this is. from berlin tonight a message from the trump administration to the leaders of iran act like a normal country or watch your economy crumble and us today what he calls the toughest sanctions yet against iran tehran is vowing to resist but will. be able to do the same we'll get the latest from tehran also coming up the fate of a christian woman accused of blasphemy in pakistan hangs in the balance pakistan's information minister talks in an exclusive interview about the woman's future and

u.s. voters gear up to cast their ballots in midterm elections the vote is being seen as a referendum on president with a strong showing democrats could mean his plans for the next two years polls in the u.s. scheduled to open in less than twenty four hours. good to have you with us iranians are bracing themselves for a possible economic hit today the troubled ministration re imposed sanctions on iran the country's foreign minister. says that the move to world opinion and is likely to backfire he accused the u.s. of being a bully saying the same target ordinary people are tonight the european union is standing by its opposition to washington's policy we begin our coverage with the economic sectors which will feel the impact first and most. iranian

markets like this are where economic reality rubs up against real lives the mere threat of sanctions has seen food prices here double in just a year shuttered store fronts speak to the hardship anger though is directed closer to home. but you could be because these disasters are inflicted on the people by our government don't and the thousand trumps can't do anything to us. the effects are felt beyond the bazaar with iran's oil and finance sector major international companies are withdrawing from tehran at this advertising business they have had to sack several stuff. that's really heartbreaking it's heartbreaking for the people that we talk to to say that look i'm so sorry there is no business and therefore if there's no business i cannot give you

a job they've studied they're excited about what they want to do in the future. no hope is being taken away from them the man behind the sanctions u.s. president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions present ever. we'll see what happens with the run but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a building enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in

a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. or earlier we spoke with a correspondent with the german public broadcaster in tehran and we asked him what these punitive measures are designed to do. you know officially the u.s. government denies that they aiming for a regime change in iran although they would definitely appreciate it so the iranian leadership was convinced that this is the actual driving force behind the sanctions and my impression is that if the u.s. expect the sanctions to bring the people to the streets i don't think that this is going to happen the opposite is actually what you can see and like in many cases when there is pressure being put on an even disputed government that people unite behind this government so but if the idea is to bring iran back to the negotiating table and even include their ballistic missile program into these talks i think

that this is much more likely to happen than any regime change in iran and that was your goal is that they are reporting from tehran well you're wrong says that it is working with europe to set up a mechanism to bypass the u.s. sanctions earlier we spoke to need to be used here we shoulder in brussels and we asked her what the e.u. is doing what the e.u. is doing and what is saying today are two different things we know that the european union named tains that it is setting up this special purpose vehicle as is what it calls it and a way of making alternative payments that would hopefully in use mind bypass u.s. sanctions and allow commerce to continue with tehran that's their goal and that's what they say they're doing but today you wouldn't have known it spokespeople today from the council to the commission are saying this is a stay tuned moment you've heard what we're planning and today we're just going to basically wait for things to play out they were definitely not making any any loud

statements today about. the sanctions which make things very much more difficult for the european commission to accomplish its goals of keeping the iran deal together both the nuclear deal and the business deals that european companies are now doing with tehran. that was our teri schultz reporting from brussels well tonight the fate of a pakistani christian woman is back in the hands of the country's supreme court islam is hardliners have filed an appeal aimed at reversing her acquittal on blasphemy charges. spent eight years on death row before a supreme court ruling found her innocent last week he is still in pakistan speaking at a press conference in the hague her lawyer said that he'd fled the country fearing for his life after a hard line violence erupted following that acquittal. you spoke with pakistan's information minister a short while ago we asked him whether i will see a b.b.

is now finally free but as you know it. really is the order of the supreme court the question led to protests in pakistan and now a review petition has been filed in the supreme court and bigger steps have been non-strategic and if it is a main one the e.c.m. then knowledge for the supreme court to decide how they want to go about it. there is no longer through with the justice or through it as it can. and that was the minister of information there in pakistan speaking with us earlier here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world around eighty people have been kidnapped from a school in the city of mend in the western english speaking part of cameroon a report suggests that all or most of those abducted children there are no immediate claims of responsibility separatists are fighting to form a breakaway state in the region so many arabia has told the united nations that it

will prosecute the alleged perpetrators in the killing of journalist jim all she now this as a newspaper in turkey reports that he sold the team reportedly sent to investigate because sochi is slaying it is stamboul instead worked to remove evidence. the controversial head of germany's domestic security intelligence agency hun's mustn't has been ordered to take immediate retirement interior minister horst as a whole for made the announcement a short while ago he's been under pressure to drop mohsin since august when he appeared to downplay the violence against. well the job it is rationed foreign policy is one issue that is weighing on the minds of u.s. voters ahead of tomorrow's crucial midterm elections both democrats and republicans are currently making their final appeals to voters now the poll is widely seen as a referendum on donald trump democrats are hoping to cash in on dissatisfaction

with his presidency and win back control of congress we're going to cross live to washington in just a moment but first a look at what's at stake in these midterms it's. all right it's inhalation it's been closely watched around the world and we're going to go now to washington our correspondent oliver salat ok well let's go to that piece first. the midterms are first and foremost about congress and they can make or break a president's agenda republican control of both the house of representatives and the senate has made trump's life relatively easy so far but if democrats flip one or even both houses the good times may be over the entire house all four hundred thirty five seats are up for election as they are every two years republicans currently hold two hundred thirty five democrats one hundred ninety three seats

that's a lot of distance to the two hundred eighteen majority mark but democrats hope that the slew of republicans leaving their seats this year along with enough anti trump fury among voters will deliver them to the house so all eyes are on the thirty or so toss ups races that polling data have is too close to call on the senate side republicans rule with the slimmest of majorities fifty one of one hundred seats sounds like good news for democrats but only thirty five seats of those are up for election most twenty six are ones democrats and independents allied with them need to defend that makes victory harder polling data suggest maybe just six seats in all are toss ups as the minority party democrats have been limited ineffectively resisting trying but what if they win in both the house and senate they could block his agenda and introduce their own they could investigate the myriad allegations of abuse and misconduct facing trump. in the senate democrats could reject trump

appointees up for important positions and they could impeach a long and fraught process that starts in the house and ends in the senate democrats have history on their side as the president's party usually suffers in the midterms whether that trend stays true won't be clear until ballots are in. now we can take this over to washington to talk about this election that is being closely watched the world i'm joined now by our correspondent in washington. good evening to you why is there so much interest in an election that really doesn't involve picking a new u.s. president. well you're right donald trump is not even on the ballot himself but he made this an election about himself he's really fighting fiercely for approval off the american voters and he's not shying back form from a very divisive and extreme rhetoric that we've been witnessing here in the last

days and weeks passed because what's at stake here simply and that's what we've just seen in the report is control over two chambres off american congress and that's the house of representatives as well as the senate and the winner the winning party will be able to shape american politics in the next two years to come so if the republicans for instance would be able to defend their majority that they currently hold that would not only mean approval to donald trump's politics but it would also give him power to continue his politics of america first that we've been seeing in the past where asked if the democrats could win the house for instance which is the most likely scenario at this point that would mean that they could block certain policies and also they could trigger an impeachment process so you're right all trump is not on the ballot himself it's not about electing a new president but it's certainly up for the voter to shave the politics and the presidency of donald trump for the next two years we know that donald trump tried

to national why is all of these away jeans these local and state elections is that working i mean do we know or voters are they focused on trooper or the also focused on these local and state issues. well i think on the surface these elections are about health care and they are about immigration so those are the two dominating topics here in these midterm elections but you have to take a closer look because underneath there is something bigger and that's an existential fear really bowl sides of the political spectrum there is this fear for instance of the democrats that the norms and the unity of the country is unraveling and on the democrat and on the republican side it is fear that immigration is unraveling here and that it's all fueled by this inflammatory rhetoric of donald trump who rather prefer to still fear in order to get voters to cast their ballots rather than for instance celebrating his good economic data or at

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