s. twenty four years ago this country song a real end of the world. after the genocide there a moment women in rwanda. fell to women to fix what the men had broken. iranian spend american flags on the on the fifth story of the nine hundred seventy nine u.s. embassy takeover as washington prepares to reimpose all form the sanctions on iran including an oil embargo. a run down english village chance up front and center in

the u.s. midterm election campaign often mistakenly being used to illustrate a dystopian future in the states take pays a visit and look for you to read what is in america. would you want to come by they would say because it's places yes just you know. we talked to a survivor of rwanda's genocide its human rights groups called for the reopening of an investigation into the french army is failing to respond to the base as a retail so massacre. welcome to the weekly on our team's national around the pub the top stories that shape the week. thousands of people have rallied in iran's capital against the u.s.

decision to reinstate sanctions the protest also marks thirty nine years since the storming of the u.s. embassy in tehran. but. i demonstrators set fire to american and israeli flags the takeover of the us embassy in one nine hundred seventy nine led to a hostage crisis lasting more than a year in course to rest in relations that continues to this day rallies honoring the event to health every year into iran but i would assess say this was the largest in recent memory. when announcing the sanctions against iran donald trump posted this tweet inspired by the tagline tagline from game of thrones the restrictions take effect on the morning of november the fifth in the u.s. they follow washington's withdrawal from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the measures target oil banking and shipping the u.s.

secretary of state says the main target is the rain in government be functions or areas of a run for economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world. people on the streets of tehran say it's ordinary civilians who will end up bearing the brunt of the sanctions topping the sanctions imposed by the us which they say will target our government will definitely affect people's lives putting much more pressure on us even though the sanctions haven't manifested themselves in the market yet they are already on people's minds and causing them a lot. less familiar regarding the oil sanctions we have experienced similar restrictions in the past and we've managed to get by somehow so we now have more experience than we did back then moreover we now have the international community on our side which wasn't the case in the past given both these factors i think will be ok in the end. those sanctions will have no impact on the their people's lives

or on the government as usual these are just empty slogans. these sanctions are you know what will sanctions this means that the international give. units who will not support them based on that i don't think america will be able to achieve its goals . when they harm the u.a.e. in nation they have always been there for the past four decades and they've been arming the u. reigning nation all along they're in position that's why many other. states that are under sanctions like russia like many others they are all against this move especially because this new round of sanctions by washington it doesn't have the u.n. support it doesn't have the support of even the united states close allies like the europeans that have stated their opposition in defiance china turkey or russia and many others have defied the u.s. sanctions against iran and many are worried in washington that this could make this

sharp tool or weapon blunt and make it you know take it off the menu even for future u.s. administrations if it goes ineffective despite pressure from the u.s. they are opinion has confirmed this commitment today iran nuclear tayo press also say vow to protect you companies that do business with tehran but despite all the tough talk washington may be more flexible when it's acting on. we ask all nations to isolate iran's regime. as long as its aggression continues but we do not intend to allow our sanctions to be invaded by europe or any body else. you know we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran looking at the latest official so

for them to try. a little to see the thing. with friends like that we need to show that he's going to want to be muscles that wouldn't be blind that's what americans do want us europeans to say to put up with economic interests a move one time economic relations with iran. would never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone. we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends and allies he. wants a mean for zero. on they are now giving two

countries themselves for you in for that indicates that they have understood that the maximum pressure on the long. and now they are changing that maximum pressure to enough pressure. that's also on the question because they cannot. be needed they think against iran because now there is an american captain. ministration on the is this connecting iran from you know that false system which enables the. messaging. of. this in the mix we've bought that. side the united states between dawn of. officials in the cabinet. and the english seaside village has been getting some unexpected attention in the

us mid-term election campaign j week sounds as one of the u.k.'s least prosperous areas and images of mr lapp a day to streets have appeared on the republican party point poster boy co explains why what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections and insensitive political adviser that's what locals here in j week sans in essex have been left fuming after a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on his social media speed as an anti advertisement so the caption next to the photograph read only you can stop this from becoming a reality but the problem is the picture wasn't quite reality the image of jay wick sounds that he used was taken several years ago and since then the local authorities have made quite a few improvements to the local area so the locals here all rather cross country to

try to park in america are and then you come to a caravan park enjoy a week and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't leave them or for the right now again i was iraq and everything america are we here is just not something we could run for but when come in use an old fart river for a car somewhere and say look your town is going to look like this is the bad news sells good news it doesn't. a match normally should be used or will use are going to put a good picture we've got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have hard yes because of the t.v. show that happened way before yeah nobody want to come study with it so you become a speech in people's faces just you know. with you know people don't like it they don't like you or the offending advert has now been removed and dr nick stella's spokesperson has issued an apology or call for an apology our intent was never to

smear to town and to photo known to us as g week sans in essex we never used a name for us it was an example of a town overburdened by poor governance which is exactly what we in our district are seeking to provide at every level back in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen the government named the area as the most deprived in england in fact i was here to report on it at the time the time was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents were so cheap people started living here all year round some parts of the town like tarmac roads street lighting or even pavements bloss who shops that were here have been boarded up unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live head to pend on welfare payments.

and the town isn't exactly a luxury seaside resort it is still a deprived area and even the local authorities have been keen to stress that they have invested in new roads and new drainage systems it could use more money there is some hesitation when you talk to the locals as well they don't want to talk to the cameras they've been burned before by. bad press and. the image of the town around some concede that they could definitely use more investment but it's not up to politicians in america to judge their hometown one interesting suggestion came from the director of a documentary about j. which he said that dr nick stella should come over here and she can show him around the town and so he can see for himself all the improvements that have been made i get the sense that the locals would have one or two things to say to him.

french human rights groups according for an investigation into the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide to be reopened that's off to the release of a video which appears to show a senior french military officer being informed about the massacre taking place in an area known as the basis of your health yes the army failed to intervene. before you are the only two you could push now human rights activists are demanding answers one leader of the organization survey is a plaintiff in the case she says it was too premature to close the case while other lawyers are accusing france were in direct complicity in the genocide lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military authorities were aware that from the afternoon off twenty seventh of june on words civilians were

being killed the survivors opened the case thirteen years ago although back in july it was stripped due to lack of evidence and lack of convictions but survivors of the massacre claim they asked the french military for help on june twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the military only came three days later already after hundreds of people were killed in the massacre and the allegation now is that the french government actually knew what was going on. and specifically decided not to intervene the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe and allegations of the french government support for the hutus who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide have been rough on the french government's relations with the rwandan government for years but the french although they admit that they have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

we asked one some five of them the thick head she was surprised by the new found thank you. no we have to do much no it doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media aren't the truth we survivors had this very long time it's important that the french people knew what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there so you know because i only know that promise to declassify the archives if they didn't work out as he everything he published was already known and the only thing i have to add is that the french people has want to know

the truth. even if the us mid-term elections some politicians have been accused of playing on people's faces. and explains what voters fan most might surprise he prefers to influence the twenty to eighteen mid-term elections the big news and divisive stories and posts caravan of impoverished migrants white nationalists prepared to take to the streets trump administration plan could a race the definition of transgender but according to a new poll conducted by chapman university in california americans actual fears don't really line up when given a list of one hundred things to be afraid of including nuclear war zombies ghosts and other terrors americans listed their primary phobia for the fourth consecutive year as being corrupt politicians. and perhaps this fear isn't exactly baseless we do have a president whose tax returns are still under wraps and he seems to be pretty

blatantly doing favors for his next of kin i've heard evolved i've heard how good would it be. so the people that know there's nothing to do with that producer but i want to tell you the people that know know that he wagner would be done by but. you know and then be accused of nepotism if you can believe it right and truck got a lectured by tearing into his opponent hillary clinton he called her crooked hillary because her reputation for shady deals has been around for years the f.b.i. even looked in. clinton foundation the former secretary of state never shied away from taking big sums from financial heavyweights you have to be paid six hundred seventy five thousand dollars well i don't know that's what they offered. accusations of corruption are abundant in american politics even though they rarely make the legal field in the united states there's all kinds of politicians being accused of insider trading lavish gifts as they say welcome to american politics

but it seems that the mainstream media is working overtime to direct our phobias elsewhere there's no limit to what the russian federation do to undermine american democracy while you know what we have to work on immigration i have a big dairy district a live agriculture a lot of undocumented workers but these things aren't even in the top ten because we have so many of the. things that relate to your life or the future of your kids and things like that not trying to things like you know terrorism is going to get to or your bridges are going to fall down or something it's real life things that people are worried about a part of it is the economic ones including the corruption of politicians i was interested in the corrupt politician thing being at the top because for a long time people haven't recognized how corrupt their politicians are they think it's thinking in gradually that the whole system really stinks american politicians have learned that playing on people's fears is

a big seller but it seems that what scares the americans the most is the very scare mongers trying to manipulate their fears tale of mopp and r.t. new york. china's president has raised the specs have a potential conflict of constructing the country's military to be ready for war but it's how much of this is many posturing. takes a close look so he is the thing the chinese government almost never see. anything you wouldn't expect that's their thing their gimmick they're incredibly careful reserved at least with their tongues so when the chinese president orders his military to prepare for war serious indeed. the military to concentrate on the bouncy revenues for war the chinese are preparing for war out loud how over how did we get to this well trump for one aside from land

blasting the chinese at every opportunity is tariffs is sanctions his trade war he's also being very heavy handed congress has just approved a second arms deal with taiwan in eighteen months. of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests that beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture ethnicity same languages with two separate governments communist capitalist the end goal is to reunite into one state there are differences of course currently preventing that and about one hundred kilometers of c. that separate the two and trump always a fan of sticking it to the chinese he's been through it in his warships right between the two china's. we have expressed our concerns to the u.s.

side the taiwan issue concerns china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is the most important and sensitive issue in china u.s. relations well for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that in trump. i don't worry about. thanks guna. let's be greats never worrying about anything unfortunately. there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality militarily .

as your own you know we are resolute to defeat any scheme or act of taiwan independence in any form. thing is the taiwanese don't really see a point to defending themselves taiwan which recently switched from conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back if they think national security matters but taiwan is a minor player in these confrontation if war does break out it likely be the people's republic of china slugging it out with the united states rather than taiwan and that is a war that trump really really ought to be worried about the world is really at

a cross ruled the united states has been pushing china round here china and imposing unilateral tyrus on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states and china does not want to have a conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things all due china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. after almost two decades at the forefront of german politics and america announced on monday she was stepping down as the leader of the christian democratic union party and she ruled out running for a fifth term as chancellor merkel secession followed her party's disappointing performance in regional elections. the figures that came in overnight from her selection a wholly disappointing and bitter towards what he does politically it can no longer

be business as usual process after this result has after the result and after the conflicts between the c.d.u. c.s.u. in the summer and after all the difficulties in forming a government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party through angela merkel began her political career after the fall of the barren war joining the c.d.u. in one nine hundred eighty nine ten years later she became the party said. terry general and then its leader in two thousand and five merkel made history by becoming germany's first female chancellor since then she's been reelected a further three times to over the last few years her popularity has taken the hits .

for the old days he missed three who oppression political oppression we have a responsibility to help them based on the geneva convention for refugees based on our sign and points and article one of our constitutional whether we want to or not . measure it along political russian ality this move by going to merkel is not surprising at all because her party was losing. confidence among the

electorate and the reason and so to speak the burden of this party was a clear herself so it was quite rational for her to leave office as party chairman but they were the less whenever something important happened you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why there was rain this uprising that anger merkel so quickly has stronger consequences out of the disastrous delay electoral defeats during the last eight elections and if they aren't and it has. a camera dating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trench in southern russia and against all odds one frame from the roll of film inside half in five. that's the troops couldn't approach the strange they killed him with nate's the

ground covered in. the lucky that this is a good camera and inexpensive will also the fighter covered camera with something like a notebook. ten forget for more details on the stories are comments just a click away their weekly were tense and half an hour's time.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic. developing the only relief. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

long welcome to worlds apart as the western world faces the political reemergence of social conservatives there is one state that's been steadily progressing in the opposite direction bartle and one of the most traditional nations in europe has just lifted its ban on abortions and repealed a blasphemy law is it now on course of becoming one of the most liberal countries in europe to discuss that i'm now joined by ruth carpenter irish politician and a member of the irish parliament ruth it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for coming over for the invitation now i know that both the repeal of the

abortion ban and the repeal of the blasphemy law were major milestones for you personally for your party as well as for your country as a whole but i think to many outsiders the main question is not so much how did arlen do it but how did it manage to hold out for so long how do you explain it. well it isn't unusual to. church control in the country since independence almost a hundred years ago the church and state were interconnected i suppose because it was a very weak economy quite a backward country and it seems that the new independent routers to close connection with the catholic church for social control. the church control of health education and specks of life include including advising the government on passing. legislation. restricting the freedom of women

working class people poor people and the despite all of the control things seem to be moving very very fast in two thousand and fifteen our then became a different country in the world to legalize same sex marriage by a popular load of both and from what i understand it was done by a fairly big margin and i think this is still a very contentious a very divisive issue in the most liberal constituencies and i find. this succession of things very interesting the fact that people would endure same sex marriage before they actually let's say did blasphemy provision or. abortion what is it about arlen. kind of takes things. in very different ration well. twenty fifty a referendum is put to the people but the country has been changing for about twenty years the catholic church has been in decline less and less people go to

church and of course you know.