i'm a change many of the protesters are schoolchildren and people here say that there is only one planet it can't sustain the current system and it's up to the south african government to play its part of the we have to live with myself knowing that i'm letting love into the people in the high institutions to take live my future and not fight for a just say they're going to live to live and religion maybe affect us the root cause the elders like there was the one who caused it so they do one piers which we have the good health to it with you know you are this year's southern africa experienced one it means worst side loads ever countries like mozambique malawi and zimbabwe were affected way almost 1300 people were killed constance's in south africa a facing rising sea levels right 2050 people here are saying they want climate justice now and they want to ensure there is a future for many of the young people attending this protest today. and hear it out

0 we've got a new show which will concentrate only on the issue of the climate emergency and on the impact it's having on all of our lives our planet is feeling the heat of the climate an ecological emergency the world's leading scientists are warning of an existential crisis in the face of irreversible changes to the climate al-jazeera prince to a new weekly show planet s.o.s. will set out the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet's planet has so us at this time on al jazeera. still to come out 0 today twitter shuts down more than 4000 fake accounts used to criticize qatar and yemen all of them operating out of the u.a.e. .

hello again welcome back we're here across northern turkey we do expect to see some showers in your forecast as we go into the weekend and those storms right now are coming in across the black sea so by saturday we do expect to see some thunderstorms here across the coastal areas and it will bring down the temperatures for ancora to about 19 degrees there the higher elevations well expect to see some snow in your forecast as well we're talking on as well as possibly into georgia and then down towards the south it is going to be still quite warm we're talking into the low thirty's for many areas in syria and to resume at 26 degrees there as we go towards sunday not looking too bad maybe tehran though some clouds and rain in your forecast at 35 and down towards quite city 40 degrees as your expected high here across the gulf though it's still going to be quite uncomfortable in the morning high humanity values by the time the afternoon comes though it is going to dry out maybe down to about 20 to 15 percent so that's fairly nice with a temperature of 39 degrees at 37 and here on sunday don't expect much for

a change there before sallah clouds in your forecast at 29 degrees and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we do expect some clouds along the coastal areas there but for durban expect to see a nice day for you with a temperature of about 27 degrees in johannesburg a warm day for you at 29 to greece and plenty of sun in the forecast. from the family home of the still navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finish are scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death. i'm afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying but if i don't go i compliment family meet the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. you have to be a stronger swimmer otherwise it's safe and risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera.

tartarus take a look at the top stories here in. the u.s. has announced new sanctions on iran that now include the rainy and national bank president john says he prefers that strategy as opposed to the use of military action in order to stop terror on developing nuclear weapons. extensive damage has been revealed of both saudi arabian oil facilities that were attacked last week this is footage from abqaiq the world's largest oil processing facility the attack knocked out hoff of saudi arabia's output the largest climate change protest in history taking place around the world people from more than 150 countries are

joining a strike led by young people and calling for an end to the use of fossil fuels and begins a weeklong worldwide campaign demanding greater action from political leaders. well let's go now to the indonesians capital jakarta and our correspondent there really lemme hammett. it's a festive atmosphere here in the capital to consul west around 400 students some as young as 10 years old a university students are demonstrating for what they're calling climate action they want the government to enforce a contrivance emergency to deal with some of the issues that's currently facing the country much of this is around absolution they say they want clean air and blue skies now all of this comes off the back all of the major forest fires that have happened in indonesia for the last couple of months on the island of sumatra and on borneo and it's causing a very bad haze that's affecting the population here and also is crossing borders

into malaysia and singapore many of the people here are saying that they want the government to take more action by imposing better law enforcement to deal with preventative measures to contain these fires and there is also investigations taking place around companies and individuals that have been looking that have allegedly been burning out some of this land and so this is what they want they want the government to impose better regulation and try and stop these forest fires from closing bad air pollution in the capital as well. nicholas hock senses this from the kenyan capital nairobi oh oh these protests are not just taking place here in nairobi it's across africa in johannesburg and cape town and go into your sea in senegal and then lo may why because out of the 10 countries that will be most affected by the money tree $7.00 of them are all the african continent and it's already started with the hurricane sweeping through mozambique flash floods in south africa you see here leone and droughts are dividing people in the sun house

here in 200 are at risk of going things every day because of the crowds and so many young people here are growing impatient with their leaders. and if you did you. have passed in. 30 cities have just taken over the streets of one of the major capitals about that they're headed toward the ministry of energy because the government has put in place policies that then is going ahead with their old with a plan to build. a world heritage site right here in kenya and these protesters are angry about this climate change is possible these lists are. deceiving because you know it's a political issue so this is the usenet. after one of the national assembly

presidents. of their leaders. the deal. is that that's gaining momentum and they're going to look at be ignored. now the u.s. justice department has been accused of playing a key role in withholding a whistle blows complaint against president trump u.s. media is reporting that the complaint relates to a personal phone call between the president and the foreign leader the head of the u.s. house intelligence committee says officials were blocked from passing on the complaint to congress as they were supposed to the president says it's fake. it's a partisan whistle blower. they should even have information i've had conversations with many leaders that always appropriate mexico i can tell you are always appropriate at the highest level always appropriate and if anything i do

a fight for this country i fight so strongly for this country it's just another political hack job that's what it says it's removed more than 4 and a half 1000 political spam accounts that were being used to target katherine a coordinated campaign they were operating out of the united arab emirates and egypt and they used fake personas to push content critical of cata whilst promoting saudi arabia what's this is also suspended the account of the former saudi advisor . tani is being implicated in the murder of the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. earlier we were joined by mark owen jones from hamad bin holly for university here in doha and he explained how political spam accounts typically operate. today we'll have many ways of determining what's fake or what's not fake this usually involves looking at the matter data so does that account tweet a lot is there suspicious activity in terms of the nature of the tweets is

repeating of the tweets repeatedly so there's different algorithms that detect these fake accounts and i want to be clear that twitter's algorithm is not foolproof i for one study lots of propaganda accounts or political spam accounts to use the euphemism that remain undetected and still continue to promote various ideologies but what's very interesting about this recent batch these 4000 or so accounts that twitter suspended there was a very much a unity of the discourse it was mostly about yemen it was mostly critical of who it was mostly critical of qatar and the ones that were positive were promoting the had been some one in particular so even twitter themselves noted noted that amongst these accounts from the u.a.e. in egypt there was such a commonality of discourse that they actually singled out these facets of the information but what we can hypothesize if we look at the fact that the message of the promoting is similar it's against the who it is that once called out what we can surmise is that whoever is responsible for purchasing this information this

propaganda package is either outsourcing this strategy to various companies individuals or some individuals have their own bought nets with these this information that works so i think it's important to see that whoever is running these accounts might be multiple actors all of whom are probably on some form of payroll from a middle man or middle person now the emir of qatar is in london he's met the british prime minister boris johnson a downing street statement said shaikh to me and been hammered and mr johnson agreed the war in yemen must come to an end and according to the statement they discussed the recent attacks on the around all facilities in saudi arabia and the statement said that they shared concerns over iran's destabilizing behavior. thank you for. your persian rugs you should remember years ago you visit i did and yes the relationship because there is

a very strong relationship. with us we. can also see. well from our correspondent in london the theme baba will be on straight interests which are extensive between the u.k. and qatar with qatar providing up to 30 percent of the u.k.'s gas imports the 2 main clearly did discuss events in the region a statement from the emir of qatar as office says that they discussed several emerging issues in the middle east especially the developments in the gulf the no detail from the qatari side now a statement from boris johnson's office says that they discussed as well as the need for the war in yemen to come to an end the recent attacks on aramco oil facilities in saudi arabia it goes on a shared concern over iran's destabilizing behavior and agreed the importance of

negotiation in deescalating regional tensions while the potteries clearly in their statement did not talk about iran's destabilizing behavior it's unclear how far they went in using similar language during the meeting but iran has been one of qatar's partners especially since the embargo placed on qatar in terms of continuing trade into qatar so an interesting divergence there but clearly both sides want to avoid any kind of military escalation in the gulf region they haven't actually come out with any steps but at least we know that they are talking about how to get all sides talking rather than blaming each other. britain's breakfast secretaries expressed optimism following a meeting with the european union's chief negotiator in brussels seem barkley said there was common purpose between the u.k. and the e.u. the talks will focus on the contentious irish border a c.

and go see asians are set to continue on monday as prime minister boris johnson meets the e.u. council president donald in new york the philippines has declared a polio epidemic ulcer a 2nd child tested positive with the crippling virus in a week health officials are urging parents to get their children vaccinated the latest victim is a 5 year old boy from laguna south of the capital the 1st infected charles lives almost 1500 kilometers away from manila polio was eradicated from the philippines almost 20 years ago. 39 people have died from a taliban attack on the hospital in southern afghanistan they were killed after a truck bomb exploded on thursday next to a hospital in color but the new figure almost doubles the previous death toll of 20 the provincial governor says 2 of those killed were security force members the rest were civilians including women children patients and visitors the severe flooding

in cambodia has killed at least 11 people and decimated crops heavy rain has been falling in 14 provinces for the past 10 days villages have been flooded and that's forced thousands of people out of their homes water levels are expected to keep rising in some parts. of these 2 people have died and hundreds have been forced out of their homes after torrential rain drenched parts of the u.s. state of texas hospitals were evacuated in the town of whitney and in houston thousands of people because of by flood waters were rescued by boats. and in the deserts of the u.s. state of nevada to go to the xacto opposite police are preparing for what they call that of mass civil disobedience thousands of alien enthusiastic banded together on social media planning to trespass on to a secret u.s.

military base highly joe castro reports from rachel nevada. it all started as a joke university student matty roberts had been bored at work so to entertain himself he turned on his computer in created a meme about a pretend event he imagined on the spot the title of the event is star mary $51.00 that can't stop all of us area $51.00 is a top secret u.s. military base in the nevada desert it's where the cia developed spy planes at the height of the cold war and where classified military testing continues today but some believe this is also where the u.s. government studies aliens you can imagine that if indeed there is an alien race with the technology to be able to arrive here on our planet their knowledge would be very useful to us so it's very possible the rumors have always been that we might be in collaboration with some off world intelligence conspiracies are

enjoying a resurgence in american pop culture then enter roberts me about to be something funny for the $62.00 that i had on my page and apparently i was completely correct and it was funny to the entire world so funny that more than 2000000 people or is it online for the september 20th a vent of course not all those millions of people will show up but hotel rooms and campsites have sold out in this very remote area and nearby desert towns used to supporting populations of no more than 100 are bracing for a potential onslaught of as many as 10000 alien hunters who will bring with them their very human needs there's nowhere to find food water or gas for tens of kilometers 2 counties have issued emergency declarations ahead of the event and the u.s. military says it will of rest anyone who trespasses on to area $51.00 as the signs

warn lethal force is authorized again. those who disobeyed so what does roberts think of storming the base now but i think it's terrible. yes the creator of storm area 51 is telling people not to storm area 51 but it may be too late because of one some things launched into the great unknown of cyberspace it may return with alien life. castro al-jazeera rachel nevada. time visiting or the top stories here of al-jazeera the u.s. has announced new sanctions on iran that valiantly the iranian national bank president trump says he prefers that strategy to the use of military action in order to stop terror on from developing nuclear weapons. we have just sanctioned

the arabian national bank that is their central banking system and it's going to be. at the highest level of sanctions we are continuing the maximum pressure campaign this is the last remaining source of funds support the central bank of iran israel well as the national development fund which is their sovereign wealth fund will be cut off from our banking system so this will mean no more funds going to the r g c were to find terror and this is on top of our oil sanctions and our financial institutions sanctions are a very major factor is what we do these are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country never done it to this level the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a key role in withholding a whistle blows complaint against president trump the complaint reportedly relates to a personal phone call between the president and the foreign leader the head of the u.s. house intelligence committee says officials were blocked from polishing on the complaint

to congress which they're supposed to do the president trumps denied any wrongdoing to says it's removal the 4 and a half 1000 political spam accounts being used to target cattle in a coordinated campaign they were operating out of the united arab emirates and egypt and they use fake personas to push content critical of cata while promoting saudi arabia. the largest climate change protests in history is taking place around the world people from more than 150 countries joining a strike led for the most part by young people and calling for an end to the use of fossil fuels and it begins a weeklong worldwide campaign demanding greater action from political leaders. britain's press secretary has expressed optimism after a meeting with the e.u. chief negotiator. in brussels right up to date the latest headlines from.

coming up next. it's plain tehran for the attack on saudi oil facilities now the u.s. says it's building a coalition against iran but cannot guarantee security in the gulf region or would diplomacy be a better choice this is inside story. below

into the program on iran come on the gulf region is on the edge who's responsible for last week's attacks on saudi oil infrastructure which have led to accusations from all of the different sides the u.s. and saudi arabia say iran is behind the iran card strikes but they who thiis in yemen say they are responsible and they've warned of more to come the u.s. secretary of state visited allies in saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to hold talks with their leaders mike said it washington was seeking a peaceful resolution to the crisis but blamed iran for seeking an all out war iran's foreign minister says the u.s. is preparing to use iran co-incidence as an excuse to attack his country and that her own ready to defend itself. there will be more sanctions were we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their terror said to prove to prevent them from conducting their terror

campaigns and you can see from the events of last week there's still more work to do we're going to continue to drive towards that end. you cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened. saudi arabia iran's foreign minister has responded criticizing americans involvement in the war in yemen mohammad javad zarif tweeted a list of crimes he accused the saudi led and u.s. backed coalition of committing in yemen saying 4 years of bombing has left $100000.00 yemenis dead millions at mt nourished and suffering from cholera but when yemen carries out retaliatory strikes on saudi oil tankers the u.s. calls it an unacceptable act of war in another tweet zarif says iran has been more responsible calling for peace and security in the gulf and putting forward peace plans for yemen and syria. let's bring in our guests and now that hashmi is the director of the center for

middle east studies at the university of denver he's joining us here in doha mohammad marandi is professor of american studies at the university of tehran and he joins us from tehran and adolfo franco is a republican strategist former adviser to senator john mccain he joins us from washington d.c. a welcome to you all i'd like to begin in d.c. 1st with adult franco now what we're seeing right now is a fairly impotent reaction from washington to these attacks on the facilities we're seeing a lot of the blame game going on it's being blamed on the iranians that he say it was actually them but no real reactions there has been some sort of sanctions the u.s. has always prided itself on securing oil out of the gulf it's been a 30 year relationship that way has that now changed no not at all and i do not believe it's been

a weak response and i don't think the full response has yet to be heard the president obviously has been briefed in fact extensively yesterday and today will actually be presented with a a series of options and those. options range from frankly fallout military strike in retaliation against iran to we were everything to additional and more strength than sanctions you're absolutely right we have a longstanding stand a decades old policy of alliances with the gulf states and will continue to protect their assets their security there's no question about doing so however the united states will not act unilaterally without consultations as secretary pump beo has done precisely as with those allies to see the scope of what they deem to be an appropriate response this is clear aggression by iran we know the origin of these come from the north northwest that's not the geography that would point to yemen

and even if it were yemen which it is not of course that would be iranian sponsored and controlled as is the situation in hezbollah and in other places where they use their proxies so this is clearly iran in every shape way and form the response of the united states is yet to be heard there are u.s. senators calling for a very strong military reaction toward iran and the president has said everything's on the table and as he has said the other day we're locked and loaded meaning he's prepared to do a military response as necessary and i haven't run in teheran the u.s. has looked and loaded it clearly blames iran for all of this is iran so we're supposed to believe that a swarm of drones and missiles either crossed the persian gulf or came from the north of the persian gulf all the way down. across of passing by u.s. military bases. mabel ships and the huge military presence the western

countries have across the persian gulf region and then the saudis with hundreds of billions of dollars of american weapons base of all over the place and all of them directed more most of them directed towards iran because that's what how the saudis have spent their money over the last few decades yet none of these drones were detected none of these missiles were detected i don't think anyone here takes that very seriously when the americans sent a $200000000.00 drone into iranian air space as a few months ago minutes after it entered the iranian airspace it was downed by an iranian made surface to air missile so perhaps the saudis should buy iranian made products instead of american made products and then there is the other argument that until now whenever drone strikes were carried out by the yemeni resistance and the i mean the armed forces them western pundits would say that these weapons came

from iran and they were sent to yemen and yet that narrative suddenly has disappeared in this attack so while the strikes have become more and more impressive over the last few months deeper inside saudi territory. with greater personal precision suddenly there they no longer make that claim about yemen so no one here believes the american argument and we know how the americans falsify information for the sake of their own foreign policy agenda but if the americans make and i mean it is it is true that the americans are allies of saudi arabia they've been allies when they helped create. when they haue and then the blowback was 911 they've been allies when the saudis have been spreading extremism across the world because it was in the interests of the united states them they've been allies for a very long time that's absolutely correct let me bring in a deal for frank there is this idea that the saudis are very embarrassed that the

hutus managed to mount an attack such as this and this is convenient to blame iran that's what we're hearing from the iranian side so there's something illogical about my colleagues rationale he just said that it was implausible that something could attack so drones could attack saudi fields because they're armed to the teeth in this sophistication and this is just impossible yet. they can be coming from yemen and somehow that's plausible either it's implausible and this was all a set up by saudi arabia in the united states which you know if you believe conspiracy theories ok but the evidence says otherwise since the material that has been examined is iran that is not what i said so if if the if the draw if the drones can be and you just said that that plausible to believe that that saudi you were a little uneasy would not be protected by surface to you i'm going to i'm going to

just interrupt you there is a date that is not exactly how many and he said actually what he said was the no one no one of the american forces that were based on there's a lot of them in the region notice these swarm of drones coming over let's just leave it there for a 2nd we bring in other harsher. clearly there is big differences on both sides when it comes to the narrative here is there a political way out of this or are we at the stage where somebody is going to have to attack somebody else somebody else's capital while there is a political way out of it and just and it speaks to the point that was just discussed with your other 2 guests. what we need right now is a international independent u.n. led commission of inquiry to determine culpability and then accountability for the attack on the saudi oil facilities now it would be good to hear from the government of saudi arabia as though whether they would support such a un led independent inquiry because when it comes to un led independent inquiries

in the context of the war in yemen they've strongly opposed those independent inquiries and the islamic republic of iran has also had a horrific track record when it comes to pursuing in accepting the results of un led independent inquiries with respect to regional destabilization i'm talking about what the un has said and done with respect to iran terrific involvement in syria so i think that's one way of resolving this issue that's the way forward. in terms of the broader political conflict that we see unfolding right now that has brought this region to the precipice i think we're in desperate need of diplomacy the problem is that there's very few options that we have that we can pursue with respect to a diplomatic settlement the united states and iran don't talk to one another. donald trump has surrounded himself with a bunch of war hawks that have been very reluctant to preach sue diplomacy although donald trump and i hate to say this but donald trump to his credit has opened the

door to a dialogue with iran unfortunately the authoritarian leaders in tehran have no interest in pursuing dialogue so i think this this is i think the sticking point that needs to be resolved if we want to get away from a disastrous war that we're on the precipice of franco would a u.n. inquiry satisfy this u.s. and ministration. i would be all in favor of that i can't imagine the administration wouldn't as well but there's only one problem with that. in principle that sounds nice theoretic through the theory theoretical point of view the point is this i think iran as it is in the past would just reject it so what this is at the at the end of the at the end of the day un so therefore i don't know how long that inquiry would take it would be contested there's no question the results of it that's not somebody that everybody would they would automatically. be in the un a body that anyone would necessarily respect and what would be the remedy afterwards i say after this long it would take a while there's

a long inquiry iran actually was the culprit then what happens in terms of do we have a military strike 6 months from now and retaliation so that's one problem but but the comment made about diplomacy is an important one it's foreign minister sorry for who has taken diplomacy and the ayatollah khomeini who's taken them off the table when the instructions have been given to speak to no american official president trouble is never said that he said just no american official including the visuals in new york there were some in our in washington who had advocated to revoke the visas for if the iranian delegation to even travel to the un meetings tomorrow next week in new york and that was rejected by president trump i think president trouble is open to the dialogue the problem is you're iran but at the end of the day the culprit in the region for the instability is iran we know that whether it's in syria or lebanon or yemen this is this regime that has been

exporting terrorism and as a consequence a very tough sanctions which are now going to be stiff when iran is lashing out i understand it from a standpoint of global politics that iran has few options since it's been able to break through the sanctions with the european allies to do resort to military threats to say this is what's going to happen to these tensions continue but the culprit for all of the for all of these activities beyond this incident is iran you have in america your reaction please. well i disagree with both of your guests 1st of all with regards to syria the u.n. did nothing until 2013 and when you run actually entered syria was when there always already tens of thousands of foreign fighters were funded and brought into the country if it wasn't for iran we'd have black flags flying both over damascus and traverse of the crack and it's well that's it just has rolled out and it's absolutely true and hezbollah actually entered syria in the middle of 2000 ron has

been supporting us for news a war and stop showing how many who were silent about that look at the intelligence agency document of 2012 which big belongs to your own government have a bit of probability glenn and this is my meaning us the syrians are going to be backing a war criminal record i would have of your government off behind your any human rights document 1012 intelligence agencies we honor them and they want to read if you're if you don't allow me to talk with this is reflective of the regime in washington's behavior how it silences any sort of critique your audience have no voice anywhere they can't have 5 minutes on al dizzier then that's really say they don't have it in their own country either because it. is all of your viewers so go and read the law that says you are that's let's i mean how much of these are your. now yes if he won't let me talk to us i advise your viewers to read the u.s.

defense intelligence agency document of 2012 where the united states and that organization was the lead of by general flynn michael flynn and he he also an al-jazeera stated that the united states allowed the extremists they allowed their allies in the region to support the street extremists and the extremists had the upper hand in the fighting and they according to the document were trying to create a salafist. between syria and iraq this was early on in the fighting in iran came well after that but with regards to when we talk about the u.n. let's look at yemen the u.n. only had the saudi regime on their black list for 72 hours and then they removed it so when we talk about the u.n. we're not talking about an unbiased body of the u.n. when saddam hussein invaded iran they never condemned the grass or during the war and when they used chemical weapons and i ended up by 2 chemical attacks and friends of mine didn't when when chemical weapons were used in iran the u.n.

security council never condemned the united states or saddam hussein or any of the european countries who supported them but the real story here is the war in yemen which is is quite obvious the most horrific story in the 21st century this war has to come to an end the sody regime if they do not want to their assets to be targeted the only way forward is for them to stop bombing schools stop bombing hospitals funerals who weddings school buses and and starving the country with the help of the united states and others any support that the iranians have given to the people of b.m. in their resistance against the saudi aggression is nothing compared to what the united states and its allies in the region and its allies in europe have done for so. yes i will get here in just a 2nd i want to bring in. in. you heard what i guess since they're on law and

randy had to say it's about yemen this is where we're at and this is what needs to change however you seem to have some strong opinions i would agree with him that the war in yemen is horrific and it is destabilize the region and it is led to a huge humanitarian catastrophe but so has the war in syria which mohammad marandi is defending in terms of iranian participation that has killed you know roughly half a 1000000 people in iran has very bloody hands for what he has been doing in yemen so there's a lot of regional instability that's taking place now where i think if you want to be arming that if you want to be objective see warning of what he has to be able to attribute blame to all of the stabilizing actors that saudi arabia that's the islam republic of iran that we just you know i mean real government and that's also the united states government absolutely see the difference between mohammad marandi and i is that i'm not a an apologist for the united states government in fact i'm very critical of u.s. foreign policy both in the past in the present now unlike him who's across

apologist for everything that comes out of the mouth of the hominy let's bring an adult. because you're trying to get the language that you use reflects the way who you are and that's let's keep the civilized. it's very difficult for the iranians to come to the negotiating table if you keep putting sanctions on them if you sanction the senior leadership it becomes very difficult for them to actually sell it to their people and come back to the negotiating table what's the way out for the u.s. while this. well number one you're absolutely right and this is precisely why iran launched this attack in my opinion against saudi arabia it's to demonstrate that they have no options but to flex their muscles in the region and send a warning shot which was heard in saudi arabia and the and the gulf states that this could mean all out war which the saudi arabia and its and the u.s. does not does not want so the way the way out of the but here's the bigger problem

for the united states and i really respect that the other guest who i disagree with and doa because he is right he is critical to us but he's also critical of the other side so i have a different view but i give him a lot of credit for for his honesty. let me say this from our standpoint we have very hard options this is not an easy way out the problem is we're how we got here which i do not want to repeat the history of the failed policies of the previous american administration and frankly even other administration for weak on iran that iran we are is is now on the cusp and has been on the cusp of course of becoming a nuclear power that's that is from my perspective what drives our policy the problem is and i think the president was right he's saying we're not going to feel good for 5 or 6 years of buying security and then and then actually license to almost have under the agreement the ability to develop nuclear weapons in in

a few years so he bit the bullet meaning the president by that expression i mean he decided very directly to say this is not going to happen we're going to put pressure on iran through sanctions to change its policy and to really call it what it is which it which is a terrorist state the problem with or the problem or the challenge for us right now is i think there will be stiffer. sanctions coming but the options become more difficult there's question of why. the iran will really come through with its threats and escalate and continue to do these types of activities have been engaged in and then frankly lead to a confrontation or whether iran will come to its senses after it does this types of antics and decide. because of sanctions but but by scoring some points to have the west come and suggest discussions and agree to those i would hope would be the

latter but the president is not going to change course on sanctions that is for sure and in fact there might be some military response if our allies are aligned ultimately our goal is to change the iranian regime's behavior and that is our goal and our goal is to keep it from becoming a nuclear power in the region at all frank thank you very much i want to bring in mohammed. comes in as well and you know the us me we all running out very quickly we haven't run the it's the sanctions the real issue here if the sanctions are lifted the iranians will come back to the negotiating table is that the upshot of it. no it's not at all that it's us aggression in this region just like in syria as we know in wiki leaks the united states used saudi arabia was supporting isis and they were destroying syria and the they hide the reality unlike your 2 guests you and i also disagree that trump is did not your guess and go ahead trump opened the

door for negotiations that's nonsense the united states is engaging in economic warfare against ordinary iranians the iranians were sitting with the united states at the negotiating table and that was the united states that left the table after tearing up the agreement the iranians signed the nuclear agreement in order to create stability in this region and they gave significant concessions to get there but the but trump toward that agreement the iranians have said that the u.s. goes back to the deal that they will accept a new state of affairs meaning negotiations can take place so it's up to the united states not to be not the iranians iran's not going to appease the united states and finally saudi arabia is heading towards a cliff and so is the united arab emirates whether your guests like it or not they cannot continue this war with it with yemen and get away with it the yemenis are going are getting stronger the saudis are getting weaker the saudis have are able to protect themselves us by spending hundreds of billions of dollars wasting their money giving them to the united states and the united states has shown nothing for

all its presence in the region they the united states is only creating instability and you will believe you me that if the war in iraq they have to be all running out to tell you do you want to come to their house and he said well i'm going to have to stop you there this is a once again all about the politics of this is shows it's about the regional players saudi arabia it's about iran it's about the u.s. role saudi arabia seems to be reliant on the u.s. often it's been said that saudi arabia will fight anymore and he will to the last american is not a bad policy is that a failed poll. should things change for saudi arabia well saudi arabia the house of saud they're not getting much sleep these days because they were hoping that donald trump would be their savior so they're in a state of shock right now that on 2 occasions when trump had the opportunity to strike at iran that they haven't so there's going to be a lot of soul searching in saudi arabia about his relationship with the united

states i don't think they have many good options but these are difficult days for the dictators in riyadh but more broadly speaking i think in terms of diplomacy next week is a unique opportunity when all of the heads of state of the members of the u.n. will be in new york the french proposal which we haven't talked about which looked like it had some legs which looked like it could sort of be perhaps a way out of this conundrum needs to be revived and you know a manual marker on the french president will be there as well rouhani will be there so will trump let's hope that cooler heads prevail and there can be a way out of this disastrous conflict that's the responsibility of all of the a dictators and authoritarian regimes in the middle east including the international players led by the united states which you know has to bear a lot of responsibility for this and it's right and we are out of time i want to thank all our guests another house for me i'm having randy and adolfo franco and thank you too for watching you can see the program any time by visiting websites

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where we got some breaking news coming from yemen the head of the rebels says the they will stop targeting saudi arabia with drones the this is apparently come out in the statement by the mush out who says the booth is expect saudi arabia to also stop targeting yemeni territory now they say they reserve the right. to respond if riyadh continues to target them. are listening to mohammad al-attar van he's our correspondent who's in the in the capital sanaa 1st of all can you confirm that the rebels have declared a cease fire. i recollect your mother more than one occasion. expressed pledge to stop the whole to the ceasefire. especially to saudi arabia probably its tracks on yemeni cities but for

previous us overseas. real it was the plane that the saudi arabia contributes to pax differently in the city so how will we couldn't confirm. this if this is fly or. someone will confirm the sources bomb them or merely emily so does the saudi arabia so i could be stopped especially given the fact that the strikes led to the casualties among civilians of the saudi arabia the fighter jets started to resume attacks on earlier in the day just to help to diffuse saudi arabia while it will be. good hopefully the leader. to hold the. 5 ceasefire in place the saudi arabia

is going to uphold its responsibilities and also be committed to stop its attacks i'm afraid i'm going to have to interrupt there because the quality of the line is not great told. from what i could gather from what our correspondent missing is that he's not really yet able to confirm. this cease fire initiative has indeed been declared that some think we're going to keep pursuing it al jazeera says say tuned for the top line the top line the breaking news coming out of yemen is that there are reports of a ceasefire having been declared by the heathy rebels they may be conditions attached we can't be absolutely clear but as i say this is going to be a top priority for us here at al-jazeera said stay tuned. well in the meantime the u.s. is in a new sanctions will be placed on iran including the iranian national bank

president trump says he prefers this strategy instead of the use of military action to stop terror on developing nuclear weapons. ok we can speak to our white house correspondent kimberly kit and kimberly interesting listen a the announcement came from steve in the treasury secretary as he stood beside the president in the envelope this be the president trump has been fairly circumspect i suppose is the word to describe his demeanor when it comes to iran in the next steps. absolutely not giving us any indication as to how he intends to proceed only that they have a now as these very stark sanctions what the president says are some of the toughest on a country ever on iran's national bag we should point out the united states taking

what it sees as punitive action for those attacks on saudi oil facilities but again blaming iran for those attacks without offering any concrete evidence instead announcing simply punitive action we have just sanctioned the arabian national bank that is their central banking system and it's going to be. at the highest level of sanctions we are continuing the maximum pressure campaign this is the last remaining source of funds about the central bank of iran israel well as the national development fund which is their sovereign wealth fund will be cut off from our banking system so this will mean no more funds going to the r.g.c. with a fine terror and this is on top of our oil sanctions and our financial institutions sanctions when a very major factor is what we do these are the highest sanctions ever imposed on

a country never done it to this level. and i guess the question really then is what we can paps attribute this. restraint if you like on the posture of the president could it be the fact that he's got a new national security adviser in place has managed to get rid of the well known hawks john bolton. i think that's a very good assumption in fact many people as they saw the appointment that does not require senate confirmation we put should point out of robert o'brian to be the new national security adviser that this was a very hopeful sign for diplomacy given his track record working with donald trump and also working in previous administrations both democrat and republican he has a long and lengthy record of diplomacy if a tickler most recently working on hostage negotiations and we understand that he hit the ground running working in advising the u.s. president along with the defense secretary mark esper so now there is all eyes

looking forward to the u.n. general assembly next week in new york the question becoming now that we also know that the foreign minister of iran as well as the president have been granted visas to enter the united states to end to attend that meeting whether or not there will be some sort of informal or even formal bilateral discussion that could take place between the iranian president and the u.s. president initially donald trump said he was willing to sit down with the runts leadership to discuss limiting its nuclear program after withdrawing from the 2015 agreement to limit or iran's nuclear program but the white house officially saying right now that is off the table but as we know donald trump does like to make sort of surprises he likes to generate big and unexpected headlines so everyone watching that very carefully given the fact the president has signaled his reluctance for military confrontation all right kimberly thank you for that kimberly how good is our correspondent at the white house. extensive damage has been revealed of both saudi arabian oil facilities that were attacked last week and this is video from.

which is the world's largest oil processing facility the attack knocked out half of saudi arabia's output the authorities earlier allowed media into the smaller caray site saudi aramco has announced it'll bring our production back up to full capacity by the end of the month yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility for the attacks but the u.s. and saudi arabia have blamed iran. with a senior military adviser to iran's supreme leader has defended that attack on saudi oil facilities. with the retailer turi operation yemenis and thanked carried out a legitimate defense of bin selves against a priss that killed their children the reality is that america and its allies in aggressors against palestine in yemen have become tired and worn out economically militarily and politically the policies were wrong and failed the repudiation of

america and its allies is declining. the rhetorical war between tehran and washington continued the iranian foreign minister tweeting in response to accusations of war mongering by the us actually say it might prompt he said miss upon has it the other way around it's not iran that wishes to fight to the last american rather it is his b. team hosts who seem to wish to fight iran to the last american there he was referring to the b. team is being saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man and he reiterated that iran has no desire for war and that they will defend their people and their nation. that the u.s. justice department has been accused of playing a key role in reportedly withholding a whistle blows complaint against president trump. now media is reporting that the complaint relates to a personal phone call between president trump and

a foreign leader the head of the u.s. house intelligence committee says officials were blocked from passing on the complaint to congress which they should have done the president has called it fake knees. you know it's a partisan whistle blower. should even have information that i've had conversations with many leaders are always appropriate next i can tell you always appropriate at the highest level always appropriate and anything i do a fight for this country i fight so strongly for this country it's just another political hack job that was being called the largest climate change protests in history is underway more than $4000.00 events have happened around the globe protesters from more than $150.00 countries joining a strike which is pretty much being led by young people and it's calling for an end to the use of fossil fuels and the begins

a weeklong global campaign demanding greater action from political leaders ever hey woodruff. this is a movement led by children by college students backed by many parents millions of people coming together to protest when they would normally be at school instead they're calling on governments around the world to take action on climate change i think it's bad to miss one school day and have many times at school people need to realize that the funding is something we need. many people are protesting here. but want to be part of this growing movement chordal governments to do more to tackle climate change. and this truly is a phenomenon across the pacific islands many of which are already experiencing the impact of rising sea levels a pledge to fight climate change there were big protests in australia where.