and he says, "the general aim is to announce the closure of project amad."adds, "special activities" — you know what that is. iran's foreign minister quickly responded to his death with this tweet... israel is widely assumed to have been responsible. but why now? iran's nuclear programme was constrained under an international deal signed in 2015. but in 2018, donald trump pulled the us out of the deal — and iran has been growing its stockpile of nuclear material. mr trump is reported to have looked at — and then decided against — a military strike just two weeks ago. but israel may now be seeking to take advantage of the window whilst he's still in office. this is very clearly timed in order to impede restoration of the iran nuclear deal. trump has made it very clear he's wanted to kill the deal, he hasn't succeeded in four years, he has two months left. and this is an effort to do so in order to provoke iran's own hardliners into resisting diplomacy. the killing is already causing anger in iran, but it's not yet clear how it might retaliate — and what that

mohsen fakhrizadeh, head of project amad, remember that name, fakhrizadeh. >> reporter: iran's foreign minister javad zarif has called the killing an act of state terror. accusing israel of being behind it. although tonight, neither although tonight, neither israel nor the pentagon is commenting. israel was widely blamed for four other assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists between 2010 and 2012. fakhrizadeh's killing comes as concerns grow over iran's uranium enrichment activity. that was what the now severely weakened iran nuclear deal, from which president trump withdrew, was meant to halt. >> james joining us now from london. joe biden has signaled his administration would rejoin the nuclear agreement with iran. but any iranian retaliation could complicate that. >> reporter: that's right. tonight, iran is already vowing revenge. this puts president-elect biden in an awkward position. because the middle east is already in a attention situation. this pushes the situation there further to the edge just before he takes office. >> james, thanks so much. >>> now to the yearlong abc

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amadou going to quickly ask you, then when, when people come back to senegal, who try to make it to your work, what are they? who is telling them that europe is short of manpower. why? why are they leaving senegal in the 1st place, and what do they find when they come back? what are that? what are that complaint? well, well, right, we are and you know, because, and that's what is, has been, has been working with my question since yes. what we are doing is a very good example that should be number to develop, where we need to partner with us and time this is positive. you have to run to call the kind of mind that is that 7. 7 miles. so we give them capacity of the 21st of all, in terms of management, in terms of, let's face how to, how to conduct and then to price, but also give them enough money. we give them money or that's too much to their sons. they can't carry out our economy to be hidden or to be able to also that is because the policy dementing talking to the less and less is to fight the great my within the look of the sun. and so that i may be seen at the level of our limitation

1st person so that they can forget about get up and try to promote themselves in their own country amadou kind of kind of quickly ask you then when, when people come back to senegal, who try to make it to your work, what are they who is telling them that europe is short of manpower. why, why are they leaving senegal in the 1st place and what do they find when they come back? what that, what that complaint? well, i was right. we are and you know, because, and that therefore is, has been, has been working with my questions and yes, what we are doing is a very good example that should be number to develop where we need to partner with us and time this is positive. you have to run to call the kind of mind that is sent that 7, 100 miles or so we give them capacity of the 21st of all, in terms of mileage months in terms of the face. how to, how to conduct and then to price. but also give them enough money, we give them money, or let's say that much to their sons, they can carry out our economy activities in order to be able to. also, there is a look at the policy, the mentee talking to the loca

and he says, the general aim is to announce the closure of project amad. but special activities, you know what that is, special activities will be carried out under the know-how of scientific development. >> reporter: but iran has long blamed israel's intelligence service for assassinations of several of fakhrizadeh's colleagues going back a decade. and theories are emerging, as to what they have to gain from his death right now. >> it is a twofold effect. so, one is to slow down the program. the other one, which is something that prime minister netanyahu would want, is to get iran to do something that would make it impossible for the united states to engage iran, after january 20th. >> reporter: iran has long denied they plan to weaponize nuclear energy. claiming fakhrizadeh was merely an academic. for years, denying the iaea's request to interview him. a martyr for iran, they are vowing revenge for the killing. quote, severe revenge against the killers. and iran's foreign minister tweeting, terrorists murdered an eminent, iranian scientist, today. this c

because we just getting a little bit of yes, some surgical started to lose it for what they did see amadou. i had just dictatorship, rolled cameron with friends support for 22 years. they passed a kitchen of the u.p.c. cost, hundreds of thousands of lives. far away from the cameras and the public gaze. do come home it into how did it live? peacey whom it key is eod joakim to do it on a person. be on or is it a fact there are only qualities 12 i see fit poorly fair share. i mean,, when you're listed should enter the us by the mid 1950 s., people in france were losing interest in these distant struggles and had far different concerns. a decade after the end of the 2nd world war and daily life was hard and rebuilding was still a work in progress. but modernizing the country was proving costly and questions were asked about the not sums of money being invested in a dwindling empire. the editor of pre-match magazine wrote the richest and most stable country in europe. switzerland has never had a square meter of overseas space. when it have been better to build a hospital in a van. and the idea

but i most remember is that when we were facing a police killing of a young man named amadou diallo whoor sticking a key in the door and the police thought -- they said they thought he had a weapon. he was just going home. they were looking for someone else. and dave dinkins, when we started protests, every day we would go down to the police headquarters, the main one in new york, and sit in and hundreds would be arrested. he called me one morning and said, al, what time do y'all have the demonstrations? he was the former mayor. he said i'm coming down. but we're getting arrested. i'll see you in the morning. he came down to 1 police plaza where he had been on a knee way before colin kaepernick, he was arrested and had them cuff him with congressman charlie rangel himself and me and we went to jail fighting police reform that he started with that civilian complaint review board. he never left the struggle. he was never one to be loud and boisterous, but he was firm and made real change happen. >> yeah, absolutely. we started off -- we could see charlie rangel and james brown, lots of fo

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mohsen fakhrizadeh, head of project amad, put it.ember that na: fakhrizadeh. >> schifrin: nobody has taken responsibility for his death, but today, iranian officials accused israel. to talk about this, i'm joined by normaroule, who had a 34-year career at c.i.a., nncluding as station chief the middle east, and was the national intelligence nager for iran until september 201 >> norman roule, welcome to "newshour". what's the significance to his killing and the impact on iran's nuclear program. >> good evening. the killing of the 59-year-old iranian official removes from iran its greatest institutional memory on its weaponization program. it will be very diricult fo iran to replace this, and it will actually impair their ability to reestablish a weaponization program, should they decide to do so. >> reporte what's the message being sent byhoever killed him, and not only day but the recent death of a top al quaida figure reported in tehran and mysterious explosions throughout iran, including atof onran's top nuclear s,cilities? >> these

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this scientist was believed to have led project amad.mb. the international atomic energy agency says that project was shut down in 2003, but israel has since claimed it was secretly continued. this is the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking in 2018. this is how dr mohsen fakhrizadeh put it — remember that name. and he says... but then he adds... special activities — you know what that is! iran has insisted that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful. it entered into a nuclear deal with the us and several european countries in 2015. that's the deal the trump administration withdrew from two yea rs administration withdrew from two years ago, but the deal is still in place. there's also been some speculation over the timing of the assassination. here's a tweet from a former adviser to president barack obama... president—elect biden has said he wanted to rejoin the deal. and last week, the foreign ministers of the uk, germany and france met to discuss a joint approach on reviving it. a israeli intelligence and security exp

this is how dr mohsen fakhrizadeh, head of project amad, put it — remember that name, fakhrizadeh. to his death with this tweet: israel is widely assumed to have been responsible. but why now? iran's nuclear programme was constrained under an international deal signed in 2015. but in 2018, donald trump pulled the us out of the deal — and iran has been growing its stockpile of nuclear material. president trump is reported to have looked at — and then decided against — a military strike just two weeks ago. but israel may now be seeking to take advantage of the window whilst he's still in office. iran has been under economic located for the past few years. it is a country of 80 million people facing the most severe covid pandemic in the most severe covid pandemic in the region, under sanctions and it cannot access basic medicines and healthcare and medical equipment for its people. it is important to bear that in mind and the iranian government is surely aware of the extreme pressures it is facing at home. emergency vehicles were still at the scene hours after fakhrizadeh's death. the

watch include arizona and kansas and arizona, democrat mark kelly has been consistently polling well amadecsally. she has doubled down on her support for president trump and he's trying to cast himself as an independent voice to try to win over some of the swing voters in kansas, barbara bollier used to be a republican and switched parties in 2018 serving in the state legislature, morally the party was not going where her compass resides. no dramatic upsets but the night is young >> thanks so much. >>> to north carolina now, scott cohn is in raleigh for us. scott? >> reporter: shep, you touched on this. things are moving fast here, and things are tightens up we are in downtown raleigh and first of all, we can tell you a little about the of a cat and mouse game with a handful of protesters, a couple hundred or so that did minor damage from the capitol, heavy police presence as well here, and they're chanting variations of "no matter who wins, you lose. well, take your pick at north carolina, because it is tightening up considerably take a look at the state now, with still too early to call,

from hispanics and workers who really believe that he will do the best to turn this economy around amadelagged, a tweet from the president that claimed they are trying to steal the election. he also said that there was a big win tonight, of course we know that is not true, since there is no winner and it could be days or weeks but the president is goring up to fight and to present a case that he already talked about at length for several weeks now about what he claims the other side is trying to do, which is just not true. so we do expect he will say something about that tonight, and again try to focus on all of the wins that came tonight, because they still believe that he will ultimately have another four years here at the white house. >> norah. >> the weijia jiang, thank you. as we return to that map of those five states that are still too close to call or we just don't have enough votes because the voting -- the counting has stopped or is still outstanding in some of these states. we want to tick through each of them so you know very latest in each state and we thought we would bring