and then to this proposed new trade mechanism right so late monday nights the europeans and the iranians announce that they would attempt to put together a some sort of clearing house to ensure mutual trade can still take place without any chance that the americans can interfere or penalize those. those actually having those trades between each other when the new set of sanctions and and secretary sanctions to go into effect in november so we have from mike pump a zero first and he said actually at that meeting that he was deeply disappointed to hear remaining parties in the iran deal announce they're setting up a special payment system to bypass u.s. sanctions he went on and this is the strong but this is one of the most counterproductive measures imaginable of a regional blow to peace and security bolton was a little less serious he dislikes really made fun of the whole idea pointing out that there is no detail in these plans yet that have been set out by the e.u. iran russia and china and there's no time frame for implementing this and i'm

afraid that is something that the you and all these other parties also can see that it's all very rough right now but it certainly was a show of solidarity with iran on this key day on this key day when donald trump and others spoke about a room or right to shabba tansey there at the u.n. in new york she had thank you let's talk now to hillary mann leverett is a former u.s. diplomat who's negotiated with the iranian government in the passage and us live now from washington d.c. hilary good to have you back donald trump says iran's leaders are saying chaos death destruction in the middle east and beyond he clearly has no place north korea with iran as global enemy number one. yes and we see what's happened with north korea and chairman kim who trump now declares to be an honorable man who he has a very good personal relationship with while there was certainly strident very tough anti iran rhetoric throughout the on the sidelines of the u.n. and from trump himself what i found striking was that trump seemed to even almost

be almost falling asleep while he was reading the talking points in his speech condemning iran and his tweet this morning was that you know he's not going to be he's probably not meeting with president rouhani at the u.n. this time but that president rouhani is probably a very lovely man so we see the dichotomy with trump as he dealt with north korea as he's dealing with iran my my sense of my understanding from within the trump administration is that president trump himself would be very happy having a new deal with iran one that can be devoid of any detail because he doesn't really care about nuclear weapons or terrorism or anything else he just wants to have a victory that he can tout along with his victory with with north korea to the american public that he is so much better than president obama so while the rhetoric has been strident and president trump's advisers are some of the most anti iran india lugs out there president trump himself does seem to have

a different view and does seem to be holding the door open for a possible meeting with president rouhani something that trump's own advisers fear more than anything in history we've seen european leaders trying to save the iran nuclear deal setting up this payment system to keep doing business with iran and bypassing u.s. sanctions but john bolton the u.s. national security advisers assume nobody will get away with undermining u.s. sanctions so are we heading then for some kind of serious showdown between the u.s. and europe over iran. yes and i think that's intentional not only to put more pressure on iran but to divide the european union one of the most important foreign policy objectives of the trump administration is to divide the european union to force european countries especially countries like germany and france and the united kingdom for each of them to deal with the united states by laterally where the united states has leverage over them particularly in trade relationships so the united states is no longer interested under the trunk

administration in a coherent politically strong european union it would like to divide them and the year the iran issue is perfect for the trying to ministration to use against the europeans to show them as weak and ineffectual that they can't even stand up for a deal they negotiated then let me get a final thought from you before you go i mean the should have a chance he was saying just before you there that both us such of state might pump a zero and john bolton have said regime change in iran is the u.s. objective but yet the u.s. has come out very openly about the money in the region regime so what is the u.s. and game on iran. well for some of truck for trump advisors for national security advisor john bolton who has been a paid spokesman for the mujahideen. a this cult like terrorist organization that is against the government of iran for trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani who goes to paris at that moment's notice to stand with mrs raja be with any k.

they absolutely are for unequivocally the overthrow even the violent overthrow of the government of iran but that said the problem has some of the most viciously anti iran advisors but he himself like he has dealt with north korea has kept that door open where he could stay on hand in hand with president rouhani with the over the deal of the century it seems that that's something that he very much would like so it is very much a battle between the hard core anti iran if you log that trump has surrounded himself with and trump himself but we see that we say that we see that playing out almost on a daily basis hillary mann leverett thank you very much indeed for your time well in a message to the u.s. turkey's president used his speech at the u.n. to warn his country couldn't remain silent over the use of economic sanctions as a weapon johnny on the small little. dollar to trade wars have homes humanity and every h. and we on the brink gets another period if we fear again none of us can remain

silent to cancellation of commercial agreements the use of economic sanctions with but eventually to fix all countries on the israel palestine issue also featured at the un general assembly the status of jerusalem was raised by the king of jordan how long was jerusalem a holy city to more than half of the world's people face dangers to its multi-faith heritage and identity how can we accept a status quo of continuing crises and bigotry palestinians families displaced for generations their children's very identity tonight. israeli families living in continuing national self isolation with the security of peaceful relationships worldwide and what could possibly be the future of what some propose a single binational state whose very foundation is

a rejection of the equality of its own people that's the ugly undemocratic reality of the one state idea. it is by no means an alternative to a two state peace settlement. are also addressed the un general assembly calling on countries in the gulf to resolve their differences what have you got to a new home invader a new a did it before it is not reasonable that different views about how to handle regional issues should paralyze the effectiveness of an important regional organization like the gulf cooperation council the blockade of qatar has harmed the reputation of the g.c.c. countries and the g.c.c. as paralysis has reflected negatively on its work towards regional and global issues we hope that we will all transform the council's current plight into an opportunity to reform and to put forward binding mechanisms to resolve the differences among its states through intrastate dialogue to avoid any similar

occurrence in the future it is not sensible for arab region to remain hostage to some marginal differences which are fabricated in our case. our lots more still to come here on the news hour including india's prime minister faces allegations of corruption stemming from a twenty six deal to buy french fighter jets. use even looks for its youngsters to help provide its indigenous language and support. his teeth again as he focuses on his next coming up with far in the sport a little bit late. now the saudi immorality coalition fighting in yemen says it's working with the u.n. to open humanitarian corridors that will allow aid to be delivered the u.n. is one that millions of yemenis are at risk of famine and as andrew symonds reports

starving families are struggling to get to the few clinics available a warning you may find some images in his report disturbing another arrival is a clinic in northern yemen. two years old but mao nutrition means he's in a critical condition starvation is threatening families who are among the poorest in the middle east those least capable of surviving. sam's grandmother is understandably distraught not nasser we don't have money to transport him to the treatment he can only get in sanaa we're in such a dilemma those who gave us money before can't do so anymore no one can keep giving in the situation we don't have any help from any side in this war and we don't have an afghan. bassam maybe two but he weighs less than five kilos that's ten pounds the capital sana'a where specialist care or medicine may give him

a better chance might as well be a world away even though the distance from this clinic that as them in had province is around a hundred kilometers. fighting on the supply line to sana'a from the red sea port of the data which like the capital is in control of the who the rebels is relentless but a trained government forces as still pushing to take away the control of the data now with the level of fighting as it stands there are worries about how long it will take to open up a humanitarian corridor but tween santa and her data the assurance came out of the un general assembly on monday heard a clamor of warnings that time is running out if a full scale famine is to be avoided for the first time the parents of a money attrition victim three year old zafer sack of have spoken of their daughter's death it was last week after she went to the same clinic as bassem i

have a house and in have your province. her father like the parents of bassem says he had no money to take his daughter to get better treatment elsewhere and xavier's mother is worried about her other children's chances of survival she is inconsolable and my daughter had malnutrition and her condition was so bad that you could count the ribs in her chest a feet were swollen but on the rest of her body you could see all of her bones so in areas grew bigger but hours before her death the swelling disappeared and she returned to skin and. food aid is now arriving in this remote area and staff in the clinic who tried against the odds to save zafer are now doing what they can to save little bassam andrew symonds. britain's main opposition party is now officially backing a second referendum on brags that the labor party adopted a motion move that its annual conference it says if it can't force

a general election it must support all options on the table the party has already indicated it will vote against any breaks that deal the prime minister to resign may reach is with the e.u. law and sleaze in liverpool. if you look. for the true believers in the current labor passim this is the must have a conference never mind that their leader jeremy corbin has only a lukewarm relationship with the european union criticising it in the past as a capitalist club convincing him to defeat bricks it is everything now the labor party the democratic party well it's becoming a more democratic party and i think the leadership will accept. the voice of the members. about democracy and actually the call for a new referendum on brics it is also about democracy labor membership has boomed under a philosophy that says the wider the wealth gap in britain the harder you have to

fight back until now this unrepentant socialism has maintained a deafening silence over bricks it but no longer over the course of this week the labor party has unveiled a whole set of eye catching aggressively position policies in favor of redistributing wealth to working people things like putting workers on company boards three nationalizing the services that sort of thing and every single one of them could be achieved without the u.k. having to leave the european union. heads. so labor is now offering two things at once first a vote down any deal the government comes up with in parliament on the grounds that it will be economically damaging while simultaneously calling for a national election or a new vote which could include a choice of not leaving europe at all and i firstly see all those fever there was no doubting which way the vote was going to go. gradually it seems the time it is

turning we know already that the e.u. leaders would definitely extend the article fifty process if we were to have. a face on the deal or indeed general election they wouldn't interfere in a democratic process and make us go away from the line during that time so really that's not a worry what we need to do is to make sure that we do have that option so that it's the people of this country having the final say and not just a few politicians most labor m.p.'s who support breck's that haven't turned up this week and they worry that a u.-turn could alienate their own constituents who voted to leave this veteran looked suddenly like a stranger in his own policy when seventeen in the million people vote we know that cameron told you when we get a different result but the truth is they voted the other way and they voted to a coma. and i don't think you comply in the face of people seventy percent in some constituencies bolton to get out simplest. bricks it is so important yet

so impossibly complicated last week there was no future but brick's it even if nobody knows what that entails suddenly appears a gap has emerged bracks it is by no means a certainty lawrence leigh al-jazeera liverpool the head of the i.m.f. christine lagarde says her organization is close to a deal with argentina over emergency funding the governor of the country's central bank resigned on tuesday after just three months in the job those computer leaves that time of crucial talks between president his government and the i.m.f. argentina's already battered currency the pace of dropped in value just after his resignation on tuesday unions held a nationwide strike to protest over the country's economic crisis. time for short break your dodges era when we come back. 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 a breakthrough in spinal treatment technologies helping paralyzed patients get back on their feet. and pakistan look to make sure their last chance of making the asia cup final doesn't slip through their fingers details on the sport more on that stay with us. once again welcome to another look at the international forecast with some of the sharp shall is slow spells of rain easing across well the eastern half of the u.s. at the moment severe storms in the forecast just around the lakes line of cloud just around the appalachians but i really want to draw your attention to this little cluster of storms offshore from the carolinas could see some wet weather coming in here over the next couple days and of course that does bring with it some problems lot of wet weather there through way to stay right down the appalachian

mountains into the deep south right into the gulf coast of the u.s. heavy downpours just north of the border into that east assad of canada chance of some showers around north carolina south carolina and perhaps more so as we go on through thursday exacerbating the flooding conditions that we already of course do have in place and still a few showers around the upper midwest fun to drive further west west coast hot and sunny there for l.a. temps here at around thirty two degrees meanwhile we could see some sharp showers long spells of rain also making the way towards the eastern side of the caribbean little area of stormy weather just drifting in this is the remnants of what was tropical depression kirk actually starts to make its way out of a closer saeco on through wednesday the now rank could well set in for a good part of thursday and friday.

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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour donald trump used his address at the u.n. general assembly to talk about his accomplishments in his two years in office said he'd done more in that time than any of his predecessors playing the lead to laughter in the assembly but his stance on america first and isolationism was countered by a push to strengthen international ties by other leaders from both to use the dress to never more criticism about iran during and president hassan rouhani hit back when his turn came the accuse the u.s. of waging what he called economic terrorism and failing to honor international agreements. on the saudi iraqi coalition fighting in yemen plans to open humanitarian corridors to allow the delivery of a u.n. is warning a famine in yemen could strike at any time and even more deaths fighting has

prevented aid agencies reaching at least eight million people so far this year. now the indian prime minister is facing allegations of corruption over a deal for french fighter jets there and remote is being accused of awarding part of a contract to a prominent businessman who's considered close to an intervention from former french president francois on this field accusations of india the signing of the contract law transparency but as a battle reports. two years ago a handshake between the french and indian defense ministers sealed a billion dollar fighter jet deal endure agreed to buy thirty six refound jets from french plane make a dent south in partnership with indian company reliance the choice of reliance a private business with no aviation experience prompted india's opposition to accuse prime minister narendra modi of favoring the company impulse and bonnie over the state run alternative one period in time are now comments by former french

president francois hollande that france had no say in da sounds indian partner have reignited the debate for you all along told french news website media parts. we did not have a say in it it was the indian government to propose this company and that's our who negotiated with ambani we did not have a choice we took the partner that was given to us the reporters who worked on an investigation into the raw deal also questioned ananda over alliances funding of a film by his polynesian a guy at the time. we spoke on twice on the phone and his comments were very clear and very precise he said the financing of julie guy is filmed by ambani had nothing to do with the raphael contract because he said indian or thorazine oppose reliance on them he was adamant on this and no doubt he didn't realize the impact this would have in india and you know money for so long was defending himself against accusations of a conflict of interest over the financing of his partner's film but his comments of

had a much wider impact they bribe said french foreign ministry officials who worry about the relationship between new delhi and paris being damaged and they also cause doubts on the integrity of india's leader it all frittered. away was the deal really with you. why were the number of leaders to reduce why was the public sector company is dealt. with making way for the private security all this all these big part of the example a little bit but the final piece is that they believe the big. india's government said they played no role in the choice of reliance's das as partner but opponents remain unconvinced the congress party has called for a full inquiry into the deal and protesters are calling for modi to resign. or al-jazeera paris the us comedian bill cosby has been jailed for up to ten years for

sexual assault he was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in april the sentencing judge described him as a sexually predator violent. it's a hold on fifty women have accused cosby of sexual abuse it is on the reports from new york. walking out of a courtroom in handcuffs a fall from grace for a man who once so famous and beloved he was known as america's dad but who would judge now called a sexually violent predator eighty one year old bill cosby sentenced to three to ten years in jail cosby was found guilty in april of three counts of aggravated indecent assault after drugging and sexually assaulting andrea konstam in two thousand and four he used exacting skills and had an endearing t.v. personality to win over his victims and then keep them silent about what he did to them so now finally bill cosby has been unmasked and we have seen the real man as

he's headed off to prison while the trial focused on the one crime against ms constant more than sixty other women have accused cosby of sexual misconduct spanning decades and after the sentencing many said they were glad he was going to jail i wanted thirty we hear. it i'm very happy to know that mr parks were all my friends for me is hardly a poem i can cut down on one leaf. all day good thank you i just does because that's got to be so big that they can make it through and then there's just the good cosby is legally blind in failing health and a philanthropist and that is why his lawyers argued that the judge should show leniency and he should be sent to house arrest but it was denied his lawyers plan to appeal mr cassatt the best team is preparing a motion to address mr skilling you falsified ever did with the kind of thing if we

did not write we actually caused be produced in start in the family friendly sitcom . the cosby show in the one nine hundred eighty s. it was about the life of an affluent african-american family and was the most watched television program in america from one nine hundred eighty four to eighty nine the nine hundred sixty five t.v. series i spy was the first american television drama to feature a black actor caused played the lead role for most of his life as an actor and comedian caused be paved the way for african-americans and was considered a role model no more his defining legacy will be that he was the first celebrity convicted in the me two era the movement to end sexual violence gabriel's andro al-jazeera new york rose and jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. rod so today was judgment day for bill cosby and he now faces

a lengthy prison did the sentencing come as a surprise. well it didn't come as a surprise to those who wanted to see the proverbial book thrown at bill cosby but given that he is eighty one years old and said to be in frail health certainly the length of the sentence three to ten years sensibly could be a death sentence for bill cosby which is one of the arguments that his lawyers are going to be making as they appeal his conviction and sentencing however the other evidence that has been propped forward in the case with the allegations brought forward by andrea called stand would certainly suggest that the prosecution in this case will argue that there was overwhelming evidence that the jury essentially had no other option except to convict bill cosby of these crimes and that the sentence

is a rather compassionate in light of his advanced age but there will be an appeal of this conviction and sentencing and sixty other women have come forward and accuse cosby of sexual misconduct but those charges were one of a brute due to the statute of limitations rose do you think the full story hasn't been told here. well i think that is the case i don't think we know all of the details because of the laws governing governing sexual assault and rape and abuse there are time limits that are governed by local jurisdictions and by the fifty individual states there's no one national standard for when someone can be accused or prosecuted for a sexually related crime and so this raises a lot of discussion about whether the laws in the united states need to be changed not just because of what bill cosby did not just because of what many other well

known and powerful men have been accused of doing but also when you look at the scandal in the roman catholic church the number of priests and other religious leaders who have been accused of abusing young parishioners and essentially getting away with it and their victims not being able to have them tried for the crimes that were committed when they were children or teenagers there is a growing debate now about whether the statute of limitations in this particular area of the law is actually an applicable standard but it's going to take a very long time to see any substantial change if in fact that is what local communities and legislatures across the united states decide that they need to do it's very difficult to change our legal standards unless there is just a groundswell a really a tipping point of public opinion that there needs to be a different legal standard applied all right rules and join the in washington d.c.

ross thank you. nearly four thousand children in germany have been sexually abused by catholic priests since the end of the second world war a report into the decades of abuse discovered that more than sixteen hundred priests carried out sexual assaults the revelations were published in the city of folder where german bishops are holding a week long conference dominic cain has more. for years many people in germany have wondered about the level of sexual abuse committed against children in this country in recent times by elements within the catholic church here in the city of the catholic church in germany is holding its bishops conference and at a news conference a little earlier germany's leading catholic church man was confronted with some very harrowing insights into precisely herron many young people were abused by peter for priests. in all clarity i say sexual abuse is a crime whoever is guilty of it must be punished for far too long the church has

either turned a blind eye to it or try to cover it up for all the failures on the hurt i asked the leader of the church in germany must apologize parts of the research we saw at that news conference pulled no punches basically saying that those that we know about now those cases are just the tip of the iceberg and for the victims who have heard what was said there the question now is is that enough what more do they want the catholic church to do to recognize the problem that it has created in this country and really hope there are some bishops. talking that way that at the end of the other week they will come up with a declaration saying that we admit that we as a as a church are guilty as an organization and that therefore we accept that a proper investigation and independent investigation needs to be done now and in.

quite eerie one element that emerged from this news conference is clear but these are the cases we know about these more than three thousand cases but the speculation the informed speculation is that there could be very many more victims out there who we just don't know about the question will be what does the catholic church do for them going on from this conference that's taking place in folder this week a chinese citizen has been arrested in chicago on charges of spying on behalf of beijing twenty seven year old g. sharp cohen is accused of trying to recruit u.s. engineers and scientists and even some defense contractors to work for the chinese government she faces up to ten years in prison if convicted. pope francis says he and not the chinese government will have the final say over the naming of new bishops in china francis defended a deal made invasion on saturday that gives the vatican a say in the appointment of bishops but critics say the agreement is

a sellout to china's communist government thailand says it will no longer take in other countries electronic trash so far this year it has seen an influx of waste arriving in the country after china enforced a similar bad when he 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 that's right have some more interest. to the car lot. to the letter to the town's friends and. partners. this is next on the hit list is plastic thailand plans to ban plastic imports within the next two years but like the ban on 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 recycle.