if you give. iran partially suspends the two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement and takes an immediate hit from washington with another round of sanctions france and echoes in the us with the threat of its own sanctions while other communications call on iran not take such aggressive steps. vote count is under way in south africa and 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 is and

the possible implications of the election. the french and telecoms giant orange is sued for moral harassment with prosecutors arguing the company created intolerable working conditions that led to thirty five suicides. are broadcasting live from our studios moscow this is our international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. right now the 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 withdraw from the pact the 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 colin brain got more on the latest developments on the political reaction from

correspondent kate partridge in london and came up 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 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. 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 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 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 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. might compare say is in agreement with this as long as it doesn't contravene the rules and therefore if it does then be subject to sanctions where 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 jad serif 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 computer instrument on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than you should address 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 we spoke to cover. expert on iranian foreign and nuclear affairs who thinks europeans need to start looking out for their own interests instead of washington. we see this situation where compeer to iran's full implementation is numerous obligations u.s. has pulled out and the european is basically in noncompliance 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 the greenman they have the courage to stand up to our own cause and say big no to the us bullying you know make the us leave our own poor first the standards with

doing international law and so on. polls have closed in south africa and what is being called by some the most crucial election there in over twenty years with the vote count still in its initial stages of 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 centrist a democratic alliance that 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 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 they see both would fall below fifty percent we've had now the deputy former deputy president still in the polls as the president he was the the choice i want to see of 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 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 agency there's an agency that these massive reformation and the sense they selling is that. israel meant the ruling party's popularity is waning over perceived failure to address key issues it has come under fire for failing to

combat high unemployment which currently stands at about twenty seven percent also the fight against crime has been a key issue in the campaign with shaft and murder rates on the rise one of the most contentious 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 now be removed from the land without compensation now one of those calling for such reforms is julius malema the leader of the far left to economic freedom fighters or party by women has been previously convicted of hate speech and inciting violence against the country's white minority and expelled from the incumbent a c. for sowing racial division 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. know we are godly to a seat and do you know what. does. that do you know. i am a five that's. why we don't care now. why not. 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 i can guarantee the future. has come under fire for stoking racial tensions during his campaign. went on to say the candidates charged slogans come close to crossing a line. of course speaks of very non racial lines 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 win 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. more had brussels has slammed turkey's decision to rerun the mayoral. election in the country's biggest city istanbul the turkish president's party lost its sea there last month and now the use top diplomat among others in europe have stressed 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 taki.

some rallied in support of president are the ones decision to go back to the polls others have branded it in attack on democracy a recount confirmed a narrow victory for the opposition candidate in istanbul however the electoral authorities now scheduled a second vote in june international history professor alan scared told me my colleague earlier. he thinks the e.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 vote of it but snowe who then has to be persuaded to vote yes this was done when the danes voted no to must stick to it was done twice to ireland which put it against first pulled the nice treaty and then that is when treaty your first not very democratic we've seen that in catalonia. when you have

a referendum the people who want to rein 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 dorman democracy is not very good. a french telecom giant is on trial over charges that contributed to dozens of its employees taking of their lives more than after a short break this is our team international. tory 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's still done.

so the currency is in freefall there is no gold standard and there's no way to reconcile this and that 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 u.s. by saying well we don't have a recession anymore and we don't have any any pre-selection to defend our currencies value in any way they're opening the door in a big big way to extremely violent global conflict. and.

this is our international and 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 employees suicides over ten years ago here's our friends correspondent. a decade ago 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. 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 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 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 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 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 anger at the victims and their loved ones were very regret that the term manslaughter has not been used in view of the damage suffered by the victims what they have experienced and also view of the low penalty is incorrect this also concerns that 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 but 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 the company that compares to only thirty eight percent back in two thousand and ten but the many full my employees the dark days are not yet to. see 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. 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. now philadelphia authorities are investigating

while the islamic center where this was filmed has strongly condemned the incident it says the children were part of a program that was being run by a local school and has fired the person in charge. well at case they actually come in over here in the u.s. when i first saw the video i thought it was somewhere in 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 their 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 that get investigated 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. despite the mosques that response 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. little. a second world war monument in chicago is imagined actually it was erected by the liffey waning in the premier league which says it honors a war hero and resistance fighter for the leading jewish human rights organization says he was also a nazi collaborator the ceremony honoring. those who was held just days after

victims of the holocaust were commemorated around the world the lithuanian foreign minister also took part in the unveiling of the monument lithuania considers roman a national hero and maintains that he did not collaborate with the nazis under the code name nagas romanov's case was a prominent partisan and one of the baltic countries resistant resistance leaders he opposed to 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 why isn't all the center believes he led a gang of local vigilantes which persecuted the jewish community we heard from the director of the simon weisenthal center in jerusalem. or off who 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 in eastern europe did collaboration with the nazis include active participation in mass murder . russia is readying 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 in the first a time female cadets have taken part in the parade but this year they have

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greetings and salutation. well watchers despite tax day having come and gone back on april fifteenth here in the united states everyone this week is buzzing about taxes why because on wednesday the new york times by hook or crook published some of us president donald trump's most protected of secret information information on his taxes using printouts from mr trump's official internal revenue service tax transcripts the times is reporting that from one thousand nine hundred five to one nine hundred ninety four the numbers show that president trump then real estate developer an icon of the one nine hundred eighty s. yuppies decade of greed claimed on his taxes claims of taxes losses every year totaling one point seventeen billion in losses for the entire decade one point seventeen billion hauser's that is a big number in fact there was so much lose at the times reports that trump appears

to have lost more money than nearly any other individual american taxpayer during that time but that he also loved so much money that he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of the ten years. yes my friends it seems the donald is not big on paying his taxes shocking i know the president responded to the story tweeting you always wanted to show losses for tax purposes i mean i mean almost all real estate developers did it was sport naturally this news was met with the usual partisan hackery on capitol hill and in the new one the us news media with the republicans questioning the veracity of the documents and the reporting and democrats declaring trump is the king of all crooks and blah blah blah blah blah i'm sure russians got in there somewhere too if it's the democrats but the barrage of the sound bites twitter rants and i.r.s. forms what's lost on the pundits and politicians is that trump's actions put them right in line with some of america's biggest companies and their c.e.o.'s from amazon the delta airlines the general motors the netflix they all paid zero in

corporate taxes in two thousand and eighteen and that my friends is where the real scandal lies and that's why we should always be watching the hawks. it's. like you know that i got. this. well going on watching the hawks i am a robot and i'm loud and i have now managed to figure out a way to save a billion dollars i'm going to write a billion dollars in losses you know even on the most successful man in the world i haven't paid taxes.