iran partially suspends the two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement and takes an immediate hit from washington with another round of sanctions. france echoes in the us with the threat of its own sanctions while other innu nations call on iran not to take aggressive steps. the vote count is underway in south africa in what is being seen as the biggest election there in decades as the incumbent ruling party looks set to hold power we look at how divided political life in the country actually is and the possible implications of the election. from the french telecoms that giant orange is sued for moral harassment with the prosecutors arguing of the

company created intolerable burden conditions that led to thirty four thirty five suicides. by broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us. i think future of the historic two thousand and fifteen iranian nuclear agreement is hanging by a thread after a number of twists on wednesday washington has tightened of the screws further on iran with a new round of sanctions that is after tehran's partial withdrawal from the pact reason being it says to protect itself while stressing the deal should be saved europe has urged iran to avoid taking any aggressive steps earlier my colleague on bray got more on the latest developments and of the political reaction from

correspondents kate partridge in london and kill them off in 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 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 a 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 jump to. the trees have been complying with the open 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 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 which 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 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 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 aoe 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 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 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 my company 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. let's cross a live now to hooshang amirahmadi who is the founder and president of the american iranian council as always it's interesting to get your thoughts when things like this unfold thanks for being with us here on r.g.p. international. so. washington impose new sanctions on anyone who trades with iran in iron steel copper or aluminum that seems like a pretty big deal that's i mean they're trying to cut them off from the rest of the world how much will it hurt iran and european companies. that's bad news for iran because that's a major part of it on snuff and or oil exports but i'm my concern also is that i believe the sanctions on petro chemicals are on the dead raise. you know very very quickly in the near future so again. jump

administration has decided to strangle. it on unit. it's by by pressuring its economy by the maximum pressure that they say are going to country is in terrible shape economically and they cannot sustain more pressure perhaps and so i think this reaction untaet on for you know getting our tough to nuclear deal and that kind of a stuff that's. at reactionary active. behavior as opposed to being proactive that is to say did really don't want to have to do they don't want to get out of the nuclear deal but at the same time don't know what else to do so. they are really in terrible shape you know dabney their way alt and the you know four and the two different at the back so

iran i mean it's clear that they don't want to be playing these kind of games but are they in any kind of position to be making demands for example while threatening to stockpile low enrich uranium that puts them in a precarious situation. well that's right i mean again i think. you know you come to a point where you say no i am going to be did it by a bullet. dropping from the twenty s the story of a building i think iran is in that particular situation unfortunately so that it doesn't find a way out i mean. what else you would. stick can do i think at least they can use some threat maybe they think maybe it's. that will that would work i don't believe it will abort it will in been for that. you know

exacerbate the advance problems what the u.s. and with europe and that is no way out i believe the. dump administration has. decided to overthrow division in a steps. by first disarming get you know by from the nuclear side to a deed of lucian to god that is military is you know myside side and then at the end go after the regime it's sounds like. is there is a familiar path we have seen that in the past never in any other countries so iran in a perfect world would like to you to back them up on this decision but if it started to pulling away from elements of the deal it agreed to it puts the e.u. in an untenable position as well how can it possibly help if iran winds back on its own commitments. again as i said it our

noise and i know and you know it and will not get. to decide that reactive policy or action or behavior but then again it finds itself in a. in a terrible situation it doesn't know what to do this is a situation we're did really don't know how to move forward or even backward there are stocked think they ought to start in the middle of. a terrible situation i believe the biggest mistake of course the islamic republic made was the very beginning after nuclear negotiations that should have never never singled out the nuclear issue and and a negotiated that negotiated a need outside the larger. problems that it had with the united states

domestic. regional issue and so on but they made that mistake and then right next mistake they made was that they should have immediately read drawn from the nuclear deal after trump left immediately that way is that what would have and that is just bad and it and the europeans would have had time to adjust and perhaps get even more seriously in the middle and perhaps that would have led to their goshi asian after nuclear plus other matters and i think this is the second mistake now iran is making the third mistake by reactively reactively without any purpose but a saying i am drawing i have to tell you i am not even sure that iran will actually read it all. that they will i think this is just a bluff i think that's just a bluff unfortunately ted on has got used to this but. an absolute prize that you

don't understand that that word doesn't take it. one of these days i'm going to track you down and we're going to talk for hours and hours about this unfortunately live t.v. and we are out of time but it is something that definitely is worth chatting about more hope you'll come back with us and help us reprimands around. the founder and president of the american iranian council thanks for being with us thank you. or i polls have closed in south africa in what is being called by some the most crucial election there in more than twenty years with a vote count still in its initial stages the ruling african national congress party is in the lead a record forty eight parties threw their hats in the ring with three considered front runners polls published last month suggested the african national congress would continue governing the country the centrist democratic alliance despite a strong fight is expected to fall well short while the far left economic freedom

fighters are expected to double their vote 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 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 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 almost certain they see both would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy former deputy president as the president he was the choice i want to kill nelson mandela to be the present of the country all those years ago this is a sense that people are going to give him a chance to see if he could fix up the problems of the party now the point you've raised is not something being silently discussed is being openly discussed from

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

violence against the country's white minority and expelled from the incumbent and see for sowing a racial division this is back in two thousand and twelve but he has been back in the spotlight in recent months with some fiery rhetoric. white people you will marry me i'll let you know we are godly to a seat and do you know what. does. that do you know. how the spirit. has. come out. why we don't care now. why not now. why don't you know what time i'm saying to you we're not called for the killing of white people at least for now to the future all right malema has come under fire for stoking racial tensions during his

campaign garden again went on to tell us the candidates charged slogans come close to crossing the line so this man 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 in french telecom giant is on trial over charges that contributed to dozens of its employees taking their own lives more than after a short break this is our international.

so the currency is in freefall there is no gold standard and there's no way to reconcile this and that and the world's 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 well we don't have a recession anymore and we don't have any any trade election to defend our currency value in any way they're opening the door in a big big way to extremely violent global conflict. with this century both of. them some elements of the and at the moment do it isn't to people who would like to interact to which is happening to individuals and using

their judges to face groups with me to another we're interacting with the let's just think it's going to. expose those seeing the results. welcome back this is r t international now the french telecoms giant to orange and to several of its current and former top bosses are standing trial in paris and they are accused of moral harassment and of creating a work environment which prosecutors say led to dozens of employees suicides over ten years ago here's our friends correspondent charlotte to ski. a decade of 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 again about the violence that was perpetrated not on but on the thousands and thousands of employees at that time and french telecom. that climate you 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 me it

was young and i have been in the state of survival for more than ten years especially after my desperate gesture on trying to 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 in 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. a point that is the victims. 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 view of the penalty is

incorrect this also could this trial could open old. do we expect from this trial to try and understand why why they pushed people over the edge and it mustn't happen again somewhere else 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 to be employees say they are proud to work for the company that compares to only thirty eight percent back in two thousand and ten but the many full my employees don't day . get to. paris. a second world war monument in chicago is igniting passions it was erected by the lithuanian community which says it honors a war hero and resistance fighter but are you leading jewish human rights organization says he was also

a nazi collaborator ceremony are honoring. was held in just days after victims of the holocaust work memoried in around the world the 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 partisan and one of the baltic countries resistance leaders he opposed the soviet occupation during and after the second world war although there is no solid proof that he himself killed anyone when the country was occupied by the nazis the simon wiesenthal center believes he led a gang of local vigilantes which persecuted the jewish community we heard from the director of the simon wiesenthal center in jerusalem. thinks it is an insult to the victims of the war. it's basically spitting in the face of holocaust survivors of

the jewish community of any person with any morality who expects a member of the e.u. to preserve certain values and i can promise you that i don't mean people who collaborated 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 that 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 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 at least in europe did collaboration with the nazis include active participation in mass murder . russia is reading itself for its annual may ninth parade commemorating the

end of the second world war victory day also celebrates the role of women in the war it is certainly not the first time female cadets have taken part in the parade but this year they have a special mission after three months of rigorous training they have been putting their skills into formation. mom. this is my thought time participating in the victory day parade but it's the fos time to join on or a division if that's the twist for this year's parade. it

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and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. 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 doubts . with this manufactured sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round. the room signals.

this is broadcasting out around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the empire. i'm christiane and i'm daniel pearl. in washington we're glad you're on board straight ahead on today's program. the trade war rages on markets are quaking and the effects are far reaching across our world professor richard wolfe and jeff so our financial both went to him to sift through the latest shipping situations was deutsche bank is back in the hot seat and they could face fire from its shareholders over its recent scandals r t correspondent alex mahela to take us through what's left bank may be facing just weeks after the major

collapse of a major merger and off bad news article and again as a major exchange has been hacked and forty million dollars worth of crypto currency has gone missing apparently analysts. delve into the details of the hype and what this could mean by markets going forward all of that directly to get some headlines let's go. a grim warning on the risks of rising trade tensions leads our globe report today as the european commission warns again about the risks of the bronx and a possible u.s. china trade war could deliver a major shock to the european union's economy the commission has downgraded their forecast for growth in twenty nineteen by half a percentage point to one point four percent the commission also revised growth forecast for individual e.u. nations including europe's largest economy german.