one of these institutes is led by the american lawyer paul dietrich philip morris finances it with $240000.00 a year at the same time dietrich is a consultant for the regional office in america when his double role becomes known dietrich moves into the finance industry. he won't agree to talk to me in the w.h.o. report on the strategies of the tobacco industry 6 other consultants are mentioned the british toxicologist frank sullivan for instance claims that passive smoking doesn't harm your health his study on the subject is financed by philip morris. in the year 2000 and sullivan's collaboration with the tobacco industry becomes public but he still continues to advice. i mean with 2 department leaders commenting tobacco under the auspices of the w.h.o.

we have 0 tolerance approaches i said the director general says the tobacco industry is our number one and we wear that badge very proudly is franks i live in still. absolutely i mainly have it and they have a they can't because the names of all those persons are well known through the documents but by now i don't believe in countries considered to w.h.o. for example in 2002 let's say. not that i'm aware of as well too and again the policies that are in place now is that all consultants no matter whether they're working in tobacco control or infectious diseases or anywhere in the organization have to sign a declaration of interest but this means a lot of trust the interesting bit they should be reviewed trust i think that you should trust you trust you can. already being suspicious of all the people and their capacities to do things ok.

and also. they always say ok we had a problem and there were a single persons who were corrupt this was this i live in. and so on. but i have always thought and i mean it wasn't really a single person's and now it's over ok just say that segments of. it would have all the tobacco company documents which show how major corporations operate and the pharmaceutical companies or the chemical companies do not operate any differently their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health so these are the people that are the h one n one push. swine flu or h one n one is presented by the w.h.o. and in the public media as a huge threat wrongly as that leader emerges. if you've been diagnosed with

probable or presumed 2009 and one or swine flu in recent months you may be surprised to know this the odds are you didn't have a 2001 flu in fact you probably didn't have flu at all. many countries including germany italy france and great britain concluded secret agreements with pharmaceutical companies before the swine flu incident which obliged them to purchase swine flu vaccinations but only if the w.h.o. issued a pandemic level 6 alert. does now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic giving. reason. right now. made yarden.

son of. the in. me but i can see fit to give it that's enough stopping to must and if you can just kind of introduced a group of i think most. swine flu makes considerable profits for the manufacturer. and 1st quarter profit setting at. one point. 6000000000 u.s. dollars from 1.5 trying to arrange an interview with the person responsible for swine flu at the w h k g fukuda he was often on television at the time but i get an appointment with the official press spokesman 11 countries officially reporting 331 cases of influenza a h one n one infection with 10

deaths. companies and government we have to be aware of this of course you have to be aware of everything that's going on and it is extremely easy to after the fact say well maybe i should have done y. and a should not have done b. however think about the opposite what would have happened how the influenza killed 50 percent of the people it infected and there was no. no no no. no and neither the low amazing. include. is there

a. group but who says he's not. at the time i'm pregnant and i am sure it's crowns in all forms of travel public media exaggerates with words and images the dangerous. thing from swine flu. is how a man would be in. pretty good and wonders. he said i think i don't like the guidelines and then there were the low amazing could they have declared the condom make a level 6 also with the 0 at the finish no. i meant to. say that is the. seem to be in mortality that same clue yet as likely did you deal. me.

so this is. this was removed. before. p.p. . you're missing the i'm going to pharma industry in so fan i'll see i know good and feel fine a good at the hobby but if you really have to look to local to do like phone calls also there's all. of this is a lot but it's was needlessly or. overly that's all but instead of just us of course would like to have a vaccine tomorrow we would have wanted to have it just sitting in 2009 miss kinealy is a member of the w h m swine flu working group previously she had worked for the french pharmaceutical company trans g. the press spokesman doesn't allow me to interview her so i try to approach her directly at a conference. i asked miss kinealy why the criteria of severity was deleted from

the definition of a pandemic phase. to. expand. the . the truth their objective. their. value. i. don't want to. be sure. because the quote was not really. good.

it's gonna. do. i'll give you. have to. get. him into. the working group on swine flu consists of 13 external consultants to report conflicts of interest ferguson declares consultancy fees from glaxo smith kline baxter and the manufacturers of the swine flu vaccines and medications not a problem for the. in 2007 albert osterhaus right on the dutch health commission due to his conflicts of interest he declares to the. that he has

shares in the pharma company viral clinics which is suspected of profiting from swine flu he also declares that he is the chairman of his w.i. describing it as a group of independent scientists in fact it is partly financed by vaccine manufacturers. i can tell you they have no scientific meeting today organized that is now being spun the sponsored by industry and rightly so the industry is making the vaccines it's not the national institutes that are making the vaccines any longer industry is doing it i very curious are you still a w h l consultant. at the moment i'm working more with the private sector as well so i started still consulting from time to time i used to be working with as you scientists against influence i guess on the channels that particular organization because i saw it to be clear that this is a conflict of interest and it's not a conflict of interest but i declare also what might be perceived as a conflict of interest in him and you have to be very careful so at least if you

say that and of course people can hold it against you yeah but at least i can always say and i've always done that it's a huge you're at least you show what you do it was written there independent group of scientists and when i looked on the web site as saw that it's funded by all. you assess oh no it's not funded by some money comes from from from vaccine produces but there's money coming from many other sources as well and that's the same thing and a lot of other organizations as long as you are transparent and show what you're doing it's fine i think how is the percentage of funding i don't know exactly but there is a substantial part of the funding comes from elsewhere from meetings comes from comes from european projects come from and there is a percent just coming from industry as well and that's completely transparent so it's fine to bring it up again but for me it's true. i don't get any hard figures from mr osterhaus after points either without any facts without transparency i can't make any progress here but about the w.h.o.

. at the country level i hear good news and i hear. this. little noon. and i was there in new york i was going to push the list 40 countries there were. mortars at the los angeles stuff though amazing their foot on the snowy was as i don't know joe the daughter. there one day my space if you go . there and it didn't. stuff of the low i mean. you. know not just our. not only. your. stuff. it get that they might get. this could be a nope with that.

pot. do you rolodex taught. and. that's what. kind of. this kind of a scam. it's keep. it. in the case of the pharmaceutical industry it's even more difficult for the w.h.o. to maintain its independence than with the tobacco industry on the one hand the

dollar is dependent on the pharmaceutical industries for baser to medication but the industry's financial interests mustn't damage the. area health one thing is clear today the pharmaceutical industry is part of the health system just like the government's. politics are losing power and that's also reflected in the financing of the w.h.o. and the 1990 s. all countries froze their membership contributions in the wake of the financial crisis. today u.n. organizations foundations n.g.o.s and industry contribute almost 40 percent of the w.h.o. its annual budget the 2nd largest source of finance right after the usa is the bill and melinda gates foundation. 30 years ago and starting

microsoft there was we had a very ambitious vision a computer for everyone. now i join you in seeking to achieve an even more important vision which is good health for every human being today the w.h.o. relies on voluntary contributions like that from the gates foundation but these are often linked to conditions. the w h o's annual budget amounts to about $2000000000.00 coca-cola spends twice that much on advertising alone and the hospitals around lake geneva spend $6000000000.00 a year. when it was founded the w.h.o. could decide how to distribute its funds itself now 70 percent of its budget is tied to particular projects countries or regions.

if the w.h.o. receives funding to fight malaria for example it can't use that money to combat the moana. they have a lot of delays says will fellow put it in very precise words at present w h o l the operational capacity of culture to deliver a full emergency public health care is called. what does the director general of the w.h.o. think about that. i want to ask her what constraints she is under. then i don't know how many. stories generates thousands of at large with different angles from different perspectives julie out of sun just stand. is finally separate

the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalist. protesters complained about the under-reported of police violence the sensationalizing the demonstration with the listening post on al-jazeera. being located outside that western centric sphere of influence were able to bring a different perspective to global that. when you peel away the a list a covert military in the financial doll giving you see the people in those words and his policies are affecting see the emotion on the face of the situation they're living in that's when all of us can identify with the story. the pollution is palpable. shares the symptoms of many modern

metropolis but it's unique features of be gotten a crisis. people in power investigates the toxic mix feeding the city's invisible killer and asks why more is not being done to relieve its citizens these deadly air on a jersey of. hello i'm mr hall with the headlines on al-jazeera the deadline to file applications to stand in algeria's july a presidential election has passed and local media are reporting that most possibly all of the potential candidates failed to meet the legal requirements to run for president some protesters are against the elections saying the current government is willing to formally to idolise its peers

a fake nationwide demonstrations have now continued into their 14th week. the 3rd and final day of voting is underway in europe's parliamentary elections you're watching live pictures now of polling in the one darian capital budapest voters are casting ballots in $21.00 member states including germany france and italy $751.00 politicians will be elected for a 5 year term with results expected on monday donald trump has tweeted that a trade deal with japan will be finalized but only after japanese elections are held in july he's tee it off with prime minister shinzo ave as a golf course in chiba south of tokyo trump has complained about japan's large trade surplus he's on the 2nd day of a 4 day state visit. a land mine explosion has killed at least 6 soldiers in western chad it happened near lake chad on the border with nigeria and their t.v. cameraman with the army convoy also died several soldiers were also injured and

iran says the united states decision to send 1500 more soldiers to the middle east is extremely dangerous iranian foreign minister zarif is in baghdad for talks with his iraqi counterpart and members of venezuela's government and opposition will meet in oslo next week for talks aimed at resolving the political crisis the developments seen as a sign of progress after months of tension between opposition leader and president nicolas maduro confirmed his team will meet government representatives in norway former argentinean leader cristina kirchner and her running mates have launched their campaign ahead of elections in october the norns comes just days after her 1st court appearance on a string of corruption charges no surprise to many when she announced she would run for vice president instead of the presidency she was seen as the main challenger to a conservative president of merits or mockery well those are the headlines now it's

back to trust. i'm a filmmaker i have a daughter. it is important to me that she finds the world in good condition. i can tell you the most scientific meeting today organized that is now being spun the sponsored by industry and rightly so the industry is making the vaccines it's not the national institutes their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health universal health coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer. people. since i can't get to speak to market jan i meet one of her close advisors. a sink it's simply a wrong perception to sink that can be an external independent review because

then you have to say who is selecting this independent expert and who is controlling their independence and who is controlling the independence of those controlling the independence externally and such. of course he's right but he's wrong you know his is mixing everything up because this world is as it is and you have to do what you can to make sure that the independence of the science is as good as possible it will never ever be perfect he's quite right that he should be talking about his own i mean he is from switzerland he came straight from switzerland which is a country that is completely locked into a partnership approach and he's in charge of partnerships. so i know. this was very keen that any companies could have a strong mind. and

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one view. is contributing to the of the risks of radioactive contamination in public. your. data. can. together with the. nuclear catastrophe. in. the dangers of nuclear radiation is it for example keeping silent about a rise in cancer. it's difficult to find anybody who is allowed to talk the man. matsumoto. is also a doctor and has founded a convalescent camp for children from camp dominated area he was.

was the other name of the new sample but isn't it tilting at the. sun or she not going out there so when i was about it i would have been at that. conclusion i will commit. you know when you are cocksuckers. should i think you need that you are much easier to scuttle with all it's not just . this kind of meat you call the 100 there can't you were at. your door more most of all i just felt it would all go no use in the interview with it if they must. as a result of experience after turn out all the w h l recommendations for iodine my revised in the year 999 and of the supervision of the british scientists keefe baverstock and member of staff at the w h o l.

when i started my program with w.h.o. within a few weeks i learned that there was a claim that there was a large number of thyroid cancers in children and this ended up in a mission to minsk i was so astonishing number of children who had been operated for thyroid cancer quite young children so to see as we did on that day when i think it was 1112 maybe cases in one place at one time all having been operated was really quite extraordinary. he took it from there. russian colleagues published 2 short papers in the journal nature to draw attention to it after the papers were published w.h.o.

asked me to withdraw the paper from nature. a paper published with about 5 or 6 other people all agreeing on this position. and crys lost me to redraw that they perform publication. after the being published dry so. yes it's written by. you is my guru he said your career will be short and if you don't do this. did you have any contact us w h o f that's a typical accident you know much a lot of them is does this president of the goodness get up and. city that you must know what i think you'll still get us as far as it goes they should do

they don't want it and the polls have to name out that they're not and you go i say stay yeah it. was a successful tended to my stuff so i'm going to then they were so smart and then i thought well that's all. you need. and all said so you're not i don't i mean my study is for you how. they misunderstand will be just as and i just threw up they could just as one of those i o. . come out of and they misunderstand what i don't know all that you don't wish to. i still find it beyond belief that khan was convinced that the time that no radioactivity would emerge after the accident. just one day after the accident a monitoring station of the organization c t b t o recorded raised levels of

radioactivity 200 kilometers from the nuclear power station. maybe what i'm on. and she doing it. like take. and there you don't know by that kind of man can we scare the mom. gave them on then that i but i mean. yeah he could have come up with another mistake if i had there was needed to be one of the sort either their children we know you've got a young man if my to see my g.p. mother movement there. to meet their honey please mom all of my not been long so i know they were there. and that's when it is going on all settled on

a lot of them all so they move which isn't good for the. mother so your mother aged and i do still have deleted do you know the letters in a studio cooks but who is right in putting the mother's name and also you can see it so you just got out of the pointy end so it would be an awful scene but what's really cool to do this without makeup because in the making come was you know. what do you think today about i had an intake as the nuclear accident well again it's more is what was said in the video. people are not taking all it on as if it were the job of these authorities or thought so that there would they have distributed are you going tablets prepositional them but have not yet ask anyone to take them taking i don't like tablets in the absence of. radiation because actually for you you need to much i don't mind taking iodine to the exposure and i

stand by that from today's point of view was the exposure given at that time in most affected areas i'm not you know again that's almost 5 years ago and i can't remember the process from day to day and certainly we would have adopted through our recommendations based on the information we were getting. but there are these guidelines and it's written and yeah you should take i have been was in the 1st 6 hours after a nuclear accident. that's in the air and it's also clear that it was not given in full. it's all its effects i mean that's something you don't have to look up it's obvious ok. i really think you are wasting your time on this topic and then we should move on to other topics because i only have until 12 o'clock is it that you can say

something critical about the chimneys government i. work on the basis of facts and if i don't have the facts and the information a 100 fingertips i'm not going to speculate. but in general is it possible. to criticize nations. i'm i'm not going to say anything more about this what should i say anything or no this was a general question not in relation to. well let's move on to another topic ok is it getting much difficult for you now that w h o has travis. who says w h o's most trust that you. and the new york academy of science books this one. comes up with an estimate of 985000 deaths but that is world wide between 986 and 2004.

and of course that makes a dramatic contrast with what the establishment says which is still around 50 deaths and possibly $4000.00 cancers as a as a final total. we have been in front of the world health organization headquarters in geneva for 7 years now and it is a permanent peaceful protest. the other major mission is that the world health organization has never considered anything except cancer. as a health effects through committee so minister that role model is as much as an inch of the it is the question of the issue yes immediate right. position our school students. really are going to share. in this. school doesn't. get prayer the right here. for.

the rest of. us. the. church to. rescue people so that there will be eventually destroy anybody just would have to be of tremendous gusty. since january we know that there are other diseases one of the diseases unfortunately. it's caused us killer disease infertility diseases other than cancer there's a book maybe you heard about it of the academy of science which was reputed by the new yorker cademy of sciences because it's i want to sound. but that's not true yes if you read the account of the statement from the new york academy of sciences and 2011 or 12 they were puting it at the board and let me give you this this is from

the journal of radiology monitoring where you ok the york academy of sciences which talks about all the flaws of that ok ok so i should also if you something in her book review by independent to me. yeah yeah. ok read this and then we meet again. hello this is me and frank what does it mean exactly that the new york academy of science repudiate the channel. the editor tells me that the academy never repudiated the book he permits me to record the phone call and later he withdraws his permission is in the able to speak freely either. perhaps the publisher of the chernobyl book can help me. orning

good morning the original contact person at the new york cademy of sciences you know agreed to publish the book and then there was a big draw to the new yorker cadmium a didn't think it was a good idea and i suspect that they were pressured by the nuclear industry but i don't know for sure. is the influence of the nuclear industry. the international atomic energy agency i a e a was to promote a safe and peaceful use of atomic energy. an important and viable option for many countries in.

the w.h.o. is concerned with health these are different priorities but the 2 organisations are working closely together. for example together with other un organizations they are compiling a report on the health consequences of her novel. this is a. critical view. and they. tended not to invite critics for their 2 reports one of. the thing was of the word be a whole series of informative going on between w h o and i i quite senior levels very senior levels. and they would. predetermined what the line they would take. that's why they had a w.h.o. stroke. meeting in riyadh 2005. to put the line across this is

a this is what we're going to do the trouble was that many many people came. near out works at the. she's responsible for the risks of radioactive contamination i deliberately make an appointment to see her in paris the press department won't get in the way here to make sure she agrees to see me i don't tell her what i want to talk about until we 1st meet. is like. saying that there have been 1000000. this is because they look one of their own. and then the money. 1000000 this is there but this is because they are looking at a broader patch of population 1000000000 that's you think you can hide 1000000 but seriously yes but do you seriously training course you have more rigorous to how

can you seriously believe that accident caused 50 deaths. but it's still under. so we wrote the other report. and the initials are t o r c h which is torch we said right away that we expected somewhere between 30 and 60000 altogether worldwide future death because the plume from chernobyl went right round the world . not hemisphere and whiles the concentrations were low far far away it doesn't matter because the many many millions of people there are 600000000 people and europe alone. and they were all affected even if it's all kinds of it is at sea on the faint that's you'll see even 5 caning if you hadn't mentioned outside

of it often in regular in the soviet union. we were not using cancer mortality figures but rather incidence is because as you know most of the cancers can now be treated in therefore that will not work valid the associated i don't know whether you have not is but our health risk assessment is only with the log of but i mean if one side of the experiments belong to a year this is kind of anticipating that those as from my you you are not on the best of the science which is the case i don't think they were there to represent

any interest i mean it was criticised that there was no. radio biologist also no scientist who published critical articles on has effect of nuclear energy but when you need to do this equate poor it is not a question of bringing an activist to from the left when an activist or from the right when is a question in science what's happening is that there are groups outside that they want to use those stevens to say you see nuclear energy is is bad is dangerous why with want to stop the use of the nuclear energy which is a different cost doing anything it could also be the other way around that nuclear industry. tries to not to tell the whole truth about it has impacts. really i have no doubt for sure we are dead and we are doing the best that we can and with this report of everybody recognize that there is a need for

a. 35 institution that would sense i mean with weight. and powerful institution it would be the best for all of us and i will fight for that. for the rest of my life. convenes public health officer and i think my record accidents that he will need to fight and not afraid. aside is to the united states this past spring maybe observation that this generation of children. is the 1st generation in modern history. is not going to be as healthy as their parents. that should not be. what do i do with this knowledge now go out on the streets together with independent who are just go home again. and i at the end now is there any real and

. margaret chan carries on. right it's over to you folks who would like to start the round of questions. is it on. yeah ok 1000000 frank ocean media it's a question to dr chan we have just learned that area if you. are and climate change global health challenges but i am asking myself how can we meet. if it's constantly losing power important donor nations may want to week. one could even compared to the titanic i would say so isn't it your responsibility. to step down before the end of your 2nd term an audit to signal

to the well that your organization your ship is sinking. you as an excellent question if i tell you that picture as an organization only 30 percent of my budget is predictable funds other 70 percent i have to take ahead and go around the world to beg for money. and when they give us the money they are highly linked to their preferences what they like it may not be the priority of the big show so if we do not solve this you know. we're not going to ask that to be as great as we whack.

after decades of being programmed with instructions data angry computers can only on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. official intelligence can monitor ombudsman. and decide on a. big picture to coach the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine coming soon on al-jazeera. hello again it's good to have you back or still looking at some very warm conditions here across the middle east we're talking about the eastern mediterranean where temperatures have been going into the high thirty's some locations into the low forty's in the last couple of days now a lot of those temperatures have come down a few degrees but it is still above average in some of these locations now you can

see aleppo we're talking about 30 degrees there even the southern coast of turkey is seeing into the low thirty's over the next few days not a lot in terms of rain we did have wildfires in israel those have been controlled but aleppo 34 degrees as those temperatures rise baghdad we do expect to see a time to them of about 41 well here across the gulf well looking quite nice here in doha terms as about seasonal for this time of year about $38.00 degrees we expect to see but we do expect to see some more rain across parts of yemen so for santa some showers pushing through there and as we go towards monday a little bit of break but up towards miss got a nice day for you with a temperature of 35 degrees and then very quickly here across parts of southern africa we are seeing some clouds across parts of cape town for durban johannesburg you are going to be into the low twenty's over the next few days but by the time we get towards monday we do expect to see more rain across parts of madagascar some of the showers could be quite heavy at 21 degrees but harare it is going to be a nice day with a cool 22 degrees in your forecast. talk

to. your just back to yemen what was the glimpse of the country to go and we listen the children are deeply affected because of war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter which is 0. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than 12000 structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough

housing stock available. on counting the cost where did it all go wrong for argentina's champion of the free market can motivate you america to stay in power as a populist makes a comeback a potential multi-billion dollar fine on course to break up facebook and bailout number 13 for talk of stop counting the cost on a just. a deadline passes in algeria with no one successfully registering to stand in the upcoming presidential election. phony back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters in doha also ahead on visit to baghdad. iran's foreign minister says he wants to prevent war as

tensions rise with the u.s. . again plan for business u.s. present donald trump take talks trade over a round of golf with japan shinzo abi and millions head to the polls across europe for the final day of voting in one of the world's largest elections. thank you for joining us a deadline to find applications to stand in and jarius presidential election in july has passed 77 potential candidates said they tended to run for the top job but local media is reporting that none of them met the requirements protesters say the current government is linked to former leader abdelaziz bouteflika nationwide demonstrations are now into their 14th week let's just remind you of how we got to this point was pushed out of power after weeks of demonstrations leaving the

country at a crossroads the 82 year old was algeria its longest serving president in power for 20 years mass protests began in february when he announced his bid to run for a 5th term many thought he wasn't fit to run he had rarely been seen in public after suffering a stroke in 2013 by march 11th the president was forced to reverse his reelection bid he promised reforms and named a new prime minister but it wasn't enough to defeat it was forced to step down in april under pressure from protesters and the army wives i'll speak to mock todd badri who's a lecturer of islamic studies at qatar university thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera so no candidate to run in the july 4th election that the army chief guide salah is adamant has to go ahead what happens now what are the options for the military. i think the military insists that the solution should be constitutional why would you put this. there should be

a political rather than constitutional solution no i think both will go together because as there is no candidates who fit the conditions then the constitutional council should be clever there is no candidate then they have to extend the life of the election no candidate 77 people including the heads of 3 parties you know wanted to run in this election but none of them met the requirements or why is that how come none of them not a single candidate met the requirements is this something malicious that was going on here. normal but. i think it's a kind of finding a way out of the. the big problem because there is a contradiction between what the military wants to go through and the demands of the protesters no serious candidate has.

intended to stand for the election the main political parties are not standing in the main political parties leaders are not standing for the elections on main figures no new nigeria are not expressing their intention to before this election anyone who stands for the civic center election now it's as if he or she is standing against the will of the protesters and these are the electors and none of them really want to go announce what approach and none of them wants to go in conflict with the with the people right now up until now the demonstrations have been largely peaceful but it seems that we are hearing a different tone now from the army some veiled threats event from the army that says the protesters demands are just unreasonable do you expect to see a change in tactics a change in the mood of the army as a result of this continued that long list. of the reaction of the military has gone

so far already long to be peaceful. that it accepted acceptable by you that people would think that they will they will search for a peaceful solution rather than a. while until and thank you very much for talking to a small town bantry a lecturer at cattle university joining us here on al-jazeera the roof has turned to other world news now and iran and iraq say they want to prevent a war and reduce tension in the middle east the comments came during a meeting in baghdad between the reagan foreign minister job and zarif and the iraqi president. the speaker of iraq's parliament has offered to mediate to ease weeks of growing tension between the u.s. and iran on friday rocky protesters called on their government to stay out of the conflict they're worried that iraq could become a battleground for a proxy war between the u.s. and iran and iran says the u.s. decision to send more soldiers to the middle east is extremely dangerous but

president donald trump insisted it probably meant a $1500.00 extra troops is needed because of what he calls iranian aggression as the reports from tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east so $5000.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign ministers of god's research american decisions are in danger in international peace and security he said u.s. accusations against iran or only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump. but reports of emerged the during

a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april job odds are even met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate intelligence committee the foreign ministry in iran released a statement saying the meeting was consultation and routine but should not be seen as any kind of a negotiation the goal the statement said was to maintain a line of communication with non governing political players in the u.s. to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called the made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders in teheran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. meanwhile u.s. media are reporting a meeting last month between iranian foreign minister jadzia reef and dianne feinstein a senior democrat on the senate intelligence committee alan fischer has the details from washington. it's not unusual for politicians across the board to meet with

diplomats from other countries what is slightly unusual this time is that it was a senior democratic senator meeting with the iranians no dianne feinstein's office said that they spoke to the state department before the meeting and they asked for a briefing on come around u.s. relations the meeting happened 3 or 4 weeks ago so things have changed in the interim period and there's no confirmation from the state department in the meeting actually went ahead but the iranians have confirmed that and there are some reports in the u.s. media that might pompey or the secretary of state is actually concerned some even see angry that this meeting actually went ahead no the u.s. policy is very clear donald trump has articulated it on several occasions he believes it's all about exerting maximum pressure on iran he believes that with the current economic sanctions by choking off the market for around all industry that that will force the arena calling me into trouble and will force the really leadership back to the negotiating table there are some in washington who believe

that john bolton the national security advisor is very much in favor of military action against iran and that might pompey or the secretary of state is also a hawk when it comes to that as well but you have to remember though trump has spoken on several occasions about what he sees as expensive needless for and war as he says you don't spend that sort of money and get nothing out of it it's very much with his american foreign policy so here's a lot to launch any sort of military action he's talked about the war in iraq says he opposed it from the very beginning not quite true but he's also opposed to the high troop numbers in afghanistan so he seems a lot. to commit to any extensive military action against iran so while the advisers advise it is donald trump the president who will decide and the moment he seems to be deciding all about economic pressure rather than direct military action

president donald trump is facing criticism from across the political spectrum for using a perceived threat from iran to declare a national security emergency that would allow billions in arms sales susana and the emirates to go ahead without congressional approval critics like democratic senator and presidential hopeful is a bit warren says say it poses a serious threat to civilians in yemen warren tweeted this is revolting to suggest that we need to help the saudis kill civilians in order to stand up to iran only emergency she says is busy a president who cares more about making money for his defense contractor buddies then the democratic will of congress or the moral catastrophe in yemen not me as director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says the trumpet ministration is.