well of the storm i want to go to windy dot com show what's happening right now with the storm the storm is actually just to the north pretty and we are looking at still and circulation with very heavy rain mostly over here towards the western part but where the rain is going to be very intense over the next several days is going to be to the north and also to the northeast the other big factor even though that the storm has made landfall is going to be the storm surge and the reason i'm very concerned about this is if you look up the coast as you get to kolkata and then into bangladesh you have a lot of these river deltas the wind is still pushing the water up towards north it is going to be pushing this water up into these river deltas and that means we're going to be seeing with the tide flooding inland with this storm for the next couple of days in terms of the amount of rain we expect to see over the next couple days let's take a look at the bigger picture here we are going to be seeing rain in terms of two hundred fifty to possibly even five hundred more millibar millimeters in the next three to four days we'll keep an eye on that and we'll bring you more details coming up afghan president has accepted several recommendations for peace talks

with the taliban on the final day of a rare grand assembly of regional leaders that's called the loya jirgah joins us live from kabul so what announcements did the president make. so he's agreed to accept all the recommendations from the loya jirgah test a fence of which there are more than three thousand in this white building behind me discussing over the last five days what is important to them as representatives of the afghan people what positions to they want the afghan government to take in future talks with the taliban they made those recommendations this morning and then president danny said i will accept all of your recommendations he directly addressed the taliban he said we have fought for too long sometimes we have won sometimes you have won but in the meantime people have been and how this is for afghanistan going forward to try to get pace between themselves the government and the taliban some of the recommendations that they have agreed upon is that they

should be in traffic and talks that it's not an afghan government position that u.s. troops should withdraw that they should be an immediate cease fire that the taliban should open a political office in kabul or a city in afghanistan of their choosing as opposed to in doha that any legal demands of the taliban during negotiations should be accepted and that they should be a prisoner swap so that was something that we started to see come out of the committees yesterday that they wanted to see a prisoner swap the taliban prisoners should be released from afghan government jails and. agreeing with that and saying that in fact he's taking it one step further and already agreed to release one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners from his jail. happy to here where the taliban would like to do this i just want to hand over the prisoners with honor and dignity he said it is a trust building measure and that he hopes that the taliban reciprocate with a gesture of their own sometime of the muslim holy month of ramadan so you did

mention. the future of afghanistan is tied to what is happening here in doha there has been talks between the taliban and the u.s. what do we know about what progress has been made. so. how about us meeting again this is the sixth round they made about six weeks ago where they discussed the first two points of kind of a four point process the first two points being that this should be a foreign trip with rule in afghanistan that the u.s. should leave and from the u.s. side they want the taliban to ensure that afghanistan cannot be used as a staging ground for foreign attacks now they did get through the majority of how that would work six weeks ago or they just had to work through some logistics not a meeting again to formalize that but we understand there is some sticking points around the name of the taliban so yesterday when they met it was some disagreement with the taliban saying we want to be in this in this kind of formalization of these first two steps we want to be agreed to be called the islamic emirate of

afghanistan that was their name when they were in power and the u.s. saying we simply can't agree to that because that would mean that we are negotiating with a foreign government and that would undermine the afghan government here now we understand that they are meeting again tomorrow so hopefully be a they can try to work through the sticking point ok charlotte tell us the latest out of kabul charlotte thank you. still ahead on al jazeera days after a powerful cycling up there mozambique officials the cleric hollar al brady. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe it's going to feel more like early spring in some locations rather than the middle of spring because we do have a powerful cold front that is making its way down across northern europe right now and with that the temperatures are going to be dropping behind the front

specifically not a lot of rain is going to be behind the system but we are going to see those temperatures really start to dive here across much of central europe there you can be seeing plenty of rain over the next few days rome not a bad day today with attempted there of twenty degrees but by the time we get towards tomorrow a lot of that rain begins to expand we do pick up more snow in the higher elevations across germany as well as into the alps but take a look at the temperature for paris once that front comes through you're only going to get to about nine degrees here on saturday london is going to be a cool day as well with the time to there of eleven degrees while the northwest part of africa is also going to be seeing plenty of rain over the next day we do have clouds stretching from morocco all the way over here towards tunisia and in those clouds we are expecting to see some rain as well for about rain for you over here towards tunis not a bad day in terms of temperature but the rain will continue by the time we go from friday to saturday a lot of that rain makes its way up here towards much of the northeast algiers rain ends for you with a touch of one thousand and rebut a nice day with you twenty three.

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take a look at the top stories right now on al-jazeera the u.s. sanctions waiver on eight major buyers of iranian oil has expired that includes china india and turkey who now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they continue to buy crude from tehran. he's coast of india has been battered by the most powerful cycling there in twenty years cycling banias killed at least two people in addition state one and a quarter million indians have moved from their homes to higher ground and the president of afghanistan has accepted as several recommendations for peace talks with the taliban on the final day of the loya jirgah simply a regional elders ashraf ghani approved seeking the withdrawal of u.s. troops and an immediate ceasefire. counting has begun after local elections in england and the winner seems to be apathy it rolling conservatives are predicted to lose hundreds of council seats but across the country it seems to me people simply refuse to vote as a protest over bricks it or insley joins us live from catterick and yorkshire so

the local elections what do they tell us lawrence about the national picture. that it's all about bricks it's obviously the results aren't entirely in your started counting here in catterick but as predicted both the conservatives and labor the u.k.'s england's two main parties getting a good kicking the conservatives for not delivering direct seats and labor having an entirely big us position on whether it supports its all or doesn't some of the smaller parties independents greens people like there are some seen some gains as people look for alternatives but the other big trend is people simply not participating in turning out because they have lost faith in politics. look it's a voter increasingly an endangered species their numbers dropping as bricks it sucks the life out of them my son is very skeptical and he has

a saying that politicians all politicians lie you know they're lying to us that it's amazing i don't think there is a democracy for a while in this case it's just. we need pressure and i give you the impression is a democracy but it is not as i said before there were for their own agenda by eleven in the morning just twenty seven people had come to this polling station in richmond the main market town in this part of yorkshire very strongly what came across to me was that the felt that the m.p.'s didn't want to leave the european union and they and they do and they do. and that it was apply for is not to what she leaves so it's a revolt against politics in that sense it is this in miniature is the story of these elections people unable to separate local issues from the gigantic mess the brics it has become this is just one of the chilling effects of the disaster of

brecht's its people being so disgusted that they are now refusing to participate in the democratic process at the same time the government cannot produce a list of program to present to the queen because they don't know what to put in its and they still don't know if the u.k. is going to participate in european elections which are exactly three weeks away in short breaks it has put the whole of british politics in sioux suspended animation england is now peculiar a place where the public is heavily politicized yet is starting to reject traditional parties out rights it suddenly presents a major problem when people question the point of voting in what's supposed to be a democracy. and those european elections assuming they happen because the government. you only got five working days from now to find a solution to bricks it's but if you could just participate then that will become much clearer much more important obviously than the local elections and. new poses

one which once breaks it immediately and they're already on about thirty percent of the polling and others which say they don't want that at all and in terms that sort of a mini second referendum in its own terms will obviously provide a much clearer picture where the england at least still wants to leave the european union or whether it doesn't ok lawrence live for us thank you. mozambique colorado has broken out in towns and villages flattened by cycle encountered last week the second major storm to hit southeast asia and six weeks killed at least forty people. report coming slowly arriving thousands in remote northern areas they're still waiting for help. they survived last week's cycle and now they struggle is finding food the heavy rains and floods destroy the crops now after days without much to eat aide workers are finally overcome flood damaged roads to

reach them. and their wants a spec of maize to last at least a month long enough for his family to live on until he makes a plan his home was destroyed during the cyclon. door. i run into the house to help my children or pull them out when i went back inside to take things out the house collapsed. and my legs. cyclon kenneth struck while mozambique was still struggling to deal with the impact of cycling die aid workers say many remote areas and small islands are still waiting for supplies aid has started to arrive but it's slow partly because of bad weather some tried some managed to reach remote areas by roads some areas can only be reached by in fact opinions on the weather. the united nations says hundreds of

thousands of people are without shelter food and drinking water that eye of the storm was narrow but it was ferocious it took out everything in its path so those are the people that were targeting this food assistance that already gone out to nearly twenty seven thousand people so this operation is moving at a pace and scale but we need the international community to care we know this is a part of the world that often doesn't get attention it needs the world's attention and it needs the world to care i more rain is expected and that could burst already swollen rivers people living in areas at high risk of flooding have been urged to move to higher ground but some families say they have nowhere to go but just hope the worst of the with the has passed so they can begin rebuilding their lives. al-jazeera markel mia mozambique. security forces and then have opened fire to disperse protesters infuriated by sunday's election result two parties loyal to president patrice talon now control parliament after the opposition was banned from the vote ok reports. security forces face off against

crowds of protesters on the streets of new. the government response to hundreds of people rallying against the results of sunday's elections. two parties loyal to president patrice tell on one complete control of parliament after a recent change in electoral law so the opposition disqualified opposition supporters see the new rules as a move by the president to consolidate power and stifle dissent did resign or family i'm fuming because he has divided us he's going to play the highest price for doing so. what is at stake today goes beyond what's happening all of the people have risen today we have risen to save our democracy is done that. there was a record low turnout for the elections with just twenty three percent of the

population casting votes. their internet was cut on the day of the poll amnesty international has criticized the crackdown on peaceful protests and the rest of political activist and journalist. social unrest is rare in the small west african nation of eleven million people seen by democracy watchdogs as an example of stability in the region as anger grows over what protests to see as an erosion of their democracy is uncertain if these scenes of violence will become more common . al-jazeera. the king of thailand will finally be crowned this weekend two and a half years after becoming monarch. or the ten succeeded his father who reigned for seventy years when hey reports from bangkok. in a serial many lasting three days thailand will march into

a new royal era king mark how would your long corn will be formally crowned inside the grand palace in bangkok his father king a do new day died in october two thousand and sixteen paving the way for his only son to ascend the throne thailand is a constitutional monarchy meaning the king is supposed to have no political power but it's strict less majesté laws designed to prevent defamation or criticism of the royal family are instead used to stifle political dissent landing many in jail . among them some your prick sarkozy who spent seven years in prison before being released last year he doesn't see the laws changing any time soon so. decision has to change because the last two exist the mechanisms that the state used to abuse people rights are still there all at least a situation to same it can take a turn for the worse but many thais view the king as a father figure and board commemorative pins to mark the coronation ahead of his crowning ramattan as he's known made

a surprise announcement that he had married his fourth wife is the deputy head of his personal security force and is now queen. at the time of king kong we pointed to new day's coronation and nine hundred fifty there was political instability in thailand and instability around the monarchy itself there are similarities today the first election since a coup in two thousand and fourteen was held almost six weeks ago we still don't know the results and like nine hundred fifty the army is in control of the kingpin we pond reigned for more than seventy years so few thais have experienced a coronation ceremony historian sulak see what i did he supports the monarchy but has campaigned for its reform attracting several complaints against him for majesté their monarchy. it's the only institution in this country that large for over seven hundred years to get to the really very easy. but to preserve it's much much more difficult but it's worth preserving i came to the new kid.

about his country and you want to do something significant. he's already done that taking control of the palaces fortune and changing a constitution that was passed in a referendum to give him greater power many ties look to the king to provide guidance in times of crisis which you alone corn may be called upon to do that early in his reign given the uncertain political future wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok. and richelle carey and these are the headlines on al-jazeera there are sanctions waiver on a major buyers of iranian oil has expired that includes china india and turkey who now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they continue to buy a crew from tehran running oil sales have already fallen by half cents washington pulled out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal these coast of india is

being battered by the most powerful cycle in there and twenty years funny as gold at least two people in addition state one and a quarter million indians have moved from their homes to higher ground airports schools and colleges are closed and cation is disrupted in some areas. the president of afghanistan is accepted several recommendations for peace talks with the taliban on the final day of the loya jirga assembly of regional elders ashraf ghani approved seeking the withdrawal of u.s. troops as well as an immediate cease fire and he has ordered the release of one hundred seventy five taliban prisoners. the vietnamese woman jailed for the murder of the more korean leader's half brother has been released hong spent more than two years and immolation prison she's one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kuala lumpur's airport two years ago she was convicted last month on

a lesser charge of causing injury after prosecutors dropped the initial murder charge the other accused in an asian woman was freed in march after all charges were dropped and mozambique a cholera outbreak is affecting towns and villages flattened by cycling tenet last week it was the second major storm to hit southeast africa in six weeks and killed more than forty people and algeria tens of thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets to protest for the eleventh week in a row despite the announcement of presidential elections in july they say they want all those associated with the old government sees beautifully go to go to the police who resigned earlier this month after pressure from the military. and the actor who played in the original star wars trilogy has died peter mayhew's family says the seventy four year old died at home on tuesday he was working as a hospital orderly when he was discovered by george lucas in the seventy's and cast as han solo's furry sidekick no cause for death has been given so the headlines

keep it here on al-jazeera one o one east is next. getting a university degree with ask any study or exams sound too good to be true can be a part of future university destroyed this guy and acts like hundreds of thousands of people who fall in for pledges like this from fighting an online universities if you think these people are really fat these people it looks like one i want to investigates the pakistani company allegedly pulling the strings behind the scam and the lengths they will go to to keep the money flowing to such tests case the best.

getting a degree isn't a z. . for most students it entails years of study and hard work. increasingly millions of students trying to gain vasile qualifications by studying online. but not all online degrees are what they see. sanitations to every one of us meet the head of the department of law a new food university which says it's based in the united states we host one of the most renowned that lutie in the world new food promises no more marathon study sessions no more cramming for those dreaded exams and at a bargain price our education standards and protocols are constantly breached that

could provide our students the very best possible service. for new foods website claims to have a presence in more than one hundred a night. countries. and it's not the only online university selling its global rate. claims to be the world's largest university which was news to benjamin an investigative journalist who specializes in stories about higher education. big whether it was took time and it was. something that can step by step by step and then the floodgates open must university was the first institution that we came across. benjamin quickly discovered a lot of different university websites with some very curious similarities there all the websites for the universities have the same template. they have

a banner at the top that says the name of the university the colors are different. there is a little picture of a woman with a head ready to take a. little box here that tells you about the kinds of course is that you can do at university . and the other thing that is very similar is that when you log on to these various websites they'll do a pop up and say we're having a special offer on scholarships callers now that happens on every single website. the websites also often feature indorsements from start like lecturer ethan turner at california port university teaching a california university is a great achievement in my academic career but we were unable to find any lecturer called ethan turner or indeed any university called california poor when we

searched for the address given on the website we ended up at what appears to be a mexican butcher shop i would say it's only obvious when you start to scratch i was shocked at how obvious it was after just a very small amount of scratching below the surface dramatic university claim studying he would bring you a step closer towards professional excellence and features a glowing testimonial from one of its students turnout was an awesome experience for me as a bit. and leadership and education administration but when we checked out dramani address instead of the impressive university campus we found it. schock. the common denominator between these websites is a company called exact exact world's leading i sounded as though the first time i heard about exact words from a source of mine. abu dhabi he basically said me.

an email saying i've been offered a scholarship from this university and it just sounds fishy to me check them out and. the more you found out about them the more you realize that. x x on it is say it's pakistan's biggest and most successful lie to be company. but to its critics it's the world's biggest agreement selling bogus degrees to hundreds of thousands of customers. exact now has a global presence in six continents one hundred twenty countries and thirteen hundred cities. except located in the hospital pakistan's biggest city caracas he claims that he left them ten years it's grown into a billion dollar company employs more than twenty five thousand workers. pockets on

the ex or school but just billion dollar package and. accept is the creation of one man show web shop. in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven mr shoaib ahmed shaykh embarked on a journey to create a company that would become a household name in every industry has some some meat that he not me but not. really good says not to me. as shakes company exact group so too did his reputation as a business mogul in pakistan. but in may twenty fifth pakistanis woke up to some shocking news. i think it feel islay fake laugh i edited out the baby on the left i seen money lining time at nine o'clock am if i did that is only shake you've been arrested and charged with being the same to open

a store machine complex with the fraudulent activity. shows that these men all fake degrees and then just by being a certain amount of money you can buy a degree amount but i live a double exempt not. i need to get it out i'm going to back on my exec she asked me to get out i'm going to. shake insists that his company simply makes software which businesses of all types including online universities can use to find customers his loyal shall cut hi out says shake cannot be held responsible for what happens between customers and online universities that use x.x. software the exit function buys on leave. food and has had misses too bad in the midst of providing and information on behalf of the university to speak to mr parker and patience. and shakes lawyer stresses that his client has not been convicted of any crime if crime has been for me. then it has to be proved that it

has to be mccain that is has to be sure indeed. this is unfair unjust. but when the pakistani authorities raided access's offices in may twenty fifth jane they found a mountain of compelling evidence. there were hundreds of thousands of blank degrees to bigots lists of hundreds of fake universities thank you count showing payments amounting to millions of dollars and tens of thousands of names and contact details to customers around the world. there are also recordings of hundreds of hours of phone calls where representatives of the fake universities demand payments from often terrified customers that you just pay an amount of and thousand dollars budget small amount your actually putting at risk everything else but if you're going to be

a different year for your period you're not among the recordings was stored on hard drives at x.x. sentence local media reported the police also found proof. of evidence being destroyed with documents being burnt files dumped into the sink and computer hard drive smashed my son in the running what he thought when you complained to me that despite the arrests and seizure of evidence many of the online universities linked to exact a still up and running and the pakistani authorities have not taken steps to shut them down so what actually goes on in these degrade operations. had right. hello is this the l r r university. no university. to find out research is

in london in singapore made a series of coals to some of the universities linked to extract network. obvious told about online and online universities is where. you can sort of get greedy and traditionally. the coup was presented themselves as lacking any of the kind of academic qualifications normally required by legitimate universities but very came to biodegrade the response. and positive. impression is yeah in the online world it doesn't take long to find office the thing too good to refuse.

does not mean experience based program that starts i was curious for these online universities a lack of basic academic. simply doesn't matter potential customers a told life experience is enough ok but i wouldn't actually have to take any exams with a university. a whole range of degree and diploma courses offered or at a bargain price. without having to do any actual studying or take a single exam the lucky student is suing the proud recipient of an impressive looking stupid showing that he or she has been granted a degree from

a world renowned university were. that in may twenty fifth day the new york times published its own investigation which for the first time identified except as the world's biggest agreement. at first the exposé threaten to bring the roof down on the company. one of my own money. but the story of accept and the fake degrees was far from over. karate is a new tory sleeve violent season with frequent clashes between criminal gangs. against this backdrop the exact controversy has stood concerns for the safety of some of those leaked to the case. after fifteen months on remand shoaib ahmed

shaykh was released from prison on trial and the investigation same to grind to a halt. shaikh refused repeated requests for the to be but we were able to speak to his lawyer. he has been deprived of not only promised liberty remain in jail for many months as velez lost all his business and after allee's. trying to establish his business again. and if you think. accept claims its financial success makes plain why the company has been targeted for investigation. but the prosecutors who worked on the case have little doubt about what had been going on. they can tell you did he do all but if your blood

buddies are more filed down in beside vision of an audition mushnick is not the sort of our journey to get you gotta walk up to meet the petty juka lawyer seller who didn't come to port was part of the prosecution team building the case against shock and extract was call for twenty four seventy one for sixty eight woman pulling their documents yeah then a document will say he but not the show cannot go cry in both the use of the prosecution against a eg a module to get out the will of the bomb johnny or university module the need. as well as the wealth of documentary evidence of sight to graze being produced on an industrial scale by extract the prosecution. child statements and since. the court would be caught i get a good look at our peril of these get on with the meaning is it even but doing it

out of will confessional band of knowledge is on the idea. that media got a lot of that they don't need to get even i think. at one stage the prosecution had seventy nine witnesses. being karate legal proceedings do not always go smoothly the prosecution witnesses began to change their minds about testifying against excite. me i have bills i have. is well and that the it wasn't that would not allow you get my bus company. the protection company before the guy you quote on the nine witnesses are demanding. and all in the bigness not a single victim come fall out of road again is the exit again they had to act and accuse are that accuse me of i did you in order to get people to shun all want easy they use every guy you have to but you will bet

a lot that it will give the addict i've got them on the hot but in the middle of. the local media have reported threats of violence and intimidation towards prosecution witnesses from police investigating exact to even the prosecution lawyers themselves. jam the poor and three of the lawyers withdrew from the prosecution. there is no evidence that shake or anyone connected with exact was involved with any threats over while it's after fifteen months of legal arguments and allies shake and the others say new manages were released on what the prosecution considered a technicality staged to do make up provision. to have another procedure at the multi-day i got a clue. that could lead to a god he says i thought it don't spoil been. to he's

defended his shake was freed because the case against him fell apart here for it is a case of no evidence so far. the weakness is those who have been recalled to their statements and on the nine part of the mc misses out on the ending. to proceed. as fairly to establish its case since the very beginning. as the prosecution case began to crumble the embarrassed. one of the prosecution lawyers who had withdrawn earlier to resume the case. here is jamil talking about the exact case on pakistani television in august twenty seventh to meet. someone. at the new party you've got a man who has

a lot on this or who is on my not. seeing it media people or somebody federal records on the net manning be a menace of the war the prosecutors didn't have a case on a basically home some combined opinion he has to have evidence be the hotshot s. open and shut case evidence came to me but i'm of the piece about that he has been and he doesn't know when he renewed his work on the x. act case jamil received anonymous threats of violence then in september twenty sixth seed his home was attacked with a hand grenade opposite of democracy. and in the heat of. the i don't want to get into details about too many of office. no one was injured in the attack and no evidence has been presented then or since

to link it in any way to exact. since the grenade attack jamil announced he would play no for the pot in the exact prosecution he declined to comment further. but in a previous interview he described the high stakes involved in the exact prosecution . i thought would. be a dozen million dollars per month. if fact the u.s. department of justice says that x.x. has collected at least one hundred forty. dollars from customers worldwide tens of thousands of americans are thought to have bought degrees from universities linked to the company but no american has been willing to travel to pakistan to pursue you a grievance there. a former senior figure of pakistan's federal investigation agency ahmad jeffrey has been following the case he voted for the door to have trust in the system in pakistan the school tissue. has the money has

a job. in order to go or have some you know then the system does nurse new honest people coming to the cordon and give rigorous. work but read up on him and they will back. people aren't that many come into this. without witnesses willing to appear in course and with prosecution lawyers too frightened to continue the case against exact collapsed. shake was granted bail by a judge proviso could he have a more to his since admission to a high of course the took a bribe a cool the five thousand dollars to relay shock. the judge will grant have been recently you agreed that to money in the. case is this happens was the they didn't operate initialisation you know gave the number of their character

the number but then the money and there were free money to give it to be sure america meant of all the money and this happened everything. discard goes the mafia and the great together. it's a matter of public record that universities link to access that have sold hundreds of thousands of degrees to online students around the world. and some of these degree holders have taken up positions where genuine qualifications are crucial. these lists was seized by the pakistani authorities when they raided x.x. premises there are thousands of names of individuals who have been able to take up professional positions sometimes with safety is an issue even though these qualifications a bogus. in southeast asia alone we found thousands of fake degree holders in

malaysia. singapore. and thailand some are working as doctors nurses teaches and engineers. thousands of people employed in safety critical jobs while holding bogus qualifications it alarms dr rahman formally of pakistan's higher education commission it could be a huge disaster because medical degrees in your medical doctors who are practicing medicine without knowing medicine counters they are proud of them they are in the field of accountancy without knowing anything about accounts and this applies across the field medias field in twenty sixteen a member of the newly elected government of myanmar had to issue a humiliating apology after one of these impressive standing qualifications turned out to have been purchased from x.x. degree mills it was revealed the politician you cure wins master's and doctorate

degrees in finance came from the non-existing brooklyn park university despite this revelation you cure women continue to serve as minister for play. and finance. there is no way of knowing how many of x.x. hundreds of thousands of customers around the world witnessed it. and how many would knowingly buying a fake degree to get a job they would not qualify to hold. for years after the allegations against first made headlines fake universities still out there looking for their next easy. just a couple of thousand dollars i could get on an american degree and it's become a full fledged chemist it sounds a little bit too good to be true. but i didn't really trust that because

from what i've read your part of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of universities that are completely fake around online are all linked to a company called x. uk where are you back now. where you based. well i find that quite confusing because for most of what i read your actually an office in pakistan working back sacked a crapshoot is that not true. how do you look to others billion of us stevie nicks in new nasty talk to university all your websites and say. it's going to be too busy out. on one occasion there was this one guy where i confronted him and said look. you guys are clearly criminals operating out of the office somewhere in the world it away you up and you're terrible human security really scary people money and and

tommy and then he just laughed and it was this really sort of barreling down the phobia and that was when i really was like these guys. not nice people. you know. that these people are enjoying the hype is that taking thousands of dollars thousands of pounds away from people. came twenty a change the chief justice a pack of stuff and said that the scandal has tarnished pakistan's night making our heads down which. it makes me very sad that box on the being both portrayed in a negative light and it makes me sad that it has not been openly legally investigated in a decision taken. let the court justice take take its cost but it needs to be done quickly not in a matter of years and that's where the failure of the justice system is.

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had allowed some countries to buy its oil. hits eastern india after a million people have been fleeing from its path. a grand council convened by afghanistan's president ends with a resoundingly call for peace with the taliban. for the old days spalt after losing her testosterone case caster semenya prepares for what could be have final eight hundred metres in double. the drug administration has put an end to waivers which had allowed eight countries to purchase an iranian oil they include china india and turkey who now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they don't stop crude imports from the islamic republic is in tech around for the sin and cos the aisle is standing by in istanbul but live to both after osama bin crunches the numbers to explain what's at stake for iran's already

faltering economy. iran is a top contributor to the oil producing bloc of nations called opec its oil production has fallen from two and a half billion barrels a day in twenty seventeen to just under one and a half million barrels today iran's economy relies on oil and gas and roughly eighty percent of its exports are from the hydrocarbon sector the international monetary fund says inflation in iran could hit forty percent this year as u.s. sanctions have already had an impact on the economy i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices and if you notice or oil prices are going down very substantially despite the fact that already half of their capacity is gone so can the united states bring down iranian oil production to zero iran doesn't seem to think so feature me just trying to think you can drive iran's oil exports to zero by plane such games this is impossible around the oil

exports would not be zero we will sell our oil through various methods the success of u.s. sanctions will depend on how the major buyers of in oil which are india china south korea japan and turkey react to u.s. pressure there's already been an impact on global oil prices which of peaks in the last few months to were seventy dollars a barrel the u.s. wants to keep oil prices low but that does not favor oil exporting countries economies rely on oil the white house will be looking at allies in the gulf region to pump out an extra million or more barrels of oil a day once the sanctions kick in countries including saudi arabia have been hit hard during a period of nor oil prices and it's unclear if and how quickly they will increase their production the i.m.f. says iran's recession is already spilling over to the broader region iranian generals have warned that if the iran is prevented from selling its oil abroad it would close the strait of hormuz which handles a fifth of the world's oil shipments ok let's go live to zain bizarre over here in the u.s. putting on maximum pressure but being met by

a maximum resistance. absolutely if the united states' goal is to use economic sanctions to try to change the government in some way in iran it has to be said they might actually get what they want but they might not like what they get in the end experts here have been saying the biting economic pressure the sanctions that are on or that are targeting and hitting iranian people most what that's doing is it's pushing sentiment in favor of iran's political hardliners and what we might see is if the hardliners in the next election take the reins from iran's current president hassan rouhani a relative moderate a relative reformist then the united states might be faced with an iranian leadership that is less likely to talk less likely to negotiate and more quick to action in response to aggressive american policies against iran we heard from iran's one of iran's most hardline clerics during

a friday prayer sermon earlier today. i mean let me read to you a little bit of what he said he said in the current situation negotiation means submission and submission means humiliation and the nation of iran is not one to accept that he also addressed the u.s. president donald trump by saying we are facing a crazy man that if we retreat one step he will come ten steps forward he should be confronted and the only one to do it is the great nation of iran so as you say what the american maximum pressure campaign is facing here in iran is a maximum resistance campaign by iranian leaders and that's what they're trying to inspire in the iranian people zain thanks very much indeed well china is the biggest buyer of iranian oil and iran's a key ally in the chinese belt and road initiative but as it responds to the u.s. move china needs to be careful not to jeopardize delicate trade tolls between e.u. has more from beijing in delhi am one of china's most important pulls some twenty

million barrels of oil are reportedly stranded waiting to clean the chinese customs . with the united states ending waivers on a rainy and oil purchases this week the future of the shipment is unclear the u.s. has tightened sanctions on all countries that continue to buy iranian oil after the first of may that includes china iran's biggest customer beijing says there's no justification for the u.s. policy. fund china firmly opposed to unilateral sanctions and the so-called long arm jurisdictions imposed by the u.s. . roughly a quarter of iran's exported oil is sold to china about half a million barrels a day. the two countries have grown closer in recent years president xi jinping mediterranean counterpart in beijing last june just one month after the us me imposed sanctions on iran iran is a key supporter of china's built in road infrastructure initiative designed to ease

chinese global trade but analysts say china may have no option but to bow to u.s. demands but it is the way of going. to united states is serious and forcing china to pick a side the chinese government has to be very careful the timing is critical this week top negotiators from washington arrived in beijing for a new round of trade talks both sides are working to finalize a deal to end escalating tit for tat tariffs which began last year experts say china may give up iranian oil which makes up about seven percent of china's total oil imports to avoid jeopardizing discussions on trade for china now and the most important relation is still it's not with iran it's within us and there are other battles china need to fight in terms of for example a transformative technology like five g. chinese desperate some some sort of cutting slack from the u.s.

should china stop buying iranian oil it could compensate tehran by boosting trade in other areas if it continues it could do so via a back door for it without the goods china has so far given no indication it intends to stop buying or reining in oil leading some to believe it may be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with the u.s. washington officials however say any wind down period or additional waiver is out of the question for china. al-jazeera aging ok let's go to live for us in istanbul strikes me that given the fact that turkey is pretty dependent on iran for its energy supplies this is going to be for the country isn't that. exactly rollbacks of them are is probably the best word to describe turkey's situation because at the junction of for energy pipelines in the region turkey has no resources so tricky is totally dependent on energy imports basically oil and

gas not on the floor on iran also russia as our bridge on iraq but of course currently iranian iranian oil is very important for turkey because turkish refinery to brush refined crude oil and iranian oil is the best type for this refinery and when mr donald trump suggested that these countries can buy oil can buy from other opec countries like the u.a.e. and saudi arabia turkey is that it's the type is not suitable for it to rush besides turkey has political tensions with the u.a.e. and saudi arabia basically because of saudi dissident journalist damascus you just killing in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul last year so turkey also has other problems the message problems that stops the country from standing against the u.s. u.s. u.s.

sanctions against iran we know that turkey has gradually decrease the amount of oil that it important from iran but we are hearing the turkish officials. rejecting the u.s. decision to put an end to this oil waiver and turkey is negotiating over this in order to extend this or a waiver but it seems to work it doesn't have much to stand against the u.s. decision because mostly the major problem is the u.s. support for these kurdish fighters in syria which turkey sees as terrorists also turkey turkey has purchased a russian as four hundred missile defense system which is. going to be celebrated next june and do us this thoughtfully i guess that's a plaster cast domestic problems like a declining turkish. economy management problems so turkey has a lot on a stake and it it is not it's not able to risk it by literally lation is what the

u.s. at least for now thanks very much indeed well whenever it's felt threatened over the years iran has warned it would shut down the strait of hormuz it's a transit point for a fifth of the world's oil this is going to have a big impact especially with supplies faltering from trouble spots like libya and venezuela while prices because shoot up to one hundred dollars a barrel that would shave zero point six percent off the world's economic growth inflation may rise by about zero point seven percent the nation imposing the sanctions is also paying a price stretched u.s. consumers that we're already seeing petrol prices rise seven percent this month it's estimated that between one thousand nine hundred five and two thousand and twelve the u.s. missed out on a hundred and seventy five billion dollars worth of export revenues it could have made from iran the country's not cut off ties in the one nine hundred eighty that

translates into sixty six thousand job opportunities lost each year ok i want to get more on this by talking to our economics editor. going by those figures at least this whole sanctions process by the u.s. seems to start to take the the image of a big gamble by the u.s. how much is at stake for the u.s. here so it is a big gamble because you're relying on the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to cover the oil that's going to be missing from iran the problem is that we have other events we have a group of nations called a shaky six which includes venezuela libya. algeria who basically have a troubled economies troubled political situation very moment and should they reduce the amount of oil that they are putting out this very moment in time that could lead to an increase in oil prices now if iran.