iran polish needs to spend twenty fifteen nuclear agreement and takes an immediate hit from washington with another round of sanctions in response to. action in europe sees france threaten iran with sanctions over its power withdraw all of the e.u. nations to refrain from taking any aggressive step. counts under way in south africa seen as the biggest election there in decades as the incumbent ruling party looks set to hold power you look at how divided political life in the country is on the possible implications of the vote. on the french telecoms giant orange

suit. with prosecutors arguing the company created intolerable working conditions that led to thirty five suicides. there's our first for you the future of the historic twenty fifteen iranian nuclear agreement is hanging by a thread after a number of twists some wednesday washington has tighten the screws further on iran with a new round of sanctions. partial withdrawal from the pact the reason being it says to protect itself while stressing the deal should be saved europe's urged iran to avoid taking any aggressive steps i got more on the latest developments on the political reaction from our correspondents in london and new york. washington is talking about full pressure on iraq there have been some military developments we've got u.s. aircraft carriers headed toward the region. as well as being fifty two bombers now

iran has announced a partial withdrawal from the nuclear deal citing the fact that they say the united states has violated the agreement and at this point iran is asking for european countries to compensate them for the damage done by the u.s.a.'s withdrawal they have yet to be compensated so they're waiting for that 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 hawk 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 i'd just been 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 a point we've got foreign minister for iran saying that the ball is in europe's court the european countries will ultimately determine what happens next. not the e.u. signature is have been complying with the opel occasions if they comply with these implications iran will be able to guarantee the future life of the joint comprehensive plan of action 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 basic. really i want to be compensated for the u.s.a.'s

withdraw ok thanks for that let's see what's been happening across the atlantic a partridge is an r.t.s. london b. are either the trap between the u.s. and iran right now what have we been hearing from europe 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 urged the wrong 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 sanctions 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 that deal and 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 then

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 oncet it for him your question about whose side are you on. this is a 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 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. is might compare say is in agreement with this as long as it doesn't contravene.

the rules and therefore if he does would then be subject to sanctions when in the meantime the french have also come up with their response saying just like the germans that urging the iranians not to follow any aggressive moves just as the refit 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 saturday lover of. 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 my own 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 about the u.s. or when you back iran. the vote count underway in south africa polls are closed a few hours ago a modest being called by some the most crucial election there in over twenty years

preliminary results are expected sometime on thursday a record forty eight parties through their hats in the ring with three considered as front runners polls published last month suggested the ruling african national congress will stay in power the centrist democratic alliance despite a strong fight is expected to fall well short of the far left economic freedom fighters are expected to double their votes since the last election the co-founder of the champion south africa movement predicts the incumbent president will get a second chance. it could well be the first sign of the ruling party this one in 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 government of south africa president zuma at the time were still in power i would tell you now i'm almost certain he would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy former deputy president sort of opposite as the president he was the

choice i want to clear nelson mandela to be the president the country all those years ago this is 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 the ruling party's popularity is waning over a perceived failure to address key issues has come under fire for failing to combat high unemployment i 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 but probably the most contentious issue has been land reform seventy one percent of private farmland is in the hands of white farmers and some parties are suggesting that they be removed from that land without any compensation now one of those who is calling for such reforms is julius malema he's the leader of the far left

economic freedom fighters party f f as previously being convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against the country's white community also been expelled from the incumbent a.n.c. 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. know we are godly to seat you know. if you are does. that do you know men were disposed to eat. fast that's. why we don't care about their feelings why not. 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 i can guarantee the future and the lamest come under fire for stoking racial tensions during his campaigning this time around ashraf

garda again says the candidates charged slogans come close to crossing the line. well and of course speaks of very nonracial lying 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 franchise masses that 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. so let's go back to our top story then and the iran nuclear deal which is in danger of unraveling after the u.s. pulled out and the left in something of a wavering position now iran is threatening to dial back on some of its commitments to we're going to get reaction now from cover for c obviously an expert on iranian

foreign and nuclear affairs welcome to the program again could see is iran in any kind of position to be making these kind of demands one of the same time threatening to stockpile no when rich uranium. of course because it takes two to tango and we have a. deal on paper all parties signatories to buy it and unfortunately we see this situation where compeer to iran's full implementation has numerous obligations u.s. has pulled out and the europeans basically noncompliance so you know and has embarked on a graduated response and trying to level the playing field and this has been in response to the recent decision by the u.s. department of state in effect sanctioning the implementation.

ending some of the way with war nuclear cooperation including russia's cooperation in iran to build. no power reactors in bush and there are measures that are stipulated under the terms of the nuclear agreement. sanctionable contrary to international law and the norms of international decency but if there was one thing that iran could always wave the international community over this it was well as pulled out the e.u. doesn't know whether it's coming and going to pentagon which we usually do you speak to iran could always say where holding up to our commitments we've got un backing that it does that well if it starts pulling back on some of those commitments that all falls apart now does not. well hopefully it will not and the europeans will clean up their act and stop being whisperers and do what they're supposed to do which is to hold up their end of the

bargain iran is not asking them to do anything other than living up to their own stated commitments under the terms of their agreement and according to iran's foreign minister they're not even done one per cent of what they're supposed to do so now the ball is in europe slap they have the have the courage to stand up to uncle sam and say big no to the us bullying and acting like a bull in the china shop you know trampling on all sorts of international treaties and norms and standards including the iran nuclear fair agreement and take us through the un security council impose retaliatory sanctions against the us and you know make the us live up to its own professional standards with you know the international law and so on so either europe will have the political courage to do so all the drilling will eventually fall and the euro europeans will face

a major crisis not unlike iraq iraq war at their doorstep. and how obviously it's not in europe's economic and security interest and they need to. act up and respond to iran's legitimate demand for them to honor their agreement and depending on who you speak to in the depends on how much will the greater level of support for iran over this or whether there might be any yielding towards u.s. pressure over this which way do you think iran sees this happening if this is a game of brinkmanship and we end up in a sanctions spiral there are no winners that history tells us that doesn't it will the e.u. stand up to the u.s. over this or will it just lose patience with iran if iran starts to wind back its commitments. well you know we have to wait and see but hopefully europeans who made tons of his statements in support of the j.c.

peel way and have now as started this the special financial mechanism for barter trade with iran. will you know wake up and smell the coffee and respond to president rouhani is urging call for them to you know live up to their obligations and i really doubt that there's much popular sentiment in europe for supporting trumps bullying on iran as well as bullying other nations with secondary sanctions so my guess is that europe will vere in iran's direction will exert pressure on the u.s. and it can also act as interlocutor or as intermediary between iran and the united states invite the u.s. back to the table in order to discuss in a you know peaceful legitimate fashion the standoff between them right now the u.s. says weights relentless economic warfare against iran and the sliding toward

conflict by this patching more armada two persian gulf which of course serves the huge military industrial complex but aside from that you know that there specter our war is poisonous for the u.s. economy for the global economy as well as for trump's own prospects for reelection in two years from now so there are a lot of prohibitive factors against war and conflict with iran that come into play that the europeans should seize on in order to play an effective conflict management or certainly the toughest time for this pact since the the months leading up to its final signing ok we always appreciate your insight on this. iranian for the nuclear physics but thanks for coming on r.t. tonight. like this. the second world war monument in chicago has caused a diplomatic route it's been erected by the lithuanian community that would set it on as a war hero and resistance fighter but a leading jewish human rights organization says he was also

a nazi collaborator the ceremony was held just days after the victims of the holocaust were commemorated around the world in the future in your foreign minister also took part in the unveiling of a bomb monument. adolphus rehman it was code named gus was a prominent part of town and one of the country's resistance leaders he opposed the soviet occupation of lithuania jaring it after the second world war although there's no solid proof of an august himself killed anyone when the country was occupied by the nazis but the simon wiesenthal center believes that he led it gang of local vigilantes which persecuted to the jewish community ok let's talk about this now with the director of the simon wiesenthal center in jerusalem and friends your of mr joe off those who are rector this morning but they seem confident that this individual had no personal involvement in persecuting jews just explain it to us then why do you see it differently. first of all he himself admitted that he had headed a gang of the throwing of vigilantes which was inspired by the lithuanian activists

front and which was involved in active persecution of jews during the initial weeks after the nazi invasion of the waning on june twenty second one hundred forty one so there's no doubt about that there's no evidence on the other hand because himself killed anybody but the gang that he headed was actively involved in persecution as this was something that was not unique to the way he was stationed but this was something that took place in many in many communities all over lithuania. so what do you think the lithuanians in chicago willing to take the feelings of the jewish community and to counter this what he said to them. listen you have to understand something from the top in that the soviet union crumbled and the and the countries that were either part of the soviet union or under communist domination made the transition to democracy. there's been

a very systematic attempt to rewrite the narrative of world war two and the holocaust one of several specific issues here one is that they trying to hide the role played in the holocaust by local collaborators and in that respect you have to keep in mind that only in eastern europe did collaboration with the nazis include active participation in mass murder the second point is they're trying to prove or to claim that communist crimes were just as bad as those of the nazis and that they can be categorized as genocide. the third point is that the new heroes that they've created for themselves among them a people who could participate in the how of course you would assume that if someone was busy murdering their jewish neighbors during world war two that would disqualify them from being heroes but that's not been the case in lithuania so

actually there's another very interesting very important case right now which relates to man maybe on us the rake you notice the rayco was the liaison between lithuania administration and the nazis and he played an active role in the persecution and ultimately in the murder of the jews of northwest lithuania and he too was on it in several different ways and the irony of the story is that his granddaughter who lives in chicago. who actually. initially set out to write a book about her grandfather the hero did the research and learned that her grandfather was no hero's actually a nazi collaborator. as far as you see it is that echoed elsewhere in the baltic states then because several of them of including this one year of held parades for a number of years honoring veterans who fought against the red army during the second world war but also when you look into it may have had

a checkered history too is that seen across the baltic states in your view. listen everywhere in the baltic states there are some or all of these phenomena are ok so in latvia you have the s.s. march. the s.s. latvian s.s. division sixteen to nineteen and s.s. divisions now those units did not kill jews because the jews lad he had already been murdered but many people who served in those units among the many volunteers had served in latvian as the the latvian security police prior to joining those units which was set up in late forty two and early forty three because the murders of the latvian jews took place primarily in forty one and forty two so in other words you kid turn people who are mass murderers into into national heroes i mean what kind of country wants a mass murder as as a national hero and in dystonia they also honor the people who served in the

estonian s.s. twentieth s.s. division and stoney is the scene of a event which attracts people from many different countries who served in the s.s. in their countries but can't. participate in any events to and of the s.s. because they're forbidden and then go to stony and i know there are services in the s.s. now remember one remember this there were three different phenomenon in the baltic countries one was that there was very active zealous participation widespread participation of the locals in the mass murder of the jews of their own country. they also murder jews who were brought to stony latvia and lithuania by the nats these jews from germany and austria who were sent there and in the case. of estonia there was a jew sent from from hungary. and from auschwitz in some cases they were sent to

kluger the concentration camp and. the third thing is that all these three countries had security police units of their is sent to other countries primarily to belarus to kill jews there it's true and stony it's true in latvia and it's true in lithuania so the record is absolutely terrible to be honest and this is part of the problem well mr off we always appreciate spending the time to explain these things to us director of the some of these intel center interests on the frontier of thanks for joining us on r.t. . joachim. was also slammed turkey's decision to rerun the maryland action in the country's biggest city sample the turkish president's party lost at sea the last month and now the e.u. is top diplomat among others in europe of stress that the blocks good relations with turkey are based on core principles. ensuring a free and transparent election process is essential to any democracy and it's at

the heart of the european union's relations with turkey. rallied in support of president had once decision to go back to the polls others are proud of it an attack on democracy a recount confirmed a narrow victory for the opposition candidate in istanbul however the electoral authorities have now scheduled a second vote in june international history professor alan scott told me he thinks the u.s. position is hypocritical. for brussels to pretend it's a bastion of democracy and likes transparent elections is really ironic every time goes against in the referendum the country is forced to the second referendum in order to get the right foot of snow who then has to be persuaded to vote yes this was done when the danes voted no to man strict it was done twice to ireland which put it against first fooled the nice treaty in the days when treaty you're first

not very democratic we've seen that in catalonia. when you have a referendum the people who want to. suddenly seized by the police and put in jail the trial in greece when they had the referendum with doing the bare crisis the european union ignored it and forced the prime minister to ignore it so the record dorm democracy is not very good. the french telecoms joined orange and several of its current and former top bosses are standing trial in paris they're accused of moral harrison and of creating a work environment which prosecutors say let the dozens of employees suicides over ten years ago here's our front correspondent china do bensky. a decade away even to see with the rights helped lift the late what was happening in one of france's biggest television companies now known as the global telecoms giant or ngs. 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 the thousands and thousands of employees at that time and 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 stage to another a fifty seven year old set himself alight in a company car park twelve more attempted to take their own lives including beatrice county it was young and 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 internet constantly 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 senior executives past and present and 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 fifteen thousand euros a point that is angered victims and their loved ones were going to regret the slaughter has not been used in view of the damage suffered by the victims what they have experienced and also. view of the penalty is incorrect 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 people 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 compares to only thirty eight percent back in two thousand and ten but the many former employees the dog days are not yet to. paris. video has appeared online showing a group of muslim children in the u.s. city of philadelphia talking about using extreme violence to liberate palestine. please. please do the solution there certainly are not only when there will

be money why did you let the money move their city philadelphia authorities are now investigating the islamic center where this was filmed to strongly condemn the incident it says the children were part of a program that was being run by a local school and fired the person in charge. unfortunately the video from the school was uploaded to the chapters facebook page without verifying the content of the video for appropriateness and making sure it conforms to our hate free policy and values muslim american society is committed to condemning hate speech everywhere despite the mosques responds the footage has been described by a leading american jewish organization as extremely disturbing political commentator anthony brian logan told us the u.s. government needs to be looking closely at such incidents. well at case they usually come in over here in the u.s. when i first saw the video i thought it was somewhere in a middle east i think maybe afghanistan or iraq or somewhere like they may be and i

says stronghold i was surprised to learn that it was in philadelphia pennsylvania freedom of speech is limits and this particular case it's our current obo acts of terrorism and they are really being indoctrinated by the dulce apparently because i doubt a small children came up with this on them so they're probably so the elders in a particular place and or their parents about this well the government should look at things like this is pretty clear that this could be you know some extremism hidden away from the public there are many people with very good investigative you get a kind of identity groups they are different races for the privilege of different cultures in the u.s. they can to have a watchful eye of the federal government on them just to make sure they don't go too far and commit an act of terrorism. which is writing itself one of the most poignant holidays all the end of may the ninth parade commemorating the end of.