good question. so much. and i don't think people have to be found. you're watching a show coming up on the program. weeks into the crisis the deaths. and. mismanagement. train to dodge the draft. press and offerings to avoid. and. it's like no other. more international.

welcome. it's good to have you with us now it's been cold and the worst flooding in a hundred years it's meant to at least seventy deaths and flooding into thoughts of iran and it's set to get us heavy rain. twenty four feet on thirty one provinces. province in the north pole the initial brunt of the flooding subsequently it spread to other provinces including a lot. in the southwest. and in fact has three major rivers that flow through it and the continued threat of flooding has that authority is to order the evacuation of six cities. along. with the.

unprecedented scenes for a normally average region. consistent in southwest iran as one of the latest provinces facing most evacuations as fresh downpours kristie is hear about new flooding. further know in the restaurant province extreme floods and ghost cities and submerged homes. in the water was up to here there's the mark of the of blood. some locals aren't waiting for help they start repairs wishing to return to normal life as soon as possible. or laws just provide us with cement and equipment so we can do the work faster. relief efforts are stalled aid agencies say the u.s. is partly to blame according to the iranian red crescent washington sanction on terror ron have blocked any foreign financial aid to enter the country on his state

t.v. iran's president said last week that it was a quote disgrace that the crew d.h. has shown hahaha bites of what the americans wished for everyone will see that our big nation our officials and our armed forces walking together reconstruct the ruins of a house of your heart all. heavy rain since march has inundated almost two thousand communities causing damages with hundreds of millions of heroes. with the child was showing new signs of easing many iranians are bracing for the worst. we have their claims that u.s. sanctions are hampering relief efforts to flood victims a last me get out foreign minister job accused his american counterpart by compeer or fake news for saying the u.s. was quote ready to assist through the international red cross that if treated as

the i.c.r.c. president noted the red crescent can't receive any funds due to illegal u.s. sanctions u.s. should own up to its economic terrorism the red cross has denied making those remarks a cover madani former deputy head of iran's department of a bottom and says the world is ignoring the disaster he treats the level of international attention to it on unprecedented floods is surprisingly low people of iran are in need of help and attention regardless of international politics let's get more from tehran joining us now is our media have r.c. he's if he's tehran correspondent i mean good to see you what is the situation in iran right now hello and thank you for having me situation in iran right now is that well the flaw has reached southwestern parts of iran the risk operations going on and who's a storm has basically declared him to be in

a state of crisis right now and it's mostly because the body builder of. a flooded and he is. going toward the city and threatening more city in capital of forces which is home to about more than a million and a half people. now it in for mr mammadov odds are it has accused the u.s. and said that the sanctions imposed by the united states are harming and he did agree for rescue operations what are you seeing on the ground. well i would say that the sanctions in the are harming the efforts well basically is that well first of all you it does depend on we are asking from if you as the u.s. state the part that you say that humanitarian aid is not sanctioned that is true i understand the theory but since banking transactions are basically impossible there

is no aid can possibly come in iranian red cross and there's reason to claim that not all foreign aid all financial foreign aid so far has been received ever since the flights largely middle of march and that is basically because. sanctions what everyone has got so far it seems to be only equipment and it's very small and that amounts to and cash which is measured badly news is not on yet it seems like the only. transaction channel right now is the german red cross and seemingly organisations are supposed brought with them so it can get to russia but that still is not definite so. sanctions don't do have a start i would say but just to hear all of this disaster to turds of the country underwater two thirds of the country flooded is there an argument to say that the

government potentially did not see this disaster coming. well i would say that the government failed to prepare for this disaster it's not just anticipating it and. burden falls equally also it's everyone in control and i would say because the situation we have with deforestation the situation we have with the normal some modest downs situation we have with. unwarranted our non-licensed constructions where the rivers used to be because if you know iran has been in a time of drought for several years now no one has that they did anything come in it so with that people people say they got the illegal water and places from belt forms and. buildings also will use the rivers used to beat which created the large rubber off this is that source that you see on the graph so

little for with all that we could you want for that in. the anticipation gets i wouldn't be so sure because some of the images that have been pretty much seen all over at shiraz and that disaster happened in less than ten right thanks so much for that are better left for leave it there for the time being our house our very air speaking to us from don thank you so much next to thailand where millions of young men were numb this bomb how they will spend the next six months to two years of their lives for an estimated two hundred thousand of them it will mean serving in the military. and all military draft which sees a male citizens age twenty one called up for service for a period of up to two years many don't want to go and they are not among the chosen few. this time of year to pay our knocks trying it's a popular place to pray. pasta corn rocks free made

a five hour pilgrimage here. troubling her mind thailand's military draft still a possibility even though she's transgender so i'm worried about my appearance as a snob with the army's looking for. ties of all sorts make the same plea to the golden statue to avoid military conscription legend has it that died alone during childbirth while her husband was in the army serving in the military is a feat young ties are often dread and he who to parties even suggested ending the mandatory practice in last month's election. many young men feel it's simply not worth the sacrifice. my daughter is very young my girlfriend doesn't work i'm the only one who's working they have a lot of things to pay for like a car. it's not recruiting centers like this where their fates will be determined

all twenty one year olds must register one hundred thousand are selected annually to join up their names picked by lottery. there are some exceptions for monks and those who had sex change operations. back at the shrine offerings from a young man whose prayer was answered his name was not chosen. like got what i asked for so i came here to give thanks. life at least for now remains under his control and not that of a drill sergeant. by losing of control on the other hand with visible in tone yang on sunday as four goes on the north korean capital streets and it's the norm at least nine hundred fifty western has double the number than last year ran through

the streets are one of the most tightly controlled and reclusive nations in the wild for maybe winning was the last sort in their minds. and they're off is the highlight of north korea's tourism calendar the annual pyongyang international marathon but what sets this race apart. doesn't mean that it was a great atmosphere as you can see. the guts and there were many people in the stadium as well as along the streets. from the unsold the locals waved and cheered for us i managed to take a lot of photos as i was moved from running to see the. runners can see the sides of a tightly controlled city and for most of them the journey itself is the reward.

more than one hundred westerners enter the race over twice as many as last year times i couldn't want you to get this in the thirtieth event and there are more runners an effort to make the event more significant they had billions to the day of the sun when the great president kim il sung was born. tourism slowed to a trickle after north korea carried out a serious of missile tests in two thousand and eighteen but with tensions now easing between the u.s. and north korea more western tourists have signed up for the marathon but there were still no americans because a u.s. travel ban remains in place but north koreans are happy with the turnout. the event will generate revenue for an economy that's long felt the burden of international sanctions on. that story and more on our website that stayed over dot com. and you can check us out on facebook as well. that's it for today we're

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