that hille withdrawal from the twenty fifteen agreement if his demands for changes are not met alan fischer post often washington d.c. . europe's diplomats met in brussels to urge the u.s. to continue with the iran nuclear deal seeing they believed it improved global security know donald trump has agreed but says he won't do it again in a statement issued from the white house he called on his european allies to negotiate a supplemental deal in the next one hundred twenty days which would place a fresh restrictions on iran saying today i am waving the application of certain nuclear sanctions but only in order to secure our european allies agreement to fix the terrible flaws of the iran nuclear deal this is a last chance in the absence of such an agreement the united states will not again we have sanctions in order to stay in the iran nuclear deal and he warned those who for whatever reason choose not to work with us will be siding with the iranian regime's nuclear ambitions and against the people of iran and the peaceful nations of the world under u.s. law the president has to regularly rece

continues its proud and possible ties between russia and china's campaign alan fischer reports. and ricky has been with the f.b.i. for twenty years but in recent months he's been the target of repeated criticism from president bush and the deputy director played a role in the investigation in hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server his wife ran for office for the democrats in virginia and received campaign donations from clinton allies for the president that was enough for him to tweet how can the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe the man in charge along with lekan james komi of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her thirty three thousand illegally deleted e-mails be given seven hundred thousand dollars for his wife's campaign by clinton puppets during investigation. when mckibben age his intention to retire in march the president tweeted again f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits ninety days to go the white house the night it played any part in his the sit in to leave the f.b.i. i can tell you none of t

immigration policy a powerful american military and a strong nuclear deterrence program and as alan fischer reports from washington he also appealed for unity at home. oh donald trump that's got to go for a president who wants to unite the country his journey to the capitol in washington was marked by protests. because they wanted us inside a much warmer welcome for donald trump. the state of the union traditionally when a president leaves his vision for the future the state of our union is strong for donald trump a chance to look back at the tumultuous first year he boasted about his economic successes since the election we have created two point four million new jobs in thad including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone but he talked about cutting black unemployment is a storm the reaction from some democrats the row over immigration helped close down the government earlier this month he appealed to democrats to what with him and republicans to finally sort the issue so let's come together. set politics aside and finally get the job done. and as he talked about to migrati

renegotiate a deal in the next one hundred twenty days that took years to craft and put in place alan fischer washington. but iran's foreign minister mohammad javid zarif says the deal is not free negotiable on twitter he called trump's announcement a desperate attempt to undermine a solid multilateral agreement. spoke to people on the streets of tehran. nearly two and a half years after the nuclear deal was signed many iranians say they haven't seen any real benefits and that president hassan rouhani promised more than he could deliver a huge audience but that's at least they did get a house that had no impact at all in my life the price of rice has doubles me sixpence to millions in rent meanwhile the children of official sleep that people don't exist money goes my pockets out of the pocket of the woman selling things on the street which people but some are still willing to stand by their president communism on television is going to rwanda is doing his best of course there are some problems in the country sanctions pressure from abroad naturally impacts livelihoods and the economic situati

backing for the two thousand and fifteen deal after meeting iran's foreign minister in brussels alan fischer following developments in washington well we know the donald trump has been meeting is national security team and undoubtedly the whole iran deal is probably on the agenda we know that in the past rex tillerson who is the secretary of state h.r. mcmaster his national security advisor and to mattis who is the defense secretary they have been suggesting that they don't want to step this deal they don't want to blow it up what the united states should do is look to ways to try and amend it while working with their international partners but there is the possibility that will be no one nuclear related sanctions and that's certainly something that treasury sector steve mission suggested when he made a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room. i am expecting new sanctions on iran we continue to look at them we've rolled them out and i think. you can expect there will be more sanctions coming now we know that donald trump speaks to a lot of people before he makes these decisions

election so in a moment going to get more reaction to that story from washington where we have alan fischer standing by first though let's head to dab also we have a diplomatic editor james bays and so we're hearing a merica first speech there from china no surprises there but what was interesting was that he did stick to his script and it was perhaps a tone that we are not accustomed to hearing from president trying yeah he was being very careful in this speech as you say he was sticking to the words in the speech the words that appeared on the teleprompter in front of him i think will be a sigh of relief from the white house which didn't need another problem right now anderson relief from those here of the world economic forum because they know what president trump has said about global trade in the past in this body which has existed for norm fifty years is devoted to open global trade so they could have perhaps been concerned about the america first president with a message from what we saw here today which was affectively the salesman in chief was america first but not alone although t

calling on america's european allies to put new restrictions on iran is part of the agreement alan fischer has the latest from washington. europe's diplomats met in brussels to urge the u.s. to continue with the iran nuclear deal seeing they believe it improved global security no donald trump has agreed but says he won't do it again in a statement issued from the white house he called on his european allies to negotiate a supplemental deal in the next one hundred twenty days which would place a fresh restrictions on iran saying today i am waiving the application of certain nuclear sanctions but only in order to secure our european allies agreement to fix the terrible flaws of the iran nuclear deal this is a last chance in the absence of such an agreement the united states will not again we have sanctions in order to stay in the iran nuclear deal and he warned those who for whatever reason choose not to work with us will be siding with the iranian regime's nuclear ambitions and against the people of iran and the peaceful nations of the world under u.s. law the president has to regularly rec

holiday dedicated to the civil rights leader martin luther king alan fischer has more from washington d.c. across the united states there have been several events to mark the life of martin luther king at his memorial in washington his son led the commemoration i'm not here to talk about what has not happened because we know what has not helped or i'm here to do is to look to the future to figure out how we as a nation can come together. and is the nation that we always have been in alabama where the civil rights leader was in charge of a chart see a nice new statute to the international icon this year made memorial only dr king's legacy but now the courageous men and women who stood and fought for civil rights and justice during the fifty's and sixty's the president spent the day golfing in florida could mark the occasion in a video message it is the dream of a world where people are judged by who they are not how they look or where they come from but this president still faces claims he used a vulgar word to refer to african countries and others during immigration talks well two rep

where he will address parliament the palestinians have made it clear he's not welcome with them alan fischerreports from washington d.c. . america's vice president flies to the middle east with the country still facing international anger over its controversial decision to declare jerusalem israel's capital and all the protests may not be is furious or widespread mike pence will find there is still deep seated resentment at the american position typically these trips are about. trying to demonstrate support for u.s. priorities and prerogatives in the region and you know demonstrate how close we are with our allies and demonstrate how close we are with israel and demonstrate that we can come to some kind of compromise with the palestinians it's a big show these trips are ostentatious for a reason. but the practical kind of nuts and bolts of the trump ministrations approach on this issue is a known failure donald trump made his controversial announcement last month it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. a more number of sites had previously been identified it co

in his hands life out of washington alan fischer is there so why did mccabe step down early was it his decision or was he pushed for something changed in the last twenty four forty eight hours christopher ray who is the director of the f.b.i. said that he wasn't going to fire mccain he wasn't going to move his position now according to the new york times down early was it his decision or was he pushed. well something changed in the last twenty four forty eight hours christopher ray who is the director of the f.b.i. said that he wasn't going to fire andrew mccabe he wasn't going to move his position now according to the new york times across his desk came a report from the inspector general which talked about how the hillary clinton investigation into a private use of an e-mail server was handled was certainly part of that investigation in its initial stages until you recused himself according to the new york times mccabe was then told look we were thinking of moving year to another part of the f.b.i. deputy director number two in the organization he saw that very much as a demotion and

alan fischer al-jazeera washington. french prosecutors are investigating tech giant apple after it made it last month that it deliberately slowed down older phone models the inquiry focuses on a commercial practice forcing consumers to periodically replace products this is illegal in fund says the slowdown is intended to extend the lifespan of phones by putting less pressure on aging batteries technology analyst larry magid says it will be hard for the course of cool apple is criminally liable. i think apple has given an explanation which is likely to make it very difficult to get any punitive damages from apple and less it turns out apple with completely lying but frankly in the tech world that i live in if they were lying i think i would know about it not because i'm so smart but because a lot of smart people have looked into this and so far i think most people are thinking that apple was actually correct in how would finally got around to explaining why they did what they did a little late but they finally did give a

clinton and donald trump but trump's first year in office has polarized the country even more alan fischer travel to pennsylvania a state trying unexpectedly one see how deep the divide really is. america's political waters have not run smoothly over the past twelve months the separation the divisions are very obvious some find it hard to clear the support for the president but even with a badge with his name i will wear to events you know republican events but to wear it out you know people sometimes treat you a little different we've spoken with many on stands a few times over the past year and the early trump supporter she still believes he's doing a great job all he did was campaigned he told people what he wanted to do some people didn't like what he wanted to do and you know everyone expected that hillary was going to win and it was a shock to everyone that she didn't win so i think this was a much harder part of loss and i think that's why you know there is more of a divide when you pull published to mark one year since the inauguration shows the problem of one nation under trump di

when just a moment we'll get reaction from tehran but first let's get more on the answer from alan fischer who is in washington d.c. hi there alan is this for we were expecting from drum. what we didn't know what donald trump was going to do we know his senior advisers have said look iran's in compliance or european neighbors agree that in compliance we really have to find a way that we can say we don't like the deal but continue to be in the deal donald trump said three months ago he wasn't happy recertifying it one more time this time he said i will recertify it but no more i'm done and that matches up with the promise that he made when he was on the campaign trail he said he hated the iran deal thought it was a terrible deal thought around got too much for too little and he would scrap it so what he's doing now is saying to the european allies look we've got one hundred twenty days i want to come up with a plan i want is to look at ways we can have a supplemental agreement which poses more restrictions on to iran or else i will walk away now just twenty four hours ago the europeans met

alan fischer reports. oh. that's got to go for a president who wants to unite the country his journey to the capitol in washington was marked by protests. i. got the president of the united states. inside a much warmer welcome for donald trump. the state of the union traditionally when a president leaves oak his vision for the future the state of our union is strong for donald trump a chance to look back at the tumultuous first year he boasted about his economic successes since the election we have created two point four million new jobs in the morning to us including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone but he talked about cutting black unemployment is a story reaction from some democrats the row over immigration help close down the government earlier this month he appealed to democrats to what with him and republicans to finally sort the issue so let's come together. set politics aside and finally get the job done. and as he talked about chain migration there were audible boots under the curr

calls disastrous flaws are addressed russia says trump's comments all the extreme wing negative alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . europe's diplomats met in brussels to urge the u.s. to continue with the iran nuclear deal seeing they believed it improved global security know donald trump has agreed but says he won't do it again in a statement issued from the white house he called on his european allies to negotiate a supplemental deal in the next one hundred twenty days which would place a fresh restrictions on iran saying today i am waving the application of certain nuclear sanctions but only in order to secure our european allies agreement to fix the terrible flaws of the iran nuclear deal this is a last chance in the absence of such an agreement the united states will not again we have sanctions in order to stay in the iran nuclear deal and he warned those who for whatever reason choose not to work with us will be siding with the iranian regime's nuclear ambitions and against the people of iran and the peaceful nations of the world under u.s. law the president has to regularly re

still investigating a possible ties between russia and trump's campaign alan fischer as more. andrew mackay has been with the f.b.i. for twenty years but in recent months he's been the target of repeated criticism from president bush and the deputy director played a role in the investigation in hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server his wife ran for office for the democrats in virginia and received campaign donations from clinton allies for the president that was enough for him to tweet how can the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe the man in charge along with lekan james komi of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her thirty three thousand illegally deleted e-mails be given seven hundred thousand dollars for his wife's campaign by clinton puppets during investigation when mckibben knows his intention to retire in march the president tweeted again f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits ninety days to go the white house the night it played any part in his the sitting to leave the f.b.i. i can tell you non

israel where he will address the parliament the palestinians have made it clear he's not welcome alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . america's vice president flies to the middle east with the country still facing international anger over its controversial decision to declare jerusalem israel's capital and all the protests may not be as furious or widespread mike pence will find there is still deep seated resentment at the american position typically these trips are about. trying to demonstrate support for u.s. priorities in prerogatives in the region and you know demonstrate how close we are with our allies and demonstrate how close we are with israel and demonstrate that we can come to some kind of compromise with the palestinians it's a big show these trips are ostentatious for a reason but the practical kind of nuts and bolts of the trouble ministrations approach on this issue is a known failure donald trump made his controversial announcement last month it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. a more number of sites had previously been identified it c

appeared quite so polarized a correspondent alan fischer traveled to a state trump unexpectedly one in twenty sixteen pennsylvania to see how deep the divide truly runs. america's political waters have not run smoothly over the past twelve months the separation the divisions are very obvious some find it hard to clear the support for the president but even with a badge with his name i will wear to events you know republican events but to wear it out you know people sometimes treat you a little different we've spoken with many on stan's a few times over the past year and the early trump supporter she still believes he's doing a great job all we did was campaigned he told people what he wanted to do some people didn't like what he wanted to do and you know everyone expected that hillary was going to win and it was a shock to everyone that she didn't win so i think this was a much harder part of loss and i think that's why you know there is more of a divide and you pull published to mark one year since the inauguration shows the problem of one nation under trump divided three in four amer

he can shed more light on the events of the last year or so allan many thanks out as there is alan fischer in washington let's hear now from glen col a former deputy national intelligence officer of transnational threats at the cia he joins us from boston what do you make of all of this glenn. well i had been hoping that mccabe would stay until his planned retirement for the simple independent of anything that the trump administration or the republicans would do because it would create the impression of the f.b.i. bending to political pressure whatever the facts the facts appear as as we just heard in the excellent assessment by our colleague appear to be that in fact there there isn't just the appearance that there has been political pressure we heard a lot of it for the past months and something has happened so this is profoundly disturbing it's yet another chip in the edifice of the separation of politics from the rule of law and the independence of the justice department the law enforcement bodies of united states in this instance the f.b.i. intelligence community and frankly american

alan fischer al-jazeera pittsburgh as we mentioned gender divisions have been a big issue in trump's first year really sparked by those crude comments he made about sexual assault and a videotape which was leaked during the campaign and so it was a day off to trump's inauguration millions of people took part in what was called the women's match it was massive as this map from al jazeera dot com shows you the hoth a million people in washington d.c. nearly half a million new york six hundred twenty five thousand in los angeles not to mention all those other cities on the map it was the big biggest single day of protest in american history and it's happening again today rosalynn jordan is live at one of the marches in washington d.c. early days i know right but what's expected today. well this is perhaps going to be one of the smaller marches ironically only about five thousand or so people are expected to turn out here at the steps of the lincoln memorial to express not just their opposition to donald is the u.s. president but to also call for rights for bin and women and they're also

self-proclaimed deal maker he can still pull something together pence's visit will test the new waters alan fischer al-jazeera washington. turkey is mobilizing thousands of free syrian army rebels inside syria they were taken in a convoy of buses as part of a military operation against syrian kurdish fighters known as the white in the syrian town a bath rain he calls them a terrorist group has intensified shelling on afrin in recent days and turkish officials say an offensive is imminent seventy the aca is an anti-hero in the turkey syria border. the situation around the fighting is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand free syrian army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards the east of affluent and this is all in line with the political rhetoric that's been coming out of anger over the last week or so the last voice added to that the defense minister on friday saying that the operation would happen that there should be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to

sanctions are being considered alan fischer has more from washington well we know the donald trump has been meeting as national security team in an doated leave the whole around deal is probably on the agenda we know that in the past rex tillerson who is the secretary of state h.r. mcmaster who's the national security advisor and to matters who is the defense secretary they have been suggesting that they don't want to step this deal they don't want to blow it up what the united states should do is look two ways to try and amend it while working with their international partners but there is the possibility that will be no one nuclear related sanctions and that's certainly something that treasury sector steve munition suggested when he made a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room. i am expecting new sanctions on iran we continue to look at them we've rolled them out and i think. you can expect there will be more sanctions coming now we know that donald trump speaks to a lot of people before he makes these decisions he has heard from pres the core of france who said the in

limits the democrats say their position is absolutely clear no deal in dhaka no deal on spending alan fischer i'll just washington. that this is al jazeera these are the top stories russia's foreign minister is warning that a u.s. coalition plan to build a syria border security force could break up the country the plan has also been criticized by turkey and the bashar al assad government the u.s. says the thirty thousand strong force will help stabilize syria. pope francis is arrived in chile for his first stop on a visit to south america the pontiff landed in the capital but there be intense scenes and of his visit with five churches vandalized in recent days the protests are expected against the alleged cover up of sexual abuse in the catholic church security for the papal visit has been ramped up as a result. palestinian leaders have recommended that the palestine liberation organization suspend its recognition of israel they've been taking part in a meeting of the central council focusing on american recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the council also declared that the us has lo

alan fischer al-jazeera washington now firefighters are battling a blaze at trump tower in new york the headquarters of president donald trump's business empire now the new york fire department has was called to the building during morning rush hour after the electrical fire broke out near the roof three people injured. emergency crews in central argentina are struggling to control wildfires there which have been raging for a week hot dry weather has worsened conditions for those firefighters in the national park at the center of the province firefighters are using heavy machinery to open roads and cut off the fire one hundred thousand hectares of land so far been burnt. that's also summertime in argentina where dozens of cultural festivals are in full swing organizers say one of them is quite unique as to isabel reports the festival reflects the heart of argentina's traditions where bed trained for years with a dream of becoming a dance champion. was the small city of level of a in the central province of the court of the law is transformed every year by my lambo. danced exclusively by

for the greater good but there's no evidence of that happening called reality as your two begins alan fischer al-jazeera pittsburgh. now finally this bulletin if you're interested in traditional steam locomotion eiffel tower was made of the condo in the model engineering show in london as the place for you there are hundreds of exhibits but many say it's becoming a lost art because of the digital era pizza shop explains why. toys for the boys will not exactly this is london showcase of modeling forty five clubs and societies display more than two thousand exhibits but you struggle to find the few in the crowd under the age of sixty. modeling may be on its way to being a bygone record it's produced. it took twenty seven months to build his tower in paris using the regional drawings colin davis spent over a year to create the precise dimensions of this complex architectural masterpiece the half inch hole spacing for the. is exactly a five foot six inches which is about height perhaps more challenging in scope and scale the five metre long replica of the royal navy's h.m.s. oc royal dan forty st

alan fischer al-jazeera washington. victims have been dealt a blow with a drug make a fire deciding to end its research into the diseases john hendren reports the decision by drug maker finds or to end its expensive high risk research into all timers and parkinson's disease marks a devastating blow for tens of millions of people around the world in a statement pfizer says this was an exercise to reallocate spending across our portfolio to focus on those areas where our pipeline and our scientific expertise is strongest the alzheimers association says it's disappointed that pfizer is ending its investment in neuroscience research. pharmaceutical companies have long argued that the more money they have available for research the more patients would benefit it was a sales pitch pfizer c.e.o. made in washington last march our responsibility is to produce the best and greatest medicines we can they make them and biggest impact on human life this industry needs to have a return that allows it to continue to do its research al

russia in the two thousand and sixteen election and i will get more reaction to that story from alan fischer who's in washington d.c. first though let's go to davos for our diplomatic editor james bays is standing by and so the thrust of the trumps message in that speech america first doesn't mean america alone how would you describe the tone we heard from him today i think we had a somewhat restrained tone we certainly have a very scripted president trump i think will be a sigh of relief here from those who come regularly to the world economic forum here for speakers you know the things that president trouble said in the past about global trade i think they were pretty fearful about what he might say at this gathering but as you heard him say america first but not america alone and certainly making the case that he is the salesman in chief i think is the message that they were they could accept at least. but perhaps not so restrained in his comments about the media he couldn't help but have a day following this report about robert muller. yeah absolutely he knows what the headlines are back

rest all will be split between the republican national committee and trump's reelection campaign alan fischer has more from florida. well there are two things that don't really wanted to do this weekend one was come to florida and play golf the other was to be the star attraction at a big event at his monologue a resort where his friends and supporters would gather and tell him what a great job he was doing one year into the presidency well he's not chasing a golf ball around he's busy playing hardball in washington and you know with the event at mar a lago initially it was postponed on friday the trip to florida perspire and on friday afternoon but just in the last couple of hours it has been completely canceled his places horsed will be taken by son eric and his wife laura is very popular with some supporters very public popular with republicans in general but when you're paying one hundred thousand dollars for a peer of tickets which is meant to get you a big meal an open bar and a picture with the president of the united states or if you've paid two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the

limits the democrats say their position is absolutely clear no deal on deca no deal on spending alan fischer i'll just near washington. you're watching off their arms the whole robert these are all top stories the central council of the p.l.o. is considering withdrawing the organization's recognition of israel they've been meeting to discuss u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. also russia's foreign minister is warning syria could break up because of the u.s. helping to form a security force of thirty thousand many kurdish fighters on the syrian border and turkey is threatening to respond by attacking the kurdish stronghold of the three in northern syria a homegrown court session has been adjourned without making a ruling on the final appeal of three pro-democracy activists joshua one nathan law and alex child are convicted over their role in the twenty fourteen umbrella protests now there are bail and the court was due to decide if they stay free or go to jail more than three hundred fifty migrants bound for europe from libya have been rescued while trying to cross the mediter