we will continue to increase pressure on. the u.s. president imposes new sanctions on iran targeting the supremes leader and other senior officials. hello i'm in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up we want to show people that there is a great potential a great future for white house senior adviser jared krishna tells al jazeera his economic conference for the palestinians will be a success despite widespread anger against it. was.

the story of one boy who was lucky to survive after his house was struck by an airstrike. and as ethiopia mourns the victims of a failed coup the man behind the rebellion is killed by security forces. now u.s. president donald trump has imposed what he's calling hard hitting new sanctions on iran's leadership the measures go all the way up to the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei tehran has condemned the move saying the u.s. has no interest in diplomacy mike hanna reports from washington. as promised another round of sanctions against iran these in addition to a number already put in place and directed at the country's most senior leaders president trump did not elaborate on the precise nature of the sanctions apart from saying that they would bar the leaders from access to financial instruments i want

to thank our military and i want to thank all of the people that have been working with me over the last number of months on this there's a lot of restraint has been shown by us a lot of restraint. and that doesn't mean we're going to show in the future no complete details provided by the treasury secretary either but speedman did confirm that some of the sanctions are a direct response to last week's attack on a u.s. drone iran contended the drone had penetrated its space an accusation denied by the u.s. i'm not going to identify which ones or which i've said that some of this was in the works some of this is a result of recent activities deep concern once again expressed by the u.n. secretary general he has urged all sides to show nerves of steel and he is continuing to maintain that and he wants to make sure that they. take steps to avoid any further sorts of of provocation one way or the other the u.s.

is ramping up its diplomatic actions against iran the secretary of state shuttling through several gulf states including saudi arabia to shore up a wide anti iran alliance but at the same time a carrot of sorts being extended with the stick the white house releasing a statement saying the president has been clear that he's open to the possibility of future talks with iran. my kind of al-jazeera washington meanwhile the u.n. security council is calling on all sides to exercise restraint and avoid any further escalation iran's ambassador to the u.n. says the situation in the gulf remains dangerous and has ruled out talks with washington while taran remains under sanctions. the question should be addressed to the united states who has initiated an economic war against iran who has initiated an economic. terrorism against the people at the same time the united states has

has brought a large number of into our region naval armada you know region saw in order to get the us should take the steps in order to. put aside their armada from our region. and also move a very from economic. warfare against ceding and people all this while the u.s. is planning more sanctions in the coming days iran's foreign minister is expected to be among those blacklisted dosage of ari has the reaction from tehran. the announcement that by the end of this we could be reined in foreign minister mohammad javad zarif will be sanctioned by the us government comes as a surprise here in iran this person mom which of us a reef is a career diplomat who has lived in the united states was at the united nations for

many many years and he is known as the face of the islamic republic on the international stage she is that traveled all around the world and met with many many diplomats he is very well known on that level if this decision is very much a surprise many analysts say here this is one of the most surprising decisions by the trumpet ministration in the meantime the decision to sanction the iranian supreme leader will likely not have much effect the ayatollah khomeini has not left iran in over 30 years since he was president in 1909 the last time he left iran was on a state visit to china in april of 1989 the commanders that have been sanctioned as well will not really be much affected by this decision many here. this announcement shows how desperate the united states is in trying to get iran to the negotiating table but many believe this is actually going to have the opposite effect and

create further divisions and tensions between the united states and iran well jarret blunk was a senior state department official under president obama who oversaw the implementation of the iran nuclear deal and he says that while the new sanctions will be largely symbolic the underlying message could escalate the situation even further. well i think that the same sions on the supreme leader does office are almost certainly to be to be read in iran as confirmation that this administration is pursuing a regime change policy even if president trump denies it and even if other officials don't use that phrase what is targeting the leadership of the regime other than regime change so that's clearly negative symbolism as regards foreign minister zarif you know 1st of all he's the regime's negotiator so if you're saying we want to talk sanctioning the lead negotiator probably sends a strange message more than that i find it very unlikely that even our closest allies and partners are going to follow through with this of jobs reforms to go to

paris to talk to alex to our allies he'll be able to rent a hotel room we'll be able to get cash to pay for his dinner is however the case may be it will really show the extent of u.s. isolation the individuals and institutions that have been designated for sanctions are almost certainly fully insulated from the international financial system already so i don't see this as having any particular way to crimp their style this is rather a symbolic step and the the problem with out is not that it's about like and of itself it's good to send messages the problem is that the messages that the administration is sending are more likely to lead to escalation than to deescalation now the u.s. will reveal details of its mideast peace plan as a meeting in bahrain later on tuesday but protests have taken place across the palestinian territories as anger grows against what president trump has called the deal of the century protesters and the occupied west bank bend images of the king of bahrain and one angry gaza residents dressed as former p.l.o.

leader yasser arafat brandished a gun at several bending images of u.s. president donald trump but our correspondent new to abraham is at one of the protests in the occupied west bank and has this report from ramallah. palestinians are always there is action to them and i'm a summit that this expected to be held tomorrow they say that the road to solving the palestinian israeli conflict is not through economic means and they said that palestine is not for sale. in a recent poll 80 percent of palestinians say that they don't believe the u.s. plan will lead them to statehood or that the u.s. is serious about its efforts felicity and president mahmoud abbas said that while economy is important and foreign aid is important the most important story here is political the palestinian authority has stopped engaging with the u.s. ever since the us administration has moved its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem announcing jerusalem as israel's capital and gaza hamas has also rejected the deal and palestinians there have organized

a marathon against it saying that the minimum workshop will be a success. this is one of many protests and biello who actions have ruled in the west bank that are expected to last them when they were just the 2nd and finally minimal. on the palestinian group hamas which governs gaza describes the conference in bahrain as a conspiracy you already know of none of this we declare our rejection of the deal of the century and the bahrain conference we pledged to work to abort this conspiracy we emphasize the arab nature of jerusalem and palestine and the right to refugees to return to the land from which they were driven out of. now my house advisor jared cushman is leading the today initiative and before flying to bahrain he spoke to al-jazeera and said he is confident the conference will be a success. so i think it's already been a success in the sense that we have every country coming from the region we have

a lot of countries coming from throughout the world despite people who tried to get them not to come they're all coming and that's a very big 1st step the 2nd step is that we've been able to get some of the top investors and people from throughout the world to come who are showing interest in helping the palestinian people in the region right now we've a lot of investment funds that won't invest in the middle east because it's not stable they don't have peace they don't have security and so we want to show people is that there is a great potential a great future for this region if it's possible and the experimental is an author and the editor of the grays own project dot com an online news website and he says question has an ulterior motive behind his middle east. it's already a failure the palestinian leadership which was created through plan a of the oslo accords participated willingly in a process that would have granted them a minimal modicum of sovereignty and offered them a pseudo state and what we have here is not even a plan b. what we have is planned bibi as offered by netanyahu is friend family friend jared

cushion or and i suspect that jared cushion or and his gaggle have ulterior motives motives here what they've offered is a plan that dealings the economic situation of palestinians from the political situation of occupation and apartheid which is responsible for their economic plight and what i think cushion or aims to do is present something so unpalatable that hill have the opportunity to paint palestinians as rejectionists thereby clearing political space for an extension failure for jarrett cushion or might mean a success that justifies anik sation by strengthening netanyahu his hand and saying hey the palestinians rejected all of this economic opportunity but of course it's economic opportunity that doesn't relieve the political pain of occupation that has cost palestinians untold billions of dollars and that this plan is actually political leverage on behalf of his family friend netanyahu and the settlement

movement in israel which seeks anik sation in the jordan valley he won around the mega settlement of ma'ale adumim and arielle now the weather is next month still ahead on al-jazeera and victims of mexico's drug war we take a look at why women are being disproportionately targeted. and gasping for breath the dying need to revive pakistan's much neglected health sector. hello again welcome back or across north states we're still looking at plenty of showers here across the central plains as well as the southeast and some of those showers have been quite intense they're going to linger as we go towards the beginning the way mostly down here towards the south but we do have snow showers up here towards northern border and into the great lakes as well tempter wise though

cross much of the great lakes in the northeast your temperatures are on the way up even towards auto up we do expect to see about 27 degrees there trying to a 25 and a sunny day in new york at about 28 degrees but for washington it's can be hot temper there of 32 degrees or cross much of the caribbean particular over here towards the east in the north as we enter the weekend and the beginning of the week has been fairly dry but now we're picking up more showers across much of that area and you are from the bahamas down towards jamaica as well as over here towards has been eula but over here towards mexico it's still going to be quite rainy for mexico city it's got a rainy day at $21.00 degrees pretty much stay like that as we go towards mid week then down here towards the south across central america the rain is going to continue in for one assad has finally a little bit of a break in the rain in the clouds for you that one system is making its way towards the north from want of day-o. is still going to be raining over here towards asensio in the rain is going to continue with attempted there of $25.00 degrees.

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has imposed new sanctions on iran's leadership including. russia says the new measures are illegal and tehran's fraud minister has accused the u.s. of not being interested in diplomacy washington is planning more sanctions in the coming days with mom a job at the reef expected to be blacklisted. and white house senior adviser jared question has told al jazeera his middle east peace plan is already a success because all countries in the region are participating and choose days economic workshop unama bods palestinians are protesting against it and their leaders have denounced the initiative. nearly 500 civilians in syria have been killed and the russian backed government offensive in a province the campaign to capture the last opposition held region began 9 weeks ago and doesn't volved multiple air strikes many of which have struck. reports one

lucky survivor. it will be a long recovery but is thankful he survived this 3 year old was injured in an airstrike last week. they will never forget how they almost lost their younger brother. who desperately tried to pull from the rubble before rescuers arrived was. a missile believed to be dropped by syrian government planes destroyed their house in. an opposition controlled town in southern. the 1st missile hit while he was playing outside with the cat and the 2nd missile hit next to our house our house was destroyed and we couldn't see anything in front of us we removed some blocks and found he's had that is when the ambulance arrived . on my hands. the russian backed syrian government offensive in the north west is entering its 9th week nearly 500 civilians have been killed in

air and ground bombardment that has been targeting rebel controlled towns in northern hama and southern over $300000.00 syrians have fled the area and moved closer to the turkish border. this is crunch a small town in south and people have fled to due to intense bombardment by assad's terrorist regime and that terrorists russian occupiers 120000 people used to live here excluding the displaced syrians. the world food program says it is helping 200000 displaced syrians but its operations have been interrupted in some areas because of the violence it is home to 3000000 people half of them already refugees from other parts of syria that if he is racing against the clock to support all the ready to eat food that doesn't have to be cooked. in the camps and wherever they are while we continue our regular operation and scaling it up to some $800000.00

people every month the demands on aid are expected to grow thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed in recent weeks many blame the syrian government for deliberately targeting the fields as they have done in past offensives to punish those who live in rebel areas and force a surrender. the opposition has not surrendered rebels are holding ground hundreds of fighters on both sides have been killed along the front lines 8 weeks of intense bombardment and the pro-government side has taken little territory. the united nation. his warning the offensive is creating a humanitarian disaster that has been calling on turkey and russia characters of a cease fire to help revive the agreement but for now their proxies engage in battle to gain political leverage. beirut the general accused of leading an attempted rebellion and ethiopia's that horrid region has been shot dead

for senior officials were killed during the attempt to overthrow the local government on saturday and 3 days of mourning have been declared in the state harding isn't out of the barber. the man responsible for the coup attempt in northern ethiopia over the weekend. is dead we just spoke to the prime minister's press secretary she said that the government was trying to capture him and in that process he was shot and killed on monday the coup attempt happened on saturday she said that the prime minister is very much still in control of the government she said that there is a unity both within the government and within the military we know that the division between ethnic lines was a concern and something that b. the intelligence chief of the military said was the purpose of this coup but the press secretary has confirmed that that is not the case that the government and the military are united we asked her also about prime minister of meds interests

and ongoing negotiations with trying to find a solution in neighboring sudan she said despite the domestic turbulence of the week and that the international negotiations to find a solution for sudan's government are ongoing and we also asked her about the internet when it would come back on it's been shut down since saturday the government shut it down in the wake of the weakens attacks she said that it's a part of the investigation and that the internet needs to stay down until the investigation is complete because it's very much an active situation still so she did not give a timeline as to when that would be restored but did acknowledge that the government had shut it down for security reasons she really wanted to drive home the point of unity that the prime minister is in control of the government and that the safety and security forces are united even though ethiopia went through a very divisive weekend the election of acrimony as mayor has boosted techie's

opposition and a major setback to the governing party after years of dominance. reports the new man has many challenges to overcome. for the 1st time in 25 years an opposition candidate is in charge of istanbul this is the new mayor. from the secular c.s.p. party. said in his victory speech on sunday that he's willing to work with everyone to improve living conditions in turkey's most populous city describing his triumph as a new era many here in istanbul say they are excited about the future the people's hearts there's a feeling that he would make an excellent president but he's not president yet we have to while remaining cheerful we shouldn't forget the basic facts about our government runs but one of the opposition and its supporters are euphoric about

their win the governing party is grappling with the defeat loyalists are pressing for reforms within the party of president. but officials are brushing aside suggestions they are losing public support after 17 years in power these are opportunities for us to improve ourselves better and i think just because this is the reason why a pirate is still the largest party of turkey and we have actually worn mormon stabilities rest of the parties combined after the municipal results were announced the turkish lira made gains against the dollar this vote was a rerun of an election held in march that was an old after the other party said there were irregularities the economy has been in decline since last year facing a currency crisis and soaring inflation now the government hopefully will hope for a 4 and 4 years of elections where they can focus back on the economy for years is

a good time. on their take austerity measures and then see the recovery as well. as a poet. and say he lacks political experience and he's a newcomer but others argue so was 25 years ago when he became mayor of istanbul and party leader and then eventually president of turkey is the board's new mayor will have to deliver on the promises he's made including fighting corruption and ending partisanship and improving people's lives but the memo to want to be able to achieve these goals unless he has the backing of president however the 2 leaders come from rival parties that have been on the opposing sides of turkey's political landscape for many years and have different views about the future of the country about al-jazeera islam board. mexico is deploying nearly $15000.00 soldiers to its border with the united states the army chief made the announcement saying it's part of an effort to stem the flow of illegal immigration many of those detained at the

us mexico border central americans being gang violence and poverty earlier this month 6000 troops were sent to mexico's southern border meanwhile the u.s. government has moved more than 300 migrant children being held at a remote border patrol station in the state of texas it follows reports that they had inadequate food water and sanitation noise who visited the station in that town of kent say older children were trying to take care of infants and toddlers some had been detained for 3 weeks and many were sick with the flu but it's not known where they've been moved to well in mexico thousands of women are being imprisoned for minor drug related crimes and despite tough laws designed to target powerful drug cartels the poor are still being disproportionately punished has been reports from mexico city. more than 3000 women or in prison were being

processed in mexico for drug offenses. gabi was arrested for selling in transporting marijuana and is now serving a 10 year sentence she says she had no other way of making a living and wasn't expecting such a harsh punishment i did it out of necessity because of poverty where i'm from there's no other income where i'm from selling marijuana is like selling broad will mexico's anti-drug laws or dismantling the country's cartels human rights they're also having a disproportionate impact on poor women. when we talk about the drug war many people think of el chapo they don't realize that normally those who are punished are at the bottom of the pyramid women who have been discriminated against or have been victims of violence. in mexico city. a former inmate is getting used to her new life out of prison she served a 5 year prison sentence for selling more contacts on the street

a crime she says she had no choice but to commit. armed men came to my house and pointed a gun at my 3 year old granddaughter they said my husband owed them a lot of money more than i could ever afford in my life that's when i agreed to sell their drugs i did it to save my children's lives. betty says many of her fellow prison inmates were there for similar reasons victims of circumstances mexican president under this one way lopez over the white house promise that policies that punish drug users and street dealers will be rewritten but that policy change has yet to happen in fact the trend of women ending up behind bars for low level drug charges is actually on the rise between 20162018 mexico's female prison population increased by 103 percent one former inmate told the system doesn't punish criminals it punishes them for madrid up. mexico city.

pakistan's government is struggling to revive the diet states have the country's public health system decades of neglect and corruption have crippled it and that's the most vulnerable who are paying the price according to the government to 45 percent of children are not getting proper nutrition that's resulted in a high rate of stunted growth over 40 percent of touch with die before they reach the age of 5 and maternal mortality is among the highest in the wild osama bin jawad reports from miti and southern pakistan. this mother has just lost her 3 year old daughter's akira she had brought her to this government hospital in pakistan's to parker district for treatment. vicky is one of the nearly $500.00 children under the age of 5 who die in this region every year over 40 percent of children actually under 5 are stunted. rehab for a situation of almost 20 percent underweight and 15 percent waist it is definitely

a wakeup that there is a silent emergency in the country and it's needs urgent attention from all concerned. the other girls sharing zacchaeus bed also died. most children here are killed by preventable diseases because they are malnourished bodies are too weak to fight the malnourishment here is a multi-faceted issue even the mothers are either malnourished or have stunted growth they have children every year and because they're so poor they can't provide proper nutrition for their child. there's been neglected for decades corruption and bad governance of being made worse by a lack of awareness and look to see the bigger the family the less that there is to go right so there's a whole multi sexual approach to this more same kinds know death the casing in the open not becoming ill because then you can keep inside children with keeping side the food in the new session is that they do get so lots of different factors it's

not just about an absolute lack of food. they had 6 children but he lost one child recently the others also don't get enough food every day in addition to one popular in the family his wife is pregnant once again a sign of kind of daniel. there's no food no electricity you can see our lives in this heart but despite the public in this predominantly hindu community in other areas across pakistan the population is growing doctors say stunted growth in children begins even before they're born the operators. that's and that's already a critical reason of malnutrition related death is lack of family planning and birth spacing that's resulting in in the myth mothers in miscarriages. prime minister imran khan talked about the problem of malnutrition in his inaugural speech last august but a weak economy needs his government to slash the health budget in the largest province of the problems as have all to reduced money for health care especially for mothers and children this means parents like zach years will likely continue to

suffer. from a big job without the 0 bitty to the pakistan. hello i'm a star and i how with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has imposed what he's calling hard hitting new sanctions on iran's leadership the measures go all the way up to the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei while terrell owens foreign minister has condemned the sanctions saying the u.s. has no interest in diplomacy washington is planning more in the coming days with mohamed job and zarif expected to be blacklisted the u.n. security council is calling on all sides to exercise restraint and to avoid any further escalation. white house senior adviser jared kush no will reveal details of his middle east peace plan at a meeting in bahrain later on tuesday protests have taken place across the

palestinian territory as anger grows against what president has called the deal of the century the palestinian group hamas which governs gaza describes the meeting in bahrain as a conspiracy. we declare our rejection of the deal of the century in the bahrain conference we pledged to work to abort this conspiracy we emphasize the arab nature of jerusalem and probably and the right to refugees to return to the learn from which they were driven out of. the general behind the failed coup in ethiopia some horror region has been shot dead by government forces trying to capture him for senior officials were killed during the attempt to overthrow the local government on saturday and 3 days of mourning are being observed or mexico is deploying nearly $15000.00 soldiers to its border with the united states the army chief made the announcement saying it's part of an effort to stem the flow of illegal immigration many of those detained at the us mexico border are central americans fleeing gang

violence and poverty meanwhile the u.s. government has moved more than 300 migrant children being held at a remote border patrol center in the state of texas had follows reports that they had inadequate food water and sanitation lawyers who visited the station in the town of clint say all the children were trying to take care of infants and toddlers some have been detained for 3 weeks and protesters in georgia say they'll keep up the pressure on north already is after the government bowed to demands for a fairer electoral system hundreds have rallied in the capital tbilisi and other cities for the past 5 days the protests began after a controversial visit by a russian politician to georgia those are the headlines join me for more news here after witness do stay with us. on counting the cost 2018 was the deadliest year for the aviation industry in years we'll find out just what went wrong also italy considers

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