truth will be true is dedicated to increasing virtue of just. one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. iran partially suspends the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement to give the signatories to its sixty days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions as washington reiterate its threat to hit e.u. companies working with iran with financial penalties. reaction in europe sees france threaten iran with sanctions over its part withdrawal while other e.u. nations are calling on surround to refrain from taking any aggressive steps. also this hour the biggest election in decades in south africa polls show the incumbent ruling party set to hold power we look at the implications the vote could have on the country. lanka toughens its immigration controls expelling around six hundred

foreign nationals a third of whom are islamic religious leaders whose visas have expired critics fear it's part of a broader crackdown on the muslim community following the atrocities on easter sunday we get reaction. chain of individuals who orchestrated attacks within a very short. many many. are more sophisticated they're suggesting have overstayed visas got to do with east terror attacks. that would headline news twenty four seven this is r.t. international one is called in bray moscow welcome to news update this hour first for you the future of the historic twenty fifteen arabian nuclear agreement is hanging by a thread after a number of twists this wednesday washington's promise to tighten the screws on iran after terence partial withdrawal from the pact the reason being it says to protect itself while stressing that the deal should say right let's. kind of open

for more on this so what's the u.s. perspective on the nuclear agreements future been today. well at this point washington is talking about full pressure on iran and we're hearing from washington that there will be new sanctions imposed on iran at some point very soon furthermore there have been some military developments we've got u.s. aircraft carriers headed toward the region as well as being fifty two bombers and now on wednesday iran announced that it was going to partially withdraw from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and that is in response to the fact that the united states has violated that agreement has pulled out of it and at this point iran is asking for european countries to compensate them for the damage done by the usa as withdraw all they have yet to be compensated so they're waiting for that at this point we have an announcement from iran that they intend to no longer sell off the

excessive enrich uranium and heavy water that they're required to dispose of if production exceeds a certain threshold and now at this point we've got the u.s. special envoy for iran brian hook saying that terrans announcement on the nuclear deal is in defiance of international norms now iran is basically giving sixty days to european countries it will negotiate with them and move forward and at this point ideas being widely pointed out that iran has fully complied with the nuclear deal that the u.n. nuclear watchdog the international atomic energy agency oversaw the fact that iran was fully complying with the deal that did not deter the united states from withdrawing this point we've got foreign minister for iran job he'd zarif saying that the ball is in europe's court the european countries will ultimately determine what happens next to this is a reef. not the e.u. should be trees have been complying with the opel occasion if they comply with

these implications iran will be able to guarantee the future life of the joint comprehensive plan of action. now while the united states has withdrawn from the j. c.p.o. a nuclear conclusion u.s. officials have stated as they have stated before that they would be open to renegotiating and coming up with a new deal that would be more favorable to the united states but at this point iran is giving the european countries sixty days they have partially withdrawn from the deal saying that with the u.s. pulling out a lot of damage has been done to their economy with banking and industrial sanctions and that they basically want to be compensated for the u.s.a.'s withdrawal ok thanks for that in new york. well european countries seem to be holding off from taking immediate action against iran but it's not all in the e.u. block parties part explain to me earlier. where europe admits that so far iran has complied with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal but the trumpet ministration clearly

think the opposite the germans they believe that the deal is there to be saved and they've not to take what they call any aggressive acts in the meantime in the hope that this deal can still be saved well at the same time iran is still being threatened by sine sions by jeremy hunt the u.k. foreign minister as he said in his press conference following the meeting with u.s. secretary of state might compare iran has agreed to vital compliance measures if they break the deal and there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we urge the rains to think very long and hard before they break a deal but there was an interesting moment in the press conference when a journalist asked jeremy hunt whose side are you on well the u.k. foreign secretary perhaps diplomatically didn't answer that question but might pump a zero on so that for him parlor game that gets played 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 well ever since the us reimpose those sanctions last year it's been biting times economically for the people in iran the european countries have decided to try and find a way to help iran by implementing what they call the instate system which was a way of perhaps circumventing sanctions providing humanitarian aid in the form of food and pharmaceuticals that the u.s. might compare say is in agreement with this as long as it doesn't contravene the rules and therefore if he does with them be subject to sanctions when in the meantime the french have also come up with their isp. saying just like the germans that they're urging the iranians not to follow any aggressive moves jobs or if it was in moscow to meet foreign minister sergey lavrov to discuss the iran issue and he said that russia had always backed up iran a stance that was reiterated by setting

a lever off. 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 might some people in finland on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than issued threats when it comes to challenging situations where the question now for all the twenty fifteen signatories is a case of who do you choose who do you go with when you back the u.s. or were you back iran. let's go into that now the more live reaction middle east expert joins us welcome to the program is iran really in any position to be making these kind of demands while equaling are not threatening to. increase its stockpiles of low enriched uranium. yes i think iran has no other choice now than. to go this way because of the european companies have withdrawn from iran and united states has sent you know it's us this

us a call to them to the persian gulf so iran has nor their choice there are no companies . cannot do any banking business can or cannot export its oil anymore so iran iran just based on the article twenty six and thirty six of. to claim that if one party after the argument was from the from disagreement he. partially from the government. the e.u. or certainly those who took part in the talks to get this long for deal through they do so. still support trying to keep that alive maybe it's only verbal and not under. displayed in any actions as such but if iran starts to pull back on parts of the deal it almost makes it impossible for the e.u. to try and help iran or back iran on this doesn't.

exactly but. the situation is exactly like this the united states withdraw from withdrew from. the north european companies invest in the run anymore even if iran stays in the deal it doesn't make any change because iran cannot do any banking business cannot export its all any more so even if iran says i'm going to stay in the deal what's going to change if even if they stay european countries have i mean try to install to two to do something new called special purpose because it's called in stakes but no no no company has started dealing with this and even if they decide to go with this i have i have a quotation from the assistant an assistant white house saying in a conference he says that if you are a bank investor in insurer or other business in europe you should not getting

involved in the special purpose. is a very poor decision so that means that if even if you use this special purpose vehicle. the companies that use this. purpose cannot do business anymore in the united states and is going to be going to be under the united states sanctions is there no way then that you can see the e.u. or countries within it could renegotiate the terms of the nuclear deal keeping washington to one side is that even possible. it's almost impossible because iran said that we are ready to negotiate to renegotiate the deal that we are ready to. to review all some of their thoughts of the. but the european countries.

for them to renegotiate or to do to find a solution for that that iran the solution is to tell them that you've got sixty days to to do that otherwise it will. reach for. and or have you what they're iran under the agreement has the right to enrich three point five percent of. you in him or in him and the rest. able to sell it they should sell it to other countries but as of last year they cannot sell it in more because because the united states we do from the deal. in paris middle east expert crucially thanks for joining us on r.t. tonight. next up it's the final hour of voting in south africa in what's been called by some the most crucial election there are more than twenty years a record forty seven parties have thrown their hat into the ring with three

considered as front runners possible suggesting that the ruling african national congress will stay in power the centrist democratic alliance looks set to put up a good fight but we'll still fall well short and there's also the far left economic freedom fighters who are expected to double their votes since the last election ashraf guarded the co-founder of the champion south africa movement says the incumbent presidents being given a second chance. 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 get 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 if the former president of the a.n.c. or the. adamant of south africa president zuma at the time were still in power i would actually tell you now i'm almost certain they see both would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy former deputy president still in a pose as the president he was the choice ironically of nelson mandela to be the

president 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 is an agency that needs massive reformation and the sense they selling is that. is your main and the ruling party popularity is waning over a perceived failure to address key issues has come under fire for failing to combat high unemployment which currently stands at twenty seven percent also the fight against crime has been keyed to the campaigning with theft and murder right on the rise and probably most contentious issue there has been land reform seventy one percent of private farmland is in white farmers and some parties are suggesting they be removed from the land without compensation now one of those who's calling for such reform is a julius malema he's the leader of the far left economic freedom fighters the party has previously been convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against the

country's white community it's also been expelled from the incumbent a n c that was for sowing racial divisions back in two thousand and twelve but he's been back in the spotlight in recent months with some fiery rhetoric. white people you will remember. we are guided to a seat and do you know what. does. that do you know. how the spirit to eat. fast that's. why we don't care now. why not. why don't you go with time. i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing of wade people at least for now i can go to the future on the limb is come under fire for stoking racial tensions during his campaigning ashraf garder again says the candidates charged slogans come close to crossing the line. julius malema of course

speaks a billion on racial lines on the one hand but he makes no bones about the fact that he is there to serve the black masses the black this and for in china's masses and i think that's absolutely understandable but he's still 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. now brussels has slammed turkey's decision to rerun the merrill election in the country's biggest city istanbul the turkish president's party lost its seat there last month and now the e.u. is top diplomat among others in europe have stressed that the blocks good relations with turkey are based on core principles such as transparent elections ensuring a free and transparent election process is essential to any democracy and is at the

heart of the european union's relations with turkey. while some rallied in support of president decision to go back to the polls others have branded it an attack on democracy recount confirmed a narrow victory for the opposition candidate in istanbul however the electoral authorities have now scheduled a second vote in june. but let's talk like that well and scared emeritus professor of international history at the london school of economics welcome back to r.t. only a few european politicians have openly accused president of ignoring the people's will do you expect more criticism from within brussels. well i expect criticism of what i have against doing but for brussels to pretend it's a bus tree of democracy and likes transparent elections is really ironic every time of a goes against in a referendum the country is fals to the second referendum in order to get the right

vote of it but snow who then has to be persuaded to vote yes this was done when the danes voted nay to maastricht it was done twice to od and which voted against first filled the nice treaty in then the discipline treaty and of course when the french an adult voted against constitutional treaties they were full six at the said thing under a different name the discipline treaty which was then rammed through both parliament . your fist not very democratic we've seen that in catalonia when you have a referendum the people who want to reign to suddenly seized by the police and put in jail the novel i'm sure a trial in greece when they had the referendum with during the bella crisis the european union ignored it and forced the prime minister to ignore it. so the record dorman democracy is not very good and besides the european union is run by

a bureaucratic commission we're getting excited in this country but you have any elections at the end of this month in fact the year pretty elections will make no difference to will happens in europe because a commission will still run things as well as greece the bracks referendum reruns been touted as well that was a very close vote in twenty sixteen is there any real deal yes we know in turkey well the you know that the european commission is trying every way possible to get a second referendum here mean donald tusk makes the president of the european council makes no bones about it he would like britain to return as a full member of the european union and of course if they get what's called a people's. lou we've already had the people's vote if there is a rerun then again to fix in such a way that the bricks of it will be split in the one tremaine would probably get a higher vote the they'll regret anything to action is all such as they want

back to istanbul that could going back to the polls then turkey's international rep its reputation now big is this fragile and even if he wins. it's very big because his career was built on being man rufus and blue and he wants to keep the morality of his son to within the purview of his party and this is the largest city it's about the biggest one of the biggest jobs outside the national government and it's a real slap in the face to him the people voted his party alt. he's a dictator reidy he has imprisoned hundreds of saws of people whose head was involved in a coup against him. or more journalists and jail and i think in the end if wilson the world. i mean i mean all the media will be controlled by him i mean it will be no light assault on the first by the electorate in

istanbul and you i'll expect the turkish president to pool if you still can or to make sure that bush is not reversed purely speculation of course then what happens if the voting party candidate gets defeated next month in a stamp and by a wide margin. well i think they'll be sure can do rejoicing iran turkey the still some democracy left in that case but. the fact that he's really running the election is meant to the huge leaders slumped again turkey's in a recession and you know every one of the finance minister who is he and son in law is incompetent financially and is widely held to be corrupt. and dunes. belief that should be no opposition in. just goes to show the. country is sliding further and further into the one man

dictatorship elections are really being as lively as they have been in the past five years have to have really appreciate your insight on this again professor scott thanks for joining us. thank you. 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 found to have overstayed their visas the home affairs minister said 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 like 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 . oh easter sunday is coordinated bomb attacks in sri lanka killed over two hundred fifty people eight explosions tore through packed christian churches and luxury

hotels the state of emergency was imposed shortly after and security forces were given sweeping powers to arrest suspects. that will send 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. last

sunday dozens of shops vehicles and homes owned by members of the muslim community were attacked in the western coast a city of macomber at least three people were injured and several arrests were subsequently night security that has been bolstered in the curfew imposed as for lankan government renewing calls for unity and offer compensation to those affected by the latest violence politics expert and social commentator mo answer i'll give us their thoughts on the volatile situation. the claims were that twelve days before that the attacks. the government was send detailed warnings the intelligence service of said detailed warnings they were told they were going to be attacking is that a. radical group home grown natives. 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 islam and clerics to cover his 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 listen asking women to remove that make up the face veil is actually a disproportionate action and is specifically targeting muslims not the kind of muslims 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 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 an interview 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 a present of lebanese it's not good for modern medicine is it was just 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 unanswered that is not remove the face files exclude six hundred. farnaz and two hundred islamic clerics they were never the problem this is about a proportionate response all your years i barely see her is telling six under the influence of their knees or mary 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 a attacks within a very short and which kills many many doing this in the east as are more sophisticated they're suggesting 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 homegrown might mean that they were in one of those mosques was one of those two hundred clerics we don't know that. bush is readying itself for one of its most poignant holidays of the year that made the ninth parade commemorating the end of the second world war victory day also celebrates the role of women in all i said you know the first time female candidates have taken part in the parade but this year they have a special mission for three months of rigorous training they've been putting their skills into formation. this is my thought time participating in the victory day parade but it's the fast

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