aimed by the japanese prime minister to bring this issue to an end and he also expressed support for the idea of a meeting with kim jong un thank you for that wayne hale life for a sane tokyo still ahead on al-jazeera having a new leader is in bad ways main opposition party plans to unite the party before the next election plus why dealing with corruption scandals in argentina has not been plain facing. the law again and welcome back to international weather forecast so we do have a mix of weather here across much of europe for us will start off to the north where we do have some clouds and some rain all the some windy conditions that are pushing across this area and that's what monday is going to look like with those winds coming across the u.k. going across parts of denmark and into scandinavia that across

a bit peninsula here on monday looking quite nice with madrid at twenty eight but the big problem is going to be here in the central mediterranean we do have an area of low pressure that is developing over course. also sicily windy conditions and rainy conditions there from monday to tuesday the rain continues across much of italy or rome is going to be a very rainy day into tuesday where we start to see a break but notice all the rain begins to move here towards the east we're going to be seeing vienna with a very rainy day at twenty degrees but still quite nice down here towards the southeast for athens for parts of turkey looking quite nice with temperatures into the high twenty's well that same area of low pressure in the mediterranean is going to cause a big problem across the coastal areas we're talking algeria tunisia so we're going to be seeing the rain we're going to be seeing the wind here on monday we see a little bit of improvement particularly for algiers as we go towards tuesday and we are going to be seeing those temptress pop back up as well the sky is going to be a nice day with a temperature of twenty six degrees for you. you're

watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories provisional results in the european parliamentary election show the europe centrist bodies have suffered heavy losses populist far right parties delivered some of the biggest election surprises including in france and italy. the u.s. president says he is not seeking regime change in iran he's also reiterated his willingness to hold talks with the iranian leaders and says he wants to do a deal with tehran over its nuclear weapons donald trump made those comments during his visit to japan the third day of his visit to japan. speak to stephen nagi who is a visiting fellow at the japanese institute for international affairs he's live from tokyo i'll get to the iran issue in just a second but i just wanted to to get a thoughts for us on you know what you think about this u.s. japan alliance today we heard no commitment on a trade deal from the u.s. japanese leaders and we know that in the process trying to target japanese automakers with high ties how would you rate the relationship today how strong is

the alliance. the alliance at the institutional level is extremely strong at the leadership level what we've seen is prime minister or their president form a relationship that i think is unequal globally and i say that is that the japanese . prime minister has stood firm in terms of his disagreements with president trump examples that presidents trump sides in very difficult issues such as north korea a more assertive role in pushing back against time in the in the pacific in the south china sea in the east china sea and i think japan has been a broader supporter of. global trade reform in particular trying to reform the world trade organization so when we look at the relationship broadly it's deep it's comprehensive but there do they do have different views on different issues here on the issue of north korea that you talked about there briefly trungpa said he's not worried about a recent missile launch by the north koreans and this puts him at odds with his

national security advisor john bolton but what about the japanese do they trust that donald trump can be the one to rein in came john on. well they're trying their best to strengthen the relationship with united states or institutional ties but as well both are in their own defenses such as land land base ballistic missile systems i think that john bolton's comments represent an represents an informed view of the challenges that are associated with north korea's short and mid term range missile systems but also you know north korea has chemical and biological weapons that can be delivered to the japanese archipelago so i think that here we have a different product arise ation the united states are to arise as i.c.b.m. missiles and japan uses those short range and mid range missiles as much more. of a challenge in terms of dealing with north korea now we heard today

a change in tone from the u.s. president on the issue of iran and the japanese prime minister yesterday offered to help you know up a possible dialogue which in the u.s. and iran on the iranian nuclear issue what can the japanese really bring to the table what sort of relationship does tokyo have with tehran that would help deal with this issue with the united states. well despite the on and off relationships between around in the united states we've seen you know the around nuclear deal which was a strong i think a step forward in terms of iranian u.s. . relations. japan has by and large been able to maintain a relationship with iran despite the ups and downs of the iranian u.s. relationship so japan could represent a middle man communicating. what the iranians are interested in and what the united states are interested in it could be on his player because it has good good

relations with both states and it could be you know offer around a window of opportunity in terms of being that communicator of mr trump to the iranians to try and bring them back to the arena iranian nuclear deal and to try to moderate some of their more sort of baber behavior within the region so even though i do thank you so much for a farce thank you for joining us on al-jazeera stephen maggies from the international u.s. and university in tokyo. and zimbabwe the main opposition party has elected nelson chamisa as its leader as the first congress held by the movement for democratic change since the death of its founder morgan childcare i last year the party has been plagued by division census death as more from a war in central some bad way. after months of infighting over who is main opposition party nelson chamisa is the elected president of the movement for democratic change he ran unopposed after some who wanted the top job left the

party or dropped out of the race and we have shown the way out we have shown zimbabwe with on africa that it is possible to be democratic it is possible to renew it is possible to have a nonviolent peaceful contest internally and that is what we have shown the world look at the number of people we have come all on their own accord. zimbabweans are watching him closely to see how he plans to put pressure on president innocent of a rising inflation and unemployment along with fuel and casualties nelson chamisa unary lost last year's presidential election to president innocent women that were the result showed he has significant support but whether he can appeal to a broader audience remains unclear. his m.d.c. party also has to show its different from the ruling zanu p.f. i think there's a lot of common ground between the ruling party and opposition and i do a logical frameworks and propositions. both pro free market business and

therefore they don't just fall. out they may differ in terms of whether leaders whatever ages and so on but fundamentally. when it comes to his party jimmy's a has achieved i thi opposition is the first congress since morgan signed that i died from cancer last. soon after the death of the m.d.c. is found the party split over who should replace him. the next election is she in four years jimmy so will need everyone to work with him if he should oppose the only party meaning that even know. where. at least thirty people are dead and dozens are missing after a boat sank in my don't be democratic republic of congo officials estimate several hundred people were on board when bad weather hits. to argentina now accusations of corruption were rampant when christine occasional was in power since then judicial

authorities have launched a campaign to be tane and seize assets of those involved in corruption scandals that isabel has a story from. sealing through but on a river aboard a confiscated one million dollar luxury yacht that's been used by argentine security forces. the ship belong to the god of the highway the former transport secretary during the administration of cristina fernandez. he's currently in prison accused of corruption. praefect. says all saudis are using the yacht because the government cannot sell it. was recovered in a corruption operation it is now used by the students of the institute so they can learn how to navigate we have to pay for maintenance everything is very costly but i would rather buy speedball to all students but in the meantime it is what we have . longed for

a labor union representing construction workers being accused of corruption and extortion the estimated value of this car is about three hundred fifty thousand dollars. but it's not just for a reason there are at least three garages like this one filled with luxury cars the government has. to pay for the maintenance and insurance of the vehicles at cost that people like weekend evil says needs to stop. ideally if the vehicles were normal we could use them in operations the problem is that in this case the cars are too expensive for us to use we have to keep them and it requires a big investment to keep them. accusations of corruptions were rampant during the previous administration but what is your market he came to power in two thousand and fifteen with a promise to fight it but he was also investigated because his name appeared in the

panama papers machree is the son of a once powerful businessman who also had dealings with the argentine state. never mind the political part there are within the political establishment links that transcend the party and mix business and political classes and many of them want all the corruption investigations to be closed because many many are in court . precedent machree past a decree so the government can sell the confiscated corruption items but for now it has not been implemented. the degree needs to be controlled by congress and congress rejected it the decree is unconstitutional i think fighting criminal organizations require us to address and plymouth a new method but it has to go through congress and all political forces should be on the same side. but it's an election year in argentina and for now many in the opposition say the law will have to wait. at least

fifteen people have been killed in clashes between inmates at a prison in northwestern brazil the fighting began during visiting hours at the facility which is some thirty kilometers outside the regional capital amazonas state an investigation has been launched the same prison was a scene of a rebellion in two thousand and seventeen in which at least fifty six. people were killed to indonesia now where they are calls for a formal investigation into how police handled riots over the election results at least seven people were killed in violence that broke out between opposition supporters and police last week warning andrew thomas his report from jakarta contains some violent images. down a narrow alley in a poor area of jakarta is a family in mourning that this was the home of the youngest person to die in the process indonesia's capital for a handful jari was fifteen late on tuesday night he got what messages from excited

friends there was something big going on in the center of town just fifteen years old in the. beginning hence parents don't think he took part in any bullets and they don't know how or why short. of a word to the hospital in four hours no one could tell me anything eventually they took me to a body i didn't want it to be him but he was the one that when i heard about it i was distraught i can't believe that he's got little. piece of make me laugh he was a kind boy a lovely boy. we say they didn't fall out of bullets last week just tear gas and rubber coated bullets to control and dispersed violent crowds. they say their action was restrained doing only what they had to but others question. people from human rights groups say from their early investigations into

what happened here last week basis spec the place of using unnecessary force and of violations of human rights. they say they've seen disturbing videos like this one of what appear to be police beating a man cowering in fear another appears to show men in uniform attacking someone who's already been detained human rights activists want a formal invest. the geisha into police tactics and actions by. the police used tear gas indiscriminately and treated everyone violently peaceful protesters people who just came out to watch and those throwing stones. last week's riots began as protests by supporters of presidential election contender. after indonesia's electoral commission announced he had lost to the reelected president joko widodo. family say he wasn't motivated by politics

he was just a curious teenager his parents want to know why that led to his death andrew thomas al jazeera jakarta. ambulances in the afghan capital kabul are a known for their fast response to attacks but most people needing to get to hospital take a taxi sometimes having their chance of survival find out why. income an explosion or gunfire is followed by. police military and ambulances racing towards the attack nurses and drivers without protection bury the dead and wounded to hospitalize despite the danger and. it is natural to be worried everyone is scared of places where there are attacks but it's our job and we have to get to the place and do our duty there is always a nurse in a drivers seat to a cool despite responding to more than fifty attacks since the ambulance services created in two thousand and two they haven't had any staff members killed or

injured. this is what the ambulance service is known for what it is not known for its transporting other patients to hospital those not victims of attacks. there's a lack of awareness about ambulances and how to use them it's a free service for everyone and they don't understand there's a nurse and driver and we can take them free. on the lack of awareness there's also a capacity issue. the couple ambulance service has just twenty nine says for five million people it says its response time is usually less than twenty minutes but it can be up to an hour and a half to get ambulances a facing further delays after the taliban day tonight had one packed with explosives in central kabul last january well one hundred people were killed ambulances another search to check points. it means most afghans choose to use

a taxi rather than call for an ambulance everyone in this intensive care unit was brought to hospital by a tech see. it was admitted unconscious with renal failure. i was feeling pain in my body and i was in trouble when i was travelling here by taxi i was not able to sit up properly i was in a lot of pain. most of the patients who were brought here by taxi are in a serious condition coming in a taxi the patient loses fifty percent of the chance to recover because they come from a long distance without oxygen. and it's not a problem limited to the capital kabul ambulance service has fifty vehicles in three provinces you define a stone has thirty four provinces and more than thirty million people the ministry of health admits it doesn't know exactly how many appeal and says exist charlotte. couple.

fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera pro europe centrists have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in the european union history the center right european parliament a people's party and the socialists and democrats together have the most seats but not enough for a majority and the right is gaining ground in elections italy's lead party led by matteo salvini the deputy prime minister has become the largest party in the country and in france far right leader marine le pen claimed what she called a victory for the people after projections put her national rally ahead of president emmanuel mike wallace party in the u.k. nigel farage is new bracks it party has won the most seats as the public expressed their frustration over the deadlock on how to leave the european union but pro remain parties combined one around the same percentage of support showing britain remains deeply divided over brics it in other news a u.s. president has said is not seeking regime change in iran is also reiterated his

willingness to hold talks with iranian leaders and says he wants to do a deal with tehran over its nuclear weapons donald trump made those comments during the third day of his visit to japan. and i'm not looking to hurt the rounded off i'm looking to have iran say no nuclear weapons we have enough problems in this world right now with nuclear weapons no nuclear weapons for and i think will make a deal i think a ran again i think iran has tremendous economic potential and i look forward to letting them get back to the stage where they can show that i think iran i know so many people from iran these are great people it has the cheers to be a great country with the same leadership we're not looking for regime change i just want to make that clear and at least thirty people are dead and dozens are missing after a boat sank in lake my don't be in western democratic republic of congo officials estimate several hundred people one board when bad weather hits those are the

headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after inside story to stay with us . we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to you is iraq. could iraq be pulled into a conflict between the united states and iran iraqi leaders are call till the middle of the u.s. ramps up its battery what's needed to reduce the tension and prevent a war this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the united states is bracing the stakes against

what it calls threats from iran president donald trump is sending an extra fifteen hundred troops to the middle east and he's bypassing congress to sell billions of dollars of weapons to iran's rivals saudi arabia and the united arab emirates iran's neighbor iraq is vowing support and offering to mediate but other same time iraqis wary of straining relations with the americans rob mussel reports from about that. if mama jeffords early for came to baghdad to clarify where iraq stands in the ongoing tension between the u.s. and iran iraq's foreign minister seems to have given him an answer and. against the unilateral measures taken by the us we are standing by iran in its position and god willing we can play an intermediary role between the parties if necessary. iran's foreign minister has proposed signing a non-aggression pact with gulf neighbors but iran says it will take action if

necessary. comes i'm on we will defend ourselves against any efforts for a war with iran whether it is a military or economic one that would victimize the iranian people we will face it with strength and resistance iran and iraq have close ties to trade culture and religion but iraq relies on u.s. and foreign troops to combat the threat of eisel and it needs foreign investment especially to develop its oil fields iraq has been doing a diplomatic balancing act for years and some say that puts it in a perfect position to be able to mediate between the united states and iran but to do it successfully like most negotiations it has to be seen not to take sides there are also fears that some shia armed groups in iraq who are allied to iran might decide to upset that balance they might decide to take their own action their own initiative against u.s. assets in iraq. iraqis filled tahrir square in the heart of baghdad on friday

demanding that their government put iraq's safety first and that their country should be at the center of the talks to find a solution. to let up at the how loud the legitimacy on iraq has become a bridge where meetings have been held at the iranian embassy with european diplomatic missions and it's taken the decision to start talks with moderate countries affected by the situation to lobby the united states. and iran to try to extinguish the fires of war when the iraqis may need more evidence to convince them that they won't be dragged into an unwanted conflict rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad. let's bring in our guests here in the studio is andreea scrag assistant professor of the defense that is department at king's college london in beirut sami now the director

of the levant in six years for strategic affairs and also. robert goshi associate professor at lancaster university has edited and written books on the u.s. politics including the trump presidency journalism and democracy welcome to you all under us is the military build up a sign of an imminent war is it just a classic example of gunboat diplomacy yes or no i think it's part of the trump weird impression of policy which is about you know which is what how he's driven any of his business strategies before becoming president which is basically putting maximum pressure on clients and then forcing them to basically give up and then come to the negotiation table that might work in the business fear i'm not sure but it definitely is a work in international relations and when we see what's happening here with iran is that you know there is it's all about narrative here it's about building up a narrative of a posture signaling strength power and a and a somewhat an escalation of tension if you will be always sending more troops in

ascending and making it look as if there was a buildup in reality i think it's not a buildup it's all of this is within the realm of normal operations but it is how this has been framed i think it has been framed by the media in the particular way has been framed by the u.s. government in that way to make it look as if the u.s. is ready to go to war i think we're still hopefully quite far away from a military escalation samuel with the u.s. accusing iran of express's of planning attacks on american forces how do you see this crisis contained and at what price. i mean. there is a point that. iraq in particular has no interest to to be dragged into such a conflict now the american are putting pressure they are building up militarily but i don't think that they have an interest in waging a military action why because economic sanctions are doing well and they are

putting enough pressure on. iran and the military buildup in my view is i mean and that them to dissociate any at ten to from iran to not to wage a war but to resort to a military action in order to change the balance of power in the ija and to try to achieve a breakthrough in any leak in this sanctions that are putting a lot of pressure on iran economically and socially. vobis none to try to depict as most likely going to be an easy of white for the united states of america but we're talking about syria iran a country with a huge influence here the region operate it minute for capabilities particularly it comes to its ballistic system and the other that when you need them those in places

like iraq afghanistan and syria how do you see the potential for any mr confrontation well i mean part of this you know this is a history of how the presidents of the u.s. have treated the middle east as being its own playground for military testing as telling of goods and really creating another that it does she but your first guest had a narrative of us versus them you know donald trump's quite frankly i think we're interested in how this plays out in the media spotlight what the images look like and what his rhetoric is that probably creates some chuckles back in the united states for for his supporters he's more interested in and the twenty twenty presidential election and bringing that shoot to his side which is probably a great likelihood here then he is about altering any of the past procedures and processes of the u.s. government which has been to maintain tension in the middle east so i don't see

this going to a massive war because of somebody making a mistake and on the ground here of the high tensions but i do see it possibly happening based on the rhetoric that's being thrown back and forth across the oceans under us common sense says that there's no indication of a massive in a cycle for tension but you know mistakes happen you know it's when an incident can trigger. a massive confrontation yes and i think that's where that and we are in the era of weaponized narratives so narratives are not just in the information space it creates real tensions and it is actually a matched up with action as well as we see with you know the deployment of particular component of the u.s. military into the gulf and the same time the other side the reins are responding when there it is but they are also you know playing with fire there are men taining one of the biggest networks or the biggest network of surrogates across the middle east many of these are gets and has very important to highlight here are not part

of the command control system of the iranians they act on their own they're almost autonomy as the who these for example receive massive support from iran but still an independent actor and they they they might play the role of a spoiler so we've got these tensions we've got two relatively rational state actors iran and the united states not willing to escalate not wanting a war and then you have a lot of gray area operations particular by iranian sorry gets across the region which might we wanting to test the resolve of the u.s. government and trying to escalate and in this kind of you know they're in this kind of space a lot of there's a lot of room for error which might just blow the entire. powder keg open some you've mentioned earlier. iraq its role in mediating in the crisis what can iran achieve in this particular crisis. i mean.

here i mean iran is trying through mr zarif visit today to never to and in iraq because iran succeeded at least since two thousand and eight up to two cells in fifteen to exert control inside iraq plus it develop and it's supported some proxies some mini shop proxies whether. that has been law or had a cat has been. bad to the brigade there are afforded me shows that are under iranian control however that is it change in the iraqi society and it was the big sign of this was that the most efficient that took place yesterday today that is a big loss of the iraqi population that. that to diffuse the.

meddling of iran and they had enough of it and they want peace and they want to distance shape themselves. from not on you from iran but from washington as well then leader of this protest of yesterday his astonished enemy of washington which is mocked at dartmouth of the sudden so that is a good all wind movement inside a growing mood inside to the iraqi population that they have paid enough the price of others is ok and they want peace and they want to distance themselves from this conflict taking place between town and washington which brings me to ask this question about the irony of suddenly having iraq bussy all messages back and forth between the u.s. and iran what can the iran iraq is achieve when they are partly beholding politically to the americans about the same time beholden to the iranians. well it

is quite ironic when the u.s. government came out and said that non-essential u.s. . military should should leave as though the country of iraq was not safe for americans anymore it was a bit of an irony after everything that the u.s. government did to say that it was that it was safe i mean iraq is in a is in a tough spot here but to be to be completely clear that the u.s. is using kind of their the idea that iraqis don't want quote unquote freedom or quote unquote democracy which they may or may not want to do using that as a scapegoat for allowing you know iraq to to be into these days tight spots where they don't necessarily know who who whose we know which side to go and it's. it's a tough call here to try and play this middle man with with particularly with donald trump on the on the u.s. side in so that this tension and if this fails and if iraq is unable to perform as

some sort of mediator well enough to make the united states happy anyway then you know the white house is just going to sit back on its heels and say well you know we tried to do everything we could for this nation and it's just not working out without taking the responsibility for u.s. intervention in societies other than their own particularly in the in the middle east and yes you have said earlier that both parties are exaggerating their capabilities all trying to use it in a way to frame the own narrative we've seen the iranians of the same time saying that any washington goes into the area could be sunk by sick with weapons iranian secret weapons we've heard also how to filter the idea of triggering a referendum on the nuclear agreement how genuine is this from the. from the iranian army and i think you want to talk about the referendum the brics it vote has shown actually how about referendums work and some such delicate issues and i think the iranians are just this is again posturing trying to maybe find an attempt

to politically justify why they stick or don't stick. with a deal i wouldn't take that too seriously when it comes to the capability question here the iranians obviously have that sergeant network of which they control some more than others but they also do have hard conventional capability particular in the realm of ballistic missiles and i think this is where you know much much of the concern is here in the gulf you know in the arab g.c.c. countries in terms of the capability that iran can bring to bear they have an absolute overload of ballistic missiles of different ranges that the air defense systems on the gulf side of the arab gulf state could not be dealing with the americans know that they would be overwhelmed completely and they have capability to strike as they said us more ships not really with secret weapons here and the we know that how these weapons operate they're caught relatively sophisticated but they're you know u.s. infrastructure is definitely very vulnerable to this and i think what is key here now is to understand that the goal of dozens of one none not saudi not the

countries not them or ati's want a major combat operation because there would be the first ones to suffer from the backlash and retaliation from iran sami we've heard also the iranians say that they have quadrupled the iranian i'm in which million to three point six five six seven percent which was within the limits of the two thousand and fifteen year clear agreement but is this an indication that the iranians are saying that other same time they are also ready to pull the plug on the deal if the situation gets worse. yeah but i don't know how smart is the move because sticking to the nuclear deal would help them to create and to deepen the divide between america online side and europe on the other side and this was very helpful to it on a on the last decision and this will. help or will push a poor push them to more isolation i think that iran doesn't have an

interest in a classical type of forward just to build up on your last question with the guest i think that iran has developed smart be. some very efficient military assets one is called the proxies the second is by mistake and putting them back ballastic myside in the hand of that who see and do training. in iraq and lebanon that could at any point threaten american interests but without getting any of the sponsibility this was part of iran strategy and that each and so i won't be surprised if iran if it want to retaliate if it has no other choice it's so much under economic plans it has

to be ten year it will use one of these proxies. at their command robust but we have the supreme leader. saying delivering a rabid view to rouhani and that if say blaming them for some of the blunders of the nuclear the nuclear deal saying that it's whittled with ambiguity is he trying to say that if i decide to step in it is going to be a really tough action for my part. well you know i do. these deals are often struck with very fine lines between them and there's always a hedging our bets. when you go into these types of negotiations it seems in the sense that we expect the other party to to constantly perform as it always said it would and that there's an expectation that i would perform the way that i said that i would but times times change in the sense of how these negotiations go on and how

they end and how you feel at the end of those those negotiations particularly when you have you know pressures from outside the region pushing one way or the other so we have to we have to be cautious in the west particularly on how we talk about war and how we talk about striking another nation because these lines are always moving and there's always a lot of there's always a lot of tension one rung one wrong move from the white house in particular can really get these these these parties to to jockey. a very tense situation that they're also already bouncing under yes to what extent is john bolton the national security adviser. is the key player in shipping this whole policy against iran. well i wouldn't call him a policymaker because there is no real strategy or policy i think it's pure ideology and you know the funny thing is that someone i bowled in would always go and say the mullahs the deep state of the mullahs in iran they're all ideological

player the players that you know the irrational if you look at bolton he is on that same level he's an extremist idealogue obviously not an islamist one but on the other the other end of that spectrum and he is driving the narrative and he has for years been trying to frame iran as the menace in the region the biggest threat to national security without any substantiated evidence so everything he does is he was framing that securitisation effort which is basic reading a threat out of nothing trying to look for pretext is that he can then use and blame on the on the iranians and i think him and pompei or in particular are also the ones who are framing the white house who are pushing the white as to say look you know if you need to do something about iran despite the fact that donald trump himself doesn't want to war and he's run on a ticket in twenty eight twenty sixteen saying you know i don't want another war in the middle east why would he escalate with iran of all players where the u.s. has stands the least chance of actually coming out with

a victory sami many have been saying that the iranians reaction to the american move has been blown out of proportion but i mean for any iranian military strategist if you have someone like bolton all the other side of the atlantic pushing for an agenda saying in the past that he thinks iran should be bombed to set back the clock on its nuclear program don't you think that the iranians should be really genuinely concerned about what's happening on the ground. i think there are concern and i do believe that they want to negotiate but there are still waiting for november twenty twenty because they prefer to negotiate with someone different than tom that is always the most. in iran and among iranians so good to the obama era and this is it i would not turn and that is some kind of. of demand to put all the blame on the

hoax and the american administration and that out hoax and like mr bayle and mr. dunne however this is this doesn't i mean justify any and behavior on the ground the fact is doing that then last year the war on terror eclipsed. the problem was it on now that the war on terror is over or that law it's had on it any and behavior that's creating problem among the arab legion among what he was is that i we even we stood that is a member of. how that means that is something. something in behavior that needs to be addressed order to find a peaceful settlement but i see your point but i think this is going to be my question

to brothers but that is the issues also should be addressed with the trump administration because i mean common sense we're talking about one of the most volatile dangerous areas in the world beset by conflicts in of god his son in syria and iraq a different possibly the region of a suddenly trying to create conflict that could degenerate into a truck drive to miss a confrontation how do you see it's a robert well the really scary part yours is if this is. donald trump play at the short game in the sense that a republican candidate would do much better as a wartime president certainly. donald trump has said he hasn't wanted to have a war across the seas but we are seeing an escalation of the military's ation of the southern border of the united states and using tear gas on children militarization of that southern border so you know it at the same time he says he wants to have some sort of peace that certainly doesn't mean everywhere but you

know he's so so the short term here would be that there is some sort of military esko his sure he can fly across a meet with troops secure that part of his vote. and not really thinking about the long game i mean i think it's pretty pretty likely we have a second term for him and if this is how he's playing the short term it's kind of scary how he would play out the long term if there were an escalation how does that stretch out over years this is interesting times in a way andrus in the us i mean if you compare tom to bush bush had a global coalition and he had the backing of the congress. doesn't seem to have neither when it comes to the war or the push against the iranians i mean isn't this likely to be doomed to failure absolutely and that's why i'm saying we have we're still open very far away from a military escalation here because none of the components that the bush administration could rely on in two thousand and three are given we don't have the pretext of nine eleven that could be blamed on the iranians we having smaller

pretext is now in the region that are still not conclusively attributed attributable to the iranians. and the problem is that even the the entire administration trump is not behind this move is not like they speak with one voice the american people in majority against this military escalation this is just people on the fringes extreme fringes in washington that are pushing that line and i don't think that they have the kind of leverage to push and present like donald trump into into the war zone if he refuses to do so unfortunately we're running out of time by would be interesting to see how this crisis unfolds in the coming days and reassess critics i mean as a roberts thank you very much indeed for you contribute to the program and thank you for watching you can see the program again and it's by visiting our web site al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside saudi you can also join the conversation on twitter one hundred a.j. inside story from me and the whole team here by phone now.

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looking for regime change i just want to make that clear u.s. president donald trump changes his rhetoric on iran as he discusses trade and security in japan plus. i'm up watching in burnie and i'll be reporting on this country's efforts to get back precious stolen artifacts taken in the colonial era. provisional results in the european parliamentary elections show pro europe centrist parties have suffered heavy losses to our allies the liberals and greens made gains so too did the far right as barbara sarah explains are from brussels. she is the face of european populism and this was a moment she wanted to savor very lipin and her far right national rally came first in france's european parliamentary vote upstaging president of

a crohn's centrist pro you are in a sense mood. live for some of the view but to see a libel or not is assume the fading of traditional parties in the polarization between the national ready party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split between nationalist and globalist this fundamental debate will determine our nation and our people's future and will determine what voters will have to choose in the next elections. marine le pen's victory was echoed across the alps by methe tail salvini whose leg party was the biggest winner from italy's election results a strong anti immigration message and the focus on europe's christian identity won him around thirty percent of the vote so vini has formed a new right wing populist alliance with other like minded politicians from all over europe their gains weren't as big as some polls had suggested but the newly formed european alliance of peoples and nations could still be a force to be reckoned with in the european parliament of course we would see that

happening parties. which parties within the smaller groups inside the rupee in parliament in order to achieve major and more influence within the policymaking activity of the european parliament they may well decide it is better for them to join something is a license and therefore we could see is group grow and that you perhaps eighty or even ninety parliamentarians the elections major losers have been the center right and center left coalition for decades they've been able to dominate the chamber with their combined majority but they are both set to lose dozens of seats and their majority with them there is no the ability the reason those. they've been maturity without the e.p. and that's why the e.p.a. is ready for compromise ready for talks to join them but they have to work together that is all mine thank. you

alicia and building will be key in the new european parliament the green party has emerged a stronger from these elections coming second in germany and the liberals also saw their numbers increase. in these elections had the potential to change the very nature of the european union a fact that wasn't lost on voters turnout across the block has been the highest it's been in decades at just over fifty percent that result has been a fragmented parliament which in many ways reflects the divisions faced by the european union barbara sarah al-jazeera the european parliament in brussels in the u.k. nigel farage is new bracks a party has won the most seats says the public expressed their frustration over the deadlock on how to leave the european union but probably main parties combined one around the same percentage of support showing britain remains deeply divided over break said lawrence lee is live for us in london lawrence was this u.k.

vote another referendum on bracks it. yeah i think i think that's the way that certainly everybody has seen it that well i mean whatever else breaks it's done in this country it certainly politicized people they actual turnouts was was what was lower than across europe lower than forty percent so you know it's difficult to put an absolute definitive. say on what it all means but the but the newly formed party ended up with over thirty percent by itself that's at least thirty percent support in this country absolutely one it's but against that if you add up the numbers of votes for the five parties whose stated positions are either a second referendum or just revoking article fifteen a binding the entire projects that comes with a forty percent of the vote and so in that sense it is a slightly messy outcome because both sides can claim they won the brits that party

going around saying well we won we now demand a say in getting the u.k. out of the remain parties can say well obviously there is no majority for albrecht's it's at the same time. obviously the other big part of the story was the collapse of both the supposedly biggest part of the conservatives have had their worst ever showing in their history they came fifth even behind the green party so labor suffered too because of its completely ambiguous position on whether it wants to level or not leave the european union. well they just have some of the millions of you know as barbara was saying in that report of across europe you know the sensor is collapsing what brix it's done in this country is has collapsed. an idea of leaving the european union is being a soft warm. maintaining a trading relationship people don't seem to want that anymore they are the ones and absolutely hard leave or they don't want to leave it's all and that's left both the

concert was a labor stuck and they need to make their minds up quickly because the extension of the european union is given the u.k. on what is going to do about brit's it runs out of the end of october and after the summer which is soon the promise there are only twenty two parliamentary days left before that before the extension runs out so they haven't got much time now to decide what it is that they want to do all right lawrence thank you very much for that laurence leamer live for us in london and the european elections that delivered a boost to austria's chanceless about him curse those involved in a corruption scandal he's people thought do you want to run thirty four percent of the vote news in just one seat curses facing a no confidence vote in parliament on monday let's bring in dominic cain who is live for us in vienna so why is today's vote happening exactly. well the point here for the it's not that mr courts is involved directly in this scandal that's certainly not the case what is the case is the people that he had been in coalition with the far right freedom party of austria were deeply

implicated in a scandal that erupted the weekend before last and the point is that all of the ministers of that party were forced out by one foreign minister who remains in post the interesting thing about this no confidence vote is it's almost a vote that virtually nobody in the parliament wants to happen certainly mr kurtz doesn't want it but equally it's not really in the interests of either of the two other main parties in this parliament for it to happen it's been called as i say by one of the minor parties as an expression as it were of the discuss they felt at some of the antics of the party that mr cortes was in coalition with in so far as yesterday's election results are concerned for your rights certainly it was as it were a triumph for mr coats his party is seen as profiting from the scandal that has erupted this newspaper saying a triumph for courts before the threatened diesel action i.e. being voted out of parliament in the cool here the same thing a triumph but court faces potentially being voted off out of office and then lost

in that you see the same sort of headline a clear victory for mr courts so from his perspective this is a vote he doesn't want to take place but what happens then if he loses the vote. well then that is as it were the six million dollar question because as things stand thirty five percent of the votes so around one third of the austrian electorate clearly support mr course perhaps it might be more of a campaign if an election campaign has to be held remember we know already there will be an election in this country no later than the beginning of september that was what was agreed between mr courts and the president of the country mr funded belen from the green party last week so in some sense is what they're arguing about today's should they agree for an election in september or go for one sooner and remember that the two parties that might challenge mr coats they didn't prosper at

all in yesterday's election the far right freedom party lost votes and the social democrat party didn't really gain votes so yes if he gets voted out they'll be an earlier election but maybe he might be welcome that because it would mean a quicker chance to win a bigger number of seats in parliament and to dominate the next parliament and tommy kane live for us in vienna thank you very much dominick. now on to other world news and the u.s. president has said his not seeking regime change in iran has also reiterated his willingness to hold talks with iranian leaders and says he wants to do a deal with tehran over its nuclear weapons donald trump made those comments during his third day of better to japan and i'm not looking that hurt iran a lot i'm looking to have iran say no nuclear weapons we have enough problems in this world right now with nuclear weapons no nuclear weapons for and i think will make a deal i think are rare and again i think iran has tremendous economic potential and i look forward to letting them get back to the stage where they can show that i

think iran i know so many people from iran these are great people it has to cheers to be a great country with the same leadership we're not looking for regime change i just want to make that clear al-jazeera is wayne he has more now from tokyo. it was a wide ranging media conference given by the u.s. president donald trump and japanese prime minister shinzo talking about north korea trade and iran in fact donald trump compared north korea to iran he has spoken several times in the past about the economic potential he believes that north korea has he said the same thing in that media conference about iran he said that the u.s. is not looking for regime change what they are looking for in iran is a country without nuclear weapons he says that he thinks that iran wants to talk and if they do want to talk then the united states is willing to do so the japanese prime minister shinzo are they also spoke about this issue japan and iran

traditionally relatively close we had the iranian foreign minister in tokyo less than two weeks ago and shinzo is considering a trip to tehran sometime in the middle of june in the bilateral meeting with donald trump the u.s. president said that he supported that prospect and we've also had in the past the japanese prime minister offering to mediate in this dispute there was no specific mention all of that during this media conference all the bilateral meeting as far as we understand other issues discussed not surprisingly there was no significant announcement regarding a trade deal between the united states and japan and north korea despite the discussed at length especially the issue of abductees japanese citizens taken by north korea and the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's it's an issue that shinzo abbay wants resolved he's willing to meet north korean leader kim jong il and to get that issue resolved something that donald trump says he supports.