now in less than three hours' time the u.s. will reimpose economic sanctions on iran targeting its oil shipping and banking sector all measures lifted out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and now coming back to spite terence compliance with the deal when it's done in iran where thousands of demonstrators marked thirty nine years since university students stormed the u.s. embassy in the iranian capital some bizarre reports. any common ground there may have been between iran and america seems to have been lost at a rally to mark the thirty ninth anniversary of the takeover of the u.s. embassy iranians express their anger and frustration at a country they blame for their continued economic isolation i. was i was there was also the familiar contempt that has come to define iran's relationship with the united states the country's top soldier said economic warfare

america's last attempt to defeat iran is not going to work and war u.s. president donald trump not to try anything else. i want to say something to america and it's weird president never threaten iran because we can still hear the horrified cries of your soldiers in the desert and you know better every day how many of your old soldiers in america commit suicide due to depression and fear that they suffered in battle so don't threaten us militarily and don't frighten us with military threats u.s. sanctions meant to punish iran have devastated the country's economy in the last year trump has said it's going to get worse but iranians at this rally seemed more angry than afraid one difference between the old sanctions and new ones is that this time these protesters are not alone in condemning the united states in the past iran had a weaker economy when it was hit by international sanctions mandated by the united nations now this time of iran has a lot more support from world leaders has

a relatively stronger economy and is only facing would many iranians are calling trumps sanctions. once a symbol of american influence in the region the old embassy in the heart of the capitol is now little more than a relic left standing only as a reminder for iranians to remain vigilant. as my message to america is that many of their previous presidents also threatened us a lot in the nantz their options on the table but nothing happens as our supreme leader said we are seeing signs of america's decline from that i am hard friendship with america's impossible it's like a friendship between a sheep and a wolf i don't even know you don't i'm telling you even in the era of the shah america was our enemy the shadow didn't realize it and the enemy is always in him an american if a compromise is with iran and iran will also never bow down to it diplomats a negotiator spent years paving the way for the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal after trump came to power the goodwill they built crumbled in

a matter of months even earn his own side show at this year's rally whether iran chooses to remain committed to the nuclear deal or not the next american president may not be able to fix what donald trump has broken. while u.s. sanctions on iran anything new priyanka gupta explains why. since islamic revolution the u.s. policy in iran has been that of containment u.s. presidents two decades have been using sanctions as one of the ways to achieve it it first started what should be kata after iranian protests to stop the us embassy in tehran and took american diplomats hostage in ninety four president ronald reagan designated iran a state sponsor of terrorism after two hundred forty one marines were killed in beirut the iran backed lebanese group hezbollah was believed to have been responsible bill clinton banned all u.s. companies from doing business with iran which meant iran's oil industry was

directly targeted for the first time he described iran and libya as two of the most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the world the first significant pressure on iran directly related to its nuclear program came from george w. bush in twenty ten we're up obama signed to draw used actions he described as the toughest ever passed by congress they were aimed at uranium banks and its oil and gas sector a breakthrough was finally reached in twenty fifteen with the iran nuclear deal iranian assets worth hundred billion dollars one for sin but earlier this year donald trump withdrew from that agreement leading to renewed u.s. economic sanctions in two phases the first came in august and ninety days later november the second round of sanctions targeting iran's ukridge of oil exports and energy industry are coming into force for despite the u.s. withdrawal from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal the e.u. russia and china are all sticking to the terms of diplomatic editor james bays

reports now from u.n. headquarters in new york and what they might do next. this is being described by the trumpet ministration as the toughest sanctions regime ever imposed on iran the country's oil exports are being targeted although eight countries have been given temporary waivers to allow them to still importer rein in oil for the time being the administration is now reintroducing all of the sanctions that were frozen under the iran nuclear deal in twenty fifteen the iranian economy is in a bad points there's no question about that inflation is high unemployment is high and the currency has depreciated significantly but i think it's worth noting that these are not historical anomalies for the iranian government they've been dealing since the revolution with high inflation the trumpet ministrations campaign against iran is both political and economic on the economic track iran is already hurting and these sanctions will make it even worse politically things are much more

complicated the aim of the administration is to punish and isolate iran but that isn't working when president trump chaired the un security council in september the other countries including the u.s. his closest allies spoke up in favor of the iran nuclear deal china an importer of iranian oil currently holds the security council presidency bastard i had this answer when i asked him if the latest sanctions were illegal we have passed the intellectual sanctions act as any country in of the white house is hoping the new sanctions will send a tough message to iran but experts believe terrans calculations will actually depend more on what happens on choose day night based on how the republicans fare in the midterm elections iran will be determining despite the hardship whether they can wait president trump out james bays al-jazeera at the united nations. for iran is one of the world's largest oil producers and its oil and gas exports are worth

billions of dollars a year so who are its biggest buyers well this chart shows iran's are rejects ports in thousands of barrels of oil a day from november twenty seventh april this year china is the biggest importer buying about seven hundred thousand barrels next is india taking just under six hundred thousand barrels a day followed by south korea and turkey and rounding out the top five is italy let's bring in a rush or a mess she's a national security and foreign policy analyst joins us via skype from new york good to have you back on the program recently seen the u.s. a saudi arabia and israel form this alliance to take on iran they're trying to keep the alliance together despite the difficulties over there jamal khashoggi mirza how is that likely to play out as the u.s. turns up the sanctions pressure on iran. well the u.s. is trying to keep issues separate while u.s. ally saudi arabia committed a heinous act on its own in its own consulate in turkey killing eight dissidents and that issue is sort of being kept completely on the side because iran's actions

iran's sort of reasons why the u.s. and the rest of the world the u.s. allies not all not the european union but other u.s. allies are putting sanctions on iran are separate but let's let's just that at some sort of kind of yet to this and that is you know while the u.s. is lacking a comprehensive coherent iran strategy and you're on the it doesn't necessarily deny or sort of a neg gate the fact that iran has also been misbehaving and continues to misbehave in the region but on the one hand we have an american president who unilaterally pulled out and withdrew from a a multinational five plus one. deal to curb iran's nuclear activities on the other hand you also have a very very aggressive role as lawmakers public and a region that has been the cause of so much headache trouble and pain for us our lives and we know that a number of countries avowed to help iran in defiance of washington let's talk

about russia they say they'll continue training iran's crude oil how much is that going to help iran's position him. any assistance would help and keep in mind beggars can't be choosers when iran is now in a position that it can it can no longer use. the sort of free flow of the banking system that can no longer use whole host of trade tools and means and it's this bozo meeting if it has to now trade you know go back to the bartering system which is for instance today india agreed to deposit what it shows ever on in terms of the debts for oil exports and enforce into a russian account the russian bank that has no it's guised to the outside world for one purpose india will deposit the money into the russian account and the iranians can only buy indian goods through that russian banks everybody will benefit except the one country here that is now at the target of these sanctions and that's iran

says that we're going to put pressure on iran it's that only going to put pressure on both the government and specially on the people in the middle here let's keep in mind that the biggest sanction profiteers are the ones in positions of power in iran the g.c. and the revolutionary guards but again that doesn't mean that the ok as a whole establishment will not come under pressure there will be pressure on them but again the people will definitely hurt you and i'm just a final point from iran's largest trading partner is china i mean how critical is the chinese role has iran looks to the east to forge new alliances and beijing certainly won't help the u.s. with sanctions on iran will they. you never know i mean beijing was the beijing and moscow actually during the obama administration were what were the biggest susannah's helpers we got to see how it works out here but again president trump has turned up the rhetoric against china on a whole host of trade issues but last week we saw the president reaching out to the chinese and a lot of analysts saw that as

a precursor to trying to sort of appease the chinese on some issues to get some more sort of concessions on putting pressure on iran but again as i said i don't think chinese businesses are going to go along fully and help out iran on the other hand there will be some trickling down to assist iran and iran will appreciate that but again they will be losing money because this as i said when you're in the position of you know the beggars can't be choosers so we'll see if we'll see what happens here iraq's are a mess thank you very much for talking to al jazeera now fighting has intensified around the port city of had data in yemen more than one hundred fifty fighters from the saudi and iran to coalition than to the rebels have been killed over the weekend the united nations wants safe passage from the warring sides so it can deliver aid it says four hundred thousand children could die from on the trisha warning the stasi attains report contains some disturbing images the name amal means hope in arabic amal died on thursday at the age of seven the doctor who

treated has says there are many more cases like has five month old ahmed abraham you need ask eleven months old so he had jaji. mohammed has. yemen has become a living hell a brutal war that has become a war all my children for which children have no single response ability the un says warring parties are making a delivery impossible acceleration the onset of famine three quarters of the population do not have enough food and the cost of food has increased by thirty five percent in the last year some have resorted to eating foraged leaves the un has been escalating its calls for us to say sion of hostilities and a political solution there is now an opportunity for peace in yemen. this building wave of momentum must be seized i urge the parties to overcome

obstacles and to resolve still existing differences so dialogue at the un facilitated consultations later these months there are plans for talks in sweden in november with renew diplomatic efforts by the united states but not everyone may survive until then the un says four hundred thousand children under five are at risk of dying if they don't get help. around forty percent of those four hundred thousand around the port city of had data. instead of aid trucks this is what's coming down the road the saudi immorality coalition has launched new offensives over the last week attacking sana airport and trying to retake data thousands of troops have been sent there including so-called elite brigades commanded by the u.a.e. which says they're making progress by the civil rights. i like a macho after seizing control as you can see of the main road the main artery of

supplies to the militias at various points we are now hearing to seal the last exit point we have now called in the entire city and we are advancing from all directions into the heart of the city it's not just her data that's under siege in northern yemen a new wave of those displaced has been arriving in the city of abs an influx of nearly twenty thousand people hundreds wounded by crossfire we see a lot of patients coming from very far and offering. very late completions which makes it very difficult for already continue to then take care of them and ensure that they can survive. here at this camp that's what life has become simply trying to survive. out of there. the u.s. midterm elections on tuesday are being seen as a crucial test of president donald trump's presidency both trump and his predecessor barack obama on the campaign trail running voters in very risky states

well on sunday a bomb addressed an event in gary indiana where the democratic senator is in a tight race with the republican candidate the democrats hope to take control of the house of representatives. in today's indiana you get to vote in what i believe will be the most important. election. of our lifetimes. and all politicians always say that but this time is really true . because america is at a crossroads. that health care of millions is on the ballot. a fair shake for working families. is on the phone. perhaps most importantly the character of our country. what

a record number of women candidates are running with some predicting a high female voter turnout could be decisive many a galvanized by the president's sexist comments his administration's attempts to curb abortion rights on the appointment of a supreme court judge accused of sexual assault but other women still back the president and his party as a white house correspondent can really help get reports. well donald trump is campaigning at five different campaign stops in the next forty eight hours the democrats are also working hard to get out the vote this isn't a presidential election but the president is campaigning on behalf of republican congressional candidates and to this private home this is where folks are working the phones trying to get out the vote in advance of the congressional election one that they hope democrats will soon take control of the house of representatives but certainly this is a challenge they are saying that many people particularly women do not have a good opinion of donald trump yet still don't know how to vote why don't women

like donald trump take a listen. do solemnly swear one day after donald trump was sworn in as president hundreds of thousands of women gathered in cities across the united states to protest. almost two years have passed but the u.s. president has given them little reason to change their original judgment of a man many regard with revulsion his behavior and language at times has hardened their views. after his aide omarosa manigault newman was ousted from the white house called her a crazed crying lowlife and a dog after congresswoman maxine waters encouraged her supporters to harass trump administration officials they're not going to be able to go to a restaurant they're not going to be able to stop at a gas station called waters an extraordinarily low i.q. person. but nothing has polarized the country more along gender lines than the

hearings for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh christine blas a ford accuse trumps nominee of sexual assault when they were in high school truck cast doubt about her testimony mocking her recollection of the decades old event how did you get home i don't remember how did you get there i don't remember where is the place i don't remember how many years ago was it i don't know. toss attacks on women are nothing new and have been dismissed by his supporters ever since the release of a video in two thousand and sixteen threatened to derail his campaign. structure shrugged off the controversy and won the white house even today well a majority of us women still disapprove of trump at least a third still solidly approve of trump's presidency everybody makes mistakes and they're like nobody's perfect but god. he's made his mistakes that everybody else who's human hands i think he's a bully i do but i think you need someone like that in the office conservative women point to donald trump's historically low unemployment numbers that are rising

wages well in office they say his appointment of a female press secretary and a significant number of female filled cabinet posts proves he's supportive of women in the workplace still the battle for the female vote isn't. hence the findings republicans have released the sixty second advert aimed at winning over suburban college educated women voters only shows this demographic more than most is where conservative support is waning but notably truck never appears in the advert it's a signal even republicans realize the president remains toxic to many voters and in the fight to hang on for control of congress conservatives can't afford to lose a single female vote now donald trump is campaigning on the issues of taxes jobs and immigration he's accusing democrats of cutting jobs if they take control of congress raising taxes and opening the borders to illegal immigration democrats

say this is a campaign of fear and division and that's why they say they're reaching out to minority communities to try and get them to the polls already we have seen and historic turnout record numbers in a number of states particularly in the young demographics for voter turnout has spiked some four hundred percent or greater but again the only poll that matters is the one on election day and that's what both sides are taking anything for granted because that is when the polls will be open and will close democrats such as those here campaigning in this home are hoping that this particular district here in great falls with ginia will be the start of a blue wave of democrats capturing the house of representatives and taking control of congress. our time for short break al-jazeera when we come back allegations of vote buying and shady deals of sri lanka's deepening political crisis. security has tightened as one of mexico's most notorious drug knows faces trial in the united states and in support kenya's mary-kate and winds up for new york city marathon in

five years new will have that story after the break blowing up stay with us. from long. i mean i didn't wince to an enchanting desert breeze we were. how i we've got some very disturbed weather developing across central parts of china to the south it does look fine and dry hong kong still seeing the temperatures getting well up into the twenty's top of the around twenty eight degrees celsius for monday similar values to four taipei but you can start to see that wetter weather just slipping out of northern china at clouds that right that will intensify further as we go through tuesday temperatures and will hand struggling to get to around forty degrees in the possibility of some localized flooding further south this day settled and sunny sedulously to want to lose on over the next day or so but russia showers there into the philippines joining up

with the main area showers just straddling the equator so for much of malaysia to the day showers northern parts of indonesia also seeing some of those lobby showers from time to time with a case of spot the difference as we go from monday and on into choose the little driver has been lightly for southern parts of thailand further north bangkok gets up to around thirty five degrees with plenty of dry weather for the a sunshine and the dry weather in the sunshine stretches across much of south asia you could just see those showers creep in the way towards flanker it does stay rather disturbed here as we go through the next couple of days with heavy downpours for many. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. wish the world innovation summit for health one community of two thousand health care experts in of ages and policy makers from one hundred countries. one experience sharing best practices and innovative ideas. one goal i

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welcome back i'm out of the top stories here on al-jazeera the sons of jamal khashoggi say the family is unable to grieve properly without knowing where his body is they say the family's been deeply troubled by the ongoing lies since his murder more than a month ago the u.s. is reiterating that those responsible will be held accountable. in less than three hours the u.s. will reimpose economic sanctions on iran targeting its oil shipping and banking sectors all measures lifted on the twenty fifty nuclear deal are coming back despite terrans compliance with the agreement. and fighting has intensified around the court city of had data in yemen more than one hundred fifty fighters from the saudi of iraq determination and who the rebels have been killed over the weekend the united nations says four hundred thousand children to die from on the trash. now media reports believed to come from british government league suggest the u.k.

is close to striking a deal to leave the european union they say the u.k. could remain in the e.u. as customs union for a limited time in this sort of void a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland the key sticking point in the negotiations a spokesman for british prime minister resign to. the may has dismissed the reports and speculation business leaders have joined campaign is calling for another referendum well done a backhoe one is an associate professor at dublin city university he says the issue of the irish border is more complicated than many people think you tend to get an emphasis in the media that it's all about economics and frictionless trade it's not just about that it's about communities it's about people one simple statistic i think sums this off i mean if you take the european union's border on its east from the baltic sea to turkey for example there are one hundred thirty seven border crossings ok that's the whole of the eastern border now you take the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland there are over two hundred oficial

border crossings so more than in the entire eastern flank of the european union and those borders cross through roads they cross through bridges indeed if you're driving on the dublin to belfast motorway for one section of it if you're driving on the left hand side you're in the republican party and you're driving on the right on site or in northern ireland so this is something that there's a huge amount of interaction voters in new caledonia as referendum have rejected a breakaway from france though a celebration in the capital manila off the final results showed fifty six percent of voters chose to remain a french territory. there is concern that the result could rig night tensions between europeans and people who are the original inhabitants of the islands in the pacific. want to split from france. bahraini opposition leader charged with spying for qatar has been sentenced to life in prison shefali sound man was acquitted earlier this year but an appeals court

overturned that decision he was sentenced along with two colleagues to charges of spying relate to political unrest in bahrain in two thousand and eleven but the accusations only came to light after the country cut diplomatic ties with qatar last year but shefali so mine is the head of bahrain's main shia opposition group are with party it was the largest bloc in parliament before the two thousand and eleven protests but was banned in twenty sixteen the main secular opposition group known as wired has also been outlawed under sleeve there is also in prison obama is a majority shia country hundreds of people have been jailed for demanding reforms from the sunni world family over the past seven years well i missed internationals calling for the immediate release. and all other prisoners of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he. is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. are absurd

in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was a they were attempts to mediate and to find a solution to to the situation and. chalices man had phone calls with the minister of foreign of all of the first state affairs in qatar and these were well exchanges in attempt to. get qatar to mediate in the situation at the time. sri lanka's president made from syria center has ordered a parliament to reconvene next wednesday and debate his decision to replace the prime minister last week you saw in maine the rajapaksa former president rajapaksa is now accused of bribing m.p.'s to support him in a confidence vote when a smith reports from colombo. it's unethical and despicable says opposition m.p. power. playing recordings of phone calls he says from allies of sri lanka's new

prime minister mahinda rajapaksa. bandar says he's been offered two point eight million dollars and the posting cabinet to switch sides. the scramble for votes has come after president my three policy is cena suspended parliament and fired his former ally prime minister ronald wickramasinghe are both men had joined forces in elections in twenty fifteen to oust rajapaksa but don't under the work i'll be doing we formed his government democratically my three by the city center joined us and described. as corrupt thieving thugs and said he wanted allowed him to return the fact he's doing just that is very shameful rajapaksa has appointed a cabinet which includes half a dozen opposition m.p.'s who have been persuaded to join him his supporters deny allegations that anyone has been offered cash the president is accused of buying

time for rajapaksa by resisting calls to reconvene parliament a constitutional amendment passed two years ago was supposed to take away the president's power to fire the prime minister. jumping out run a walk or a cabinet minister under ousted prime minister witnessing a says this government has no legitimacy. face. international and national political economic and social crisis and at the meantime we are going to form a grand alliance beyond party lines to protect democracy perfect freedom of speech and human values a petition the got sixteen thousand signatures in a day has been presented to the speaker of parliament demanding he use special powers to recall the chamber over the head of the president president syria saying they will only know for sure if these high stakes gamble is paid off when parliament reconvenes if it endorses rajapaksa as prime minister and the president

may well get away with what he's critics call a constitutional coup but if parliament sticks with a single and serious cena could face pietschmann bernath al-jazeera colombo. one of mexico's most notorious drug lords will go on trial in the us later on monday walls are known as el chapo has been held in solitary confinement in new york for the last two years security for the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors gabler's on the reports. for the last two years joaquin el chapo guzman has been held in solitary confinement in a new york jail after his extradition to the u.s. on an array of drug trafficking and murder charges. security for the trial tate considering guzman famously escaped from prison twice in mexico once through an elaborate tunnel in his prison cell. even with guzman in handcuffs prosecutors and

the judge worry his associates could still pose a danger to people involved in the trial they cooperated witnesses and even jurors this former new york city police detective says precautions will be taken and the jury will likely be kept in a secret location that they don't want to get any witness tampering they don't want to have any threats they don't want to put their families in that position too so they are going to be extremely careful with what they do with their witnesses despite this seeming mountain of evidence against guzman this is a trial that will be very complicated and along with dozens if not hundreds of eyewitnesses expected to be called to testify the judge is saying this is a trial that could go on for more than three months edgardo buscaglia it world renowned expert on organized crime and drug trafficking says many of guzman's crimes took place in the u.s. from ordering killings to trafficking drugs to the signing the money laundering

channels into u.s. criminal networks. commercial activities within the u.s. they infiltrated the banking system through a very well known buying stocks around the world so you have an incredible number of. cases who are the criminal network led by chuck was money has being involved in all kinds of crimes within u.s. borders and in many other countries he says the trial will have little impact on the day to day operations of those months in a low a cartel as a message is fine in terms of the actual impact on a criminal network it will not make any impact the prosecutor saying he conviction of guzman will do one thing it will put an infamous drug kingpin away pretty good gabriel's on dough brooklyn time another short break here not a zero when we come back.