d.w. news live from berlin with iran's economy on the brink leaders are taking desperate measures outraged iranians are taking to the streets are rising food prices and appalling economy with new u.s. sanctions due to take effect this week the government is easing harsh currency roles though that also coming up in the face of venezuela's president says he has survived a drone attack in the capital and now the blame game the collapse but also spend as well as living in the u.s. or perhaps in colombia or behind the apparent assassination attempt to have the u.s. response and talk to

a correspondent in caracas. the be. a my ass 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 effect of new u.s. sanctions set to take effect this week the with increasingly restless population and the economy barely limping along it may be too little too late. it's the fourth time this year have taken to the street to protest they're angry about high prices and the government the accuser political leaders of leading the country into who and with mismanagement and corruption and now new u.s. sanctions promise 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'd impose 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 a rant 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 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 most of foreign investment but would wait to start in the economy and really powerhouse of. heart and now that it's falling apart that stuff maybe not going to . the way that solves any problems for iranians high jobless rates rising prices it's 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 of 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 what 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. and 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 deeply frustrated but also his conservative opponents who say should never have trusted the united states and see the collapse of the knicks. 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 economic. industry and that's a 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. passed in times ahead for everybody in this country. eric randolph thank you so much. another strong earthquake has struck the indonesian island of long book officials say at least eighty two people have died and have started evacuating thousands more the zero seven point zero magnitude quake struck in the northern part of lombok early on sunday evening and earlier the tsunami warning has now been left out of the business a 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 underway but also by what looks like a drone bomb attack during a military parade on saturday police have reportedly arrested several suspects from a doer always pointing the finger at colombians and venezuelans in exile living in the u.s. state of florida up the incident happened as the door was speaking at a military parade and. late afternoon in a caracas. president nicolas maduro speech to soldiers is interrupted will say it was a drone armed with a bomb it broke off and get me right in front of me something flying exploded born on it was a powerful explosion much. yeah i mean it protects me. then a second explosion seven soldiers are wounded durley accuses financial backers in the u.s. and colombia's president juan manuel santos over castrating the attack colombia

rejects the charge calling it absurd washington also denies any responsibility well i can say unequivocally there was no u.s. government involvement in this at all look at it could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the majority in itself to something else. one venezuela journalist who broadcasts on the internet read a purported letter claiming responsibility by an unknown group now called the mcdonough that cannot tolerate that our people have nothing to eat and no medicine and that our money is worth something about nothing or a lot of. the government says it has already arrested several perpetrators but there appear to be contradictions some people have questions about the second explosion. took a frightening to me and yet i think the government staged the whole thing he said on twitter you don't get ogled i cannot imagine that the government would hurt itself more said by the way that's just pulls our country further down and many fear the duro may use the incident to justify more repression in this divided

country for more we're joined now by correspondent especially lanka who's in the venezuelan capital caracas asked have been some competing claims of involvement and responsibility tell us about the. yes through social media group that call themselves the t.-shirt soldiers released a memo claiming responsibility for the failed attempt against president. indicated in the memo the retired military group indicated this was part of a number isn't called phoenix to oust the government for violating the constitution however there was a lot of skepticism surrounding this plan because there's no way to really 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 suspects were captured right after the attacks financial fleet 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 much dural blames colombia and people in florida why would these parties want him dead as he alleges. well according to mike who wrote his plot against him was aimed at sanitizing his new economic measures we are heading in a few weeks to a new currency for business where look 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 use players have said these players were absurd and a possible pretext for the government's use of a suppressed social unrest with has been increasing with each day some also if you're just good it's be an excuse to close the brothers or colombian gorder to which million is about as long as i've been fleeing the crisis making it 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 doorbell 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 it's all going to solve the opposition brought in front of a 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 attempts before the government continues with music i think you say since this is really turned out to be the story of the boy who cried wolf because by little has accused the opposition about these twenty plots against its 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 trying to last especially . thank you so much analysis of other stories making news around the

world south sudan's government has signed a final peace deal and power sharing agreement with the main opposition party the deal will form a unity government did without or has been torn by civil war since two thousand and thirteen two years after it came to dependents from sudan. twenty people were killed after a vintage airplane crash in the swiss alps the world war two aircraft smashed into the side of a mountain at an altitude of around two thousand five hundred metres after taking off from the car the plane was carrying a seventeen passengers and three crew. wildfires have grown stronger in southern portugal hundreds of firefighters were sent to battle a forest 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 fairy terawatt fairy tale world cup run ended with the silver medal after they were thrashed six nil by the netherlands and 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 field sports but the dutch proved the better team dominating proceedings from the start to claim their eighth world title and at the european championships in glasgow there was more joy for germany in the pool as florian val brock took the gold in the 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's second swimming gold of the weekend after their surprise win in the freestyle mixed relay and there was german success in the velo drome two as cyclists dominate vines claimed gold in the individual four thousand metre pursuit

one should be portugal's evil event to win germany's cycling medal of the championships. and a reminder of our top story for you this hour iranians are already up in arms about their economy as the country braces for a new set of u.s. sanctions this week now the government has announced plans to ease foreign exchange for all and the bit to soften the blow around a set to lift restrictions on the use of hard currency to buy goods. you're watching t.v. unions don't forget you can always check out our website d.w. dot com or follow us on twitter at d w news for all the latest i'm irish waiter and berlin thanks so much for washing. machines. to. go through.

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