partially. gives. washington. police work. but. also. expelling. foreign nationals. religious leaders whose visas have expired critics fear it's

part of a broader crackdown on the muslim community following the atrocities. we get reaction . of individual. attacks within a very short. to do with terror attacks. the french tell. for harassment with prosecutors arguing the company created intolerable working conditions that led to thirty five. around the clock across the world international from the team myself hello and welcome to our top story washington has promised to. tighten the screws on iran

with more sanctions the u.s. special assistant to the president gave the unspent after tehran's partial withdrawal from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement to protect itself while stressing it wants to save the deal or no i want the european signatories to uphold various side of the bargain and protect him from biting u.s. sanctions. you about the e.u. signatories have been complying with their obligations if they comply with these obligations iran will be able to guarantee the future life of the joint comprehensive plan of action iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif says it's time the european signatories kept their side of the bargain and deliver on their commitments following the nuclear deal now under the twenty fifteen deal iran agreed to a limit is so you raney m enrichment program and also sell any access have the water it has to run also agreed not to engage in any activities that could possibly

lead to the development of the nuclear weapons that was in exchange for the lifting off some of the economic sanctions against iran so so for this wednesday iran has said that it will stop selling off that access have you water and in two months if a no agreement is reached with the remaining signatories it will boost its levels in richmond and also push ahead with the development of the nuclear reactor and the iranian foreign minister blame to the u.s. for creating such a complicated situation after the united states withdrew from the nuclear deal and in recent weeks the u.s. has taken an increasingly hostile approach towards iran even issuing several threats 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 appropriate actions

both from a security perspective and well as. our ability to make sure that the president has a wide range of options in the event that something should actually take place what we've been trying to do is to get iran to be him like a normal nation on tuesday the u.s. announced that it will deploy naval strike group to the middle east in order to counter the threat coming from. iran and also to send a clear a massive age to its leadership now the same day the us secretary of state mike pohnpei all made quite a surprise visit to iraq voicing concerns about iran's growing influence in the area and speaking to the press here in the russian capital the country's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that the us is the one using aggression as an instrument. unfortunately this is typical of our american colleagues whether it's in the middle east the persian gulf or in venezuela it's distressing during my meeting with u.s.

secretary of state mike from people in finland on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than issued threats when it comes to challenging situations for china one of the signatories of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal says that the pact shute be kept and food implemented it seems that the european signatories are the ones who have sixty days to choose between washington and i think shows and iran and its deal. well the u.n. has repeatedly confirmed iran's compliance with the terms of the twenty fifteen pact europe has moved to urge her around not to make any russian moves on up the deal well washington is keeping up its threats of targeting e.u. companies working with iran with separate sanctions let's cross live now to the partridge in london for more on the global reaction to move kate. hi there you know yes there has been a meeting here in the u.k.

here in london between the prime minister to resign may in the foreign minister jeremy hunt and also the u.s. secretary of state might pompei it and not till they have that joint meeting the two top diplomats how did joint press conference and here's what they said. iran has agreed to vital compliance measures if they break that deal and there will be consequences in terms of how europe. powers react so we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break the deal. when jeremy hunt they're giving their response on behalf of the u.k. but both of the diplomats were asked the same question asked flat out whose side are you on jeremy hunt didn't respond to that but my pompei i did saying that the us and the u.k. stand together. parlor game that gets played we're on the same side we're on the side of values driven democracy we're on the side of freedom we're on the side of creating a nation for the iranian people where they can have religious freedom and they can have

a democracy we're on the side of europe so they can exist without assassination campaigns being conducted its own capitals were on the side together. where europe as you can imagine has also been quick to respond is the deal signatories now have to make a flat choice whether they support the u.s. or iran and the french defense ministry issued this response. today nothing could be worse than iran leavin the agreement so there are no sanctions today from europe because iran has so far all respected the commitments it has undertaken this commitments are not respected the question of a very considerate. we've also heard from germany as well with urgent iran not to take what they call aggressive steps as germany is very keen to save the deal one final point for a month might pompei issue referring to earlier in the fact that he referred to sanctions that could be applied to e.u. companies in the meantime the have been some trading between european countries and

iran on a humanitarian basis providing food and pharmaceuticals for example to iran that would it circumvent sanctions but might pompei i stress that any companies that were caught actually trading within sanctionable areas that they too would also be subject to the u.s. sanctions yes so many aspects of placate partridge in london thanks for the latest . millions of south africans have to taken to the polls today in what's being called by some the most crucial election in the country in over twenty years a record forty seven parties have thrown their hats in the ring and while polls suggest the ruling a.n.c. african national congress will stay in power. party's popularity is waning over the pardon field here to address key issues well it's come under fire for failing to combat high on them ploy meant which currently stands at twenty seven percent also

the fight against crime has been key to the campaigning with theft and murder rates on the rise probably the most contentious issue has been land reform seventy one percent of private farmlands in the hands of white farmers and some parties are suggesting they'd be removed from the land without compensation one of those calling for such a reform is joseph malema he's the leader of the far left economic freedom fighters or party member that has previously been convicted of hate speech inciting violence against the country's white community and expelled from the incumbent a.n.c. for sowing racial divisions back in twenty twelve but he's been in the spotlight in recent months with some fiery rhetoric. white people you will very memory if. we are godly to a seat and do you know. if you are the cigars. that

peanut man had the spirit to eat. m.f.i. has the truth about. why we don't care now. why not oh. why don't you go to time i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing of white people at least for now i can see the future. ok well we're joined live in the program by ashraf garda the co-founder of the champion scythe africa movement and welcome you are sir the elections being called the most crucial since nineteen ninety four that's when the n.c. first came to power the one election after election after election why is this year so significant. it's significant because it could well be the first time the ruling party this won every election since one

thousand nine hundred four may well lose hold of the election that means either gets below fifty and be voted out of power or get very close to that and have to form a coalition with another party to stay in power so that is the is the key significant point it also signifies a very definite break from this long twenty five year period where many south africans i think justifiably so felt that this party of they also mandela brought us freedom and therefore deserved all the support basically what i'm saying is people south africans now are far more critical of accountability of the ruling party than they were say the previous ten years some of those critical points the coming under fire for failing to tackle serious issues like corruption crime although employment will not be reflected in the vote. today. i think it would certainly do so but let me reflect if the former president of the a.n.c. or the government of south africa president zuma at the time were still in power i

would actually almost certain the a.n.c. vote would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy former deputy president sort of opposed as the president he was the choice ironically of nelson mandela to be the person of the country all those years ago there's a sense that people are going to give him a chance to see if we can fix up the problems of the party now the point you've raised is not something being silently discussed is being openly discussed from within the a.n.c. there's an a.n.c. that these massive reformation and the sense they selling is that. is your man the far left e.f.-s. party is predicted to get iran and i think leaders policy around fourteen percent of the vote now that would be double what i received in twenty fourteen are we seeing ashraf a shift in south africa do you see for instance any parlors to what's happening in europe. well i didn't hear that the latter part but i got the point about the shift ok the the economic freedom fighters there's been

a massive success story in the last five years five years old six percent in their first election they expected to get nothing less than ten percent and perhaps as much as fifteen percent in this election either way they they are clearly positioned to be a kingmaker if the a.n.c. triples in any way so or other troops in any way so kingmaker is where they want to be the stance has been effectively to try and fight the economic struggle that the a.n.c. did not fight all these years having given all of us freedom the a.n.c. i mean this is that the narrative the a.n.c. fall fell short in reforming the country economically and if it's coming to that position and say we will deliver that for you and that is why well economically of fighters there is that all these of the these. into the messes that we will do that whether they really will do so or whether the policies are just wild rhetoric remains to be seen many people are rather skeptical of that and the rhetoric is the point there joseph malema has been criticized for his racially charged rhetoric how

do you a say is some of his more controversial comments it seems he's made quite a few given of course the country's troubled history in that regard. i think it is it is particularly troublesome we've chatted on the same channel before julius malema of course speaks a billion on racial lines on the one hand but he makes no bones about the fact that he's there to serve the black masses the black this and chinese masses and i think that's absolutely understandable but he feels very close to the wind in making certain comments of the latest one about the seat at the front table i understand the imagery the reality is it could well drum up people to believe literally that's what he means if we don't sit with you we destroy the table and that in a racially charged environment is unacceptable more so as we know on election day ok we await the results then it should be an interesting night whatever way it turns out ashraf garda from champion south african movement thanks for your time.

and moving on now in the wake of sri lanka's devastating easter sunday bombings the government has expelled around six hundred foreign nationals including two hundred muslim clerics fine to have overstayed their visas now the country's home affairs minister says that comes as part of a broader push to tighten immigration controlled. 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 lambic 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 . easter sunday is coordinated bomb attacks in the left over two hundred fifty people dead eight explosions tore through catholic churches and look sharee hotels

a state of emergency was imposed shortly after and security forces were given sweeping powers to arrest suspects. we heard a loud bang and we fainted and 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. sunday

passed dozens of shops vehicles homes owned by members of the muslim community were attacked in the western coastal city of goma at least three people were injured several arrests were subsequently made security there is being bolstered and a curfew imposed. government is renewing calls for unity has offered compensation to those affected by the latest violence politics expert. and social commentator gave us their thoughts on the volatile situation in the country as it stands for the claims were that twelve days before the 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 should be sent to really didn't have much choice other than to expel six hundred six hundred foreigners and two hundred to

slum it 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 have overstayed their visas a minimum you can do because that's the bottom line here we need to stop terror we need to stop radicalization if there are one hundred terrorists there expanding foreigners doesn't help somebody clamping down on foreigners and listings and asking women to remove their that niqab the face veil is actually a disproportionate action and it is specifically targeting muslims not the kind in the sense that did the attack calling this a knee jerk 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 expelling 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 up against rising islam but there are labeled as islamophobia and i do believe in religious freedom i think religious freedom is doesn't read the lebanese it's not good for modern as adults it was just some fake why haven't the sri lankans been behaving why do they allow these things to go ahead these a big questions unanswered that is not remove the face files exclude six hundred foreign as and 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 not reaction 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 attacks within

a very short period of. many many doing this and east are more sophisticated they're suggesting have overstayed visas to do with ease. the terror attacks when it was i sure lanka native homegrown who himself was radicalizing people well if you have two hundred if you have two hundred clerics overstaying their welcome then being homegrown might mean that they were in one of those mosques was one of those two hundred clerics we don't know that. twenty minutes into the program still to come we'll look at how politics is popping out of the school books in the u.s. the details on this. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes to

protect themselves. in the final. one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. when the first century both of these. elements. and the moment do it is the interplay of people who would like to interact which is happening to individuals and using their intelligence through facebook through to another interacting with political effects. from the expose seeing the results.

back in parlous where the french telecoms giant orange on several of its current and former top bosses are standing trial in the city they're accused of moral harassment of creating a work environment which prosecutors say led to dozens of employee suicides over ten years ago charlotte dubinsky takes a closer look at the case. a decade a wave of suicides helped lift the lid on what was happening in one of france's biggest telephone companies now known as the global telecoms giant orange x. employees claimed they were subjected to moral and psychological harassment all in a bid to make leave the company that was undergoing major restructuring. we will ensure that this trial is not only an opportunity to convict for institutional moral harassment which will lead to compensation for the moral prejudice of the

victims but we will also fight to have the question again about the violence that was perpetrated not on dozens but on thousands and thousands of employees at that time at french telecom. that climate described by some as being a brutal is said to have pushed thirty five workers to take their own lives between two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine one a thirty two year old woman threw herself from her office window at the paris another a fifty seven year old set himself alight in a company car park twelve more attempting to take their own lives including me it was young i have been in the state of survival more than ten years especially after my desperate gesture on april twenty six to eleven. on the same day as my colleagues from board who set himself on fire. a long way to

their day in court has finally come and senior executives past and present are now facing charges mainly related to moral harassment organized at the company's leadership level while the company doesn't don't know why the suffering of employees does deny having implemented a policy designed to destabilise teams charges if proven could result in a year in prison and a fine of fifty. a point that is good the victims and their loved ones were very regret that the slaughter has not been used in view of the damage suffered by the victims what they have experienced and you view the low penalties and this also could this trial could open old. wounds on the what do we expect from this trial to try and understand why why they push people over the edge and it mustn't happen again somewhere else we come to the

policeman a doctor. kills himself because of a job and people need to understand that human beings are more important than money today orange points out that internal survey shows that eighty eight percent to be employees say they are proud to work with a company that compares to only thirty eight percent back in two thousand and ten but the many full my employees the dog days are not yet to. see paris. american schoolchildren are a partly falling victim to the poor isolation of us politics it's been reported that the curriculum in so-called swing states is being repeatedly rewritten depending on who's in power. 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 is functional areas 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 people in michigan the republicans did not lie. 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 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 in twenty nineteen it seems like everything is getting political including the classroom it's hit the whole over the country because it reads school district and school board that's democratically elected and they go back and forth if you or if it's really conservative community or a really liberal community then it's fairly stable but it does he. really reflect what the other you know the minority group there that can't elect a school board not manage a national curriculum like you have in say sweden nor 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 it kid growing up in california or new york the publishing industry they are concerned about only two states one is 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. the quite incredible story of a world war two hero pilot and his survival next time it's a tale you won't forget in a hurry this is art international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed. other wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better.

there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no on chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch rule is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.