showers some of which but not many will be pushed down to the coast guard jerry or tunisia the sun's out in morocco eighteen degrees just rising to ninety was disappointing i think analogies and also in libya and there's a center of circulation forming there reeses a very big challenge recently in nigeria and ghana they're still there but just the north in the sahara time she's already quite high. india is in the midst of a high tech revolution with over one billion. yet in a country where one in four can't be told right how can this technological boom be harnessed for the common good. life challenges a digital entrepreneur to devise an easy to struggling farms. can he find a way to bring the two worlds together. life's most harvest on al-jazeera.

a watching out time to recap headlines both main parties in israel have the same number of seats with vote counting almost prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his main challenger benny gantz both claim victory nothing yeah looks for a fifth with support for a coalition of smaller rightwing parties. more protests are being held in sudan with thousands of people demanding the resignation of president bashir at least twenty people have been killed since the demonstrations began on saturday the. u.k.

and norway. while a political transition. algerians interim leader says free and fair elections will take place in ninety days. says he has no political ambitions and an independent committee will oversee the protesters are skeptical and gathering again calling for an overhaul of the political establishment. the u.n. says there's been an alarming rise in civilian casualties in syria's last rebel held province the bombardment has intensified a day after russia's president hinted it would moscow is one of the main backers of the syrian government and says it's working with the government to eliminate what it calls a terrorist threats so to hold the reports from beirut. the board mint is intense and indiscriminate opposition controlled towns and villages in the northwestern province of idlib are under fire from syrian government forces and

their allies who say they are responding to rebel attacks. there is supposed to be a ceasefire in it live the warring sides blame each other for the provocations. the terrorists have had to continue to attack against the positions of syrian government. but syrian government forces have been hitting markets residential neighborhoods civilians are dying in term of the heaviest shelling since turkey and russia reached a cease fire deal in september. the syrian government says it lib is a legitimate target because it is controlled by to hear a sham and other groups many in the international community link to al qaida. we are waiting for the implementation of the such years agreement but our patience has limits we must liberate the slams of our friends the russians can feel our patients whining they are trying to solve the issue. with the turkish leadership

russian president vladimir putin discussed at liberty his turkish counterpart are gone in moscow this week putin said their efforts will lead to the elimination of what he called the terrorist threat. to turkey was supposed to create a demilitarized zone around it live free of weapons and fighters but instead. consolidated its control. russia and iran gave priority to ties with turkey over regaining control of adlib turkey had warned an offensive in the province would cause a humanitarian disaster and be a breaking point and their alliance now the turkish government doesn't have as many cards following its strained if not ruptured relationship with the united states.

the focus of the near daily syrian government bombardment has been to recapture two international highways that pass through so far there has been no ground offensive partly to avoid confrontation with turkish troops in the area that may change. russia will be careful not to risk its relationship with turkey but it has the upper hand how it uses that leverage will determine what comes next and it led. beirut. european union leaders are heading to brussels for an emergency summit on briggs it britain's prime minister met the french president and german chancellor on tuesday to request a delay in leaving the bloc so reason may wants an extension to the end of june france signaled the u.k. could stay until march next year or will have to meet strict conditions the e.u. wants to map out britain's path to approving an exit deal which just so far proved impossible for m.p.'s in london u. turn by air b.n. b.

to allow property listings in the occupied west bank is being condemned the home sharing company had reversed its policy to remove israel listings after settling legal action jewish lawyers sued the air b.n. b. when n b n b said the homes were at the core of the dispute between israelis and palestinians the company's managers now say all profits from rentals there will be donated to charity human rights watch says donating profits does nothing to remedy the human suffering caused by unlawful settlements. former civil servants in india are questioning the credibility of the election commission accused of ignoring for a minister narendra modi's alleged violations of the code of conduct that kicks in once election dates are announced voting begins on thursday al-jazeera has been speaking to people about their hopes for the next government. to millions of

indians the wheels of life don't stop turning and that includes those like migrant workers back on course from the state of west bengal in the east of the country he's been a rickshaw rider in new delhi for twenty years with few job opportunities moving to the big city was the only way to support his family. it would be wonderful if my son and daughter get an education that's my only wish and nothing else as a responsible rule water i go to great lengths to cast my vote but the politicians take my vote and then disappear where is the promised help billions of farm workers have converged on india's major cities to find ways to survive economic pressures back home they're relying on politicians to keep their election promises to the. millions of indians voted for the party or be j.p. led by a right wing populist leader in the red remote in twenty fourteen he promised a lot to the electorate especially the young and. if we want the country to

progress then we need to develop these skills that's my mission this is my promise to develop skill india where the promises were made that where there were training there would be something. so hope was really rising but in forty years nothing happened you know ninety five percent of startups have failed i don't see any indian to start up picking up even now after four years. in the capital new delhi aspiring fashion designers are close to graduating and many in this class like books and the leisure of first time voters because i wasn't given my promise that i would one of. them. promises is not for the stakes the sake of getting what in the next election is but to read then what the people as me graduate out of course the first thing which we will look at. and that's what we want these are just some of the estimated fifteen million graduates that will join the job market each year the government forecasts that manufacturing will increase by eight percent and that's

good news for these students. is not the first to look for work in the big city and he will be the last but he'll be heading back to his village to vote p.p.s. choice of candidates who keep his election promises. al-jazeera new delhi the us government's chief lawyer is promising to release a sensitive version of the mother report within a week democrats are demanding for publication while attorney general william barr has been facing tough questions in the house of representatives so far bars only release the summary of the report and the possible links between donald trump's election campaign and the russian government actually the president of collusion with moscow. united nations has agreed to help train mexico's newly formed national guard saying it will help strengthen human rights un human rights high commissioner says her office will offer technical assistance to ensure people's rights are

respected and showed but they also offered to help with cases involving more than forty thousand missing people a monday the un agreed to assist mexican officials with their investigation into the disappearance of forty three students and two thousand and fourteen. colombia's president has refused to meet indigenous leaders because of a dispute over security even decay had been due to meet community members after protesters cleared the pan-american highway that they'd been blocking for nearly a month that blockade ended after the government agreed to invest in social projects in the indigenous areas. president putin has asked the international community to help develop the northern sea shipping route which connects the arctic in the far east to the west the route is frozen most of the year but has become more accessible because of global warming severson reports from moscow. nowhere else is the impact of global warming felt as

strongly as in the arctic ice is melting at a fast pace the effects of climate change are calculated to be at least twice the rate of anywhere else on the planet and while it is seen as a reason for huge concern some see it as a business. navigating through the northern sea route between east asia and europe has now become a possibility reducing travelling time significantly compared to the southern route through the suez canal and developing the arctic route has become one of president putin smain policies he wants to see a ten fold increase in cargo in the next five years. only ten or fifteen years ago this number seems totally unreachable now it's a realistic calculated and concrete task to accomplish last year the amount of cargo on the northern sea route reached twenty million tons which is three times the soviet record from one thousand nine hundred seventy one. to one now most of

the ships use in the northern route our oil and gas tank us but to help commercial cargo ships maneuver through the arctic russia is building three nuclear powered icebreakers and aims to produce thirty more by twenty twenty five this park will be . at least three so if this brick wall photos corporation just scientists have raised serious doubts about put in supplants this estimation. are all just wrong some people which president. look to. go through or so-called pink glasses. they expect the arctic is even the climate is. gentle and the pleasure. global warming it's not something like that scientists like that therefore this number looks

like impossible now. of the arctic and the north and feeble as an opportunity for economic growth but neighboring countries in the region have other concerns they say they want to protect what they call the vulnerable part of the planet and whole global warming instead of exploiting it. the heads of states of finland norway and iceland and sweden are all at the form until petersburg in which it came to have their voices heard global warming and its effect on the arctic may not only lead to an environmental and ecological disaster potentially they are a security threat of global proportions russia has downplayed concerns of a possible military buildup in the arctic but with gas and all reserves still untapped the arctic is no longer an undisturbed isolated part of our planet it is rapidly becoming a geo political you frontin year step fasten al-jazeera moscow impressionist

masterpieces are on show in morocco the colors of impressionism exhibition has paintings by manet zani and renoir they can be seen that the museum of modern and contemporary art in the capital robot for the next four months. let's take you through some of the headlines here in al jazeera now both main parties in israel have won the same number of seats with vote counting almost over foreign minister binyamin netanyahu looks set for a fifth term with support for. coalition of smaller right wing parties earlier on tuesday both he and his main challenger benny gantz claimed victory. surely they said we would not go into politics and we did they said we want to

connect and we did and we won sure. i'm very excited that the people of israel gave me their trust for a time and a bigger trust and. i. am telling you again the people of israel gave their trust for us and this is a president more protests are being held in sudan with thousands of people demanding the resignation of president obama and bashir at least twenty people have been killed since the demonstrations began on saturday the u.s. u.k. and norway calling on sudan to plan a political transition algeria's interim leader says free and fair elections will take place within ninety days of doha that when solid says he has no political ambitions and an independent committee will oversee the poll protesters are skeptical gathering again calling for an overhaul of the political establishment the u.n. security council will hold another emergency meeting on the situation in libya as

fighting there continues thousands of people have been killed in recent days including at least thirty fighters loyal to warlord family for half term his forces are trying to take the capital tripoli it's forced the u.n. says envoy to libya to perspire on a national reconciliation conference which was supposed to happen next week. european union leaders are heading to brussels for an emergency summit on brags that britain's prime minister met the french president and german chancellor on tuesday to request a delay in leaving the block threes and may wants an extension to the end of june france signaled the u.k. could stay until march next year but will have to meet strict conditions m.p.'s in london have so far failed to agree on an exit deal. headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after inside story and also head over to our website.

east and the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. the u.s. and iran label each other's military forces as terrorists and raise the stakes in decades of hostility some of the objectives unlawful be the impact of these unprecedented declarations this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program dennis now the islamic revolutionary guard in iran is both revered and feared commanders also directly to the supreme leader and as

well as enforcing power they control major businesses to now it's been designated as a terrorist organization by the united states is the first time the u.s. has ever labeled a foreign government agency in this way and allows more citations to be imposed on iran but to kill only the gold and its business connections the u.s. secretary of state says the iranian force poses a fundamental threat to u.s. security the stork step little brother world's leading state sponsor of terror the financial means to spread misery and death around the world businesses and banks around the world now have a clear duty to ensure that companies with which they conduct financial transactions are not connected to the r.g.c. in any material way. it also gives the u.s. government official tools to counter iranian backed terrorism. this designation is

a direct response to an outlaw regime and should surprise no one when iran responded by calling u.s. troops in the middle east terrorist groups and threaten to produce more advanced nuclear centrifuges algis there is a mess ravi has more from tehran. it's become a familiar routine u.s. president donald trump's white house issues some new action against iran provoking a chorus of defiant responses from senior iranian leaders immediately after the united states designated the islamic revolutionary guard corps as a terrorist organization iran's government retaliated by doing the same to u.s. forces in the region specifically mentioning u.s. central command and saying that the united states was a state sponsor of terror iran's president hassan rouhani speaking at an annual event celebrating iran's nuclear program said his country was more united than ever against the united states who he characterized as being the world's top terrorist he also said attacking the i.r.g.c. would only make them more popular amongst iranians iran's parliament seemed to echo

that sentiment on tuesday when lawmakers proposed a bill to carry out measures against the united states and help strengthen the i.r.g.c. even more some lawmakers even showed up in parliament dressed in i are to see fatigues as a show of support their own speaker of parliament ali larijani also said the move by the u.s. was a sign of an old grudge and a sign of quote stupidity since the i.r.g.c. has been on the front lines of the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant or eisel in iraq and syria now iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who is the commander in chief of the i.r.g.c. said america's animosity towards the group is because the i.r.g.c. is a bulwark against u.s. interests and policies in the region referring to this latest announcement from the white house company said quote trump and idiots in the us administration think they are making progress but they are not they are on the decline he also said the i.r.g.c. has and will continue to be at the forefront of confronting iran's enemies both

foreign and domestic both politically and militarily. inside story. while the islamic revolutionary guard corps is the most powerful of iran's armed forces the elite wing was founded in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine to protect the leadership following the red. solution which depends the shah the size of the force is thought to be around one hundred fifty thousand ground naval and air force personnel as well as enforcing political power girl commanders have major business interests and control iran's ballistic missile program the u.s. accuses them of financing and training armed groups like hezbollah which is based in lebanon thank you it was all right as introduce our guests now joining us from the iranian capital tehran is mohammad marandi dean of faculty of world studies at the university there trita parsi is a professor at georgetown university and he's joining us from washington d.c.

and in london we have elie get a meyer deputy director of the middle east and north africa program and senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations trita can i start with you in the u.s. because i'm wondering if you can explain for for us exactly what the objective of the administration's policy of naming the revolutionary guards as a terrorist entity is. ostensibly the argument they're presenting of course is that this is part of the us as maximum pressure strategies of iran a belief that if they maximize pressure against iran eventually the iranians will capitulate and change all of the policies that might pump a.o. has pointed out that they would like to see a change and very few people would take the administration's claims about their objectives at face value what appears to be the real objective here is that by taking a measure like this the trumpet ministration is and trapping future administrations

into what parents to become a permanent state of enmity between the united states and iran because any movement future administrations would like to do in a diplomatic direction whether it is to rejoin the j c p a way or just start new negotiations and try to get some form of an effort to reduce tensions with iran all of those efforts will become severely hampered by this decision this is reducing america own maneuverability in the future and that appears to be the objective all right coming to you mohammed in tehran then the iranian authorities have responded in kind exactly the same way ratcheting up the pressure they're all those who are now pointing out that there is a real possibility with both sides indicating that the other is a terrorist group a real possibility of military conflict now. the the the new sanctions and the declaring of the guards

a terrorist organization doesn't have any economic impact because the guards have already been sanctioned thoroughly there's nothing more they can do in fact some many here pl believe that is a sign of u.s. weakness and defeat that they are sanctioning something that's already been sanctioned it means that they really don't have much else to do so economically and politically it doesn't make a difference it does have a there are certain areas where there could be trouble for example in the persian gulf or in the indian ocean where the navies of the two sides regularly confront each other or for example drones flying over syria that could be an issue so yes it makes it more dangerous and also i agree with your previous guest said about preventing future administrations in the united states from moving towards or approach mo if for example the a.n.c. the africa african national congress and nelson mandela who were declared as

terrorist by the united states only after president mandela's term in office as president south africa were the restrictions on him removed so that he could enter the united states so the it's a very complicated process removing all of these different sanctions and. actions taken by ministrations and congress in the senate early coming to you in london how do the europeans feel about this mohamed is suggesting that there's not going to be any greater economic impact because the revolutionary guards are already laboring under a massive raft of sanctions do you think that this will turn the screw even tighter on the revolutionary guards in the business they control and the uranian economy more generally. well i have to agree the economic impact is going to be negligible . find any major european company that's willing at this point in time to do business that could remotely be viewed as connected to the irish given the immense

amount of u.s. sanctions that already same place so in terms of its or europe or on trade i don't expect it to take a major heads now what this could potentially do is chill the appetite of new companies a new board members that were considering entering business deals with the wrong one because this designation creates a new layer of criminal responsibility for folks that may be knowingly engaging in this sort of a business but again i can't forsee any major european company engaging in this type of business in any case now what it does do in terms of europe or wrong relations is add a new layer of political tension to the relationship in terms of trying to preserve the new create deal europe and iran are currently undertaking technical extensive technical work for this new payment mechanism to allow some degree of trade to flow between iran and europe and this new layer of tension from the united states really

puts a question mark over this effort in some ways because the europeans have been telling iran behind closed door listen let's hang on tight until the twenty twenty elections in the u.s. are more clear about where action washington is headed perhaps there might be a democrat president that takes a different view on the chase if you're so hung on iran this argument for europe is going to be significantly impacted by this latest as it nation mohamed coming back to you so in certain courses around the world the revolutionary guard of being completely demonize how do we really use feel about the revolutionary guard we've heard there an elite force they have a great deal of business interests in the country but we saw the supreme leader extolling them for their virtues of keeping many enemies out of iraq. well if you look at multiple polls that are carried out regularly both by iranian institutions and western institutions the most popular public figure in iran

is the commander of the quotes brigade general hossam so the money after him. foreign minister zarif is the most popular public figure in the country so i think that goes that tells a lot about how people feel of course it's a country of eighty million and you have eighty million different views but the very fact that the united states antagonizes the revolutionary guard which made many sacrifices both during the imposed war which where the united states back saddam hussein and gave him chemical weapons and in for example just iraq next door helping prevent isis from reaching our borders or taking iraq this is the tag an ism of the united states towards the guards which which has a lot of public support because of that history only only makes them stronger it only makes them more popular and actually what's interesting is that these this

deck this statement that made by the united states came at a time when the construction segment of the our part of the guards which builds infrastructure they are busy rescuing people in the provinces where we had floods and it puts brigade which is the armed. part of the old guard which works in iraq and syria against isis and al qaeda they too are in the provinces rescuing people and helping people deal with the flood as we speak so it's really extraordinary how how the timing was really bad for the united states really in hand i gars president rouhani today made a very strong say more right for the guards but rather lately now around the eyes i . can public figures together thank you mama. trita coming to you so from what many of you are saying today it sounds as though this this latest policy to come from

the administration is a bit more of a form over substance this is part of should be seen as part of the campaign of maximum pressure against iran which ultimately is to achieve what is it to to weaken in iran so much economically that dissent and dissatisfaction is fermented what c. ultimate goal. i think the ultimate goal of the trumpet ministration when it comes to its maximum pressure is that they actually are seeking the disintegration of the iranian state i don't think that this is a regime change policy a regime change policy would mean that the united states would also then take responsibility for setting up the next regime in iran and i think donald trump himself is very much allergic to that idea not because of any particular moral concerns but because of a cost issue and because of the fear that it would become a replica what happened in iraq so instead the objective seems to have shifted towards regime collapse that is

a much cheaper alternative and the united states is then not responsible for what happened after the regime collapses in fact it would prefer to ignore asian comes and replaces it the benefits from their perspective and from the perspective of these raids and the saudis that are very much pushing for this is that with the regime collapse and the chaos that would ensue inside of iran iran's power would be consumed internally and as a result the balance of power in the region would shift dramatically away from iran into the benefit of the saudis and the israelis i think everything we're seeing right now is pointing in this direction because it's really difficult to explain these policies based on the official objectives that the trumpet ministration is putting forward for instance them saying that this is a step towards actually negotiating with iran it's simply ludicrous to believe that it is a possibility so ellie faced with this which seems to be a complete. obsession almost coming out of the white house and as we're seeing now

with the other agencies of government in in the administration how on earth can the europeans missa kate the effects of what the u.s. administration is putting into place i mean how how motivated are they to try to keep iran in gauged with the new plea deal and beyond that in terms of trying to keep the economy at least a fluent. well the of france was the first government in europe to come out today with a statement exactly on this issue urging caution and calm on both sides to prevent an escalation i think european capitals. to the fact that now with the u.s. and iran recognizing parts of one another's respective on forces as a terrorist organization could leave them across has all of major confrontation on this is only in iran but in other parts of the region either by

a calculated move or miscalculation and there are hardliners everywhere across the region and in d.c. an interim that would welcome that actually and the europeans don't like the united states have an ocean separating them from the middle east and what's going on in iran so one of their number one priorities is to prevent regional instability even further in this region closer to home as part of that the number one priority for them is to keep iran and gauge in this nuclear agreement now it's becoming day by day of hard to do that but we are seeing pockets of optimism for example in this new financial payment mechanism that the europeans so i'm finally registered a few months ago there's a lot of technical work underway on that there are regular high level political meetings between the europeans and iranians and neither side is really shut the door to diplomacy despite the pressure coming from the united states and israel on

europe to shut that door and join the maximum pressure campaign so i think what we can best so from the europeans is to keep at this some want norths position on iran and not to add for the fuel to the fire of what we're seeing in the region and urged through shuttle diplomacy behind closed doors with both tests on washington to really cool the situation down and treated coming to you in washington tell us a bit about. the coordination of the various agencies in the administration to come up with this latest strand of maximum pressure policy because as far as we understood it the white house's pretty much it all certainly with the intelligence community yes this is yet another example in which the trumpet ministration has completely disregarded and run over not just the intelligence community but also the pentagon who both of which have objected to this decision was pushing back

against it but were essentially set aside by bolton and those in the white house have been driving this policy and the reason why they have objected to this is precisely because they recognize that this decision actually does not serve u.s. national interest because it makes the united states less safe by increasing the likelihood of a confrontation with iran so and this is not a new position when these issues.