juta last just two days just two days to try to achieve a deal that can somehow prevent this trade dispute escalating you know there could be a possible surprise but i think it's more likely that there is unlikely to be a deal in the short term i think the question is you know will the two sides continue negotiating if they do that will be enough to i think stabilize markets remember stock markets here in china had their worst week in three years during the past few days but if the talks rupture then i think you know the markets could be in negative territory again you know on friday and also next week the commerce ministry also has issued a statement saying that they regret the announcement by president from threatening more sanctions but they also say that they are prepared to respond with counter measures although they haven't specified what those counter measures could be but

china could hamper u.s. operations here in any number of ways still ahead on algis zero we'll have more analysis on the developments in iran nuclear deal coming up in a moment plus we'll have the latest on the fighting in syria as rebel held province of hama. hello welcome to the look at the international focus of the usual splash in the shallows across southeast asia well she patted simulations of good parts of indonesia just notices little circulation straub east timor that could develop into a tropical cyclone something we keeping a close eye on here to the day showers there into thailand just around smart of pushing up into the open it should draw them a has been there for bangkok temperatures here at around thirty six degrees the

showers extend into southern parts of vietnam and cambodia a little change as we go on and see saturday similar pitcher rolling through fed but a cloud philippines could see one of two hates of the day south but plenty of sunshine in between plenty of sunshine into australia as well but for solemn areas we have seen some useful rainfall we got a cold front now making its way through the by the second one this week that will slide its way three attempts just falling quite sharply behind every got a little bit of wet weather useful rain coming into adelaide into victoria temperatures not a light at around fourteen celsius or thirteen that melbourne and that range is easing up into the south of new south wales as we go on in sas day is fine and dry temps just bounce back a little bit of the west has a high of twenty. leverage

years. of duction killings and unanswered questions we don't know what happened so we can't heal faultlines investigates why native american women are banishing in disproportionate numbers in the us this. missing and murdered indigenous women. on al-jazeera are still searching. we're. working. hello again the top story on. korea's military says the north has fired an unidentified projectile launch took place in the vicinity of signori in the north

province south korea the projectile was launched towards the east and the european union and the foreign ministers of germany france and the u.k. have rejected. by their wrongs president hassan rouhani for world powers to fulfill promises of twenty fifty nuclear deal in a joint statement they said they remain fully committed to the preservation and full implementation of the agreement let's speak to. a professor of the department if american studies at the iranian adversity and that is where he is joining us from thanks very much for speaking to us initially just give me your thoughts on this latest development that the e.u. now is rejecting that sixty day ultimatum issued by iran. quite disappointing i think people expected more from europe. but iran is asking the europe to actually follow the agreements and is not asking for anything that.

europe has also gotten out of the agreement in practice they have not done it like the united states the united states. exit open they have not done that they say they're interested in agreement but in reality they're not doing their part. in the article supposed to do they were supposed to continue buying iranian oil we had italians a spanish greece they have a stopped doing that we're supposed to be able to use banking transactions with europe you don't is not able to do that number of issues that actually meant you are supposed to be able to engage in and you don't is that it would. basically cannot have a one sided agreement. and so i think this is the line they were here in sixteen it's a big. trial by the ministration agreement they should follow that for the

europeans they seem to be caught between the trumpet ministration and iran. can they continue to back that agreement. if they feel that iran now is not fully complying with its terms because iran is threatening to suspend some of its commitments. it's up to them. to decide whether they like the agreement they like president they have to make a decision between the president. if they like the agreement they should follow the agreement it can be possible for iran to be the only party that following the agreement we have p. five plus one. supposed to be part of the agreement iran is doing what you are only supposed to. should do the same you don't gave them one years it's a long time to get their act together they have to decide that. the nuclear

agreement is not having any benefits for iran's being part is that something that iran is interest unless they come back to the women to come back to the negotiating table i think it was interesting that rouhani used the word negotiations many times in his talk he wants to negotiate with europe to get them back to the agreement and it's up to them whether they want to do that or not what do you make of the comments recently made by the u.s. envoy for iran brian how he was speaking to media saying that if a new deal with iran happens then it will be presented to congress to ratify it as a treaty do you think that the u.s. is pushing for a new treaty and is that something that iran would accept. i think iran would have no problem. with the united states that's why iran accepted the. i don't think. actually

negotiating with iran what we hear is that the united states is interested in regime change this is what people like john kerry the former secretary of state are saying they want to change the government they want to the same thing they did in one nine hundred fifty three since they haven't anything in the last seventy years and as long as they're interested in regime change they're not going to negotiate with iran sincerely so the regime change projects for the star and then they start has been open to negotiations for many years now all right. thank you for speaking to us from tehran. votes are being counted in south africa's general election twenty five years after its transition from apartheid to democracy it's seen as the toughest test yet for the governing in ca the party of the late president nelson mandela voters have expressed frustration about corruption unemployment and racial inequality but as the reports from cape town the latest

polls suggest the a.n.c. the party of also mandela will once again when a majority of parliament seats. south africa's governing african national congress says it's confident it will win its six democratic national election and it's likely it will that's despite internal splits factionalism the resignation of a president and a swarm of corruption allegations that stayed at the party for career minded we're going to get out of this election is to lead up the process of growing our economy on an inclusive braces so that we can address the plight of the needs of poor people in our country the monday we're getting here is we must have service delivery and i've been saying that i don't want any further 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 abode day. 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 both says 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 quality check in cape town people want to basic services like running water and electricity we didn't see any change there now that's why you we. are going to work and then we make it. like this is the rainy buy the people are. going to see progress through five years ago it's way which is low to rise data there's a lot of these you know illiteracy times are sometimes days long while millions of people want their lives to prove it made up result in them abandoning the sea and that's what the party may be relying on loyalty and belief from its supporters at the a in c. will do better for me tamala al jazeera cape town south africa south sudan's

president salva cure the formation of for unity government should be delayed by a least a year the spider made twelve deadline in the peace agreement that ended the civil war president here says he doubts the parties and various armed groups will be able to implement all the agreed security arrangements in the coming months around four hundred thousand people died during south sudan's five year civil war which broke out in twenty thirteen between forces loyal to my char vernon vice president and kier. well the vice president of venezuela as opposition controlled national assembly. has been arrested the opposition leader made the announcement on social media earlier had said on twitter he was being taken to the headquarters of the intelligence agency he is the first politician arrested since tried to spark a military uprising last week against president nicolas maduro the government's. leading us democrats have voted to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress they're demanding he release an uncensored copy of robert miller's

report into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election the vote by the u.s. house judiciary committee now goes to the floor of the house of representatives. the syrian government has recaptured a town in northwest how much from opposition forces. the second town to fall in the past week the nearby town of it was captured on wednesday government forces are pushing ahead with the offensive which is now in its second week so you know what it has more from. syrian government troops have pushed into rebel controlled territory it is the first time they've taken ground since launching an offensive in the northwestern corner of syria they've captured the town of far no one of the biggest towns in northern how it has a strategic location because the government can now cut rebel supply lines from northern northern how much and southern the area really of military operations the

past ten days has really witnessed relentless bombardment syrian and russian planes carrying out dozens of air strikes according to the united nations fifty villages have come under fire it has caused massive displacement one hundred fifty thousand people are on the move they've moved further north away from the fighting civilians continue to be killed now the scope of the operations it is not believed to be about this this military operation is not believed to be about recapturing the entire province of before it started the russian president vladimir putin said that it would be unpractical for a full scale assault for the time being because in his words the militants are among the civilian population and on wednesday russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov for the first time commented on the ongoing operation he said that the russian military is carrying out the memorandum the cease fire deal that was agreed

between russia and turkey last september in his words this memorandum is so supposed to root out terrorists and. to protect them so russia making it clear that they're unhappy that turkey did not fulfill its commitments according to this deal to clear a demilitarized zone around the province but at the same time it is believed that these two stakeholders are not going to rupture their relationship and are going to find some common ground that common ground could involve the government just pushing the north just to recap through the main international highways and not take the entire province of. iraq's ancient city of measure is known for its hauser's or seminaries and they face restrictions under the rule of saddam hussein but since his death there has been a revival or so jabari met with some of the fellows of students who travel to nudge off in the hope of joining the next generation of religious leaders. this is

one of the dozen houses in niger it opened in the one nine hundred thirty s. . houser is a seminary where shia clerics are educated and there are more than seventeen thousand students in not just hoping to reach the highest level of religious studies to become a grand ayatollah or a martyr these students go through a rigorous testing process before they are accepted into the seminaries once here they are provided with a room and board and a small monthly allowance the verdict for the goal of the seminary students is to keep the faith and religion erected without flaws and continue to call on people to cling to the right path it is here where the next generation of religious leaders are being prepared in iraq and as well as some of its neighboring countries they will have to tackle many challenges including politics but we're told that's not the main goal here unless it is absolutely necessary well most of my years that the

growing awareness of society about seminaries has contributed in showcasing the leading role of the seminary leader especially during the security crisis in iraq. when terrorists infiltrated the comfort such an example was clearly seen when the defensive jihad was announced by grand ayatollah ali sistani people realise the importance of the seminary in iraq in protecting the sanctity of the country this is the man who is in charge of all the seminaries in iraq eighty eight year old grand ayatollah ali sistani is the highest religious authority in the country. during the rule of saddam hussein the seminaries had their powers and number of students limited but now they are witnessing a revival when. our message and theme is for the coexistence among the different religions the highest religious authority keeps its distance from politics but when there is need to preserve the sanctity of the people religion and property of the

society then we step in to rectify the wrongdoings by providing guidance as the reach of the seminaries continues to grow so does their role in society. these places are much more than just seminaries where thousands come to find a higher calling they're also becoming powerful institutions with a growing support base and the potential to influence millions around the world door so to party al jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the european union and the foreign ministers of germany france and the u.k. have rejected the sixty fail to meet them by iran's president hassan rouhani for world powers to fulfill promises of the twenty fifty nuclear deal in a joint statement they said they remain fully committed to the preservation and full implementation of the u. greenland and the u.s.

has impose new sanctions on iran targeting its steel and mining industries trawlers to iran's announcement to ease some of its obligations to the nuclear deal. south korea's military says north korea has fired an unidentified projectile it's unclear if it was just a single one or more that launch took place from sin already in the north planning on province south korea says it was directed towards the east the us president has accused china of breaking the deal ahead of further trade talks donald trump promised to more than double tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods china says it's ready to retaliate. by the way you see the chair because it broke that. they broke the law. so they're flying in the vice premier tomorrow good man but they're broke. they can't do that so they'll be paying. we don't make the deal nothing wrong with take it in over one

hundred billion dollars a year. and then we never did that before we won't back down to jail john. workers and stealing their jobs and that's what's going to happen otherwise we don't have to do business with them we don't have to do business we could make the product right here if we have to like we used to. like we used to the syrian government has recaptured a town in northwest from opposition forces. it was the second town to fall in the past week the nearby town of those captured on wednesday government forces are pushing ahead with the offensive which is now in its second week. and votes are being counted in south africa's general election twenty five years after its transition from apartheid to democracy it's seen as the toughest test yet for the governing party the party of the late president nelson mandela voters have expressed frustration about corruption unemployment and racial inequality. those

are the headlines on al-jazeera faultlines is coming up next then it's the news hour with. she an amazing kid. she was just. always trying to help others. and i don't think tottered take care of herself. so it's ten years on and there's you're still searching you're still searching the streets. here. across the united states indigenous families are searching for their loved ones. for closure and would tell each other what do you think she said this was. just me

cry for help it she prayed. show. in body. and searching for answers why their family members were taken from them. but ones traveled across the u.s. to look at what's behind the crisis of indigenous women going missing. and ask what more can be done to stop it already with good. food good news or what are. i mean we're. the. we've come to camp in washington just south of seattle. tina russell is showing us some of the places where she's going to

search for her niece alyssa so we had search parties do all this area over here this was because i actually had a dream i found her body back there why do you keep the fliers in the car and i never know when i need to make copies of meet somebody i'm talking about to listen and i'm a flyer sometimes it's just a beach in a park me i'm not going to go to the beach and just walk along the beach or i don't know flyers and then when. it's been just over ten years since alyssa's family saw or heard from. she was twenty one and so you have the red dress yes so i made this red dress and eventually going to put a charm on and put it on a skirt that i'm making for myself right now. knows you and that is the cutest good to ever actually did not like this because she did not appreciate whatever joy because i had to you know it was a kid out of time for the family back then what about alyssa's mother was dying alyssa's here in this is it was his brother henri. we knew she

wasn't going to be there much longer. i told the list talked to her on the phone she was like ok. i'm on my way. and she in all the years her mom was sick she was always there she would just go somewhere and be. not show how. she might be like she. that was the last time barbara anyone from the fair. spoke to her. a few days later alyssa's mother died and there was still no word from alyssa everything happened so fast with my sister being. it's like there were so many we were just thrown into a turmoil too many witnesses come forward there was no witness the said that they

saw alyssa talking to somebody in a green truck with a place. that was one of the only leads that turned up after alyssa was last heard from a witness said they saw her talking to a man in a green truck at this intersection. another important development in the case was that the camp police received a nine one one call from the cell phone. the night when it turned out to. sergeant tim ford was one of the original detectives on melissa's case and heard the nine one one call it almost like sounded like. the call cut and police were unable to pinpoint a location just really bothers anyone and i want to know when you listen to it you know when you're out you can hear her voice go. maybe go out and i remember. bothers me that we would never ever get any credible. evidence pointing to anybody

and. with no answers from authorities the family including alyssa's little brother jim are are left wondering what happened last friday. and. if she's still alive or gone every time somebody they find a body every single time there's a body found on the news there's a pos. it's literally like you're dead for a moment because you have to wonder is it a list i think of called the corner more than. anybody should in a lifetime. the family can only search wait and hope including alyssa's daughter who was only three years old when she went missing she had this big string of beads and she would hang it on the door selling case her mom came home she could hear the beats rattle. we don't know what happened so we can't.

for relatives of people who go missing finding closure is often impossible. and stories like alyssa's are all too common in the united states where native americans go missing at a disproportionately high rate. two hours away from where alyssa was last seen is the optimum nation. very thing and worth. the pain in her. words. but in this. place to. help others. i mean his rights know i have

a problem here here we are not in it and it hurts. and you know me and i have this. letter from the army next. mr pratt her family member today this is about our community or family our loved one here. people are meeting here to raise money for the search efforts of risen to strong a thirty one year old mother of four who went missing and october she didn't mention the word we are going to tell. but. i'm going to be her voice. across the country indigenous communities have been trying to draw attention to cases like reason. you can't really give them anybody else here that is here and there are still there. but advocates and family members have started to raise awareness about the high rates of violence the disproportionately impact indigenous

communities. part of the problem is that government agencies don't have comprehensive data on how many people in the us are missing we can't solve problems we don't have. we can't prevent violence that we don't bother to pay attention to the anita lucchese is a doctoral student who has built a database to keep track of how many indigenous women in the u.s. and canada are missing and have been murdered whatever information we get is just kind of handed to us with no context or explanation and there's never any opportunity to include us in that data collection or analysis process so really what we're trying to do is find and gather as much information as possible to support times the native communities in making you know effective data driven decisions on how to protect our women and girls in need as documented over one thousand five hundred cases in the u.s.

dating back to one thousand nine hundred seventy five percent of the cases of just from the past two decades people ask me a lot you know why or why or why are native women going missing or being murdered what's the reason and the reality is unfortunately there is no one reason i think the one unifying factor would be colonialism and i'm going call your occupation it teaches people whether you know native or non-native it teaches folks to undervalue native women to see us as less than human to see us as exotic and sexy and easy to use and abuse when you talk to family. are there any commonalities in their experiences with law enforcement i think you know why in general commonality that most families experience is that law enforcement. are not helpful especially in the beginning hours when it matters the most so whether someone has gone missing or has been killed. usually there's very little communication

with families families are often not made to feel as if they're being heard and i know that these banks are a mess. this thing making. personal. and made. this why wait. you know. every family who has somebody who's missing or who has experienced that at one point or another they know the scale and the magnitude of that crieff and confusion and frustration that comes with the process of trying to search and advocate for a missing loved one imagine that ten fold fifty fall of a million like we don't know. the ripple effect is so much becker than any of us

are even able to measure. in the backyard. i would hope there are people over. because she always used to be of the matter what time of day it was my to be up here. the biggest one. we've always lived through and i'm back yard but that's where we would. we wouldn't hear her but we'd hear her by. one of the most important things law enforcement can do when someone goes missing is to act quickly. that didn't happen in the case of fourteen year old he scott on the northern cheyenne reservation in montana

she was this place this ball of light that was just. the last time her mother paula spoke to her it was a friday evening last december and he called to ask if she could go to a basketball tournament and i told her no i mean you can't you're grounded. and she said ok i'll be home in a bit tonight so last i heard. when he didn't come home. all of first took to social media to ask if anyone had seen her. five days later she and her husband nathan went to their local law enforcement the bureau of indian affairs or b i a a federal agency the reason why i was down there is reaching out to them is because i needed help to look out where. and when they told me you know did you check her friend's house or maybe scan the boyfriend did you check their. i check

there that's why i'm here because i need more help looking out where. it's not clear where even if the police searched for honey but what pollinating do know is that an alert wasn't issued for her until two weeks after they reported her missing. by that point the family had organized a volunteer search party to a far. distance from birds going up and down like that it. was a search party is for someone so another search for someone so. we walked down to you know. like a small small. that's one like. that feeling you know i'm trying to find you know and to find someplace for. when it got dark they called of the search for the night with plans to resume in the morning so that that's when they found. they found.

where i went down the ravine. the founder of towards the house maybe able to fifty yards for more i was. and this fall like i should've went there you know. what i know you don't need. to do woman is you know. in the may brought her down to that building where we were they'd just like open the back of that suburban she was already in a body bag and they dislike us stand beside their have a moment. paula nathan told us there have been few answers from authorities since he was found i believe by i wasn't taken seriously

that if i had been that she would be here. i. see kids and little ones. that are that it hurts the most. i just like last night and. riva girl was described you know. and she said you know this was from within my heart hurts you know me or my heart is breaking. because i moved. the bureau of indian affairs declined our request for an interview citing the open investigation which is being conducted by the f.b.i. . but we get through. to get through the law because it's hard but it is our. but you know.

we want justice to be served. we want. we want the process to work for us. but getting justice for hanny might not be easy fighting violent crime and achieving justice on reservations is complicated due to a collision of different factors. one is that most tribal police departments are understaffed and under-resourced now reservation with the white threat and. this is greg we've come to the navajo nation the largest native nation in the united states these are their spot forty thousand people that when in this little bit you cover. and that's based on the last census from two thousand. and five for more now and that's where you know if i get a call. you know that's

a good hour after i get. the navajo nation stretches across three states new mexico arizona and utah. and its police force is spread thin we do investigations we try to get as much done right then and there but sometimes we do. you need to go back and do follow ups and try to go back and visit people find people but then were stowed on a regular patrol duty on a given night like this we're just going to go from call the call the call. another factor is that tribes don't have jurisdiction over non-native americans for all crimes aside from domestic violence a recent change but beyond that they also have limited sentencing power even over members of their own nation for major crimes including homicide assault and kidnapping what this means is that addressing violent crime is primarily in the

hands of the federal government in the late nineteenth century the federal government imposed itself on tribal nations unsaid. basically we don't trust you to police yourselves and pass laws that allow them to come into indian country and do crime control it was imposed it wasn't a request the tribal nations and yet that still the law today that governs when a family is going through a crisis and i think the way to system is set up is that if federal doesn't take it for whatever reasons then we still can prosecute tribal court for it but the maximum we could they could be given is a year prison up to five thousand dollars fine for for what a year in prison and a five thousand dollar that's the maximum we could do for any or like for the homeless a charge on the tribal level that's to match them right there you would all rather . go at the the federal level with the f.b.i.

and cia. the problem with the federal authority is that there has there been a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously typically federal officials or federal criminal authority is interested in you know white collar crime and terrorism and immigration and major drug trafficking rings so when they hear oh you need to go investigate a domestic violence offense there's a sense culturally in the in the department that that's not my job i have more more important things to do than worry about what's happened to one indian woman four and a half hour drive away. the week for justice is something valley and knows too well. her older sister ariel went missing in the summer of twenty seventeen she was twenty six. just

a few months later her remains were found in the canyon below this bridge in arizona. this is where my sister was found. i don't know where my mom was so when i just started putting flowers here to remember her and just to get a piece of where she was last found right where she lost her breath like gas. it's difficult to know that. this is no nuns the bridge to my family someone that used to call. her sister you know was known as just the bridge. even though it's been a year and a half since ariel was found value told us they only know what they hear from whispers in the community these are that. she was thrown off. the people responsible will back down there and cutter and half. to burn her lower part of the body and we will have reports that you find that out from the from the

f.b.i. or did somebody else tell you that i'm. just rumors you don't hear stuff directly from the f.b.i. or they say yeah. it was nearly a year before ariel's remains were returned to value the family. by that time their mother jack one had passed away it impacted her the words she used to press she would call me and she bit me when you do. nothing mom what are you doing well what mobi have to branch i'm spending time with your sister. at one point value says investigators suggested ariel had taken her own life misled what do you know what happened you found people won't get it will be they will go rethink it suicide and the world suicide is weak that's long apostles' long since she had no reason to kill herself when she was excited for my pregnancy and to meet the baby so my told

no. a lot of stuff to look for. love to consult with my grampa there's only one that can get him to take a selfie who's this that's my son. she had him shared a close relationship you know. since that initial meeting with authorities there's been no answers only questions as to what really happened to ariel the f.b.i. but. she just tells me that there isn't much evidence. of some of her own mom and. a lack of evidence is the main reason federal officials give for declining to prosecute crimes on reservations that shouldn't be the end of the discussion. there should be then a ok let's see what went wrong in this case why the years no evidence or why the evidence isn't good enough and make sure that doesn't happen again rather than just

repeating the cycle over and over and over. the f.b.i. declined to speak with us about ariel's case citing the open investigation justice at this point just seems really are you know. i want justice for my sister but it just seems like the person up there is still up there around their daughters sisters aunts. he could do it again but he thinks that no one can. convict him of the crime that he did. behave just want to see him off the streets you know i don't know who he is. that's all i want. one thing that's helped dahlia and other families we spoke with mr talk about their loved ones so people know who they were and what happened to them she was a beautiful person and she cared and loved everyone. and she wanted the best for everybody. some states and federal officials have started to take action.

new legislation is being proposed with the goal of tracking how many indigenous men and women have gone missing and to find solutions. it's a small step but it's one that families. can prevent others from experiencing the loss they had asked. for her to be that you know on. the basis tarp breaking. i don't know what ever recover from their. after beautiful its. business said choose another who. is gone. show us just love in the. cause. that brought

a movement that. needs to be judged. not only in this state but if you were in the country. oh i'm one of the fortunate ones that got to find my girl and bring her home there's some ladies out there that. have never found red daughters or sons and never got to bring them home. the way people don't know what you're going to get inside but there are so many expectations of you you'd like to just move on with life you can't. nobody has sold the room glowed with the hand as a close was given in facts and that's what it's the one is inside of our hearts if in fact it is poison our spirits it's causing most so much trauma. we have to keep searching for her we can't let. anything stop us because if we don't look cool

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. china president. will be imposed on friday. in south africa's national elections in what's being seen as a major test for the governing a.n.c. . and spalt. with a last minute goal. against i.x. to set up an all english champions league final with liverpool. welcome to the news that e.u. leaders have rejected a sixty day ultimatum issued by iran to fulfill promises under the twenty fifteen nuclear deal in the joint statement they also criticize the u.s. decision to reimpose sanctions after it pulled out of the iran agreement last year the us president has implemented new restrictions targeting teheran's metals industry which is the second largest source of revenue after oil on wednesday iran

rolled back nuclear restrictions but stopped short of violating its twenty fifteen deal with world powers president hassan rouhani has threatened to step up your reigning in enrichment of tehran doesn't get relief from sanctions within the next two months now we'll get the latest reaction from to iran in a moment but first let's go over to paris and the tasha butler natascha the european union and its signatories of the j c p a way were very clear in their response to the iranian ultimatum but really they're caught between a rock and a hard place aren't they. well european powers increasingly feel caught in the middle between the united states and iran as tensions escalate between the two now the e.u. have put out this statement saying that as far as they are concerned that they reject any ultimatums given by iran and what they're referring to of course is

tehran's assertion on wednesday that the e.u. has and other european powers the basically has sixty days to come up with some sort of plan to help iran bypass u.s. sanctions impact that those sanctions are having on iran's economy well european powers obviously saying look it's for us to draw our own boundaries assess our own limitations they are saying that they perhaps don't want to be dictated to if you like by iran and for european powers this is particularly frustrating because as they say in the statement they have said over and over again that they do support the iran nuclear deal signed in twenty fifteen and they've been doing everything they can to try and save it they criticized the united states pulling out of it a year ago and for imposing sanctions now e.u. leaders are currently meeting in remain your ass an e.u. summit there and we just heard from the french president about omaha who arrived

and he repeated this he said look you know the e.u. has always supported the deal and he said even though we are working with iran on other areas such as their ballistic missiles program you know fundamentally we support this still we want to try and save it how easy that will be though it will be hard to tell and there's no doubt that iran that wasn't on the agenda at this summit before certainly is now and you can imagine the e.u. leaders are going to have to come up with some sort of plan and some sort of way forward because the situation and the deal itself is looking increasingly fragile over the moment really with the transfer of course as the day progress let's go over to. joins me now obviously the statement makes the position very clear. but how do you sort of expect riyadh or how do we expect iran to react because they were talking about procedural changes teheran were you telling them to stick with it without sort of countering as natasha said that u.s. position instigated the breakdown.

absolutely iranian leaders since the announcement yesterday prop president hassan rouhani of last in cooperation with the nuclear deal itself have said all along that they are not leaving the deal entirely but what they are doing is a countermeasure a reciprocal move to what the united states has done by exiting the deal a clear violation of internet and international agreement last year by exiting the deal the united states has in a sense forced iran's hand to do something they said they've been strategically patient they've waited a year before doing this they've been dealing with the deal slowly frame for over a year and now iranians say that whatever they've decided what the what the e.u. is characterizing as an ultimatum they would characterize as a countermeasure as an instrument within the deal itself that they are simply using as part of their rights to be able to do so let me read you a statement from the deputy foreign minister abbas iraq's you spoke late last night reinforcing what a lot of senior leaders in iran had been saying throughout the day she said we have

scaled down our commitments to the j c.p.o. a this is our right to do so we take advantage of the instruments in the nuclear deal to remain in the j c p o a but he says and this is a this is a fine point this could be a precursor to some actions that iran may be taking in the future he said but leaving that deal is on the agenda that remains on the table but we will do that gradually so the message here is that iran still could leave the deal it is the path it is down now but they would be willing to turn around if other signatories to the deal fulfill their obligations of helping iran to cope with the financial loss that it's based in the face of the u.s. oil and banking sanctions and of course the banking sanctions and those sanctions continue that they set me on wednesday we saw president talk about sanctions on metals how's that going to actually affect iran as well. yes the runs the metal industry is a very very formidable one or it was up until sanctions that have hurt iran by the

united states over the last year or more now one of the biggest clients for iranian raw materials was europe the second was china now the impact in terms of practical impact that this may mean for iran really as far as european clients are concerned banking sanctions may have already had that impact may have already limited how many companies in europe were purchasing well materials from iran how many companies in europe were selling materials to iran but china is currently in a trade war with the united states has pledged its support for on a number of occasions as well as yesterday in support of rouhani is announcements of pulling back its commitments to the nuclear deal and china remains a very important ally for iran in the region so really the practical measures that this these sanctions the practical impact that they might have on iran's trade of raw materials that impact may have already been felt as far as europe is concerned as far as china is concerned it has said that it will continue to deal with iran

and does not recognize america's you know not all sanctions against it for them but we'll leave it as a. thank you. well as the u.s. ramps up pressure on iran world powers are continuing to stick by the nuclear deal chapeltown seen as more the global reaction. like the sanctions on iranian oil that were recently toughened by the tropical destruction the new sanctions target the fun's not just of those with iran who operate in the on steel aluminum copper sectors but also those who engage in the international trade in iranian metals around the world donald trump said nations were on notice quote allowing iranian metals into your ports will no longer be tolerated and quote the us secretary of state was in london when he called for unity among u.s. allies against iran we're on the same side we're on the side of the use 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 it was impossible to escape the truth it is the u.s.

that is remagen only un ratified treaty that was working 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 shared security interests a message underlined elsewhere so that. for a 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 ago the us decided to pull out from the deal and not respect it. china approves of the way that iran has carried out its duty to comprehensively fulfill the agreement we oppose the unilateral sanctions implemented by the u.s. and its so-called long jurisdiction. even in washington members of congress and commentators usually only too happy to criticize terror on all deeply skeptical of

the trump administration's recent claims of an imminent threat from iran particularly once a transpired that the u.s. aircraft carrier group that had been deploying to the middle east had. been heading there anyway despite national security adviser john bolton's presentation on sunday of an escalation of u.s. conflict in this in the region but around the on wednesday the president repeated his contention that he's not interested in more but simply to renegotiate and unfortunately just today. i felt compelled to authorize new sanctions on iran gyre and steel along with them and copper industries. because i hope to be able at some point maybe it won't happen possibly want to sit down and work out a fair deal we're not looking to hurt anybody we want to fair deal we just don't want them to have nuclear weapons that's all we want but a fear is being expressed that some interims of ministration are attempting to go much further she ever turns out a zero washington alexi political fence

a middle east expert on the russian international affairs council joins me now from moscow good to have you with us on the program so the e.u. along with france germany and britain making their position very clear when it comes to dealing with tehran that ultimatum as they see it russia has made its position very clear on wednesday as well does it have a next move. well it's quite logical step for iranians to actually. increase the pressure on the europeans by saying that they will. basically stop implementing the deal part of the deal and giving them sixty days because the members who negotiated the iranian deal in fact for the last several months. giving just empty promises of the speed to be launched the mechanism which will help iran to bypass sanctions to keep

trading with europe. which is also part of the deal so on that never came the reality and this is why iran now trying to basically increase the pressure on europeans to make them find a way to decide whether they can implement the political will and find a lounge that mechanism which can help iran to. keep trading keep its economy afloat and as a. consequence to also keep with the deal yeah i understand that but how does it actually impact on russia because obviously russia is watching how the e.u. is reacting and russia is standing by teheran at every step of the way how will trading between iran and russia impact all the rhetoric that is coming out of washington d.c. they will obviously be watching very closely well the first thing.