well they're getting really quite fed up and frustrated with the economic squeeze there's been placed on them and sanctions have been designed to do that of course to create unrest amongst the iranian population and i guess that the desire monks trump and some of his acolytes is that there will be widespread frustration amongst the iranian population that will ultimately topple the regime i highly doubt that that will happen but i think that was one of the intentions to cripple the a rainy an economy so that there is some type of political change in iran to see what happens rather tense time certainly in the middle east summit mabon that the university of lancaster thanks for joining us thank you let's head to africa now when our other top story out of the sudanese opposition coalition is threatening civil disobedience over what are described as the military's disappointing response to constitutional proposals talks are ongoing between the transitional military council other political parties and civil society groups as attempts to form an interim government continue well earlier sudan's military council said it would

hold elections in six months if an agreement can be reached with the opposition must join him or can his life for us in khartoum and hippo what we do know is that the civil society groups did have a meeting earlier and they wanted to sort of get their position you might say their ducks in a row before they went home to talk to the military transitional council what word have we on what they decided. well at the moment or so we've heard from the military council after that meeting with other political parties besides the opposition coalition now the military council is saying that they want other political parties besides the coalition involved in the process of the transitional government formation and they're saying that they're not excluding any other party except the former ruling party now that's something that the opposition coalition and their document according to the military council have not included they're saying that the document that was presented by the opposition coalition which includes seventeen different groups have excluded the other political parties we're

talking about more than one hundred fifty political parties were just in sudan so so a lot of other people in which who are supposed to be involved in the process of forming a transitional government but to which the opposition coalition is saying that they do not want them involved because they were allied to the former government they were allied to the former regime and the ruling party therefore they cannot be viewed as credible so a lot of things to discuss a lot of issues to try to iron out as well as all sides really not just the opposition coalition and the military council but many sides trying to come together to form that government that people have been waiting for since the eleventh of april indeed of course i want to get more word of what they've decided to come back to him organize in khartoum. still ahead here as a result africans go to the polls to choose a new parliament and the toughest test yet for the governing african national congress party. the u.s. house of representatives threatened sanctions against the attorney general but there's no sign he'll turn over the documents democrats want to see their stories

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a weenie troll that thinks it's how you approach an individual and as it is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject a story inside out. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera of makes the whole rob to remind our top stories iran says it's stopping its heavy water and could step up its uranium enrichment program if world powers don't follow the terms of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement president hassan rouhani made the announcement on the first anniversary of the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal. the sudanese coalition is threatening civil disobedience over what he described as the military's disappointing response to

constitutional proposals that military council says it could hold elections in six months if an agreement can be reached with the opposition. national elections are underway in south africa just moments ago president cyril ramaphosa of the governing african national congress on the a.n.c. cast his vote his party is expected to win but by a smaller margin after being hit by a series of corruption scandals in recent years opposition leaders say maybe from the democratic alliance party and julius malema from the economic freedom fighters also cast their votes to. pass more from johannesburg. where outside a polling station in the township of alexandra in johannesburg not a wealthy area lot of people in this area live in housing small not in good condition many others live in shacks made of iron sheets this polling station political parties up desks are allowed to do this to make sure that their members.

come to support and this is the death for the ruling african national congress the a.n.c. which has won every election in south africa since it became a democracy in one thousand nine hundred four but his vote share has steadily declined over the course of those elections as has voted. some policeman here a couple of police cars we've seen that at every polling station we've been to receive a protest in this area recently the protests over seas poor the livery of public services actually began in the early two thousand and have been seen in townships all across south africa ever since but in the lead up to this election there's a whole series of protests here in alexandria and for the last hour or so this morning has been a police helicopter circling above keeping an eye out for any signs of armrest but so far haven't been any today it's been peaceful here and across the country is that perceived poor delivery of public services and the series of corruption

scandals that have cost the a.n.c. some of its supporters over many years. some of those votes have gone to opposition parties such as the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters. others though have been lost to people who just don't want to vote anymore a lot of people don't find the opposition politicians any more convincing than those who are in power. six am to have read is to make sure that every month they have been able to assure you i am only avoid true for every time they said they had a god just get a jobs. have our country a big government. don't have some water. and let alexandra and the township industry. to yak so in this election only about three quarters of eligible voters have registered to

vote and of course not all of them are going to turn up but over the coming days as the ballots are counted up we're going to find out quite how high or low that turnout has been the n c is expected to stay in power and to keep its majority according to the opinion polls but he's expected to win with a small. majority than it's ever had before. a christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blasphemy case has left the country. she's headed for canada six months after her acquittal by back assad's supreme court the verdict led to protests in parts of the country baby was originally convicted in twenty turn of to be accused of insulting the prophet muhammad during a fight with neighbors. while a faction of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast a popular shrine in the city of lahore at least eight people including five police officers were killed victoria gate because the latest. forensic scientists focused

their attention on a police band damaged in the blast it was parked outside a popular sci fi shrine in the city of lahore offices responsible for guarding the entrance for women who were inside the game. most of the wounded have been moved to mount hospital according to our initial reports there are seventeen to twenty two wounded and rescue workers ongoing seven to ten people are in critical condition but we can't say where the big dead or alive. a faction of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility and they say it marks a new wave of what they call religious fanaticism i personally think it's extremely what islam but i also believe that this faction of the g.d.p. is not operating in full full talking it in pakistan because there have been some previous attempts in the past events which have been foiled by the security agencies the data darbar shrine which dates back to the eleventh century has been

targeted before a suicide attack nine years ago killed more than forty people pakistan's government improve security across the country after an attack on a school in push our that killed more than one hundred fifty people mostly children that was five years ago but this attack shows that armed groups can still cause chaos in one of pakistan's largest cities victoria. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack in afghanistan's capital at least nine people were injured by explosions at close to the attorney general's office in kabul the taliban says its target was the counterpart international. a question was a producer with al-jazeera. we spoke to him earlier he could not have come out of the at the moment but he looks different here is a compartment that special forces arrived at the scene in charge of operations

right now. fifty employees of the organization is related by special forces on the other hand. the responsibility. of the counter counterpart international organization is. venezuela's supreme court has ordered the prosecution of seven politicians who supported last week's call for an uprising by opposition to one point zero on choose to address the opposition control national assembly six days after failing to persuade the military to change sides and turn on president maturer. meanwhile the us is lifting sanctions on venezuela's former chief of intelligence after he broke ranks with the president 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 exert 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. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives plan to vote on wednesday on a measure citing attorney general william barr with contempt of congress now it's just the latest move between trump's administration and the democrats eager to investigators the white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more case closed case closed battle on the floor of the u.s.

senate as its top republican challenged his democratic opposition in congress to move on and and the ongoing investigation of the us president it bears remembering what this investigation was actually supposed to be about russian and appearance and twenty six days. for many of the president's opponents that quickly morphed into something else. a last hope that maybe they'd never have to come to terms with the american people shores of a president there's plenty to be out democrats pushed back promising to continue investigating donald trump even as the special counsel robert mueller concluded in his recent report there was no collusion between trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign and russia he doesn't want to move on and he wants to run away from these awful facts that relate to the

wellspring of our democracy foreign interference in our election and a president. who is lawless the white house has instructed its former lawyer dawn began not to comply with a request by democrats in congress to turn over documents related to muller's investigation and despite expectations muller himself might testify later this month the white house thinks it's unnecessary mr mueller has already spoken at length through his report democrats say they're obligated to investigate allegations of presidential corruption and obstruction of justice during the moller investigation still last week trump's attorney general refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing he's also refusing to provide lawmakers with an uncensored copy of mahler's report if democrats hold the attorney general in contempt it would be a rare rebuke of the nation's top law enforcement official that will further escalate

the fight between the trouble white house congress can really help at al-jazeera the white house in the last of all series a life displaced we look at the plight of lebanon's palestinian refugee population which has been living in exile for decades now scattered in a number of camps but in reality those kinds of the built up neighborhoods. their number has grown over the years but the space allocated to palestinian refugees has not residents have no choice but to build a port. is one of twelve camps across lebanon they are towns now the tent are long gone. it's been more than seventy years since palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in one nine hundred forty eight after the creation of israel arrived in lebanon on muhammad was sixteen years old at the time at eighty six he still remembers how his grandmother told him that their days in

exile would be temporary he never imagined he would be a refugee. for so long. when we came here that you and provided to last for shelter then primitive blocks structures with zinc roofs and to know if you just started to build more permanent concrete structures. those concrete structures however are poorly built construction is not controlled many homes don't enjoy sunlight and have little ventilation the united nations which runs services in the camps considers them among the most crowded urban areas in the world palestinians are not just denied the right to adequate housing they can't buy property strict labor laws are in place that prevent them from working in many professions they're also denied access to public schools and healthcare. the lebanese state says the restrictions are aimed at discouraging their permanent settlement in the country of

course their intentions are bad intentions of keeping them where they are we know that. keeping disparity is where they are and not letting them come back this is something that we know already through the. peace process negotiations that happened. palestinians say they will never give up their right to return to their land and for them the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is part of a larger plan that we are hoping to return but when the arab nations and their armies don't liberate palestine then maybe we will stay here for seventy or maybe two hundred more years but palestine is ours it's for our children many palestinians share that sentiment but few are under the illusion that peace with israel was ever a possibility there is a sense of permanence within this camp it was never the intention but it has become a reality that of. beirut.

you're watching al-jazeera arms a whole robin a reminder of our top stories iran says it's stopping the sale of heavy water and could step up uranium enrichment if world powers don't follow the terms of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement president hassan rouhani made the announcement on the first anniversary of the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal speaking in moscow the iranian foreign minister said the u.s. is ultimately responsible for the move. because i had on his show these actions by the u.s. government which is a law breaking government therefore over the past year iran despite what the u.s. is doing we have stayed committed to our decision today we made a decision to implement the d.c.p. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans who withdraw from it. the sudanese opposition coalition is threatening civil disobedience over what are described as the military's disappointing response to

constitutional proposals talks are ongoing between the transitional military council and other political parties as well as civil society groups as attempts to form an interim government continue sudan's military council says it could hold elections and six months if an agreement can be reached with the opposition a faction of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast at a popular shrine in the eastern city of lahore at least eight people including five police officers have been killed in the explosion of one of the country's oldest soofi shreyas it was also targeted by suicide bombers in twenty ten but more than forty people were killed. voters in south africa are constantly balance in national elections the ruling african national congress or the a.n.c. is expected to win but by a smaller bargain it's been hit by a series of corruption scandals in recent years opposition leaders from the democratic alliance party cast their votes as polls opened in the township of sweater those were the headlines and back with more news and we continue now with

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could ever be called a picnic in any triangle is a body be full of. air by the policy to be buying feeble of a policy by the is greater than i are working every hour that they're not sleeping and it's not in a very formal process that they work every. anything that you do. while you're. talking while you're even coming to the classroom you're thinking thinking about up . problem so they're always thinking. so much thinking about the future like run of prince for the moment he's the star of this year's super thirty he's come in almost every exam he's ever sat.

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but. the olympiad is in addition to all the other exams he's sitting. just. been doing this for so. long. and. is having a rare day. he's visiting his ancestral village deal. he's paying for another school for about two hundred young children it's run by his uncle who's retired from his government job and come back home to teach along with. the

fact that. if. you go. there go to school be out there. but. it's. a nanda was born in but spent much of his childhood here in the village. yes sidewall of your mark on her. love it out there. paula. how many there were there at that place.

the weeks prior to getting the. members of a nonstandard family still land around the village some of the vegetables will end up feeding the super thirty but the landscape has a darker aspect divisions here. than in the towns he specially for people from the lower back would go. backwards. out of. here. but you have. heard. from us.

all. here and there are. the sun set long ago on british rule in india today the old colonial buildings of patna are home to the police dock brass including their deputy chief of a on and on monday afternoon he opens his office to anyone with

a grievance it kick in paris today. there are certain issues which can be resolved only at this level. but. in the mean. time i'm. going to. put us on the moon i'm going to give you the most intriguing. person in the. sometimes world until mingle he's worked with the super thirty not as a teacher but if policeman two years ago father was murdered obviously. warning your comment about actually advocate. he has been shot dead by some

criminals. this is and. you are almost september eleventh we're just into here. father was a government lawyer a natural target for the putnam mafia prosecuting criminals. so there is a bit in. reasonable fear. there is a very different phase when they're trying to fit gets expressed and it is known. then maybe retake some actually. providing bodyguards that is one preventive action committee maybe it is thing that individual in trying to find out why history. some counter measures can be taken but if it is not expressed than it is to figure. the killer hasn't yet been caught the victims are often warned in advance but if shawn's father did get a message he kept it to himself did say it would have come to his father and he may

not have shared with his family that happens. the one. i. already sat for the once and failed this will be his second and final. if he's got his guns i've got a power one bit on the beat. now it's time for the results of yesterday's test fixture for america march sixteenth two it's no surprise who's come top row north koreans to rent their car i was like oh that's just what i'm what everyone's happy except see sheila she still waitlisted but is now unlikely to be accepted she's upset and doesn't want to be filmed any more than the people in

general the. copy put off. their car reward but i ask you bob do this. goes c'mon myka he let. me read a whole day only but i'll discuss psychological treatment here so the locus a politically correct may get a bio score up immediately chump but his cat had been healed by taking him looked at that they cure. a chuckle. like all indian cities is growing rapidly there's work to be done much of it is dirty but preferable to a life of of the india today is a nation of migrants sean has his sights set on an elite university in

a distant city but today he's going home to see his mother. forgot about heros. of the. second car it would please. me not only to city to have this. talk but. to get it to show i was in my. own living but on the eve of the believe. i was a good chance had free tuition with anon kumar for more than two years his mother works as a nurse but there's not much money or market to keep posting here much of

a chipotle achievement. she's made to me for him to take back to the host of things. if you can afford it we're doing it to make a little trick i hit. a wall a time when i was. like i remember. then remember thinking oh pardon for a little. john is a non kumar's mother she's a vital part of the family business. and

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cali village everybody's working to bring in the wheat. after seven months living in the city some of the super thirty on losing touch with their rural backgrounds. in previous years and look would have been helping his family not any more. it had the most become of the. bad but i may add that the man appeared to have but i had the matter but i. will. and i brought her you did not partisan happen make it public or your

community told may come on later. on looks mother davie is making one of her occasional visits to her husband they're still living apart and neither sees much of their son. so that will get the happy adam you have back. for the bank about. right handed reasons of. the half the luck that he's easy to has that be this jag and i'm just a had but i'm going to have a deal about thought that i give is made every day. it's the day before the i am. the climax of the super effort. i am going to be playing. rod use at home doing his last minute revision. like they were the lovely.

all the families keyed out for the big game. clearly. a part of the beach about an acquaintance go back out west matching portions of what you know you. shot him meanwhile has moved into a hostel here it's easier for him to focus away from the distractions of home just so. a little for you know what i can engage in the buttons only about break ground. in what areas are put up by the writing down of that because the boys were performing in the hall and the whole family is in. somewhat of

a perfect proper ground but. after seven months of intensive preparation and noncom lot is feeling a different kind of pressure he's hoping for the perfect result which nearly got. the harbor. one hundred percent. of it this way throughout the day a by luck but it. up at the bottom of the city. heat i.e. exam day is a news event all over india. and no twenty thousand young people will see the to pay place. the soup with thirty last scattered across ten exam centers. rogers arrived early the teaching team already here to wish him good luck to. everyone here

so i'm very glad. to hear what ten minutes before the exam stults they can read the questions at last it's nine o'clock. in these next few odds quarter of a million students compete for a future that promises well prestige and membership of the indian elite.

and of the heaviest rain in brazil as the season would suggest is in the northeast corner and it runs up beyond a certain i'm cetera but there is a cloud to the south and that will develop once more and bring some pretty heavy downpours once more to paraguayan stretching across into southern brazil there's still some decent showers around rio sao paolo this general area that is wednesday on the green indicating forecast rain spreads down to north and tina as well as southern brazil and just about these power with a dryer day north of the concent the cloud is now quite extensive anywhere from panama northwards towards about honduras or guatemala has been producing or seeing produced some big thunderstorms sixty seventy millimeters is in typically one to three hours reporters under six hours in guatemala and maybe if you're off them on

wednesday but equally with the amount of cloud around you can't rule him out anywhere from hispania only through jamaica to the bahamas daily big showers are certainly a possibility and it's the time of year when big thunderstorms produce rather dangerous weather in the u.s. spreading out through texas towards the plains and beyond this system that she's generating quite a lot of rain and thunderstorms and extends to the midwest. the weather sponsored by qatar and. leverage years. of duction killings and unanswered questions we don't know what happened sorry we can't healed faultlines investigates why native american women are vanishing in disproportionate numbers in the us the search. for missing and murdered indigenous women. on al-jazeera is still searching these days we're still

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a strong backing to iraq irresponsible behavior from the united states prompted the tension over the nuclear deal. also settles opposition leaders warn of more unrest accusing the military of delaying the transfer of power to civilians. on south africa's leading candidates cast their votes in an election seen as the toughest test yet for the ruling african national congress party. will have reactions when. the most incredible comebacks in sports liverpool fight from three male down beat barcelona and reach the final of the champions league. welcome to the news our world powers are reacting to iran's decision to stop selling enriched uranium and heavy water and its threat to step up production of both to iran gave the remaining signatories of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement sixty days to keep their promises to protect its oil and banking sectors from u.s.

sanctions well russia puts the blame on what it calls mental behavior from the u.s. leaders are warning iran of possible consequences we begin our coverage with this report from same dystrophy in toronto exactly one year after the united states pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal iran says it will suspend some of the commitments under the landmark agreement after the u.s. introduced new sanctions earlier this week designed to target the framework of the deal itself effectively forcing iran's hand president hassan rouhani let world powers know his country will not abide by stockpile limits on enrich uranium and heavy water he said iran could also restart high level production if world powers don't keep their promises under the joint comprehensive plan of action. the united states wanted to pull out of the j. c.p.o. way to make iran withdraw the day after so that they could refer the case to the un

security council in order to redouble pressure on iran however iran did not fall into this trap and did not play in the united states as court our friends including the european countries asked us to give them some time and we said yes because we wanted our people to know we are patient and work in a calculated way we know how important the deal is and scuttling the deal would be costly and detrimental to the region and the world. in a letter to him bastards of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries had sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions. he said these moves are still in line with the wording of the deal itself and iran remains committed to it and to peace in the region but analysts say it's a signal iran's patience is running out the iranians are saying that we cannot continue like this we've been waiting for a year since the americans have exited the agreement and we have been waiting to

see what the europeans will do and now that we see there doing nothing nothing we have to take some steps iran's announcement comes as washington continues to exert what it calls its maximum pressure campaign against iran with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o making an unannounced visit to iraq where thousands of american troops are still based. u.s. warships have also been deployed to the region in response to what the americans say is a threat posed by iran. sent. back . i think for an. imminent. attack. or. reaction. that. at different times throughout the year leaders of both the united states and

iran have suggested they want to avoid a conflict but both sides continue to send strong signals that they are ready for one while from all this is going to a correspondence the into iran and saying really the russian iranian foreign minister is very clear on who to blame on the obligations of those that signed up to the j. c.p.o. way in moscow earlier. absolutely i want to talk about the press conference but let me start by giving you a couple of news developments that happened in the last hour a local media reports are quoting sources close to the president saying that if the j. c.p.o. way the nuclear deal issue was referred to the u.n. security council for any kind of disciplinary action then iran may look at leaving the nuclear nonproliferation treaty they've said that before in the past there reiterating that point now according to sources quoted in local news outlets were also getting the first statement from iran's armed forces in a statement made by the office of the general staff of iran's armed forces that

oversees all of its military bodies the statement said that it has strong support for the president's move today and would issue a fierce response to the movement of its enemies but if we go back to the press conference that the foreign ministers of iran and russia held in moscow earlier today that gives us a sense that iran is still pursuing some sort of diplomatic measures diplomatic moves to try to counterbalance what the united states is doing in terms of its aggressive policies against iran and both foreign ministers made it very clear that they lay the blame for the nuclear deal falling apart of friends squarely on american shoulders. because i had on his show these actions carried out by the u.s. government which is a law breaking government therefore over the past year iran despite what the u.s. is doing we have stayed committed to our decision today we made a decision to implement the. not to stop its implementation not to work against it

not like the americans who withdrew from that. skull that's the intention of the u.s. to send its air carriers to the persian gulf to strengthen its military presence there hinting at the use of force all of this has been lamentable behavior by the u.s. we hear regular statements from the u.s. to stop and cease any iranian influence not just in syria but across the region it's unrealistic to terminate this influence and it has no chance as a serious policy. now this press conference came at a very critical time for iran and it showed the rules of that iran may be isolated in the region it might be isolated it isolated economically by u.s. sanctions but it does not stand alone on the world stage russia is has become a very strong ally of iran in recent years and represents a strong international partner when it comes to dealing with the united states

specifically with regards to the nuclear deal both leaders also reiterated a couple of other very important points they kept mentioning their shared cooperation their shared policies on countries like syria libya venezuela iraq of gonna stand all countries where the united states has a sphere of influence suggesting perhaps that if the united states does not do right by iran when it comes to nuclear deal it may face a joint iranian and russian policies on these important countries on these important issues on the global stage both foreign ministers also took aim at other signatories of the of the nuclear deal they said that china was still holding true to its commitments to iran with european leaders had not done enough in the face of american pressure to push back on american sanctions and help iran realize the financial gains that been promised as part of the nuclear deal in both countries foreign minister said that it was time for the european countries and european leaders to do more about helping iran realize those financial benefits as promised

as part of the joint comprehensive plan of action lover of also saying that those sanctions are illegitimate are unacceptable suggesting that it was time for europe to stand up against u.s. pressure no doubt the strong show of support for iran in moscow will elicit some kind of response from d.c. later today indeed they will see what does happen for the moment thank you and what will the response be from the white house sun from washington d.c. will complete how could they be able to enlighten those of course it'll be interesting to see how the u.s. reacts can lead to. that's a rainy russian joint press conference in moscow and they're sort of blame of the u.s. when they remove those oil waivers when they're moving military hardware seems to really have provoked iran and it will be interesting to see what how washington reacts to this. yeah there's a lot of nervousness here in washington particularly among truck administration

critics who are concerned that this is ministration since its withdrawal from the j. c.p.o. era the agreement to limit ron's nuclear program that it has been deliberately and incrementally veering towards conflict not only the decision to pull out. but also the ratcheting up if you will as we've been discussing of that maximum pressure campaign as the u.s. calls it the reimposition of stiff sanctions the show king of iran's oil exports and also that very controversial step of listing the i r g c or the iran revolutionary guard corps as a foreign terrorist organization and of course the very strong words coming from the national security adviser john bolton on sunday following the deployment of the u.s.s. abraham lincoln of course a carrier strike group to the persian gulf saying that the united states is not seeking war with iran however the actions of the united states seem to contradict the sort of the what is being said by the administration in words so we're watching

very carefully a number of events not only are we looking ahead to see the secretary of state pale meeting with the u.k. prime minister theresa may we're watching for comments coming out of there potentially today as well as a what should be sort of a normal budget hearing on that capitol hill with the acting secretary of defense but it's very possible that we could have senior members of congress who are watching these incremental steps very carefully asking some tough questions and of course that you just touched on my next question i can believe. in the u.k. right now we are expecting him to speak within the hour he has been in iraq he's been speaking to senior leaders that most probably i'm sure a great deal about what america's position on moves will be in terms of the region as far as the united kingdom is concerned they were pivotal in the c.p.o. you spoke to analysts earlier in the day the u.k. from two points will be very interested the one part of the case and what the u.s.

has in mind that also be trying to persuade the u.s. that this is the wrong move. yes and we've seen when it comes to iran you're taking a very different position than the trumpet ministration repeatedly so there's no question given the special relationship if you will between the united states and the u.k. that in fact there will be perhaps some sobering discussion that will take place and there are many in the united states that may be grateful for that given there is real worry about the specific and credible intelligence that the united states claims it is responding to in terms of this ratcheting up yet again with the deployment of a carrier strike group there are questions about the credibility of that intelligence so there is real fear that the risk of confrontation is high and given the vagueness of the language coming from not just the national security adviser but also more recently from the u.s. secretary of state might pompei of there is real worry and we should also remind

our viewers that there is will worry given national security adviser john bolton as part of the decision making process because you have to remember he was very very open in twenty fifteen about advocate.