arm of the revolutionary guard it's a construction firm known as have them all mbia this firm is tasked with providing it with building rather all the bridges the highways and tunnels in the islamic republic and in 2000 $801.00 reportedly the government awarded 10 projects to have the milan bia worth over $22000000000.00 so it's a very large organization with very far reaching grip in the islamic republic so what's been the reaction there in the capital this morning well this move is being called the economic terrorism cording to the foreign ministry spokesman up us mousavi this is a continuation of the united states government's policy towards iran of putting pressure on the pressure on iran and the people of this country and that is the suggestion last week by officials in the united states that if they were willing to talk with the iranians is not really a true one it's not they does not what they actually mean they're not true to their words that they cannot be trusted the iranian oil minister has also been speaking

on saturday saying that iran has absolutely no plans to leave opec and the gap that's been created in the oil markets by iran being not being able to sell all its oil on the international market can never actually be filled by any of the countries such as saudi arabia and the u.a.e. so he's also reiterating iran's position that all these sanctions they might put some pressure on the country but nobody can actually replace what they're trying to do. reporting live from tehran to somebody thanks dude. the pressure from u.s. sanctions is having a major effect on iran's economy with export margins tights invest and turning to small medium sized businesses like coffee shops and can still top a profit just in the same bus one of the reports out from tehran. in iran oil isn't the only source of energy suffering under american sanctions the threat of punishment has made doing any kind of trade with iran highly risky for foreign

companies that even in a cup of coffee the plight of iran's small businesses can be found. shyly muscly is a trained lab scientist whose passion for the drink inspired her to become possibly iran's 1st and only female coffee bean roaster we have some trade there is business marketing and there is a kind of buy coffee. factories and you and me buy from then but because of the fact they don't want to get me wrong they send copies to the baha'i arctura and we get it from there and we buy them at the most precious time of their life but we get them like 7 or 8 months later the work is delicate timing is everything a bad batch gets thrown out and sanctions have made these beans more precious than ever so people need a cup or 10 just to wake up in the morning for others it's

a way that you come together for the people who make the coffee they say it's the perfect marriage of art and sun a coffee roaster from germany is this cafes pride and joy a piece of precision equipment it needs regular maintenance and new parts but the manufacturers headquarters in germany and offices in istanbul and buy have all refused to service it in iran after months of emails cafe managers found a technician from friends who wanted to come on holiday and was willing to bring the parts and do the work but going through back channels is time consuming and expensive. but jumping hurdles is the part of running a business the cafe owner most in mudgee the hall likes the best. for them it's become very difficult but it is interesting for us because we have to innovate it's a challenge in a. like chodas when i compare myself to people who have businesses abroad i feel i'm doing better here because they can do whatever they want but we mustn't be in

things here. still sanctions are hurting bottom lines many cafes have already closed their doors. and iran's old coffeehouses or cowboy economy are also under threat losing money could make it harder to preserve the roots of persian cafe culture you know i think about my grandparents my great great grandparents who were hanging out in these kind of places back in the old days a serious concern for employers is also young people heading abroad to find work i mean that sucks i mean that's that's horrible we're losing a lot of these talented. faults just because of that because. they see the future of. coffee business as somehow limited for them in the wrong. sully says she wants to enroll in a new coffee program at the university of california in the united states but

a ban on visas for iranians makes that dream seem impossible because even darker dream but these create some like to hear that thanks to you all someday i'd. like to know that they don't want to see you as a self described coffee lover cup it seems is oh how full are. the ultra 0 to her this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program saudi arabia faces global outrage to sentencing a teenager to death for attending anti-government protests. and a story. when it be overshadowed by the man who ruled the country for 30 years plus . i may welling's him. the big women. the women. in the house.

because president the intelligence chief said amend this after an emergency meeting on friday mendosa told a parliamentary committee investigating the easter sunday bombings in april that the attacks could have been prevented he also blamed the president for not holding regular security meetings president months are part of sort of center says that he won't cooperate with the parliamentary investigation where more than $250.00 people were killed in a series of coordinated bombings across sri lanka on easter sunday it was the worst attack since the end of sri lanka's civil war 10 years ago a local armed group linked to i saw as claimed responsibility let's go live now to colombo al-jazeera smell philander's is with us was anybody surprised by this. well news of that removal it does come as

a surprise to people but right now given the way things have been developing in recent weeks since that easter sunday carnage. taking less and less to surprise people the head of the intelligence the chief of national intelligence basically has been removed and we heard this basically from president my pal a citizen or he was addressing senior police officers last evening when he referred to the parliamentary select committee the special parliamentary select committee which is looking into into those attacks and he said that everyone who had come before the committee were those who had been removed he mentioned to sort of mendis by name saying he had removed him and that was essentially the 1st that people of fishley heard that the chief of national intelligence had been removed now obviously present by 3 policy ricin is livid with the way the parliamentary select committee is progressing we've heard from system and as we've heard from the police

chief inspector general. who currently is on compulsory leave we heard from the former defense secretary who resigned and all of them seem to be laying part of the blame at the president's door saying that he did not respond the way he should have that he had been informed a fact that the president right at the outset denied so that's the with things going into and what's the latest from the investigation itself. right now if you look at the selectivity investigations are happening at multiple levels it and obviously the select committee is very much the cynosure of all is given the sort of high level testimony that we've been hearing that sort of testimony from the police chief he went on to say literally that the president had signed him after the attacks told him in no one certain terms that he must accept

the blame for allowing the attacks to happen and even going on to say that the president offered him an ambassadorial course in order to resign now the defense secretary the former defense secretary who did resign he obviously is a bureaucrat but as the president can't remove the police chief he also said that he was powerless that he was not an independent defense secretary that he had to go to the president for every little thing he even said that there were sometimes 2 weeks or more that he wasn't able to access the president saw he and all of the people that have come before the committee giving some damning evidence about how the president as defense secretary as the head of the police has been dealing with these issues adrian on another level in terms of the investigations themselves by the criminal investigations the police the intelligence obviously there have been a number of people that have been arrested over the easter sunday bombings families

of those who carried out the bombings have been taken in and there are a number of lines of inquiry and investigation that are still being pursued. but already think sub-zero as well fernando's lived in colombo. who think rebels in yemen have released new images showing what they say are saudi military positions that they've captured near the border the rebels say they've killed dozens of saudi soldiers near the southern city of nonchalant hooty media released this video which appears to show fighting and weapons seized from the saudi u.a.e. coalition it also shows what they say is the wreckage of an american made drone a coalition which backs the yemeni government hasn't confirmed the developments on the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen has restricted imports over the past few years and that's created problems in health care of particular with patients struggling to find lifesaving medicines mohammed reports from yemen's capital sanaa.

side do we tourism weekly dallas's and this hospital and son are but he says he doesn't completely get rid of the toxic waste in his body. due to the shortage of dialysis materials outdated devices and blackouts kidney patients face constant uncertainty many of my friends killed themselves and their suffering. so it is not alone the ministry of health of one mobile home fees here in the capital says port restrictions imposed by the saudi. patients. due to the ban on imports lifesaving medicine for the public sector which distribute essential medicine for free to the people in need are not available so over 25000 patients with chronic diseases have died and over 200000 others still wait to receive treatment here or abroad. both sisters say a lot of people out of the starting block

a. filter from getting through. these people working out through friday priors and the proudest outside the u.s. offers to the world in action to ease the suffering here. why you are sorry why you. learned for 63 days on there we're all dying in the hospital so i normally just. warred. here. this is not anything. 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 queuing to refill their tanks with fuel many civilians lost their lives and many others injured the attack took place last

ramadan minutes before breaking. them porta restrictions have worsened the humanitarian crisis that has been created by the year's long accomplished. here in a slum region near the southern saudi border little modest 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. let's speak now to our friend who is with us via skype from gothenburg in sweden she's a yemeni journalist and editor in chief of the sun review good to have you with us . what are we to make of the claims by the who these to capture areas of saudi territory territory near the border. this is not personal i'm there are there are

new attacks already there are. occupying some space there since the beginning of the war there have been many attacks along the border so of them that we know about. who he spoke up its 9th and some of them that. the saudis deny and some of them are burned but this time it's their very special why because it seems like the news. are more direct you to clean up. because right after the 59. last month. if you the statement saying that there will be a great military plan to target $350.00 points. in saudi arabia and united arab and so there seems to be a prisoner x. seems to be part of a larger what is the ultimate plan what do they intend to do with this territory

that they've taken the con seriously think that they're going to hold it. it's a war it's no war and they know they have especially in their media the. night to. send the message that one day they will invade and they will occupy it. just as some of this i would. say that they were. number 8 so it's part of that kind of game that every side wants to open their militant strength and the tension that they have and occupying the other side but it's clear is that as far as the war and even as concerned no one has the upper hand we're at stalemate here exactly exactly when we keep saying that this is unwinnable war we actually mean what's going on right now that the scientists seem to have an even military capacity

east one with you know they're all kind of snags no you have others around you that question because you know the all the money weapons on the weapon when you turn by and then you have the other side the movies they have a very long since the keep the military experience i think and many wars without the look and also knowing the geography of their land which of the saudis no and that sense that equation seems to be even and it's only needs that the war will go long ago on and off. for many thanks to data from nasa. next up on the news hour rob mccallum he will be here to bring us up to speed with the weather then. after more than 180 years athens finally get some official mosque in the middle of

a naval base. more than 22000000 children around school in pakistan will take a look at what the government's doing to try to change that. added support rafael nadal moves inside of a record 12 title at the french open. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. well a storm miguel has just ripped through the northwest of europe it really shouldn't be around in early june this is the picture you might expect from march or maybe october the resultant winds in excess of a 120 northwestern france in excess of 80 in some coast of england and over the hills of northern england and surprisingly it has taken 3 lives with it to see the picture that you see here which is in northwest france is not what you expect to

see of a june see that things are slowly improving that is still wet and windy that's the picture currently of the british isles so the green is rain and the winds are fairly obvious attempt it down to 30 at best in manchester it is blowing out the next 24 hours it'll be just affecting norway everything else settles down but the whole is northwestern bit of europe is cooled and should be the wall the amount expected some is here in the east and just over the border in for example moscow picture your temperature shows $31.00 the average is $22.00 so that is much hotter than it should be done surprised me a muscovites of a good or at least they're funny ways of cooling down looked at just 10 minutes ago it's already 30 degrees is not even the hottest time of the day so this he's going to exist and continue in moscow at least in europe. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. a journey of personal discovery by the great

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it is good to have you with us hello adrian forget here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the headlines sudan's protest movement is accusing the military of rejecting mediation efforts after a protest leader was arrested by habit as mask was detained hours after taking part in talks led by ethiopia's prime minister. because president has sacked his intelligence chief to cement this softer maddest told a parliamentary committee that the easter sunday bombings could have been prevented the president might support a sort of center says that he won't cooperate with the investigations and iran says the new u.s. sanctions are evidence that washington isn't ready for the go see

a sions the u.s. is targeting france largest petrochemical group which provides billions of dollars to the elite revolutionary guard. pakistan's prime minister imran khan says that he's agreed to cut spending on the military to try to trim the budget deficit it comes a week after the country's national economic council called for more spending on education the prime minister faces a big challenge more than $22000000.00 kids are out of school most of them girls the government says that it spends 2.8 percent of its national output on education but that has to cover the education needs of the world's 6th largest population with a workforce of more than 57000000 people and is a serious come all high to reports many families rely on children to support their household income. we had school but there are no few extra rupie. looking at deeds local guard. for 90 year olds yes.

getting back i want to go to school but what can we do my parents can't afford my school see i work here at this hour at a workshop to earn money for the family. it employs a director of the fact that you children are being deprived of an education but do you really making money they're learning youthful skin. 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 life lee had later. although parts governments have promised to ensure that every child didn't try to do free schooling they have been unable to encourage poor parents to send their children to school. on education and viewed as

a basic right but modern printer 2000000 children are out of school and that number is likely to increase. profits than spend a small fraction less than 3 percent of its total budget donate. some say i did not enough to cater to the needs of an expanding population more than 20000000 children out of schools in pakistan and this is a part of khan some federal prison warden i meet the man the reason is the population will grow to one of the high yesterday the soul to the 2nd is the lyric of the sources you don't hold me to the source. critics say if the new government led by moran chronic serious about getting more children to attend school it needs to matter to the world redaction. its normal body. saidee is a senior fellow at the public policy think tank he joins us now live from islamabad

good to have you with us so the government says that it's going to step up efforts to tackle illiteracy that's encouraging isn't it. just lost the sound there a little bit i heard you ask whether or not. it's encouraging that efforts are being made to tackle illiteracy i did. yeah look i think illiteracy is is a manifestation of a wider problem this is a country that does not privilege the future of the underprivileged in this country so the only people that have a decent future and baucus john are the children of the clean shaven perfumed well heeled elite there is no consideration for the children of those who are not among the elite in this country and that's the vast majority that's over 200000000 people so you know an effort or a program or

a project to tackle illiteracy now and then it's great public relations but it isn't actually going to solve the core problem which is that the people that have no privilege the people that are barn on the wrong side of the tracks and boxed on which is the vast majority of pakistanis nobody is fighting for them to get decent education to get a decent school to get a laptop or or an i pad to be able to learn the latest the latest skills that they will require in the in the global economy in the digital economy to be able to be competitive all right but but but what about the point it was made in the report we sort of few moments ago that even if education was more widely available and free at the point of use would poorer families actually send their kids to school to what extent they prefer to have them working in order to help them put food on the table. so i mean look i think this is been

a longstanding excuse that's been used by the elite in this country because the elite in this country like to sell an image of the poor savages as being not wanting an education preferring to live in caves not liking electricity and i phones and i pads and malls and mcdonald's and we know that that's nonsense we know that most everywhere in the world people want to better future for their kids all the evidence within buckets than suggests that poor families middle class families working class families rural urban in-between they all want to send their kids to school the question is is there a decent school that's available within reach and within reach also means physical access 80 percent of all schools in pakistan are primary schools we're talking about government schools the reason that government built up such a vast number of schools as primary schools is because the easiest way to get an

approval to hire new teachers is to get them in at the lowest requirement that qualifies them so if politicians use schools and education as an instrument to hire their friends and family and get them permanent jobs then what you end up with is the kind of education that system that you have in pakistan over the last few years there's been a number of reforms but the one reform that still hasn't happened is the resource privileging of education so come on heather just mentioned that less than 3 percent of the budget which is inaccurate it's less than 3 percent of the g.d.p. of the global standard minimum standard is 4 percent of the g.d.p. so even though we've been having increasing resources improved hiring of teachers there have been some improvements but they're not nearly enough to actually tackle the problem and if box on wants to tackle this problem it's going to start it's going to have to start raising taxes on the rich so it can pay for the education of

the poor. so many thanks to admission of satan in islamic. amnesty international is urging saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy 18 year old coed a this has been detained for the past 5 years for taking part in anti-government protests he is awaiting his next trial session for alleged offenses that date back to when he was just 10 years old. the u.s. suspending plans to impose tariffs on all mexican goods which were due to come into effect on monday the 2 countries have reached a deal on migration after days of negotiations migrants who are from who who are in the u.s. awaiting a silent will now be sent back to mexico until their cases are resolved rob reynolds reports from washington. the u.s. threat to impose punitive tariffs on mexico led to a week of intense negotiations ending in a last minute accord president donald trump announced in

a tweet the united states of america has reached its signed agreement with mexico the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border this is being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico and into the united states mexican foreign minister marcello ever ards said the 2 sides reached a compromise but he said it was i think it's a fair balance because the us had more drastic proposals at the start and we have reached a middle point that he agreed to support mexico's proposal to support the central american countries. mexico had already agreed to send troops to its border with water mala to control the flow of migrants seeking asylum in the u.s. it's now also agreed the u.s.

could send asylum seekers who've entered the united states back to mexico to await legal rulings on their status but the us had to give up on its earlier demand that all guatemalan asylum seekers be deported to mexico and that honduran and salvadoran asylum seekers sent to guatemala the agreement also calls for the u.s. and mexico to work together to improve economic conditions and security in 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 al-jazeera washington. well mexico's import dependent economy has pushed president on the us manuel lopez obrador to agree to that migrant deal but the u.s. relies on its neighbor for cars technology but even vegetables and fruits american

spent 370 $8000000000.00 on makes a component here and as. apollo reports said of juarez and mexico an increase in tariffs would have also hiked prices for american consumers. one could argue that what is ground 0 for a trade war that's been brewing between the united states and mexico is lies just south of mexico's border with the u.s. and is one of mexico's most economically significant land ports what is also known for being the host city to hundreds of. factors that supply a wide range of manufacturers in the united states i keep. those at we are proud to say that anywhere in the world people own something manufacturing quality refrigerator cellphones golf clubs you name it. 27 year old. is getting ready to head to his factory job he says he makes just over $2.00 an

hour sometimes more if he works overtime it's this type of low cost labor that makes mexico so appealing to american companies when working. in the u.s. an american will be paid in dollars here in mexico that same dollar can pay $2.00 or 3 workers. ad there are an estimated 1000000 people employed by the thousands of mikey scattered in northern mexico u.s. president donald trump says mexico has taken away these jobs from americans suggesting the economic relationship between the 2 countries has become one sided many economists say this notion couldn't be farther from the truth so it's not a one sided economy mexico has become since march of this year the most important provider of inputs to the u.s. for every 100 jobs that they do us creates in mexico 250 jobs are created in the u.s. . based on the technology and the value added that the u.s.

gives to what we produce in in the region. an important footnote to this is that the united states also has an $81000000000.00 trade deficit with mexico this is perhaps one of the reasons why president trump has pursued such an aggressive and controversial trade policy still last year the u.s. imported $346000000000.00 worth of mexican goods despite continuous threats by president from to close the border or impose tariffs on mexican exports trade between the u.s. and mexico remains at an all time high and the evidence is here in the seemingly endless line of long haul trucks waiting to carry mexican exports into the united states. there's no expectation that the 1000000 manufacturing jobs like the 182 has at the siemens factory are in danger of disappearing any time soon although there's also no guarantee they won't. see the.