iran's president defends his country sure raney him in richmond calling it peaceful and said it does not violate the 2015 nuclear deal. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up as the internet is switched back on in sudan the world finally sees what really happened during that military crackdown on the protest camps. were in chad where a national emergency has been declared as the country scrambles to contain a measles outbreak. and turkey rejects accusations by greece and the european union that its gas and oil drilling off cyprus is illegitimate.

as iran continues to pull back from its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal president haasan rouhani is insisting tehran's actions are actually peaceful he says iran's increased trade and reaching uranium is within the framework of the nuclear agreement ronny also issued a warning that the u.k. will face consequences for seizing an iranian tanker near gibraltar european powers are meanwhile focusing on saving the nuclear deal french president's top advisor is meeting with the rani and officials to try to keep tehran and line now all of this will be the focus of an emergency meeting of the international atomic energy agency in vienna later on wednesday let's go live now to the iranian capital tehran and talk to our door so jabari so tell us more about what hassan rouhani has been saying today. well the president has been commenting following his weekly cabinet meeting where he defended the country's decision to surpass the limits that

is set under the 2015 nuclear agreement of we in richmond levels of it's uranium the levels they were supposed to stay under was 3.67 percent but on sunday the country's atomic energy organization announced that they will surpass it on a monday they confirm that they are at 4.5 percent now the president says if the united states has such a problem with iran's nuclear program they should look at their own they don't have a right to dictate to us how we run our nuclear program and he insists that it is for peaceful purposes something that we've heard over and over again from officials here we've also seen pictures from the french diplomatic advisor to french president in the new mom who's been meeting with haunting who is the secretary of the iran's supreme national security council that is the body that's in charge of the country's nuclear program the meeting is seen as an effort by the french government to try and deescalate the tensions emmanuel ball and this is his 2nd

visit to tehran in the past month he is really trying to for spearhead the efforts of the remaining e.u. signature henri's to try and save this deal this diplomat has lived in iran in the past when he worked at the french embassy here so he's seen as somebody who is knowledgeable about the country and he will be meeting with iranian foreign minister this afternoon so all these efforts are an attempt to try and convince the iranians that the european countries are still committed to this deal and that they're scaling back their commitment is not something that is in their own best interests to depart with the latest from tehran dorsett thank you so let's get more now on the iranian tanker a near her from lawrence lee and london so lawrence i'm hasan rouhani still saying that they are going to address what it is that happened with their tanker what is the latest in this. back and forth between between u.k. and iran. well look i mean the the foreign office here in london is up to the

nothing to say today further than what is said the last couple of days which which is to point to intelligence that the governments of gibraltar said it received an iranian tanker was carrying it was smuggling oil it thought destined for syria in breach of european sanctions and consequently it was seized and the governments of gibraltar is in now has conclusive proof that the oil had come from iran and the investigation's ongoing as to where it was supposed to go and that's that's where the position that that the thing that really strikes me is most significant really is about the timing because the seizing of the vessel came almost immediately after the american iran envoy came to london met the international maritime organization and then came back from that and told me and other reporters that the americans had intelligence that iranian vessels were going dark as he put it turning their truckers off and trying to smuggle oil out and the whole thing was in breach of international maritime law and lo and behold a few days later then the british seize seize the ship and so it is you know it

looks like the british position basically is it won't support american sanctions or keep the iran deal in place but at the same time is prepared to work with the americans to seize vessels if they're in breach of international maritime law ok lawrence lane with the latest out of london lawrence thank you now iran does have an ally and russia and president vladimir putin's aid has helped talks enter anti-riot and said that there will be no sustainable regional security unless iran's entrusts are met said barzan as more from moscow. mosco has not officially responded to to the u.s. plan to have this coalition in iran but it's not likely to go down very well here because russia has been urging european nations to stick to the nuclear deal and this of course is a concern that some european nations could join this u.s. coalition on tuesday alexander the last 20 of the special envoy for syria here in russia have seen that with some kind in iran the head of the national security

council there to discuss and to confirm russia's position being a strong ally of iran it has asked that if the interest of iran are ignored then there can be a new regional stability and also this maximum pressure being pushed by the united states on iran is not beneficial for anyone so basically russia has gone from this strong ally but the other hand there are some reports about some cracks between the 2 countries especially on their cooperation in syria in recent weeks of course the interests of russia and iran a very different in syria for russia for woods and it's more putting pressure and influence on the middle east and increasing its role there for iran it's a very different political battle also because the relationship with neighboring countries like israel is very different russia has very good relations with israel

and increasingly so so while russia is confirming its support for iran it's not carved in stone that this coalition will hold on forever turkey's foreign ministry is rejecting statements by greek and european union officials who said turkish drilling for gas and oil around cyprus is illegitimate the u.s. state department says turkey is being provocative by sending 2 ships to explore off the coast of the politically divided island it says energy resources should be shared equally between turkey which controls the northern part of cyprus and the greek cypriot administration in the south said because he alone has more from istanbul. the discovery of oil and gas and eastern mediterranean has been a reason of conflict and tension between cyprus and turkey for a while that goes back to an ethnic conflict conflict in in 1974 which split the island between turkey speaking cyprus and greek in greek speaking

cyprus and. the turkish speaking cyprus open to north proclaims independence which is recognized by only turkey and this is why there are overlapping claims on the continental shelf borders or exclusive economic zone borders the waters of is the mediterranean between the greek side and turkey turkey says' it is free to explore and drill energy resources in the eastern mediterranean like any other country that has caused by the sea and the greek side accused to a key for do if or for doing this in greek waters and which they find illegitimate but turkey says it has the right and they are also defending the rights of the turkish cyprus because. of that the greeks operates are doing this explorations and drilling independent from the turkish side present they feel to defend themselves there are 2 turkish ships in the eastern mediterranean right now one of them is

fatah which sailed dolphin and began drilling in the western side of the cyprus island in early 2019 it is drilling right now and the 2nd ship which sailed off in late june is counting down for drilling by. car but. according to the energy ministry it is going to start drilling oil and gas in a week or so and this is why there is this conflict and the western allies have been also accusing turkey for increasing tensions in the mediterranean waters what took you say it's the legitimate right and. currently we have been hearing and reading reports that you might be discussing a suspending turkey's accession and suspending 2. extension of a customs union with the european countries sudan has begun to restore internet access to mobile phones allowing people to finally see what happened during that

military crackdown last month services were cut after more than 100 people were killed by government forces during a peaceful sit in jail of a saudi on has more. for the 1st time in more than a month these type of images are be shared through mobile phone. they show the aftermath of sudan's military crackdown on protesters during a peaceful sit in in khartoum more than 100 people were killed by sudan's military joint on june 3rd. much of the violence was recorded on so far videos internet services were cut shortly after on the orders of sudan's transitional military council. lawyer adela seem hazan filed a lawsuit requesting the internet be restored the court agreed services were brought back 1st to fix landlines on tuesday the ruling was extended to mobile phones he along with several human rights groups believe the shutdown was an

attempt to hide evidence of crimes committed against civilians but that you probably know the argument was that interrupting internet services would protect the general public but in fact it was the opposite it was for the protection of private into taste and for people that have committed crimes. social media platforms like facebook and twitter were widely used to organize protests that ultimately toppled a longtime leader omar al bashir in april once the military to control for weeks protesters took to the streets demanding the formation of a civilian led government. since the military crackdown trust between the military and civilians has been damaged but that last week progress was made generals and protesters agree to form a joint civilian military ruling body together they plan to install a new government for

a transitional period of 3 years oh despite recent violence many civilians say they will keep pushing for change but these pictures that can now be shared on mobile phones prove the path forward could be challenging katia llopis with a gun al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera we look at the slow recovery in the iraqi city of mosul 2 years after i saw was pushed out. at our friends as environmental ambitions will say travelers paying more to fly out of the country. hello again it's good to be back well we are seeing some showers here across parts of the philippines as well as across parts of malaysia as well there's those on the storms really popping up in the heating of the day now down towards the south

really not looking too bad for jakarta as well as over here towards bali and into parts of the east but things are going to be changing over the next few days we're going to see more clouds across much of that area for coaching it is going to be a very windy day fewer than expected temperature there of about 30 degrees now across the southern in the southeast and portions of australia we are watching one big storm system a winter storm making its way across towards the east now the winds going to be fairly gusty with this storm is going to really affect parts of tasmania appear towards melbourne as well in the overnight hours a lot of the rain is going to be turning to snow so it's going to be a wintry mix for some locations the roads going to be quite slippery there up towards the north though it's going to be quite nice in brisbane here on thursday with a temperature of 25 degrees now as we go towards friday things are going to stay quite nice as well maybe coming down to about 24 degrees there well as we make our way over here towards the north in the south island of new zealand we're going to be seeing a fairly nice conditions maybe some rain towards the north island here for auckland attempt a few of 16 degrees but things will be progressively getting worse more rain in the

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you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour iran's president hassan rouhani has defended his country's uranium enrichment saying it's peaceful and still within the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal tehran has welcomed french efforts to say that agreement a top diplomat is meeting with iranian officials. the u.s. says it wants to form a military coalition to protect the crucial shipping route up the coast of iran in yemen. administration blames tehran for recent attacks on oil tankers and the gulf . turkey's foreign ministry is rejecting statements by greek and european union officials who said turkish drilling for gas and oil around cyprus is illegitimate and the u.s. says turkey is bankrupt by sending 2 ships to explore off the coast of the politically divided island. an outbreak of measles and chad has caused a national emergency to be declared other african countries are also struggling to

contain the preventable disease patient numbers have soared 700 percent and some places talk reports. it is so much it hurts. the fever would go down. and this baby's lungs are filled with. these are children on the brink of death because they were not vaccinated against measles we didn't know what it was we thought it was malaria it's only here that they told us she has measles you don't understand we are so scared of losing her they keep giving her injections but she isn't doing any better. this preventable disease has become an epidemic spreading faster than it can be contained. doctors without borders have set up one crisis center after the other vaccinating children to stop them contracting and. secure we're very worried because measles

combined with malnutrition is a dangerous mix and there aren't enough international actors helping chad's ministry of health to tackle this growing out how many of you here are worried about autism at the heart of the crisis is both fear and belief that the measles vaccine is dangerous by an increasing number of people in the west and the lack of access to vaccines in other parts of the world. you know jeremy sivits more than 90 percent of children have not been vaccinated because they don't have access to health centers and so most children under 5 are infected with the measles virus. it is highly contagious for both children and adults and so despite us for it's to fight this age old virus measles is thriving indeed during the lives of thousands here in chad and around the world. because hawk 0. kenya is hosting a counterterrorism summit for africa's leaders the u.n. sponsored talks are designed to share information and form

a united front thousands of africans have been killed and millions displaced in various countries the threats include attacks by al-qaeda and i still affiliates in this a whole region a joint task force has so far failed to stop the killings focus spaced in nigeria have caused a humanitarian crisis to spread in the lake chad region 27000 people have been killed in the fighters 10 year campaign to establish an islamic state and west africa and east africa u.s. forces have joined an african union operation against al shabaab fighters continue their campaign to impose islamic law despite losing strongholds in somalia malcolm webb has the latest from the kenyan capital. the president of kenya who kenyatta and the secretary general of the united nations and tainio guitar is meeting here in nairobi with government and security officials from a number of african countries as well as from the african union european union and

the united nations talks about countering terror and preventing violence extremism in africa significance in kenya in this discussion its role in the conflict with al shabaab the somali arms group kenya's military entered somalia in 2011 along with militaries from other african union member states along with the us in fighting al shabaab an image on al-shabaab carried out a number of bloody attacks against civilian targets here in kenya many kenyans civilians have been killed the conference is a follow up to what was just over a year ago the un's high level conference on countering terrorism that took place in new york with the heads of counter terror agencies from un member states. followed by a series of regional conferences this is the 2nd the 1st was held in mongolia last month and so the current one on the way the 2nd of 5 is being held in nairobi now

slow progress is being made to rebuild the ruined city of mosul and northern iraq it's 2 years since the iraqi army drove eyeful patterson the capital of their self declared caliphate as an event of a report's reconstruction efforts aren't being helped by the sanctions imposed by the united states on iraq's ally iran. this is the old city of mosul but due years after i saw defeat iraq's victory has not still meant the restoration of life as it was before the war much of the city remains in ruins more than 300000 people are still displaced a mix of sectarian division unemployment and security concerns linger on. the main threat and danger remains the neglect of reconstruction in mosul it is placed are still living in limbo all these issues have not been given serious enough attention by the iraqi government. the iraqi government says it's doing all it can and asking international partners to help rebuild the city agencies estimate it could take

tens of millions of dollars in 10 years just to remove mines and explosives. the capital of isis self declared caliphate in iraq and its leader. made his only public appearance from the city. it was a tough fight in an urban terrain and posed a challenge to the iraqi army which had earlier to treat it from mosul but iraq's security forces had 2 important allies a u.s. led coalition and iran backed shia militias and back then the united states acknowledged their efforts right now there they had a great role in liberating iraq what is there are next i don't know without looking that's a decision for the government of iraq it was an uneasy convergence with so on enemies fighting on the same side against a common target when we should can more and it is obvious that iran and the us are enemies but iraq managed to bring them closer in the fight against eisold there was a marriage of convenience between iran and the us back then given the fact there

was no direct contact between the 2 sides in the battle of mosul and the current escalation between the 2 countries i think it is quite difficult for both sides to cooperate or have their entrusts crossed paths. since then the us and iran have designated each other as military's as terrorists escalating tensions has kept the region on edge including iraq which has offered to find common ground between washington and tehran the government in baghdad and the people of mosul need help to rebuild what was destroyed in the war and many here see that cannot happen unless all parties who had a role in inflicting the damage take responsibility for the reconstruction most people in mosul are living one day at a time with a lack of basic services and jobs and bleak future prospects analysts believe that winning the war against probably the easy part the real challenge is maintaining the peace in the long run. baghdad. more than 20 people have been killed in

tribal violence and half on new campaign it happened in the remote province of hella pregnant women and children are among the victims of the killings could be retaliation for an earlier attack tribal violence is common in central papua new guinea where villagers avenge relatives and retaliation known as payback. a dispute over high tech exports from japan to south korea is worsening south koreans protested outside the japanese embassy in the capital seoul the demonstrations come after japan tightening restrictions on exports of semiconductor materials citing security concerns south korea's president says japan has no reason to question the effectiveness of its sanctions on north korea or kelly is that perfessor of international relations at this on national university he joins us on skype from busan in south korea thanks for joining us is this really about high tech exports no actually no it's really not like like most scraps between south korea and japan

it's really over the war world war 2 the pacific war pan colonized 3 out for about 35 years during that period and did all sorts terrible stuff and there's a big debate in korea about whether or not the japanese have been a properly apologetic enough about it and so on and this is going back and back and forth for decades this is just sort of the latest manifestation of that ok so what if this is a normal saying what are the consequences of it. well normally what happens at this point is the americans sort of step in is kind of like an alliance manager if you will right japan and south you're both allied to united states with these there's kind of sort of virtually allied to one another although they don't really say that and these things are kind of spun out of control in the past and you see the american presence ups and has been kind of a meeting or something rather than some kind of negotiated solution is worked out as we wait for some kind of like final arrangement between the 2 and that's not happening now because the top administration just isn't really that interested right trying tends to think of american allies as free riders and stuff like that and he's just not around so it's kind of it's sort of an open thing here now we're

not really quite sure where this is going to go so you know the u.s. has been dealing a lot with north korea south korea japan where japan see all of this is they're sitting on the sideline yeah the japanese are doing certain stunt cut out which is entirely fine for both the south koreans and the north koreans the japanese have been pretty traditionally traditionally pretty hawkish on north korea and donald trump sounded pretty hawkish of course back in 2017 during the work crisis and then suddenly trump slipped into has an 18 and started saying that kim jong il isn't was his friend and they were in love and stuff like that and japan has never really quite signed up for that and the japanese are going along with it because they realize the relationship with trump is really important but i think the japanese would like a more hawkish stance than south koreans and the american and so the japanese are kind of the odd man out on this with north korea right now ok we appreciate your expertise as always professor robert kelly thank you for having me taking a flight from france is about to become more expensive the french government will impose a tax on it tickets to combat aircraft pollution revenue raises to be spent on more

environmentally friendly transport such as electric trains or has more from paris. flying out of france will become more expensive for air passengers from next year the new eco tax is part of the french government's environment policy ended fighting climate change that. france is committed toward europe is putting forward on taxing air travel there is increasing awareness and things are beginning to move but this is urgent like other countries we have decided to put in place an acre tax on air transport on all flights departing from france the tax will only apply to outgoing flights not to those flying into france or transiting fares will increase by $2.00 for an economy class ticket within the european union business class flights outside the you could cost an extra $20.00 the paris is all the airport the response to the tax was mixed posable depreciation is good in principle i suppose

but how can we be sure where the money will go a lot it's really thought went on to take for granted nice to see you both specific goodness of biofuel it's always the ordinary people that pay and companies should take more responsibility for the state of the promise climate campaigners say that the aviation industry is responsible for nearly 5 percent of global carbon emissions the french government says a venue eco tax will raise grow $200000000.00 a year money they say that they will spend on less polluting modes of transport such as rail the eco tax has already proved unpopular with some investors shares in air france fell after the announcement last year french president demand or mark or scrapped plans for a similar eco tax on diesel fuel that sparked months of yellow face protests but some activists welcomed the move by france governments historically have seen aviation as a bit of a no go area intensive taxation or other measures that could help tackle emissions

let's hope that at the moment there's that there's a bit more consumer readiness to accept that if we go. to tackle the climate emergency we're going to have to make changes in our lives passenger numbers are expected to double in the next 2 decades the french government says the situation is old gent and that other evasions should do more to crack down on an industry which is one of the world's biggest polluters natasha buckler al-jazeera paris the former president of argentina fernando de la rua has died at the age of $81.00 after suffering a heart attack it attracted many voters with his images and on a statesman but left the country struggling with an economic crisis across a bow looks back at his life i he was argentina's precedent for only 2 years but remember the letter walked to coffees in 1999 and was forced out by one of the worst economic crisis in this country's history he was a senator or

a mayor of one our societies when he became president become true was already deep into a crisis that by the end of 2001 led to a banking panic. he says government established because of a little that limited people's bank withdrawals thousands of people took to the streets to demand their life savings using pots and pans. riots and looting began in several parts of the country police repression was brutal and left at least $39.00 people dead. many of the miners hundreds were injured the latter one resigned and had to leave the presidential palace in a helicopter. following his resignation argentina entered a period of institutional instability in which the country had at least 3 precedents in a period of 2 weeks after leaving office the latter while retired from political life he had to go for trial over a corruption scandal that happened in the senate he was declared innocent we hear

this trial of almost 2 years and 300 testimonies demonstrated that there were no suspicions of corruption of my government and made this clear furthermore it served to demonstrate that it was defamation from the beginning to the end and it was not successful it was a political plot from the beginning this acquittal vindicates me my dignity and my government. bailout or wa always sustained that the political crisis was planned by the opposition to force him out of all face most arjun tines will remember him as the man who couldn't handle an epic financial collapse that plunged millions into poverty babies have all. these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera iran's president hassan rouhani has defended his country's iranian enrichment saying it's peaceful and still within the

framework of the 2015 nuclear deal tehran has welcomed french efforts to say that agreement a top diplomat is meeting with iranian officials forced into pary has more from tehran. we've heard from the foreign ministry spokesperson up us moussavi who says that this visit is of course the welcome one day welcome france's role in trying to save this nuclear deal but that iran has not seen any tangible commitments by the european signatories of the 2015 deal we know that the iranian president hassan rouhani spoke with his french counterpart on saturday evening before iran announced on sunday that it was scaling back its commitments further and they gave the european countries another 60 days to show their commitment to the steel says it wants to form a military coalition to protect the crucial shipping route off the coast of iran and yemen ministration blames tehran for recent attacks on oil tankers and the gulf turkey's foreign ministry is rejecting statements by greek and european union

officials who say turkish drilling for gas and oil around cyprus is illegitimate the u.s. says turkey is being provocative by sending 2 ships to explore off the coast of the politically divided island sudan has begun to restore internet access to mobile phones allowing people to finally see what happened during that military crackdown last month services were cut after more than 100 people were killed by government forces during a peaceful sit in. so the headlines of a news hour for you at the top of the hour in the meantime risking it all is that next. al-jazeera. whenever you.

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