ever increasing powers of governments and businesses as they access peoples most personal data and asks what is being done to regulate the flow of sensitive information under the cover of cove it on a jessina o play an important role protecting human night. oh. ringback touch your face, m. ah, so we've said, we'll meet at any time in any place. they are the ones who are not prepared to do it. the u. s. and voice iran tells al jazeera it's 10 wrong that isn't ready for do at nuclear talks. ah, law mariam, noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. you as president offices support and

a phone call with ukraine's leader. but russia insist, it's not to blame for the military, build up. global health experts recommend 3rd jobs for the most vulnerable people at the same time. many is struggling to get our 1st cov, at vaccine. and new zealand planter pushed out smoking for good with a lifetime band for the teenagers of tamara. ah, the u. s. envoy for iran is saying his negotiators are ready to hold direct talks with iran over its nuclear activity. but toronto still is not ready for that. representatives from me, other well powers involved of been shuttling between the 2 nations camps at talks aimed at salvaging the historic deal. it was struck in 2015 before heading the negotiations in vienna. robert molly spoke with our white house correspondent, kimberly hawk it. she started by asking him why the us is still moving to tightened

sanctions against iran, even as negotiations continue. is it helpful to be pushing for that as you're trying to get a deal, we're prepared to get back into the deal as soon as possible soon as her on it and we would lift all of the sanctions are inconsistent with adjacent to it. but in the meantime, we can stand by and not be prepared for world in which iran may be choosing to delay build its program, try to build more leverage. we obviously. 1 have to respond and so that's what we're doing. we're preparing ourselves for that, that outcome. how concerned are you or how concerned is the united states that israel could potentially drag the united states into an armed conflict with iran? we are privileging the path of diplomacy. we think it's the best way to think it's best for us. we suspect it's best we're wrong, but iran will have to decide that as president biden secretary, blinking has both said, if iran chooses regard despite or diplomatic offer to take

a different path, then we'll have to use the, the tools at our disposal to make sure that around does not acquire a nuclear weapon. why should iran trust the united states? so given the fact that it knows full well, that 2020 for presidential election could bring another president, the could completely undo any of the efforts you're making right now. this is not a deal that is based on trust, and so it's not a we don't trust ratings, don't trust us. and what happened when the u. s. withdrew from the deal is that iran started wrapping up its nuclear program. that's why president biden is back and has given us the mandate to try to get back into the deal, and he would not be extending this political capital and making this effort if his goal was to come in and then withdraw. of course, we don't know what a future president will do. we don't know what the future reigning leadership will do, but we think that it's in our mutual interest to get back in to deal with the united states. be willing, at any point to meet face to face with iranian negotiators. we're prepared to meet with them face to face. we think it's far superior to indirect negotiations and

we're dealing with something this complex with so much so much mistrust with some potential for misunderstanding. so we've said, we'll meet at any time in any place. they are the ones who are not prepared to do it for their own reasons. we think it's a mistake. we think it's a mistake that hurts both of us. we know that these talks are not open ended. the united states has made that clear. what's the timeframe we're looking for? as i've said before, this is a technological clock. it's not a chronological clock. in other words, if they slow down the nuclear program would have more time if they continue, the current pace than time is running out. secretary blinking has made that clear over and over again. time is running out and we and the europeans will have to conclude if, if a run continues down this path, they have killed the j, c, p a and the j. c. p would be no more. we hope that's not the case. we are fully committed to a mutual return to compliance with jesse 3. we think there's still time to do it. if iran comes back and says they prepared to roll up their sleeves and do it too

well, the 2015 deal was meant to limit nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief for iran. but it's been unraveling since former president donald trump withdrew in 2018 at those talks in vienna, iraq, top negotiators that the country is serious about reaching an agreement. but he's not backing down from its demands. last week, iran was accused of not taking the talk seriously european unions to negotiate and now says, there is a renewed sense of purpose from all participants. both this morning was for the whole delegation of only the ring in one call litigation. i renewed sense of purpose on the need to work to reach an agreement from being in the just to be back to life. this is, this is my, my information from, from this morning. it's difficult. it's a very difficult and devil is that are still different positions that we have to marie. this is the gist of the negotiation. we will see how we can,

how we can proceed. that's how we kind of funds. dosage of bar is following the story in vienna. they sent him and several shared by the reigning deputy foreign minister ali baba connie who was leading the arabian delegation, was the same as that of the e. u. a foreign policy chief that we just heard from. connie said that the rainy's are very serious and they're here for results. and that is exactly what they hope to achieve in the coming days. the joint commission met earlier on thursday and then they ran off to smaller working groups to discuss the details of what iran has proposed to the world powers. the rain has put forth 2 proposals last week where they said one deals with how the united states will lift those sanctions that they impose, since they left a nuclear deal in 2018. and the 2nd proposal deals with the arena nuclear program and how iran who go back into compliance, the renews of said that will only happen when they can verify that all the sanctions that the u. s. as in posts are lifted in terms of what the international

atomic energy agency has to do with all this. they are the watchdog that police as the j c p, away the nuclear deal of 2015. and the head of that organization has said that there has been serious issues with iran compliance over the past few months. and that they are very concerned that they no longer have the access that they want to have when it comes to policing. ron's nuclear program look for now. the groups here that are discussing how to move forward, or hopefully they can come to some kind of an agreement in the next few days and on how to move forward with these negotiations. ah, you as president joe biden is held a telephone call with his ukranian counterpart in a show of support of the build up of russian military on the border. tens of thousands of troops have been moved to an area near the frontier, but russia denies is preparing to invade its neighbour to lead a spoke for around 90 minute, where the white house says biden conveyed his support for ukraine sovereignty and

territorial integrity. he held a similar telephone call with the russian president, vladimir putin was earlier this week and warned us a very can all make sanctions if an attack what to take place. but russia says it's ukraine, which is failing to engage in the piece process. but he, by dish gifts that i'm not with the support of nato countries. ukraine is being pumped full of weapons and kia is building up its contingent on the line of contact in don bess, the number of sci fi violations which have happened since it was signed. and july 2020 is coming close 290000. the spatial monitoring mission to ukraine has registered the re deployment of heavy weapons, including high caliber artillery and armored vehicles to the east of the country. with that accounts been disputed by the white house, which says, russia is to blame. the russians are known for their rhetorical escalations, as they are also known for their ah ways of providing misinformation around the

world and within eastern flank countries. so i think we have to take their own efforts to communicate to their public with a grain of salt. what we know is that, oh, the aggression here is on the russian side. the military buildup is on the russian side. there is a path, a diplomatic path forward. oh, the part of the president's objective, our president's objective and having the call was to convey that clearly that certainly is our preference. but also to convey clearly that there would be consequences. they would be significant and severe and we're going to coordinate with our european partners on that. and at charles stratford has been falling developments from carson, which is in sa, then ukraine. well, presidents and hence gay's office has put out some statements about the contents of that conversation. i'll read out some of the salient points to you that being said, according to lindsey's office, during that conversation, that was said that the u. s. has decided to become an active participant in the

settlement process in dawn by us in parallel with the normandy format. now this is interesting because normally for matt, that is made up of france, germany, russia, and ukraine has by all accounts. according to most stanley's been and l. tracy failure since it was initiated 7 years ago. so, and a lot of analysts have been trying to, trying to, to, to, to, to force the point that is absolutely vital to get the us a big role in, in trying to forge a lasting piece piece process and, and settlement to this conflict. so that's very interesting that there seems to be certainly some sort of agreement that there will be an increase role for the us in this office. also saying that the decision on ukraine's sanctions and nato depends on the decision of ukraine and nato members. that's what biden said in that conversation was zalinski. obviously,

this may not go down very well. it's whole with moscow. we know that obviously, nato makes no membership for ukraine. is one of the main big red lines for moscow. the white house saying that biden supports the aspiration of ukraine to be a neat so member and says that the aggression is on russia's side regarding ukraine. it's going to be very interesting to see what kind of response comes from moscow in the coming hours and days l, the world health organization's vaccine advisory panel, a st. people with underlying health issues or compromised immune systems, should get a booster dose of the corona, virus vaccine. there's also concern about how that will affect poor countries, where many people still haven't managed to get vaccinated. a tall, more than half of all people in the wall of now received at least one dose. but that falls to just over 6 in every 100 people in poorer countries. many nations are

expanding their roll out of 3rd shot due to concerns over the new on the chron variant, early day to suggest that vaccine efficacy declines after some time, especially among older people. earlier i spoke to michael head, a senior research fellow in global health at the university of south hampton. he told me that great a global corporation is needed to make sure that the developing world gets enough doses as well. to some extent is reasonable. of course that governments do the cost their own citizens, but richard governments all sitting on the surface of doses that we and they don't need an estimate. that's about 1400000000 surface doses around the richer countries of minutes and over the next few months. and if they could be distributed, even if some of them could be distributed to for example, subsaharan africa, then we might not improve the health of the population right now, but also improve the global outlook again in terms of new variance. emerging, watching algebra live from london slide for you on the program. flight day to

record is there a cover from the wreckage of a helicopter crash which killed india's most senior general? the 15 minutes it is raleigh and hong kong, democracy advocate and ty couldn't jimmy lie a fresh conviction. ah ah hello, thank you for joining in. here's her weather report. we'll kick it off in the philippines where we got rain coming out. sure. both for the east and the west. this batch, moving in from borneo to the risk of flash flooding and also rain induced land flights. next i'll take it to the northeast of china, the korean peninsula, where we do have some cloud cover that could generate showers and snow at higher ground, top to bottom and across japan. mostly waltz was sunshine uh, soccer, at 17 degrees. that is above average. you know, we do have rain dancing in across western areas of the yangtze river valley and

also the yellow river valley closing in on young joe with the high of 7 degrees southeast asia. nonstop brain on indonesia is one book island that's east of bali, and it's produced the scenes of flash flooding tens of thousands of people impacted . and those storms still in the forecast on friday, down under. we're also seeing storms through new south wales into victoria. so here's what we're up against, the potential to see, $200.00 millimeters of rain over 2 days, and wind, 75 kilometers per hour and the waves for coastal sections will be up to 4 meters high. the heat has broken in western australia perth, just the highest 25 degrees and in new zealand, a scattering of showers across both islands. that's fear. the aid was supposed to be a refuse, but south curly as brothers home was allegedly the scene of torture, rape,

and even murder $11.00 east investigates the crimes. and those settings behind them on odyssey. ah, ah ah all ah ah, or come back main stories now. the u. s. envoy for iran is saying is negotiate as a ready to hold direct talks with toronto over its nuclear activity.

representatives from the other well power involved of and shuttling between 2 nations camps in talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement. meanwhile, u. s. president joe biden has held a telephone call with his ukranian counterpart vladimir zalinski in a show of support of the build up of russian troops on the border. savanski says they discuss ways to resolve the conflict in east in ukraine. my government forces of fighting russian back separatists and a world health organization advisory panel is saying people with underlying health issues should get a booster vaccine. but it's also concern that it could reduce the number of doses available to poor countries. or south africa is the latest country to approve booster doses of the pfizer vaccine for all adults. while it battles a wave of the army kron variant, more than 22000 new cases were reported on thursday. and early hospital data is showing less than a 3rd of patients infected with on the con, a suffering severe illness. south african scientists 1st sounded the alarm over

this very late last month for me to mila has more from johannesburg. it has been sort of up and down in the last few days and when we've spoken to experts have said that, you know, shortly after weekends we may have a lag just because of data. the numbers are concerning because they is a 26 bit st positivity. rate and that means that for the people who are going out to get tested for culver 19 about $1.00 and $4.00 are receiving a positive result. but the government is also saying that hospital facilities are well prepared. and in terms of, i see you bit intensive care that just 6 percent of beds occupied at this moment about 3 and a half 1000 general bits occupied by people who over 19, when they're 113000 available. and they also saying that doctor will at least initial data is showing that potentially, while this particular variant does spread easily and they're worried about that may possibly be milder than expected. but this is very early stages of the 4th wave in

south africa. and also looking broadly at the region and what is happening with the variant around the world. there are about a 1000 cases that have been linked directly to our be con, added to peers at 46 percent. of those cases are from africa, specifically in southern africa. with 5 countries, including south africa, us are leading to a spike in numbers. the east 14 members of the government backed miniature, had been killed by a gunman and became a faster intact. took place just outside the town of tao. no one has claim responsibility, but it comes a day after the president of begin a fast. so the fact is prime minister and an escalating security crisis in the country. now investigators have recovered the flight dates recorded from the wreckage of a helicopter, carrying india's highest rank in general, chief of defend itself. beeping wrap up, his wife and 11 others died when the cross came down and the southern state of

tunnel now do india's defense minister says the helicopter did not send a distress signal before the crash. elizabeth bronnan reports now from new delhi a reef laying ceremony by government leaders in the southern status thumb and not for ben roberts, his wife and 11 others killed on wednesday, they remained with them sent to new delhi for funeral services. also in the capital members of parliament observed to minutes of silence defense minister raj not sing revealed more about the crash control in a air traffic controller. last contact with the helicopter around 12 pm. soon after a few local deeper spotted a fire in the forest near good news and rushed to find wreckage of the military helicopter engulfed in flames. but all of the flying from an indian air force base and salute to a defense college. less than half an hour away. when the helicopter came down, rescue as managed to save some occupants from the burning wreckage and take them to

a nearby hospital. but only one person survived. the defense minister said the crash investigation has already begun with the helicopter's flight data and cockpit voice recordings were covered on thursday. 63 year old violet had served in the military for for decades and was the army chief before being appointed india 1st chief of defense staff 2 years ago. the position was created to integrate and modernize india's army, navy, and air force. it's a huge task. and that has been a setback in terms of the individual who was chosen by prime minister, moby. and that he died in this very, very tragic manner. jarlet also lead major military operations on india's troubles . border with pakistan and china. mourners will be allowed to pay their final respects to bip enrol with and his wife at the residence here in new delhi on friday before the funeral. roberts, death not only raises questions over the military reform he was leading,

but comes at a time of heightened tension. the china with both countries increasing their military presence along the disputed border. elizabeth per on al jazeera new delhi, boxed on taliban as refusing to extend a month long sci fi that ended on thursday. groups as authorities did not release more than 100 prisoners, as promised, and did not appoint negotiating teams to hold talks early. as the government said, it had fried a 102 fighters as a gesture of goodwill. but the discussions of anger, families of the pockets, tiny taliban victims who accused the government of legitimizing group and all of java reports from ciocca, dora in northern pakistan. but you did give me my name. he asked. did the taliban can your children? how can you talk to them? this is johan at a protest against the government's decision to talk to the bucket funding,

dollar bonds. her son was among the 132 students killed at an army public school by the on group in 2014 by 7. say it's the box on the dollar. bon said it was intervention for the military operations in tribal areas. good may, will. does it get a bullet. 2 though shawna is now angry at the bucket. finally, government and military force, something negotiations without punishing the culprits of that attack. so get there . but if she goes out this, how do i forget everything? they say 80000 people have been killed. you're not the only one. i sympathize with everyone, but how do i forgot my dad? sorry about missing any dog you. this is wrong. they are criminals. how can you forgive murders? the goblin says the state has the right to talk, but the group will have to, in its words, bow a head before the constitution. in addition to releasing a large number of its prisoners of august line, he thought the bonds demands reported. the include opening

a political office in the country, reversing the merger of tribal areas with a northern k p province. and the enforcement of its version of islamic law and buckets fund wanted to move. and my litigations that are underway, law enforcement team say they're carrying out operations against what they call criminals and terrorists. this is not the 1st time the government is talking to the pakistan he thought of on or t t p. but simultaneously a database is being established to make sure they have the details of the sympathizer, the supporters and the fighters, which belong to the group. now by august on special security department says it's implementing a research based strategy to understand trends of terrorism. this new process it helping the police to carry out hundreds of targeted operations across the northern k p province. which is a border with a lot of on crime and terrorism has a lot of nexus also they do not have any legit rented or a structured organization. they keep moving from one dennis group to the other.

we've been able to do it and then give a guideline to our feel units, and they are now going for target operations. but marcus on highest court is not convinced the strategy to hold talks is well thought out. it's already someone prime minister, him wrong hon. and the judge is asked him, quote, are we going to surrender once again? he was told you brought those guilty to the negotiating table, all the group individuals. and you know, the groups that have to surrender before any box can see. the government maintains the packets time you thought about have safe havens across the border in earnest on the latest, the slide was broken by the off gone tyler bond, which used its influence with the pakistani thought the bon mobile question. school with the sand to seek of the we are acting as an intermediary and we can only try. we will continue to do it so that the talk should reach to a fruitful end in between the 2 brothers on eg foods autonomy as the murky talks.

and the way china shows us the steam, who are sons, blood on his shoe, victims of the buckets, timing taliban, demanding justice before making deals with who they see as murderers? some of those are the or doctor northern bikers son. oh, we go to hong kong now where the pro democracy movement has been doubt another blow, media type can jimmy lie in 2 other prominent activists have been convicted for their roles in an illegal vigil. commemorating the piano and square massacre, florence louis brings us the story. oh, jimmy lie was at last. he has tenement square rally in hong kong for just 15 minutes and did not address the crowd. the judge said, prosecutors had been able to prove his incited others to attend the vigil. lie used to own apple daily, a vocal pro democracy paper. the tablet was shut down after police rated its officers and arrested staff under

a national security law. some journalists in hong kong say they are not surprised by wednesday's verdict. this has been a trend over the last year on the judge. amanda woodcock. rosa tar jimmy lie didn't have to say anything to even in sight. others very tight, but he turned up just outside the park was closed, a deliberate act to rally support for and publicly spotlight the unauthorized assembly. the judge also found barrister chow hung tongue and former reported gwyneth how guilty of either taking part or inciting others to join the event. all 3 pleaded not guilty. 16 other activists are already serving jail sentences for also taking part in the commemoration. hong kong has traditionally held large events on the anniversary of the tenement crackdown in beijing. for the 1st time in 30 years, police in hong kong band lost his rally, citing corona virus restrictions. commemorations were also band this year,

with case itself is part i would say perhaps a wider crackdown on the memory of the 1989 massacre. textbooks has been censored, museum exhibits confiscated. the visuals organizers have been put behind balls. and as you can see, this collaboration has been banned. last year's band was imposed just as china passed, a sweeping national security law in hong kong activists say the latest convictions . another example of hong kong leaders bowing to pressure from beijing to censure pro democracy expression florence lee algebra. now, new zealand is on val wanna walls toughest crackdowns on smoking banding. young people from ever buying cigarettes and legal smoking age will rise year by year so that by 2027, anyone aged 14 or younger will never be legally able to buy cigarettes. but cruising say the bond could boost the black market instead. well,

smoking is the leading cause of death and even killing more than $4000.00 people every year. until now. the government's focused on increasing taxes on cigarettes to make them unaffordable. 10 years ago, a pack of $25.00 cost about 11 dollars last year it was $28.00. smoking rates have fallen in recent years, but about 13 percent of the adult population still smokes and the rate is much higher for the indigenous mallory people at about 28 percent. under the government's plan, a task force would be created to help reduce smoking among the memory. a local young person with more self stop that i have also one. this might well they can just go to the right, which they add. i think maybe it's a good idea because of, you know,

they smoke in his bacteria and it's really hard to quit. so being a smoker, you know, i'm going for all this i. i know that. so maybe it's a good way will talk to i shiver all in new zealand, associate health minister and says vague thing is not included in this new law because it's considered a safer alternative to cigarettes. there is very strong evidence that tobacco is an extremely harmful and addictive substance, and yet the evidence will have some types as fall. it's definitely a cipher old finished. so we're taking a reduction approach by banding to best price will future generations, but making sure for current market to quit, the price isn't all. tension $4000.00 new zealand just died each year from tobacco and we might take action on it. what made a lot of progress, the cause of that regulation repeating what allows right to quit. so we made the biggest decrease we had in history in watching rates in the last year alone. so we

think that what freak out is within reach a european population as is seek to make it as i reach that goal. as we need to take bold action to make sure all parts of the community get there. and because we're not prepared to pass the community behind more and everything right here, algebra dot com, where you'll get to comment analysis that takes you behind the headlines. also live streaming there and some of clips and video on demand. ah, just a quick look at the headline stories now and the u. s. and voice iran is saying that washington is ready to meet with her on over the nuclear talks. well, powers have been shuffling between the 2 countries in vienna as attempts continue to find salvage the historic deal. but robert molly told algebra.