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hello iran. threats after the u.s. decision to label its elite revolutionary guard a terrorist organization. called unprecedented move a mistake and has warned that his country could develop more advanced nuclear technology if washington continues to apply pressure more from iran's capital shortly but first reports from washington on the u.s. the. iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps. one hundred twenty five thousand troops is joining sixty seven others on the us is foreign terrorist organization list the secretary of state says. is a fundamental threat to u.s. national security. as

a legitimate military organization but none of us should be formed. it regularly violates the laws of armed conflict it plans organize and executes terror campaigns all around the world the i.r.g.c. is already a specially designated global terrorist organization but this is the first time the us has put a government agency on its foreign terrorist organization list the top administration says the i.r.g.c. actively destabilizes other middle eastern countries from supporting the syrian government in its civil war to helping hezbollah undermine lebanon's government to sending advisors guns and money to who the fighters in yemen the question for the trumpet ministration why do this now we're taking an entirely new approach to this of significant sort of sustained maximum economic pressure to deny the i.r.g.c. and the iranian regime of the revenue that it needs to conduct its foreign policy

the trumpet ministration says there are other reasons to put the i.r.g.c. on the list it plots attacks on opponents and other countries and uses money from both state run and private businesses to fund its operations and give safe haven to al qaeda operatives a former u.s. official says targeting the i.r.g.c. is understandable but could backfire on the trumpet ministration iran is not doing well. and there is significant unrest within the country you know but the ayatollah and his government can make a credible claim that that this hardship is the fault of the united states and the early reaction from town it's now declaring the u.s. military in the middle east a terrorist organization and the iranian foreign minister says donald trump is trying to throw tuesday's parliamentary elections in israel quote another misguided election eve gift to netanyahu another dangerous u.s.

misadventure in the region u.s. officials say it's important to hold onto a cow. for its human rights abuses at home and its disruptive behavior abroad but it's not clear that other countries are going to join in with the u.s. as it steps up its efforts to isolate iran. jordan al-jazeera the state department and into iran iran's politicians opened a session of parliament chanting death to america has more on how iran's government is reacting. almost immediately after the american move to designate iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps a terrorist organization iran's government replied in kind the supreme national security council of iran decided to designate u.s. forces in the region as well as the headquarters of the u.s. central command as terrorist organizations as well and the foreign minister of iran zarif also said that it considers now the iranian government considers now the american government as a state sponsor of terrorism now the i.r.g.c.

is an enormous organization with influence over iranian politics the economy and domestic and foreign security the implications of labeling it a terrorist group could have far reaching effects putting still more pressure on remaining international business links that iran still has and further squeezing iran's finances even more but more than that iranians will tell you the latest move to isolate them and to isolate their country goes too far it's worth remembering many iranians have lost their lives in attacks by armed fighters and dissident groups so for many iranians being placed in the same category as groups like al qaida or the islamic state will be seen as a major escalation whether or not these designations change the rules of engagement for iranian and american forces on the ground remains an open question but iranians are more likely now to support a more aggressive approach by their own government when dealing with the united states and that means that dialogue or peaceful negotiations to resolve ongoing

tensions that's something that is starting to seem more and more unlikely let's get some perspective from. his a political analyst is joining us from tehran via skype thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera so i suppose it's not really a surprise the house speaking earlier on saying that this is a mistake by the united states but what he also did say that if the u.s. continues to pressure their iran iran will produce i r eight advanced centrifuges what is the significance of that statement. you know i had heard that on set and many of you should have said it was a mistake but not as it is and it's because the administration is in the space on vine wars are people in the united states mostly u.n. dissidents. meet and part of it from the country don't have an interest at the bottom what is playing like in this country and what people want and what. and they

are just selling to the american administration officials why even do anything here sot down to just give orders or who are just giving and why is this to even a news ration. quickly or a why didn't anyone in this state is and they are just going to war on yours right but what has our money. has significant as it has on rouhani said iran will produce our eight advanced centrifuges. i'm going to do that that's the point that you want has sort are going to patience regarding the days if you weigh and now i want to be . in measured then you are contented is that it's largely very first what your hands be has been doing and to follow the implemented the gave us for what it is that is to. actually resume the. centrifuges and

are there any measures that can come after that and it's something in retaliation for what the weather is that has been doing so for our. money and we doing actually funds just the way and now putting pressure for the new sanctions or the now and this is the answer is group support you are not it is not going to take some military action against that or these are by the what you can do is just to resume what has been exceeded what the indian because of the days you do it and of course iran has not pulled out of the g o a as of yet but i'm rouhani be speaking to an international audience is this sending a message here to the world and the americans in particular or was he speaking to a domestic audience when he made that statement books either too early that only measure than the one that words are being said are a message to the whole world and of course iran has been not satisfied with the european signs of this usa and it has to be said about its times by various people

you want that the eurozone ads are of course the more they are needed we have to. go in and this is the first acknowledge that if you are going to follow all or even silence regarding. this. last which is calling me over to see if it was cool if you have to look inside i'm going to be different or that or ever thought of it that is something that you are not tolerate and stand for that if you are really. to go to war vigorously all the themes and even consider leaving out is hewitt all right we thank you very much for giving us the perspective from to her on. to saddam now where there has been more gunfire in the capital hard to security forces have been trying to break up a mass sit in that's been going on for four days outside the army headquarters soldiers stepped in to protect the crowd and strange gunfire with security forces

for more than two hours victoria getting the reports that i'm. safe and now protesters shelter in a military headquarters in the capital khartoum. soldiers opened the gates after sudanese security forces started firing on protesters. in another part of the capital protesters carry the body of a man wrapped in a sudanese flag he was reportedly killed by the security forces. overnight thousands of sudanese once again gathered outside the army's headquarters in khartoum they're calling on president obama al bashir to resign and want the military's help in forming a transitional government. during the last four days of demonstrations security forces have fired shots in the air and gas that demonstrate is in an attempt to disperse them. some sudanese soldiers have shielded protesters from harm

others have handed out water. all over the area showing. the sudanese from different religious backgrounds have joined for months of protests to demand change in scenes reminiscent of the arab spring demonstrations eight years ago in sudan's neighbor egypt the government's imposed a state of emergency since february after that crackdown failed to stop the largest outcry during al bashir has thirty year rule of the. us he's asked the ruling national congress party to help restore stability because. the government says change can come through the ballot box but protest is on the streets insist they want change now victoria gate and bay al-jazeera. voters in israel are casting ballots in elections that will determine if benjamin netanyahu will remain in office after a decade in power his main challenger benny gantz voted earlier urging the country

to embrace a new dawn opinion polls put his blue and white alliance just ahead of netanyahu party however the prime minister still appears to have the best chance of forming another governing coalition. so luckily for me i'm happy to place myself at the service of the state of israel in the citizens of israel i'm happy to stand for the good of the citizens or we call for a respectful and quiet day from all sides live to stephanie decker in occupied east jerusalem and even though benny supports raise himself to be as an alternative to netanyahu stephanie this election is being described by many as the right versus the right. it is that i think this is the way to concern about the direction of the politics here is taking when prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to find what is seen as a centrist opposition let's say but this is a man and he got to bed the minute she chairing the two thousand and fourteen campaign on gaza so it's all very relative they're talking about left is

a dirty word but there is no real left when it comes to the political situation right now it's safe to say the polling station where we are the people coming here to the right spectrum of the political debate we've been talking is that there is no consensus however when it comes to benjamin netanyahu this vote is really see as a referendum on the prime minister some will say that he is the only man to lead this country others are telling us that it's time for him to go it's been too long he's been leading this country for ten years three years before that and it's time to give someone else a chance so in the media certainly people are saying that this is the closest election in twenty three years that certainly the most opposition the prime minister bibi as he's known here is having him in a decade so anything is up for grabs but. certainly the polls are indicating that even if gap's gets majority when it comes to his party that it's benjamin netanyahu has the best that say the best odds with a comes to forming that coalition government and of course it's only

a small minority of palestinians those who are palestinian is really is who are eligible to vote in the selection are they coming out to the polls. or have to see by the end of the day the predictions were that it was only going to be around fifty percent now they do make up a fifth of the population of this raid that is to read but they will tell you and we did a story in the north of israel speaking to various people some of them saying they were they will boycott others saying that we call it a forward we're calling but the feeling is that will who ever they vote for isn't going to change what is increasingly a racist narrative in this country not just a narrative but also something that has been out of the cost to loss of the goal to basically the nation state will pos last year which defines israel and home for the jewish people where only they have self-determination so there is a concern about the politics about the narrative of the. races the just say yes voting for bibi netanyahu shift of the narrative and how politics what kind of

policies are going to be implemented but i guess we're going to have to wait and see how the days unfold the voting starts at ten pm local time then we're going to be hearing the early election results polls predictions and then you can probably try to paint a picture about what the future is going to look like all right especially dr for the time being thank you still ahead on al-jazeera an airstrike damages the only operational airport in tripoli prompting walkies for the fighting in libya to stop . hello there was a lot of heavy snow over the northeastern parts of europe recently so we know out of this weather system here and you can just about make out this dog line of cloud here this is the leading edge of the cool air that's pushing its way down across

other parts of europe now so for some of us here we'll see the temperatures really drop away as we head through the next couple of days elsewhere across europe you can see plenty of cloud with some particularly heavy rain in the southeast corner of europe and some very heavy showers over parts of turkey as well this mess of wet weather is going to stick around as we head through chews day and on wednesday still with this just slightly less heavy in a few places for the western parts of europe it's cooler for most of us and it's also rather unsettled so plenty of showers around and some of those showers to still turning wintery over the alps even further towards the southeast a little bit of cloud there just making its way into the northwestern parts of africa that's dragging down the temperatures so eighteen will just be the maximum there is in that cloud just filter a little bit further southwards as we head into wednesday probably not a great deal of wet weather on it but it will make things a little bit gray in staying cool behind that we will towards the east staying fine for us up to twenty one degrees for the central belt of africa it's rather wet now

particularly in parts of west africa. who would sponsor can tolerate. each day war on whether online watch t.v. has taught us is to be able to be concise being expressing exactly what is happening in the moment and what it means threatening or if you join us on saying israel is an apartheid state in view of the cleansing of the palestinian people based is a dialogue everyone has a voice and we want to hear from you join a global conversation amount of zero.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera on a number of antigovernment protesters were injured in confrontations with the president's security forces they've been trying to break up a mass in front of army headquarters that's been continuing for four days the army has allowed some protesters to enter the headquarters to protect them from gunfire and tear gas. millions of israelis are voting in crucial parliamentary elections that will decide a prime minister benjamin netanyahu will get a fifth term in office his main challenger a former military chief slightly ahead but would struggle to form a government iran's president has threatened to develop more advanced nuclear technology the u.s. decision to label its revolutionary guard a terrorist organization i think that's a mistake and it will unite the iranian people. well millions of iran's members excuse me if iran's revolutionary guard and u.s. forces are both stationed in iraq let's get the view from baghdad jabarin of course

also in baghdad some iraqi officials have close ties to iran so any official reaction from like dogs. well there in we're currently waiting for the country's foreign ministry to issue a statement we've reached out to the foreign minister in his office and they've told us that they're currently drafting a response to the decision by the united states government what's important to note is that there are fifty eight hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq and the rainy and revolutionary guards presence in this country is that their request of the iraqi government so there are an advisory role here but what makes things very difficult for the iraqi government is that they need both sides the united states as well as iran to be present in their country for the forseeable future according to the country's prime minister who was just in tehran the past few days he said that they relationship between iran and iraq has never been stronger and that the two countries will continue to develop their

relationship there's of course a huge economic relationship as well between the two countries there's iraq is currently the number one importer of iranian goods and the president hassan rouhani has said that they want the iranian exports to increase excuse me with iraq so this puts iraq and its government in a very difficult position a position that they are going to have to be very careful about in the coming months ok dorsett baru an update from baghdad thank you. forces loyal to libyan war for half that have carried out another air strike in the capital tripoli targeting the disused airport on the city's southern outskirts fighting continues between half the soldiers and the un backed government on monday as strike the operational airport in another parts of the capital more than the one had reports. he was trying on libya's main airport.

east of the city attacked by warplanes on the orders of the warlords only for have to. libya's old airport on the southern edge of the capital tripoli is also under attack forces allied to the u.s. and the government have to repeal have to reset vance. we can't accept military rule in libya that's why we've come to tripoli to defend the city. here in the cities disused airport forces loyal to the backed government say that the are in full control and have to those forces have pulled back but as the clashes are still ongoing the fear is rising that civil other neighborhoods will be affected. the u.n. is repeating calls for a truce it says thousands of civilians have fled the area i think the first message we need to pass united states is the full implementation of the my italian troops to allow the civilian center wounded to be evacuated from. the city and to

avoid any further military action and then a further military escalation and a return to the political negotiations and the political track. strikes were launched by both the us and backed government and have to those forces at the weekend the u.s. has joined demands from other g seven countries for have to hold his own. but analysts doubt the u.s. demand this statement from the secretary of state. try to see the capital we call it how to show restraint and when you can action behind this statement with the withdrawal of u.s. forces already location of us also from tripoli to go elsewhere this does not look like an administration that is committed to the protection of surrenders government . libya has been divided between two competing governments for the past five years the administration in tripoli is bad by the united nations the other in the eastern

city of play have turtle in them in my hands are usually really rare the store one of the libyan armies tarsus to protect the libyan constitution which guarantees and protects the nation's institutions and its citizens the libyan army is moving towards tripoli with one goal which is to free it from the armed militias. have to his forces say they are fighting terrorists to groups in the capital but then offensive is also about money and the whole controls libya's central bank and its oil companies based in the capital. who is joining us from aaa to worry about the airstrikes hitting the disused tripoli international airport . well. sources on the ground in the tripoli international airport say that have to as warplanes are targeted that the disused international airport in the southern outskirts of the

capital again as you know during that yesterday this same disused airport was targeted by have to this warplanes. airport made to get airport targeted yesterday as you know made to get is the only operation port in the capital city a state of burning it was reported yesterday in the. airport especially airport is located in the middle of a civilian area. have to us forces that have been targeting civilian locations in the southern outskirts of tripoli which are positioned by forces loyal to the government of national accord the clashes have been intensifying during last two days and government sources say that have to as forces are positioned in civil

locations in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital on the other hand the government forces continue receiving support military units from civil areas in the worst of the country the humanitarian situation is getting worse in the areas needed by the fighting areas as civilians have been calling been sending get distress calls and the health ministry at the tripoli because the government has been putting a high alert it has been putting all its hospitals and medical centers in the city in the capital city on high alert doesn't it sounds like the u.n. secretary general call for an immediate halt to the fighting has been largely ignored. apparently yes several international calls for. the latest was feeding him a green is their chief of their foreign policy at the european union she called for

a humanitarian truce and she called on the revell factions the warring factions to go back to the negotiation path but it seems that so far neither one of the rival factions is listening there have the us forces are determined to take over the capital tripoli and on the other hand the government forces have launched a new counter offensive called the volcano of wrath they say that they are going to not only defeat have to his forces in the outskirts of tripoli but the operation as a spokesman of the government says the spokesman of the army led by the government there you and back the government says that the counteroffensive volcano of wrath is meant to not only to defeat have to the forces in the outskirts of tripoli but duchies them in other have to affiliated cities in the south of tripoli like the

city of the horn and the city of. what i've been what have thank you. nine pro-democracy leaders in hong kong face seven years in prison for inciting protests demanding more freedom from china's government they were found guilty of instigating the umbrella protest five years ago which blocked the city's center for weeks china's leaders in beijing are accused of first stripping freedoms which were guaranteed when britain and colonial rule in one thousand nine hundred sarah clarke was off the court hearing. all nine people before the court today who were associated with the occupy hong kong movement back in twenty four to have been found guilty of one of the charges at least one of the charges for their role in these protests the most high profile of the three founders of the occupy movement now that been found guilty of one charge conspiracy to commit public nuisance where yet to hear the sentence. the prosecution has long argued that this group

a key role in commissioner inciting public nuisance by creating the street would shut down parts of central hong kong from around seventy nine back in twenty fourteen through twenty fifth it's certainly not good for the pro-democracy movement which had a number of other student leaders who associated with the demonstrations they've already served jail time including joshua one night in law and alex child we've also had a number of pro-democracy would be disqualified for their association with discrete . tough penalties imposed on activists and this will certainly inside will trigger accusations that this is yet another step by beijing encroaching on hong kong's simul thomas status and certainly restricting hong kong to civil liberties and freedom of expression the u.s. state department says blocking sixteen saudi citizens from entering the country for the murder of journalist. but. to have carried out the killing on orders from crown

prince mohamed. qatar has filed lawsuits against banks in luxembourg saudi arabia and the united arab emirates accusing them of currency manipulation cats are a says the three banks caused billions of dollars of damage to its economy by weakening its currency the cases filed in london and new york accuse the banks of devising the plan following a boycott against qatar. korean air chairman choi young hoes died from lung condition less than three weeks after he was removed from the company's board because of corruption allegations cho was indicted last year on charges of a breach of trust the airline has been overshadowed by several scandals involving his family chose eldest daughter served five months in prison after ordering a plane to return to its gate in new york because she been served in a bag. has introduced some of the world's toughest vehicle emission standards to try and stop older more polluting cars entering the city drivers of cars that emit

too much harmful gas will not have to pay to enter a new ultra low emission zones in the capital the mayor of london has launched a scheme to tackle what he calls a public health crisis. the headlines on al-jazeera this hour iran's president has threatened to develop more advanced nuclear technology after the u.s. decision to label its revolutionary guard a terrorist organization has been rouhani says it's a mistake and it will unite the iranian people. because more from to her. immediately after the american move to designate iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps a terrorist organization iran's government replied in kind the supreme national security council of iran decided to designate u.s. forces in the region as well as the headquarters of the u.s. central command as terrorist organizations as well and the foreign minister of iran . also said that it considers now the iranian government considers now the american

government as a state sponsor of terrorism and so don a number of anti-government protesters have been injured in confrontations of president security forces who've been trying to break up a mass sit in in front of army headquarters that's been continuing for four days the army has allowed some protests to enter the headquarters to protect them from gunfire and tear gas forces loyal to libyan warlords have carried out another airstrike in the capital tripoli. airport on the city's southern outskirts fighting continues between half that of soldiers and the u.s. government on monday a strike at the operational airport in another part of the capital at least three people have been killed in a suicide attack in western syria the attack happened at a syrian army position and how my province state television reports that all the attackers were killed by government forces in hongkong nine pro-democracy

campaigners have been found guilty for their part of mass protests and twenty fourteen they were charged separately under colonial era laws of conspiring causing and instigating public nuisance three of them are facing seven years in prison the twenty four movements are hundreds of thousands of people demanding open elections for the city's leader. russian theater and film director. has been released on bail after living under house arrest for two years the forty nine year old is accused of embezzling about two million dollars on public off public money from a theater project he says he's innocent and alleges that the charges are politically motivated he's been a prominent critic of censorship in russia the stream is coming up next with. their own. just. what was the glimpse of the country to go listen the children are deeply affected because we meet with global news makers

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