u.s. and mexico to work together to improve economic conditions and security in the impoverished crime ridden central american countries the root causes of migration the deal is a political victory for trump who has made stopping migration the central pillar of his political brand and who had faced opposition from within his party to the proposed tariffs rob reynolds washington. has new sanctions on its petrochemical industry shows the u.s. isn't serious about its calls for renegotiating the nuclear deal the sanctions target tehran's largest petro chemical group which provides it billions of dollars to the islamic revolutionary guard corps washington's friend the elite military unit a terrorist organization comes a week after my palm pal announced the u.s. was ready to sit down with tehran for safari joins us live now from tehran said or so what are these sanctions mean. well they mean that this large company and 39 of its subsidiaries are now under severe sanctions

by the united states government anyone trying to do any business with them will be punished this company is known to provide economic support to her family that is the construction firm that of the revolutionary guard it's one of the biggest companies in the country they've been awarded major projects by the government just in 2013 there are figures reportedly about $22000000000.00 of government programs that have been awarded to them that to rebuild they're in charge of mainly rebuilding different parts of the country many of the bridges and tunnels in teheran have been built by this company so it's a very big company but it's not something that the international community will be very familiar with they are known to work very domestically but of course this means that the international community dealing with this large company is now

indirectly cutting off ties with how come i'm as well so what's the reaction from the capital this morning according to the foreign ministry spokesperson aapl some savvy this is a continuation of the behavior they've seen from the trumpet ministration it's economic terrorism they call it and the further pressure and isolation that is being put on the iranian nation the foreign ministry spokesperson went on to say that this proves that the united states government is not serious about any discussions they want to have with iran about their nuclear program and it just shows the true face of this government in the u.s. that they're not really interested in coming to terms with what iran is doing in their own country and that they want to further isolates the country's economy. by live for us and iran thank you. so at odd al jazeera the struggle to find life

saving medicines and again then is years of war an import restrictions take their toll. pakistan's new plan to get more children off the streets and back in the classroom. the web and sponsored by cattle and raise. hell or much of eastern europe is still warm and occasionally sundry but not as bad as it was you cannot say the same further west that kill a cow that obvious could have clout of the british isles has brought winds gusting about a 140 kilometers per hour across the ship open is not as vicious as it was but it's hardly june is it it's rather more like march or maybe october certainly not the middle of the early part of summer but there it is all the same is on its way across the north sea taking the wind the rain with it towards scandinavia brushing the low countries on the way the temperatures have dropped hugely and with the sun

that they recover a little bit 20 in paris 17 in london still shooty different to central eastern europe still with that line of grain we suggest henri whether or dancer remain which is already suffered some pretty awful flash flooding from what happened just a few days ago in the same situation now was western europe has come down by the end of sunday the legacy of slight change in the wind direction is still to be found in morocco and algeria not much certainly in the sky but the wind direction still keeps for about it 20 to knowledge is a $25.00 where is tunis surprisingly not far away is a steady middle to hard thirty's. the weather sponsored by the time weighs. stories generate found and along with different angles from different perspectives giuliana son just long standoff with international borders is finally over separate the spin from the

facts. and misinformation from some protestors complaining about the under-reported of police violence the sensationalizing the demonstrations with the listening post 0. watching on syria let's recap the top stories right now sans opposition is accusing the military average acting mediation efforts after a protest leader was arrested ahmed us not was detained hours after taking part in talks led by ethiopian prime minister obviously. iran says new u.s. sanctions are evidence washington isn't ready for negotiations the u.s.

is targeting terrorists largest petro chemical proof which provides billions of dollars to the elite revolutionary guard. and mexico has agreed to a deal with the u.s. to avoid import tariffs on all its goods will deploy additional troops at its southern border to block migrants going into the united states john hallman has more from the southern mexico city atop a chilean near the border with lot of mala. so a deal has been reached between mexico and the united states there will be no tariffs on monday goods from mexico heading stateside and the mexican foreign minister's already come out and said that it's a good deal for him it's a good deal because some of the more extreme suggestions from the united states in his view were included in this among them a 3rd safe country agreement which basically would have meant for mexico that guatemalans had to stop in mexico and ask for asylum here rather than continuing to the united states but it has the country here has had to give up on things as well

one of the main measures is that the national guard the new quite militarized force that president lopez obrador was hoping would be able to tackle mexico's record levels of violence is going to make it a priority heading to the southern border to deal with immigration and that's probably something that president lopez obrador trying to tackle mexico's violence wouldn't be incredibly happy about another thing that's quite big from mexico's point of view is the asylum seekers that always before waited in the united states while their case when through the courts and now going to be waiting in mexico on the mexican side while their asylum case is heard and he's concluded that's ready something that the united states has started doing unilaterally there's about 8 to 10000 people now waiting in mexico from other countries a lot of them while their cases heard stateside but it's now become something

that's going to be expanded and the mexico's had to embrace really that the foreign minister said that there's going to be work programs and human rights programs for those who do stay in mexico while their case is heard in the you know i am resolved in the united states but all in all probably a deal that mexico wouldn't be too displeased about there is all. so another group of people obviously involved here and those are the migrants themselves coming from central america honduras el salvador guatemala countries suffering from violence and poverty but see that they maybe haven't got little they've got little option other than to head north what's going to happen to them now that there's going to be tougher controls possibly they're going to have to take other routes for mexico but a more dangerous avoiding the main roads we've yet to see what is the human cost obviously for them. the rebels in yemen have released new images showing what they say are saudi military positions they have captured near the border the rebels say they've

killed dozens of saudi soldiers in the southern city of najaf ron with the media release this video which appears to show fighting and weapons from the saudi u.a.e. coalition some of the footage shows what they say is the wreckage an american made drone the coalition which backs the government has not confirmed reports and the coalition's been restricting imports and c.n.n. for the past few years that's call shortages of food and medicine left some patients struggling to survive. reports in the capital sana. sorry we tourism weekly dialysis at this hospital in sun but he says it doesn't completely get rid of the toxic waste in his body. due to the shortage of dialysis materials day to devices and blood counts kidney patients face constant uncertainty many of my friends killed themselves and their suffering. so it is not

alone their ministry for over run by the host he's here in the capital says restrictions imposed by the saudi. are hurting patients he learned how to help put them up with his due to the ban on imports lifesaving medicine for the public sector which distributes essential medicine for free to the people in need are not available over 25000 patients with chronic diseases have died and over 200000 others still wait to receive treatment here or abroad. the sisters say a lot of people out of this hour block area was saying this is. getting through. these people working through friday prayers and the proudest outside the u.s. office to condemn the world in action to ease the suffering here. while you are sorry we're. sorry for 63 days. and there were also there are you. know when you know your ward where so you know you talk. to

a very bored this is oh you know it's you know it's very very. this gas station has just resumed service a year after it was targeted in a saudi. airstrike 11 people were killed. but. it was a heinous crime to target civilian cars cueing to refill their tanks with fuel many civilians lost their lives and many others injured you talk to place while stroma down minutes before breaking. them poor to restrictions have worsened the humanitarian crisis that is being created by the years long accomplished. here in a slum region near the southern saudi border little almost as suffering from severe malnutrition his family like millions of yemenis across the country has been displaced by the fighting after years of violence and struggle many here know who

there are better days ahead. bob. amnesty international is urging saudi arabia to roll out the death penalty for a teenage boy 18 year old. has been detained for the past 5 years for taking part in anti-government protests is awaiting his next trial session for alleged offenses dating back to when he was just 10 years old. as director of the gulf affairs and stick to it he says montage isn't the 1st teenager saudi arabia has attempted to put to death. this saudi government has executed children before including in the past few months in a row and it has done that over the years i have recorded many cases of that moving the cases of the 7 mostly young. men who want to executed this see in 2013 and many of them were were nothing anyone and they weren't when they

would be it would have minors much here is one of the youngest to the. sentence or. so sought to be executed we had another child executed in just one. how can be his last and he was executed when he was 14 years old so this is nothing new to the saudi court system which does mother. hold minimum national standard when it comes to. the seizures of need good protection that the national community has said the u.s. has given turkey until july to cancel weapons deal with russia or it will block its purchase of american fighter jets and says turkey's acquisition of the s 400 air defense system poses a threat to its f. 35 stealth fighters to nato allies have sparred for months over turkey's plans to

make the purchase from moscow and the u.s. says it could hamper its future relationship with ankara pearson as a former u.s. ambassador to turkey says this issue has a lot to do with what's happening in syria. well i think the main reason is that mr arab won desperately wants to receive favors from the russians with respect to the future security of syria or turkey including the right to have a presence in or in or and northeastern syria where the syrian kurds have been fighting the. regime and have been fighting so i think he thinks that by doing enough favors the russians he will get some leverage from him in the peace agreement and the church's security and i think it's a false hope and the russians have shown in their recent operations in italy or probably and after waiting for the turks to do something about group al qaeda

related terrorists they are they on purpose they are to clear the promise of those forces ignoring turkish request and ignoring turkey's desires the turks would be very happy if the russians would broker an arrangement with damascus that would allow turkey a greater freedom of action in the northeastern syria and along the border including south of the border ready where the turks have invested a lot of money here in the infrastructure and so on in the hopes that $1.00 day those would be a parents who purposely got this is they did in northern iraq but by the way at the last war. prime minister is promising to step up efforts to get more children and. millions of kids to not go to school because they are families. everyone's convinced the government's plan will succeed. these boys should be in school but

instead they're in a few extra groupings looking at deeds local guard if a child or a 90 year old yes. i want to go to school but what can we do my parents can afford my school see i work here at this other workshop to earn money for the family. if you employ cia director of the fact that you children are being deprived of an education but do you really making money they're learning youthful skin. but either. a majority of parents can't afford to send their kids to school now families need extra hands to help with the expenses so they send their kids to work but they also get trained here which might help them secure a livelihood later. although parts governments have promised to ensure that every child didn't try to do free schooling they've been unable to encourage poor parents

to send their children to school. on education and a basic right but modern printer 2000000 children are out of school and that number did likely to increase. progress than spend a small fraction less than 3 percent of its total budget donate. some say added in order not to cater to the needs of an expanding population more than 20000000 children out of schools in pakistan. and this is a product of con some federal prison warden i mean demand there isn't a population or one of the us to the soul to the security. we don't hold there need to be source. critics if the new government led by a moron congress fears about getting more children to attend school it needs to matter to world redaction. if. america is

promising to regulate the use of electric scooters she says they are causing injuries on pavements and on the roads an estimated $20000.00 in the french capital riders will now face speed limits and fines if they park and the wrong place. electric scooters have been increasing in number in a knock at fashion for a year now and for one simple reason which is that there are no clear legal guidelines today there are 12 operators in paris and more than $20000.00 electric scooters it's way too much. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera so dance off position is accusing the military average acting mediation efforts after a protest leader was arrested last night was detained hours after taking part in talks that by ethiopian prime minister oppy. mexico has agreed to

a deal with the u.s. to avoid import tariffs on all its kids and will deploy additional troops at its southern border to block migrants going to the u.s. iran says the united states sanctions are evidence washington isn't ready for negotiations the u.s. is targeting terrans largest petro chemical group which provides billions of dollars to the elite revolutionary guard forces are you has more fans here on. the foreign ministry spokesman had said this is economic terrorism yet again and it's a continuation of the u.s. government's policy towards iran and its people he says that this is not acceptable and he's urging the international community to voice their concerns over what the american government is trying to do to put further pressure nomic pressure he says that this is something that is continuing recent months and that the united states government is on the wrong. that the rebels in yemen have released new images showing what they say are saudi military positions they have captured near the border the rebels say they have killed dozens of saudis soldiers near the southern

city of knowledge broad with the media release these pictures of fighting and weapons seized from the saudi coalition some images also show what they say is the wreckage of an american made drone the coalition which backs the many government has not confirmed those reports and this international is urging saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy 18 year old where as has been detained for the past 5 years for taking part and anti-government protests he's currently awaiting his next trial session for alleged offenses dating back to when he was just 10 years old the u.s. has given turkey and told july to cancel a weapons deal with russia or it will block its purchase of american fighter jets washington says turkey's acquisition of the s 400 air defense system poses a threat to its f. 35 stealth fighters the 2 nato allies have sparred for months over this issue over turkey's plans to make the purchase from moscow so the headline keep it here i have

a better bulletin for you in about 30 minutes at the top of the hour in the meantime the listening post is next. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. i'll just bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. since you don't know that they are all cracked now i hear it holds some of us a little funny one of the same. method that. many claim to the main square with money and. decide it's time. alone richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week political unrest in sudan the story enters a new phase

a crackdown on demonstrators a clampdown on media coverage australian police raid 2 news outlets putting media they're on high alert what is the attraction the draws british audiences to the genre of television programming very call poverty porn and is it a parody or a genuine tribute to donald trump. the israeli video that leaves viewers confused. nearly 2 months after a mass at a government demonstrations led to the overthrow of sudan's longtime president omar al bashir a mostly peaceful political transition has turned violent this past monday soldiers taking orders from the military regime that now rules sudan opened fire on protesters killing more than 100 people the exact body count remains unknown and that is by design the who imposed a communications blackout blocking access to social media disrupting phone traffic severely restricting the news and information flow over the past few weeks many

foreign journalists including those from al-jazeera have had their licenses revoked their offices raided meaning that stories of alleged mass murder and rape at the hands of the security services do not make it beyond sudan's borders when the generals took power they promised new media freedoms space for independent reporting however their tolerance for those telling the stories of this revolution has run out and they're using tactics straight out of omar al bashir is playbook our starting point this week is cartoon. it's about control the message the playbook is a playbook that many have these before and it's essentially how do we lock down how do we strike fear in the hearts of people culminates with the shut down in social media. the point. that this is very important

that they call the picture would be extremely extremely harmful to the regime. much will be no it is from the civilian journalist cell phone videos and word of mouth to journalists have not had the access that the need to get of. people dying in the hundreds missing and injured but they still show music on t.v. . business as usual and is exactly what used to happen during this year. sudanese activists hoped all of that was behind them almost 3 decades of home are al bashir as president finally came to an end in mid april with his overthrow arrest and imprison a temporary military government in place calling itself transitional saying it was committed to handing over power to the people but like algeria to the northwest where unrest brought down another longtime leader toppling

a president has proven easier than negotiating with men in uniforms. following the stepping down of. april and then the transitionary military council sort of saying we're going to negotiate we're going to have this sort of transition period there was hope. i think a lot of people around the world are looking at sudan as an example of ok maybe we've learned from the arab spring maybe this will be egypt or libya or syria maybe this will be a little bit different it became clear 2 or 3 weeks ago that the transitional military council was not negotiating in good faith tensions began to rise the 2 month old city and had become the symbol of resistance and the uprising and it became very clear last week that the military council was not going to permit the sending longer. basically what happened is that they attacked protesters they started shooting anybody that puts up

a phone trying to film and so a lot of people are were shut down because their phones were stolen and after that of course the slowing down of the internet and most of the networks and so that and eventually shutting it down. by jamming internet networks the military government choked information flows inside the country and to the outside world sudanese rely . our messaging services like whatsapp and social media platforms like facebook and youtube to organize politically and to get images information out the clampdown created a vacuum missing people could not be found and no one knew just how many people had been killed by the r.s.s. the paramilitary rapid support force all of this took place under a transitional military council that when it took power less than 2 months ago made all the right noises and. the appointment of general abdel fattah han as the head

of the t.m.c. was initially well received. and had previously met with protesters and appeared to be open to their view of. the military council released hundreds of political prisoners ended the curfew in khartoum and said it would work with the opposition alliance for change and freedom the t.m.c. also made the kind of promises on media freedom that make headlines the military council sent a message to newspaper editors basically lifting censorship which after 3 decades was impressive to see the type of headlines in the type of coverage some outlets were not as quick to jump on that actually done t.v. . but some of the outlets like 24 had to move very interesting coverage she saw opposition leaders on t.v. think that was a fresh to see that type of press freedom. being allowed in the country but once the transitional military council decided i believe that they were going to

crush the uprising. that led to an increase ratcheting up pressure on journalists expulsion of journalists and restrictions of all sorts as a transitional military council closer to the crackdown they moved closer and closer to tire shop. both international and domestic news coverage. the coverage of the story in the international media has been restricted foreign reporters who would only recently been allowed back into the country after being banned in the dying days of the al bashir regime had their movements curtailed by the new military authorities one of the most influential foreign news networks al-jazeera is currently banned from reporting from sudan its offices were raided and it had its license to broadcast revoked on may 30th the timing of the ban on al-jazeera raised eyebrows it happened just after t.m.c.

leaders met with the rulers of saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt the saudi owned by be a which competes against the qatari owned al-jazeera across the arabic speaking world has been far less critical of the t.m.c. over the stalled transition process and continues to report from khartoum and saudi arabia and the u.a.e. as support for the sudanese who is not limited to the airwaves 10 days after al bashir was deposed the saudi and amorality governments sent sudan $3000000000.00 worth of aid including half a 1000000000 in cash reserves which the reuters news agency described as throwing a lifeline to the country's new military leaders that decision to shut down. his license was not too surprising after the head of the military council and committee paid a visit to saudi arabia. egypt that's when license was withdrawn and

there's widespread believe and so that these governments are interfering to prevent the establishment of a full democracy in the country what's important to remember about so that is its political importance but also previously didn't quite pick sides. and so on on side as well as the saudis by supporting this saudi interest in yemen but the transition of that era council didn't quite feel the same way and so by actively going to saudi arabia and the emirates and saying you know what we're on your side here effectively. it then became. a porn in that in that day between and saudi arabia. story of 2019 has unfortunate echoes of 2011 and the arab spring the sense of optimism and the prospects of a political transformation that proved fleeting the ensuing clampdown that has been

brutal the alliance for freedom and change that has so far failed to live up to its name and the space that seemed to be opening up for the news media gone before they knew it before they really had a chance to use sudan was always a dark spot for media we never had independent media for the last 30 years and even before that i think you know the military council is basically a more powerful extension of the old regime a biased extension of the old they need to clamp down on us because they only want their version of the news and so what you've got at the moment is a country a city that has been divided up that is unable to communicate to each other let alone to people outside a diaspora that is desperate to know what's going on in the country on the ground and in international media that isn't quite sure what's going on and so it essentially that they can kind of do what they want. and that's tough.

looking at other media stories that are on our radar with one of our producers i mean actually ravi you know there are many countries where police routinely raid news organizations but australia is not one of them and there have been 2 such raids over this past week why that's exactly what many australian journalists are wondering why the 1st raid was at the home of hearst she is the political editor of the sunday telegraph now back in 2018 she published a story about a top secret proposal to expand surveillance of australian citizens. then came another bigger lead this one at the offices of the australian broadcasting corporation the a.b.c. police were there for 9 hours and the executive editor of a.b.c. news was life tweeting it throughout material was seized relating to a 2017 investigation by a.b.c. into the killing of unarmed civilians in afghanistan by australian special forces

who are stationed there now apart from these 2 raids there was a call from the home affairs ministry to the radio reporter ben forde him he was asked where he got the information or how he got the information about the turning away of 6 boatloads of asylum seekers by a stray and authorities at sea so in all 3 of these cases you have reporting based on classified government documents and this appears to be the government trying to flush out the source doesn't not exactly and if you think about why all of this is happening now for example that a.b.c. report went out 2 years ago it goes back to politics and last month's elections now there's a new majority conservative government in power and they have extensive national security laws at their disposal to clamp down on these troublesome leaks of classified information now across australia media houses union's watchdogs they've all sounded the alarm and they are pressing the government for answers but make no mistake what happened.