ground to help secure the economy in a more meaningful way thanks ok let's talk now to james moran he's a senior research fellow at the sense of for european policy studies and previously served as an e.u. ambassador to egypt jordan and yemen james neuron we're talking here about payment

channels will that can it work. we don't yet know i mean waters as your correspondent pointed out one of the options of course is to look at some sort of bata trading system the sort that we used to have in the old as the soviet union. but whether or not that's going to prove possible is anybody's guess at this time and still quite a bit of work to be done on that and also want to shouldn't forget that it's always possible that somehow the u.s. could expand its sanctions scope to include bata trade as well as financial trade although that all of that is uncharted territory. on the other side of course a lot of work's been going on here in brussels and in the member state capitals concern as regards some sort of compensation or a mechanism for companies who are investing in the count in iran or trading with

iran that doesn't seem to be getting too far and a lot of people to predict it will be very difficult because it simply is not enough to reassure especially the larger company as when it comes to the possibility of them being caught in the net of the u.s. sanctions so that's why of course people like total georgia telecom have us and others have been very hesitant and in fact in many cases of pulled out so there is still a chance that that sort of thing might work for a smaller companies who don't have big u.s. interest but it's too early to say i mean the e.u. central line today is it is workable and crucially it is legal you've already touched on my next point to me what's to stop the trumpet ministration saying ok you're getting around it with this new system we will go after those middlemen companies that you're in the setting up or you are using as a part of the flow of trying to maintain the business because maintaining business is the framework that the e.u.

hopes clearly will keep the nuclear deal well and truly alive. yeah well i mean as far as that's concerned it only works there that's to say the u.s. pursuit of company is and that is only works in so far as those companies and it is have substantial interest in the united states so i would assume that however it's set up that the commercial entities that are involved in this and that will have to be commercial and that is would be those that don't have big interests in the u.s. and would not be in danger of u.s. sanctions and so forth but that still doesn't get around the problem of an enlargement of scope somehow of the sanctions doing through bata trade it will be difficult there's no doubt about it but i think it also what's important here it shows that every possible avenue is being traveled down right now by the e.u. and indeed by the partners here the chinese the russians of course is all part of this too to try to get whatever economic benefit can be saved out of the g c p

a way so as to keep the iranians side for the for the coming period and i think this can only be helpful to the iranian ministration i mean he's got these other problem of course it's not my business to get involved in internal or any in politics but you have also the difficulty of the religious leadership which of course is hardline and so on in terms of supporting the right rouhani administration i think europe is doing everything that it possibly can right now to try to save the agreement of course. some of this will depend on political developments in the u.s. who knows in the next year or two of whether things change ok in the next couple of days however developments we're going to hear from donald trump we assume talking about iran talking about the iranian nuclear deal we also expect to hear from hasan rouhani talking about this facility this mechanism on balance do you think do you have the sense that this can or cannot preserve the nuclear deal in a sense in

a way as we could have described it six months ago or twelve months ago when everyone was saying this is the only deal on the table is the best way forward. it's just not possible to say yes or no right now we need to see how this worked for seeds but i think there is a prospect that if not. provide the full range of benefits that the iranians expected there is still a prospect that some of those benefits would still occur whether that's enough to support the rouhani administration and its efforts to keep the agreement alive domestically is very difficult to say but don't count it out yet and i think that the commitment is very strong as margarita made that very clear in his statement today and.