now to javid salary in new delhi he's a senior journalist and political commentator at mr ansari a very warm welcome to the program the indian government claims it's the off position currently still king the violence and unrest that we see at some of these protests they say that a silent majority believe in the government's what's your view. well this is a lame excuse that all governments make over into trouble there's no point in blaming the opposition if the opposition was that organized it won't be in the kind of state that it is particularly the congress party. if there is if blame best to live anywhere it must lie at the daughter of the cup but for bringing in this bill and fall. and for not opening a door or negotiating with the protestors this is not a community specific protest this is not a protest sponsored by the opposition in fact the opposition has been. over week too late in joining the protest the congress party has now decided this awful decided to lead to children to the real this is a protest to speak spirited mainly by the mainly by destroyed and oh yes it is true tha

my guests this week: iranian journalist nazenin ansari, italian film maker annalisa piras, and michael goldfarb, american host of the frdh podcast. we are one guest down this week due to illness, so the other three will have to do more heavy lifting for me. there are conflicting accounts of how many people have died and how many have been arrested in iran in the past fortnight. what started as a wave of protest against rising petrol prices seems to have turned into a wider howl of outrage against crushing inflation and unemployment. it's the biggest show of public defiance to iran's ayatollahs in a decade and they don't like it. nor can they like what they see in neighbouring iraq, or lebanon, both countries where tehran now exerts huge influence and both of which are also convulsed by public protest. so what's going on? it started six months ago, and this is according to president rouhani last week, that the decision to increase petrol prices was taken six months ago, and it was the responsibility for execution was given to the supreme national security council, which included the min

2017 thank you as the country of supporting terrorism which has repeatedly deny and will not get ansari is a professor of political sociology at cateye university and he says any major change is still a long way off i think it's quite sumptuous to think that there might be any. breakthrough doing this summit. crisis that took place during the past 3 years will not be solved this quickly in this hastily in. summit in india so i think there are 3 main obstacles 1st of all there is an issue of trust trust has been broken between the neighbors especially from the side of cut out of that work very closely with saudi arabia between 20132017 after the crisis this trust between the leaders and between the states will need to be amended in a in a very severe way if you will the 2nd challenge i think is the need of the locating countries defined as a face saving way out of the crisis and this will not happen unless got there concedes to some kind of at least a media show of weakness in front of the other countries something i don't think that at the moment is quite inclined to do or needs to do t

for their exports thank you magid ansari for sharing your views with us thank you for your time. russia and ukraine have agreed to implement a cease fire in eastern ukraine by the end of the year russia's president met the new ukrainian leader in paris for their 1st formal talks fighting in eastern ukraine between moscow backed separatists and ukraine's army has killed 14000 people in the last 5 years natasha butler reports from paris. ukraine's recently elected president was greeted by french president emmanuel micro at the lease a palace selenski flashed a peace sign as he prepared to meet vladimir putin for the 1st time the russian leader arrived shortly afterwards for talks aimed at paving the way to peace in eastern ukraine but outside the lease a police tackled anti putin protesters while inside macro and german chancellor angela merkel sat down to mediate before selenski and putin met one on one after nearly 9 hours of talks the leaders agreed to a cease fire by the end of 2019 a prisoner swap and to hold another summit in 4 months but there was little common ground on eas