waters of the population lives in poverty. hello it's getting wet now in western iran the rain that is still falling the iraqi plane gave i think two hundred millimeters that's flash flood in both the euphrates and the tigris in fact throughout that valley is like to shelley west at the moment and says shop page which means it's an active frontal system as it moves eastwards into iran the head of it all almost into eastern turkey but probably really syria and is leaving rangers fan northwest's now of course where the ground rises as probably georgia but we talk about azerbaijan west and south of iraq tail off through kuwait even as far south as bahrain was significant right to the west of that possible sounds talking for i think they've gone that we're talking about a quite a period twenty two beirut is the forecast now to take you for another day the

showers if anything fade away but still there in northern syria and possibly eastern side of turkey that looks quiet and cooler twenty six in kuwait city of course the roof is reflected in the weather in the arabian peninsula much quieter than it was there the showers that larissa's far south as bahrain but i think so otherwise nothing much to talk about for a change actually in southern africa active weather once more as binns eastern side of south africa it's still there probably make it wet in certain mozambique as well . after one of greece's deadliest forest fires. in. people in power. point institutional incompetence. this. was not an accident it was a crime. is the real reason. to take.

on al jazeera. on al-jazeera these are our top stories wide sweeping u.s. economic sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force iran's president hassan rouhani is has this country will quote proudly by. the roots of the map seventy nine high school students and their principal they were taken from a presbyterian boarding school in the city. in the west and turkey's vice president

. has called for an investigation into newspaper reports that. body was disposed of by dissolving it and the acid. in the news agency also said that investigators are focusing on who gave the order for the assassination. took center stage at the u.n. human rights council delegations in geneva have been questioning saudi on human rights as part of a regular review of the kingdom's conduct member states have also been criticizing the abuses committed by the solve the coalition and the war in yemen but the saudis have come on the heavy criticism from the astray. delegation. a stranger deploys the killing of jamal khashoggi reports that the killing was premeditated a deeply alarming astray recommends saudi arabia fully cooperate with investigations related to the killing of course shoji implements legislation that holds to account government officials who breach the law and takes further measures

to guarantee freedom of opinion and expression correspondent paul brennan reports from geneva. the timing of this working group on saudi arabia's human rights record could scarcely be more opportune given the context of the gym out has charge of murder and saudi arabia was put under intense spotlight but it did give a robust defense of its human rights record issuing a document in advance which detailed the whole variety of royal decree and reforms that have been enacted which it said had empowered women had issued protections against children and against migrant rights and was looking at potentially reforming the guardianship law but again and again countries were critical of how little in fact saudi arabia had actually achieved countries like australia the u.k. and the united states asked saudi arabia to implement more reforms said it wasn't enough what they've done so far for example mexico said the need to be

a moratorium on the death penalty in saudi arabia a death penalty by the way which is seen twice as many people executed in twenty fifteen as was executed in twenty thirteen months in a row spoke about the importance of addressing gender based violence and even man mark spoke about the importance of allowing religious freedom within the kingdom of saudi arabia it was a bruising encounter and it will go forward into a report that will be produced later this week and into a full human rights council next year to the u.s. now a civil rights groups fear that millions of americans are being denied their right to vote and the midterm elections they say states under republican control on fairly purging voter rolls affecting mine are taking the trend as a path and georgia where the white republican candidate is facing strong competition from a black democrat john hendren reports from atlanta. daniel nuno was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the

secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on velo ballot came in we get we just can't take it we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know there's enough doesn't like yelling really don't really have that option we don't have that barrier. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state electoral rolls critics say disproportionately blacks and

minorities who tend to vote for democrats georgia is one of several states who knows the state of the confederacy. the civil war has no ended as a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat and just because mrs abrams files a flawless balts last. or the new georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights groups is similar voter purges are happening in twenty six

republican controlled states across the u.s. many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem with their registration it was already too late nineteen year old linnea gordon was looking forward to voting in her first election for stacy abrams. a letter where i. know same that i'm even more information but i gave all the information that i needed they sent the letter before me after the day seemed. more information in daniel numbers case the state has the discretion to allow his mail in ballot it's just decided not to as the phone kemp's department he got one other bit of bad news so and that's the case with mine and my wife's that is correct yes with a few days left to election day his wife will also be notified that her ballot has

also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren al-jazeera it lent jury selection for the trial of mexican drug lord has begun and the u.s. because mom also known as el chapo is facing drug trafficking and conspiracy charges in new york he was extradited to the u.s. two years ago off to escaping from mexican prisons twice as moms accused of leading the one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world. sri lanka's parliamentary speaker is accusing the president off repeatedly misleading him at the constitutional crisis enters its second week it was triggered when president mildly palace it is saying it dismissed prime minister donna to become a singer and replaced him with former president mahinda rajapaksa ten days ago but it smith reports from colombo. he might be able to draw a crowd of thousands but because new prime minister still hasn't been endorsed by

parliament that's a constitutional coupe critics say president might through powerless or is saying a small in his former ally then a rival now ally again and suspended parliament more than a week ago. the speaker accuses the president of repeatedly not keeping promises of an early recall of parliament karo jayasuriya says he'll only recognise mahinda rajapakse as appointment if m.p.'s vote for it he said it's difficult to remain silent in the face of the severe violation of democratic principles the forcible taking over of the administration of media and other public sector institutions the majority of m.p.'s is of the opinion that all changes made in the parliament are undemocratic and inconsistent with the traditions of parliament but his supporters as appointment is justified at the got to get out about the one that did more than the internet you know this is a leader who won the war the one who saved the country i mean look all the legal

things have been done and dusted he's now prime minister. granted i'm going to give you i'm not rajapaksa accuses creed assessor of increasing the tax burden and using power a man who was fired to make way run away from a single says he's still prime minister and has the parliamentary support to prove it. he won't leave the official residence until m.p.'s get to vote because just over a week to go. there is a gesture to the rajapaksa scum just a handful of votes to give him a majority if he gets it then he'll probably remain as prime minister with a manner that. polarizing sri lankan politicians voted to make hundred zero. one of ghana's thirteen soldiers and police officers have been killed during the attack on a checkpoint that happened in the eastern province a spokesman for the governor says taliban fighters are responsible for the family

of a pakistani christian woman acquitted in a blasphemy case is pleading for the international community to help them leave the country protestors have been quite. dead since the supreme court acquitted her last week the husband says her release has left the mother of five in legal limbo was convicted in two thousand and ten of insulting islam during a dispute with her neighbors she spent eighteen years on death row. china's president has promised to cut the import tariffs and further open up access for foreign companies xi jinping that didn't refer to china's trade dispute with the us but he warned that free trade was under attack he made the remarks during the opening of a big trade fair in shanghai china correspondent adrian brown reports. it is only from the air that you get the scale of this vast event happening on the edge of shanghai china's commercial hub the expo is part of an effort to rebranding countries global trading image it was planned long before the united states began

imposing tariffs on chinese imports many heads of state and prime ministers are here but none from the world's leading economies at the opening ceremony president xi jinping once more presented himself as the guardian of free trade or at least his version of it. china is committed to further opening up and promoting free trade china will remain a strong advocate of global openness and will be the main driver of global economic growth he didn't refer to china's trade dispute with the united states but warned against a winner takes all mentality the president also failed to mention some of the complaints that foreign executives have about doing business in this country they complain that the chinese leadership public commitment to free trade often aren't borne out by its actions. u.s. companies are represented here even if their government isn't probably flying the

flag a salt lake city health products company that arrived in china eighteen months ago but is still waiting for regulatory approval the time and length and cost and uncertainty of approving a get in a blue hat has made it so difficult for all external companies to come in foreign firms often have to enter into a joint venture as a condition for doing business here but that didn't bother this tiny and furniture designer who actively sought such an arrangement yes on course that because it was a like help from chinese can you know to be a chinese is that we know a lot of the things that we cannot to be a while before well. shanghai's does aling night time skyline is often touted as a symbol of china's openness but some economists warn that if its leaders fail to deliver on the promises made at this expo those flashing lights could one day

become warning signals adrian brown al-jazeera shanghai. the lawyers for two washers journalists jailed for seven years and now maher have appealed against their conviction and. convicted in september of violating myanmar state secrets law they say police planted documents on them while they were investigating the killing off the hinge of muslims they conviction has drawn international condemnation. now madagascar's airing of what could be the most expensive presidential election in its history more than three quarters of the population live in poverty but politicians are spending more than ever on their for the top job farmer the miller has more from the capital and tyler. deep within and turn on a revival thousands of people eek out a living in the mounds of rubbish at the rally truck dump one of africa's largest dams it's a mess of the waste flies and stomach churning smells from beneath the dirt these

people hunt for what others may consider to be waste but for them potential treasure potential it's been working here for twenty years he and his children are looking for any valuable metals all bones which are used to make a local medicine they earn four dollars for every bag of scrap collected. does not pay very much and the most difficult part of doing it is digging deep into the dirt is so much dust by the time i'm covered in sweat and sand nearly eighty percent of the population lives on less than two dollars a day according to a world bank report one recollects a crisis after another has significantly contributed to madagascar's high level of poverty and the country's done very little to improve the wellbeing of its population now is the madagascar hits to the polls critics say far too much money

is being spent on electioneering rather than helping the poor. drawer picker has for decades been working to help the poor in the suburb of a commercial he says while the election is a chance for democracy politicians serve their own interests he needs many of the people he's helped with food housing and education in the sunday mass. simply this sunday i love witness to this poverty in america sick of fifty years i've seen this country descend into hell and here we've shown that with education discipline and respect we can fight poverty this week's presidential elections expected to cost even more than it did five years ago they are more candidates running and there are no laws limiting campaign spending what we know is that probably looks in two thousand sort of teen was you know one of the most expensive elections in the history of what i guess can also when you compare my guess got to other countries

there was a study for instance by the european union that came out in two thousand and sixteen and that basically claimed that the budget complain budget of the last present the outgoing president one in two thousand and thirteen was forty three million u.s. dollars that actually means that he has spent you know by voter then present donald trump in the united states as campaigning draws to a close those we spoke to at the rally say they will vote they say if it's voting that saves them from life in the dump then it will be worth it i mean i'm a lawyer al jazeera antananarivo. and organic is a problem and the headlines on al-jazeera wide sweeping u.s. economic sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force iran's president hassan rouhani is has his country will quote proudly bypass the

measures. turkey's sun newspaper is reporting that members of a sell the team sent to istanbul to investigate jamal khashoggi killing focused instead on removing evidence the publication is reporting that among the sell the team that arrived at lyon days after the killing were experts on chemicals and toxicology. the un's human rights council is reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its record on rights violations a saudi delegation is in geneva to face questions over the murder of jamal khashoggi among other issues addressing the council the delegation stated the kingdom's position that it's investigating the case and will prosecute those responsible to solve the came under particularly heavy criticism from the australian delegation a stroller deplores the killing of jamal khashoggi reports that the killing was premeditated a deeply alarming australia recommends saudi arabia fully cooperate with investigations related to the killing of implements legislation that holds to

account government officials who breach the law and takes further measures to guarantee freedom of opinion and expression arm separatism kamran so they've kidnapped seventy nine high school students and their principal they were taken from a presbyterian boarding school in the city of but mend in the west amended as part of the english speaking region and what some are fighting for an independent state the separatists annoying as the zoning of freedom fighters sri lanka's parliamentary speaker says he will not accept mine that i just as the new prime minister until he commands a majority in parliament meanwhile president this city saner order of m.p.'s to reconvene on november fourteenth last week he fired a prime minister died in a clever saying or replacing him word for president rajapaksa. china's president has promised to open up access to markets and to foreign companies xi jinping made the comments as he opened a trade fair in shanghai and says china lower tariffs and crackdown on until actual

property theft is right those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thank you for watching. making it harder for minorities to vote in the u.s. as millions for a pair to cast ballots on tuesday democrats are accusing the republicans of voter suppression tactics so will every vote count in this crucial election this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. in the final hours before the u.s. midterm elections many minorities are concerned about the issue of voter suppression from native americans in north dakota to hispanics in kansas and black voters in georgia they're all fighting republican led efforts to limit their votes president donald trump often pushes the theme of voter fraud during his many rallies with little evidence to back up his claim in georgia the republican candidate for governor who's also secretary of state has launched an investigation into the state's democratic party he accuses them of trying to hack into the voter registration system but many have called this a political stunt there's a lot to talk about today with our guests but first john hendren with more from george. daniel nuno was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the

secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on velo ballot came in we get we just can't get it right we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know there's enough doesn't like yelling really don't really have that option we don't have to marry you. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state electoral rolls critics say disproportionately blacks and minorities who tend to vote for democrats georgia is one of several states who

knows the state of the confederacy. the civil war has never ended as a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat and just because mrs abrams files a flossy balts lawsuit or the new. georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights group says similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s.

many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem with their registration it was already too late one thousand year old linnea gordon was looking forward to voting in her first election for stacy abrams . a letter where i got. no same that i'm even more information but i gave all the information that i needed they sent the letter before me after today seemed. more information in daniel newman does case the state has the discretion to allow his mail in ballot it's just decided not to as the phone kemp's department he got one other bit of bad news so and that's the case with mine and my wife's that is correct. with a few days left election day his wife will also be notified that her ballot has also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren al-jazeera at lamda.

all right let's introduce our panel joining us from washington d.c. is lara brown program director at the graduate school of political management for george washington university also in washington p. tucker an independent journalist and contributor to counterpunch and joining us here in doha rodney taylor coordinator of international studies and professor of language and literature at the community college of cutter welcome to you all right let me start with you so you saw john hendren report there he's in georgia and in georgia you have a race if for governor in which the person who's overseeing the elections in that state is also a candidate for governor many say that that is improper many say that that is unethical how exactly is this allowed to happen this is simply a continuation of the status quo since the jim crow era and which blacks recently freed blacks were disenfranchised by the government by the slave state legislature

to make sure that they could not use the power at the ballot box to change their political destiny and that is what is at stake once again he has refused mr kemp has refused to recuse himself so this is a highly unethical he has also raced many people from the voter rolls including new immigrants recently naturalized citizens who came to them in states to fully participate in the american democratic system it is a shame and a sham in my opinion and is simply a continuation of what we have faced especially in the southern states of the united states for a long time most dangerously in two thousand and thirteen a more conservative supreme court overturned articles section four and five of the voting rights act of the one nine hundred sixty s. which no longer has a federal surveillance of those southern states that wants discriminated against but that lessens government oversight rob salut lee so now there could be more intrusions disenfranchisement of minority groups because of the fact the more

conservative our supreme court the more these types of injuries to civil rights will be prevalent the issue of voter suppression of course is being reported as being talked about much more in this election cycle but laws that would make it harder for certain groups to vote i mean that's really nothing new is it. well look it isn't anything new this is something that has gone on in the united states for all of our history part of the problem is actually the structure of our elections our constitution basically allows and pushes the states and the localities to do all of the cascine and counting of the ballots so the federal oversight is fairly weak but in addition there is this recurrent problem of who should be overseeing the elections is it the secretary of state at

the state level or is it the secretary of state at the federal level i'm not so sure that democrats who are minorities would be better off if the trump administration were overseen so we do have just generally a problem that needs to be worked out and i agree a general recusal of those officers who are in place who have a political interest in the election should be sufficient but we also have republicans who are filling the seats who seem to have no shame or sort of moral compass when it comes to this want to go there from my own home state the eternal general jeff sessions himself was accused of voter suppression when he was the state attorney general in alabama and i remember that as a child growing up the shock of knowing that he was about to presume the position of a federal judge forcing that was overturned that he did not a sin to that power but now under trump he has been appointed the attorney general

of the united states in charge of enforcing the laws including civil rights pete i saw you shaking your head so i wanted to ask you are so you actually rather not in there i want to ask you is this the election cycle that is really awakened many more americans to the possibility that voter suppression could be happening in their midst. both rodney and lara pointed out this is a long standing thing and it's a tactic that is crucial to the republican effort i mean that donald trump and the folks running on his cam along those lines are appealing to a narrow segment of the population and then they've got to erect barriers for the majority of the country particularly voters of color to get to the polls so this is long standing but it is i think getting a lot more attention today and it's something that needs to get attention because if we're going to have a democracy everyone's got to be able to get to the polls and clearly that's been

a real challenge of the been serious impediments to a particularly voters of color in this country look like you want to add something there or did you did you want to say something. yeah well i mean i think there is a positive side to all of this attention i mean whatever the downsides are about people having a sense of also being disenfranchised and actually being prevented from voting there is this other side where the reports about it are so shocking i think to many americans to think that this is still going on in the twenty first century that it could also help to increase some of the vote i think you know when you saw oprah winfrey in georgia talking about the importance of voting and what it meant from a legacy standpoint i'm not sure that you've had those sort of emotional appeals

backed up with kind of this urgency of the moment in a very very long time so we might well see kind of you know huge minority turnout even despite the obstacles that exist right in there you want to jump in just a me ask you first though if you can incorporate this into your answer so obviously president trump has made himself really front center in this election cycle how much of this midterm election is it is going to be a referendum on him. it depends on the blue wave or the blue tsunami if you will i don't expect it to be a dramatic shift from the status quo that we have currently i think he will continue to rule with his agenda in place i think that there will be some give way with the house of representatives but in general the senate is the sort of the the fire wall of american leadership in congress and therefore i think he will maintain control his agenda will continue the referendum might show up in the sense of this

latest kavanaugh situation with appointment to the supreme court to see how women decide what they're going to do or or accept in leadership that the case of the election of mccaskill senator mccaskill in missouri will also be an interesting litmus test and she opposed kavanaugh will she be able to maintain her power so i look at it more broadly as just one more lobby in the midst of a culture war if you will that's going under going right now in the united states pete many many expect that the democrats will be able to flip the house on this election if that were to happen you know what what will they be able to do how will they be able to counter trump going forward does it depend on how much how much of a majority they would hold it does and i think the romney's point also depends on the senate but i think it's crucial that democrats move forward not just on focusing on trump which i think that was the electoral strategy in two thousand and

sixteen but i think really addressing whether it's fifteen dollars an hour or medicare for all or ending the incarceration craziness that has been this country's. policy for so long addressing the policies that really impact people's day to day lives are doing everything they can to address it i think is going to be crucial i don't think it's enough just to go. into two thousand and twenty saying trump and russia well i think the problem is that we have a president who bypasses all traditional norms for presidency all sense of decorum and civility and he bypasses the traditional mainstream media to do that appeals directly to visceral emotional racist reactions from people and that stirs them up and motivates them to vote i would like to say that pete is right we need to focus on substantive issues and lars right there are some positives out of this setting a light on this issue of voter suppression which affects poor people which affects

do it big rates noone newly naturalized citizens but also there needs to be a campaign and i think president obama former president obama and former attorney general eric holder have launched a campaign to deal with the gerrymandering issue which is the which is the the bedrock of this problem how we we position ourselves in our neighborhoods to vote one way or to destroy the voting power of certain communities as was shown recently in the state of pennsylvania that went all the way to the state supreme court in pennsylvania because the republicans had rigged the general ban drink so much that it totally diluted the voices the votes of people of color so we have to address the issue of german during full participation in a democracy why is it that we still voting on tuesdays and the rest of the western democracies vote on the we can make it easier for the working class people to be able to vote why can't we have an automatic registration to vote across the board why the republicans so insistent on limiting the ways in which people can vote that

is the real problem to rodney's point if the democrats were to be able to retake the house do you think that there will be efforts made at that legislation perhaps to try to counter some of the gerrymandering efforts that have been going on for decades now well i think there are sort of a couple different types of problems i mean we do have a reality that our constitution does put much of that redistricting effort. in fact all of it at the state level the civil rights and voting rights act ensured that the states had to do some things in more appropriate ways we had legal cases that required that each house districts have the same number of people in it but the bigger problem isn't just sort of the gerrymandering because in fact our senate is not gerrymander each senator represents an entire state the bigger problem that we have in this country is what we call sorting meaning that people have moved into

areas where they want to be near people who agree with them and so we do have a geographical distribution issue but i want to go back to the referendum for just one moment much of what we have seen in the polling is that this midterm election will be a certainly a nationalized election people will either be voting in favor of trump or against trump more than two thirds of the public say that that's what their vote is representing and that's highly unusual in a midterm election to have that sort. of support and energy one way or another we also at the moment have about thirty five million people who have already cast a ballot early and in a typical midterm election we generally have about eighty five million people voting we're likely to go far far past that number and this is going to be an

unusually high turnout election and some of that does have to do with how trump has nationalized this election to be about him for or against pete your reaction to it laura was saying just how momentous are these elections. yeah i was listening to noam chomsky the other day and he said it's not the most important election of his lifetime it's the most important election in human history. you have a republican party that is ignoring climate science as we head rapidly towards a future that's difficult to think about and where organized meaningful human existence is in jeopardy and a republican party it's ignoring what's ahead and a president who is playing footsie and sometimes is not so subtle with white nationalists. so this is an election about trump it's really an election about the

direction of this country and so yeah this is this is a momentous occasion and it is heartening to see turnout so high and i think that. hopefully they'll continue and i think one of the things about polling is often we say well who's up who's down but the end of the day as we saw in two thousand and sixteen as we've seen in the primaries particularly when it comes to progressive candidates of color. polling is enabled isn't always the best measure and polls don't vote people do so we'll see if this continues but my hope is that people will continue to step up and vote and send the message that this is not the direction that we want to head in this country no doubt i think as pete mentioned is a definite very decisive election especially when you think about the checks and balance system within american democracy if the trump campaign and the republicans win the house and the senate then we have a congress of the legislative branch we have the executive branch and we have

a conservative supreme court also more likely to to decide in favor of republican standards and ideas about constitutional philosophy so this would be very dangerous for our democratic system to have all three branches of government under one umbrella if you will i mean to expand on what romney was saying i mean if the republicans were to keep the house and the senate what does this mean as far as what trump will do going forward won't he just be more emboldened i mean would the last two years you know this is purely speculation with the last two years from your point of view essentially look like child's play compared to what he might feel emboldened to do. yes i think that's right it would be seen by president trump as an affirmation of all of his tactics he doesn't ever really seem to have a strategy but he has many tactics that so confusion and create kind of a chaotic legislative environment but he would see all of the votes as being an

affirmation of his direction that he wants to take the country and i think more importantly though what you would see is that his republican opposition which has been meek but persistent over the course of his last two years would all but disappear so the most important thing is not just how the president behaves in his cabinet would react but in fact how all of the republicans across the entire party up and down sort of the state to the federal would basically roll over to the sense that the republicans had become trump's party many republicans of have questioned why president trump isn't running more on the strength of the economy in the u.s. at this particular moment but others say look the reason that the president is is relying on spawn scare tactics is essentially be gin up his base do you think that

is correct is that why he is highlighting more negative than the the things that are going well in the u.s. right now. i think trump is a master of dominating the news cycle and so when things go away from him in a direction that he doesn't want then he's going to reach deep down into that bag he did that in the primary and he will appeal in ways we've just never seen it i've never seen a president do. to race and even racism. and he will keep the attention on him and that is as laura saying it is a disorienting experience both on his legislatively and also just as a country it's hard to think about any issues other than him but it's crucial that we do from climate change to to the minimum wage to you name it this is all is not and it's not just about trauma it's about all of us

a problem but he's going to make it about himself and. you know right here he's the he's the chief executive of the nation and he's also a master of ceremonies he's a brilliant reality t.v. show host so he knows exactly how to appeal to a certain audience and he has pinpoint exactly who to appeal to to get them out of the polls and what issues to touch upon he has continued his presidency just as he started his candidacy maligning and desecrating the name of minorities important politicians like obama questioning whether or not he was born in the united states . a random stereotypes about mexicans and other peoples and muslims this is outrageous and everyone should be enraged by what he is doing on the flipside however what trump is basti done is appeal to white rage and white fear about people of color in the united states which is further polarizing the nation and is not going to give us a better society can you envision

a scenario by which democrats retake the house and yet because of potentially legislative gridlock or voters not seeing democrats doing enough to actually put forth an agenda going forward that that would benefit trump going into two thousand and twenty. well sure that is something that you could say happened with both ronald reagan and bill clinton whereby in their first midterms they essentially you know lost seats in the house of representatives president clinton in fact lost the majority but they were able to reach across the aisle and start creating legislation and building a record for themselves that helped them win re-election in their campaigns in eighty four and ninety six respectively but what you really do with that is you assume that you have

a president who can reach across the aisle and be unified and i think as our panelists have so eloquently said very little of this president is an attempt to reach out to others who are not his base he has a very difficult time engaging in any sort of presidential unifying type of conversation rhetoric or or strategy he just doesn't like the idea of sort of american americans coming together he is much more interested in driving the wedges between them to divide them further apart and win at all costs and win at all costs. we have run out of time so we're going to have to leave it there and so thanks to all our guests p. tucker brown and rodney taylor and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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vows to be relentless as iran says it will stand up to washington sanctions. turkey suggests saudi arabia sent a team to erase the evidence after the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. armed men kidnap eighty children from a school in western cameroon and deny this a civil rights groups say millions of americans are being blocked from voting in pivotal elections. sporters pulls out of the a.t.v. finals paving the way for novak djokovic in the year as. the u.s. says it's imposing relentless sanctions against iran after the republic promised to stand up to what it called bullying from washington while the trumpet ministration has issued eight exemptions from its demand that all countries stop buying iranian

oil the u.s. secretary of state is warning that they will be consequences for any other nation that does business with iran a diplomatic editor james bays reports now from washington d.c. . the message the treasury secretary and the secretary of state wanted to send was that the sanctions lifted when the u.s. during the obama administration joined other international partners in the twenty fifteen iran. clear deal a rule now back in place but if you read the small print that's not exactly the case some of the iranian nuclear facilities have been given waivers so they can still work producing nuclear energy for civilian use the trumpet ministration wants all countries to stop importing iranian oil but for now secretary of state might come peo says age nations who get temporary waivers the u.s. will be granting these exemptions to china india italy greece japan south korea taiwan and turkey the two cabinet secretaries said they'd keep

a laser focus on iran but why single out just one country in the region jane's face from al jazeera english you talk about the destabilizing behavior of iran in the region how does that differ from the bad behavior of saudi arabia. so let me just go through the list underwriting lebanese hezbollah that presents a threat to united states of america and israel underwriting the hoodies in yemen causing an enormous conflict to take place there in that country the efforts in iraq to undermine the iraqi government funding shia militias that are not the best interests of the iraqi people their efforts and syria the list goes on that difference in behavior between those two countries is remarkable. that on some perhaps need some point checking the u.n. says there's no evidence iran has recently supplied the who feeds with weapons while the saudi led air campaign has been responsible for the majority of civilian

deaths in yemen saudi arabia certainly has its own destabilizing role in the region just look at the blockade of carrots are and if you're criticizing iran for its human rights then saudi is appalling record also needs to be scrutinized particularly in the light of the murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul james. washington. now part of. that's to put maximum pressure on iran's economy is getting the swift global banking network to cut off iranian banks so if says it's complying reluctantly so what is swift and how does that work well set up in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's basically a messaging system that banks use to communicate payment instructions to each other it makes it possible to move trillions of dollars around the world every day tens of thousands of financial institutions and almost all the world's nations are connected to the system exclusion will make it much more difficult for iranian companies to get paid by partners based elsewhere further damage in trade iran's

president meanwhile says the era of simply chanting death to america is over and the time has come for the us to truly fair ron. the reports from the capital. one of the reasons president donald trump gave to pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on iran was the country's growing military influence in the middle east. and their ballistic missiles program. so it was perhaps not a coincidence that iranian scheduled one of their largest military exercises of the year on the same day as u.s. sanctions kicked back in. multiple air defense units took part in war games spanning half a million square kilometers across the country. and as the missiles took flight on the ground the iranian president lobbed insults at the american president. i have i was able to go scout that i don't think any other administration in the history of

the united states has been as opposed to the law and international treaties i've not seen any administration in the white house as racist as these people and you cannot expect anything else from them in a speech to his recently shaken up economic team rouhani laid out a broad plan for the future come what may iran will sell oil and will break u.s. sanctions in the face of american threats iranians put their faith in the basic principle of supply and demand i believe the sanction was. but that they couldn't sanction is not the. sudden need. some think in their mind and then put sanctions and you give me the supply side you cannot expect the pres good though. simple price goes up iran has used unmarked ships to sell oil in international waters traded oil using the barter

system and rouhani has also floated the idea of selling oil in alternative currencies to the u.s. dollar iran is also counting on a european bypass to the american banking system but months of promises and public support by the european union have not led to practical solutions behind closed doors some iranians are asking if that was the plan all along despite rouhani is insistence that european support is a big deal for iran keeping iran's trust will not be the only challenge for europe to keep iran in the nuclear deal with american sanctions at full strength and more said to be on the way they'll also have to figure out how to turn the temperature down between hawks into iran and washington. and let's get more on the joined by iran analysts to add them he's live for us in london very good to have you on al-jazeera us and so far on day one of sanctions being. and you know fighting words from both sides but iran of course has

a lot more to what do you make of president rouhani is comments that they are going to fight the u.s. on all the sanctions i mean they come out when can they so long as the u.s. dominates the global financial system. i mean you're certainly right that the international currency of reserve is the u.s. dollar and until that changes the u.s. has enormous leverage. over on through extra territorial sanctions i think a rum we banking on trying to split russia and china or me from the states at the moment the multilateral treaty which under. which under the iran deal is still acts dance and iran caton has developed means to move all through black economies since it was sanctioned in two thousand and eleven so. i don't think that the current macroeconomic situation is going to change fast by iran is resilience

is relatively more resilient than it was in two thousand and eleven. how long can they remain resilient if the other countries that a part of the deal. actually do business with iran of course the view opinion union have said that they'll do everything they can to protect iran and businesses in countries that are buying oil that do business with iran but we are yet to see this special purpose very cool that they've talked about being implemented can vent swift or anything like that. i mean frankly the iranians are white out trump they have had informal signals from the europeans about things will go back to normal when america. a president who isn't so modern maniacally focused on the imagined threat

of iran use it's important to remember that when bomber put sanctions on iran they were to pressure iran into negotiations trump is putting pressure on iran for a list of twelve reasons which are essentially mean unilateral disarmament and capitulation which iran leaders nor its people are going to be able to to do it i mean it would be it would it would essentially leave iran exposed to american bases which surround the entire country so as far as the iranians as a sort of the iranians russia now goes i think it's just waiting out trouble but can they afford to wait out trouble they want to be reelected and we have another six years of this presidency. well iraq was under sanctions between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and fifteen. it suffered enormously

anomic lee. and the iranian people were the ones to stop take the brunt of the. ruling class of iran generally. survived and not only exploit survived exploited a lot of the a lot of a lot of the black economies which which proliferate when you have sanctions so i think it's just going to be a tough few years and ron hopes things will change when there will be a new president which you'd imagine would be the case unless there was enough for. another president who. who is like the person we have at the moment to our resume thank you very much for your time and your analysis on this. turkish media is reporting that members of the saudi team sentenced on ball to

investigate the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi focused instead on removing evidence of his murder the daily saba says that among the saudi team which arrived nine days after the journalist was last seen were experts in chemicals and toxicology let's go now to our correspondent. he's outside the consulate for more on this the turks releasing this new information what do they i mean tell us more details and also what they can actually do about this well it is a really interesting developments according to the leaks particular to the pro-government newspaper until yesterday most of the leaks got about the death squads to do something different.