rather it's very clear to me right now that the reformists are not going to win the june elections they're cut we have their presidential elections coming up in june secondly it wasn't just an exchange for chris inners for $7000000000.00 there would be 4 iranians being held by u.s. authorities in exchange for 4 iranian americans plus that the $7000000000.00 so it isn't one for the other it's a mutual exchange of prisoners in exchange as well as the payments which would come from the south and i don't know if i understand that. well what the point is is that the point is that the whole thing is premature it's not going to it's meant to . show that there is a conflict between the rouhani government and the i.r.g.c. and i think that that's the way it's going to progress john did you want to be on.

yeah i think there was 2 lives i think that certainly witnessed a move the saying is right that there is a conflict between the i.r.g.c. in the government and the kerry league kind of demonstrated that what was shared with the 2 with kerry and what kerry shared with the foreign minister certainly indicates that that is true but these are not you have suit mutually exclusive propositions that this is still a very very smart move by the iran to get out for others and disclose us early to undermine us us is ability to corral the herd the european cats as it were and you know to have a united front and be stronger negotiating position with iran no matter what you think the crew of the reason for doing it was this is certainly of the fact that it had and since it was such a such a good have such a good outcome for to iran it's hard to imagine that it wasn't deliberate and go ahead go ahead. you know the i.r.g.c. does not want these the jays t.p.o.

a renewed or any improvement they're looking to the $45400000000000.00 deal that they just made with china to offset any loss in sanctions and with china and that's going to be that's going to be the alternatives the sanctions they are your g.c. doesn't want competition what their industries which they own in iran and they all answer directly to the supreme leader and that's why you're going to probably see and i r g c president come june and john presidential elections as mike mentioned a moment ago are coming up do you foresee any shake ups there and could jim jeffords or recent job be in jeopardy. it's hard to know really i mean there's no real polling on this it's just a lot of informs very smart people trying to read tea leaves the outcome of these elections going to be very difficult to predict i don't think that at the end of the day you're going to have a substantively different iranian government and iranian foreign policy they still

want to develop a nuclear weapon they still want to develop the technology ballistic missile technology to deliver it they still want to spread trouble and support to terrorism throughout the region interestingly enough economically was regarding iran so much of iran's industrial infrastructure is european based is they're dependent on european parts and supplies and it could be very very difficult economically and hugely expensive for iran to essentially decouple themselves from europe it's not just a question of switching to china with with hundreds of billions of dollars of cash there is an enormous other cost and delays involved in that type of transition and definitely i think pretty predictable what might come in june because at the end of the day the ayatollah khomeini is still there and there's going to be a lot more for us to discuss in the coming weeks i'm sure gentlemen we'll leave it there mike maloof john jordan good to see you both thank you. thank you.

and after 20 years the final phase of ending america's for ever war in afghanistan formally began over the weekend the withdrawal of the last u.s. and nato troops will be completed by the end of summer according to u.s. authorities many may remember that president biden's that may 1st as the official start date of the withdrawal of those remaining forces somewhere about 25023500 u.s. troops still remain. and the foreign minister of the philippines went on a twitter tirade today demanding in blunt terms that china's naval vessels get out of the south china sea artie's john hardy has more. philippine foreign minister to door locks and made clear his feelings about china being in the disputed waters of the south china sea writing quote china my friend how politely can i put it let me see oh get the blank out what are you doing to our friendship you not us we're trying you you're like an ugly oh forcing your attentions on

a handsome guy who wants to be a friend not to father a chinese province lock since comments punctuate the philippine department of foreign affairs own demands that china remove its naval vessels from the disputed waters around the calais an island group and several other disputed regions insisting china has quote no law enforcement rights in these areas and protesting the shadowing blocking dangerous maneuver and radio challenges by the chinese coast guard against its philippine counterpart china has largely ignored manila's demands however and has kept does of the vessels in the region well philippine president rodriguez the target has had a for the most part friendly relationship with beijing the territorial dispute has been a sticking point for both countries whether or not his foreign minister's comments will anger beijing and what if any action the chinese take remains to be seen but tough talk aside president to talk today has made clear he doesn't want trouble with china or as he said a war and just last week the target profusely fate china for delivering coded 1000

vaccines to his country saying he was deeply indebted he was even live streamed on facebook receiving a dose of the sort of foreign vaccine warm feelings aside though the target has added there are quote things that are not really subject to a compromise and that includes he said pulling philippine vessels from the disputed waters for r.t. john heading. and still i had no mad land at home this year's oscar for best picture but many are wondering whether hollywood can actually play a role and helping solve homelessness in a state that over at the sport faced kid. regina hamm has a shocking 1st round exit for one name in the dredd open. and remember to keep up with all the latest news or catch up with anything you might have missed download the portable t.v. apps and you can watch us whenever you want we'll be right back. to

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no mad lands one big at the 2021 oscars taking home best picture giving leading lady frances mcdormand her 3rd academy award and director chloe's hour her 1st making her the 1st woman of color to take home the prize for directing but with the glitz and glamour of hollywood's big night behind us the real life drama of l.a. is growing homelessness crisis continues up almost 13 percent from the year before 2020 l.a. homeless service the 40 counted 66436 people on the streets a conservative estimate by residents estimation and every time the city says

they're gearing up to address the crisis building plans get punted and 11th hour by city officials who campaigned on one thing and then vote another way so joining us to discuss the hollywood apocrypha see is filmmaker author and friend of the show sean stone so sean you're also an l.a. resident so we should mention that a recent l.a. times op ed revealed that one city councilman from the san fernando valley moved to kill one of these homeless housing projects in chatsworth he says in the 11th hour by the way because this was approved in 2019 that the project is too close to schools and is too big so is this a case of local politicians paying lip service but then when it comes down to it it becomes a case of not in my backyard. yeah i mean there is there is a lot of motivations in terms of why he would want to kill it chatsworth is a welfare community and so the argument that it could be to be in close to

a school made it makes sense for that made for that type of community as you know the problem is that even if you prove something like this which is basically it's a housing for almost this that are not going to solve the situation of the actual problem you know the problem is not people necessarily missing house lacking housing opportunities for housing it's an overall infrastructure of people that are essentially displaced internally in so it's like you want to create another you want to build another project and have you know the subsidized housing for you know low income or no or no income housing available to people that's not actually necessarily giving them opportunity to get better because as you know with homelessness it's not just a lack of housing it's really as you know 3rd of the people homeless people have mental illness issues and at least a half are are not alcohol or drug abuse so again there is a deeper situational and. they say there's an epidemic beyond housing issue that's really i think where the be the bigger concern for now these details and at least

in the case of chatsworth it sounds like maybe that was like at least a band-aid on the problem and as you mentioned a lot of wealthy people reside in the valley a lot of them are hollywood types their actors directors producers and what have you so when these folks are out there making films like nomad land that raises awareness of the issue is are they doing much else to actually help solve the problem. right i mean this is exactly the problem when it comes to homelessness it's a great thing to say you know we we care but how do you actually transform people out of a homeless situation and i look to things like the midnight mission which has been in downtown los angeles for over 100 years and they are privately funded but they actually do things like taking almost people who choose to say i'm going to change my life and for a temperate of time they stay there they clean up their act they get education programs they get you know basically they they they get told how to put on put themselves in a suit and tie or a dress and because of themselves to get

a job and that's how you transform people so we need more initiatives like this and i think the problem is if you just talk about spending 20000000000 dollars as well as you know basically saying we need $1000000000.00 for the homeless thing well that's going to be what for the for the developers to build back projects essential 'd but it's not really transforming people's lives unless they get their act together yeah i hear you i mean i certainly don't see celebrities actually getting out there and putting you know their mind to this and working with city officials in any way and as you know i'm an ally native too but i haven't been home in about 18 months due to the pandemic is homelessness so my bad now that it has risen to crisis level. i would say so i mean i've seen it i've been watching it grow it wasn't it didn't really see it as a didn't just pop up in 2020 but in 2020 all of a sudden it became as it became so apparent that you are driving down the streets as you see here in the videos and you see 10 cities but skid row is the night that

for years now and now at brentwood it's you know it's just all over the place and even aired accounts of people saying they've had a lot more encounters with homeless people being violent who are violent you know or dangerous these kind of anecdotal stories you hear more of and you know lastly the pandemic has forced many people and in dire straits some of them driven to homelessness no doubt do you have an opinion on the matter especially for those who fell victim to pandemic related financial crises i mean what's the role of government here. sure and again i mean i think you know a lot of people are leaving california which is interesting because it is the homeless population about a quarter of it is actually came to california you know from abroad from other states but actually people that are driven out of here oftentimes by the pandemic or just are tired of the politics are leaving california so it's interesting how it's almost like the homeless the homeless are the main people coming in at this point and there are a lot of residents are out of here because of the various restrictions or whatnot the lockdown restrictions but overall that we are so-called nanny state so i do

think the government has you know there's a lot of safety measures in place for people to you know to basically have some level of survival protection. everybody i think is definitely keeping their eyes on l.a. because i think that's kind of like the the test the barometer of what to do because we do have that crisis back home our french on stone thank you so much for giving us some firsthand account. over to the latest coded 19 numbers now worldwide those cases topping 152000000 with some 3000000 reported deaths the u.s. is still leading the way with the most confirmed cases about 32000000 here followed by india and brazil here stateside the death toll harboring at about 577000. and a clinic in mercedes says it may have a solution at least to one persistent problem coated survivors face they're running a special rehabilitation program to help the regain their sense of taste and smell

those behind the program told us how it works the very top of the nose there is a small perforated bone that crosses the olfactory nerve they all fight is the only place of our brain that is in contact with the outside world when a virus into the body in order to avoid infection the brain the defense mechanism kicks in and the nerve disappears then it was true but this is how we can lose our sense of smell. a lot of people say after recovery their sense of smell has been distorted this is called pearls mia one instead of plus an ordinary smells you sense a bad smell as part of our olfactory recovery course we go for examinations as well as a consultation with a specialist during which we invite patients to do exercises to restore the sense of smell and taste. all right let's head over to regina ham at the sports h.q. now with a rather shocking exit and early round action at the madrid open it was quite the

bulgaria's agree or to me it sort of came to the madrid open as the 13th even secured well the opening match in south africa and lloyd harris well that could be an easy win harris who had defeated world number 4 down the team and world number 14 the shuffle of back in march inwards and by final this time you hope to pull the upset again for the 4th time 1st out here harris 4 games 3 up 4030 meter of surface harris breaks with his running forehand. today. just serves on this one this time for that point he easily wins with the stick the 1st set 63 seconds that we go to games easier to drive with the serve back in when he takes the point to make it 3 games to 2 it actually wins that number 363 which means tiring 3rd set here and it's a pretty lively back or to change the 2 pairs just powerful cross can cross back and had to be thrown started down the line the south african response to me to throw his chip on the final volley from harris well he's just going to get that

forehand harrison 633676 in the 4th when overtopped 28 to be right before. australia is playing host to what seems like most of the world surf league events on the calendar american john florence was tapped to be the favorite heading into the margaret river pro in western australia and while he showed why spectacular fashion there why a native shows why he is the one to beat at this event. lawrence who is known as something of a pipe specialist a guy in the tube coming out perfect for a 20 year old finish it off with this incredible want to into the waves for a perfect we're replaying about the technique and for cision of forms is unmatched which is the way it can be enough for even the most experience or for but he clearly goes you know what schools accuse governor i've got a perfect score of of course 10 and bounce back after to eliminate interest really in world surf league smorgon support but it wasn't a good day for brazil's jobson andre he gets caught in a massive way that i found out but regardless he is uninjured and qualified for the next phase of the event that is slated for may 12th i don't it's awful manilla to

enjoy life out there that are this are for it's fine for the fans you're on the beach you're like oh man yes it is also true just. yes i mean growing up on the west coast i've actually been to many of these events in having to beach surf city usa seeing it live in action when it does happen though. really hope like oh my gosh are they going to pop up or are they ok and then when they do you're like ok that was pretty cool yeah i really don't really serve to much of the east coast here we get waves but you know i can imagine watching that happen you do want their safety 1st after yes that was pretty cool luckily all was well there thanks for that regina that's going to do it for us right now make sure you keep up with everything and question at all times by downloading horrible t.v. apps you can watch whatever you want pulling on twitter instagram and really can't hurt regina underscoring and thanks for watching these.

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