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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour iran says it stopping its sale of enrich uranium and could restart high level production if you. don't follow the terms of the twenty fifty nuclear deal president hassan rouhani said the united kingdom france germany china and russia sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's orland banking sector is from u.s. sanctions voters in south africa have begun casting their ballots in the country's parliamentary elections the ruling african national congress are likely to win but the party is expected to gain less votes than past elections at least eight people have been killed in a blast outside a popular shrine in the city of lahore police say the death toll could rise as some

of the injured are in critical condition. let's get more on our top story in iran mohammad marandi is a professor at a hirani university he's joining us now from tehran thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera so president rouhani just a short while ago was clear in saying that today is not the end of the iranian nuclear deal but for you what was the most significant announcement or the key takeaway message from what he had to say. the most important thing i believe is the statement that he made regarding the next steps in other words if the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal meaning the french the british the germans the russians and the chinese don't find a solution then sixty days from now iran will take the next step and iran feels it has every right to do so it has waited for over a year now for many years but especially over the last year for these countries to

implement their side of the bargain the europeans in particular have done absolutely nothing so what the americans have been opposing sanctions on iran increasing sanctions literally by the week and the europeans have been abiding by american sanctions the americans want to force iran not to sell any oil the americans want to shut down iran's nuclear program which is which based on the nuclear agreement you run it as loud to continue so as things and then the records want to implement other sanctions as well in the coming days so the iranians are saying enough is enough so you're hearing sounds like he's putting the ball into european scores and speaking of the europeans then what do you expect their response to be. there are a number of things that they have to do one is that they have to implement the agreement they have to start. allowing iran to use the banking sector and

they must begin importing iranian oil and on the other hand the europeans have to start putting pressure on the saudis and them are ati's because these two regimes are a by are a part of this economic war against iran and as things stand the iranians are not going to allow them to continue to behave like this there is talk in iran of beginning stop and searches on ships and tankers desson to or from saudi arabia and morocco the ports and i think if these two regimes continue down this road there is going to be it's going to get start to get bumpy for them and probably it would be a good idea for investors and people in these two countries to start thinking about where to take the assets so the iranians are very serious the iranians do not want at all that is why the iranians agreed to the nuclear deal in the first place the iranians were very flexible they gave significant concessions many people in iran were against the nuclear deal but the government the parliament this free national

security council the state agreed to the deal the iranians have been abiding by the deal the i.a.e.a. has said repeatedly that iran has fulfilled their side of the bargain but the other side has betrayed iran are europeans have betrayed iran the americans have completely betrayed iran so the iranians feel that they cannot continue going down this road something has to change all right so we'll have to leave it there mohammad marandi we thank you very much for speaking to us from tehran sudan's military ruler so they could hold elections in six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition on a transitional government's differences remain over the length of the interim period and who will lead the country during that time have a morgan has more from the capital hard to. nearly a month after ousting its president of three decades already bashir sudan's military council and the opposition coalition's attempts to form a transitional government don't seem to be getting easier the opposition presented the ruling council with its vision for the transitional period in early may on

tuesday the military council responded. with. the document doesn't mention the other political forces that are partaking in the transition that would elect a prime minister and sovereign council members as well as other ministers it doesn't even mention the transitional military council which alongside the alliance for freedom and change and other forces we see as important in the election process for these important posts the opposition coalition is made up of political parties civil society groups and the sudanese professionals association they have been leading protests in sudan since december i am the demonstrations were initially over price hikes that then turned into anti-government protests leading to a sit in in front of the army headquarters in early april the coalition says their vision for the transitional period is based on the demands of the protesters it's includes a four year transitional period a presidential or sovereign council an executive council headed by a prime minister with a civilian majority a presentation as well as

a legislative assembly made up of one hundred twenty to one hundred sixty members forty percent of which must be women and an independent judiciary. we need. this is our message to all demonstrators the peaceful work is what has led to our victories and that's what will help us achieve all the goals of the sudanese revolution and we shall not respond to provocations. meanwhile the sitting continues with protesters think they'll keep the revolution peaceful and keep their demand for civilian transitional government. we are the people of the revolution here we're all demanding a civilian government and no matter what will be here to the demand is met and that is the popular demand the only tool dot. com polish our demand is to continue. and continue our. disobedience the military council and the opposition coalition may have more talks in the future as it tries

to steer sudan out of the impasse it's currently in but the ultimate decision makers are the protesters here who say if the outcome of the negotiations doesn't appease them they'll continue with their states and until they see the change they've been demanding. people here say they thought that they were evolution that ended a regime of thirty years and they're happy to continue until the military council hands over power no matter how long that takes morgan to zero. and as well a supreme court has ordered the prosecution of seven politicians who supported last week's call for an uprising by opposition leader my dough on shoes that he addressed the opposition controlled national assembly six days after failing to persuade the military to change sides and turn on president nicolas maduro military police stop journalists from entering the assembly and the u.s. is lifting sanctions on men as well as former chief of intelligence after he broke ranks with president maduro vice president made the announcement at the annual washington conference on the america it is time for the supreme court in

venezuela to return to its founding purpose if the supreme court of venezuela does not return to its constitutional mandate to uphold the rule of law the united states of america will hold all twenty five of its magistrates accountable for their actions so i came today to be very clear. united states of america will continue to observe all diplomatic and economic pressure to bring about a peaceful transition of democracy in venezuela but to those who continue to oppress the good people of venezuela know this all options are on the table the u.s. state of georgia is banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected which could be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy similar restrictions have already been passed them for states this year

and are currently being considered and several others georgia's new law is set to go into effect on january first next year but it's likely to be challenged in court and one nine hundred seventy three u.s. supreme court ruling legalized abortion nationwide until a fetus is developed enough to live outside the uterus of pakistani christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blossoming case has now left the country. lawyer says she's headed to canada six months after her acquittal by pakistan's supreme court the verdict was met with protests in parts of the country bibi was originally convicted in twenty ten after being accused of insulting the prophet muhammad in a fight with her neighbors. the largest sewage treatment facility ever constructed at a refugee settlements is providing a safer and cleaner environment for displaced. close to a million of them fled violence in me and more than twenty seventeen they're now living in camps in bangladesh. reports a lack of sanitation has been

a major concern. from a distance it might not look like much but this treatment plant is changing lives in the world's largest refugee camp in cox's bizarre human waste is often dumped in the open becoming a breeding ground for diseases as well as contaminating water supplies. close to a quarter of a million cases of acute diarrhea were recorded last year in the overcrowded range of camps in bangladesh or spiritual infections and skin diseases were rife to or related to poor sanitation and hygiene the potential problems in the camps are huge this is an area which is endemic to cholera and other water board and fecal borne disease so this was a major investment with our partner and it is we hope to be a major solution to stop the transmission of disease outbreak. as the hot sun beams

down on the refugees its energy powers pumps providing clean water to a quarter of a million in the camp was drinking water especially in the dry season is scarce in the thirty six areas were hidden just have settled in bangladesh it's expensive to supply the camps but with the help of solar panels the united nations humanitarian agency aims to provide twenty liters of water daily to every refugee in cox's bizarre i was. in my a begum is one of many getting clean water for drinking cooking and even washing. and we used to get diarrhea called and allergies frequently but thanks to god it doesn't happen to us anymore we're now using water that is safe we're much happier the challenge now though is not the gating the labyrinth of tents the terrain and the weather to provide clean water and sanitation to the entire population of more

than a million range refugees in bangladesh. side of feta. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour iran says it's stopping its sale of enriched uranium and could restart high level production if world powers don't follow the terms of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal president hassan rouhani said the united kingdom france germany china and russia had sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions the united states wanted to pull out of the way to make iran withdraw the day after so they could refer the case to the u.n. security council in order to redouble pressure on iran however iran did not fall for this trap it did not play in the united states court our friends including european countries asked us to give them some time and we said yes because we wanted our people to know that we are patient and work in

a calculated way we know how important the deal is and scuttling the deal will be costly and detrimental to the region the world we're getting breaking news out of pakistan reports that a loud explosion has been heard in the capital kabul near the attorney general's office will bring you more details as we get it's on that developing story out of afghanistan and at least eight people have been killed in a blast outside a popular shrine in the pakistani city of lahore a faction of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack police say the death toll could rise as some of the injured are in critical condition. voters in south africa have begun casting their ballots in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections the ruling african national congress or a.n.c. is likely to win but the party is expected to gain less votes than past elections. venezuela's supreme court has ordered the prosecution of seven politicians who supported last week's call for an uprising by opposition leader. on tuesday the

address the opposition controlled national assembly six days after failing to persuade the military to change sides and turn on president nicolas maduro military police journalists from entering the. the u.s. state of georgia is banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected which could be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy some of the restrictions have already been passed in four states this year and are currently being considered in several others georgia's new law is set to go into effect on january first next year but it's likely to be challenged in courts and one nine hundred seventy three u.s. supreme court ruling legalized abortion nationwide until a fetus is developed enough to live outside the uterus those are the latest headlines the news continues on al jazeera right after inside stories they with us . americans are struggling to pay their rent the problem isn't just limited to the cities. of all the governor of the indian central bank has cost the country.

we bring you the stories the economic. counting the cost on al-jazeera. humans are putting nature a risk a major report warns one million species face the threat of extinction from deforestation to overfishing and development the consequences will be diet but can this trend be reversed or at least this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm in wrong on life on earth is in decline with more species threatened with extinction than it any other time in history and we are to blame that's part of the findings of a u.n.

agency responsible for assessing the state of our planet almost five hundred experts worked together for three years destruction of natural habitats the felling of trees climate change pollution and plunder of the land and sea are all singled out as major drivers of the decline around a million plant and animal species face extinction many within decades if we don't act. the report authors believe the decline can be slowed and in some cases even stopped but it will need a global commitment to make that change. i joining me now are guests on skype from hamburg christophe he's a campaign out for greenpeace germany and an ecology chemistry scientists in gainesville florida brett chef as assistant professor at the department of wildlife ecology and conservation at the university of florida and also on skype in arizona john waynes professor at the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the

university of arizona i welcome you all i'd like to start with you bret schaeffer's in gainesville florida a million species that's an extra ordinary number the u.n. says that it's going to need a global commitment to try to either reverse that or at the very least try and slow it down it's a global commitment we haven't had so far is it too late i think that's a really important question to ask. yeah one million species is a large number it's not insurmountable we have. existing agreements in place so we have. this biodiversity ecosystem servants panel is there to monitor the state of nature but we have sustainable development goals we have a variety of un agreements already in place that if taken seriously could could make a difference and take the step in the right direction i think that is crucial is

now let's bring in john wayne's head those agreements need to be taken seriously but it doesn't seem to me that they are being taken seriously is that true do you think. it would be nice if everyone was on work for the parents clamor the court one of the most important things there is is emphasizing protecting tropical rain forests because that sort of kind of one stop shopping for biodiversity if you can preserve those forests you'll preserve thousands upon thousands of species maybe fifty sixty seventy percent species on the planet and sandal tenuously reduce the effects of global warming there are great big sink for carbon now suck it out of the atmosphere if if they can be preserved if they can be preserved crystal taze and the hamburg greenpeace obviously a very important organization since i can remember clearly since the sixty's and see a green piece of foam and you have been talking about the environment however it's

not just about organizations like yours they needs to be a real international organizational change to try and do something about this but what i'm saying is america pull out of the paris codes we have the u.k. pulling out of the or at least trying to pull out the those organizations like the e.u. like the united nations that are crucial to get all of the countries together seems to be getting weaker and weaker is that a problem do you think. that is a massive problem that we are currently facing we are we are seeing inadequate implementation of the paris climate reman now we are seeing this p.p.s. report of of the devastated state of nature. clearer than any report ever before and it must be a wake up call so first next year the nature protection summit in china at the conference off the. bench into it we

a very strong and find india for nature as well and then really also implements the climate if we humans and the few from needs to gather and not at the expense of each other and this requires me to meet steps in the right direction of governments and most of all that we are not gets you we will do our very very best that this report release of us as a strong wake up call and it's not. in all getting lost in shops a strong wake up call. i mean nobody seems to be waking up everybody pays lip service and says you know we do need to do something about climate change and then nobody really does anything about climate change. yeah no i think that's right i mean the bottom line is that we're we're saying these issues because we have

a growth based economy and this is an economy that. requires mining natural resource extraction. etc and agriculture development and these have direct negative consequences for nature and and so you know this is a quality of life issue and that in this an issue of of of doing and having this quality of life in a in a sustainable way and there haven't really been sufficient checks and balances in the past the try to do this in a responsible way forward i think we have the information now the science is there to guide us moving forward to make the right decisions and to make sure that we minimize the impacts on the environment while we do kind of the necessary extractions to support the economy john waynes i've heard an argument i want to put it to you may chip adapts it changes with the environment that it's and and all of

this talk of climate change and all of this talk of a million species perhaps being extinct surely we're treating nature with kid gloves it's a lot tougher than we give it credit full i think well it's if you sort of say nature in general is sort of nature will survive but we could still nature could still survive but we could still lose millions uses and seriously damage our quality of life and if there's there's abundant evidence that that things are not adapting quickly enough so some work that i've done summarizing. suggests that if you look across one thousand people thousands b.c.'s or nine hundred seventy six species that they're in has been monitored over time there's already been. extinction about forty seven percent of them so already racine's species starting to go extinct locally just in limited amount of climate change

that we've had so large that it seems like species are not adapted to that i'm going to ask a question here of crystal christophe. yes you are concerned about what's going on right now yes you want international organizations to step up to do more to for there to be stronger legislation however we all in a global economy the requires almost infinite growth with a planet with finite resources there is has to be a business element to this as well you can't simply say you know we need to stop this from happening you need to be realistic and say yes business takes place that's bad for the planet but that's our planet that's our system. but it's true that we really need to do business we have we need economies. provide our existence but nobody forces us to. take. lives every week or drive our car every day and we still can

cite ourselves what we consume and how much and nobody globally and our political economic system faustus of us saw an ever growing. economy at the expense off of nature we already consume in two planets and we only have one and this is the very reason why if if if if if we continue this we will lose this one million users and probably even more in the long run but we haven't lost the species yet and if we change our activity and stop this false growth on a on a on a global scale and instead it rewards economic activities that protect ecosystems and use them most immediately and if we punish. activities that use choice or oceans our forests or peanuts and grasslands and

remove subsidies that create subsidies struction we can do it nobody forces us to continue with this is chucked if you can of these we see today we can change and we can change i see you noting in agreement on wins in tucson however we can change it but this requires not just a lifestyle change it requires a whole new way of thinking for most people on the planet we're talking many will eight billion people on the planet now i would like to work i think that well and you can think one way you can think about it is that. almost everything we do. she would stick lobel wanting to choose to buy or to burst ride of her city las but you can also think about that for everything you can do to me begin tweet what we do in a way that will that will lessen those impacts right so one of the most obvious things that we think about is what we eat so beef and lamb and go to

a particularly bad to the environment plant based diet is particularly good for the environment. the ways that we try and get around all of those things we can explain changes take shorter hot showers things like that there's just a whole list of things that we can do. that will make things better and i think krista makes a great point is that we can we can sort of. the choices that we make as consumers we can we can reward those companies that are environmentally friendly and punish those that aren't so so i think that everybody. can sort of take part in this and contribute. physician gainesville me taking a whole shiela you can't legislate for that that you can't make laws for that so what i really want to get is the kind of there's the two solutions that seemingly you guys are talking about there's the micro solution a lifestyle change the we can all do or that has to be a macro solution to

a governmental international level but there's another solution is that nationally there's a scientific solution to all of this the science community should be able to present not just the bad news but some solutions as well. yeah i think that's right you know the we we are becoming with every decade better at rest storing kind of degraded landscapes engineering landscapes to help. you know deal with these issues our agriculture is becoming more efficient you know i mean so there's kind of technology that can be kind of researched and developed at a macro scale. you know in these can be implemented you know in a collaborative way i mean part of this whole united nations this network of countries is to get buy in from a variety of countries the developed world as well as those that are developing

economies and i think that kind of trans bone dri discussion and sharing of resources is the way forward but. you know i i can't really speak to you know i mean so this report that was released they talk about transformative technologies transformative ways forward and i think that's going to require. you know a very serious conversation with economists with natural scientists with policymakers to try to find a way way forward. i don't think there is a clear cut you know easy solution to that i think real difficult decisions are going to have to be made. crystal teas in hamburg this is a geopolitical element to all of this as well the big countries america russia

china india to a certain extent brazil are all in competition with each other to try and beat the preeminent economies within within the world itself so you've got these these big countries who are competing with each other for the resources of our planet however none of them seem to be talking to each other in a real way when it comes to a much of trying to do something about environmental issues that can't be sustainable that has to change what's greenpeace's role what's environmental activist role in trying to make that change you can't simply be jumping on boats in the middle of the north atlantic anymore you have to do something a bit more political now surely. our role clearly is to to use scientific information like this very very good and comprehend the. report of i think this all this data needs and transform this into public education

up the information into. political pressure and influence and i absolutely agree with you it's very concerning to see rolling up rival trees between many governments and growing number of very populist governments not very much interested in cooperation that is something that needs to be changed we need to pull back to a path where we have more multilateralism again and more cooperation. and also to protect the enormous inequalities in the world between rich people becoming rich and poor people becoming poorer while the set that we all still have choices to. protect and we stole our needs. or what he's throw it we have a growing number of very poor people who have no choice they have their fighting

for their daily survival and probably forced to destroy some or some of their resources but the vast majority off resources be consumed by a very small part of the rot maybe ten to send this consuming more than fifty percent of the global resources and we have to tackle. the very wasteful lifestyles of the richest of the tennis about what we saw two very big. correct has to have more international cooperation put it in the government and overcome the enormous inequalities. process i think angel is it simply. we can blame the rich it's their fault they consume far too much well. i guess you could blame you know i mean you could blame the rich i guess i mean you know when we talk about the global economy in a global scale i mean it's difficult to quantify who is the rich i mean there are

the rich is. you know the united states we have global economies that are kind of so brazil and china they are now major players you know so yeah i mean when you have a number like one percent or five percent of the population consuming fifty percent of the population that that's an amazing number and then you have the rest of the population who are living far below that quality that standard of living and they're mainly kind of living on the land so to speak you know agricultural agrarian kind of lifestyles and this shouldn't be a surprise that you know from that report you know it talked about three fourths of all land is currently severely altered integrated and that's because you know there's a need for small scale agricultural subsistence people just trying to

grow enough food to survive and so it is there is kind of. equity is not even laying kind of spread across the earth so you can understand it runs out when i'll bring it all in a but you can understand what you're talking about is incredibly alarming to the status quo about in this is about making money this is about business this is about growth keeping people in jobs you know all of that sort of stuff what you're talking about is seems to be what's the political change but a lifestyle change and perhaps even an ideological change are you getting anybody in let's take for example your government actually listening to you when you talk like that i mean i think that i think that. you know the fact that we have these you know what these big multinational. you know.

kind of. panels to kind of try to rectify these issues and you get buy in from a variety of countries means that at least they're listening whether they actually you know so the climate accord the you know had almost a global buy in to try to solve the climate change crisis now granted the united states has pulled out but initially it was part of the.