but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera. at the white house. all right so let's go and bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett former white house and state department official with responsibility for iran in tehran. a professor of world studies at the university of tehran and in geneva john mark rickly the head of global risk at the geneva center for security policy welcome to you all hillary i want to start with you so here is yet another shift in tone from donald trump earlier this month he threatens iran now he's saying that he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani with no conditions is there some kind of strategy here or is this a spontaneous statement. well it's hard to say for sure with president trump and in particular the wild swings in rhetoric to make it more difficult but i think a sober analysis of it trumps moves and what he's done on the world stage and who he actually speaks to and from what we understand listens to in washington i think there is a s

other signatories to the nuclear deal see the still support it and are looking at ways to save it alan fischer. well nader hashimi as director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says donald trump's hardline approach is forcing iran to make drastic counter threats. i think this is a threat that iran has issued in response to american threats to try to destabilize the iranian economy as we're seeing right now. they can produce quite a bit of disruption in your wrong economy and they have gotten the attention of you wrong as leaders so what we've seen right now as a result of unilateral americans engines the drop in the value of the iranian currency by roughly fifty percent over the last several weeks or seeing. major so economic protests taking place in iran they're not directly related to americans and shoes but are indirectly connected to deteriorating economic conditions so the united states is you know perceived as tough or hard want policy and the iranian leadership is starting to anik and i think these threats that we're seeing to you know shut down the st

the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal which trump withdrew from two months ago from al-jazeera as alan fischer at washington. really in president has been a two day visit to switzerland one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boycott really you know oil as part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten the oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil now really and fishes have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't t

from a landmark twenty fifty nuclear deal alan fischer as the story. the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. any time they want the u.s. spy lifted the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in may the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and vote to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions and moakley conditions means that he's ready to sign on the dotted line so to speak with the iranians so will that be acceptable to the region to the powers in the region to the g.c.c. specifically saudi arabia and the us. i doubt that we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury donald trump very north korea and its leader before agreeing to a meeting and ea

well alan fischer john joins me live from the white house so what is he saying about this potential meeting with the iranian president. well it is a surprise that he would be quite happy and willing to meet with president rouhani he was responding to a question that was asked by a journalist some people will say this is classic donald trump he's been under pressure over the last couple of days to talk about poll money for his former campaign manager who goes on trial in virginia on tuesday or to talk about the militant vesta geisha into lead russia collusion and suddenly he is given the american media this born to pursue which is a possible meeting with rouhani you've got to remember though we've been here before remember when donald trump described him as little rocket man how he very believe criticize north korea how he threatened them with fire and fury which became the title of a best selling book by someone who lifted the lid on the donald trump white house and that actually happened he has been talking about vladimir putin and how he would like to have a summit with him and just a few

and europe lately alan fischer joins us live now from the white house so these two leaders appear to have quite a bit in common allen does that mean they're likely to get along. who knows what donald trump i mean what we do know is that donald trump is looking for friends in europe and he doesn't have a lot of them at the moment but he's seeing in the italian government a spiritual alignment because of course you remember that it was elected on the wave of popular support and popular anger it should guarded as populist its positions reflect a lot of what donald trump campaign dawn it is anti immigrant it is you know a skeptic is in favor of closer ties with russia and less demonizing of blood in me or putin you'll remember that when donald trump called full of blood to me a putin and russia to be readmitted to the g. seven to become the g. eight the one voice that said that's a good idea was the italian voice as well so with all of those things coming into focus then perhaps don't trump will see he has perhaps got someone that he can do business with you remember the the slogan that

midterm elections which are taking place of course in november so let's get more on us now from alan fischer in washington alan what's been the reaction there. well you understand that facebook were under a great deal of pressure after the twenty six thousand election where many people felt that pages that originated in russia were certainly controlled by people in russia helped to influence the election and mark zuckerberg went on to capitol hill in april this year and told politicians look we made a mistake we will get better at this and no facebook essentially goes through all the pages that are on facebook with artificial intelligence and then followed up with human investigators and of the think there is anything suspicious they then decided to take action and what we've phoned in just the last few weeks the phone these thirty two pages know the see that indicated some divisive political activity in authentic behavior is hope that facebook actually describes that one of the pages that they flagged up was a page that was organizing nor write. nor write to the right rally which was going

with an iranian leader since one nine hundred seventy nine live to tell just a moment but first alan fischer has this report from washington d.c. . the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. any time they want the u.s. spy lifted the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in may the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and vote to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions and moakley conditions means that he's ready to sign on the dotted line so to speak with the iranians so will that be acceptable to the region to the powers in the region to the g.c.c. specifically saudi arabia and the us. i doubt we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury. north korea and its leader before ag

from the landmark twenty fifty nuclear deal alan fischer now reports. the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. any time they were in the u.s. piloted the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in may the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and both to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions and no preconditions means that he's ready to sign on the dotted line so to speak with the iranians so will that be acceptable to the region to the powers in the region to the g.c.c. specifically saudi arabia and the us i doubt that we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury donald trump north korea and its leader before agreeing to a meeting and earlier th

united states and iran and i will speak to same in the iranian capital tehran but first let's go to alan fischer who is the white house in washington d.c. alan was a difference a week can make small talk to different rhetoric from what we were hearing just seven days ago. exactly he said at that point that if iran threatened america at any point in the future then it would stuff suffer historical consequences and remember seeing a cartoon just after that and that particular pro-trade iranian leader sitting round the television watching this saying oh goody we're getting a summit and that is perhaps how they feel that donald trump has done this before that he criticizes regimes very strongly you remember he called the north korean leader a little rocket man and threatened fire and fury if he ever considered attacking the united states he then went to a summit and many people said he got very little out of the summit and that's what critics are now saying donald trump has. had track record of doing this of threatening regimes of then setting up a summit and then walking away without any deal but i

penalties alan fischer has no. really in president has been in a two day visit to switzerland one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boycott really you know oil as part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten the oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in anwar is to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil. really in fissures have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran wi

other signatories to the nuclear deal see the still support it and are looking at ways to save it alan fischer. letter hashimi is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says mr trump's hardline approach to forcing is forcing iran to make drastic counter threats. i think this is a threat that iran has issued in response to american threats to trying to stabilize iraq and on as we're seeing right now. they. produce quite a bit of disruption in the wrong part of me and they have gotten the attention of the wrong leaders so what we've seen right now as a result of the lateral american sanctions the drop in the value of your own currency by about the fifty percent over the last several weeks or seen. major canonic protests taking place in iran they're not directly related to americans and but are indirectly connected to deteriorate and economic conditions so united states has you know pursued this proper hard want policy and iranian leadership is starting to be adding and i think these threats that we're seeing to you know shut down the straits of hormuz or to

deal in may and one countries to stop importing iranian oil by november or thanks penalties has alan fischer. really in president has been in a two day visit to switzerland one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boy quote really annoying this part of stronger international sanctions the president hassan rouhani has appeared to threaten oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil in iran would not be able to export its oil. really infectious have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers. between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever nee

other signatories to the nuclear deal say they still support it and are looking at ways to save it alan fischer. the syrian government and russia have intensified their bombing campaign in southern there are province that's according to opposition media which says strikes escalated after talks about a ceasefire with rebels broke down three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes since this offensive started more than two weeks ago bernard smith said that you are crossing on the jordan syrian border. these people move to the border area to escape the fighting in daraa province but they also fear the syrian government which considers them terrorists the being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even executioners this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like in jordan or another other country or internationa

nuclear deal in may and warned countries to stop importing iranian oil by november or face penalties alan fischer has more. the reunion president has been in a two day visit to switzerland one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boycott really annoying this part of stronger international sanctions the president hassan rouhani has appeared to threaten oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil in iran would not be able to export its oil now really and fishes have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran wi

about a possible block to the strait of hormuz in response to american threats of more sanctions alan fischer has more. the u.s. wants countries to boycott really you know oil is part of stronger international sanctions the president hassan rouhani has appeared to threaten the oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that someday or produce a countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil. really and fish also threaten to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever need to really exercise this threat we have to remember iran is not the only country that is upset with the u.s. pressure on opec all that idea of the oil exports

divisions before november's vote almost three hundred thousand people follow the suspended pages alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the phone to the facebook mark zuckerberg went to capitol hill to admit his company hadn't done enough to stop foreign groups trying to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. now as part of its continuing investigation into election interference it discovered it's happening again and so it has suspended thirty two pages on the platform and instagram which it also means they are going to be a hair trigger alert for you know for the foreseeable future so any instances that crop up like this they're likely to take to take action and then be public about that action the company uses artificial intelligence and human investigators to flag up automated accounts. you know only deal with the face of social issues aimed at finding conflict and upset. one page called resisters created an event a counter protest to unite the righ

about a possible block to the strait of hormuz in response to american threats of more sanctions alan fischer has more. the u.s. wants countries to boycott a really annoying part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as nice as it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil. really and fishes have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so that it's not always point that are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever need to really exercise this threat we have to remember iran is not the only country that is upset with the u.s. pressure on opec all that idea of the oil e

but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. for the u.s. secretary of state has already walked back some of trump's comments might pompei or says he's on board with meeting iran's president but he listed several requirements before it could go ahead. president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worthwhile to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have the conversation with them on the same bus ravi joins us now live from tehran so what kind of reaction are we getting from iranian officials on this wednesday. well while a summit between the united states and iran would be an incredible news story i dare i say we should not get our hopes up the iranians are maintaining the position that they do not trust the trumpet ministration and they do not take the overtures fr

but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. actually has state pump air seemed to contradict the president he says he's on board meeting iran's president says several requirements before it could go ahead. president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevent proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them let's get more reaction now from tehran was saying that same what are you hearing that. well the latest iranian official to add to a chorus of response to president trump. casual invitation has been the interior minister who no surprises here said that trump cannot be trusted and so we're not going to talk to him and this is really been the running theme ever since donald trump pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and we've bee

from the landmark twenty fifty nuclear deal alan fischer reports. the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want any time they were the u.s. by.

but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house same bus route he has more from terre. donald trump has said over and over again that he's america's man to go shoot a better deal with iran iranians have repeatedly said there is no ready to go shooting a nuclear deal that they signed three years ago and that is the point it was reiterated by a political deputy a lower level official in the president's office in a tweet tonight in which he basically made the point that if donald trump believes in talks if he believes in negotiations then he has to appreciate the process of negotiations as well and we respect the outcome that's already happened his suggestion to move forward on what he called was a rocky path was for the united states to stop all of its hostile rhetoric towards iran and rejoin the twenty fifteen nuclear deal to join comprehensive plan of action now in daylight hours iranian leaders are expected to take a look at this term unconditional it's very different from the twelve points that was p

but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. but the u.s. secretary of state has already walked back some of trump's comments mike says he's on board with meeting iran's president but he listed several requirements before it could go ahead president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them ravi is live for us in toronto has been any reaction to that offer of talks there saying. we have had some reaction just a few minutes ago we heard from the head of the parliamentary commission on national national security and foreign policy and he said that trying to secure talks with a sovereign nation through force and threats is not going to achieve that goal and last night shortly after donald tru

iran in a moment we'll speak to same bus ravi in the iranian capital tehran but presidents go to alan fischer who is the white house aisle and they say a week is a long time in politics the sort of rhetoric that president trump was saying is very different from what we've just heard. exactly that doesn't quite follow the path of what donald trump has been saying to be clear he has in the past said i would be anyone at any time he believes he is the great negotiator he can perhaps negotiate a brand new iran deal he's never been a fan of the international agreement that he himself breached when he pulled the united states out of it back in may when he was candidate trump said he was going to scrap it there's a suggestion that he's never actually read it but he simply didn't like it reflectively because it was negotiated by the obama white house and then in me since then we've seen the rhetoric that has been building up to what we saw a week ago he's been seeing that the iran regime is struggling that things are difficult for them that they're becoming more isolated this is a narrative that has

accounts when she believes we're going to be used for a coordinated political influence campaign alan fischer how small. well if you remember in twenty sixteen facebook came under a lot of pressure because it was felt that they didn't do enough to stop foreign influence putting pages up on to facebook and instagram another platform controlled by the company and inciting division across the united states by putting contrary political viewpoints getting groups to clash with one another on line and facebook said that wouldn't happen again in fact went to the hill in april and told politicians there look it was my mistake and we will be a lot more careful next time around so as part of the ongoing investigation what they phoned are thirty two pages on facebook and instagram that they think are inauthentic so they have artificial intelligence and human investigators checking these pages and they thought that there was a real problem with them for example one of the pages the resisters was calling for . a rally against a unite the right gathering in washington d.c. next month and so when it was fou

other signatories to the nuclear deal say they still support it and are looking at ways to save it alan fischer al-jazeera. for more on this international oil economist mom two thousand may joins me now in the studio thanks very much for coming into al-jazeera a president champagne and making all these announcements that he's going to reduce the rainy and oil exports to zero but can he i mean i'm thinking maybe china and india might have something to say about what he is doing is that he is waging a psychological warfare against iran to give the impression that you as sanctions against iran will cause the iranian oil exports to lose one million million barrels a day that is not going to happen and i'll explain why the sanctions before the twenty fifteen succeeded because of two reasons the combination of european union sanctions on shipping and insurance company insuring the shipments of iranian oil and the second one the south american sanctions on banking the european union so far said they will abide by the nuclear agreement and they will not comply by the american sanction and they will con

about a possible block to the strait of hormuz in response to american threats of more sanctions alan fischer has more. the u.s. wants countries to boy quote really you know oil is part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil now really and fish also have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so that it's not always point that are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever need to really exercise this threat we have to remember iran is not the only country that is upset with the u.s. pressure on opec all that idea of the

may and want countries to halt imports of iranian oil by november all face penalties alan fischer have. you really in president has been in a two day visit to switch. and one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boycott really you know oil is part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten the oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that someday or produce or countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil. really infectious have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the south at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think i

but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al jazeera at the white house at least eight people have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in afghanistan a passenger bus was targeted in gore province the police are accusing the taliban of planting the bomb to attack security forces. there's been a bombing in the philippines in the south in lima town and city at least eleven people have been killed in what's believed to be a car bomb attack soldiers at a checkpoint are among the dead military level talks are being held right now between north and south korea the two sides are meeting in the truce village of panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone right is following the story from the south korean capital seoul this is the second round of high level military talks taking place between north and south korea since the landmark into korean summit of april they'll be looking at implementing some of the measures that were agreed then in particular at trying to defuse tensions along the demilitarized zone and specifically trying to red

divisions before november's vote almost three hundred thousand people follow the suspended pages alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the phone to facebook mark zuckerberg went to capitol hill in april to admit his company hadn't done enough to stop foreign groups trying to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry now as part of its continuing investigation into election interference it discovered it's happening again and so it has suspended thirty two pages of the platform and instagram which it also they are going to be a hair trigger alert for you know for the foreseeable future so any instances that crop up like this they're likely to take to take action and then be public about that action the company uses artificial intelligence and human investigators to flag up automated accounts. you know only deal with the vice of social issues aimed at finding conflict and upset. one page called resistors created an event a counter protest to unite the right

tolerance policy at the border which was the policy that split families up in the first place as alan fischer there speaking to us from washington d.c. well i want to zero has spoken to a brazilian asylum seeker who hasn't seen her son since he was taken away and a second border under president chance zero tolerance policy. has more. she is so scared she would only speak to us by telephone if she came to us with her nine year old son seeking asylum cleaning her native brazil and not busuk husband who threatened to kill her when she crossed the border into america her nightmare began border guards pried her son away from her grasp listen closely to what she says oh you know grab a non three sided crying they're not holding on to my thumb drive from work or they got to me in the rebel crying in the last second what happened nk one cell was full of mothers the other packed with children both cells with a thick glass wall faced each other the majority don't think you're going to scream at them and climbing on the grab the criticism winds to get to the front where their parents are across their ow

which he sees very much as a kindred spirit all right thank you very much from the white house alan fischer with all the latest on that meeting we move to nicaragua now and human rights groups saying almost four hundred fifty people have been killed since protests against daniel ortega as government began in april are accusing pro-government paramilitary groups in nicaragua of kidnapping and murdering people to incite fair our latin america and it's really seen him and joins us live now from managua lucy a tell us about the government's response to this condemnation of their actions. i have no mary and we're right now president daniel ortega is one of public opinion public. offensive to try to improve his image and counter these nagging reports by human rights organizations and by many people here in nicaragua whom we've spoken to after weeks and weeks of saying that these armed groups that patrol the streets masked carrying often assault rifles were people whom we didn't know we said that they belonged to terrorist groups working for the opposition years now conceded that they are quote vo

accounts which it believes were going to be used for a coordinated political influence campaign alan fischer has more well if you remember in twenty sixteen facebook came under a lot of pressure because it was felt that they didn't do enough to stop foreign influence putting pages up on to facebook and instagram another platform controlled by the company and inciting division across the united states by putting contrary political viewpoints getting groups to clash with one another on line and facebook said that would.