that and their game plan is to wait trump out and see what will happen in the twenty twenty alexion and then hopefully see the united states come back to its senses and try to find a way to re enter the agreement would rather that the aspects of the kind of the nuclear thing i mean we've had the state department saying on monday that they will allow nonproliferation civil nuclear project iraq to share and for to iran quote under the strictest scrutiny how different is this approach to these kind of things from what the iran nuclear deal was supposed to achieve that they pulled out of whatever to doing now is not in any way shape or form going to be as effective as a nuclear deal because the nuclear deal had the our involvement had the international buy in of the entire security council this is the united states essentially strong arming the entire rest of the world and as your package made clear most of these sanctions are actually going to be affecting european companies this is the trumpet mr ation saying that their word is above the word of the u.n.

security council this is essentially the united states on the trump becoming as rogue as we have seen it thus far and you mention the european aspect to this how difficult is it going to be for any european coming to to resist the essential to work around them even if europe does come up with a with a kind of a workaround. well for most of the bigger companies it's not about about finding a way around it it's the fact that they are now forced to choose between the iranian and the american market even if payments can be made to iraq that does not mean that the big companies are going to go in because they're not going to lose their access to the american market in order to be able to be active in the iranian market the question is if there's enough of a volume of small and medium sized companies that don't have any exposure to the united states and who then will be able to take advantage of the efforts to put into place alternative financial transactions systems if that works out then. the pressure on iran will be far less than what the trumpet mr h. and i said but even if it doesn't work out it does not seem likely that this

pressure will translate into the type of policy changes to trump administration claims that they're looking for on the contrary i think we're going to see a much more defiant and a much more aggressive iranian foreign policy in the region trita parsi thank you very much indeed if you analysis thank you thank you. turkish media has reported that saudi officials centers stamboul to investigate the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi focused instead on removing evidence of his murder and among those in the saudi team which arrived nine days after her job she went missing was a chemical expert and a toxicology test reports from istanbul. another leak to the pro-government newspaper this time implicating two members of the official search

and investigation team sent from saudi arabia nine days after his murder these banned a comment i bill as easily general be reported to be a chemical expert and highly the heinie said to be a toxicologist are accused of trying to destroy evidence and cover up what happened they are reported to have been active in the consulate and the consul general's residence had of the turkish investigators being allowed into the buildings to start their own inquiry later a call was made for inquiries into reports of attempts to destroy this body in acid after it had been dismembered the call came from the turkish vice president who said the investigation would reach the highest levels it was. who gave the order for the murder to be committed on our soil we are searching for this answer it was

more than a month after his murder his two sons have spoken for the first time salah lives in saudi arabia and has to get permission to fly to the u.s. to be with the rest of his family or what we want. is to bring him back here with in medina with his with the rest of his family in saudi arabia yes i talk to talk about it with. the saudi authorities and. i just hope that it happens. but you need to find somebody needs to find his body yes. i believe that the sessions are going. to be hopeful about that turkish officials fear they may never be able to find the remains of which they believe was dissolved in acid something which is likely to

prolong the agony of his family which has been hoping to bury him as soon as possible in saudi arabia. based on board the u.n. human rights council has been reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its record on rights violations saudi delegation in geneva faced questions over the murder. addressing the council it restated the kingdom's position that it's investigating the killing and will prosecute those responsible for brennan has the latest from geneva the conflicting perspectives about saudi arabia's human rights record were highlighted before the session even began and documents submitted in advance firstly the national report from saudi arabia itself detailing what it says are the reforms that have been enacted the royal decrees which have been passed improving the role of women and improving the human rights record but in contrast to that two reports were put before delegates firstly one from un committees and another from n.g.o.s which complained about the arbitrary detentions about the use of the death

sentence about the stonings amputations against children on the issue of jamal khashoggi could not be a scaped. the kingdom of saudi arabia has already expressed its really good and for the death of the manhunt going on in a season has already instructed the prosecution to proceed with the investigation into this case according to the applicable laws in preparation to reaching all the facts and bringing more be perpetrators to justice to the facts to the problem. the interrogation here in the chamber splits along broadly partisan lines close allies of saudi arabia chose to simply patting them on the back and encourage them to continue the existing progress of reform but what was really interesting was the history teacher allies such as the united kingdom and the united states pointedly make reference to the gym out g murder and to

criticize a broad raft of other problems that they see with saudi arabian human rights record united kingdom of great be concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in saudi arabia progress on women's rights has been overshadowed by severe constriction of political space mass arrests of human rights defenders increased use of terrorist courts to political dissidents and continuing extensive use of the death and but most concerning. and it was indicative i think of a greater willingness here to hold saudi arabia to account for a whole raft of issues that the international community is concerned about on the back of the matter. and the final report when it comes we very interesting to read in the. coming up on al-jazeera this news. as local celebrate the day of the dead politics is very much alive in arizona with immigration a key election issue. i'm for me in madagascar this week's presidential

election could be the most expensive ever yet to more than three quarters of the population lives in poverty. and floyd mayweather is set to return to the ring but it's not what you may have thought will be here with that story in sports. civil rights groups fear millions of americans are being denied their right to vote in the midterm elections they say states under republican control unfairly purging voter rolls affecting minorities one example of this is in georgia where a white republican faces strong competition from a black democrat john hendren reports from atlanta. daniel known go 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 below the ballot came in we get it we just can't take it we don't have the only information we need and the option to you know. you know doesn't up doesn't like yelling we don't really have that option we don't have the 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 you know

is a state of confederacy. the civil war has never ended has 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 interests on its face. on the scale and impact of the 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. 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 knew and his case the state has the discretion to allow his mail in ballot it's just decided not to as he phoned 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. well john hendren is live in fort wayne

indiana for us so i would be holding a rally i want you to an issue is this an edge to to suppression of minorities nationwide john. well lauren in a race that's all about turnout and that's what this midterm election is about it could always make the difference perhaps less so in indiana where i am now than in states like georgia and florida where you have an african-american candidate running this is an issue in twenty six states according to a lawsuit by civil rights groups one that is thought to benefit republicans like president trump and his party president trump is here in fort wayne indiana today and i've got somebody who knows a little bit more about this this is andrew downs of the mike down center for indiana politics at purdue university fort wayne and let me ask you for starters. president trump won by nineteen percentage points in two thousand and sixteen why is he so popular here in indiana well indiana is a conservative state even

a lot of the democrats are conservative in fact if you go down to the southern part of the state you'll find a lot of democrats who support policies that are basically conservative or republican even so it's a conservative state to begin with and actually if you look historically only two times since the one nine hundred thirty s. has the democratic candidate for president won this state so it's a very reliable republican state lot of democrats don't even campaign here so it's one part policy one part tradition and one part ideology of of the folks who live here that make him so popular and nevertheless you have a democratic senator here joe donnelly they call him the accidental senator who won six years ago he's running again now in a tight race with a republican mike braun how's that going well it is a tight race every poll shows that as a tight race in fact it is so tight right now what a lot of people are doing is looking at the libertarian candidate lucy breton as well as undecided voters and wondering first of all where will the undecided voters go but secondarily will lucy britton actually hold on to all of her support we did

a poll that showed her at eight percent this was a few weeks ago which would be about three points higher than she did in two thousand and sixteen it could be all those voters stay with her but it's also likely that a number of them will defect will get to the voting machine and they'll say i'm not sure she can win so i'm going with my second favorite choice which is one or the other and the republicans have accused the democrats are dirty tricks in this race what is it exactly they are saying the democrats have done well there are two things that people are talking about one is a mailer that actually went out to a lot of voters that said if you're looking for the real fiscal conservative vote for lucy breton don't vote for mike braun and it had a series of stats you know braun voted for this she didn't those sorts of things that's one version the other version are ads that are now out on social media but in both cases what the democrats are really kind of hoping is that either the. and supporters who like that conservative bent fiscal conservative ness stay with her instead of defecting to braun or that maybe even some soft support for braun

decides to go over to lucy brenton and how does this race fit in with a country as i understand it democrats have to hold on to ten seats in fairly hostile territory and they've got to flip two more in order to get the fifty one out of one hundred senators that they would need in order to control the senate has a look at well when you look across the country indiana was one of the states that they started targeting at least six years ago because as you pointed out joe donnelly's often referred to as the accidental senator he managed to get to run against somebody who beat a very popular incumbent in a primary and then managed to win in part because the republican richard murdoch made several mistakes along the way so he's been targeted basically since six years ago and it's a state that republicans quite frankly believe they should always be able to win if you look right now he is the only statewide democrat if you look in terms of seats in the u.s. house of representatives democrats have two all right well that's andrew downs thank you very much for talking to us and that of course is why this race matters so much here in indiana and why president trump is here today lauren john hendren

thank you very much indeed. in arizona a closely fought race could see the state's first democratic senator in thirty years is a key issue for voters there is immigration which is now a defining issue in the midterm election many of which is remain undecided as high as your quest for reports. the day of the dead a traditional mexican festival also celebrated here in the u.s. state of arizona across the border here amid tokens of the dead and tops of politics is very much alive because of the state of the country. i think that with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona is will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i wholeheartedly support the president

. of the national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the president is doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state where one in three voters call themselves independents the midterm elections results are anyone's guess i'm kind of a little bit in both ways you know so it depends on what that person stands for there's also the question of whether latinos lean democrat will turn out in high numbers arizona's pride of its mixed heritage is on display here with latinos making up thirty percent of the state's population the fewer than half of registered voters actually cast the ballot in a midterm election so the challenge for the democratic party is to translate very easy out of the streets into action at the core volunteers with a group me familiar volta have been canvassing hispanic neighborhoods for weeks

this is the response has been worrying the vote. a lot of them are. they're scared to even come out they're scared to even do anything because of everything that's been going on because of what trump in recent weeks trump has stoked fears about in approaching caravan of central american migrants these are bad people coming through there these are big little angels coming into our country the president is sending more than five thousand soldiers to the border it's definitely a fear based strategy at the same time i think when you're thinking about arizona. as again those practicalities is that overkill. voters at the day of the dead festival spoke of the dark state of politics in arizona and around the u.s. they say they're ready to move on the question is in which direction. ideas are custer joins us live from tucson arizona so immigration clearly a big issue there but is it to the central one in arizona. speaking with voters

here lauren that does seem to be the dominant issue here we're only one hundred kilometers north of the mexican border and whether it's latino voters who maybe immigrants themselves are only a few generations removed from immigrants or white retirees who flock to arizona for its sunny climate immigration is divisive and prevalent issue at these people's doorsteps now martha makes sally the republican candidate for senate she has endorsed not only by trump but also by the national border patrol council and arizona's border rancher's this again though is a state that has not you elected a democrat to the senate in three decades but that could change now because the democratic candidate kiersten cinema is polling at a statistic tie with make sally and democrats know that this would be a key senate seat to pick up if there's any chance of democrats taking over the

majority in the senate floor and so tight race that you have a sense of which brought it has the momentum at the moment. well democrats say they're very enthusiastic and a late surge in early voting numbers of democrats turning out has really given that party some momentum though it's notable that that turnout is still lacking behind republican early voting turnout also in the nearby state of nevada the republican senate senator there is in trouble he's polling behind his democratic challenger and in nearby texas the nation has been transfixed with a senate election there where the democrat has raised more money than the incumbent republican senator ted cruz everyone is watching texas to see of that may be an indicator of a very conservative state that may go to the democrats in this election lauren how does your question thank you very much indeed. still to come when i was there this news out thousands running just for nearly appointed prime minister mahinda

rajapaksa as the sri lankan pretty cool crisis deepens. china's president looks to rebranded his country's global trading image and widen access for foreign companies . and sport the best of the semifinal action in the major league soccer player. we've got signs is some slightly dry weather making its way into italy as we go on through the next twenty four hours all say still say fair amounts of cloud easing through easily into the age magic into the balkans we'll see some showers still pushing up into northern parts of italy up to will see up snow over the high ground yes that's nice than just wave it was the pyrenees as well i mean for much radius

on the cool side we've got more wet weather just waiting in the wings there that wet weather stretches right up into wa and it will eventually make its way across the british isles every sixty celsius i say sixty's houses that's mild for london winds picking up as we go on through wednesday fourteen degrees at that stage was not a filled out well with the strength of that wind a very blustery day lots of rain rattling its way in across the country by the time come to as they could see some wet weather coming back into southern areas of eighty not as heavy as it has been recently was widespread but then nevertheless further east it stays dry and five book red still in ma side but rest of about fifteen degrees celsius fun to drive across a good part of north africa charles of wanted to sow still across the fall and north of gin is in northern areas of algeria maybe into labor as well for a time drying up by wednesday algeria's twenty degrees.

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are going to one of the top stories here now jazeera the u.s. has called actions against iran the toughest ever imposed measures target the oil and financial sectors but iran's president insists it to be business as usual for his country. turkish media reporting members of a saudi team sent to istanbul to investigate the murder of journalist shoji focused instead on removing evidence from the saudi consul general residence. and u.s. president donald trump and former president barack obama have both been rallying support ahead of tuesday's midterm elections immigration and the economy are

proving to be the key issues for voters. the speaker should anchors parliament says president serious cena has repeatedly misled him as a constitutional crisis over the appointment of mahinda rajapaksa as prime minister and has a second week m.p.'s won't get to vote on it until november the fourteenth the speaker says serious cena promised him parliament would hit earlier but it's missed 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 my three powerless are a 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 of what the got the point of 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 be out on murder rajapaksa accuses create assessor of increasing the tax burden and abusing 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 before parliament is recall there suggesting the rajapakse has come to be just a handful of votes to give him the majority he needs to get seats that he'll probably remain as prime minister but the manner we'd be to treat our risks polarizing the lankan politicians but it's about al-jazeera calamari. and your phone separatists have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of around eighty people from a boarding school in western cameroon video released by the embers only a freedom fighters shows the students giving their names and the names of their parents rebel group took at least seventy nine students and their principal from a presbyterian school in the city of bender on sunday it's in the country's in your shrieking region where separatists are fighting for an independent state jury selection is underway in the u.s. for the trial of one of mexico's most notorious drug lords guzman also known as chapo has been held in solitary confinement in new york for the past two years

security for the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors. china's president has promised to cut import tariffs and widen access for foreign companies speaking at a trade fair in shanghai xi jinping didn't refer to china's trade dispute with the united states but he did warn free trade was under attack adrian brown reports from shanghai. 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 of 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 costs and uncertainty of approving a get in a blue hat has been 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 talian furniture designer who actively sought such an arrangement yes of course that because the like a helper from chinese come at you know to be a chinese we know a lot of the things that we cannot to be a while of a whale. shanghai's does a ling 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 morning signals adrian brown al-jazeera shanghai it's been revealed the lion air plane crashed into the sea off indonesia had the same fold on four earlier flights or one hundred eighty nine people on board the boeing seven three seven

macs were killed when it went down shortly after takeoff last monday information downloaded from the plane's black box showed a damaged airspeed indicator but i guess there is preparing for what could be the most expensive presidential election in its history politicians are spending more than i but only a bit for the top office in a country where more than three quarters of the population live in poverty from an emitter reports from an tunnel or evil. deep within one town and i reveal thousands of people eek out a living in the mountains of rubbish at the rally truck dump one of africa's largest dams it's a mess of a waste flies and stomach turning smells from beneath the dirt these people hunt for what others may consider to be waste but for them potential treasure potential at all i've 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.

work 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 sure you mention what 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 political 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. father pedro 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 . witness to this poverty of being a medical school 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 election two thousand so the teen was you know one of the most expensive elections in the history of what i guess can also when you compare madagascar 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.