truth. visited over the years live from. vale's new sanctions against iran treasury secretary steven chu and secretary of state. say they're targeting iranian industry and 8 senior individuals who they say were involved in the missile strike against u.s. troops in iraq also on the program run civil aviation chief denies western claims of the ukrainian ally that crashed in teheran was hit by

a missile from the plane's black box flight recorders have been recovered ukraine says its investigators have been given. i'm so girl welcome to the program the u.s. government has unveiled new sanctions against iranian industries and senior regime officials you know it's meant to came from secretary of state mike pompei o. and treasury secretary steven chu and they describe the sanctions as a response to reruns missile attack against u.s. troops in iraq which followed the u.s. assassination of a senior iranian general last week the sanctions target 8 senior officials of the islamic republic of the u.s. has been involved in the attack on u.s. troops. the views from the united states and the european union from d.w. correspondents propofol he said washington and teri schultz in brussels welcome

both let's start with you pablo tell us more about these new sanctions. hi phil well you're you've sort of said some of it already some of the individuals who are going to be targeted are involved in iran's financial construction manufacturing textile and mining sectors and the sanctions are also against 8 raney and officials who were described as being involved in d.c. stabilizing activities and this the idea behind this is to basically collect billions of dollars of revenue for the iranian government and it came it was announced in a news conference here in washington which was very much geared towards as well as the reasons why the assassination of the iranian general took place in the 1st place and secretary pompei a was put under a lot of pressure but he said once again and justified once again saying that he

had specific information on an imminent threat and those threats included attacks on u.s. embassies so very much justifying as well why these new sanctions were being put in place to the trumpet ministration has said the the end game here is to try and bring iran back to the nuclear negotiating table with missiles negotiating table but what makes the white house think more of the same because sanctions have been in place for some time what makes the trumpet ministration think that more of the same will do the trick. well the trumpet ministration i'm president of particular have really believed in this maximum pressure idea they believe that putting further sanctions on iran will strangle the economy even further we're seeing that with these new far reaching us sanctions which are being put on the country adding to the long list already in place president trump even said it this week that the idea is to sit down to get back to the negotiating table and sit down with iran and

come up with a new deal he hasn't been shy about the fact that he doesn't believe in the previous agreement from 2015 and the idea is that these new sanctions will leave iran and perhaps with the support of some of the u.s. allies to a new deal but of course the u.s. administration the trump administration has been unclear at times over what the end game is in fact with regards to iran to. brussels let's bring you in nato secretary general has been to you foreign ministers meeting the u.s. has called for more nato support in the middle east what has been the response. president trump in fact called secretary-general stoltenberg just a few moments after he announced in a white house press conference that he wanted nato to become more involved in the middle east and secretary general stoltenberg said ok we will do more we can do more and in fact i've just learned that nato has dispatched

a delegation to the state department who this group is there now talking with state about what more can be done now what nato is offering is is more counterterrorism work and i'm not sure that's exactly what president trump had in mind but anyway the people who actually do the work are there discussing it now so nato is taking this request seriously and i'm sure will do everything possible to to try to help help the united states but these are not going to be combat operations there's no way the 28 other nato allies would agree to any such thing. to those foreign ministers meeting what was the agreed position today i suppose the wider question is does anyone besides the e.u. care think it does. care what they think. you know i could hear in the comments from the foreign ministers and even from foreign policy chief joseph burrell that they are slowly accepting that perhaps

they're not going to be able to keep the deal alive although that's still very much the unified position even as the foreign ministers were meeting as we heard from washington more sanctions were being piled on iran and that puts pressure on the european union as well as on tehran because the e.u. one of the e.u.'s obligations under the iran nuclear deal is to increase trade with with iran and that's impossible with u.s. sanctions threatening both the government of iran and any e.u. company doing business there so this is a very difficult road and in fact my colleague max under just interviewed the lothian foreign minister who said let's face it without the u.s. this is probably dead so we may be hearing more about that and perhaps there is sort of a new realization that there need to be completely new negotiations including the u.s. and possibly getting it back on the table teri schultz in brussels published this

in washington thank you. iran meanwhile is denying wesnoth use ations that one of its missiles down the ukrainian ally never crashed outside on canadian prime minister justin trudeau is one of a number of national leaders to say that evidence from multiple intelligence sources suggest sunny rainy and surface to air missile hit the airline and shortly after takeoff or 176 people on board most of the mediterranean and canadian were killed in the crash which came just hours after iran most an attack against u.s. targets in neighboring iraq the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have been recovered ukraine says its investigators have been given access. mobile phone footage farah fied by 2 media outlets appears to show the missile exploding near the plane before it crashed western leaders said the evidence points towards an iranian missile. we do believe that it's likely that that plane was shot

down by an arabian missile we're we're going to let the investigation play out before we make a final determination it's important that we get to the bottom of it iran denies shooting the plane down. we'll let you get out of all more. now that the thing that is clear to us on that we can say with certainty is that this plane was not hit by a missile. but they've been softening their position iran's official news agency says authorities would meet with officials from the u.s. and canada as well as other countries. with man who has since. been president for crash investigation builders in america britain and canada will not confirm that. american politicians have talked without paying attention to technical matters. scientifically speaking their statements are not valid tools. to the. ukrainian investigators were the 1st to be invited since the plane was

flown by ukraine's national carrier but that country now risks becoming a pawn in the game between washington and tehran so far they're hedging their bets and urging caution but. again i'd like to underline that 7 possible causes are under investigation but journalists are somehow only prioritizing one of them have said that with all sides sticking to their own stories the focus of the investigation now shifts to the black box flight recorders they could hold the key to revealing the actual cause of the crash as reinstating writer is professor of craft systems that finland's that tom for a university welcome to d.w. professor what do you make of the images that have emerged that appear to show the plane being hit by some sort of missile. good evening the images thought of say. a very striking in so much that you can say what pace to be. some projectiles

missiles a climbing up to our situation and then as some form of debts and i ship. it doesn't it look to me it looks like a missile hitting an aircraft obviously there's not much information that we can say and so much that it's dark. one of the very reasons why you can see it so clearly is that you can fire from the exhaust of the missile seems to be captured rather well with the image so that's what we've seen the interesting bit from our perspective is in all its time and it was actually a missile the investigators are going to need to look very carefully now at the wreckage. and tell us about the investigation i believe it's going to be international so who will control it who will be involved and who will be responsible for a lot. well the actual form of the investigation this was determined many years ago with something called the chicago convention which quite

a number of signatories signed it 1940 full and as the name suggests it gives you an idea where it was signed and it's all about the freedoms in order to cross one of the things that was agreed in $44.00 was who's going to do this the idea is that this is taking place in i. discretion given countries or in this case it's iran so there will be investigations from there the aircraft is owned and operated by the ukrainians so clearly they will take a heavy focus here it's interesting really the manufacturer also has an interest and a name that's very important very valuable into the investigation so it's this team approach right now to complicate matters a little bit more because we think it's been downed by a missile this time introduces potential elements all criminality which means that

in order to determine. it was a missile from this location fired by this person you then have to ensure the continuity of evidence but what will the police to so therefore that becomes very very forensic in how we approach this thank you so much for joining us professor. professor stephen by professor of fact craft systems of time bring it about him. now to some of the other stories making news around the world hunger government protesters are valid across iraq adding criticism of the u.s. and iran to their demise friday's demonstrations are intended to revive the movement that began in october which has been overshadowed by increasing tension between washington and tehran protesters want fresh elections and for iraq to reassert its sovereignty. the internet shut down in indian administered kashmir has been ruled unconstitutional by the country's supremes court the government imposed

the shutdown in august following its controversial move to repeal the territory special constitutional status in the drilling of the core described freedom of internet access as a fundamental right. now the international olympic committee has issued new guidelines that will bad athletes from kneeling in protest or making any kind of political statement in this year's games in tokyo the committee says anyone who breaks the rules will face disciplinary action but athlete support groups say silencing participants should never be tolerated. over 50 years ago american sprinters tommie smith and john carlos famously did the black power salute at the olympic games in 1968 bringing attention to the then plight of african-americans in the u.s. in recent years there has been a rise in political activism by athletes most notably call them kapur nick and megan rypien no last august 2 u.s. athletes were placed on probation for 12 months for ensign and that the pan american games in peru considered by some to be

a warning ahead of the tokyo olympics international olympic committee president thomas bach said previous protests had no effect and the mission of the olympic games is to unite and not to divide box cautioned athletes any kind of quote for whatever reason is against the submission all the olympic games and i asked them to respect the serve neutrality or the olympic games and note. their state for. political purposes potential violations of the new guidelines according to the i.o.c. would be evaluated by the athletes national olympic committee and the respective international sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during

interviews and on platforms like twitter and instagram some athlete groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i.o.c. president jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 winter olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games. the all business updates in just a moment more world news at the top of the. charlie crist meters just shows the 1st spoke of shows. since. the 1st smart way to.