transferring power to civilians but some members of the opposition parties got into a fist fight during a meeting with the military council earlier the military leaders had said they could hold elections in six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition the two sides are odds over who will lead sudan until new elections are held and for. some of the footage of the vote we agreed to continue demonstrations and escalate our activism this collation in itself is not the goal the revolution has yet to achieve its demands we have not yet transition to a civilian government and we are yet to remove many of the elements from the old regime it is clear that the reappearance of security services under resumption of their activities just like in the old days means that change has not happened yet and that we still have lots to do for all those who lost their lives that's why we will continue to march on till we achieve our the mend. monod van has been following developments in khartoum. one step forward two steps backwards this is how some people here are describing the process of negotiations between the protest

leaders and the military council today a meeting was held called for by the military council and they said after that meeting that they have received more than a hundred and seventy seven different visions of how the transitional period should look like and the structure of the government do during this transitional period we have seen divisions also even among the protest leaders and those groups that have attended this meeting today all signs of negative developments according to observers here that probably the negotiation between the body has sides to this conflict is going to take a long time the military council has threatened to call for a an early election during six months if the other side doesn't respond to their demands and also on the part of the protesters they have threatened to call for a nationwide civil disobedience and they call for the protesters to come again to the streets in big numbers in

a measure of escalation. still ahead on the program south africa's president hopes for his first term in office says elected leader but can syria one opposed to stop the opposition from making inroads into the mc support base pass an attack targeting s.o.c. shine cares at least eight people in the pakistani city of lahore. hello we're not quite into the hot dry heat dusty period yet still plenty crowd cloud around iran spurred on by the waters of the caspian or the eastern med there's not much in the sky or you wouldn't think that's in the forecast for if you used to get the. tension of producing showers or even dust storms ahead of those showers in a tale that goes from saudi arabia up through iraq towards iran and beyond to

eastern turkey and once that's gone through of course the sun comes to work again the temperature start to rise and it feels rather different but we still got that process to go through and it's a run or get the cloud is picture stretching out through azerbaijan and the southern caucasus during friday could be some big thunderstorms out of that rather fewer and lighter ones to the south it's still possible that the end of the day on thursday in may be even in kuwait and the high ground in western society typically there we're seeing fairly high temperatures now highs that is even low forty's with humidity not right down actually little bit sticky still particular where you see this grayness which indicates humidity of course the ten which gives you more showers on friday again in western saudi arabia there's a lot of rain to come at the moment yes in the next few days i think in south africa there's the obvious feature and it's right in the middle.

in a two part series. observes the lives of two children. over twenty years. insights into circumstances that shape lives. rapidly changing. twenty years of me starts with floods and land the story on how to zero. a recap of the top stories on al-jazeera this hour european nations have warned against further escalation after iran's decision to stop selling enrich uranium and

heavy water and its threat to step up production of both tehran has given the remaining signatories of the twenty fifty nuclear agreement sixty days to keep their promises to protect its oil and banking sectors from u.s. sanctions after that it says it will enrich its uranium stockpile u.s. president donald trump has used his executive privilege to keep the democrats from getting the full uncensored report by special counsel robert miller into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election. committee is voting on whether to hold attorney general william barr in contempt over his refusal to release a full report and they've been fistfights between some members of sudan's opposition during a meeting of the coalition in khartoum this was the scene at a press conference where the group threatened further on rest over the military's response to their demands. that millions of south africans have been voting in the first in a national election record forty eight political parties are at the ballots but the

voting african national congress is expected to win with a smaller margin opposition party say they expect to make more gains because the a.n.c. has failed to deliver on its promises to grow the economy and create jobs from a to miller has our report from cape town. south africa's governing african national congress says it's confident it will win its six democratic national election and it's likely to pull that's despite internal splits factionalism the resignation of a president and a swarm of corruption allegations that stayed at the party for the career month we're going to get out of this election is to speed up the process of growing our economy on an inclusive basis so that we can address the why and the needs of poor people in our country the monday we are getting here is we must have service delivery and are going to say that i don't want any for excuses i just want us to

work almost a third of south africans are unemployed and the economy is in decline the a.n.c. is competing against forty seven other parties to win the election the highest number ever while most of them may be too small to challenge the a n c the main opposition the democratic alliance remains us through it having made gains in recent local elections and newcomers the economic freedom fighters led by julius malema who was once loyal to the a.n.c. have attracted vote is unhappy with the governing party whatever numbers will receive from our people will welcome them with both hands it's a monday even one vote counts will accept that those are the results and this is what the people of south africa feel abodh day the e of. of the thirty five million south africans eligible to vote nine million did not register observers say growing voter apathy shows how unhappy people are with

all political parties vote is here say they're looking for change they say they want jobs houses and it's a living conditions while they have been small protests in various areas voting hasn't been disrupted here in the township of quietly check in cape town people want to basic services like running water and electricity we didn't see any change and then now that's why you will stand for i was going to say sure and then we needed to know what's out there whether you like to use is there in the by the people eyes grew out of. this about history five years ago it's way this low to rise data there's a lot of sprawl is there is no illiteracy times are sometimes days long or ten while millions of people want their lives to improve it made up result in them abandoning the a.n.c. and that's what the party may be relying on loyalty and belief from its supporters

that the a in c. will do better for me to mellow al jazeera cape town south africa. the international court of justice has been hearing qatar's case against the united arab emirates for violating human rights qatar's government says the u.a.e. targeted its citizens based on their national origin when it expelled all catteries and stop them from entering the u.a.e. after the twenty seven thousand blockade stephanie decker has more from the hague. the court is hearing a specific application by the united arab emirates who are claiming that qatar is basically how bring their efforts to implement suggestions by the court which has to do with allowing companies citizens particularly families that are intermarried and students to return to the emirates it all boils down to a website that the company citizens can use to apply for nemerov t.v.'s are they're saying qatar is blocking that website and the guitar's is saying that they're doing that for their own security juta issues with malware this is what is being heard

here cutter is presenting their response and then on thursday you will have both sides giving their final statements the court will then go and deliberate it can take weeks we're told until it may gree or not whether to implement some of what the emirates once implemented the bigger picture is this it is a case that qatar has brought here because it says that politics has turned personal discrimination against its citizens really wanting something to change but if you look at the bigger picture when it comes to the political situation with the blockade almost two years on when it comes to the summer june of this year it doesn't seem to be going in the direction that is going to end anytime soon. toby cadman is an international human rights nor he says it's a complex process but the courts know side to roll in. the state of qatar has been presented its case and you know it our emirates has presented its response what is what is quite clear is that this is part of

a bigger political battle as far as the blockade is concerned but the case before the into a court of justice is extremely important because it really has affected thousands of guitar nationals in the u.a.e. it is quite clear that the u.a.e. . is involved upon a discriminatory practices against the target nationals and as we've heard it it has affected sars education employment business interests and a whole host of other issues so it's a very important case that needs to be argued the u.a.e. as one would expect has dismissed the allegations as they tend to amount to such as this but it's going to have to provide some strong just the cation for the actions because the actions of a well established and based on credible evidence a credible reports so for the court to accept the u.a.e. position they're going to have to be convinced that first of all qatar has done

nothing to prevent what they had ruled several months ago but also that the practice continues as we see in the u.a.e. is continuing to discriminate against bashar nationals a bakkie sunny christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blasphemy case has left the country. says she's in canada six months ago she was acquitted by pakistan's supreme court the verdict sned to protest in parts of the country bibi was originally convicted in two thousand and ten after being accused of insulting the prophet mohammed during a fight with her name is staying in pakistan where a faction of the taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at a popular shine in the city of lahore at least eight people including five police officers were killed in a suicide bombing near one of pakistan's oldest. shines victoria gate and he has. 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 the women were inside became. most of the wounded have been moved to mt hospital according to our initial reports there were seventeen to twenty two wounded and rescue work is ongoing seven to ten people are in critical condition but we can't say with a bit dead or alive. a faction of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility analysts 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 the faction of the g.d.p. is not operating in full full talking it and pakistan because there have been some previous attempts in the past has been have been foiled by the security agencies the data dhaba shrine which dates back to the eleventh century has been targeted before a suicide attack nine years ago killed more than forty people in 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 gayton be there. in turkey the main opposition party is calling for last year's general and presidential elections to be an old the appeal comes two days after the election board decided to rerun istanbul's mayoral election present. last of all this there. is some istanbul. turkey his main opposition republican party c.h.p. a submitted a request to the supreme electorial boards to cancel last serious general and presidential. elections as well as the march third two one. stumble districts and the main opposition said even presidents add ons men men date should

be an old following the ousting of c.h.p. mayor in istanbul supreme election board canceled istanbul may overall result space based on the grounds that there were illegalities and irregularities in the appointments of the ballot box officers and now the major position argues that the ballot box officials were appointed as in the same way as they were in last year's general and clothes for his then szell election following a vision in turkey is election rules in march two thousand and eighteen. in their request they had there was another issue that the main opposition raised this in turkey during local elections in one you have four voting sheets that's you elect to your local administrators mayors. local councils and local municipal councils and local officials so the decision of the supreme of the board

to cancel stumbles may overall result is not welcomed by the main opposition saying that it is totally unlawful that all district results should be annulled as well so now the main opposition argues even the legitimacy of last year's presidential and general election is compromised by the decision of the supreme elect or the board. now over drivers in britain the us and australia turning off their apps and taking to the streets to demand better wages and working conditions protests come two days before his public debut on the new york stock exchange a ride hailing giant is aiming to raise nine billion dollars from investors and is expected to be valued at up to ninety one point five billion dollars paul brennan has more from london. who has i.p.o. on friday expects to raise between forty five to fifty dollars a share now that will raise some nine billion dollars for the company and value the

overall company at ninety billion dollars and that's going to make some rich man either rich or travis colonic the company's founder with his eight point six percent stake that will be valued around eight billion dollars by jeff bezos the found another i was on he invested some three million back in the day and who back that will be valued somewhere in the original form a good million dollars if this i.p.o. goes to the protesters here outside of us love that headquarters on happy that the riches being enjoyed by the executive simply not filtering down to the drivers this is a message we need to send to the public investors in coming but that's not acceptable if they want to find profitability dooper they need to find a way of achieving that without exploiting workers the protesters most unhappy that the way that was business model works is to aggressively cut costs and they say it's the driver side of bearing the brunt of that a study by j.p.

morgan found the between twenty seventeen and twenty. one twenty seventeen drivers one hundred fifty three percent less than they had been in the drivers feel that they are being squeezed at a time when the company is reaping the benefits and remember as well this is a company that has never once made a profit it's almost making companies that have a less invested in still seem to think it is worth backing. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera european nations have warned iran against further escalation or face sanctions after tehran's decision to roll back to its commitments from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal iran has given the remaining signatories of the agreement sixty days to keep their promises to protect its oil in banking sectors from u.s. sanctions to lay it on me in rules it julius loamy you don't we will stop selling

two items as of today we will need this so enriched uranium no will be so a heavy water from today be a ton of it will all be. out of fish us troops we have informed the of the parties that if within the next sixty days britain france germany russia and china return to the negotiating table we will talk to them and reach a conclusion and if all men benefits especially oil spills and banking relations is served we will go back to the beginning point. the us president donald trump has used his executive privilege to keep the democrats from getting the full uncensored report by special counsel robert mueller into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election the u.s. house judiciary committee is voting on whether to hold attorney general william barr in contempt over his refusal to release a full report so don's protest leaders are calling for a nationwide civil disobedience movement they are accusing the military leaders of

delaying transferring power to civilians by some members of the opposition parties got into a fist fight during a meeting with the military council earlier the military leaders had said they could hold elections in six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition. south africans have been voting in closely contested national elections where the issues of corruption and record unemployment have taken center stage the governing african national congress is likely to retain power but the party is expected to win fewer votes than in previous elections a pakistani christian woman who spent eight years on death row in a blasphemy case has left the country bibi's noya says she's in canada six months ago she was acquitted by pakistan's supreme court the verdicts led to protests in parts of the country as a racially convicted in two thousand and ten after being accused of insulting the prophet mohammed during a fight with her neighbors those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more for

you in under twenty five minutes with the al-jazeera news hour coming up next here it's inside story to say that this. is iran nuclear deal did a year after the u.s. about in that the agreement teheran suspends parts of it and gives those countries which signed up to it an ultimatum to meet their commitments including protection from u.s. sanctions can the deal be renegotiated this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program imran khan donald trump called it the worst steel ever the us president decided the year ago to pull out of the iran nuclear agreement which imposed limits on tehran's nuclear activities than reimpose sanctions against a. iran and recently extended them to threaten those countries still party to the deal iran's now reacted warning the u.k. france germany china and russia it will step up your rein in production unless they meet their commitments within sixty days britain says the decision is an unwelcome step while france says more sanctions could be reimposed. has more from terror. exactly one year after the united states pulled out of the twenty fifth two nuclear deal iran says it will suspend cooperation with some of the commitments under the agreement president hassan rouhani that world powers know his country will not abide by stockpile limits on enriched uranium and heavy water but he said it was

a reciprocal move after the united states introduced new sanctions earlier this week designed to target the framework of the nuclear deal itself iranian experts say that the latest u.s. sanctions effectively forced iran to take some sort of action hammy him out of the main mall that john bid on. and people around the world should know that today is not the end of the nuclear deal today it's a new step for the j c.p.o. way and it's within the framework of the j. c.p.o. way the deal has given us this right if the other party violates its commitments we can raise it in the joint commission in a scheduled time and that time was passed we had meetings at the level of deputy ministers and foreign ministers and europeans and our friends several times emphasized that they would compensate it somehow but practically they didn't meet their commitments. iranian leaders maintained limiting their level of cooperation with the joint comprehensive plan of action is still in keeping with the wording of

the deal if in the next two months remaining signatories to the deal can do something to help mitigate the economic pressure on iran from u.s. oil and banking sanctions rouhani said his country would gladly return to abiding by its side of the bargain but as tensions escalate between tehran and washington president hassan rouhani is latest comments put more pressure on his own partners the remaining signatories to the nuclear deal to do something to salvage an agreement that's been in jeopardy since u.s. president donald trump took office same for inside story. we'll get to our discussion in just a moment but first let's take a look at some key developments since the u.s. withdrawal in january iran's european allies began looking. for alternative channels to keep trade going despite u.s. sanctions but the trump and ministration continued putting pressure on terror on last month the u.s. imposed strict sanctions on iran in all exports and put iran's revolutionary guard on a list of terrorist organizations and recently the american aircraft carrier group

the u.s.s. abraham lincoln was deployed to the strait of hormuz seventeen million barrels of oil are taken through the sea routes in the gulf every day iran has threatened to close it multiple times. let's bring in our guests in tehran mohammad marandi professor of north american studies at the university of tehran on skype from reston virginia rhenish a republican strategist and consultant and in berlin. this thing followed brookings doha center a welcome to you all like to begin with you mohammad marandi in teheran this has been a very aggressive policy by this administration this u.s. administration to iran we are all is always expecting iran to react in your opinion is this a fair reaction the events of the day. i think it's

a rather mild reaction but president rouhani has said that there will be further acts on behalf of iran if the european union does not change its policy the iranians have shown strategic patience for the last year at least actually far more than that in my opinion when the americans exited the dream and the europeans promised that they would abide by their commitments and iran has for a year now been waiting for the europeans to doing to do something and they've done nothing that they've said all the nice things that need to be said in a word to not enough and to so far the europeans have not. to run to the global financial sector which is what they have promised and they have not purchased any iranian oil which is also part of their commitment to them there are other things that they should be doing and they haven't so the iranians are giving the europeans sixty days to decide whether they're going to abide by the commandments of

trump are they going to protect their citizens their businesses their banks and abide by their commitments well the helmets we talk about this sixty day deal but the reaction almost immediately from said let's say from britain and britain said it was unwelcome step and then france said well more sanctions may be expected i don't know if that's encouraging for iran i don't know whether the europeans are going to play ball. well the iranians don't have any expectations it is rather extraordinary that the french and the british who have not been abiding by their commitments whatsoever and that they have made all sorts of promises but have not delivered on any of them at all for them to say that this is unwelcome or that or to threaten iran. i think that only angers ordinary iranians but it's expected by iranian policy makers iran is really have no option the americans are trying to

strangle the iranian people and the iranian see how the american government is trying to brutalize ordinary people in venezuela how the americans are start helping the saudis starve the people in yemen how the americans destroyed libya what they've done to syria iraq afghanistan and the iranians know quite well that appeasing the regime in washington is not going to get the country anywhere so i think what this rowhani administration has done is that he's shown the international community that it is iran that is abiding by its commitments that it is iran that is trying to ease tensions and that it is the united states that is pushing for escalation along with its friends in the region like netanyahu and b.s. in. mohamed bin ziad and i think that itself is a big plus and so from here on i think many or most if not all fair minded people in the international community will recognize that iran has every right to push

back. rena shaw in reston virginia iran has every right to push back now that doesn't seem to be a unified policy from this administration toward iran on the one hand you have the u.s. president donald trump who says. rouhani is a good man he would like them to come back to the negotiating table then you have who seems to take a more middle ground suggesting that all actions all options are on the table and then you have john bolton who is sending the u.s. lincoln carrier group to the strait of hormuz so it doesn't seem to be unified but much more not is that a unified strategy here or is the republican party really just making up as it goes along. i think that's an interesting assessment there and the making it up as you go along because it does seem that this administration tends to do that in many ways and now in foreign policy in which we've been unified for a very long time whether you look at whichever party is in power the united states

likes to show a very composed organized deliberate front when when confronting regimes like the one in iran so this is unusual but i have to say as you heard me talk about on your program before here i am i'm not exactly the biggest fan of this president's strategy his approach the way in which he speaks about certain leaders in the world who i don't find to be leaders however i think we would have been best served by donald trump continuing to go about it in a way which he won it however when he surat decided just arrived in south with warhawks people like john bolton there was no other strategy of john bolton's mind he wants war and i think it's a very scary proposition at this moment in time where we have so many things we're juggling on the world stage to think of this is another issue that came in and blow up really you know right now it's in and it's in a point where i think this relationship is certainly strained the the reaction from

iran i'm not surprised but i don't know how the trumpet ministration really moves forward without letting pompei you know and bolton take the front seat and that's what president trump has decided to do you know he has listened to them they have said this iran deal was non functional and it's been flawed from the get go it's a remnant of obama's era and as we as many people know the international community president trump doesn't like anything that that president obama left behind so let's see where we go from here if this is this is a moment it's a pivotal moment and i think there's a lot of uncertainty i had no doubt they felt all the as in. berlin we are at a pivotal moment there is a carrier group steaming toward the strait of hormuz as we speak europe has been given notice of sixty days to come to their commitments that they agreed before do

you think europe is going to be the peace broker here or do you think europe is going to have to choose a side. well things are getting more complicated for the europeans obviously now with this kind of iranian deadline and. it is hard to see how the europeans would be able to transform the special purpose vehicle instax into something that the iranian side would economically benefit from and be happy with because so the fact remains that we have the dominance of the u.s. sanctions regime globally on the banking and financial sectors and this is not going to change is a strong compliance regime when it comes to u.s. sanctions so it's really hard to see how the europeans could encourage their companies to engage in trade with iran something that they have been reluctant to do so up until now as we see from different reactions in europe europe of course

remains committed to the nuclear deal it doesn't want to see it on rival. and on the other hand there is obviously more skepticism in paris talking about the potential reimposition of sanctions on iran while in berlin we've heard from the foreign ministry that while they remain committed to the nuclear deal they're also warned to get iran against. aggressive steps this might be something kind of an escalation in the persian gulf region or in the wider west asian you know theater where you might see some kind of confrontation between iran and allied forces and the u.s. and our forces. are no on the main ashar hinted at this you said that this president doesn't like anything that president obama did maybe the quickest way out of this is simply to go back to the renegotiating table negotiate

a treaty which is almost exactly the same as the one you have already and be done with it. that's impossible because if the iranians begin to appease the regime in washington then this will be the first step of many the americans will conclude that every time you bully another country every time you strangle ordinary people every time you make ordinary people suffer every time you impose hunger like they do in in yemen then you get results and that is a very dangerous move in would push iran in a very dangerous direction the iranians have already made significant concessions in fact in the nuclear deal was controversial as you know from the very start many people in iran were opposed to it from day one and they said it wouldn't work but the iranians negotiated for over a decade they gave significant concessions they were flexible and ultimately they signed the nuclear deal and they ended certain parts of the nuclear program and

they toned down other parts even though there was never any real evidence to show that iran's nuclear program was anything but peaceful but iran wanted to brings stability to the region to show the international community that despite the narrative from washington the new iran wasn't a troublemaker and now after making giving those concessions this is how the united states behaves and worse than and i think even what's even more ugly is that is how the europeans are behaving because on the one hand there they expect iran to commit itself to the nuclear deal yet they're not committing themselves at all to what they promise to do and i think that this is this is this creates a more dangerous situation because iran will have to begin to push back countries like saudi arabia and the emirates should expect the road ahead to get more bumpy there is serious talk in iran of beginning stop and searches again with it towards saudi and m.r.c.

ships coming from into the an emirate or it's weather there. go or oil. they are pushing and they are pushing the region toward a very dangerous situation the iranians believe that the american that the president us president doesn't want war and neither does the cia or the the military because they know that if there is a war in the region everything in the the persian gulf will be destroyed the the shutting of the strait of hormuz would be a sideshow all the oil facilities the tankers in the gulf of oman and in the persian gulf they'll be will be destroyed that's the root that's what how war will end and it will lead to a global economic catastrophe and trump knows that so whether the military and the and those who are more sane in washington can push back against bolton and pompei oh that's an open question but the europeans in besides their commitments they should also be putting pressure on so you arabia and the emirates

otherwise i think people in these two countries should start pulling out their money from the suits regimes really show it's clear that the europeans are now key players once again in this the gauntlet has been thrown down the bulls and they can use all the cliches that you want but it's down to the europeans in the sixty day deadline now what is america thinking when it comes the europeans they think that they've got allies there that they will eventually side of the america well the republicans thinking republicans think that when american leads europe will follow and i think that's sort of rock in this moment and my conventional wisdom tells me that things are really changed and she and some in my party are unwilling to accept that so i think it's time for something you know i don't know what that something new i think that we've got too far down the road to have president shot sort of pull back it's

a let's come back to the table and be go she something that i keep on it i think that's his first preference. but we're too far gone from that but if you know again about your guest in toronto i know i disagree with some points but the larger picture is true this is about america's relationship with saudi arabia in this very moment and as many know that the president's son in law gerry question has been tasked with creating peace in the middle east and he's been wildly unsuccessful at it if you ask me. so when you have the naive body that sort of prevails in this administration what you're going to find over and over is a lack of unity as we talked about earlier and a lack of an approach that is going to be thoughtful and going to be fair rather to our allies and in this very moment our allies that we used to have are really no longer allies so everything is very very fractured on the world stage at this moment and certainly these cliques that are prevailing in this moment are not

helping the many people that are suffering but i don't i take great issue with the united states constantly being blamed for all of it i mean there are bad leaders in these countries and iran being one of them that that have caused people to suffer for a very long time this is elementary what i'm talking about i mean this is the p. iranian people not suffered entirely because of america's decisions and so to to continue forward and say that everything that happens from this moment forward that america is continuing to make iranian people suffer i think is a bit is disingenuous when you are sending a carrier group to the straits of hormuz the iranian people are going to feel uncomfortable about that. correct but they had a lot of options as well as you come to the table and there yet different way i think but i did come to tell you what it is i think i did wait a while and i negotiated in good faith let me bring in ali. they should in that there was an agreement it was negotiated in good faith i mean europe must be

looking at this and thinking to themselves how we go. well absolutely there was an agreement and obviously the u.s. administration with its withdrawal last year violated the agreement and because of the predominance of the u.s. in the financial and banking sectors as i said earlier it's very difficult for europe to provide for the economic benefits but i think what is happening right now is also what the europeans understand is that what iran is trying to do it's to re-establish the real leverage they had visa v. the west was all but also the united states by trying to you know to reenergize the nuclear program to an extent where they would be able to reach a nuclear threshold at some point in time so by raise the abolition it's leverage. a decade ago was the precondition for getting us concessions back then it was the u.s.

dropping the zero enrichment demand on iran so this is what the iranians are trying to do to regain leverage for any future kind of engagement or negotiation with the united states as we've seen for iranian foreign ministers that eve's recent visit to the united states was trying to actually appeal to the u.s. president trump and to potentially open channels of communication because the iranian these number public knows that because of its acute economic crisis at home it has to you know look for a solution when it comes to sanctions with the united states on the other hand despite this iranian overture if he's of the president. there is still some controversy in iran there are some hard line elements who argue that iran cannot now enter into negotiations with the united states because it's it is in a position of weakness in order to remedy this iran is now you know

going into phases of a potential gradual retrieve from the jason a that would raise the abolitionists leverage for any future negotiations with the united states what do you think of the iranians actually negotiating by stealth going back to what it was doing a decade ago thinking they can poly this into a new deal is that what's happening do you think. no i actually spoke with doctors adie yesterday he is very much against negotiations with the united states the united states has to go back to the nuclear deal in order to begin negotiations with iran as they were a negotiating the iranians and the americans alongside other members of the p five plus one they were all negotiating for years and even at the beginning of the of the trump presidency teller's and was at the table it was the united states that that so the only way forward really for iran is to show that the united states that

they cannot believe the country in iran does not accept the claim that the europeans don't have leverage the europeans if the if they don't have leverage if they can't protect their citizens if they can't protect protect their businesses and their dignity then they have no right to be sitting at any negotiating table and i think other countries across the world should take note of that if the europeans on the other hand a want to be respected and to take be taken seriously then they have to use that leverage their economy is larger than that of the united states and they have the opportunity to cooperate with countries like russia and china to make sure that they abide by the nuclear deal it's not a one sided relationship between the united states and europe so from the iranian perspective that excuses is completely unacceptable but what i think is is going to happen is that yes the iran will continue to use its strengths and iran is strong iran's allies in iraq are strong enough on the sun and across the region and the

americans know that if there is any confrontation and remember that's not what he ran once that's why iran signed the nuclear deal there that we already had to talk about do want to get as many other guests as well had to take a very very good points we know want to bring you in here iran isn't iraq in two thousand and three it's not afghanistan in two thousand and one this is a country that is military. really strong and has friends in the region well don't forget that there are a number of people in washington today who believe that the former points you made archer they do see iran to be something relic of the past and they're trying to deal with that as such like i said the mentality of the neo conservatives the establishment here still prevails despite the president the current president desires to really do things differently so when the when that mentality is what sort of rules the day you're not going to convince these people otherwise there's there is the idea that american military strength and

a power move like sending the tanker we have that this is this is what's going to work and again there is no creativity here so what i think is we are we are headed down a really bad road no doubt but but i know that this is a prevailing mentality and there's no way to change it right now what we have sixty days the deadline is in place and europe has to react and i'm sure we'll be talking about this subject again i want to thank all our guests but haven't more on the rhenish l. and ali football and i said and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting a website al-jazeera adult called and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here like you know.

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zero it's where every. word. on the. m. one. zero. zero this is the news hour live from a headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes iran says it will step up your rein him in richmond if the countries that are part of the twenty fifty nuclear deal don't stick to their promises russia offers strong backing to tehran

say irresponsible behavior from the u.s. prompted the tension over the nuclear deal also this hour sudan's opposition leaders want to have more on rest accusing the military of delaying the transfer of power to civilians process donald trump invokes executive privilege to block the full release of the special counsel's report into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election and are pretty slim a little bit of sport has taught them hotspur are in amsterdam to take all i.x. in the champions league semifinal second leg the winner will face liverpool in the fun. thank you for joining us iran says it will roll back two of its commitments to world powers under the twenty fifty nuclear deal president hassan rouhani is announcement comes exactly a year after u.s.

president donald trump withdrew from the landmark agreement tehran is threatening further steps in sixty days if e.u. leaders fail to keep their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sector is from u.s. sanctions has a report from tehran. exactly one year after the united states pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal iran says it will suspend some of its commitments under the landmark agreement after the us introduced new sanctions earlier this week designed to target the framework of the deal itself effectively forcing iran's hand president hassan rouhani lead world powers know his country will not abide by a stockpile limits on enriched uranium and heavy water he said iran could also resume the production of uranium enriched to a higher level than it currently manufactures and rebuild a heavy water reactor without the oversight of its partners in the nuclear deal in rose more namely call him as the united states wanted to pull out of the j c p a way to make iran withdraw the day after so 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 course 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 dealers and scuttling the deal would be costly and did from in talk to the region and the world in practical terms it is a first step by iran in response to more than a year of mounting u.s. pressure and in moscow iran found support from a strong friend at a critical time russia blamed the united states for single handedly undermining the twenty fifty nuclear deal and said u.s. sanctions against iran are unacceptable and illegitimate and that if. the intention of the u.s. to send its air carrier is 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 see 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 and. iran may be economically isolated but the message from russia is that iran is not alone. together the foreign ministers of both countries put european signatories to the iran deal on notice. because i had on his show these actions by the us government which is a law breaking government therefore over the past year iran despite what the us is doing we have stayed committed to our decision today we made a decision to implement that. not to stop its implementation not to work against it not like the americans will withdraw from it in a letter to him basters of the u.k. france germany china and russia president rouhani said those countries have sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sectors from

u.s. sanctions he said steps iran is taking remain in line with the wording of the nuclear deal iran remains committed to it and to maintaining peace in the region but experts into herat say the country is also preparing for things to get worse before they get better. iran's announcement comes as american forces have been deployed to the region in response to what the u.s. says is a threat posed by iran. the leaders of both the united states and iran have said they want to avoid a conflict but both sides continue to send strong signals they are ready for one and as tensions heighten between to herat in washington the latest announcement from president hassan rouhani puts even more pressure on european countries and remaining signatories to the nuclear deal to do something to salvage an agreement that's been in jeopardy since u.s. president donald trump took office. and the u.k. france and germany who are part of that agreement have won tehran against further

escalation to avoid sanctions russia and china who are also signatories and blaming washington for escalating tensions with iran here's mike hanna now with all the global reactions. the u.s. secretary of state arrives at ten downing street for talks with the british prime minister the stores u.s. ally deeply alarmed by the iranian announcement and making clear it continues to oppose the u.s. decision to pull out of the twenty fourth nuclear deal iran must never be able to acquire a nuclear weapon it's no secret that we have a different approach on how best to achieve that u.k. has continued to support the nuclear deal which is a key achievement of the global nonproliferation architecture because we believe it's in our security interests might pump a zero insisting differences over the iran agreement would not impact on the transatlantic relationship or on the same side we're on the side of values driven democracy we're on the side of freedom we're on the side of creating

a nation for the iranian people where they can have religious freedom and they can have a democracy but other signatories to the nuclear agreement are adamant the u.s. must be held accountable should iran follow through on its threat to the. poor few months now the deal that was signed in vienna. to keep iran's nuclear activities in check has been undermined because exactly a year a girl the us decided to pull out from the deal and not respected proven zones on your phone to china approves of the way that iran has thoroughly carried out its duty to comprehensively fulfill the agreement we oppose the unilateral sanctions implemented by the us and its so-called long jurisdiction and this was the reaction from israel. live on we will not allow iran to achieve nuclear weaponry we will continue to fight those who would kill us. the us signaling that it too would resort to force deploying an aircraft carrier strike group in what the

administration describes as a clear and unmistakable message to what it calls the iranian regime mike hanna al-jazeera washington well i saw speak to daryl kimball who is the executive director of the arms control association his life from washington very good to have you on al-jazeera so this nuclear deal was already in serious trouble do you think it can be salvaged within the sixty day timeframe the iranians have set. well the iran is sending a very strong signal that it will not survive if the european governments that are party to the deal and china don't compensate for the united states efforts to strangle the iranian economy to deny it oil exports and financial transactions so there are some discussions underway to try to facilitate the most basic of iranian oil and petroleum exports we'll have to see whether it's possible to to make that a reality in the next sixty days if they don't what the iranians have announced

today could become a gradual slide towards the on raveling of the agreement iran could eventually take steps that violate the j c p a way i don't think that's going to happen at least for another three to four months but this agreement could come apart and we could see a new political crisis in the region the europeans are clearly in a very delicate position here what are the obligations of the signatories of this deal and have. violated any parts of the agreement as the americans seem to suggest . well on the iranian side they agreed and took action to reduce their capacity to produce material that could be used to make nuclear weapons they've done this under the international atomic energy agency's supervision they have complied the i.a.e.a. has verified that in fourteen reports. the other parties were to lift the nuclear related sanctions that had been imposed before the deal to allow iran to engage in

legitimate trade particularly in oil which is important for iran but the trump administration has violated that commitment they have systematically put sanctions back in place that were not supposed to be in place and so iran is basically crying foul iran's view at this point is we see no benefit in remaining inside this deal if we are denied. the benefits that we were promised and so that is essential of the message of president rouhani how europe will respond we will have to see i don't think they're in a delicate position i think they are in a dire position because this deal will fall apart if they don't respond in the next few weeks what is it da do you think the u.s. administration is trying to achieve exactly john bolton the national security advisor has made the case in the possible military action against iran do you think that's where we're headed. well i think that's where john bolton would like to go

donald trump says he doesn't want another war in the middle east but these events taken together i think are leading bowlful sides iran and the united states down a blind alley the iranians are escalating or saying they're going to escalate their nuclear program the u.s. is putting tighter sanctions on i think the trumpet ministration believes and i think it is simply a belief that this will bring down the iranian regime somehow a more democratic more progressive government will come in its place. that is their belief or they also believe that iran will come back and begging to the negotiating table that is not going to happen either so both sides are are on track for greater confrontation if europe does not step in to assure iran some of the benefits at least some that were promised as part of the original iran nuclear deal of two thousand and fifteen very good to talk to you about this thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera dow kimball executive director of the arms control

association. in other world news sudan's protest leaders are calling for a nationwide civil disobedience movement there accusing the military leaders of delaying transferring power to civilians by some members of the opposition parties got into a fist fight during a meeting with the military council the sudanese professionals associations which spearheaded the demonstrations was not there and the military leaders had said they could hold elections in six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition and two sides are at odds over who will isa don until new elections are hand and for how long but if some of the few who do vote we agree to continue demonstrations and escalate our activism this collation in itself is not the goal the revolution has yet to achieve it's the months we have not yet transition to a civilian government and we are yet to remove many of the elements from build it to skeered that the reappearance of security services under the resumption of their activities just like in the old days means the change has not happened yet and the

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