it's. seeing the results. around partially suspend the twenty fifty new clear agreement takes an immediate hit from washington with another round of sanctions. from the united states with the threat of its own sanctions while other e.u. nations call on iran not to take aggressive steps. also this hour the vote counts under way in south africa in what's being seen as the biggest election there in decades because the incumbent ruling party looks set to hold power we're going to how divided political life in the country is and the possible implications of the election.

and the french telecoms giant orange is sued for. the prosecutors arguing the company created intolerable working conditions that led to thirty five suicides and . good morning from now on may the ninth. welcome to news for r.t. international the future of the historic twenty fifteen iranian nuclear agreement is hanging by a thread after a number of twists on wednesday washington's tighten the screws further on iran with a new round of sanctions that's after tehran's partial withdrawal from the pact the reason being it says to protect itself while stressing that 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 partridge in

london and new york. washington is talking about full pressure on iran 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 usas 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 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 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 iran saying that the ball is in europe's court the european countries will ultimately determine what happens next tell you about. the 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 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. i'm 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 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 part which is an r.t.s. london bureau 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 iran 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 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 then there was an interesting moment in the press conference when a journalist asked jeremy hunt whose side are you on while 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 it 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 jadzia reef 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 such a gay 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 back the u.s. or when you back iran. came all over reaction now at this time with chairman of the british conservative think tank the bow group welcome back to r.t. the united nations has confirmed numerous times that iran has been in compliance with the terms of the twenty fifty nuclear deal but prove to the trumpet ministration have the said otherwise. well i think it's that they still you certainly do have indications not just that iran has broken. elements of the park but also that iran continues to be a sponsor of terror beyond that i think the trumpet ministration sound the agreement to be a bad deal for the united states. so on almost every facet in the analysis of the current administration it is not the right deal for the united states and that's where they pulled out more mr trump says he's ready to negotiate a new deal but if you're of work. why would you contemplate that if you've got mr

trump who's just torn up one deal it seems that whoever you change in the white house everything can go back to square one anyway doesn't exactly set the stage for reliable future diplomacy does it. well i think what it does is it sets the stage for the united states no longer being taken for a ride and i think many people including myself still that what the previous around built it was essentially reward iran for engaging in in support terrorism and for developing a hostile nuclear program and. the trumpet ministration has always said it's willing to come back to the table and do a deal that makes sense for the united states and and works with iran and. quite frankly we have to acknowledge that the united states is in a far stronger negotiation position than iran and that's what president trump is looking to recalibrate. you've described as a strong position others are referring to and have been on this channel the saving as the united states bullying this one

a deal that was just bilateral between the united states and iran there were many other experienced leaders from many countries who got involved in this deal instead of the united states the started pulling the strings were probably. well i think it's a strange thing to call bullying rewarding a nation for not developing a hostile on the program and rewarding a nation for continuing to sponsor terrorism. i think that's a very strange definition of bullying and what we've seen in the trump administration across the board is a new way of doing things that's what the american people want it i think that's what people want all across the west and the fact that you know the old school establishment did things in a different way i think very much cruise that so that trump is delivering on his election promises if washington has these serious issues with iran and yet is threatening to sanction allies in europe and companies there from doing business with iran how is that all bullying. because it's approaching

a run because the decision that the iranian government took to develop a hostile nuclear program to make comments about israel about wiping israel off the map and and continuing it's not a new thing you know iran has been a major sponsor of terrorism for decades and that certainly hasn't changed. the deal so to call the united states bullying for saying we want to get back to the table and we want to look at this again because we think that this deal does not make sense for the united states i think is a perfectly reasonable position the united states is is by far the strongest military power in the in the power that underwrites the other european powers that you're talking about through through nato so i think it has every right to bang the table but if this deal that does start to totally unravel after all the

hard work the way into getting to twenty fifteen would that mean iran openly pursuing american or any regime and one isn't there a risk that test makes the well a far more dangerous place than it does now with iran operating under some restrictions well iran has been pursuing this this new program for many years it goes back to the to the period of office of the dean jetty. so this is this is clearly been an iranian strategy for a long time and what they've done is they've leverage that and used it to to lobby international powers to relax the sanctions against them and to. give them sweetheart deals but i think the the very premise of that is is. alien to many people in the united states and certainly alien to president trump and he doesn't think that it's appropriate for the united states to be going on bended knee to another nation because that nation attempted to develop

a hostile nuclear program and in fact i think what the united states is saying. in its maneuver of major military ordnance to the area is. rather than looking at things in terms of what you can get out the united states be where developing such a program because the united states won't allow you to do so and will prevent you from doing so with military force if necessary and a lot of brinkmanship going on right now appreciate your insight on this the batteries quiney from the british conservative think tank the boat group thanks for time tonight. the vote count is under way in south africa in what's being called by some the most crucial election there in over twenty years preliminary results are expected sometime on thursday a record forty eight party threw their hat 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 be 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 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 if the former president of the a.n.c. or the government of south africa president zuma at the time was still in power i would tell you now i'm almost certain the siebold would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy of former deputy president saddam opposite as the. president he was the choice i want to clear of nelson mandela to be the present 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 is an agency that needs massive reformation and the sense they selling is that. is your main but the ruling parties popularity is waning over a perceived failure to address key issues has come under fire for failing to combat high employment are currently stands at twenty seven percent also the fight against crime has been key to the campaigning with effort and murder rates on the rise but probably the most contentious issue has been land reform seventy one percent of farm land is in the hands of white farmers and some parties have been suggesting that they be removed from that land without compensation one of those calling for such reform is julius malema he's the leader of the far left economic freedom fighters the party labor's previously been convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against the country's white community he was also expelled from the incumbent and see for showing so being a racial divisions back in twenty twelve but he's been back in the spotlight in

recent months with some fiery rhetoric. what you will. know we are god. do you know what. does. that do you know. what the spirit. has that's. why we want to know. why not. why don't you do you know what 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 a limb has 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. of course speaks a very nonracial line 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 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. this is about see from his biggest telecoms is all new trial accused of driving its employees to take their own lives long not after the break. so the currency is in freefall there is no gold standard and there's no way to reconcile the something in the world as 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 us by saying well we don't have a recession anymore and we don't have any any trade alexion to defend our currency value in any way they're opening the door in a big big way to extremely violent global conflict. with hopes as. you put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want to listen. to going to proceed with what before we in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of. course.

welcome back the french telecoms giant orange and several of its current and former top bosses are standing trial in paris they're accused of moral harassment and of creating a work environment which prosecutors say led to dozens of employee suicides over ten years ago here's a france correspondent. 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. and 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 the thousands and thousands of employees at that time and france 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 h.q. another a fifty seven year old set himself alight in a company car park twelve more attempted to take their own lives including. one for his young i have been in the state of survival for more than ten years especially after my desperate gesture on a twenty six to eleven on the. 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 see. executives past and present and now facing charges may be

related to more of 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 destabilize teens charges if proving 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 the slaughter has not been used in view of the damage suffered by the victims what they have experienced and also view of the low penalties is incorrect this also. this trial could open old. 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. 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 a former employees the dog days are not yet to. see paris. a second world war monument in chicago has caused a diplomatic route it's been erected by the lithuanian community which says it all as a war hero and resistance fighter but a leading jewish human rights organization says he was also a nazi collaborator the ceremony honoring a doll first us was held just days after victims of the holocaust were commemorated around the world lithuanian foreign minister also took part in the unveiling of the monument lithuania considers a national hero and maintains he did not collaborate with the nazis. under the code name. was

a prominent part of town and one of the baltic countries resistance leaders he opposed the soviet occupation german after the second world war where there's no solid proof that he himself killed anyone when the country was occupied by the nazis the son of the center believes that he led a gang of local vigilantes which persecuted the jewish community we heard from the director of the son of the sins all center in jerusalem efraim zuroff who thinks it's an insult to the victims of the war. it's basically spitting in the face of how of course survivors of the jewish community of any person with any morality who expects a member of the e.u. to preserve certain values there and i can promise you that i don't mean people who are collaborators with nazis is not one of the values of the european union or any other normal organization there's no evidence on the other hand because himself killed anybody but the gang that he headed was actively involved in persecution from the top and that the soviet union crumbled there's been

a very systematic attempt to rewrite the narrative of world war two and the holocaust the trying to hide the role played in the how of course 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 . and russia is readying itself for its annual may the ninth parade commemorating the end of the second world war victory day also celebrates the role of women in the sun you know the first time female cadets taking part in the parade but this year they've got a special mission for three months of rigorous training they've been putting their skills into formation.

but this is my thing. time participating in the fig tree day parade but it's the fast food joint on or a division that's the twist for this year's parade. it wasn't easy getting used to the combine rifle to the special position you need to be and while holding. i'm a novice to edwards and this is a special technique to keep it for article on straight. history instructor. and. it's simply as you hearing praise from the men from the owner of the division they say that our girls have learned quickly and to the same level as the voice which it took a long time to. write

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