billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. twenty fifteen. sixty days to. washington its threat to its european union companies working with. financial penalties. in the program the biggest election in decades in south africa polls show will be incumbent ruling party. the implication is that

the country in. africa. toughens its immigration controls expelling around six hundred foreign nationals a third of who are islamic religious leaders who speak. for the experience part of a broader crackdown on the muslim community also the. reaction. of individuals who orchestrated attacks within a very short. time more sophisticated. to do with terror attacks. live from our international news center this is r.t. i'm going to neal and you're welcome to the program our top story. washington

promised to tighten the screws on iran with more sanctions the u.s. special assistant to the president gave. tehran's partial withdrawal from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement the reason being is to protect itself while stressing the deal should be safe now once the european signatories to uphold their assigned of the bargain protect their own from biting u.s. sanctions. well you about the e.u. signatures 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 i'm enrichment program and also sell any access have you

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 of 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 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 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 to clear a massive ship now the same day the u.s. secretary of state mike pale 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 sergey lavrov that the u.s. 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 in finland on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy to show rather than france when it comes to challenging situations. china one of the signatories of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal says that the pact shoe to be kept and food implemented it seems the european signatories said the ones who have sixty days to choose between washington and saying sions and iran and it's. ok let's just stay with this story the united nations repeatedly confirmed iran's compliance we know with the terms of the twenty fifteen pact at europe move to urge to run not to make any rash moves hold a deal while washington is keeping up its threat of targeting e.u. companies working with with separate sanctions cross-line. a partridge for more on the global reaction to tehran move what's been said.

hi there you know yes plenty of reaction especially here in the u.k. will come to that very shortly also let's add a little bit more context to this the u.s. has been ramping up the pressure on iran particularly over the last couple of months with some meat with some new laws that it's instigated first of all it's designated is an elite islamic revolutionary guard as a terrorist and also deployed an aircraft carrier to the gulf it's also been putting pressure on the countries that still trade with iran its monies to extend those exemptions from sanctions for five of the countries that buy oil from iran such as china india and turkey so with all these events in mind the secretary of state might pompei or came here to the u.k. to meet to resume a foreign secretary jeremy hunt and in the press conference that followed my pump a i also how to word or two to say for european companies that were trading with iran and stressing that those who traded on a humanitarian basis such as providing food and pharmaceuticals would be fine with

the u.s. but those that didn't that trying to scratch those particular areas they could also be subject to sanctions and in the meantime in that press conference jeremy hunt also he stated what the u.k. position was following that decision by iran to withdraw from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement iran has agreed to vital compliance measures if they break the deal then there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break the deal. so partial a partial withdrawal there from the iranians and then after that some of the journalists were asking questions of the two top diplomats basically one which was which side are you both on were jeremy hunt he didn't respond directly to that but one pump a i did saying that the u.s. 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 also has been reacting to that decision and the deal signature is they now have a decision to make and you are they going to back iran or are you going to back the u.s. and the french defense ministry has issued its reaction. 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 is this commitments are not respected the question of their considered. well berlin has also responded saying that they are urging iran not to take aggressive steps as germany wants to save the deal that was brokered back in twenty fifteen is through that

reaction live in london artie's kate partridge thank you. moving on millions of south africans have taken to the polls today in what's being called by some the most crucial election there in over twenty years a record forty seven parties have thrown their house in the ring and while polls suggest the ruling african national congress will stay in power but be in popularity is waning over a perceived failure to address key issues it has come under fire for failing to come but a number of things high on employment as one which currently stands there twenty seven percent also the fight against crime has been key to the campaigning with theft and murder rates on the rise and probably the most contentious issue has been the reform seventy one percent of private farmland is in the hands of white farmers and some parties are suggesting they be removed from the land without compensation

well one of those calling for such reforms is joseph malema he's the leader of the far left economic freedom fighters or e f f party malema has previously been convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against the country's white community and also expelled from the incumbent a.n.c. for selling racial divisions back in twenty two hours but he's been back in the spotlight in recent months with some fiery rhetoric take a look. white people you will remember. we are godly to a seat and do you know what. does that do you know full well. that the. man had the spirit to eat. and wear five that's. why we don't care now. why not now.

why don't you know the time i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing of white people at least for now back to the future west to live not to johannesburg to speak to go best say head of strategic operations out the south africa institute of race relations welcome to the program say this election has been called the most crucial since one thousand nine hundred four that's when the n.c. first came to power winning election after election why is this vote so significant . well i think firstly thank you so much for having me on the show i think for instance on a lot of pressure in this election you know we sort of institute of race relations conducts some of the most extensive polling in the country of any organization and our polling tracking polling in the run up to this actually pointed out that at a lower turnout that is projected turnout of just under seventy percent the ensuite

gone about fifty four percent of the of the national vote with the da coming in at twenty three or so percent if if we just mentioned earlier on coming in at fourteen percent now the pressure itself comes from the growth of the fifth which in the previous election had received about six percent of the vote and is projected according to or at least our polling showed like even double that support base so i think that's where the confiscation is happening where the vast majority of africans perhaps if you look at the same to mint of south africans are looking for . change in a different voice after twenty four years twenty five years plus of. the are predicted to win a majority the end see another is despite voter dissatisfaction as you've been chronicling perhaps over the past five years or so this be a wake up call for them if they lose a part of their majority standing how big how big a loss would it when it needs to happen. look i think the real

story and absolutely right you know at the national level the a.n.c. is projected to likely win the election with a reduced majority but the real story really if you want to you know impact this particular election is what's going to be happening in some of the provinces of the country now so the africa as you know has nine provinces of which one of them the western cape is the only problems governed by the majority could be the opposition party the da however there's a lot of pressure polling showed there's a lot of pressure the aints will feel in two other provinces namely how telling the problems that i'm in right now with the capital of south africa is where we project . getting a majority. movement again a projection but our polling indicates a high forty's for the sea. and of course the same story also in case that in question minutes oh what's funny enough to start a queue was always the amcs bedrock in terms of its support but again our polling

indicates that the. something close to forty eight percent of the again the real story has been the surge of the if if in terms of their support and of course the growth of the main opposition party the democratic alliance just the just on the. democratic line they are yes no noted for getting a large majority of the white vote but we've been hearing repeatedly of the past number of months that a lot of white farmers for instance will give the vote to the e n c because this. the alternative as you're seeing the e.f. f. the far left group as being as being worse for them is not going to be significant if the da the opposition loses the white vote and could help the n.c. in the polls. well look our polling also did break down the support for political parties by race the d.h. still gone is the vast majority of whites with african sentiment about seventy four

percent of white south africans indicated in our polling that they would vote for the democratic alliance i think the real story in this election in terms of where disaffected voters may go is in some of the smaller parties there's been a plethora of small part of that have come to the fall in this election one of them for example being the south african capitalist party sorry who have made quite a big splash on social media and called a lot of support regard him finally when you look at sort of again with the provincial breakdown smaller parties have been big winners the african christian democratic party christian party in this country. also saw a big interest in polling from votes and so again this election small parties you need to look out for the provinces which are really tell the tale of how much pressure he's dealing with fascinating you've set it up where we're really interesting seeing some of those there early votes coming in are the early results go best say head of strategic operations in the south africa institute of race

relations thank you. sais it's revelant being immigration controls but some fear it's simply targeting specific communities after the easter sunday terror attacks we've got the details on this story and more after this. you know world of big news lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

in twenty first century politics also. some elements of the tape and at the moment it is entertaining people would like to interact to the tape which is happening to individuals and using their intelligence through facebook through to another interacting with political events. from the pros seeing the results. and i start back with a story generating a lot of discussion this week in the wake of sri lanka's devastating easter sunday bombings the government has expelled iran six hundred foreign nationals including two hundred muslim clerics fine to have overstayed their visas the 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 ascends out about two hundred ways lamb it preaches there are religious institutions which have been getting in foreign preaches for decades we have no issues with them but there are some which mushroom driessen really we will pay more attention to them well let's recap what in fact happened to easter sunday a coordinated bomb attacks in that country killed over two hundred fifty people we know that eight explosions in all tore through packed catholic churches luxury hotels as well a state of emergency was imposed shortly after the security forces were given sweeping powers to wrestle with.

not a lot of sending any 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 and with all the victims of such cruel violence. well on sunday passed dozens of shops fake us homes owned by muslims were attacked in the western coastal city of the golden both at least three people were injured on several arrests subsequently made security there has been bolstered and

a curfew imposed the sri lankan government is renewing calls for unity offered compensation to those affected by the latest violence politics expert roger to sketch on social commentator more ansari gave us their thoughts on the volatile situation. 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 churches that a. radical group home grown natives who were going to terrorize and attack people on easter morning she said i 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 their own home grown 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 is specifically targeting muslims not the kind in the sense that did the attack on this 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 then 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 there 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 that there are labeled as

islamic phobic and i do believe in religious freedom i think religious freedom is going to resonate lebanese it's not good for modern medicine have a good looking after just not a fake why haven't the sri lankans been behaving why do they allow these things to go ahead these are big questions unanswered that isn't. remove the face files exclude six hundred foreigners and two hundred islamic clerics they were never the problem this is about a proportional response so your belly receiver is telling six under the influence of their user action two 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. many many doing that in the east are more sophisticated in their suggested have overstayed visas to do with east to 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

a homegrown might mean that they were in one of those mosques was one of those two hundred clerics we don't know that. they want to turn attention to another story also generating a lot of social network comments today french telly comes giant are in several as well if it's current and former top bosses are standing trial in paris now they're accused of moral harassment done of creating a work environment which prosecutors say led to dozens of employee suicides happening over ten years ago charlotte dubin skier friends correspondent has been taking a closer look at the case for us. a decade to a wave of suicide writes helped lift the late what was happening in one of france's biggest telephone companies now known as the global telecoms giant x. employees claimed they were subjected to moral and psychological harassment all in a big to make 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 asked 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 attempted to take their own lives including ten year i have been in the state of survival for more than ten years especially after my

desperate gesture on april twenty six to eleven on the orange in june of constant on the same day as my colleague 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 all the 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 fifteen thousand euros a point that is angered the victims and their loved ones were very regret that the term manslaughter has not been used in view of the damage suffered by the victims what they have experienced and also in view of the low penalties incurred this also could this trial could open old wounds. 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 can't accept that policeman a doctor a farmer kills himself because of a job and. bill need to understand that human beings are more important than money today orange points out that internal surveys show that eighty eight percent of employees say they are proud to work with a company that comprised only thirty eight percent back in two thousand and ten but the many a full my employees the dog days are not yet to. see paris. is our last call and brady will be here with all your midweek news updates in just a work thirty minutes time if you can though stay close for more great art to the program starting in moments.

of 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 doesn't. make us manufacture can be sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to lose. in twenty four you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being

relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer i mean your list put me in the new bill is that i'm pulling you to the former ukrainian president recalls the. of twenty four. those who took part in this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. so the currency is in freefall there is no gold standard that there is no way to reconcile this and that in the world so every other country is competing it's a race to the bottom at the same time it's fair to say that there is now several countries that you could i think characterize as being on a war footing so the u.s.

by saying we don't have a recession anymore and we don't have any any pre-selection to defend our currency value in any way they're opening the door in a big way to extremely violent global conflict. reading. currently here in the united states of america more than forty four million citizens across all age groups and demographics collectively owe one point five one point six trillion dollars in student loan debt that's forty four million people suddenly walking around each day with a price tag hanging around their necks like a bag of bricks weighing down every financial decision they make and haunting their future like the red room bill house and if you don't believe just how serious this

has affected the well being of our population one should simply take a gander at the recent findings by student loan planner dot com which has discovered that one in fifteen student loan bar were surveyed have considered suicide due to their student loans in fact the survey data suggests one in eleven deaths by suicide among young professionals were partly due to student loans. my friends this truly is a national crisis that must be addressed but the question is whatever can we do democratic presidential hopeful a little bit more and others have suggested a massive government funded student loan debt cancellation program now naturally many of cried where oh where will we ever get the money to pay for such a thing we can't be doing this oh my goodness where oh where yeah you know what maybe we may be this is going out on a limb here maybe we could start with some of the pentagon's lobster and crab money yes according to open the.