many use cases rethinking the road is history been unfair to be disillusioned her shorts apologist for change on d w. u. s d w news live from berlin with iran's economy on the brink leaders are taking desperate measures our easter audience have taken to the streets over rising food prices the falling economy with new u.s. sanctions to take effect this week the government is using harsh currency rules also coming out only you know since venezuela's president says yes survived

a drone attack in the capital down blame game nicolas maduro says venezuelans living in the u.s. perhaps colombia are behind the apparent assassination attempt to have the u.s. response and talk to a correspondent in caracas. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us iran's government has announced major steps to ease foreign exchange transactions and allow iranians to bring in currency and gold this is to combat the expected the facts of new u.s. sanctions set to take effect this week but with an increasingly restless population and the economy barely limping along it may be too little too late. it's the fourth time this year i have taken to the street to protest they're angry about high prices and the government the accuser iran's political leaders of

leading the country into brewing with mismanagement and corruption and now new u.s. sanctions promised to make things even tougher. relations between the u.s. and iran have gotten worse three months ago president donald trump unilaterally pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and said he didn't pose the toughest sanctions iran has ever faced a declaration of economic war against the islamic republic. since then iran's economy has plunged into chaos the collapse of the country's currency the reaal has accelerated it has now lost seventy percent of its value against the euro the government has banned many currency transactions since april the falling reale didn't just hurt currency holders food prices have risen by at least forty percent . and last week president trump further stirred the pot with a surprising proposal thank you very much thank you i would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready to have

a hard time right now but i ended the iran deal it was a ridiculous deal the response from iran's leaders was tepid but several international media have reported that a meeting could happen in new york at the next general assembly of the united nations but for now iran will have to see how it manages to cope with the new american sanctions. for more on this i'm joined now by eric randolph a journalist in teheran eric so as we just heard in that report the economy in iran is not doing well what does this mean for the average iranian. well a lot of these problems have been around for a long time these were hoping that the nuclear deal in twenty fifteen would bring in not so foreign investment but would wait to start in the economy. and really pound out of that hut and now that it's falling apart at stuff from the not going to. the way that solves any problems for iranians jobless rates rising prices all sorts of problems with their currency the moment the real issues that people

have just lost faith in the government. issues and that's why we're seeing a big run on the currency. speaking of the currency the iranian ryall has dropped in value dramatically over the past month so now the government has announced they're easing foreign exchange rules what do you make of this you know they tried to fix the rate back in april and it was a disaster all that did was open up the black market speculated some people bought political connections we were able to use that in corrupt ways and that increased the anger on the streets even more interesting things today that we've actually seen the arrest of the central bank governor who's in charge of foreign exchange and there has been a real push to actually take judicial action against corrupt officials will see that to be a genuine positive to come out of all of these problems for eric we've also been hearing about protests in several places around the country how does this make

president rouhani look. it was very hard for us to verify what's going on out there because the reporting instructions that keep us closely tied to our own son in iran is under pressure from all sides people who want reform of the frustrated but also his conservative opponents who say should never have trusted the united states and see the collapse of the nukes they do as proving them right we've had religious leaders today over the weekend saying that there needs to be more action against corrupt people in the government he's on pressure from all sides at the same time the establishment doesn't want to see him leave straightaway because there's no obvious alternative and they want to keep the system intact the first round of u.s. actions against iran they go into effect tomorrow how is this going to fax the economic situation as it stands. the sanctions are actually going on tuesday at

midnight but these sanctions are going to have some impact they're hitting things like the car industry the ability to buy planes some financial transactions the real pain will come in november when iran will be blocked from selling oil and they'll be trying transactions for a central baghdad kid that's when it starts to lose the biggest part of its economic. industry and that's one move possibly see some of the real playing start of the moment so far it's a lot of anxiety a lot of fear it's not clear exactly what the economic impact will be the best in times ahead for everybody in this country. eric randolph thank you so much. another strong earthquake s. struck the indonesian island of lombok officials say at least thirty nine people have died and many more were injured the seven point zero magnitude quake struck the northern part of lombok early on sunday evening and earlier tsunami warning has

now been lifted officials say strong tremors damaged buildings across the island and in nearby bali last week another earthquake struck and killed at least sixteen people. after an apparent assassination attempt on venezuelan president nicolas maduro the blame game is now under way but there are survived what looks like a drone bomb attack during a military parade on saturday he is pointing the finger at colombians and venezuelan exiles living in the u.s. state of florida u.s. national security adviser john bolton push back on that accusation just a short time ago there was no u.s. government involvement in this at all just within the past couple of hours i've spoken with our charge a in caracas the head diplomatic official down there he and his staff arrived much of the night making sure that americans in venezuela were safe as of now now with respect to what happened last afternoon look it could be a lot of things from

a pretext set up by the majority in itself to something else now let's take a look at how the alleged attack unfolded as venezuelan president maduro was speaking at a military parade in caracas. mud ruined food flow suddenly cut short. this footage broadcast live on state television shows the moment when an apparent explosion rocked a military parade sending hundreds fleeing on foot. the government declared it in assassination attempt. which i don't want to see on explosions were heard which we have established as coming from multiple drone idea. of the fact of what i want to people the wrong to not think it was an attempt on the life of the president of venezuela nicolas maduro but to put everyone at ease the attack has failed us all out of complete i mean.

just hours later mudra gave a defiant speech speculating that the incident was a right wing conspiracy with ties abroad into the ocean i mean ten thousand or so i see not a movie there has been an attempt to assassinate me not to go but i have no doubt that this all points to the extreme right in venezuela and in alliance with the right in colombia and that colombia's president juan manuel santos is behind this attempt i have no doubt. the socialist president has often accused the right wing opposition of plotting a coup but as the economy continues to weaken widespread protests have become one of the biggest threats to my duros administration for more we're joined now by correspondent also a schleicher who's in the venezuelan capital caracas also have been some competing claims of involvement and responsibility tell us about the. yes through social

media a group that calls themselves the t.-shirt soldiers released a memo claiming responsibility for the failed attempt against president who are indicated in the memo the etc retired military group indicated this was part of an operation called phoenix to oust the government for violating the constitution however there is a lot of skepticism surrounding this plan because there's no way of proving whether it's real or not despite being backed by some journalists and we've also seen that six people have already been arrested what do we know about that well we know very little about the suspects in custody other than the government accounts that the six august suspects were captured right after the attacks financial sweeps the government also issued a warrant for the arrest of some of the other implicated in the attack including the explosives experts and the drone operator so mike dural blames colombia and people in florida why would these parties want him dead as he alleges.

well according to mike who wrote this plot against seven was aimed at sanitizing his new economic measures we are heading in a few weeks to a new currency for business where the and you measure should distribute subsidize gasoline measures that have not gone over well with the public however both the u.s. and for whom you have played and he displays have said these players were absurd and possible pretext for the government's use of a suppressed social unrest with its has been increasing with each day some also if you're just good it's be an excuse to closer but there's more colombians gorder through which millions about and as long as i've been fleeing the crisis they can get the largest something american migration in recent history and you mentioned a possible crackdown and the venezuelan opposition in fact has been warning that my daughter may use this attack in his favor are we going to see a further political crackdown against critics. well yes it is expected and i would

have said so to solve the opposition brought france movement which is a new coalition has said yesterday's events could have been a fortune and the state or the government should start their crackdown against the opposition and they have the coalition. that is demanding proof of the drills and the attacks before the government continues with the accusations this is really turned out to be the story of the boy who cried wolf because my daughter has accused the opposition of these twenty plots against his life but this is the first time we actually see something play out whether it was an assassination gone wrong or fortunate mistake is still to be decidable journalist oscar i think i encounter thank you so much and i will take you to some of the other stories making news around the world south sudan's government has nothing to final peace deal and power sharing agreement with the main opposition party the deal will form a unity government you know with a country has been torn by civil war since twenty thirteen two years after he came

to dependents and sadat. twenty people were killed after a vintage airplane crash and this was alba's the world war two aircraft smashed into a mountainside at an altitude of around two thousand five hundred meters after taking off from the cargo the plane was carrying seventeen passengers and three crew. wildfires have grown stronger in southern portugal hundreds of firefighters were sent to battle a forest fighter fire with the assistance of aircraft it's been one of the hottest weekends on record for the iberian peninsula a europe wide heat wave has been especially severe in portugal and spain with temperatures exceeding forty five degrees celsius on saturday. in hockey ireland's fairytale world cup run ended with the silver medal after they were thrashed six nil by the netherlands in the final in london ireland's women had

pulled off shock after shock topping a group containing hockey heavyweights india and england on route to the country's first ever final in fields for its for the dutch proves the better team dominating proceedings from the start to claim their eighth world title of the european championships and glasgow there was more joy for germany in the pool as florian fell broke took the gold in men's fifteen hundred meter freestyle the twenty year old clocked a national record of fourteen minutes thirty six point one five seconds to secure germany second swimming gold of the weekend after their surprise win in the freestyle mixed relay and there was german success in the velodrome to a cyclist dominic claimed gold in the individual four thousand meter pursuit and beat portugal as i've always to win germany's eighth cycling medal of the championships. and a reminder of our top story at this hour iranians iranians are already up in arms

about their economy and that's before a new set of u.s. sanctions ends this week now the government has announced plans to ease foreign exchange for alls in a bid to ease the impact it has promised it to lift restrictions on the use of hard currency to buy goods. in washington evian itself again you can always check out our web site t w dot com for all the latest i'm irish waiter amber lyon thanks for watching. sorry no just couldn't get this song out of his. musicologist began searching for the source of these captivating. the deep in the brink forced in central africa and the like to belittle those evil be led to. the most money leader who comes.

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