rule out leaving the european union without a deal we don't know what the situation will be on the 31st of october but if there is no prospect of a better deal if the european union have been as inflexible as you say and if no deal is on the table then i will leave without a deal because we must keep our promise to the british people but i would do so with a heavy heart because of the risks to businesses up and down the country and the risks to the union led to speak now to a man mccann who's a journalist and author joins us on skype from derry or londonderry as it's sometimes called in. the i guess we can't really get away with out talking about the boris incident what police call run to his house after this domestic altercation g. thing is going to affect his chances of becoming leader. i have to on balance i don't think it's going to affect this chance as many may think that it ought to affect his chances but there's a rough part of the letter off

a with the career of donald trump at a number of occasions people have said well that's him so he says dumb something short raises at that is going to have to disappear into the wilderness for a few days later he's back out of leaking the news again that part of johnson's out of the shares that with donald trump and it may look on the face of it that this guy has been exposed as having such a character as a pagan pater to be part of your own prime minister but let's see over the next day or 2 or 3 let's see how are they more excited to be in a public to voters in britain than the lead here in oregon out however with the years acceptance and even supported quite bizarre and through task ideas individuals so we'll see what they make of bars johnson in a week or 2 ok now say if he does get in away from the tory heartland in places like where you are in scotland so forth how is he viewed and how would his

premiership be considered. well of that i can speak specifically from here and i had to from northern ireland i said that most people would regard barbara johnson would pick that i know a lot that i talk to a lot of these are somewhat comical figure. your own sort of on able to keep this fair shot under emmy's for discipline. don't let me see is a comical garbage also toxic so to many other people and particularly about ernest white north america and the enemy is in fame the amazing thing of our bodies johnson mazing lee ignorant b.s. about northern ireland and of of the island of ireland generally if you're general nothing to talk of i suppose and one point to a song couple of months ago he was asked how he would solve the i mean border question which has to be difficult that a british and irish politicians for decades have got centuries guy johnson was

asked would you solve the problem he said there is no problem this is like moving from kensington to chelsea and say the city of london no need for barney frank said we'll just do that. this is a get in the front page as utterly ignorant it is dangerous at least not of the questions which are right he's despair of such a passion and yet there really isn't what that reflects to some extent anime is the amazing ignorance of the political class of particle party leaders and others in britain about arabs they write nothing it would be funny wouldn't it if it wasn't so serious but the state he's a champion as you know of the heart breaks it and says that we have to prepare for that in case that's what happens. how will that fly where you are. well the problem really and deciding are trying to predict time hopefully as this that

we don't know it's impossible to be certain what if anything bart is johnson understands about this that may seem strange to say that a bomb may be a bug to be caught on prime minister of britain of northern ireland at 8 to say odds on that are that it already and to unpredictable and that he appears not just to nobody little about northern ireland but to care very little apart and maybe just think about it for a moment i mean the guy who sat us that made bed big difference richard northern ireland the border was southern ireland but people have been fighting over it so that drove the babies part of part of johnson future prime minister benjamin on our kind of vision screens and says oh it's like the difference between me can sink and chelsea and a lot of them there isn't going to be any problem now this is not just that this is bizarre it's not normal that anybody what sort of ignorance of a place will be the leader often it's not normal and in the kind it does great to get a perspective depreciated very much thanks a lot that's going to turn out because from northern line. still ahead to air on

al-jazeera. russia suspends flights to and from georgia where protesters are demanding the interior minister step down plus. i think it's less of a question of citizenship and more of a question of humanity how one city and if a quarter of the united states is coping with the knowledge influx of refugees in africa. hello again it's good to have you back well across the levant we're looking at temperatures that are coming up for coate city over the next few days and as we go towards maybe tuesday those temperatures will be getting very close to almost 50 degrees right now we're going to see here on sunday $45.00 degrees as your high but as we go towards monday that goes up to about $48.00 degrees another i said the

temperature continues to climb as we go towards mid week well here across the gulf the winds have actually died down we were seeing a big problem with the winds over the last several days and here through the rest of the weekend we're looking better in terms of those winds as well as the dust temporize for doha 42 degrees there abu dhabi at about 39 temperatures will be coming up in doha to maybe 44 degrees but over here towards medina it's going to be even warmer with the time to them about $45.00 oman some clouds on the coast with a temperature for saliva at 30 degrees well for the portions of south africa still windy conditions along the coast we did have one system push through cape down things will get slightly better for you but port elizabeth we do expect to see some windy conditions there up towards durban a passing shower to johannesburg though is going to be a little bit chilly here on sunday but by the time we get to monday more sun in the forecast up to 16 in harare a nice day for you with a temperature of 23. again

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president donald trump says he's imposing additional sanctions against iran and that military action is still on the table that's off the iranian forces shot down an unmanned american surveillance drone iran's government has warned it will respond firmly to any u.s. aggression the whole threat. senior white house advisor george bush has laid out the 1st part of the u.s. middle east peace plan that includes $50000000000.00 in investments comes ahead of an international conference empowering next week the palestinian government is boycotting. boris johnson who's tipped to become the next british prime minister has refused to answer questions about a police officer to his home he's been speaking at a campaign event and when they say they'll take no further action over the reports of a domestic. now on to mali and thousands of protesters have marched in the capital bamako to demand improve security and an end to the massacre of villages hundreds have been killed in a series of into ethnic attacks linked to the fight for land between farmers and

cattle herders welcome what has been meeting some survivors in the region. want. to young to understand that his parents have been killed his neck was cast in the same attack on his village people him 2 months old. his mother was also killed. medical workers here say they've never seen anything this bad and then one what else in the world doesn't come to help us we don't know when this will end even here we don't feel safe before and burn because a patient was killed in this hospital no one's protecting us were afraid will become the target of an attack. in this ward all the children's parents are either missing or dead we've changed their names and hidden their faces for their safety relatives have come here to take care of them their village in central mali was

attacked last week. the rest of the survivors now sleeping on the roadside in a nearby town they belong to the full army ethnic group what the village chief told us was tragically familiar. it was about 10 pm and it was raining and we started hearing people shooting at the village so we ran the next morning we collected everybody and came here the same people later burned all the houses and took all the animals. militia connected to the full lonny and gone groups have been attacking each other's communities every week in a steadily escalating conflict hundreds of being killed in the last 3 months and nearly $50000.00 have fled their homes many of them now staying in camps when people run they carry whatever they can. for sleeping on here are some pots cooking utensils whatever is essential for survival containers for water.

now they're living in tents here with the village life continues when a grinding mill it to wait for their mail this evening but life here having left everything else behind is very difficult. 15000 u.n. peacekeepers haven't been able to stop the violence nearly 200 of them have been killed making it the un's most dangerous mission ever. growing protests calling for the u.n. and other foreign forces to leave almost since they arrived 6 years ago this camera phone video shows one in 70 last week. the u.n. peacekeeping chief visited the town yes we know that the situation is not easy in this country we feel terribly sorry specially for the losses of this last there is an wreaths. that we can only support it's the money and responsibility after

all. the attacks haven't stopped. mother was killed he was shot in the leg everybody here says the violence is getting worse nobody knows how it will and malcolm webb al-jazeera the region mali in the past week the u.s. city of portland in maine has been dealing with a sudden influx of around $300.00 refugees from central africa the city has largely welcomed the newcomers and is under explains the benefits might end up going both ways. local children provide some lunchtime entertainment for the more than 220 asylum seekers from central africa and women and children for whom portland's exposition center is a temporary knew how. volunteers serve up the food not the seafood for which maine

is famous for but instead local dish is providing a taste from home for these mainly congolese and angolan expatriates all right so we have boxes so far but it's not the only place you'll find people from this small dorthy eastern seaport helping out their newest residents. happy is the president of maine's congolese association a local community center there part of it has been inundated with donations for the refugees so much so they've had to temporarily stop accepting anymore to graduates and from. been witnessing. all communities american and canadian community welcome to go to portland is a city that is mostly white but the largest group of immigrants are congolese everybody is helping i don't see why i want to i think it's less of

a question of citizenship and more of a question of humanity i'm an immigrant here and coming here i came here 2011 and it was take the time my life and everybody's been welcoming willing to teach me willing to help me people in the state of maine are generous having contributed over $400000.00 to a fund to help the newly arrived refugees from africa but it's also a state of older people with the average age being 45 years old one of the highest in the country many of the younger more educated workforce have moved out to seek opportunities in bigger states amanda rector's maine's state economist she says the refugees can plug that gap i think universally workforce availability is the challenge we need more people to come into the state. if we can have a more diverse population in the state that's attractive to a lot of people who are younger and looking for

a place to live and argument that just a little care from the community could be a big investment for a better future for everyone gabriel's. portland maine nearly 200 venezuelan migrants have been left stranded along the border between chile and peru they were denied entry into chile earlier this week both countries have been tightening visa requirements make it a challenge for hundreds of families trying to escape poor living conditions. a russia has suspended passenger flights to and from georgia following and he russian rajah protesters tried to storm parliament when russian politicians were allowed into the chamber on thursday 1st you're welcome has more from the capital tbilisi. are protesters in georgia have to keep grievances against their government its handling of russia's occupation of 20 percent of georgian territory and its heavy handed response to the demonstrations use a show here of solidarity for those blinded by rubber bullets in thursday's police

crackdown. the violence began after opposition m.p.'s heckled russian deputies invited into georgia's parliament georgia has had no diplomatic ties with moscow since its war with russia over south of setia in 2008. later clashes between protesters and police were the worst in 7 years since georgia's governing party came to power with more than 200 people injured and around 300 people detained. 3 months right picketed jews interior ministry wouldn't 30 of the colleagues were among those who did each did not. lead to the right to identify the good even if they were. the police guys that they were just they were fighting chasing. after those. so far the government has responded by removing to speaker of parliament was that

opposition politicians say that snow there has to be somebody responsible for what happened yesterday and that's the minister of interior but even biggest fundamental change that is in the interest of this country is to change the electoral system to make sure that nobody grips our the way it is now and the power is shared proportionately unfairly because baseball is made. strengthen the resolve of people opposed to this government but it may have wider consequences with russia now threatening to capitalize on this georgian political drama. more than a 1000000 russians who resists visit georgia every year to me putin has announced a ban on flights to georgia from july to ensue russian citizens safety from what moscow calls and see russian hysteria but russians who are i spoke to were optimistic i enjoy my life here my stay here and i hope it is going to be the right

of well i don't worry about my. tonight new boy in the troyer commute every educated person and it doesn't matter which country they come from understands very well that there are governments and there are just normal people and the 2 the same thing. banning russian visits is me good news is economy in the short run. but the move may only convince the protestors that their feelings about russian aggression and the competency of the road government correct ruben for stealing i'll just there to be some. the saudis are these are the top stories on u.s. president donald trump says he's imposing additional sanctions against iran and that military action is still on the table as after raiding forces shot down an unmanned american surveillance drone iran's government says will and it will respond firmly to any u.s.

aggression or threat the president trump has explained how he came to the decision not to carry out retired 3 strikes against iran. i don't want to kill 150 of anything or anybody. unless it's absolutely dead. and most people very much agree with what i what i'm doing now. if the leadership of. badly. it's got to be a very very bad day for them to look like i'll believe this. and hopefully they really care for their people and not them and hopefully we can get a read back on good economic facts that they're really well. well just as donald trump and his advisors have been grappling over the strategy on iran there's yet more people in the pentagon marc esper has been nominated by trump as his new secretary of defense will be the 3rd nominee in 6 months if confirmed the u.s. president wants to film industry lobbyist and current army secretary to replace

patrick shanahan who quit after questions about his personal life. senior white house adviser jared cushion has laid out the 1st parts of the u.s. middle east peace plan that includes $50000000000.00 in investments comes ahead of an international conference in bahrain next week the palestinian government is boycotting the event boris johnson is tipped to become the next british prime minister has refused to answer questions about a police visit to his home he's been speaking at a campaign event in bamiyan say they'll take no further action over the domestic cation. russia has suspended flights to georgia following protests in the capital tbilisi on thursday they were sparked by the visit of a russian politician the opposition has accused the government of being too friendly with moscow the speaker of parliament has resigned and some protesters are calling for an early election. you know today with headlines got more news coming

up here on al-jazeera right after inside story button. will the u.s. talk to iran donald trump says he was about to strike iran off the dining of a u.s. drone and then backed off fearing a loss of life but is the u.s. president being serious or is he ramping up the pressure on tehran this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. the united states called off a military strike on iran at the last minute it's a move that might not sit well with regional allies saudi arabia the united arab emirates and israel one president donald trump to keep up its tough stance against tehran we'll go to our panel in a moment of 1st fintan mine and has more on the standoff in the gulf and trump strategy of maximum pressure. it was the air strike that never was according to president trump the u.s. was 10 minutes away from attacking iran but pulled back in the final moments. i said you know what they shot down a man and. drone plane whatever you want to call it and here we are sitting with $150.00 dead people and that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didn't like it i didn't think it was i didn't think it was proportionate. to the planned strikes were responding to iran's

downing of an american surveillance drone iran has also said it's exercising restraint that i wonder as a kid at the same moment when the aircraft was being tracked another spy aircraft called p 8 was flying close to this drone that aircraft is man and has around 35 crew members while we could have targeted that plane it was our right to do so and yes it was american but we didn't do it we hit the unmanned aircraft. but the aborted u.s. air strike may have been about more than retaliation the u.s. is hoping the pressure on iran will convince leaders to renegotiate its nuclear deal with world powers are maximum pressure campaign against the islamic republic of iran is working iran is feeling the effects of our maximum pressure campaign iran is responsible for the escalating tensions in the region and they continue to reject diplomatic overtures to deescalate tensions in the region. it's

a strategy trump has tried before it aug 2017 he promised north korea fire and fury in response to their nuclear tests less than a year later he was shaking kim jong un's hand in singapore but in the middle east regional allies are pushing for the u.s. to act against iran saudi arabia blames teheran for attacks on shipping in the gulf of oman and supplying weapons used by yemen's hoopy rebels to attack saudi territory. at a gathering of regional leaders last month without the king called for decisive action to stop what he called iranian escalations israel's benjamin netanyahu a longtime opponent of iran and the nuclear deal is also pushing the u.s. to take a strong position. while conflict was averted this time tension is still high and there appears to be little room for compromise into monohan al-jazeera. here we go let's introduce our panel today joining us from tehran husain

a muddy and assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran from oxford in the u.k. helen latimer a research associate at the school the oriental and african studies and from kuwait city a. professor of political science at kuwait university welcome to you all have an interior and where does all this leave us relations with its key allies across the region. well i think. the u.s. allies in the region are basically pushing the united states into a sort of military concert confrontation with iran which is basically based on the premise that any conflict with iran would set it back for years or decades and i think that is really a miscalculation that can lead to a regional conflict that can destabilize the entire region they are not

basically taken into account iran's you know traditional strategic behavior in the region they want to act alone it will act within a. within an alliance and it won't go for war or conflict all alone i think it has a a coalition of state and non-state actors that can you know trigger a regional conflict so i think this premise that our saudis israelis and you're a are seeing that basically is a win win situation in which a push back against iran. within the maximum pressure would diminish its regional reach and influence or a on another you know side a military confrontation can even more devastate to iran is really on realistic it is on underestimating iran's you know capabilities in terms of military and asymmetric warfare in the region and i think iran would wouldn't have anything to

lose if it's to be faced with a regional you know or an international. still lety by the united states and its allies so i think they are pushing the united states to that direction but up until now fortunately the united states as rationally so decided not to you know escalate things even further but we are on a. skule terry wrote for now. in oxford we may be on an escalator erode so far but in equal measure did or do the 3 allies we're talking about israel and the u.a.e. in equal measure did they want donald trump to do something yesterday i suspect that they probably did i think the 1st thing to remind everybody of is that we're really in an extremely dangerous and risky situation and that way yet again

in a situation where some politicians who have specific objectives are completely neglecting and ignoring the likely consequences of their actions over thousands if not millions of people in the relevant countries i think for you know for the gulf states and this is they are aware of the fact that trump has already started on his election manifesto for next year and that you know their window of opportunity for really attacking iran is narrowing by the day so i suspect that they were pretty much disappointed by what happened yesterday i also think it's important to remember that you know. a few strikes are not something that will just happen with no consequences i think of previous speaker has explained that there will be very serious consequences i think it's very clear to the populations in those countries that you know it's not

a matter of simply getting the americans to have this us try it's or even themselves getting involved in as strikes if a conflict starts it will be all westerns because i think to some extent it's already started it will be a disaster for you know everybody. concerned in the region and again this is thousands of miles away from the u.s. you know the u.s. only have to only about their 1520 or 30000 troops in the region whereas everybody else has 2 army of art everybody in their countries and in kuwait city is this no less than maximum pressure because that's the the buzz word that's the key phrase we've been hearing now from the trumpet ministration as far as those allies are concerned for a long time now well if you allow me 1st of all they're not nobody could push united states around to do what the united states doesn't believe that serves us national interests neither the saudis nor the the m r r t's or other nation

probably with the exception of israel which has a. an ax to grind with the with the iranians are to be the only. owner of the nuclear power in the region nobody could push it in at this whether it's trump or any other administration this is number one number 2 there are there want to be a wide scale war i mean president trump stated very clear and i'm glad he called off the strike even though it was a very limited strike every tahlia thought it tactical one and not stay in war because trump is the last thing he wants to be on top on. another major conflict in the middle east that could really but it uses his chances to be reelected in 2020 so he's a very smart calculating president and he doesn't want to push the envelope all the way the full scale war iran on the other hand is

a very rational actor model and it has a really delicate with this crisis in a very. in a in a very appropriate manner it's now on the driver see the americans have really looked shabby the allies in the region are now wondering once again and i started. just finished there is a trust deficit building up between the g.c.c. allies and the us administration whether it was obama who who struck a deal with the iranians behind our backs without us knowing or whether it's trump with the g.c.c. crisis or now a flip flopping all over the iranian threat or escalation or the escalation on the final point that i would like to raise at this stage is that they're they have enhanced know that if they're out of their proxies would lead to get involved in a wide scale war then there would be a hum of badly also and the enhanced would also be hammered so they did terrence issue is not really working the maximum pressure that the other guy has been

implementing and he is the iranians for the last 13 months is not really working not color heads have to or prevail i think there has to be wiggle room for the iranians and there has to be a face saving approach busy for the americans to strike a deal or a compromise order in the autumn mediation through or the iraqis through the europeans to have the americans give the european some leeway as a 3rd of their companies to do some limited deals with the iranians as a show of good faith and a confidence building measure and that could really build up to the escalate the situation and to start again with another nuclear deal that they have any answer could be enticed and you cannot just push the enters or the of sticks and not carrots this policy of maximum pressure has to be reevaluated away from the edge a lot and the and the and the hocks and both sides of the aisles and then we'll you can talk about that is the escalation not a seasonal one ok has sent in tehran let's stay with that idea of wriggle room here

is there a little bit of breathing space and i mean this in a positive sense for the government in tehran innes much is what we're talking about here is 6 mana keys all of all those royal households have worries about tehran but they're not on the same page the g.c.c. has been split for the best part of 2 years now. of course they are not on the same page on iran i mean on mon oncle way and especially nowadays they are no different than the hawks in the g.c.c. and i think the hocks are the ones who are trying so i agree with abdullah that they are they can't win the set the agenda for the us administration but they are trying to do that i think they are pushing the trump administration along with the you know hawks in washington to climb

a tree that he eventually can come down from so he would be you know in a in a situation in which a war with iran would would diminish his chances for a 2nd term and. you know silence visa the escalation in the region also can harm it reputation i think the this is the calculus there the warmongers that were there during the invasion of iraq are still in washington on the call and pushing the united states the president to do something about iran i think they have a very good partners in ahmed been saddam on hamad bin zeid bibi netanyahu they are as you've said the b. team that is pushing towards war i think they're miscalculation can libin tie a region into. chaos and destabilisation i think it can also harm the global economy as well by you know all shocks and we've seen that 6

percent to 6 percent rise of the prices as a result of a single incident you can imagine how a war can translate into a chaos and the economic sphere and you know prices and everything ok so i think they are pushing the united states towards a more irrational policy towards it. i think that can have really you know catastrophic consequences regionally and internationally clearly helen in oxford this would have economically a massive impact if donald trump does do something that he backed away from doing 36 hours ago now for you helen how will this be being discussed in riyadh and is this a humiliation for mohammed bin selman because there is this compelling triangular relationship isn't there between donald trump his son in law jarrett the middle

east peace plan which we are reportedly being told we will learn about at the end of this month when there's that big conference in bahrain and the crown prince. well 1st i'd like to say one quick thing relating to what was said earlier which is that. you know the u.s. administration is not unified i mean it's very clear that trump does not want to war but i think it's equally clear that we're talking when we're dealing with people like pompei o and bolton that they do want to war and there are people for whom you know the force mageddon it's not bad news it's something that they and the most extremist religious groups in that part of the world you know would actually look forward to scythe inc that's one element that we need to take into consideration i think on the issue of the relationship between m.b.'s and trump and . my recent thoughts on this topic is that really the relationship is directly

between trump and m.b.a.'s and they have extremely similar personalities and approaches and ways of uproot of looking at the world and that they actually don't need the mediation of jehad course now in between them i'm also my understanding about the growers peace plan is that it's now not going to be announced until after the next israeli elections that the meeting the economic plan in bahrain which is probably going to be quite a bit of a fiasco is going to be discussing you know economic aspects without looking at the political aspects and monday standing is that certainly none of the palestinian organizations or most of the palestinian businesspeople or indeed most arab and other businesspeople are not willing to discuss these issues until and unless they have something that looks like a middle east peace plan which has some relationship to what was originally proposed by king abdullah almost 20 years ago now which basically gives it's

a famous and notorious 2 state solution you know with with them as the capital of palestine which has been basically carved out. destroyed by trump's recognition of . the capital of israel so i think you know we we have the internal dynamics of that element have not not really very much affected by this except of course if we have a total crisis that basically may have put these things entirely in the background . when you're looking at this situation in south pardon me for interrupting her let's just put that point when you. think you are a city of dollar i mean the prime directive here for the trumpet ministration is isolate tehran isolate iran that's a given but is there a sense in which the allies the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel are going to be more isolated because you have the u.a.e. seen and i quote we will not be baited into

a conflict and yet you still have this more provocative tone out of riyadh you know i mean at the end of the day we have a symmetrical g.c.c. and all other u.s. allies there is a symmetrical relationship united states is the dominant the only hyper power in the world than all other all its allies are just followers at the end of the rather than on equal footing with the united states us not only at the g.c.c. little countries but it's also all other countries even in nato i mean. having busy even germany and a major powers even england even in the france. this is a problem with the united states at the end of the day there is now clear comprehensive strategic approach to the regional problems and crises and that by itself is much to the cross deficit that the united states are allies. are

witnessing now we said we the united states what is what is the comprehensive strategy now after 13 months around is not budging iran is that more defiant than ever the the. president trump did and the last 2nd on the last 10 minutes as he stated targeting 3. of evolutionary guards targets in iran has emboldened the iranians iranians now are speaking with a lot of our boss think about their resistance they are they have summoned the sharjah the effort of the united arab emirates their revolutionary guard leaders. and their very boss' full man out of threatening any bullet that will be attacking iran we will turn the region upside down and we will be targeting the american interests american interests are widely up and i mean at the bases from kuwait to oman are very clear within the iranian missile site and.

they're also our of the g.c.c. major installation whether it's all whether it's a tricky grid whether it is water desalination are all dotted all over the gulf from kuwait all month so there is a lot of vulnerability and they are in have thought of playing on this as a deterrence now deterrence that the americans were trying to employ against the iranians have been turned on its head now the end any hands are the ones who are calling the shots in a way that what they think and this is a very dangerous because that will give them more wiggle room to try to do much in and against a lot i'm going to interrupt you there as we are heading towards the end of our time test and i do want to get in a couple of more significant points. if we flip around this idea of u.s. allies there are not necessarily allies in the region allies of tiran but there are

historical links there is a good relationship between tehran and oman but the man is firefighting its own issues on the back foot regional issues as well would tehran be open to the idea of talking to its allies who could then maybe communicate with donald trump. well i think iran has made it clear that it's open to talk to and who want but it hasn't always it has also been clear on the fact that it want you know surrender so to speak it want to give up any of its you know. powers sources and within iran and the region it the basic argument is that we have embarked on a. negotiation with the world community and the result of visit was there j.c. the nuclear deal the united states didn't respect its own didn't observe its own

obligations with them that jaysus. and i think that is a very you know robust argument here into iran that a step back will lead to many more so as has been the case for now the nuclear deal led to us with it all and again more sanctions and more push against the iranians so another step would lead to more so this this argument is basically stopping iran and its allies from you know negotiating with an administration that doesn't respect the word that it's signed helen like there in oxford very very briefly because we've got about 2 minutes left is donald trump still on a collision course with iran is he on a collision course with himself if he listens to john bolton because if donald trump is tilting the other way what's the point of john bolton and is he if he

doesn't do what john bolton would like him to do or his 3 key allies in the region on a collision course with each other. well i think it's clear that there is increasing disagreements between trump and both and and one can only hope at this point that trump will replace both and by a son pompei oh indeed by people who are less. involved in basically fanatical anti invention plans which just are completely ignoring the dangers that these involved i think for the m.b.a.'s certainly wants to do you know would be probably voting with the boat and pump a 0 in in this argument and he definitely wants to do something but i think what is clear is that you know one wonders to what extent particularly m.b.a.'s is aware of his own military weaknesses. i mean the whole yemen operation is

demonstrates that the saudi military aren't exactly the most brilliant and competent in the world and if the conflict with iran develops beyond the occasional last strike or something else which is what would happen if it becomes a bigger conflict i think the you know the various gulf states will have to be involved and i think what the previous speakers have spoken about which has been did the complete divisions within the g.c.c. and the fact that certainly would do nothing other than attempt to mediate and try and bring peace and i suspect that kuwait would also largely try and do the same. so it seems to me that you know the. coming dependence on u.s. strikes is something that will continue unless they get replaced by israelis which would you know make things even worse that the saudis on their own i'm not going to

do anything beyond constant ending creasing provocative statements and demands and trying to push the u.s. into deeper involvement ok helen i'm going to have to stop you there because we are properly out of time i have to say thank you to all our guests today they were her son. and helen and thank you to you too for your company you can see the show again anytime on the website al-jazeera dot com and for more discussion to check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can join the conversation on twitter at a.j. inside story or tweet me i'm at peace at all be one but for me it is obvious and everyone on the team here in doha thanks for watching see tomorrow of i think. i.

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still on the table also says that the u.s. will impose additional sanctions on iran off to an american drone was shot down on thursday in the strait of hormuz the top diplomats and german chancellor angela merkel there pushing. for a political solution after weeks of rhetoric and fears of all out war meanwhile britain's middle east minister he will visit to iran on sunday in an attempt to deescalate the situation this all comes as iran's government warns it will respond firmly to any u.s. aggression or threat amid the tensions it's announced the execution of a former defense ministry employee accused of spying for washington the u.n. security council is set to meet on the situation on monday after a request from the united states on friday president double trouble revealed he'd cooled off strikes on iran at the right last minute saying he wanted to avoid mass casualties i don't want to kill 150 of anything or anybody. unless it's absolutely necessary. and most people very much agree with what i what i'm doing

now. the leadership of iran behaves badly. that it's got to be a very very bad day for them but hopefully that's part and hopefully they really care for their people and not them and hopefully we can get a redback good good economic back that fantastic when they're really wealthy nation . is around want to become a wealthy nation again. from a profit. we'll call it let's make the round great again. well it will cross to hijack castro who study by washington d.c. but for us let's go to rory chalons in london and rory diplomacy being ramped up in the u.k.'s middle east minister he's off to iran on sunday. yes nick andrew medicine has i think quite

a difficult trip head of him he is the u.k.'s minister for the middle east and as you say he's been dispatched to iran to try to use the united kingdom's probably quite limited diplomatic wait to get the inflames tensions of recent days slightly under control he's going with 2 main thrusts to his diplomatic efforts one is to convey to iran the u.k. is unhappy with what's london police to be tehran's de stabilizing activity over recent days and weeks things like shooting down a u.s. drone and the u.k. has accused iran of blowing up civilian shipping in the region so that's one thrust the other is to try to persuade iran to stick with the nuclear deal the j c p a that was signed back in 2015 the u.k.

signed it france germany russia china the united states and iran this deal was basically constructed to incentivize iran not to develop nuclear weapons of course the united states is no longer it here into it it walked away a year ago since then european countries china and russia and iran have tried to keep this deal going along but in the last week iran has suggested that it is growing tired of it and is going to walk away what it said it will do is increase its production and stockpiling of low enrich uranium so that it breaches the limits set by the j c p o. and it will do that and unless the u.k. france. germany etc step in to to find a way of helping iran sidestep the sanctions the united states has put on it to

help protect iran's energy industries and it and its finance sector this is something that the u.k. and european countries are trying to do but it's very difficult to get around these sanctions european businesses have basically had to pull out of iran because of those sanctions and although there are frameworks being set up. stablish alternative business methods they're proving slow and iran seems to be running out of patience and that's why it is pushing pushing this pressure on the u.k. on these european countries to help foster it's going to be a difficult thing indeed rory thanks very much edward jones there in london well just as donald trump and his advisors have been grappling over their strategy on iran there's yet more up evil in the pentagon marc esper has been nominated by donald trump as his new secretary of defense nominee in 6 months the u.s.

president wants the former arms industry lobbyists and current army secretary to replace patrick shanahan who quits after questions over his own life and let's get the reaction out of the u.s. now with heidi joe castor in washington d.c. and heidi this is an important appointment isn't it but under the charm trump administration the pentagon has been deferring very much to the national security council has none. that's right it has been at least for the last 6 months which is the time that has passed since we've had since the united states has had a senate confirmed defense secretary and that is unheard of that's in fact shatters the previous record 3 times over if you'll backtrack with me back to december of that is when original pick for the job general jim mattis resigned over his objections of removing u.s. troops from syria we know that matt is was also against trump's proposal at the time to remove the u.s.

from the iran nuclear deal and since then there has only been an acting defense secretary patrick shanahan who up until friday was leading up the agency however there have been reports that shanahan really took a backseat when it came to advising the president on foreign policy shannon hand was a boeing executive so many also question his qualifications for the job and during this time that has transpired we've seen a proportionate gain in influence from the national security council which you mention which is notably one of the leaders on that counsels john bolton who is known as an iran hawk in fact the president even called bolton a hawk today but he also told reporters that trump in his own words he's the only one that matters and he's taking all the credit for having cancelled this planned u.s. military strike on iran in retaliation for the drone that was shot down he on twitter

said that he made this decision 10 minutes before it was too late to pull back and he is taking the credit now or trying to in having not made that order that he says would have killed $150.00 iranians and those the whole produce is present probes decision making going to. well many are viewing it as confusing and not just confusing but dangerously confusing in fact that's the headline in the u.s. papers today democrats how are especially insisting that if there's any real u.s. military actions against iran that the white house 1st seek congressional authorization on friday when the trouble ministration reportedly asked for republican surrogates to defend the president's actions on national television few stepped up to take on that challenge and in fact there were some republicans who

criticized the president for his apparent waffling and indecision leading up to the final final action of not ordering that military strike against iran i do think custer reporting there from washington. what juries were and is a senior research fellow at the center for european policy studies he's also served as a european union buster to egypt jordan and yemen and he says the you is run pielke efforts to save the iran nuclear deal. this visit by a junior british foreign minister tomorrow i daresay is the 1st in a number of visits you'll see over the next couple of weeks to teheran and i would hope and guess that they would be high level business on the part of european ministers french germans. frederico maharani perhaps the european union itself all of these are still on the same page when it comes to doing everything they can to save the deal this is going to be

a very difficult thing to do and we've only got about 2 and a half weeks left until the 60 day deadline is up when iran is threatening of course to change its policy on your reign in richmond as we explained earlier if it does that it certainly breaks the agreement which will put the e.u. in a very very difficult position indeed because then there's not much left to defend so i think there's going to be a great deal of persuasion diplomat diplomacy in the next couple of weeks trying to keep iran on track at least to extend the period that he's been talking about so that give it more chance for different things to work one of the things of course that is not working at the moment is this payments mechanism the so-called inspects mechanism set up in paris involving german director and british supervision but up to now in difficulty as it was explained because of the u.s. sanctions but maybe there are a few things that can be tweaked in that to make it work but as we mentioned

earlier iran has announced it has executed a former defense ministry employee on charges of spying for the united states. left his post 9 years ago he was convicted by a military court after investigators allegedly discovered documents and spying equipment at his home let's take so much has been deferred izadi who's a professor of world studies at the university of tehran joins us from the no mysteries id tell us what more we know about this man and what he was doing. apparently he was a spying for the united states apparently had come 1st to that action and depending on how much damage spied. on 3. different types of punishments his wife was also convicted and she got 15 years in prison but apparently.