allegations there are 3 corruption cases hanging over him there were efforts under way by netanyahu allies to try to get an immunity bill passed and also to try to change the or 40 that the supreme court would potentially have in the future to overturn that immunity bill so what netanyahu wants is a functioning government not just to enact his own policies but also to ensure his viable so if he were to govern one option would be the could govern under a minority government but then that government would be very unlikely to get those sorts of protections put in place the norm is that if one member of the knesset can't get a coalition together then it goes back to the president and he could potentially giving that benny gantz and boom white also got $35.00 seats he could potentially offer it to benny gantz to try to put a coalition together even though the numbers don't look very much in his favor and so both of those things it seems netanyahu doesn't want so it looks like his other

option if he doesn't get a coalition the next few minutes is to get a law enacted to dissolve the knesset and have another round of elections in 3 months time that would be unprecedented in israeli history and he also needs to convince members of his own party the ones who only just scraped into this knesset by the skin of their teeth and might feel that given a another round of elections they may well not get in he has to convince them to vote for dissolving the knesset anyway and with their 1st piece of legislation potentially rule themselves out of a job so it's an extremely difficult situation that he finds himself in thank you very much for lester's them harry for set. well now iranian president hassan rouhani has suggested talks with the u.s. might be possible if washington lift sanctions imposed of attack iran's nuclear program it comes after the u.s. national security adviser blamed iranian naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the united arab emirates earlier this month john bolton did not

provide any evidence to back up these comments he's currently visiting the u.a.e. way he said america had been successful in deterring what he described as threats from iran in the region well those tensions between iran and the u.s. are expected to be the main focus of a security summit in saudi arabia on thursday it's emerged that catalyzed prime minister is due to attend the event which will be the 1st high level meeting since cattles neighbors imposed a blockade 2 years ago she. been highly for funny will join diplomats from saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and other countries in mecca ahead of that foreign ministers from the organization of islamic cooperation and you to meet in jeddah in the coming hours so al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashar joins me now to discuss this and 1st of all marwan how how important is the attendance of the country premiere at the summit in mecca it's an important step there's no doubt after 2 years apart

alice's. clearly the 4 blockading countries have run out of ammunition. they've come to a dead end qatar continues to thrive in and so on so forth despite the blockade and the invitation this is a 2nd invitation to qatar to attend really is a sign that perhaps saudi arabia like partners might be interested in more of our normal relations with gata i think what we would need to pay attention to is whether on the sideline of those summits would be bilateral meetings but that's what the see i can say and of course we have seen the recent tensions between tehran and washington that is likely to take center stage and of course recent accusations of attacks on saudi assets it all brings with it this risk of an escalation how are gulf states then reacting to these recent tensions

well look oman and qatar have been trying to much more mediate or at least moderate the both the positions of riyadh and the one because no one really seriously especially the smaller states are interested in any escalation of the conflict and certainly no one is interested in war and yet iran the united states and even saudi arabia are sort of you know walking eyes wide shot at the words some sort of a confrontation and everyone is building up forces and as we heard earlier even the united states now deploying extra forces in saudi arabia qatar and other countries . so clearly this there when we hope that out of the summits there would be both a sort of that at the among arabs among gulf countries visit iran but there will also be a message of let's deescalate and let's find political solutions to the questions because in the end of the day even person trump has made it clear the last 48 hours

that unites is not interested in regime change into her own and the united states is not interested in the bigger picture as his national security advisor gibbs saying but there are other is focused on the nukes and the idea that the united states that iran does not develop nuclear weapons thank you very much more on the sharon. and with al jazeera live from london there is more still ahead for you on the program. tomorrow it could be your industry your company your consumers chinese tech giant legal challenges it's blacklisting by the united states saying the ban will harm millions of users and thousands of ethnic serbs protest in kosovo after police forces arrest several people and one of the balkans most tense areas.

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welcome back just a quick look at the top stories this hour now special counsel robert muller has made his 1st public comments since his investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election well it says charging president donald trump was never an option available to him. israel's prime minister is running out of time to form a coalition government or face a 2nd election benjamin netanyahu has less than 2 hours to secure the support of a big joe lieberman's nationalist israel but 10 new posse and cattles prime minister is due to attend a security summit in saudi arabia on thursday it will be the 1st highlevel meeting since castle's neighbors imposed a blockade 2 years ago. when other stories we're following at least 10 civilians

have been killed in the latest wave of barrel bomb attacks and as strikes in northwest syria government and russian forces launched the attacks on wednesday syria's civil defense volunteers known as the white helmets tried to rescue people from the rubble but the constant bombing ended their efforts as strikes and shelling by syria and russia have killed more than 250 civilians over the past few weeks and that frightens a fragile truce in september. a pregnant woman has been killed and several other people injured after a gunfight broke out between members of saddam's security forces protesters demanding the country's military rulers transfer power to civilians while on the streets during the 2nd day of a nationwide strike when the shooting began imran khan reports now from khartoum. tensions on the streets of khartoum us 2 different units of the sudanese armed forces shoot at each other one woman died and several others were injured it took

place at one of the entrances to the sit in where protesters have been demanding civilian rule it's unclear why the incident took place and the soldiers have now withdrawn the protest movement has issued a statement asking people not to react and to continue with the strike. call to a nice standstill and the protest movement says it has the upper hand and is threatening more strikes if the transitional military council doesn't come back to the negotiating table. however the ruling transitional military council criticized the strikes saying the army was part of the revolution i don't know who the ins armed forces are part of the revolution by god we are and then think part of this revolution and without us all morning rush would have been said empowered by god i'm telling you no one would have been able to remove him not was out us a handful of shops and government offices did open but the strike is widespread enough for the organizers to deem it a success the plan today walkout was organized by the sudanese professionals

association on behalf of the opposition coalition. of the workers who walked out they hope that the military leaders who replaced ousted president omar al bashir will listen to their demands for a civilian led government so he just likes to do this right but we're going for more they don't. want her she was a little shocked at one of the 1st search for the transitional military council hasn't reacted to the protesters demands. insead saying the protest movement has been infiltrated by anti sudanese elements now that's the charge of the protests is actually deny but they say they will continue their campaign of civil disobedience and strikes the opposition coalition will be hoping that the story gives them negotiating power and that the transitional military council will have to listen and we have talks if they don't opposition leaders say they will take further action such as more strikes for now the padlocks remain firmly closed as do the

talks between the 2 parties imran khan is there a hot chinese takeout hallway stepped up its legal fight against u.s. sanctions the companies filed a motion in court to have bans on its business deemed unconstitutional u.s. federal agencies in contract as are barred from using hallway quitman for national security reasons the company is the world's largest telecoms network and has repeatedly denied that it is controlled by the chinese government we believe these sets then just precedent that they is tannic com and our way tomorrow it could be your industry your company your consumers serbia is blaming nato and the european union for surgeon tensions in kosovo after a police raid spawn to anger among ethnic serbs jews days operation in a sub dominated area of kosovo received

a fear is response in belgrade where the government puts troops on full alert thousands of ethnic serbs in attributes where the raid took place have held a protest. is that. the towering statue of king those are in north meter feeds are is a symbol of serbian pride in this predominantly ethnic serbs municipality in north and kosovo people are angry over what they call intimidation by prishtina kosovo's police of launch an anti smuggling operation in the area the majority of those arrested were ethnic serbs the list when you're looking at this is the issue of the election of course in the future i just don't know if people believe in. keeping the peace as much as we can the flow but every single action can cause a more damage especially about the least of the 2 thirds in the opinion some protesters say police used unnecessary violence but this is what you should not

frighten children bait people and destroy property as if they're trying to push us out serbia's president has put the country's troops on full alert as tensions escalate the european union's foreign policy chief called on both sides to resume talks if we miss this opportunity i see the risk of the dark forces of the past coming back in terms of confrontation even of conflict the course of a declared independence from serbia in 2008 after a nato bombing campaign back to course of an separatists but belgrade refuses to recognize it matter of its a is a divided city over there is south of the bear river it's mainly albanian on this side it's mainly serbian and has a similar picture across northern kosovo when 90 percent of the population also and most say they want to be part of serbia last year the presidents of course of own serbia discuss warping territory in exchange for serbia recognizing kosovo

a move the worries albanians in north mitra viets a man in the town secure the idea of partition is harmful and it endangered the lives of the people living in this neighborhood. but i'm sure partition will not happen and this is all about politics prishtina and belgrade showed no sign of being closer to resolving their differences but in a town where ethnic divisions are deep and memories of the balkans war still fresh a few people here want a new conflict natasha butler al-jazeera. kosovo now the front runner in the race to become the u.k.'s next prime minister has been ordered to court over allegations he lied to the public during the break that referendum campaign or is johnson famously claim that the u.k. sent $440000000.00 a week to the e.u. and bracks it would allow that money to be spent on the health service but opponents say the number was false and deliberately misleading paul brennan reports . that is the big red bricks it for us and it's $350000000.00 pound slogan

had an enormous impact on the bracks it campaign and boris johnson embraced enthusiast tickly sometimes even embellishing it why we said 10 pounds a year that brussels but the battle bus claim that britain sent $350000000.00 pounds that's approximately $440000000.00 a week to brussels is demonstrably false it follows johnson continued to use the figure through to 2017 even earning himself a rebuke from the u.k. statistics or 43 what we could do with another 300000000 if. the money needed to launch a private prosecution was crowd funded by campaign a marcus ball whose case alleges that johnson's claims had been irresponsible and dishonest amounting to misconduct in a public office johnson's lawyers denied the allegations but the magistrate issued a summons johnson himself must now answer the charges in court district judge coleman decided doubts having considered all the relevant facts is she was

satisfied that this is a proper case in which to issue a summons against mr johnson for 3 counts of misconduct in public office if there is a beautiful day there has been no response from boris johnson or his spokesman but the timing is extraordinary johnson is the current frontrunner to replace to resubmit and if he wins he could find himself as a prime minister facing trial that might make it harder for him to kind of just blow past this one. and also it's a very serious charge to to suggest that has contributed to. the outcome of the referendum and all that goes with that is something that i think you might find quite hard to shake off. concerns about the character and truthfulness of politicians are not new. george orwell described politics as a mass of lies evasion folly but seeing

a politician held criminally responsible for misleading campaign slogans would indeed be a startling precedent paul brennan al-jazeera central london. and australian teenager who cracked an egg on a controversial politician is donating tens of thousands of dollars to survivors of the new zealand mosque attacks 17 year old we'll call him the ag far right senator fraser adding at a news conference in march after the senate blamed muslim migration for the mosque shootings footage of the incident went viral and online fundraising campaigns were set up for connally's legal defense but now he's no longer required to face court and says he will give away almost all the thief $17000.00. secret look at top stories this hour now u.s. special counsel robert mueller has made his 1st public comment since releasing his

report on possible russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election when i said his 2 year investigation was never going to end with charges against president trump as it's unconstitutional to charge a sitting president but he said as reported not clear trump of all wrongdoing responding on twitter president trump declared a case closed if we had called confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime the introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision it explains that under longstanding department policy a president president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view that too is prohibited in our

headlines israel's prime minister is running out of time to form a coalition government or vice president and 2nd election of the year by jimmy netanyahu is a right wing coalition has until midnight local time that's an hour and a half from now to secure the support of nationalists user of the 10 a faction without him netanyahu has no parliamentary majority and won't be able to form a government within the 42 day deadline iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali hominine has reiterated that to iran will not negotiate over its nuclear and missile programs with the united states it comes after the u.s. national security adviser blamed iranian naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the united arab emirates earlier this month john bolton did not provide any evidence to back up his comments. and cattles prime minister is due to attend a security summit in saudi arabia on thursday it will be the 1st high level contact since castro's neighbors imposed a blockade on it 2 years ago. in nasr been highly for a funny will join diplomats from saudi arabia the u.a.e.

and other countries in the city of mecca. the top stories this hour up next the strain. i am from the ok and i'm really good we are in the stream today all u.s. iran relations heading towards a minute she conflict escalating tensions are stoking fears of war as always we'd love to hear your thoughts so similar comments in your questions to us via twitter or in our live you tube channel. jeffery story

a university of amsterdam and you are in the street. this month for us in iran relations took a sharp turn when the u.s. sent an aircraft carrier and missiles to the region it was meant to counter specify potential iranian attack on u.s. interests both nations have since engaged in back and forth rhetoric that some say is headed towards conflict u.s. national security advisor john bolton said wednesday that an attack on all the time because they were united arab emirates this month was almost certainly carried out by iran iran's foreign ministry called bolton's claim ludicrous so here to talk about the u.s. iran relationship is. a commentator and consultant editor with the independent also here on site is hillary mann leverett a political risk consultant and former official in the white house national security council and via skype from. a ph d. candidate at the university of toronto welcome to the stream everyone i want to

start with our community they have so many things to say about this topic and the 1st one comes to be a twitter this is sudra who says to prevent further escalation somebody should take away trump cell phone or filter his tweets before they're posted so hillary talked to us about how real this risk of conflict is are we one poorly worded tweet away from war well in fact what's interesting here is how how. in the sense positive and if you can use that word in this context which we have been in contrast to particularly national security adviser john bolton's statements his official statements from the white house press podium have been the scariest most terrifying statements that we've had in a very long time since back in the bush administration when president bush labeled iran part of the axis of evil what's useful here is the president when he's unscripted actually search shows seems to show the possibility of a strategic instinct to deal with iran the islamic republic of iran as it is that's

an important strategic impulse and for whatever problems we have with president trump we should encourage that. i want to show you guests this because i'm just wondering this key dates between april and now where things have seemed to escalate and i want you to sort of look at each of the dates and say ok that was bad that was really serious oh no no that's just rhetoric so something here we've got a statement this is a statement from the president on the designation. god corps as a foreign terrorist organization that's what it looks like and have a look at a timeline in the graphic here how bad is that. that's pretty about that was one of that was the script a moment that's one part of the policy that maximum pressure came in part of the official military government good or bad i don't want to exonerate the revolutionary guards and everything they're doing but they designated them as a terrorist organization that was a bad strategic move and i think it was pushed by the hawkish team that

a vice president on foreign policy not by his instincts to go ahead and go show that there are. 0 to 10 is as bad 10 is really bad. or what was particularly odd about it was at the exact same time u.s. officials were sitting with taliban officials who had also been designated as terrorists in doha and other places to negotiate with them so one had the scripted moment was incredibly bad but what the administration is doing is they're talking to terrorists and they're making deals with them all over the place to tell you cover a different perspective because you are sitting there that day when you saw that move by the united states. how how did you catch that how how worried were you. well definitely as other cards have mentioned are so that was a very wrong call. measure by the united states and i also think that distance didn't come only from. the b.

team and especially barton who is known for his hockey policies and who even president tran described as if hadn't been for him in the u.s. had gone on at least 4 wars across the world so yeah i think this is very hard and. the irony is that barton is himself a. major sponsor in advocate of the n.p.t. which is known as a very dangerous terrorist group. are though they describe him as you really and dissidents but they are very terrorists nature so i said it doesn't really mean with 2nd one day i'm going to move on because we've got a famous italian hey let me give you this state here and pull the knife have a look and put a knife in what happened here so we've got iran to cause us government a state sponsor of terrorism fest well as an iranian i love that because i mean 1st of all the u.s.

has had. illegal military presence in many other countries and just take a look at them our military bases around iran like. iran is the only country in the region where the u.s. does not have military press presence because iran has not allowed it and do we are the ones who have sponsored terrorism and terrorist groups like taliban and isis so . what are you really as an iranian approve of 2 more dates where do these back to back some just want to find out how close are we to conflict may the 5th. national security adviser john bolton announces carrier deployment in the middle east and then the next state may the 24th trump announces 1500 additional troops the middle east how close are we to war right now. well back then when that was announced it was that was a very very dangerous week and by war i mean any kind of military conflict that

could even come out of accidents a very volatile region i think since then it has the rhetoric from both sides has somewhat deescalated and we haven't heard news of new deployment or new plans for military but that could change any day think i'll take a contrarian view which i did when i was in the bush administration and didn't land me that well with mr bolton who is now back in the trump administration but when i heard about these deployments and the deployment of the u.s. b. 52 bomber i actually thought things might not be that bad that this was really just for show that there was something else here this was perhaps a show to precision maybe some sort of talks or invitations or talks because it's normal for the u.s. in terms of the u.s. government to have an aircraft carrier in the in the gulf if we didn't have one that would be strange and that should worry people because that would be that's the normal scope of operations and it's a huge target for the iranians to hit if they wanted to do so in self defense the

other piece to send $1500.00 troops it was leaked to the new york times that they were thinking about sending 100000 troops then it went down 210000 troops of the 1500 troops it's very important to understand that how of those are replacing people who are coming back so we're talking about 5 or $600.00 new troops that's really nothing in the scope of u.s. military deployment and the b. $52.00 doesn't need to be in day it can be louisiana and still bomb iran so all of that was really for show it's not a real military escalation but it certainly puts into into scope a much higher propensity for an accident or an accident a planned accident and when you talk about the accident of the planned accident i want to bring up. the name that has already been mentioned here several times in our community is also mentioning enough words that is john bolton national security adviser dr bharti is as bolton is a direct link to ongoing tensions he wants to keep the region in a fragile situation another person writes in saying get rid of bolton so i've heard

your take on hillary gar when you look at the people that president trying to surround himself with if you think there's a disconnect there between what trump is saying out loud about iran and what his cabinet and his advisers are saying we should do i think part of it is john bolton has been laser focused on some kind of conflict talked about bombing iran he's talked about regime change with their own on their record it's no secret to anybody he's there hawkish and when we heard that you join president on there were even reports behind the scenes that he's promised the president to not start a war with iran so as far as the side of president isolationists doesn't war another doesn't want another war with the middle east and his base does i'm on it i think bolton and trump are completely complete opposite sides but at the same time the president is also a strong man like he kind he likes the posture he likes all the fox news presidents and john bolton in some ways helping him in putting the maximum pressure to then eventually get him to deal with

a negotiation he was i just don't think this strategy is the best that would get him to president's goal john bolton is what is the strategy is it poking the lion what would you how would you just maximal brochure basically as they call it stick and carrot this is just a more stick strategy with no carrot as opposed to for example what the obama administration use you said but also a carrot to incentivize their audience for a reason to come to the table i think there is more even more of a interesting strategy going to which is hard to ascribe to president trump especially especially in washington where he otherwise appalled so many of us but the strategy i think is twofold one is to put us to the precipice of crisis where we really. could go off the cliff into a major war but that would allow trump to come out with the victory of the century the deal of the century as he likes to call it to have a deal with an iran that's complying with the 2015 iran nuclear deal that's not doing anything to bother anybody that's not really a valuable deal for president trump so i think his 1st priority is to get this

amazing deal because iran was portrayed as so terrible and brought us to the brink of conflict but then a 2nd choice which we should be really worried about if iran doesn't come to his table on his terms is i've heard administration official characterize it this this way he's willing to see look just like caracas to weaken iran we can iranian power weaken it territorially and politically that is very disturbing which is what has already started absolutely let me just go to. a statement and you come right off the back of this president trump made when he was in japan i'm a the 27th so you can kind of see what's going on in his mind and how he's looking at us or wrong relations have a miss. and i have to tell you one other country i really believe that iran would like to make a deal and i think that's very smart of them and i think that's a possibility to happen also look what happened since i terminated the iran dia look what has happened to iran iran when i 1st came into office was a terror they were fighting in many locations all over the middle east they would

be behind every single major attack whether it was syria whether it was yemen whether it was individual smaller areas whether it was taking away or oil from people they were involved with everything now they're pulling back because they've got serious economic problems and i'm not looking the to hurt iran it 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 rent and i think we'll make a deal. there was a lot more than level we cut that down to today that is half assing chunk of looking at the last little since actions of fall back into play how have you seen the last year from the specter of being in iran was sipping like. well the basis of his claims against iran though he has changed his rhetoric a little bit after. the president. is that iran is seeking

nuclear weapons for desist contrary to the international atomic agency. reports and spec sions beyond the normal protocol. so i mean i think the us administration knows very well that iran is not seeking nuclear iran has never been seeking nuclear weapons and we do not have any record of attacking any other countries but the thing is the trump is using this as a once again another excuse to bring iran into table 2 like hillary also mentioned to me he is on deal in make iran to surrender to his terror. i think it's it is also has to do with. policy to kind of milk so do you. make you give more money to the u.s. by creating an apparently

a security dilemma concerns united arab emirates and saudi arabia and persuades them into buying more weapons. that point that you just mean about trump paving the way for him to make his own deal i want to bring in a comment we can start on you tube from sheltie who says i would get back to the negotiating table as soon as possible and we implement the death e.p.o. the iran nuclear deal if that even possible so that's just one person's perspective but hilary where are we right now because of course iran didn't pull out of the deal the u.s. you know who exactly that the u.s. broke in agreement that was already negotiated so how do you then get back to the table is this about. trump negotiating his own deal that has his name on it i think absolutely and while they try to the rhetoric now is more positive out of japan and that's a really important piece of that to get more into he has gone cold on iran from the beginning from during the campaign as he was really trashing the deal he was also

saying he could deal with iran and make his own great deal and i think that's important because it's not just about iran for trump or for those even around him it's about having china be subordinate to the united states for china had to have to come hot in hand to beg the united states for its energy imports every barrel of oil it now imports basically has to go through the white house the trump administration to see whether they approve it's about germany being able to have fruitful trade with iran it's not just about iran it's about forcing iran into a bilateral relationship where it's subordinate subject to u.s. pressure and u.s. superpower the weight of the u.s. superpower but it's about other countries too and that's where when japan comes in it's really important japan is a economically powerful country it's a politically powerful country it has not just a decades long i think this year is the 90th anniversary of iran japan relations but this prime minister 1st went to iran in 1903 with his father his father was the

foreign minister then and his father was trying to be the peace envoy just to help solve the iran iraq war it was his dream it was his passion and ave prime minister aves father was the rising star in japanese politics and was forced to resign now his son has that chance and we should we should really think hard about. i'm just looking at the guardian headline that says donald trump welcome to japan's off of mediation with iran i'm skating up and you go you can see it much but at that it's not i'm just thinking about japan as a as a country the relationship between iran and egypt and how close is that is a relationship. oh well obviously ron does have relations were japan but we also have to remember. though japan would be a good because of good relations exist between the 2 countries the thing is iran

has once showed a result lucre that it abides by its commitments with the international deals but the us with the european partners of the deal never did anything to stand up against the us so there is no guarantee trump would not do the same thing is even if he gets his own do you know he doesn't want a deal to be. obama's name but there is also because i mean look at trump's record of leading international treaties and as far as the us and the white house in general does not change its course of actions there is no way that iran would accept any mediators. i just want to ask something that's important to know that japan is like switzerland and holds as the intersection for us benefits in iran but it's a western nation saw it will be seen as someone on the other side iran's

a regional neighbors like iraq or something like qatar they seem more on their roster but japan is somebody who's outside who's not a western country it's a powerful country but it's not consider western on the u.s. side it's not really consider middle eastern on iran side it's like out of the way out of the 10 i think it would be an interesting neutral intermediary if. they can pour something as delicate as us on the key is going to be. to have facts on the ground that japan actually creates facts on the ground because it's absolutely right that you cannot trust president trump to sign a piece of paper because clearly he's showing that the president united states or the united states government signing on to anything. it's meaningless you have to have real you have to have real concrete action and so the 2 things that japan could help with are. trade having economic trade with iran helping iran especially at this time after the devastating floods with reconstruction to use

that channel there the international court of justice has ordered the united states to allow humanitarian aid into iran and japan is perfectly positioned to do that and to really start the stream going of economic trade and to go the most important thing to me would be a prime minister may want to see to show the world that iran is not isolated that doesn't have that trump card to play that iran you can't just portray iran as being so isolated and he has a good personal relationship with the president of course so those are one way towards a future that has deescalating tensions sanctions that are not as high as they potentially are right now but i want to share the thoughts of another way this is up there she is a resident scholar and writer based here in d.c. and here's what she told the stream as we can see from president trump's visit to japan the united states now is trying to deescalate the conflict with iran and the ministration is moving in the direction toward asking for negotiations and one way

i think that these negotiations could happen is if the united states meets a major concession to the iranians such as lifting temporarily the sanctions on their oil exports this would allow president rouhani to actually come to the table through foreign minister zarif. novara how likely do you see that being. the lifting of sanctions as a way to then deescalate the situation well this is actually something president rouhani signal today that there could be very indirectly that they could be the possibility of opening up negotiations if the u.s. lifted the same just because the reimposition of sanctions are basically the main violation of the deal the end of the bargain that the u.s. was supposed to fulfill was to remove same shows which president trump brought back so it doesn't matter what the name of the deal is a what what's happening politically the actual economic impact on the ground are the sanctions so that would be

a very important step and now is there any is what i actually see as the u.s. president coming here just a little bit of thing iranian president so we can you can hear the spirit of compromise that's what i'm hearing have a listen. how much. time will go to whomever they stop cruelty against our nation put aside the cruel sanctions stand up for their commitments and return to the negotiating table which they left themselves the road will not be closed for them the road is open the role of the ruin of the road is open that sounds like will happen just and trump may take them up on it but trump also has a problem here in his domestic politics senator cotton pretty extreme senator from arkansas who has been as a possibility to be the defense secretary he's been passed over for that he was so concerned that could try to lift sanctions even temporarily that he has legislation now that he's drafted that would prevent him from lifting the sanctions so it's not

this is a problem that trump inherited from prior administrations prior administrations including president obama who was not just a great guy in this scenario he helped president clinton before him to an ak sanctions into law that gives congress so much power that even a president whether it was president obama or president trump they don't have the maneuvering room to just lift sanctions if they wanted to senator clinton i think will see to that we got a common sense out of that i wanted to rx you on you tube one person said in answer to the question of what will it take to bring the u.s. and iran back to the negotiating table or to the negotiating table the 1st place they write iran would have to allow full access to all known iranian military and nuclear facilities and this will not have been what's your take on that you thought it. well obviously i think that's impossible i mean no country would allow for inspection of their military bases and military facilities because that's a about

a country's security and national security in iran is not going to negotiate on. you know military abilities in the treaty capabilities so i think that that's true that it's impossible to happen through this but if the u.s. is really willing to have a conversation with have a dialogue with iran they have to 1st accept the reunion step that as a logical entity which is playing for the sake of it. i mean tries to see if guarded on national interests and they have to leave an international. internationally supported guarantee that if iran abides by its commitments they would truly. the you know the if the sanctions because this did not happen with e.g. c.p.o. a with their u.s. pulled out of it or not in. i think the main concern is that. even if there is

a mediator and even if a temporary lift the sanctions on iran's oil storage or humanitarian aid. what is what is the guarantee there dad this is not going to happen again our nations are not in. your ways important questions to tally and hillary and they are thank you so much for being on the show there's so much to talk about we talk about high level politics here we talk about other people which is much more important i think right if you want to know more about how to say our journalists are covering the u.s. around story. has an excellent idea and they can take out the latest episode of the al-jazeera pod cast the take were and be. going in as house you can find it on twitter at a.j. they take it here on my screen and and tell next time let me i will see you online we're looking for your thoughts.

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didn't clear trump of all wrongdoing it was in jordan has long for more than 2 years robert mueller has not spoken about his investigation into charges russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. presidential election a wednesday moeller told reporters this will be the 1st and last time they and congress will hear from him any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress this may not go over well with house democrats who have been negotiating with the justice department to have muller testify perhaps behind closed doors allegation miller has been criticized for not

charging u.s. president donald trump with trying to disrupt the investigation despite new reports saying he had considered doing so the special counsel explained why he did it and the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge moeller underscored a couple of points he said there's no doubt the russian government meddled in the 2016 race and muller did not criticize the way attorney general bill barr handled the release of the final report despite many stories saying he thought barr had mischaracterized his team's conclusions trump quickly reacted on twitter nothing changes from the mala report there was insufficient evidence and therefore and our

country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you but for congressional democrats the case is not closed the next step is for the house judiciary committee to open an impeachment inquiry to formally began consideration of whether or not articles of impeachment should be filed no one not even the president of the united states is above the law to be clear moeller did not clear trump of wrongdoing but he also made it clear while he can't hold the president accountable there are others who can do so if they want rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. in our other top stories israel's prime minister is running out of time to form a coalition government or face numb precedented 2nd election of the year benjamin netanyahu is right wing coalition has until midnight local time an hour from now to secure the support of a duel even means nationalist years or up to 10 a faction without him netanyahu has no parliamentary majority of won't be able to

form a government within the 42 day deadline iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has recently to that to iran will not negotiate over its nuclear and missile programs with the united states it comes after the u.s. national security adviser blamed iranian naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the u.a.e. earlier this month john bolton did not provide any evidence to back up his comments and cattle as prime minister is due to attend a security summit in saudi arabia on thursday it will be the 1st high level meetings since councils neighbors imposed a blockade on it 2 years ago she had been also been funny will join diplomats from saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and all the countries for a summit which is set to take place in the city of mecca what brings you up to date with all of our top stories this hour now in an age of nonstop news feeds and social media one of the stories and images that stay with us

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