because of the. b.p. b.p. because of it with. big news this morning iran partially withdraws from the twenty fifteen a long drawn out nuclear deal that was signed off on giving the other signatories now sixty days to rework the deal and shield to run from u.s. sanctions. elsewhere sri lanka toughens its immigration controls expelling around six hundred foreign nationals including two hundred islamic religious leaders whose visas expired critics though fear is part of a broader crackdown on the muslim community following what happened those atrocities on easter sunday we got reaction to it coming up. train of individuals who orchestrated attacks within a very strong language skills that many many doing business east more sophisticated

in their suggested have overstayed visas got to do with terror attacks. the french telecoms giant oranges sued for moral harassment with prosecutors are going to company created intolerable working conditions that led to thirty five suicide. good morning just ten telling them this wednesday the eighth of may here moscow one is kevin zero in with the world news update for the next half hour here at r.t. international thanks for choosing this starting with more on that developing story that's come in overnight from iran to run is announced it will no longer all of its commitments under the twenty fifty nuclear deal with president rouhani giving its european signatories a two month deadline for returning to the negotiating table. if the demands are met after sixty days iran will not comply with its commitments regarding your aenima

richmond and the iraqi nuclear reactor surrounds officially notified the other seven trees of its intention to partially withdraw from the park under the deal around had promised to limit its uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of sanctions iran's president as mentioned has given europe sixty days to renegotiate the terms of the deal which has been on the brink of collapse as the us decided to withdraw a year ago despite its warning around the said that the partial suspension doesn't necessarily mean the end of the accord now in recent weeks with bearing in mind the u.s. has taken an increasingly hostile stance towards iran issuing a number of threats to the islamic republic we have continued to see actually every that leads us to believe that there is escalation that may be taking place and so we're taking all the appropriate actions both from a security perspective and well as. our ability to make sure that the president has a wide range of options of the members of the should actually take place what we've been trying to do is to get a run to be him by going normal nation and it seems furthermore those threats are

translating into concrete measures choose day the u.s. announced it was going to deploy a naval strike group to the middle east in order to counter the alleged threat from iran and send a clear message to the leadership that same day the u.s. like the state might pompei also made a surprise visit over the border to iraq as well voicing concerns about the iranian influence there let's get some thoughts on this now from. a journalist and a visiting scholar at the center of middle east studies hey there we're expecting this move from around the smalling are they a desperate measure here all or are they really going to go ahead with it and say no guys we're going to go because your own thing is start enriching cetera there's not much detail here about what they are going to do what they're not going to do. hey there joe if you can hear is could you let your are live on the line abba says laurie it's kevin zero in here can you hear me oh i've lost the line i thought we moved on that i want to try it on the economy here is let's go back to

a little bit later showing no worries we spoke earlier on to the journalist of political analyst javid he told me that if the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal does unravel the blame in his view anyway will slowly lie with the us i think the american except they have. to do so i think by blaming it on i think there is the justification you know on my term. but i think what it did do this possibility is grossly lies all the u.s. because there was. a lot of this dead on his. head but for the bit later let's go on to story of coming out from the in the wake of what happened there those devastating easter sunday bombings the governments expelled around six hundred foreign nationals including two hundred muslim clerics found to have on the face of it overstayed their visas the country's home affairs minister says it comes as part

of a broader push to tighten immigration controls considering the current situation in the country we have reviewed the visa system and taken a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teaches of those who were sent out about two hundred ways lamb it preaches there are religious institutions which have been getting in foreign preachers for decades we have no issues with them but there are some which mushrooms recently we will pay more attention to them he says sometimes coordinated bomb attacks in sri lanka left over two hundred fifty dead eight explosions tore through packed churches and luxury hotels a state of emergency was imposed shortly after and security forces were given sweeping powers to arrest the spades. i.

was thinking any we heard a loud bang and we fainted that's all i remember. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian community affected one it was a prayer with all the victims of such cruel violence. on sunday dozens of shops vehicles and homes owned by members of the muslim community were attacked in the western coastal city of new gone both at least three people were injured there several rest were subsequently made security has been bolstered at a curfew imposed shrunken governments renewing calls for unity and meantime has offered compensation to those affected by the latest violence social commentator and political political expert raja kiska gave us their thoughts on the volatile

situation right now in our country. the claims were that twelve days before that the attacks the government was sent detailed warnings the intelligence service of said detailed warnings they were told they were going to be attacking the church is that a. radical group home grown natives who were going to terrorize and attack people on easter morning she said it really didn't have much choice other than to expel six hundred six hundred foreigners and two hundred islamic clerics to cover his own shortcomings i think when you have a state of emergency that is a direct result of you know coordinated terrorist attacks in forcing the law for those who've overstayed their visas and. minimum you can do because that's the bottom line here we need to stop terror we need to stop radicalization if their own home grown terrorists there expanding foreigners doesn't help somebody clamping down a foreign as it looks to me and asking women to lose their that make up the face veil is actually a disproportionate action and is specifically targeting muslims not the kind in the

sense that did the attack on this and kneejerk reaction i think is minimizing a very coordinated attack done by radical muslims now how this done been done by a christian for example i would be the first condemning them so i think that moderate muslims shouldn't have to fear what's happening you know if you are involved in a story hatred in planning terrorist attacks and anything of that nature then you should be concerned you should be expelled and again if this is an issue of a government simply expel and people who have overstayed their visa then i don't see this is a kneejerk reaction they're just executing their laws. i'm sure out of the six hundred people not all of them or muslim who are expelled i think this is this is a tactic whenever anyone speaks of against rising islam but there are labeled as islamophobia and i do believe in religious freedom i think religious freedom is going to resonate lebanese it's not good for modern medicine i don't think it's not a fake why haven't the sri lankans been behaving why do they allow these things to

go ahead these are a big questions answered that is not remove the face files exclude six hundred foreign as on two hundred islamic clerics they would never the problem this is about a proportionate response all your years i barely see her expelling six hundred million for little or nothing because their needs are money action to three hundred fifty dead five hundred injured this isn't just about one or two homegrown islamic terrorists this is about a chain of individuals who orchestrated a attacks within a very short period of. many many doing this and east as are more sophisticated they're suggesting have overstayed visas to do with east to terror attacks when it was i can native homegrown who himself was right. allies and people well if you have two hundred if you have two hundred clerics overstaying their welcome then being a homegrown might mean that they were in one of those mosques was one of those two hundred clerics we don't know that. for going back to our top story now if you're just joining us the news this morning is that iran has announced will no longer on

or all of its commitments under the twenty fifty nuclear deal president rouhani has given the pax european symphony's a two month deadline for returning to the negotiating table if the demands are met after sixty days iran will not comply with its commitments regarding your aenima richmond and the iraqi nuclear reactor will go back to a bus as lonely journalist a visiting scholar shortly before that we did a question of the correspond across the story today because medina a little bit later on today whether it's coincidence or whether it was already shared will you can tell me. the foreign minister is meeting with the iranian foreign minister and i'm sure this is going to be right top of the table of what they're talking about but we'll cover that later for now let's talk about what came in overnight and the iranian announcement what's it going to mean they say they're not going to give up this completely the sixty days to carry on talking and trying to rush something out and they haven't said what they are going to do quite yet the details a bit sketchy isn't it. well i'm sure we're going to hear more details coming from the very meeting that you've just mentioned the meeting of the two foreign

ministers of both russia and iran that's going to happen later in the russian capital but at this very moment you are very right all eyes are add to the recent statement coming from iran's president as say he voiced the country's decision to partially was draw from the landmark nuclear deal now iran would stop complying with the two off its commitments under the iranian nuclear pact starting on wednesday iran would begin to build up its stockpiles of a low enriched uranium and of how the water which is used in nuclear reactors iran's president also added that if the european signatories of the deal fail to compensate for the unilateral american sanctions iran will resume construction of the nuclear facility absolutely that was shut down and its key

components were dismantle its under that very landmark nuclear deal now none of those actions would get iran to build a weapon any time soon but they would resume as slow steady march that the twenty fifteen agreement temporary stopped now iran's president has given as you've just mentioned the european signatories sixty days still need go sheet the terms of the deal which has been on the brink of really colab since the u.s. decision to withdraw from that deal in recent weeks indeed the u.s. has taken quite a hostile approach towards iran issuing a number of threats to this particular islamic republic. we have continued to see every that leads us to believe that there is escalation that may be taking place so we're taking all the. productions both from a security perspective and well as. our ability to make sure that the president has

a wide range of options and they've made this up that should actually take place what we've been trying to do is to get iran to be like a normal nation well now at this very moment it seems the threats are actually translating into concrete matters now and tuesday the u.s. announced it will deploy a naval strike group to the middle east in order to counter the alleged threat coming from iran and send a clear message to its leadership and the same day the u.s. secretary of state pail made quite a surprise visit to iraq oyston concerns about the iranian influence there now some russian officials have already said this recent decision coming from iran is a direct consequence of the u.s. decision to withdraw from the landmark nuclear deal and iran president has laid the blame at america's feet as well. the united states wanted to pull

out of the g.'s you know way in order to make iran withdraw from the deal the day after the u.s. would be able to refer the case to the u.n. security council to ease the burden on the shoulders of the u.s. to redouble and russia to pressure iran iran did not fall into this trap while washington has a long been pushing europe to impose sanctions against iran so these sixty. sixty days that are given to the european signatories of the nuclear deal are basically to choose the sides of the u.s. as well as a unilateral sanctions against iran or to choose trade with this country now we just heard coming from a francis defense minister that france wants to keep this deal. alive so the other european signatories of the deal goal with the u.s.

were not go with the u.s. in the case if they go with the u.s. in iran will go ahead with resuming hire you radium and reach mint and construction of the iraq's new clear facility so at the moment the situation is really complicates it understatement yeah dana thanks for that i will probably have more they'll be a media conference with the iranian foreign minister noda. off when they have fresh this hour later of that meeting that you're covering for us so thanks for thanks for watching at home as well just like you know the break some details are not again of what the u.s. state department may have in store for venezuela just one of the stories we cover of you or after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. war in memory today marks the seventy fourth anniversary of victory over fascism in europe the end of that conflict created the modern world order and it still does. when the first century both of these. elements. and the moment. people would like to interact which is happening to individuals and using their intelligence through facebook through to another interacting with political effects . from the. seeing the results.

american schoolchildren apparently falling victim to the polarized nation of u.s. politics these days it's been reported that the curriculum in so-called swing states is being repeatedly rewritten depending on who's in power caleb maupin explains. until recently the election of state school boards to set academic standards was not even run on party lines people didn't view them as politicians but simply as functionaries carrying out the task of how we educate our kids however like so many other things now it is deeply political here's the number one disagreement what system of government does the united states have now according to the democrats the usa is a democracy and according to the republicans the usa is you guessed it a republic however some say that there could be common ground between the two terms the debate really isn't about whether public or democracy but understanding that we

can be both in michigan the republicans did not like the social studies curriculum it is biased in a very left leaning way and i find that problematic so they made a few changes first of all they reduced references to the ku klux klan and the national association for the advancement of colored people they reduced gay and lesbian content and they cut out climate change completely so the democrats tried to slip in a few changes of their own and that draft got the republicans fired up when i look at the things changed between drafts after hundreds of hours of debate it's mind numbing it's not just happening in michigan the standards set by texas and california the two biggest u.s. states are the most influential when it comes to the printing of the u.s. school textbooks and both states are getting pretty partisan when it comes to u.s. history and social studies in texas they have cut hillary clinton completely out of history and in california a mural depicting george washington the first us president was also

a slave owner has been taken down so parents it seems are voting for which historical narrative they want their kids to learn in school when they pick the school board at this point in california the debate has gotten so heated that an empathy tent has been set up near the debating site there are some folks who have lots of opinions and these seem to be. making some noises about it we find that listening is better than shouting back in one nine hundred seventy four west virginia residents who thought that the school textbooks were offensive to evangelical christians got rather fired up there were bombings and shootings coal miners went out on strike for most americans social studies classes a distant childhood memory not a burning political controversy however and twenty nineteen it seems like everything is getting political including the classroom it's hit the ole over the country because every school district has a school board that's democratically elected and they go back and forth if they're if it's a really conservative community or

a really liberal community then it's fairly stable but it doesn't really reflect what the other you know the minority groups you know that can't elect a school board not manage a national curriculum like you have in say sweden or france or germany or england it means that a kid growing up in texas learns different things and reads different books in literature classes than a kid growing up in california or new york the publishing industry are concerned about only two states when it's texas and the which is fairly conservative and one is california which is fairly liberal if the textbooks too conservative california school districts won't buy them we have a fairly diversified educated population it's pretty stupid to have all your kids in the country basically getting a partial education when it comes to history and literature. next what could be and still have it as well the u.s. state department has published a document outlining washington's strategy for bringing down the venezuelan

president nicolas maduro it spells out a number of pressured tactics that america believes will help to effect a change of government in caracas they include economic penalties including the freezing of over three billion dollars worth of that as well and assets and lending extra support to the opposition leader. but this like to the end of this tunnel may be called into the report the publication shows that the u.s. apparently believes the measures will help to get lots of american country back on its feet again but despite the professed commitment to bringing prosperity to venezuela the trumpet ministration continues to insist there's a military intervention in the country is also possible. what would make you use the u.s. military in venezuela it's an option we continue to say and we always will on the day of all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table because they always are like no mistake and we have a full range of options that we're preparing for that we asked the u.s. state department to comment on their report but they have not given us

a response yet we also lost much blumenthal there he is the investigative journalist and the editor of gray zone dot com to comment on the document. really reveals the pride in the state department and harming venezuela's economy and the contradiction. it contradicts the public messaging of the state department through . spokespeople like kimberly brier who tweeted several days ago that one. and his fake government is administration have delivered tangible results for the people of venezuela and she mentioned the delivery of seven thousand two hundred packets of toilet paper to venezuelan families compare that to preventing three point two billion dollars of assets that could be used to buy food from being accessed by the government and it's just unbelievable the contradiction is extreme and that's one reason why they deleted this document that our reporter on your part until obtained they are trying to create the impression among the american public

that the sanctions are only targeting the duros inner circle but this state department document that we have tain makes it clear that they are targeting the civilian population in venezuela just as they are doing in iran and that is their clear intention to cause pain on the people regardless of their political leanings to achieve a political goal of regime change. the retired american admiral thinks the u.s. has been too soft on russia for its alleged interference in his country's a phase and opinion piece for time magazine's website he called for ramping up the pressure on moscow including banning russians from traveling to the u.s. . the u.s. should also consider sanctions on public entities sports teams international symphonies academic institutions diplomatic delegations we can impose travel restrictions more broadly on russian citizens who seek to come to the united states for any purpose or we could reduce our willingness to cooperate in other russian initiatives globally from reconstruction in syria to price support for oil prices

james stavridis retired from the navy in twenty thirteen after thirty seven years. of service he served as the supreme allied commander of nato forces the second highest military position within the alliance back in twenty seventeen zero following donald trump's decision to indefinitely suspend the resettlement of syrian refugees so it really is a totally different view on excluding people based on nationality or do not agree with decisions that simply close off any migration here from a particular nation no matter the situation or background of the individual plying for a visa or refugee status creating a political commentator jimmy door believes the russian feeling has become all too normal in the us. right now it's ok to be xenophobia gk. it's ok to be xenophobic against russia. it's just if you look at it like for instance if it just used instituted a different nationality with you said mexicans where he puts russians in that article of people would be screaming about it the corporate media in the united

states has been totally discredited through russia gate but now they're just doing that thing where they hop on another horse and just keep writing it as hard as they can so that's why you're seeing articles like this that's why you see him being so wildly inconsistent it's because these are actual opinions about security of the united states or who's meddling in our elections we know it's meddling in our elections this is about ramping up the security state this is about another cold war this is about trillions of dollars. mosco set to commemorate the end of the second world war with a massive military display tomorrow thursday at his work as he has been to see how the final rehearsals for victory day in shaping up. there are fewer houses supply does reduce. the final practice right for the parade and maybe not that your what a sight more than one hundred military vehicles gathered here tags on the personnel

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everything on the red square was the perfect formation alignment speed even the soldiers' expressions and the last thing they need is hoover excited journalists. at that backs oh well we're going to cover it tomorrow this time twenty four hours it'll be in the middle of it i'll be here along with a team down there on red square as well to talk you through it and get in some spectacle of a huge massive big day tomorrow but. thank you for watching r.t. international. montes holiday international memorial awards twenty nineteen are now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or part of a global news conference to participate in sunday published works and video all

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