here when i'll just say. iran says it will increase production of low level uranium and sells the u.s. it will only talk when the time is right. hello again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.n. says it may need to cut back aid to parts of yemen and its blaming the who's the rebels. venezuela's president calls for early elections and the opposition led national assembly. also had the formula one legend niki lauda has died at the age of 70 when.

the iranian president hassan rouhani has come out saying he favors diplomacy but the current situation is not suitable for talks with the united states on monday iran announced its quadrupled the rates of production of low enriched uranium that comes a week after it said it was ending some of its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal patty cooling reports. leaving the white house president donald trump says he's willing to talk to iran's leaders when they are ready while seemingly downplaying a potential threat iran would be making a very big mistake if they did anything if they do something it will be met with great force but we have no indication that they will. but his administration just weeks earlier had said it had intelligence that iran could attack u.s. forces or its allies sending in an aircraft carrier to the gulf earlier than planned along with bombers and missiles even evacuating some of its dip. matic

personnel from iraq perhaps in response iran announced monday it's quadrupled its production of enriched uranium still at a much lower level that could be used for a weapon the capacity of the country's enriched product through some technical modifications has been increased by nearly 4 times without i've been any new changes or centrifuges the design information related to this has been submitted to the international atomic energy agency and still some analysts say there are signs of a potential diplomatic breakthrough and there is an urgency for diplomacy and maybe the signs in terms of the omani of foreign minister traveling today to iran and discussing some regional issues and oman has played a kind of a mediating role between the u.s. and iran in the past so maybe this is a good sign the u.s. president has sent mixed messages on iran but this is a man who prides himself on making deals and so far he's been able to find one in

his foreign policy now saying he's ready to talk if you runs leaders only ask patty calling al-jazeera washington. iran is the u.n. secretary general to help facilitate a diplomatic dialogue to ease what is called the quotes alarming security situation in the gulf region to go to james bays is following those developments from the united nations. the letter which is being sent to the current president of the un security council indonesia and to the un secretary general antonio good terrorist talks about the alarming security situation in the gulf it doesn't mention the us by name but it says currently in action is creating a lose lose situation instead it's proposing using a un security council resolution for more than 30 years ago to create a new mechanism for talks between the gulf states and iran the proposal by iranian

ambassador tart proviron she is one that shows iran is pursuing diplomacy is trying to be reasonable at the same time though coming up with a procedure that would cut the u.s. out of any negotiations it has already been welcomed by the russian ambassador we fully support the need to do. something good version of regional security architecture which would eventually wolf in the larger 4 months but the immediate need to have a venue for much work to discuss good regional issues ambassador added he thought it was likely the security council would talk about the current tension between iran and the u.s. in the near future the talks are due to continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders and after breaking up for a 2nd day the question of who should lead the new governing body does remain

a key sticking point protesters say they will keep on demonstrating on the streets of khartoum until a civilian led governments installed talks between the 2 sides were stopped for 3 days while the demonstrators removed roadblocks they put up in the capitol hill morgan with more now from khartoum. people in front of the army headquarters in sudan's capital hard terms say that they're disappointed that the opposition coalition at the. aeration of freedom and change and the transitional military council could not reach a deal yet again now the 2 sides could not agree on the sovereign presidential council the military council has been saying that it wants to be the one chairing that body and it wants either equal representation or military majority in that presidential council but the opposition coalition are saying that if that happens and if they agree to it then the transitional period will be led by the military and that's not something that they or the protesters in front of the army headquarters are asking for they're saying that it should be led by civilians and should have a civilian majority so that's one thing to do sides could not agree on there's also

the issue of the rule now the opposition coalition wants it to have a ceremonial role with oversight from the legislative assembly which it will have 2 thirds of the seat but the military council is saying that it wanted to be the one that presidential council to be the one having oversight over the transitional period so that point of contention and the fact that the 2 sides could not reach a deal shows that a once again they have a lot of things to talk about as thousands in front of the army headquarters to continue with this that and they say they've already listened to the military council and that they remove the roadblocks and they've offered some concessions so they want to see what comes next and they also say they're waiting for the opposition coalition to decide what comes next as well and if there should be a next escalation to try to put pressure on the military council or whether they should wait for further talks which may produce results or may not present produce results. the u.n. says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen under control it blames the rebels for blocking aid convoys interesting stuff but it says the suspension of aid would be

a last resort meanwhile markets are very opened in the port city of data as a fragile cease fire holds manoli with more. life is trickling back into this market place the yemen's port city of hard data as people buy goods without fear of snipers and aerial bombardment residents are hopeful as a fragile cease fire between saudi forces and who the rebels hold at least for now at a minimum a lot of their own money we hope the u.n. and boys will continue working until the roads and ports are open in her data to let aid and supplies enter they need to be delivered to the people so they have enough to live. this month with the forces withdrew fighters from the ports of her data sally from rough under a deal brokered by a un led committee the start calm agreement was established between rival

combatants in december but after 2 similar agreements failed the ceasefire was fragile and sporadic fighting continued. for now it's holding but both sides of the ramping up rhetoric after saudi led coalition warplanes bombed the rebel held capital sama killing 6 people including 4 children this is after hooty drone strikes on a key oil pipeline to the west of the saudi capital riyadh i can tell you that we are following with great concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in yemen over the past days recalling the initial positive steps taken in the implementation of the dado agreement we are encouraged by the firm commitment reiterated by president hadi and the government to implement the agreed. the world food program may also suspend aid deliveries to rebel controlled yemen because of harassment from the fighters in a statement the un agency said humanitarian workers in yemen

a being tonight access to the hungry aid convoys being blocked and local authorities have interfered with food distribution who day to port is the entry point for the bulk of imported goods and humanitarian aid to the war torn nation. but with aid organizations responsible for distributing food to millions of people across yemen the task of reaching yemenis on the brink of starvation appears speak getting a lot harder. a manly al-jazeera. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has proposed holding elections for the opposition controlled national assembly the next isn't due until late 2020 at least a dozen assembly members from the opposition the been stripped of legislative immunity in recent weeks and face charges of treason and subversion now that coincides with talks held in the u.s.

between pentagon officials and representatives of the opposition. in america and with more from caracas. president nicolas maduro has said many many times over the last few months that he is willing one fact that he wants to bring forward elections for the national assembly the only institution that he does not control so that in and of itself is not new what's new is the context there have been exploratory talks between the government and the opposition. in norway nothing supposedly had come of this but now president says that he is willing to quote speak to the devil if that will bring peace now the devil of course that he's referring to is the opposition leader but it's not clear that wants to talk to him. because he has 3. demands which he says are not negotiable and that is for. resign for there to be a transition government and for elections to be held but not just for the national

assembly but for all of the institutions of the country starting with the presidency so it's not clear at all whether this latest suggestion is really going to fly and whether it will work at all to try to unlock this deadlock in the news year's election commission president has one last month's elections with 55 percent of the vote one more than 85000000 of the 154000000 votes cast in the world's biggest democracy his rival. he will challenge the election result hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the white house in the trumpet ministrations not to pull out of syria. the u.s. should remain engaged in the conflict citing deep concerns and threats to regional allies democrats and republicans have been worried about the administration's foreign policy. decided to pull u.s. forces from syria in december. gunmen have cut off

a key water pipeline supply in the libyan capital tripoli the u.n. says it could amount to a war crime water supplies in the city and the surrounding areas are now suspended and people there are relying on private deliveries tripoli is home to at least a 1000000 people has been under siege since early april after launched a military campaign to take the city things 500 people have since been killed. yesterday an armed group storm tripoli's main water distribution station and has reportedly closed the water valves supplying tripoli and other cities in the north west of the country including got a on and i was away potentially impacting 2000000 people and their access to water some districts in tripoli already experiencing low water pressure and it is expected that the full impact will be felt in the coming days unless the valves are reopened were supplied to tripoli has already been impacted prior to yesterday as maintenance staff at the facilities were evacuated for security reasons due to the

ongoing fighting still to come here on al-jazeera argentina's former president goes on trial for corruption we look at the impact it could have on the future political ambition. component of the democratic republic of congo but not everyone is happy to see popular politician returning from exile. hello again it's good to have you back well we are seeing some off and on showers here across parts of iran and you can see the clouds here on the satellite image that will continue through the mid week but we don't expect any of them to be too intense at times plenty of cloud so across much of the area also a lot of humidity is starting to come up so the temperatures are see here the heat index is. a little bit warmer than that over here towards baghdad though 38 degrees

and warm and dry conditions there and as we go towards mid week we do expect to see the winds continue out of the northwest where the temps there of about 39 degrees where here cross the gulf we are seeing our relative humidity in doha quite high for this time of year making it uncomfortable with the temple here of 36 degrees but the big problem across the region is actually the thunderstorms that we have been seeing across parts of oman yemen as well causing some localized flooding across the region we do expect that continue as we go towards wednesday and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we did have one from about to push through durban that brought some rain as well as some clouds but by the time we get towards wednesday things are going to be approving across much of the area more sun time just coming up to about $23.00 degrees in capetown we are looking much better there at 18 in johannesburg a temperature of $21.00 degrees for you. on

counting the cost as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on iran we look at the strait of hormuz the most valuable waterway in the world tourism industry takes a hit after the easter sunday attacks and flying cars as the future just a rough. cost. this is the opportunity to understand the very different way where there is we don't leave. you're watching al-jazeera live from the piece or dobby these are your headlines the iranian president hassan rouhani has said he favors diplomacy with the us

however the current situation is not suitable for talks on monday iran announced its quadrupled its rate of production of low enriched uranium. talks continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day the issue of who should lead the new governing body does remain a key sticking point. the united nations says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen under hoofy control that blames rebels for blocking aid convoys and house and staff but says the suspension would be a last resort. congolese opposition politician. is due to address his supporters after returning from exile and spent almost 3 years in belgium after falling out with the former president joseph kabila. his return home coincided with a visit by the french foreign minister will meet with the current president's is

catherine sort. boys good to his return from exile across his hometown of new going to a standstill. tens of thousands of supporters while the airports to welcome him. he fled the country in $10.00 to $16.00 affording out with former president joseph kabila whose government accused him of corruption and herring mass neris to overthrow the states while in exile the centers to 3 years in prison for property fraud that conviction was struck last month allowing him to retire in a scandal that we are very happy our leader is back with thanks pleased that security for making this possible they want to do to to work together to fix our country that once somebody will concentrate on florida we will follow his data on the country's politics to be has held presidential ambitions but was barred from contesting in last year's election while govern out the mineral rich katanga

province between 262015 he faced allegations of abusing his power to expand his wealth in mining and transport he's always denied this the people of maybe the was was well if it was alex the that he was any closer to the bottom that would look like your police he comes back on the day president felix just security made a prime minister ending months of speculation and insight into what the late process 73 year old silver stay longer has served in 3 previous government a former president has of kabila fee's late father and the late mobutu says the sec all until his appointment he was managing to. director of the ailing national railways company a loyal member of cabalists political party and comes from the former president's

home region. in liberal bashing the message from a to b. to his supporters was clear he told them he's back to defend the constitution of people he's a political rivals that forced him to flee catherine so i al-jazeera. south east. south africa's former president jacob zuma has appeared in court as he tries to get corruption charges against him dropped despite facing those charges he danced in front of his supporters outside the courthouse his one year presidency ended in 2018 and was forced to resign by his governing african national congress party made allegations he received payments from a french company for water contract in the late 1990 s. . and u.s. judges ruled that congress should have access to president donald trump's financial records the charge will democrats have the right to investigate the president without opening formal impeachment proceedings kristensen me has more from me in pennsylvania. president tried to stress the country's economic growth and

lower unemployment and something out his brownie but on the way here he said he was disappointed in the federal judge's decision not to run a request from the house oversight committee with the financial records from him and his oldest children minds record numbers of how to. use 7 pounds of pursuing his family because they're upset about the report and spiny they say it's sad that this was a wrong decision on the part of an obama appointed judge to talk about that here in pennsylvania nor did he say much about the fact that a hearing will be taking place in washington d.c. it's hard but now that more news. late in the day that john mccain former white house attorney not testifying has been blasted by congress

without a doubt he is not testifying out of respond with the president's struction earlier the president that publicly that they. want him to testify and he got what he wanted the president's comments during the response from sharing that with the chairman of the house judiciary committee he said that the president has shown a shocking turn of obstruction of justice in the mall or refer the president returns to d.c. with these controversies swirling around. major redundancies to be the ones that the u.s. called make up for the company's shutting $7000.00 workers at offices worldwide that's 10 percent of its salaried stuff. ford is looking to save $600000000.00 a year as it gears up to build more electric and self drive vehicles in the future . the u.s. government says a 16 year old boy from guatemala has died a border patrol station in southern texas he's the 5th migrant child to die in

custody since december i did joe castro now from washington. the government has not released details on what contributed to the death of this 16 year old boy from guatemala but what we do know is that he was apprehended while crossing the border 7 days ago since that time he spent days in 2 border patrol facilities and we suspect that he was either traveling alone or had been separated from his parents because the government said they were in the process of transferring him to another government agency that's in charge of the more longer term shelters for unaccompanied minors but before they were able to do that this morning he was discovered unresponsive and later pronounced dead now this will have been the 5th child to have died in u.s. government custody along the border in just 6 months this 16 year old boy had been staying in facilities that were intended to hold children for no longer

than 72 hours these are the places where we've seen those images of children sleeping in what looks like cages without beds laying on the concrete floor although it's too early to say what contributed to his death we know that last week a toddler died due to our pneumonia as well as other children who are is kept south of the border in mexico under trump's weighed in mexico policy last week as well a 10 year old girl perished in a mexico city shelter there 5 politicians have been briefly released from prison and to pick up their parliamentary credentials their temporary release comes ahead of the parliament opening session on tuesday all 5 of facing charges over their involvement in the 2017 council and independence referendum. staying in europe politicians from europe's mainstream policies are calling on voters to stand against the far right ahead of the european parliamentary elections among them is the french president emmanuel marquardt he's met with the european council

president to discuss the vote starts on thursday micro has broken with tradition and join the campaign trail. the corruption trial of argentina's former president cristina kirchner is set to begin on tuesday however stories of bono explains the trial will take place. is running for vice president in the upcoming election. now they would have us here that. she was argentina's president for 80 years from 2007 to 2015. 4 years later cristina fernandez that continues to be one of the most important politicians in the country. right now she's on trial for her alleged role in a corruption probe worth millions of dollars during her administration. lawyers likely get of the more nervous than say the links between kirshner and the businessman are a crucial part of the investigation. of the the nobody has been able to prove that

you had corruption money but what has been demonstrated is how the former president used their hotels and other places to launder illicit money. money that i legibly came ass kicked back from public works contracts from last advice a family friend who was a bank clerk turned tycoon when he 1st met the kershner family. cristina kirchner will be appearing in this courthouse regularly from now on even though she's been implicated in more than 10 corruption investigations this is the 1st case that makes a full court pristina kirschner is now a senate or still sees protected with parliamentary immunity which prevents her imprisonment but not her prosecution. since leaving office cristina kirchner and members of her government have been indicted and accused of corruption one of them was even caught trying to hide around $9000000.00 in a ministry. but the former president says she's seen a cent and

a victim of political persecution from her rival precedent. and the judiciary in argentina tends to lean towards those in power. there is political persecution there is animosity and judges pushing cases improperly against certain political figures but i believe it has to do with the justice system as a source of power and not because they are responding to those who are in government. coercion or was expected to run in the october presidential election against modi. but the former president surprised everyone on saturday when she said she would run for vice president instead i company i'll bet the farm and this a former political ally a strategic move that is supposed to help her party win more votes. this year there is fear and disenchantment with my korean suspense there are 3 different fears the

one who is afraid of christina votes for my create the one who is afraid of my create votes for christina and the one who is afraid of both is not sure who to vote for. the trial is expected to last for a year a year in which she could make it back to power once again. that is how we'll just see that were decided. 3 time formula one world champion niki lauda has died at the age of 70 the austrian driver passed away on monday 8 months after having a lung transplant lee wellings has more in his prime niki lauder was one of the most famous and fastest people in sport formula one world champion 3 times 2 of these titles came after an astonishing with coverage from a crash that almost killed him. and dressmakers lauder was born in vienna in 1949 by the age of 22 built up enough racing car experience to be part of a 1. 974 he'd been asked to drive for italian car giants ferrari.

he finished 4th for a team that had been struggling and his input to improve the car proved invaluable because in 1985 he became world champion. he was even more dominant in $76.00 until the horrific and infamous crash at the new grade in germany now that had urged his fellow drivers to boycott the rice as a safety concerns but it went ahead and on the 2nd half of the truck and burst into flames he was trapped in the wreckage suffering severe burns damage to his lungs and was left in a coma he survived severely scarred but incredibly missed just to rices he returned to do with english driver james hunt with physical and psychological scars their story after the accident i couldn't take any of it is it all because it was too bad right after i was feeling good i wanted to raise a lot of retired from the foreign advice of the season after just 2 laps concerned with it's a wrench riding hunt completed device in 3rd place to win the $76.00 drivers' title by a single point. louder did manage to reassert himself dominating the 77 season to regain

his title. when he left ferrari there was a lame period including too short a time in its. 1902 he was back winning races with mclaren and part of another famous rivalry this time with tonight alan crossed the frenchman to the 84 will drive his title by just half a point when he finally retired as a driver at the end of the 5 season there is still plenty to keep him busy he won his own airline and yes there were times he was back in the cockpit as a pilot and had 5 children by the time the 2nd wife gave birth to twins in 2009 management positions including the returns of ferrari in the ninety's and he was non-executive chairman of messiter when i signed lewis hamilton in 2012 and understandably popular figure he's left the team in mourning or. oh well you hear. part of his

legacy wouldn't be his dedication to drive a safety. the damage from the 76 crash was always there. but this time i'm trying to be some power with if we're covering a war should define. this is al jazeera these are the top stories iran's president hassan rouhani says he favors diplomacy with the u.s. but the current situation isn't suitable for talks on monday iran announced its core group pulled its rates of production of low enriched uranium reports now from washington. seems like the president is saying something a little bit different taking different tact well it's continued this monday he was leaving the white house to go to a campaign rally in pennsylvania he was asked about iran and he said that there's

no indication that iran is going to do anything to harm the u.s. interests or its allies in the region then he said if they did of course it would be met with incredible force he also said that he was willing to negotiate with iran if they're ready that they could basically give them a call but if they're not ready don't even bother. talks are due to continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day the question of who should lead the new governing body remains a key sticking point protesters say they will keep demonstrating on the streets of khartoum until a civilian led government installed. the united nations says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen areas under who flew control now it blames hoofy rebels for blocking aid convoys interesting stuff but says the suspension of aid would be a last resort. in the news year's election commission has announced president yoko would order has one last month's elections with 55 percent of the vote were won

more than $85000000.00 of the $154000000.00 votes cast in the world's 3rd largest democracy his rival proposal to be on top says he will challenge that election result hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the white house urging the trumpet ministration not to pull out of syria the bipartisan plea argues the u.s. should remain engaged in the conflict citing quote deep concerns and threats to regional allies democrats and republicans have been worried about the administration's foreign policy after president trump decided to pull u.s. troops from syria in december up next it's counting the cost after that i'm back with a quick summary of world news i will see you very soon about. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. as well you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current

affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. alarm has i'm sick of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as a u.s. strike group steams to go straight to almost we find out how important the world's oil gateway is. plus the economic cost of the terror attacks in sri lanka as violence against the muslim minority spreads. and the future of transport can this 1st 5 c. to electric flying car take on the might of google and. so the strait of hormuz is a critical waterway to the world for middle east oil and gas.