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of things not covered by the iran nuclear deal is iran's activities in the region of view despite europe's obvious opposition then to scrapping this deal destroying much domestic support if he wants to end this agreement. what believe it or not the republican chair of the house armed services committee advised him against leaving the deal let's take a look at what he had to say. i'm not necessarily opposed to sticking with this new york forever but you need to have a clearer idea of about next steps if we or going to pull out. well the deadline is coming up in a few days so we're just going to have to see what trump decides ok it is a question question of waiting and seeing or thanks to mirrors artist american for us in washington. we can get thoughts he's a foreign policy specialist at the university of tehran and he joins us now good
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evening to you mr thanks for coming on what do you think boris johnson's chances of persuading donald trump not to scrap this deal. you know majority of people who have studied the nuclear agreement are the stakeholders in the need to live their dream and having the same suggestion all european countries the majority of iran experts in the united states even members of the like people like then the. organizations that are not friends of iran are asking president not to leave the agreement because of what the chairman. that you just quoted from the house of representatives said there is no other alternative. and the result is going to be. iran will get out of the need to be regular meant if us does iran may actually
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get out of the nonproliferation treaty if trump continues with this type of policies and that's going to result in serious confrontation maybe's out in war between iran and the united states so overall i think given the fact that the nuclear agreement is working. and israel alternatives to it. trump should be able to understand the result of the reckless policy of getting out of the need to. understand that or not is the question. i mean do you understand why trying to say down on this stale or is it a mistreated. you know his main problem is not with iran is main problem is the nuclear agreement with iran and the problem that he has because this is what obama did and he thinks whatever
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obama the. supposed to be. discarded. and he is receiving some encouragement from people like bibi netanyahu. there is a segment of the lobby in the united states that's also encouraging him and what some of the people around him like palm perle and john bolton are saying is that they're basically telling him you get out of the agreement and you put more pressure on iran and they want to harbor regime change they want to change the government of iran and their mentality the logic is that we put pressure and maybe maybe we can achieve that the only problem with that argument is that this is what the united states has tried to do for the last forty years. and in iran was in one nine hundred seventy nine and they have not been able to achieve over touring the
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iranian government the reality is that you don't end government is much stronger now than it was even five years ago so that policy of putting pressure on iran has certainly failed and that is why during the obama administration the u.s. government decided to change course and actually negotiate with iran and reach an agreement and what trump is doing is going back to that all policy of trying to change the government of iran and i have news for you and the news is that his policies are going to fail the same way that previous presidents are nearing ok mr assad it will have to leave it there but very nice until she does fade is r.d. a foreign policy specialist at the university of toronto coming onto our take. still ahead here this hour the number of homeless people in paris has prompted authorities there to cancel an annual race through the city we'll have a look at a problem just after the break.
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show seemed wrong oh why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just being comes to educate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. what politicians do. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be cross this is what before three of them or can't be good. interested always in the waters of my. question.
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hello again hundreds of interpret says he works with the british army in afghanistan a facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. despite a promise that they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those potentially affected he does say that the anything awaiting him and afghanistan would be death . if they deport me back there is only one times for me to be killed he doesn't know when but the u.k. home office has informed abdul bari that he's going to be deported to kabul within the next three months abdul says he can't go back to afghanistan because he worked as a frontline interpreter for british forces from two thousand and eight to two thousand
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and ten my life was in danger my family life was in danger threatening me they told me that you know that you joined the infidels. you've been talking about there was only one chance for me and i must leave the country. so can target but the main target was from me so if they catch me they would definitely just leave the country the british defense secretary gavin williamson has made headlines in recent days by telling the home office that afghan interpreters should be allowed to stay in the u.k. but that reassurance only refers to around four hundred form a interpreters who had been given five year you take these as they expire soon and all the authorities have done in reality is say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator you headlines don't applied to the six hundred or
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so former afghan interpreter is still in kabul who have had their asylum claims rejected nor do they applied to the consul of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abbeville all of us are delighted that those who for all the criteria and their families are here and will stay here and that nobody paid any money there are still people who are being looked at and we need to be careful that we don't that he falls through the dance we have a debt of honor to these people and what we mustn't do is leave someone who actually worked for us looked after. soldiers helped us we mustn't leave someone like that in a position where they and their families will be at risk and we've got to be very clear make sure we don't do that abdul says he didn't have time to apply for a visa through the official intel steve while he was still in the temple that with pride months of waiting and his life blazing piecing it risk now abdul's lawyer is
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a feeling that home offices moves to deport him many interpreters got these fish directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense. was very strict. criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on a raft ninety percent to twenty twelve a lot of people like mr bari weren't working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban parts quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair to make this journey to the you care to escape these threats to be told actually go home they're saying it's it's there for him to read we have evidence from former employees not just from the british army but they also he was working with and be in kabul what he read up here to the originator. but evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and. the same will happen again he will be
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targeted when it comes to its own citizens the u.k. government clearly warns against travel to almost all of afghanistan even districts in the heavily guarded capital kabul it adds that terrorists are very likely to carry out attacks and methods are evolving and increasing in sophistication but that's apparently safe enough for abdul barry tarrytown as far as the u.k. government is concerned a plane with a couple is safe of course i think the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because a bomb is exploding people are. out on. well the home office has a couple of years so i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened the surviving five. and. i'm are allowed to. so it can do nothing but. i have
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a very bad depression so i've been to many times and some medicine from them. doesn't were. struggling i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to work he'd read economics at university and kaberle he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative when living it sounds like a dream and one that any day now could come crashing down with the arrival of a final deportation letter. reporting now an annual ten kilometer race through the french capital won't be held this year due to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants camped out a long the route it is a problem many had hoped would have eased over the last year as r.t. charlotte dubinsky reports. president michel had pledged that by the beginning of
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two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her and yet not only did he fail to deliver on the promise but it's getting worse much worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants have set up camp along the canal he in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a half thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race graham paris to cancel the annual event. the ten kilometer race between paris and song to me was to take place in just over
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a week's time but this is part of where the run is supposed to come through and as you can see it would be virtually impossible for them to navigate this section of the racecourse these makeshift camps are growing day by day the route is impossible it is disturbing to have to run the race in the middle of a refugee camp at last year's race around six and a half thousand people took part it was also adopted as part of paris's bid to host the twenty twenty four olympics embodying a couple of the games key objectives solidarity and ecology this cancellation so close to race day has disappointed many you know it's kind of unfair agus of improvising for one time and then you just cancel the last minute just. like they should have reworded it down that's what i think so it's two separate problems you just do your race if your do your race and the rider problem is something else i
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think they should stick to help them more. you know when you walk in the street you can see them all the people lying on the sidewalks despite pledges to help migrants off the streets the greater paris region currently only has room to shell to seven hundred and fifty individuals far fewer than the numbers already here a number said to be growing in the hundreds each week organizers say they didn't want the camps to be cleared just so that the race could go ahead reluctant to be seen as a tool for social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds for a place in next year's event assuming of course there is one charlotte deep in ski r.c. paris. now a new racism scandal has hit the world of fashion that after the cover of vogue italy featured a famous model with
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a noticeably darkest skin tone the normal well here's the photo of supermodel she had it that sparked the controversy on social media people did point out there that her skin hair and facial features were photoshop to appear darker than they actually are although others do say that the photo is nothing more than a piece of art and there's nothing racist about it. instead of just hiring someone of a different culture they transform a white girl change her skin and undo her makeup to make her look more ethnic change hair color etc oh ok this is normal why couldn't you use a black model instead of saying black face honestly so ignorant disgusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there's literally nothing in black face about this people can't even look tan anymore without others making it something it's not you're making a response out of everything even when it's not she doesn't look black here she looks brunette i think the intention was to show a power of transformation and he wanted to do it on a red a very famous model known as blonde it is art it's magnificent some people just
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don't deserve. spy that those you hated italy have both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend the magazine said it had been trying to create a bronzed beach look more political commentator steve malzberg believes the scandal is a big fuss over nothing. here you have a beautiful blue eyed blonde model one of the top models in the world and they put some bronze on her and they photoshop the picture and now she looks i mean you could say she looks black or african-american she looks bronze to me but this is a whole big issue now where people take offense and they call it cultural appropriation in other words you're stealing their culture so it's really at hand and we have to get over this in our society or it's going to do a very very much harm so i see nothing wrong with the shoot i think people are too
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sensitive and i think it's getting out of hand political correctness is getting at it here. you're watching international have thirty five minutes.
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about your sudden passing i finally just learned you were yourself and taken your last to bang turned. to you as we all do it but i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest. you sayings that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one quite different person i speak to now as there were no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.
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the target. i am. in the middle of the sixties there were thirty million students enrolled in higher education in two thousand and fifteen there were two hundred million in less than fifteen years there are expected to be four hundred million to. hold liberia. lepage border and. while the demand keeps growing university tuition fees skyrocket the world over the cost of
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education is high increasing. their. work harder is more. mystery i don't understand how can a school be a scam. in the name of so-called economic pragmatism and as a result of international competition universities are turning into huge money making machines. and i know my family members went to the press i think i wanted to be i wanted to be got one. from shanghai to new york to berlin countries around the world reflect trying different moves each remodelling its system in its own way but at what price and who profits from it. really are a distorting point of our story which begins at the end of the ninety's. at that
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time you have this financial izing itself all the while expanding many intellectuals european university presidents and expert groups engage in a vast reflection on how to build a more complete more ambitious europe. how to strengthen its intellectual scientific and technological influence. what is the secret of the united states and its economic power. the answer lies in higher education and research. a realm that has become undeniably strategic. at the end of the twentieth century american universities prevail andrew europe is
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afraid afraid of finding itself on the sidelines it needs a strategy and so european gauges in a series of reforms to make its higher education more competitive so it can serve europe's economy its productivity its job market and its liberal project england will quickly set the tone before anyone else and to get straight to the point. after the second world war we had a system where local education authorities around the country were responsible for providing a grant to students and giving tuitions covering tuitions fees. and that was at a time when roughly three percent of eighteen year olds went to university around twenty thousand. all science students will for their first two terms be required to attend lectures on physics chemistry mathematics and biology it will also be possible for science students to major in philosophy knowledge is not
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bullshit look at what a huge mit world one in one and covering all sides of all all places. in the one nine hundred eighty s. and nine hundred ninety s. there was a funding crisis amongst universities lots of vice chancellors complaining that they didn't have enough money to cover the amount of students are now coming through the system so the government commissioned a report and this was called a daring report and that came up with a number of recommendations almost one hundred recommendations roughly half for the government about how it could. maintain sustain and improve higher education in the u.k. and one of the most controversial parts of that report was the introduction of was i in one thousand nine hundred seventy the british left led by its young charismatic candidate tony blair wins the elections after eighteen
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long years of conservative rule. at the age of forty three the head of the labor party takes charge of the country with a program whose foundation is to apply private sector management models to public services so as to make them more efficient more productive and higher education will be no exception. right. we need to widen access to universities get more money into universities and the best and fairest way to do it is a balance between the state and the graduate situation face became reality and nine hundred ninety eight and it was a key landmark in the history of higher education in the u.k. because of that moment the principle of free education free higher education and you terry finished. for this historic reform tony blair introduces the yearly one thousand pound tuition fee a smooth way to start five years later prompted by his second term election tony
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blair authorizes universities to charge tuition fees up to three thousand three hundred pounds yearly and tony blair. head of britain's labor party successfully passed a reform that the conservatives would never have dared bring forward. in two thousand and ten the labor party rallies the opposition the coalition made of liberal democrats and conservatives led by david cameron take charge of the country very rapidly the debate over jewish and fees arises on the political scene again this time the government intends to authorize tuition fees up to nine thousand pounds yearly all the while reducing the portion of public funding and catered to universities this new reform violently divides both members of parliament and public opinion that have been very difficult choices to make we have opted for a such a policy is that provides a strong base for university funding which makes a major contribution to reducing the deficit and introducing
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a significantly more progressive system of graduate paper and stuff we inherited and i'm proud to put forward that magic so this. order. there is nothing a bank that tiny benefit to the lowest income graduates that justifies doubling or tripling the debt of the vast majority of brides isn't it credible that the party opposite who actually introduced the principle of graduates paying and voted for two jewish and fee increases is able to drum up quite so much fake anger on the issues out there. any young person ask any young person in any poor communities in our country what is your prospect what is your what do you want to do many would say i want to study i want to qualify i want to go to
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university i want to achieve something in life. hell they're. less they are very poor or they're going to borrow money to survive to get through university they simply will not do it and this decision matters so much to so many people. i'd say to the house if you don't believe in it vote against it. it's to the right three hundred twenty three you know most of the last three hundred true. god. god. was when the church was really from three thousand that it became one thousand pounds i was up to the university if they wanted to introduce nine
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thousand pounds. face or anything between six thousand and nine thousand and unsurprisingly most university decided to set nine thousand pounds most students we have now half a million students going through every year most of those will be paying a minimum nine thousand pounds a year and that's stan's. over the course of fifteen years british politicians are ruling class that had enjoyed free access to education inflicted a paying system on the new generation. british students along with a european fellows now have to deal with these new rulings that's the way it is. they're young they long for a solid future that dusty for knowledge and dream of climbing the social ladder all that has a price tag and they'd better get used to him. and if i grew up in
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a working class family in the south of poland a young woman could have enrolled in a university in cracow well in copenhagen or even amsterdam. it would have been free in england and it was granted a student loan to pay for her nine thousand pounds tuition fee. i knew i was going to go abroad to study and i think well for a little while i thought it was going to be scotland but then. i think i decided it was england you know like way back and it just stuck with me and i and i came here and it was it was scary it was so scary because i was away from home i was here alone i didn't have anywhere to turn to and look at me now i study chinese of all the courses that i could have chosen i can't wait for you know what the future holds and when i'm going to do i have so many ideas but we'll see.
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i talked to my grandfather once and we're talking about everything else and then kind of started talking about university and how much money that costs and everything and i had many thoughts about ok maybe maybe i'll quit maybe i'll you know it's too much maybe it's not worth it and then i realized well how my going to pay it back but that's one of the reasons why i stayed and other reason bigger even is that i like what i do i think i'm not quite sure where that came from my need to go to university i think is because. none none of my family members went to university i think i wanted to be i wanted to be that one first person who did that and my mom my mom really wanted me to do that as well she did encourage me strongly .

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