i. think you. said national security adviser john bolton says the u.s. does not want to. trade with iran and that washington could sanctions. u.k. foreign secretary is grilled by parliament over weapons deals with element over weapons

deals with saudi arabia but admits britain is in no position to negotiate commercial interests were already prepared to sign a trade deal with you if you breach the human rights. because of brics it's going to be trade every. party calls for the death of court judges. in a blasphemy trial. against islamic faith. come under fire from. broadcasting. international i'm certainly glad to have you with us now donald trump has said the u.s. will continue its oil embargo on iran that pledge was made in a memorandum to administration officials sent on wednesday however his national

security security advisor john bolton has hinted that broader u.s. sanctions targeting countries that trade with iran could be soft. we understand the number of countries in. immediately surrounding iran some which i just visited last week others have been purchasing oil may not be able to go all the way all the way to zero immediately so we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends and allies either and we're working our way through that while this is certainly a milder tone from john bolton he was speaking about the sanctions that are set to go into effect on november fifth now at that time a few months back when they were imposed we heard trump describing them as the highest level of sanctions and promising to essentially take action against any foreign company that continues to do business with iran when the announcement was made a essentially the intent was according to the white house that they were going to

reduce iran's oil exports to zero that was the intent they called the highest level of sanctions let's listen to what john bolton said back in may is the u.s. going to impose sanctions on european companies that continue to do business with iran the answer is it's possible it depends on the conduct of other governments now that when that announcement was made there was quite a bit of anger voiced from european countries they promised to protect companies in their respective countries who wanted to continue doing business with iran and there was increasingly talk about different ways of trading with iran in order to avoid u.s. sanctions different methods were discussed china was involved let's kind of review the reaction from europe. of president. bush. but if it's one of the moving the we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision and we will

do so in a concrete manner by maintaining our political engagements by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran and also. getting open to us to pursue negotiations who are larger indispensable to you now there were some companies that did immediately pull back from trading with iran perhaps they doubted the ability of their governments to protect them among those who pulled back there was total boeing lukoil reliance industries ltd dover's siemens and others now interestingly iran has been continuing its oil exports right up until that november fifth deadline we've seen quite a defiant stand for the iranian president this is iranian president rouhani if you will not be able to reach any of your goals with regard to iran zoila you will not be able to bring it to zero or reduces so now we have john bolton coming forward and saying that they are talking about the possibility of granting waivers to countries and corporations that want to continue trading with iran they are

promising to engage in the harshest level of sanctions against iran but meanwhile there is a milder tone when it comes to countries and businesses around the world who want to keep trading with them so it is certainly a change from the white house are waiting to see what happens next as that november fifth deadline approaches and to war activists can stone told us bolton's announcement is unlikely to lead to a change in u.s. policy. i think what prompted him were the actions taken by the european union over the summer to create a statute of immunity for european firms and to create a financial syllabi to continue to trade with iran plus probably has troubles in the area as he said he probably heard from turkey and india that they're not happy about this at all and they want to break out in my personal opinion i'm skeptical of. bolton's so-called talk of softening if fourteen were to give a break to any country or group of countries the other countries in the us camp

that did not receive the break with the often are and it would create it and he even worse situation for the us so i can't see him giving a selective great to some and not to others even if he were to give a break to some it's only a temporary measure. the british foreign secretary has expressed shock over the latest findings on the killing of a saudi journalist a month ago in stumbles the chief prosecutor says jamal khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the saudi consulate and that his body was dismembered. showed the. face. incredibly shocking. i think i've spoken more openly and more strongly about it. and the question for a minister that i'm aware of but i made it very clear that if the press stories were true and it's here is increasingly likely that they are true then

it would be completely culture twelve years. the journalist who was an outspoken critic of the saudi monarchy was killed in istanbul at the beginning of october still claims he died after a fistfight with rogue staff members but despite the international condemnation jeremy hunt says the u.k. cannot afford to stop its lucrative arms sales to saudi arabia or he's an associate as more. because shortage of murder may be quote completely contrary to british values but it doesn't look likely that this will be affecting the trade relationship between the u.k. and its long time ally saudi arabia anytime soon despite the renewed criticism of this trade relationship with the u.k. selling weapons to the saudi regime having been renewed following this latest scandal one of the issues is that there are some countries which have a very good human rights record that would end up being very insulted if we said to

them that we're only prepared to sign a trade deal with you if you breach the human rights clause and i think there is a particular issue that because it breaks it we are going to be a we just signed trade deals with everyone at the moment well there we have it u.k. foreign secretary saying that trade relationships with everybody are going to be continuing especially in light of bragg's it but this issue of the u.k. support of the saudi led coalition in yemen has been at the forefront this week they also saw the middle east minister alistair burt appear in parliament where he was also questioned about the trade relationship between the u.k. and saudi arabia and he also insisted that this relationship is something that does not affect the dire situation with the conflict on the ground the only thing that we don't do is actually press the button to drop the bomb supplies for those who need to defend themselves the amount of rage targeting civilians is going

up north if these are aware of is there seem to be an awful lot of well the u.k. government continues to be insistent that there is no link between the khashoggi murder and its involvement with the saudi led coalition in the war in yemen which as we know now has led to the deaths of as many as fifty six thousand people making it all the more shocking to hear that you can. and secretary jeremy hunt was saying in westminster that it's necessary to wait and see what kind of investigation results are going to come out of the khashoggi case and he also said that it's important to see how saudi arabia will react and potentially promise to not act similarly moving forward in the future. middle east commentator darwish says the british government sees no benefit from halting arms sales to saudi arabia. when asked before. as still the arms

sales from britain still. within the rules i don't see a member of parliament good to see ok i started our missile and put six thousand people in my constituency out of work so you have to actually get that balance here and the pradhan office probably in law lion which feeds the downing street always is better to be engaged with the country so you can exert pressure behind the closed doors and twist arms of closed doors or of the megaphone diplomacy which is practiced by the americans that's not actually the british way of doing things. the hard line islamic party in pakistan has called for the death of three supreme court judges after the quoted a christian woman in a blasphemy trial correspondent said he has more. this is us here baby

she's just been taken off death row but instead of celebrating a second chance at life sparks outrage and mass protests across pakistan i got i think spoken to for the parts nine years ago while out picking fruit it was a hot day and she drank some water yes that was enough to sentence her to death and put her in solitary confinement for almost a decade but the real reason is that is a christian the women who were with her that they said she had touched a cup which meant they could no longer drink from it i was beaten and accused of blasphemy with his sentence now overturned how about an islamist a demanding what they call religious justice. this is a very sad moment for i was shocked to hear this news regarding the release order.

but we are calling for our government to change that decision oh over. pakistan is a religiously conservative country there are near around two point five million christians making them a minority of just one point six percent of the population to protect islamic authority blasphemy laws were introduced in the nineteenth century that were among the strictest in the muslim world it means insulting a religious belief can lead to imprisonment or even that harsh punishments also stand for those who support the baby take the punjab governor so mom to see if he was assassinated by his bodyguard in twenty eleven for wanting to reform these laws the federal minister for religion but the was also killed off to simply calling for her release. but from support for the assassinations the rightwing pakistan's

islamist party or the tale paper counted gripe they've called for mass protests if the blasphemy law is touched they even say the country supreme court just as if to himself that they've attending a sentence the patron in chief of t.l.p. mohammad off sol qadri has issued the verdict that says the chief justice and all those who ordered the release of us year deserve death mobs even the best are just dime losing trust in the overall governance and they feel that if there is a problem then the d. d. system may not be. efficient to pick up the issues and come up with a kind of justice in fact these are. matters also via the mob. has. killed people but this is

not confined to disloyalty because it is the trust of the system. people coming to the courts and coming to the law enforcement agencies and this law has certainly put a why did their best which as a cool fed babies conviction to be held gripe is expected that office of asylum i brought will take. kurdish fighters in northern syria have announced a temporary halt to operations against islamic state the kurdish led it syrian democratic forces say they came under fire from the turkish military on wednesday yes t.f. plays a key role in countering islamic state but is considered by turkey to be a terrorist group the united states on the other hand on and supports the s.d.f. the groups anti eisel operations have recently been focused on the dairies or problems. meanwhile on the other side of syria isis terrorists have gained

a ground close to the border with iraq killing more than forty u.s. backed fighters during an offensive that is despite washington's earlier claims that the terrorists were almost defeated that you got a ton of comments from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that muslim mixtape in syria is so two thousand and sixteen the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we do a good job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis but the latest carnage is a clear signal that the terrorists are not ready to buckle just yet they've squeezed every drop of profit from the victory they've been craving for so long from obvious territorial gains to a massive p.r. push they filmed their operation and spoils of war from all thinkable angles it seems even with reinforcements america's proxy ground force the kurds couldn't hold off the surprise onslaught hard for its incursion tuesday both sides but we will

continue to go after them in the weeks ahead i thought the latest propaganda video even includes a not so subtle threat a skyline view of the government controlled town but hold on just how much of a surprise was this latest isola tag really short they moved in under the cover of a sandstorm but it's not like the kurds which are in charge of eastern syria didn't know i still was on their porch they have been fighting terrorists in the area for a whole year but despite their best efforts to little success and that could be due to the fact that their effort has been drained doing gradually apart from i saw the kurdish fighters have been focusing on skirmishes with the syrian army and repelling the turkish operation against them in the north this plays into the yard as sounds perfectly since assad's forces are not go. anywhere and neither is turkey as president erdogan tease the next phase of what he calls an anti terror operation

in syria but don't use them as you know that we have started active intervention operations against the terror organization in the last couple of days we will soon come down hard on the terror organization with more extensive and effective operations the united states also has been convincing the world it's hell bent on cleansing syria of terrorists yet he has own it's their area of responsibility where i still strikes well with its bloodiest attack in months and i wonder could it be because american troops are in fact miles away from all the action we don't have a contour a new mission here we have a defeat isis mission that competition between all these forces allows for isis to play back and forth every surrounding neighbor of syria including the syrian government have had other enemies to fight in other concerns isis is always calm

number two it's a difficult problem it's also a divided syria because you have a border region where you rocks on one side the syrian the democratic forces on the other backed by the united states and a syrian army backed by russia and iran are on the other there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for geopolitical bounty in syria and writing off early means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. caroline cox a member of the u.k. house of lords believes western powers need to rethink their stance on president bashar al assad if they want to bring peace to syria i've had very vicious articles about me in. the newspapers like the london times there is a big media that he's very biased and deed and it really does not give an equal representation of the horrific atrocities perpetrated by the jihadists but it's not

going to stop me trying to be a voice for the people of syria. many people out there who do supporters and i do find when i do speak in different contexts people just say thank you so much for putting. all the truth from the b.b.c. we knew there was more to it than that in thank you for telling us the other side of the story so there's a lot of appreciation and a lot of latent support waiting to be mobilized and i'm sorry to say that u.k. and saudi arabia big time have been supporting the jihad is that just prolongs the suffering of the people of syria i think it's unacceptable and my bottom line position is that the people who decide. let's stop intervening proxy wars and i've managed to find out questions in parliament that the british government has used these two hundred million pounds of taxpayers' money to support the hardest related groups i think this is unacceptable i think a lot of british people would be very worried by that and the truth must come out

to have a democratic and open discussion and i've stayed in the houses of parliament in the house of lords that i think russia's been doing the right thing in syria russia's been helping the syrian army to get rid of the jihad is that must be the priority and i really respect russia for doing that and i just hope very much that other interests that influence british and us foreign policy prevent a constructive move forward one of the very positive developments. that doesn't get at the ties are publicized. very widespread reconciliation program places that reconciliation programs but it's going into the hundreds and that is immensely important to rebuilding the community he's of in syria take some of it courage minister of reconciliation. and his staff they risked their lives going into some of these places to initiate reconciliation but that is an immensely important way forward and again that doesn't get covered in the western media. c.n.n.

anchor has stirred controversy by claiming that the biggest terror threat in the u.s. comes from white men you have to stop demonizing people realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men most of them radicalized to the right. don lemon was speaking after three recent hate crimes involving white suspects last saturday eleven jews were massacred and a synagogue in pittsburgh and in the same week who two black people were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in kentucky and fifteen mail bombs were sent to two high profile opponents of the u.s. president we heard some contrasting views on the story from a journalist who you know rivera and a political activist and fanie rogers right. i think that mr levin was actually stating facts there are twice as many terrorist incidents from white right wing terrorists and those people who submit to al islam what they're saying right now is

saying that the majority of the country are terrorists pretty sure that if white men were the real problem in america we'd have a higher incident a higher rate of incidents with these types of terror attacks radicalized white people who are sending pipe bombs to people of the opposing party who just killed eleven jewish people who just killed two black people in kentucky because they couldn't get into a black church look at the result things deaths and look at the perpetrators d.n.a. and is doing everything they can to try to cast a negative light against anything trump in obviously the majority of the voting bloc in america is working class white men believe incidents that are being painted are they're happy and are being painted as down from what is really not true that were just sent did not kill anyone but they were still acts of terrorism and you can't deny that the person who was caught by the enemy ibos

a donald trump supporter is a download from supporters and if we're being honest really but here's a grudge and there is there is there is information he isn't he doesn't matter he's going to sit there whatever crap you've got on me if we can't read his minutes alex is up a bunch of different ways you can sit there and julie is them and state that he specifically and donald trump supporter of he was inspired to do that by donald trump the president of the. united states that i am a nationalist that has just ruled. implications well don lemon said this is just a further is it continuance of the division that was created in america under the eight year old ministration of barack obama we have to be honest about post reconstruction white terrorism against black people were not being honest about that we're not going to get to the root of the problem white supremacy found in the united states of america white supremacy exists in the united states of america and white supremacy is rising across the world. fifteen environmental activists have

been arrested in london after blocking the roads outside parliament more than a thousand people gathered calling for urgent action on climate change the rally was led by a movement called extinction a rebellion and was supported by politicians in the u.k. green party you're going to accuse the british government of ignoring the latest un warnings of tension a catastrophic and rising temperatures of countries fail to slash carbon emissions police broke up the crowd after demonstrators held up traffic outside parliament for two hours. druze arabs have boycotted a regional election in the golan heights a disputed territory between syria and israel dozens of locals denounced the vote as illegal and pro israeli. i.d.f. soldiers used tear gas to break up demonstrations when crowds tried to block the entrances to polling stations and several villages many people living in the

israeli occupied area have refused to take up israeli citizenship and consider themselves syrian is the first local election since israel took control of the golan heights in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israeli government approved last year after an appeal from pro israeli villagers. political analyst on me says israel's actions in the golan heights are against international law. it's definitely illegal and it's not an opinion by the syrian government it is the decision by the security council of the united nations the united nations issued resolution two forty two that calls upon israel to withdraw immediately from the golan heights from the west bank and therefore under international law they are under occupation the occupying force has no right to interfere with their representation they are supposed to pick their own presentation that is according to international humanitarian law geneva conventions that is on one side there on the other side there is also the people in. the golan heights perceived these persons who are who are so-called running for the so-called the elections they are

corrupt elements they are collaborators with the enemy with the collaborators with the occupying force they are expecting the people to vote for people who are collaborating with the occupying force that is completely illogical it's impressive that these people in the occupied golan heights i was. holding on to their national city and identity at the time when so many arab countries you know are making deals with the israelis it's really interesting that this is in the golan heights not really buying all this they really believe that their rights. of syrian citizens in syrian land they have the right to be to be in their own cars. treat to liberate their country from foreign occupation this is taken to the streets they are not just boycotting they have ejecting the entire to the operation that is falsely called them about the process that is and there is no democratic process and that international law when it comes to oppression the process is supposed to be

a local mall between the locals dead without any interference from the occupying force. activists in hamburg have been celebrating halloween with a march against the nationalist alternative for germany party people held banners with the message halting the ghost of the far right opponents accuse the f.t. of stoking racism and hijacking concerns over immigration demonstrators called for and to neo nazi politics in germany the rally in hamburg passed on peacefully with no. this comes after a recent string of gains from the local elections last weekend of the party entered the regional assembly in has for the first time after securing twelve percent of the vote and inflicting heavy losses on the ruling coalition the a.f.p. has seen its support base grow rapidly over the past three years amid concerns over chancellor merkel's open door policy on refugees.

nato has held its largest military drills since the cold war international observers were allowed to attend the war games in norway and secretary general young's stoltenberg suggested russia should offer similar invitations although as it turns out russia has already done just that. made to always invite of service to our. exercises russia has not invited it in national service to end the exercises the end of the cold war period nato and russia exchanged reciprocal briefings on military exercises in may allied military attachés in moscow have been invited to a voluntary observation of the exercise the nato exercises are already underway stretching from the baltic sea in eastern europe all the way to iceland in the west of the continent military forces from thirty one countries are involved in the maneuvers with over fifty thousand personnel two hundred fifty aircraft and sixty five ships involved political analyst chris bambery thinks the drill fits into

a larger picture of nato's build up on russia's periphery what they are troubled by is the i'm to thrash around to explain why it's natal who's launching the biggest military exercise they've hired since the cold war along russia's borders and that military exercise isn't just a one off what we're seeing here we should remind ourselves is the creation of a permanent needs or presence on the very borders of russia the in violation of promises given to former soviet president gorbachev that nato would not expand into eastern europe that has happened and therefore all of this must be put inside of a perspective that needs to expansion and the fact that no need to are in the very borders of russia and that is something which is glossed over so it's not just a simple question of a one of military exercise this comes on the back about building a building up of a permanent build a presence. so while the drills focus on restoring the region's sovereignty after

an attack by a fictitious aggressor well the icelandic capital has had to replenish one of its core supplies tickle. fights in an overwhelming force. and now.