pins on both sides and a number of the both the p 5 at the security council and number of the other nations that you mentioned and some others are doing things that violate the un embargo and impact what's going on on the ground and so again this un resolution doesn't solve anything but it may put the brakes on the most egregious actions so take for example france france was supporting have to or so with some robustness until early april but they've stepped back their support significantly maybe down to almost 0 except for certain counterterrorism operations a lot going on in the ground right now and it's clear that nations are looking to be opportunistic but not be to agree just in their violations of these international agreements but right now have to or isn't singing the right notes and isn't conducting himself in a way that indicates that he's ready to make peace sometimes you need more pressure

or more negative stories to come to light before enough pressure can be put on him and to that end i should say that have to are now has the large lawsuit against him in the united states other lawsuits in europe investigations being called for at the u.n. level the u.s. level in the european level and there will need to be increasing pressure on both sides to behave better and in particular on the half hour to be serious about going back to the negotiating table. because in california all recessing the damage from the strongest earthquake to 25 years the 7 point one magnitude jolt causes coals to injuries caused cracks in buildings and roads and gas leaks the 2nd major quake in successive days in the u.s. state follows hundreds of aftershocks johanson possible. the biggest earthquake in 2 decades struck california's mojave desert it rattled chandelier here and was filmed by news presenters 250 miles away in los angeles to get on the

path all right we're going to go to break i will be right back after a while it came a day after a magnitude $6.00 quake along the same fault line shaking buildings and shutting down a highway strewn with rocks so the focus growing we brought here to piece the 1st earthquake ruptured a bit more on the 5.4 this morning and we're up here and more now it is moving towards the northwest away from the metropolitan area as far as we can tell the u.s. geological survey says there's a 5 percent chance a bigger quake will follow this is another earthquake everyone has a chance i'm trying to think if we've ever seen a situation with the 6.47 and something even bigger and i can't think of one the epicenter of the southern california quake was in the city of ridgecrest halfway between los vegas and los angeles we're gathering intelligence and we're taking action on multiple structure fires we're gathering information we've got our helicopter in the air doing our work on

a sense of the city of ridgecrest and the surrounding areas. we got. reports of tremors came from as far away as sacramento an 8 hour drive to the north and several hours to the south in mexico leaving 1st responders in the desert community scouring the area for damage and anyone injured by the quake john hendren al-jazeera. well still ahead here on al-jazeera competing rallies most venezuela's independence day opposition protesters are countered by a military show of force led by president but. they may look content for one life's not so lush for more than just the buffalo to world heritage site their stories after the break.

we've got quite a weather coming into something positive pan over the next couple of days following on from the extensive floods that we saw last week floodwaters still remain hiding say still some pockets of heavy rain 209 millimeters of rain here just to the south of kona shoe in the space of 24 hours that's pulling out into the open water as you can see how wide the skies tried to push in behind here's a seasonal front the my you buy a front that will just not a little further research as we go through sunday there's that west of weather there in tokyo no higher than around 21 celsius some warmth still in behind around 30 degrees there across the korean peninsula not just of beijing remember last week getting up to 40 degrees celsius higher than about 26 on sunday afternoon perhaps the top form of the basing on monday a little more cloud coming in a bit of cloud 2 just to run the korean peninsula pushing into japan but certainly much quieter much better weather the missing recently some relief from the flooding

rains i'm pleased to say heavy showers do continue to follow that same line of right across central and southern parts of china over the next couple days some wetter weather coming in here sinking a little further southwards as we get into monday. i'm victoria. good was not always easy my mother was suffering from c.v.r. depression through making this film i have to understand my mother's mental illness and to find out if the conditions for the mentally ill have improved literally millions of people can be treated receive no help medications we all have a duty to change attitudes. mental illness breaking the silence on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me said her robin a reminder of our top stories the un's nuclear watchdog has agreed to a u.s. request to arrange a special meeting next week on iran's nuclear program to iran says it will gradually reduce its commitment to the pact unless europe does more to save it. the u.n. security council has condemned the attack on a migrant detention center in libya it's also calling on the warring sides to commit to a cease fire and deescalate fighting in the capital. and southern california has been shaken by its strongest earthquake for 25 years the day after another record breaking tremor and hundreds of aftershocks fire crews are dealing with gas leaks emergency teams are working through the night to assess the damage. so to europe now where opinion polls show greece's ruling party facing

a major battle in the general election on sunday after 4 half years in power the empty all sturdy series a promise to soften the euro zone strict standards on spending but ended up adopting them instead john psaropoulos has more from athens. this charity shop in the center of athens has more and more pensioners as customers under the city's a government they have had their benefits cut twice despite it promising it wouldn't follow the austerity policies of previous administrations after 49 years of work and that is going to received a pension of $1600.00 a month that is now down by a quarter but when you're familiar. i used to buy a newspaper i stopped that i used to go out for coffee with friends i stopped it i used to buy a packet of cigarettes a week i cut that now i just sit locked in my home pensioners one of the most hard hit constituencies of the greek crisis and they helped elect cities in january 2015

to endorse geraghty in july that year in a referendum 62 percent of greeks voted against further austerity instead cities are capitulated to greece's 3rd emergency loans and partial spending cuts we about turn was unpopular but it balanced the budget and kept greece in the euro zone there are many people who vote that series are in. because syria see it as it had been promising there will. be a mystic. achievement of their voting them out because. they did the right thing they did what was practically big and practically feasible . last year greece's eurozone partners who are its main creditors said it was no longer dependent on their emergency loans and was fit to return to the markets series or pronounces it

a victory. you know we came to unite all greeks we combined our stream without this unity we would not have emerged from our stereotype austerity policies are so unpopular opposition parties could not resist attacking them that's why a conservative government unseated a socialist one and was in turn one seated by a series of political parties failed to form a national front to face the national emergency for the past 4 and a half years it has seemed that caesar was immune to the political cost of will stare a tea because it was a new political force having never held power before it wasn't responsible for bankrupting the economy but now that greece has graduated from its state of emergency the greeks appear more willing to accept that they too were to blame for overspending their way into debt and ready to come to terms with the global economy again jobs are opal us al-jazeera athens. while staying in the region walters

agreed to take in 54 people who were rescued off libya's coast on thursday the migrants were stuck at sea while malta and italy argued over who should lead the rescue ship dock a similar number of migrants already in malta will be sent to italy in return for accepting the latest group. and a german rescue ship has picked up $65.00 people from an overloaded dinghy off the coast of libya it had no navigation system says rescuers and almost no drinking water on board the italian government is warning them not to attempt to dock at any port in italy a german captain it was arrested when she defied orders last week. independence day celebrations in venezuela have been overshadowed by the struggle for power president nicolas maduro and opposition leader. notes to each other during rival rallies stories about reports. on the streets once again opposition leader why they will ask people to join him in a march towards the military counter-intelligence directorate us

a state security body accused of torturing a navy captain who it said was plotting against me mother would the opposition says he was tortured to death. by the same movie i dictate or ship is what we have it's a dictatorship that we are fighting and when they ask how long why haven't you been able to succeed it's because it's a dictatorship it's not an excuse i'm not excusing myself it's you my responsibility of the actions we have taken and of the actions we will take and what we try to accomplish accompanying our people. the united nations human rights body this week released a report denouncing the serious abuses committed by my daughter's government and lawful deaths in so-called anti-crime operations persecution and torture of the opposition and the roshan of democracy in this oil rich nation excess of a little force has repeatedly been used against protesters my office has also

documented excessive use of force in the context of security operations by the special action forces with multiple killings made of young men many could constitute killings and should be fully investigated with accountability of perpetrators and guarantees of non recurrence. at the traditional independence day celebrations. presided over a parade of tanks and jets surrounded by those in the military still loyal to him. nobody should ever be mistaken the empires of the world should know venezuela is and will irrevocably remain independent and sovereign now and always by should know this and those who don't should be aware the un report despite being described as one sided and biased may have struck a chord with some venezuelan officials since 22 prisoners were released on friday among them a judge and a journalist human rights groups say there are over 700 political prisoners in

venezuela whose rights have been violated over and over again we've documented that abuses by innocent and security forces are systematic and are part of a systematic pattern of abuse this report does not clearly state so and what is necessary is to determine clearly the government's responsibility for the humanitarian crisis this is not the consequence of an actress and the government has to be held accountable for venezuelans are struggling with a crisis that has forced the millions to leave the country u.s. sanctions have added more pain leaving many of those who have stayed to believe that only a change at the very top will help them improve their lives. now the ancient city of babylon in iraq has been made a world heritage site described as the cradle of civilization it was the center of

the babylonian empire 4000 years ago iraq has been lobbying the un's cultural and scientific agency for 3 decades to be added to the list. well 3 years ago another iraqi site was made a world heritage site but the people living in the marshlands of southern iraq that the marsh arabs say the new status has not improved their livelihoods let's charles traffic reports government negligence and climate change their daily struggle. the sun rises over the marshes of southern iraq the what didn't region fade by the tigris and euphrates rivers. home to people as far back as the samarian this more than 5000 years ago in the early 1990 s. saddam hussein ordered troops to drain most of the area as punishment for a tribal uprising against him around 75 percent of the 250000 people known as the marsh arabs fled. when the dictator was toppled in 2003 many returned to demolish

the dams that had deprived their homeland of water for so long the use of violence oppression of the marsh arabs suffered under the former regime are over but they say that repeated promises by government since the fall of saddam hussein over better access to services have never been kept they can live according to their traditions now life here is exceptionally hard. there to bake spread on a tiny island where her family raised buffalo she says she's seen no improvement to their lives in recent years that i was able to hold that life is miserable because of the heat and the toil of looking off to our livestock bad for the buffaloes we are very unhappy but what can we do. experts say dams on the tigris and euphrates rivers in turkey and iran combined with frequent drought stew to climate change

have increased the salinity of the marsh water this effects the health of the water buffalo and the quality and quantity of milk they produce. has lived on the marshes most of his life he says many marsh arabs like a much hole in between moving away hoping to find an easier life or staying and preserving their culture. during the summer it's especially hard fish die and the cattle eat less so they produce less milk for us to sell in the winter they separate viruses we have no veterinary services no proper electricity no schools no health services either. the iraqi government was proud when unesco made the marshes a world heritage site 3 years ago this magnificent building built almost entirely from reaches calderwood and. it's where tribal elders discuss issues affecting the community such as environmental problems and what many say is government elect.

we have seen no improvements since the marshes were listed as a unesco world heritage site there were hopes it could be a place for environmental tourism but that hasn't happened yet it's estimated the marshes have shrunk to a 3rd of the size they were 100 years ago now the people with a unique culture are living in a long suffering region of political violence states climate change and broken government promises that all the biggest threats to their lives. in the marshlands of southern the rock. donald trump is blaming a technology break turn and the rain for a glaring historical error during his independence day speech while reciting highlights of america's war victories the president said george washington's revolutionary forces seized airports in 775 the 1st plane didn't fly until 1003. in june of 1775 the capital of congress

created a unifying army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around boston and new york and named after the great york washington commander in chief of the continental army suffered a bitter winter of valley forge found glory across the waters of the delaware and seized victory from cornwallis of yorktown our army manned the air it rained the ramparts it took over the airport it did everything it had to do you. see what you are just there with the reminder of our top news stories the un's nuclear watchdog has agreed to a u.s. request to arrange a special meeting next week on iran's nuclear program to iran says it will gradually reduce its commitment to the pact unless europe does more to save it.

more government as strikes in syria have killed a mother and injured her son rebel held at le province was heavily bombarded early on saturday rescue teams are searching for survivors at least 12 civilians were killed during similar strikes on friday. and the un security council has condemned the attack on a migrant detention center in libya it's also calling on the warring sides to commit to its cease fire and deescalate fighting in the capital. southern california has been shaken by its strongest earthquake for 25 years the day after another record breaking tremor and hundreds of aftershocks fire crews are dealing with gas leaks emergency teams are working through the night to assess the damage when an earthquake occurs there's a redistribution of stress so it can relieve stress in some areas but it can also. load up or or promote the possibility of another earthquake happening and that's exactly what we saw here the 6.4 actually promoted the chance for the 7 point one

to occur so that's when you know the triggering can happen like that even though an earthquake $6.00 it released some stress it actually promoted the subsequent wanted . to see as president has called presidential and legislative elections for later this year. a city see sign to decrease as he made his 1st public appearance since being just charge more spittle there were concerns the 92 year old leader wouldn't be well enough to authorize elections on time as a d.c. also took action to extend to his ears on going state from urgency. malta has agreed to take in 54 people rescued off libya's coast now the migrants were stuck at sea while malta and italy argued over who should let the rescue ship dock and a similar number of migrants already in malta will be sent to italy in return for accepting the latest group and of course you can follow all of those stories by logging onto our website at al-jazeera dot com we continue to monitor events in the

middle east more news in half an hour next is that inside story with a brown car to stay with us. an iranian oil tanker is seized by british marines off to gibraltar apparently on orders from the united states what's behind this dramatic move and how can we europe now the gate escalating tension between the u.s. and iran this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm in wrong on an iranian is that they center of a growing international dispute british marines boarded and detained the ship on thursday as it was sailing in gibraltar a british territory on spain's south coast the u.k. believes it was violating european union sanctions by carrying iranian oil to syria spain says it was the united states that ordered the vessel be stopped iran condemned what it called an illegal interception and summoned the british ambassador to tehran the u.s. and iran have been engaged in a war of words for months as washington precious tehran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal. this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the

grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria that refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to european union sanctions against syria the u.s. national security advisor john bolton called their detention excellent news a former commander of iran's revolutionary guard is threatening retaliation saying if britain doesn't release the iranian oil tanker it is the author or is his duty to seize a british oil taga. i. let's bring in our panel joining us from teheran hassan medea an assistant professor of political science at the university of tehran in berlin alley for the nature a visiting fellow at the brookings doha center and in washington d.c. jeff stacy a former u.s. state department official under president barack obama welcome to you all like to begin her on 1st the brits have made their move the u.s.

national security advisor john bolton seems to be positively giddy about the whole thing calling it excellent news what does tehran do next. of course tehran see it in line with the recent you know trends that have been taken by the brits for their guards to run on the j.c.b. or a. for instance and for your answer the brits came out of it with out and in. suggesting that iran was behind it while the u.a.e. itself said there is no you know any think that links iran to be incident on other issues of the downing of the u.s. spy jet or a spy drone the brits also endorsed the. u.s. you know rhetoric and narrative a bit and i think basically in recent months london has been you know reflecting

whatever the white house had to say this incident i think is in line with that shift in. london's you know policy of the regards to iran because up until now ever since the sanctions have been in place the e.u. sanctions on syria there there hasn't been any incident but now so the iranians basically the general mood here is that the brits are doing what the united states wants and it's in line with their policy of bandwagon and with the united states against iran but you know you heard sending the journal is you serious against e.u. sanctions you're not supposed to do that. that's of course that's either you sanctions not iran sanctions they the e.u. is now or the britain the brits are doing what the united states the trumpet

ministration has been doing that the administration has been imposing unilateral sanctions and penalize you know pressurizing others to abide by them the e.u. is imposing sanctions and you know. forcing other or trying to force others to abide by them which is it self the e.u. and clued in the brits have been criticizing the united states for let's bring in washington d.c. here and stacey jeff you worked on the original j c p o a deal you know a lot of the players involved this deal has now almost completely broken down is there any way back for the u.s. on this is any way back for iran on this do you see this as being a a moment where there's an opportunity or a view given up on this deal ever being same through again. we're not fully given up on the deal and the europeans aren't of though this is certainly

a signal to the iranians that they probably are and so we've got all sorts of perception problems here and the likelihood is that the deal in terms of iran's adherence to it on enrichment levels and these sorts of things they'll probably push the end even more file a few more provisions but the real concern is what's going to happen right in the region with the different. capacities and pieces of military equipment that are in place we're probably going to see now another move by iran to lash out and target someone either directly or with its subsidiaries in the region such as the who teaser others and that's where the real danger is here that the red line that this administration has out there could be moved right across and then an exchange takes place and then a rapid escalation that's the real danger here where more and more boxed in so the

agreements that's not really the greatest concern here that can be gotten back in line with relatively quickly the real problem with the military assets in the region and how close to each other they are and the difficulty now in terms of any kind of military exchange targeting of another piece of either u.s. or allied military forces that is the real issue at this stage it is a very serious issue but you decide ministration they did put those military assets that the iranians were sticking to the deal according to your own sources the white house itself under president obama they were very happy that with the way the iranians are sticking to the deal then this administration changes everything and suddenly we have those assets in the region this is war mongering classic woman. sholay it is i mean the drug administration is guilty of starting this entire crisis so there's that fault and there's plenty of it lying around the difficulty

now is that the europeans do not want this deal violated and the iranians are pushing the ante here by essentially aligning the europeans with the americans because they're really out of moods everyone is boxed in here the us is boxed in iran is boxed in that's why the danger level is going up and the tensions are going up the sources of this quite rightly are entirely the fault of the us but now we're in a really dangerous situation right there in the gulf with these assets and that is the problem there red lines on both sides we need to get back to discussions and obviously sanctions lifted and moving to a new deal except rick cetera let's bring in the fatah and i said who's a visiting fellow at the brookings doha center he's actually and then right now do you see a way out of this of both sides is there something is there

a way of backing down. well and the interest situation is very difficult and so there is not. i mean the only way out would be that both tehran and washington become more flexible so that for example washington announces that to iran beyond you know the signal that they're actually willing to talk without preconditions as president trump recently said to signal to iran that they would be willing to stop some of the sanctions and this would send a positive signal to iran and maybe give them some courage to enter into negotiations because so the iranian perspective for the last few months was that they were in a position of weakness and there is no. there is no reason to engage in talks with the united states although the debate is much more multifaceted entire on surely

but for now we don't have the green light from the supreme leader of iran which is an absolute necessity so we see at least rhetorically more willingness to talk from the american side than from the iranian side but bes as it may we might say a different dynamic if iran decides to go beyond to go to move towards 20 percent of low enriched uranium in the next few days and this my create a new dynamic inside of which the europeans will find it very difficult to continue the kind of political and diplomatic support to iran so all of this kind of. play of brinkmanship from the u.s. and iranian side of the last few weeks and months is now entering a critical stage let me bring in her son here in tehran you heard what our guest in berlin had to say is that a way for the iranians to come back to the negotiating table and turn this around

or is it simply too late. i think iranians have never left the negotiation table they have been there it's the united states that a got out of the know from the negotiating table and try to bring iran on its own terms to another negotiating tables so this is clear the united states violated the deal then imposed the sanctions that were lifted as part of the deal and then forced others to you know abide by those sanctions and now is in a ratcheting up the pressure the maximum pressure and i'm in the the point that your guest from washington brought up that everybody's boxed in i think that's correct but the party that is suffering is iran it's not the e.u. it's not the united states so iran sees the way that the e.u.

is dealing with u.s. sanctions as. as a violation of it of its own commitment within the deal so it's basically it's not working against the e.u. it's basically doing what the e.u. and the united states is doing that they basically got back from their commitments they got back to the 1st square where the negotiations started and led to the j.c. a and iran basically is i think is heading back as well to the 1st where to be equal i mean to deal with them on equal footing and i think that's that's a choice that has been made into iran iranians cannot basically the authorities here the ruling elites cannot you know afford to basically woo back and neil be behind before us maximum pressure they have to create a leverage as to go to and if they are to go to another.