population control for objects. or department was founded at the united nations in 969 the un f.p.a. the united nations population fund through this ostensibly neutral path western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors besides the united states were sweden great britain and germany and switzerland. south korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control the country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the united states participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control being high on the agenda. yet these 4 korean women grew up in a village 200 kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that

followed. did. you know all the lands him. tell them. will he be in a little he will look like they were getting a little. relays are now to. go slow the regular. hello. to my. mom. who called me that period only i. want to also cuddle and it doesn't look like we don't really want her there may have been done. tat 3 would look at paying a male caller with all who feel divided government that the long long long road to go. in. the western family planners formed armies of

so-called health workers in cooperation with the korean government thousands of them combed the country registering fertile couples urging them to use contraception contraceptives publicly distributing that would have previously been inconceivable in south korea as well as an other parts of the world. in the in their in the womb is in the period that i actually am in the. room i let you down who are who to undergo game or who will be all your own when their. payments are to condone so on baltimore i did 2. countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units

documents show that their task was not health promotion the population council an american foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the korean ministry of health. these vehicles are given to help improve living standards in korea for bigger is attack on the problem of excessive population growth. cut it is a truly. god god allowed to eat our modern. well at the new club. the fish can only. because of his that's kill them all original. instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a citizen's duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies.

mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. western family planners flooded the country one of the pioneers was the american dr sheldon siegel he founded apartment for reproductive medicine in one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. although early versions of i.e. d.s. had fallen into disrepute in the west siegel smuggled them to india in 1964 he declared them as christmas decorations at customs and had them inserted into the utah right of women without the knowledge of the government. in

a letter he wrote. the present approach is to distribute the ones i have on hand to private gun ecologists we are also inserting some in monkey you to write my feeling is that in the long run it may be faster to quietly accumulate evidence from these sources before trying to press for wider distribution and government family planning clinics i do not want to raise the question with health minister dr yaar if the answer is likely to be negative because we would then be in a precarious position if we. pursued human studies at all. it didn't take long for the indian government to give the green light the united states agency for international development even sent non-sterile intrauterine device is to india serious complications often a rose sometimes with fatal consequences. despite this the family planners increased the pressure and the indian government

cooperated they said quotas for sterilizations an i.u.d. insertion paying doctors and health workers premiums who are an educated women were the main targets debate money and exchange for their fertility. so you have the system where people at every level were big being given money from the united states from the united nations from sweden from norway monitor a greatest sorrow zation our money to get other people to agree to sterilization even if in some cases that eventually bad rounding them are and trucking them to camps where they were sometimes sterilized under the most appalling circumstances. sheldon siegel visited one of these camps in 1962 he described it to his superior i spent sunday at

a women's sterilization camp and found it fascinating after the surgeon sows up the abdomen the ladies get off the operating table by themselves and walk out of the operating theatre i can honestly say that the operating conditions and adherence to sterility that dr and i observe in doing our hysterectomy is in monkeys for actual insertion are infinitely better yet who can argue with success. busy the situation in india got out of control in 1975 the government of india gandhi forced 8000000 women and men to undergo sterilization this dark chapter in indian history became known as emergency period .

the idea of population control what was so seductive to national leaders people like indira gandhi was the idea that they could achieve maturity in one generation and they could do it with crash programs even if it required taking some risks even if were some people were going to get hurt this was something that was going to make india a modern nation and was going to improve everyone's welfare in the long run what they didn't understand is that in many rural societies these children were their parents' only source of security in all these right and not only that but in poorer societies even children in many cases are able to support themselves and help their parents even from a relatively young age. people or places like the population council or the ford foundation they realize that parents and poor societies in many cases prefer to have songs that what they began to think was if only they had some way of helping those parents determine whether the fetus was a female or male then they might along with abortion they might have a quicker way of reducing fertility rates the head of the population council

determines a clear direction in 1967 augmented research efforts leading to improve contraceptive technologies or practical methods of determining the sex of an unborn child so that parents could be assured of the sun. in the early 1970 s. the time had finally come scientists develop chorionic villa's sampling or cbs with this method a child sex could be identified before birth. abortion was forbidden in almost all developing countries sheldon siegel and his colleagues used their connections to the highest ranks in the u.s. government and with great success. henry kissinger was u.s. president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in a $974.00 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive d.

population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. while women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are omnipresent in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like 19 year olds the jena.

and the poor law maybe said don't know a lot of. today's lives with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished shamsul sold everything travelled 2000 kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappearance to the aid organisation of nobel laureate. you know there are things that nobody can. think yeah. right. shams who was not able to accomplish anything on his own even the police turned him away several times when pressured by the aid organization the police finally took

action in the village or said gina was being held. there. a woman claiming to be mother in law pulled out a marriage certificate the shortage of women is particularly extreme in the north and indian state of. parents desperately looked for wives for their songs. you know. the village elder ultimately explained what happened to such and. got right to tell you. they're going to. you're not if you go not them other than the common are you know. the truth finally came out when the residents turned the girl over to the police the entire village had collected money to buy the jena. batchelor's she was married to one man

and abused as a sex slave by 7 others this is one of the consequences of the severe lack of women in the. city it's not an exception. traffickers go through slums looking for girls when they disappear hardly anyone goes looking for them. the traffickers are often acquaintances are neighbors. girls and women likes a gene or suffer the consequences of population policies introduced an expedited by western family planners 50 years ago in india.

pregnant woman part that she would selectively goods and have only boys so this was created by the academic medical profession promoted by a ford foundation and a lot of other in jews we tried the whole project. i think it took 30 students for a year m.b.a. . so in about 5 years there was a co-op with over few 100 people who barely whether it's a boy or girl. the gynecologist who need b.d. was trained at the same hospital where sheldon siegel carried on his research. i was told it is a project that the research going on and somebody that i think people are unable and hard to find ordered for boy or girl before but by doing every synthesis they produce a girl of course we are what. prenatal sex

determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control this way girls were aborted on mass and birth rates were just 2 fold fewer babies were being born and fewer girls they could later bear children. daughters are weeded out. in china as well one in 5 boys presently born one later not be able to find a wife mother so worried they advertise at countless marriage markets for their surplus sons in shanghai there's such a market every sunday in people's park. was

it the us that says it or where we were we shot in the gas out yeah she and that shingle man that was it would do then boy when they had a new dog do it when the. beetle was an anti it has to win by what the amato how we win new york how many of the. us it is so that they all have one is that it we seen. better you had some in city should initiate jacen says that. these are mothers who have only one son because they were permitted to have only one child this was the chinese strategy for population control. but. let me take her class. no place on the.

west. and thousands come. to relieve the strongest foster system new skills come to. the nation comes together to. ration the. stadiums would have dropped like incredible is located. the wonders of a new destination. the women's world. 20192012 al-jazeera traveled to iraq people who are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of

a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq turned into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans rewind returns to iraq after the americans on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. with a check on your world headlines u.s. president donald trump is sending 1500 soldiers to the middle east as the disputes with iran escalates their ring in foreign minister is calling the deployment a threat to international peace and security ravi has the latest from to run. rhetoric his still going up even though tensions about escalation in actual

conflict with the united states has gone down and people aren't expecting a full on fight but iranians are definitely seeing every incremental step as another step towards some sort of tension in the region 1500 in the grand scheme of things is not a very big number the united states already has tens of thousands of troops in and around the middle east and so while iranians do see this as as not a very big step they are still perturbed nonetheless iran's foreign minister zarif calling it dangerous for peace and international security and he also said that the accusations that the united states is making against iran to validate these moves are simply americans trying to justify their hostile policies and escalate tensions at least 12 people including 7 children have been killed in an air strike by the saudi emirates a coalition in the m. and a district of ties province the raid reportedly targeted a petrol station this comes a week after the whole thing's attacked an oil pipeline near the saudi capital riyadh. has been officially sworn in south africa's president at

a ceremony in pretoria he promised to tackle the economy and unemployment and to unify the country post such a cough as last year after jacob zuma resigned amid corruption allegations the african national congress won the general election earlier this month but it was the party's worst performance in 25 years an international maritime court has ruled that russia must release 3 ukrainian naval ships on $24.00 detained sailors seize the ukrainian vessels and crew last november during the standoff and waters off the crimean peninsula the ruling by the tribunal at hamburg cannot be enforced. at least 10 people have died while attempting to scale mount everest over the past few days the deaths are raising questions about overcrowding on the world's highest peak the latest casualty was a british man mountaineers from india the u.s. and austria are also among the dead those are the headlines it's back to the

politics of population control next it's the news hour also you. if you want to learn above the world might look like very serious regard 100 and hungry is in the extreme example of the predicament the whole world is going through. seems mass immigration story we had paunch question is the thing we call chores and the problem is that the culture of the news you are should say that some raid in the us is or is not comfortable with european culture this is not like food fascist. triumphal march. dreams of conquest and of global tried. this is very very uneventful glide towards the precipice without resistance we are past the danger has already happened. it was then just 10 years ago.

now this is it. affluent americans started a new movement most of them were men from well known scientists to the super rich like john d. rockefeller the 3rd together they wanted to curb the large numbers of children worldwide. so you have the system where people at every level were big it being given money money from united states from the united nations from sweden from norway funny to agree to searles ation our money to get other people to agree to sterilization prenatal sex determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control this way girls were aborted on mass. daughters are weeded out in china as well one in 5 boys presently born one later not be able to find a wife. u.s.

president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger arrived in beijing in 1972 it was a historic meeting with moussa tongue about the balance of power and the mutual commitment to world peace. there is no reason for us to be enemies. neither of us domination over the other. neither of us seek to stretch out our. and waited world. but the fear of the americans of chinese supremacy and thus the supremacy of communism was great and the fear that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable . after nixon's visit the floodgates opened for western family planners the chinese

government had a sympathetic ear for them. maoists successor deng xiaoping introduced the one child policy millions were trained as lay health workers the so-called barefoot doctors their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. an easy way of. young. family planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a 2nd child and they faced draconian punishments. the government used graffitti on building facades warning people to obey you can beat it out you can kill it you just cannot give birth to it. although the media

reported forced sterilization and abortions the west donated money to the chinese population program at 1st this only came from organizations like the ford foundation but in 1979 even the united nations population fund a $50000000.00 to the chinese government. an employee of i p p f one of the donor organizations sounded the alarm. i think that in the not too distant future this will blow up into a major press story as it contains all the ingredients for sensationalism communism forced family planning murder of viable fetuses parallels with india etc when it does blow up it is going to be very difficult to defend. but the warnings were not only nord the un population fund also presented china with an award for outstanding contributions regarding birth control who they choose to give it to it

wasn't a reproductive rights advocates you know it wasn't to people whose lives were risk because or trying to campaign to get people and especially women the right to own and control their own bodies it was just the opposite they decided to honor the leader of china's course of population control program a chinese general. you know who had presided over the most egregious period in the entire history of the program and they chose to honor indira gandhi who was responsible for what until then was the worst population program of all the emergency period program in india. why did the un population fund support countries financially that forced people to be sterilized and have abortions. you have to bring money to improve the kind of contraception. for example why you are improving the

health you also have to be in a country to be able to talk to authorities to say you have been invited us in. a better way of helping your women tell me the whole russia now for giving there are gandhi the 1st population overboard after the start was a forced sterilization a full many people as well as to the chinese. now. need to be very clear. that goes i will exact given by the united nations member states. it. struck. at that time the united states was the most important member state contributing 40 percent of the budget was the u.n. population fund simply the puppet of its benefactors.

48 years after these population policies supported by the west over 30000000 chinese men remain involuntary bachelors because of the shortage of women. this is why millions of unemployed men from rural areas move to the cities as migrant workers they aim to earn money to improve their chances of finding a bride. leapin works in a selfie stick factory near hong kong at 27 he also does not have a girlfriend yet. on your way. down there and for no it's for the let's have more than my old. employer but i've got the right. to live here paul you know that. and the way. you. have and. that song was young i mean. so you know what's.

going. on the number of continues to increase especially in the countryside chinese women prefer well off men from the city. china's problematic a lack of women will not change in the coming decades current birth records show a continued gender imbalance amongst newborns. parallel to the increased lack of women the trafficking of girls prostitution and child abductions have risen dramatically in china. is a huge the activist to un visits the parents of pan shooting

a little girl who disappeared but he has no good news there is still no trace of their 3 year old daughter. you're a young. woman come here put it off until. the mendoza got it out coming out of you you mail a. message should have a meal come us i'm off to fallujah mailshot is a commission as i'm sure and all knowledge to themselves she. hasn't been seen. the girls are often abducted by someone from the village before the child reaches the person who contracted to have are taken she will have passed through many hands with each transaction the price goes up ultimately the product girl costs roughly $8000.00 and for the buyers the deal always pays off.

but they are urging. very young daughters and. some of the irish officers under a. tough. it was a did you know someone would be yours if you keep on a very. tight here if you like in other years yada blah. so you know that you to avoid a busy are you know your for the lump of a human out of the way to high up in riyadh bio jali on io jotters or the legion of the south florida. to some mama. who wouldn't play the hoff you again find a hot young woman team in. leeds a deal need. gotos and who also neil

foss in the lot to need. to need the council on that haha the. source on high density. statistics in india show the higher the surplus of men the higher the crime rate and the number of violent crimes against women. and how the american political scientist valerie hudson lease searches and teaches the impact of this surplus of men up to bush school of government in texas. is. that. you're creating a pool of already socially disadvantaged young men who are already predisposed to challenge the established order now you deepen their grievance there

is no hope for them to finally become adult men within their society without taking more drastic action. statistically the majority of crimes worldwide is committed by young unattached men when men enter into relationships or have children the likelihood of them committing a crime decreases. valerie hudson views asia's massive surplus of men as a serious threat to global stability. when you get instability and violence and. and security and the 2 most populous nations on earth i don't see how that that can spill over into global international relations whether we're talking about the rise of china whether we're talking about the future of india as a democracy in all of these questions are affected by what's going on with the women of india and china.

meanwhile the indian government reacted and outlawed sex determination in the early 1990 s. and yet they have never been as many abortions of girls as today because with alter a sound technology sex determination has become cheap and safe. despite the ban it is only a question of money to find a doctor who is willing to break the law and reveal the gender of the unborn child . the middle class in india is growing and as expected educated indians want fewer children little has changed about the preference for sons especially in the upper class.

ameesha was 25 years old when she married a computer scientist. her father in law was a high ranking government employee. in india the bride must pay the groom's family a dowry ameesha gave her in-laws an apartment. having a son it's like winning the lottery for some people in india. my glove would look. all load on monday they give got the lady lady gave me no. god though will be book. may move would you believe that us and the media covered them with their determined doctor gets our doctor because i don't want to give up the magick questioning but the doctor just said jack up got i.r.c.

only go to iraq as a live world with a good day a month that you're going to be lowkey with the other doctor and all that arcadia my 32 someone just there to look you the way which i low level doctor will they give the word us really care and i know will be a be. that was that i was able joske about me question he would i made a boo forced me out they would tell me what you want done was working with me. art my chair about. what to me where the main marion as i plainly.

immediately you make it. pretty as they were both the media bought get the memo make a buck out of barely even if i don't watch them we don't want to guess a bigger game. or made me beat the. radical girl same with. a good the way danny there's a. city. for a woman to be cast out by her in-laws is nothing short of the societal death penalty in india. come on leave. early. as in china and india the lack of women of marriageable age in south korea has now become

a problem. you always have to live through with a little. to none that i mean doc you go. back you. have a good going home town mounted into the. rockies oklahoman behind you. is it like. a dragon and you put our cooking not law we could i knew what the. body. was you called it was. not. happy we don't know there are. a lucrative business has emerged around women as a commodity that which is missing in one's own market after decades of selective abortion is simply imported from poor a neighboring country. yes. but south korea faces another

problem nowadays south korean women do not want to have children at all lation is drastically declining once again politics has intervened with drastic measures whereas young women 60 years ago were encouraged to have abortions now it is strongly frowned upon and criminally prosecuted to terminate a pregnancy. young and wong she song 2 students from seoul recalled what they learned at school on the subject of abortion. or. for. some luck how to push an insult but. they were its own must all. put our. how do you know. who are skinny are who.

keeps the key all. the young women examine the subject of abortion for their master's thesis. soon who directed the women's development institute in seoul for 25 years is an advisor to the students. the students tracked down dubious agencies that are betrayed illegal abortions for large sums of money once again women are the victims of population policy illegal abortions bear great health risks but the south korean government holds on to the ban of abortion today their mission is offspring at all costs.

also and on take it out. to get all the. 180 i don't want a good. cook and i'm hopelessly that me on some. stuff that was the same. to south korean government has gone so far as to publish a map of seoul on the internet showing where women of childbearing age live the darker the pink color the greed of the selection for men seeking a wife. the chinese government has also noticed that a society without women will die out in the long run

a 2 child policy has been introduced in hopes of regaining a gender balance and solving the problem of an ageing population. the government is again resorting to advertisements on building facades this time it is for daughters and therefore for potential future mothers. no girls no daughters in law. the government in india is also backpedaling it also wants to motivate people to give birth to daughters there's one information campaign after another once again the indian government is offering incentives. whoever gives birth to a daughter receives $35.00 u.s. dollars and a frank you letter from the ministry of health and family welfare. the gynecologist puny baby is familiar with the pressure on pregnant women he too

performs abortions but never when it is a matter of the sex of the fetus doctor a baby does not think much of the new government programs. give me one reason whoa whoa i suppose as a guy as a woman she's pregnant who is there will want to school the day she was born she was told that she's because she's a woman and then she got pregnant in a new home with thurman are. telling her every day that you know you know. if you produce a girl. or you don't raping a boy in order to go. support no it doesn't work no ultimate solution is of course that people start to. respecting girls more than boys. they wanted to protect the world from

a population explosion but they waged war on the poor not on poverty they supported education and economic security of women birth rates would have gone down on their own instead they forced contraception sterilization and abortion. history is repeating itself the u.n. population fund still use a 60 percent of their aid fund for family planning and once again private foundations demand population reduction at the time they based their arguments on scarce resources today it is climate change. makes me nervous just as the 950 s. and sixty's it was a rockefeller and ford foundation that issued marching orders to people all over the world it makes me nervous when i hear it's the gates foundation now because of its money that's preying upon a role in global public health similar you know when back in the native fifty's and sixty's you had leaders from all over the world agreeing that population growth was

a crisis right and agree that the united nations had to implement crash programs it makes me nervous now when people talk about the crisis of climate change and how. it is who might even have to engage in crash programs. today africa is the main focus for population control the world bank and the u.n. population fund a current lee pumping millions into family planning on the 2nd largest continent and a large american corporation is supplying the ultrasound devices as in china south korea and india people in most african countries prefer sons.

the weather sponsored by qatar airways. hello there there's plenty of dry weather to be found across south america at the moment our main system well that's here over in the southern atlantic is pulling away from land and so that's taking the main focus of the rain with it so for many of us it should be fine and draw i just perhaps a handful of showers if you're unlucky around the coast of brazil rears to get to around $26.00 degrees then and 20 to force in asuncion further north across the

northern parts of brazil there are a few showers there and they stretch further north but the showers here a far heavier she is how blanket of cloud stars there of guatemala all the way down through panama and then stretches up across jamaica and across his spine yola now for many of us we need this rain it has been very dry recently but the rain is coming down very heavily and there is now a problem it's causing a problem with flooding and it's also causing a few issues with landslides the risk of seeing some landslides over the next few days have greatly increased further north is incredibly hot in the southeastern part of the u.s. at the moment so that he is going to continue as we head through the next day or so and the heat is also was helping to generate this line of very heavy thundery downpours within this we've seen yet more tornadoes and there's a chance of seeing even more as a system stays in place over the next couple of days. when sponsors. always. wants and. now settled in

towns and villages. but many are registered to decide. are 6 boards and. none of them are citizen soldiers you know. it's the great. workout on the. person's course you know that says. stateless in lebanon. are not just iraq. this is al jazeera. this is the news hour live from the headquarters in doha and the navigator coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. is sending more troops to the middle east iran's foreign minister calls it a dangerous escalation and renewed fighting on the outskirts of the libyan capital

those forces loyal to warlords khalifa haftar to try to advance and use their words the u.n. maritime tribunals orders russia to release $24.00 detained ukrainian sailors and 3 naval ships that it has seized. and improving access or a threat to privacy the controversy over kenya's new biometric id cards. at the sports qualifying is underway at the monaco grand prix favorite shalah clerk sets the pace the ferrari and final practice but is more experienced teammate hits the wall. hello the dispute between the u.s. and iran is escalating with president donald trump confirming plans to send 1500 soldiers to the middle east iran's foreign minister calls the troop deployment a threat to international peace and security trump is also bypassing congress to

sell $8000000000.00 worth of weapons to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in a moment we'll hear from same bus ravi on iran's reaction to the latest developments but 1st here's alan fischer and washington. initial reports suggested the u.s. was peering to send additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to. protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate

and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress would be given 30 days to approve foreign arm sales but it's already put a hold on earlier sales so secretary of state might pompey were decided to bypass congress and to clear the seal necessary to bolster regional allies against iran in the statement he said delaying the shipment could cause problems for a key partners during a time of increasing regional volatility he says he sees this as a one off event the state department's decision to do this implies are very intent on increasing the weapons flow to saudi arabia but they did it within what i think they would argue is politically acceptable frame i think jordan to the mix plus now of course although it may have been there originally these 3 countries together

it's looks like a more robust package of defense against iran the sale has provoked criticism from both republicans and democrats in congress but it appears there's little they can do to stop it the president insists robust u.s. action sent a clear message to iran right now no i don't think iran wants the fight and i certainly don't think they want to fight with us trump maintains he wants to strike a new nuclear deal with iran having pool the u.s. out of the existing deal he's cranked up tough financial sanctions to force them to reopen discussions alan fischer washington let's cross over to his joining us from a to what is the view from iran to the increased u.s. rhetoric zone and as well as the plans to send more u.s. troops to the region. well in the grand scheme of things it has to be said that 1500 more additional american troops in the middle east is relatively speaking not

a very big number the united states already has tens of thousands of active service men all across the middle east and so this additional force while it is symbolic while it is something that iranians are watching very closely it is relatively small it is not an offensive force it is by nature a defensive force that is in the numbers previous american presidents in previous ongoing combat missions in and around the middle east have done troop increases numbering in the 10s of thousands so this is a relatively small figure having said that iranians both civilian and military leaders are watching every single incremental step that the united states is making in the region very very closely foreign minister zarif calling this latest escalation a dangerous step forward in destabilizing factor for international peace and security and he said that the latest accusations against iran that the united states has made is only to justify these moves in the middle east and all these moves are designed to escalate tensions we've also heard from military leaders that

have said that if the united states tries to may carry out any sort of as he characterized it stupid move in the region that the that the iranian military forces the islamic revolutionary guard corps could respond by sinking its warships we've heard rhetoric like that in the past but again it is escalating at a time of escalating tensions yeah and then on that no it's i mean what iran realistically do in the face of the american press or. well in terms of a military response iran has said that it does not want to conflict but it will respond if provokes and so they have been shoring up their defenses so to speak in terms of any kind of diplomatic dialogue iranian leaders have ruled out unequivocally across the board and the sort of conversation with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but having said that we have been seeing reports that there are lines of communication with other leaders in the united states

a report that's been circulating in iran earlier today was that during his recent visit to new york foreign ministers of odds are if met with u.s. senator dianne feinstein she's a democratic senator she sits on the house intelligence committee and they did have a meeting to discuss the ongoing tensions now the iranians are very keen to point out to their own people that this does not mean that they're carrying out any kind of negotiations they have in some ways painted themselves into a corner politically saying they would not need to really go sheet the nuclear deal they will not negotiate with us president donald trump and to that end they have tried to sort of explain why the foreign minister met with an american senator the spokesman for the foreign minister abbas mousavi issued a statement earlier today in which he said it's been more than 2 decades that in order to clarify the policies of the islamic republic talks and meetings have been held with the non governing political elites of the united states these people are not governing figures nor are they authorized to negotiate iranian officials have

not and will not negotiate with them so while they are keen to maintain some sort of communication with people they feel like they can talk to in the united states iranian still pointing out that they are not negotiating any sort of new agreement with the united states ok as a thank you so as a was just reporting u.s. media is saying that iran's foreign minister and that member of the senate intelligence committee met several weeks ago mohammad javad zarif and senator dianne feinstein are reported to have had dinner when he was in washington let's bring in see how town scenes are running us from washington d.c. so same was saying what they re in the iranians are trying to downplay this meeting see what are you hearing from your ands about it. well certainly the administration the trump of ministration would seem to be supporting that iranian line that this is nothing to do with some back channel negotiation trying to influence it's the trumpet ministration because that condemning condemning this

dinner is adding to the talking points that we have from mike compare the secretary of state donald trump and others which we've had for a year or so that members of the democratic party members of the former obama administration are going behind the administration's back in trying to undermine u.s. u.s. foreign policy and the intrigue is getting deeper because at least one right wing publication here in the u.s. says the state department told them that in contradiction to what dianne feinstein's office said that they didn't clear this dinner with drugs or have died by the side of the office and said look we told the state department that we were just getting an update on u.s. iranian activity and they were fine with it well this right wing publication says the state of what we told them that we didn't we didn't have this meeting we've had our requests at the state of other outlets have requests the state department to confirm or deny whether they actually cleared this meeting we haven't heard anything yet but this right wing this right wing publication says it heard something that i mean that was speculation overdone feinstein's behavior anyway

there was a bizarre report a little earlier that you've been wandering around the capitol with contact information pulled up on our i phone display and what's that about i mean it's all very very very strange but this does add to a theme that we've heard over the last year since a report came out in may of 2018 that john kerry had been the former secretary of state had been in a very aggressive merde in trying to get international pressure on the trumpet ministration riled up to try to prevent trump from pulling out of the iranian nuclear deal he did meet with the german president the french president the e.u. foreign policy chief and the plan was that he would get europeans out israelis i'm not in part as an expose to speak out forcefully against from pulling out of the iranian nuclear deal in order to put pressure. all in the u.s. and realizing that the democrats didn't have much much leverage clearly that didn't work but for some time has been saying the democrats are undermining foreign policy could be in contravention of u.s. law there's an 18th century law called the logan act which prohibits private u.s.

citizens from negotiating on the u.s. government's hauffe with adversaries about contentious issues about about controversial issues of which there is a dispute so this is added to trump's stump speech where he says often kerry should be prosecuted on the logan act the suggestion in the right wing media the dianne feinstein should be prosecuted under the logan act although this is a kind of a postscript i mean they should be a bit careful to trumpet ministration about invoking the logan act because the one before inclusion of the movie or inquiry did reveal wasn't collusion with the russians and the campaign to try to win the election but jarrett cushion a colluding with the israelis to try to undermine president obama's foreign policy towards the end of obama's presidency so they might want to be a little careful about invoking the logan act because it did seem that jarred was in contravention of logan himself actually the president so little all right so we'll see what happens as you have a town seat at the time being thank you well iran's foreign minister is expected to

now arrive in iraq for talks with leaders there and his visit comes as iraq a protest there is demand their government stay out of the dispute between the u.s. and iran matheson reports from baghdad. iraqis filled baghdad's tucker you square chanting yes yes to iran demanding that their country should not become a battleground in someone else's war that it's out of our message is for peace our message is to say no to the iranian agenda and now to the american agenda as iraqis we should make independent decisions. we reject war by any shape or form iraqis including sunni and shia people from all of iraq's ethnic and religious groups came to talk we are square to make our voices heard iraqis don't want their land to be a battleground by the iranians or the americans. iraq and its eastern neighbor iran trade cultures and.