and we predict that until the end of the. this will continue. and the last 12 months. the move. meant as a slightly slower however. but we are optimistic that it will improve. the. economic development of the country which was minus last year and deficit last year we predict in the 1st 6 months of this year until now the number system statistics have not been declared announced yet but we predict it will be very successful. employment and this. summer. was a record high and in. summer

this yad compares to. last year we have 843000. jumps. and our underemployment and plummet has been decreased significantly. not to means the success of iran. as far as economists concerns. as important export is concerned. we have better conditions than previous years are important exports. are much better. even though in the last 6 months it's not as good but it's still better than last year compared to last year.

ok. so therefore they import and export. on the right path and the right direction yeah. so that the price of foreign currency which is also very significant. it is also moving towards. balancing. according to the central bank in the last one year so. our currency has the value is increased by 40 percent. all the statistics. in economic. statistics indicate that we are on. the path of towards the path

of stability economic stability and obviously the government. and the state has more expectations. to be able to help people the nation and its problems some of our expectations. have been fulfilled others that. we are still expecting to see but if there is any questions i can explain. later. it was far as the. political position of. the state of iran is concerned internationally we have a much stronger position than before. and we saw that in the general assembly of the u.n. the fact that. iran the state of iran they see it is much stronger

than previous years. yes and everyone was praising the position of iran. was that we have we have been through a lot harsh 18 months there were sanctions there was a lot of pressure on the people. as. well i mean. despite all this. we we could feel this pressure upon the people of iran but please accept that this is that. has been the major focus of the state in the last 18 years. that it will. to return all of these challenges despite the

fact that we have been under. immense pressure from the sanctions but which is not an easy task to do i think all of those involved the central bank those who have held. all the banks will of assisted us all the directors from the country i express my deepest gratitude. they didn't fare. in this major psychological and economic war they stood fast and with resilience and. broke the crisis courageously. today we can. i can confirm that we are not defeated economically in. that we see a better future for us than before. a. state as a trying it's that and the. next 2 years.

that we should. the end of the 2 years. as created for the nation of the prior nation and we. hope that we will be successful. as far as regional issues are concerned i have some points but i prefer that during your taking your questions and they steamed reporters i will. try to give you answers. that are. happy that and i'm hopeful that hopefully that.

that we will try and i will try to present before the media more often than this and i'll try to make this up in the future. and the past. 7 months every. wednesdays and i try to. you know it's a pair on simone said program. anyhow please try to accommodate you know i mean we somehow try to break and silent make up and go through the last 2 years and i am ready to take your questions thank you very much and i think. that there are 106 reporters from 86000000 this

international and domestic and more than 80 domestic your forces are had a whole can. ask their questions in the end if 81 minutes on. i think i'm going to get them when i request time as to the fortress to ask one question and if it's effective question and try to avoid it so that time is given to others so that we can take as many questions as possible the 1st. question is mohammad idea of how you me. from her about it. and i'll ask him to then. newspaper and i'll just read. things. like this. and. i. thank you.

i 3 european countries and they are thinking to an exit with america and they have tried their commitments and they are trying to do that they are. taking side off the us. so we would be able to count on them just betting this fact in mind. what how do you see a future with france and. how as far. as nuclear accord is concerned the u.s. . and. its and some for some reasons put pressure. but there's a minister aziz back there's a history james and saudi and they did everything that they could they made

it they united said made a major mistake. but it's like at the. republic of iran did there i think. the work trying to impose sanctions on iran and. however we did not let iran do not let the us to blame or iran they are to be blamed shack. 2 or 3 small countries there is no country in the world that will approve what america did with regards to that agreement everyone accepts this and up. the following.

other countries 4 plus one. they try to indemnify their exist or pull out from this agreement i would elations with russia and china is very good relations are good they have tried their best as much as they could but unfortunately the other 3 european countries well i don't know how you interpret i can take your interpretation that they follow the us but anyways they did not. live up to their commitment or how they should have acted they didn't do that and the promises they had made they didn't not. fulfill those. were. iran is. following the aspiration of the nation of iran and trying that we have. lived

up to our commitment a spot of. course concern and. we have declared that it actually in our commitment in the 1st phase would be that we would we started it with enriching. you know your enemy nationally. and in the last 2 months. we've had the negotiations with the. countries and europe but we didn't reach an agreement. and then. we started heading into the enrichment and he said it's.

so which has increased as it's $4.00 on average or enrichment and also in the 3rd phase the 3rd step or 3rd phase was that we declared that. score as research and development was concerned we would not follow. j.c. theo a's agreement you. know i would i ought to charge for our to our active at the moment. and a very soon i r 9 will also. be fed and will become active well be activated as well i i r $7.00 and $9.00 and i. i think this is the 3rd step which is a major steps. that iran has. initiated and. if

they do bring this be tend to their commitments we can return our full commitment and but if they continue this we will take other measures. put newspaper. regards mr president. thank you very much for giving us the opportunity mr rouhani this state. should. declare its budget. the budget for oil should. decrease and but he. and there will be more focus on the taxation. most of our

problems will be result of my question is that. how do you think how realistic this can be. feasible if it isn't. that our income our imports can't pay and we don't meet face deficit in the budget. and we have a major deficit at the moment well job. and there are many tax evaders how how do you think this new policy will. recover the economy i thought my answer is going to be long but about you i.

know that a question can also be too long. and 13 in 97 but you know it's very important to would have to see how we can. manage that but as i mentioned earlier we are positive but as far as budget is concerned we do have problems yet. that. the numbers should be secured. but as far as the cons struction development is concerned we are in a better position than previous years more than. for the plague. so you're looking at live pictures from attack iran that is the presidential palace and right there is the iranian president hassan rouhani he has been speaking quite a bit on domestic issues he's holding

a press conference as you can see amongst reporters there right now in this question and answer session so among the key takeaways that he said during this press conferences that the u.s. sanctions have failed to bring iran is economy to its knees and just a few moments ago a reporter asked him about the j c.p.o. and he did say that the u.s. made a great mistake by pulling out from the iranian nuclear core let's bring in joining us from tehran so aside for you what was the key takeaway from what we've heard so far from hassan rouhani. well president hassan rouhani discussing domestic issues is very much for the audience here in iran he very much at stake his reputation on the nuclear deal the 2015 nuclear deal which the united states union actually pulled out of last year and people they have has

been a sense of apathy and anger because he staked his reputation on this deal deal essentially fell through with the united states pulling out and starting their maximum pressure campaign and the economy has suffered now what he's saying now is that the economy is stabilizing that the currency is stabilizing and employment levels are getting better so what he's saying is that america hasn't been successful and this he's essentially talking to are the iranian people the voters because there are elections expected next year but also the criticism that he has faced at home from hardliners that from the very beginning warned him and warned the people around him that they shouldn't be negotiating with the united states that the united states couldn't be trusted and they've now been proven to be correct but also criticisms towards him because the hardliners in this country are saying that you went into this deal you negotiated with the united states and look what it's got us and in terms of the nuclear deal now here in iran has stepped back from some of its commitments and reached uranium to higher level it's increased its stockpile and

that the phase 3 what he's talking about is be able to enrich uranium quicker and this will worry western powers because although they're enriching it just just over 4 percent it's 90 percent is required for weapons grade but it does give the ability for it to iran and to be able to do that although the iran has been adamant from the very beginning that they don't want nuclear weapons but also he's criticized the european powers that they have not lived up to their commitments but left the door open and threw out this nuclear deal and iran stepping back from the commitments iran has always left the door open all the steps that they have taken. they've indicated that they could be reversed so if the european powers come back to the agreement come back to the commitments and the promises that they made to iran that iran can reverse those steps all right thank you for breaking that down for us from tehran.

we're moving on to the other big stories of the day it's been a day of fast moving developments in fact in northern syria that's as turkey's offensive into kurdish held territory escalates syrian government troops appears to be positioning themselves for a direct confrontation with turkish troops president rather tired erdogan has indicated the offensive will intensify in the coming days the next target will be the kurdish held city of members knew. about maybe as we decided we're going to act on it as you know i discussions with america about men because we were saying within 90 days the terrorist organizations beginning to exit there but this didn't happen we're not going to enter a main beach the real owners of that area iraq arabic brothers and they're going to enter that area our approach to this is that they are going to end today and we are

going to make it secure for them the u.s. defense secretary said they would withdraw american soldiers from syria i think this is a positive approach well that follows a deal between syria's government and the kurdish led syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. that will see syrian soldiers deployed close to the border with turkey government forces have been quick to the cause the army is now based in several locations in the north meanwhile a new foreign ministers are meeting in luxembourg and they have unanimously condemned the turkish offensive and they're calling for an arms embargo. let's listen the 1st when i finally feel it's a feeling and just seeing it already this is leading to a state that enough i see the must absolutely prevent that you again need to make that clear to the took this time it is and you have been you going must speak with one voice against operation so let's take a closer look at the situation on the ground turkey says it's establishing a safe zone along its southern border the 1st phase of which stretches 120

kilometers wide and more than 30 kilometers into syrian territory the turkish army along with its syrian allies entered northern syria on wednesday they were advancing south they now control the area in yellow including the border town of tal but also an ion is almost completely under turkish control while turkish forces have cut off a main highway known as the m 4 a vital supply line that runs through s.t.'s held territory from the iraqi border to the s.d.f. stronghold of. any or 2 big areas to watch the s.d.f. agreements allow syrian forces to enter both towns while the u.s. troops there while the u.s. still has troops in mendez both syrian and turkish forces are massing around it the syrian army has already taken control of from kurdish fighters and they've moved into which is also on the m 4 highway and syrian troops who are already present in some s.d.f. controlled areas under previous agreements in the house like

a province and. we have 2 correspondents covering the story natasha butler standing by for us in the french capital with more on that e.u. meeting 1st we'll cross over to charles stratford he is joining us from the turkish syrian border if we just take a step back charles for a moment just tell us what more you're learning about the military agreements that have been made between the syrian government and the s.d.f. and what impact that's having on the ground. well what we do know is you are saying there in the introduction is that the syrian army has certainly moved into positions. close to the border here the town behind me is russell and now they're seeing some of the faces fighting in recent days and in fact he was about 2 hours ago now that the turkish defense ministry for the 2nd time this week declared that it had full control over that town the fighting there has been very fierce very close to the line if you call this way is

a town called tell some other which we understand according to syrian news agency footage syrian the syrian army is very much there the syrian army's now positioned in a number of different towns heading along the border to the west is the furthest eastern position including as you say towns like. rocka khost full of stronghold of eisel i know east and these critical town members as well which as you say. syrian forces syrian troops amassing around it we understand that kurdish forces have come down from the north also we heard that statement from the president saying that the mission allman bage was clear and that he wants arab refugees to return to it when bush was an arab area now whether this in fact means that only arab fighters only those syrian free syrian army fighters that are fighting

alongside the chugs will go in to try and take control of. remains to be seen in this a town of qubani further north which already one says is won't be a problem in his words because it's going to be fully coordinated with the russians the situation as you can imagine here is incredibly fluid the syrian army have moved very rapidly since that deal was was agreed upon last night a huge indication of some of the losses that the s.d.f. have suffered in the next in the last few days and an indication of what can you can presume is going to be an escalation potentially as we go forward in the coming hours coming days and as this escalation possibly continues trolls what is the biggest worry when it comes to civilians and people living in that area from the humanitarian organizations what are they warning about.

fact is now you've got actually 2 national armies 2 armies facing off against each other in a potentially confrontational position where i stand that there are still hundreds of thousands of civilians in this area the un says already around $160000.00 people have fled many of who already internally displaced aid agencies are seriously concerned for their own staff as well who having to be potentially be pulled out syria was always a difficult place for a day you cease to work in any way because of the security situation a bear in mind we've had reports of eisel prison breakouts the s.d.f. saying that they were unable to keep their positions guarding prisons in the face of the onslaught from the we apparently according to some figures may well have up to 800 beisel fighters or affiliates that have been freed or a skate in the last in the last day or so that only adds to the complexities of join to deliver aid to to these thousands potentially hundreds of thousands of

people that have already suffered you know 8 years of war in syria and now facing potentially another one ok thank you for that update from the turkish syrian border let's bring in to talk about where she is joining us from paris as well saying foreign minister is did meet they've now condemned the turkish assault in northern syria but they did stop sort of agreeing on a sort of nationwide arms embargo that's awful. yes that's right e.u. foreign ministers in luxembourg issuing this very strong condemnation or of the turkish offensive in northern syria they also say that they call on turkey to stop all hostilities to stop all the violence not something we heard from the used foreign policy chief federico more greeny shortly after that offensive began last week very much the same message that e.u.

member states are very worried about the situation they're worried about the use of military action instead of negotiation they are worried about further destabilizing a very volatile region about in the words of the french foreign minister the possible humanitarian catastrophes people are killed civilians flee and they're also very concerned about what they say could be a real resurgence of iceland the area so they've been talking about possible a punitive message measures against turkey as well they have actually agreed on what they call a sanctions framework against turkey in another dispute with cyprus over or for drilling and they're also looking at a perhaps an e.u. wide arms embargo but it seems they weren't able to reach consensus on that at this meeting we know that some countries such as france germany and finland have decided to suspend our weapons exports to turkey but it does seem they weren't able to unanimous new unanimously agree.