i think i'm the one candidate and the one president that the ayatollah khamenei will understand, i'mfing. >> on my first day in office i'll cancel this reckless and irresponsible deal with iran. >> until and unless you open every military facility, every nuclear facility to real any time anywhere inspections by our people not yours, we the united states of america will make it as difficult as possible for you to move money around the global financial system. >> are they going to want to do business with the largest economy with the greatest respect for the rule of law or trade that in for an iranian economy that's controlled by the iranian revolutionary guard that has no rule of law? >> to do what he did with iran and the way it's gooding to threaten israel now -- because after we signed the nuclear agreement with iran, the supreme leader of iran said that israel will not exist in 25 years. >>> lieutenant colonel ralph peters. during these negotiations, the iranians said that the destruction of israel is nonnegotiable. during these negotiations they chanted "death to america." after

in tehran this morning there for an oil and gas summit where he met with the supreme leader, ayatollah khamenei. as al jazeera am rory challands reports, syria is the main topic of discussion. >> a jam packed to tehran for vladimir putin. speaking at the gas exporters summit meeting with the supreme leader from iran, ali khamenei and also president rouhani. we have been told by the russian kremlin spokesperson, dimitri peskov, this was a long conversation, went on 1.5 hours, longer than they planned for. trade, bilateral negotiations and of course syria. we know had a these two men broadly agreed on the inadmissibility they called it of imposing a political settlement on syria from outside. this is a revenues to what the iranians and the russians think the west is trying to do. they both agree that no one can tell the syrians which form of government and which leader they must choose. this is what they agreed on. what this doesn't say is what they disagreed on. this is what western governments will be looking for, any sign that this cozy relationship between moscow and tehran has any friction i

it owes its allegiance to the leader ayatollah khamenei. these arrests appear to be the opening shots in a struggle between government hardliners and the moderate administration of hassan rouhani. the hardliners goal is to erode hassan rouhani's popularity coming out of the nuclear deal and cement their dominance in parliamentary elections in february. the best way to do that is drum up iran's historic relationship with the united states. the republican guard worned about new sedition led by the u.s. government to infiltrate iran beyond the deal. as we found out on our trip to iran, there's decades of mistrust towards iran in america. there's a history of hostility between iran and the united states, spabing decades -- spanning decades, back to 1999. shouting. >> islamic students stormed the u.s. embassy in tehran and took 52 americans hostage. their captivity lasted 444 days. but for iranians host ilties with the u.s. started a quarter of a century earlier. that's when the prime minister led an elected government at a time when iran was ex

going to be speaking with president hassan rouhani, and he's also going to be speaking with the ayatollah khamenei. their conversation will, of course, include what is going on in syria. both of these countries are stakeholders in what is going on in syria, both participating. later in the week the syrian foreign minister will travel at moscow to have talks about what is going on in his country, and towards the end of the week, we have the french president francis hollande travelling to moscow to meet with vladimir putin, coming to moscow after a visit to washington d.c. now, there seems to be at the moment, at least on the surface of things, a growing partnership between the french and the russians in the wake of the paris attacks and the russian plane that crashed in the sinai desert. russia and france feel that they have been wounded and are trying to build a consensus towards fighting it. as i said, the difficulty is about the political solution for syria, what happens to the government in syria. at the moment that's the blocking point. that is what is preventing a trooper true grand coalition

while there he'll meet with president hassan rouhani, and the ayatollah khamenei. and, of course, they will be taking about syria, because russia and iran are deeply involved in syria right now. later in the week the syrian foreign minister is going to moscow to talk about what is going on in his country. following that, another visit to moscow from francis hollande, the fridge president, who is trying to build a grand coalition, similar to what the russians have been asking for for some time. basically following the attacks in paris and bringing down the russian plane over sinai, it seems there's an emerging agreement between paris and moscow. in the aftermath of the paris attacks, there was a productive sounding in vienna talking about syria, where the americans and russians were broad by singing from the same hm sheet, saying they'd like to have elections, a new constitution, and a ceasefire, all seen over the next 18 months. that was in the heat of the moment, after the paris attacks. and making that happen will be a fundamentally difficult thing. considering t

al-assad, that is what i think and you look and see bashar al-assad is getting a lot of help from ayatollah khamenei, supreme leader of iran. what is going on fare? these relationships are complex, some people are a little surprise, when i indicated vladimir putin and all the have a long-term relationship. they were in the same class. and varity in moscow transmitting class of '68 and fame were already quite familiar with a young vladimir putin, adobe vladimir putin is desperate right now because oil prices are very low, this is precluding its expansionist activities, not us, the economic situation, can get a foothold, begin to spread his influence throughout that region and if he can gain control of significant energy reserves, he might then be able to have a much more control on energy prices and that will embolden him because he will be strengthened to do what he needs to do and we need to fight him everywhere. and reestablishing the missile defense system, supplying arms to the u.k. we said we were going to protect them. i don't think they're sitting by, and we need to take advantage of economic

the ayatollah khamenei warned politicians against rocking reforms. >> we have to affirm that the need to protect the constitution and the law must not be used by the legislative or other authorities to circumvent or delay debts. >> activists are calling for more against the corrupt public officials. public outrage and promises seem far from materializing into improvements on the ground >>> now, 7 more people died from their injuries, a week after a nit club fire in roman -- nightclub fire in romania, taking the death toll to 41. days of protests triggered are continuing in bucharest. people are demanding early elections and an end to corruption. many blamed lax government safety which led to the resignation of the country's prime minister. for is to be replaced >>> a german political party staged a mark protesting immigration policies. the afd parties is opposed to german chancellor angela merkel's approach to welcoming refugees and migrants. there were counter demonstrations by supporters. more than 760,000 asylum seekers arrived in germany between january and october >>> sunday mark

. >> iran's ayatollah khamenei. the country's leader said the slogan was aimed at american policies not american people. he made the comments while meeting with iranian students ahead of the anniversary of the takeover of the u.s. embassy in tehran back in 1979. >> the department of transportation to announce today its decision on a revenue program for takata air bags. dow jones reporting it will fine takata $70 million for airbag lapses. it also faces another $130 million in fines if it violates the settlement. transportation secretary anthony fox will hoed a news conference. >> between the ages of 8 and 12, it's six hours a day. basketball star lebron james making nba history last night at the age of 30. he became the youngest player to score 25,000 career regular season points. james's james's. >> took the stage to restructure and rename the company. here he is at fortune's global forum in san francisco last night. >> my job is to create the scale that we haven't quite seen from other companies. >> i think someth

so the question is, do the leaders, the ayatollah khamenei and president rouhani have the common sense to make the same judgment that dozens of other can countries in the world have made? dozens of countries have the capacity to make nuclear weapons. and they voluntarily decided not to do so because it is in their interest and that's the best decision for iran. >> senator, good to have your insight. thank you very much. good to see you as always. senator george mitchell. >>> the man who said he did not want the job, speaker of the house now has the job. we'll look at some of the biggest challenges paul ryan will face going forward with newt gingrich with me next. we would love to hear from you. stay with us as we look ahead this morning on "sunday morning futures." yes, we are twins. when i went on to ancestry, i just put in the name of my parents and my grandparents. i was getting all these leaves and i was going back generation after generation. you start to see documents and you see signatures of people that you've never met. i mean, you don't know these people, but you feel like yo

i'm reading headlines from iran where ayatollah khamenei, assad shouldn't have to go. it is up to the syrian people. do you have a sense of why there is so much talk of splits when in reality there doesn't seem like there are any? >> i don't think russia and syria completely overlap. gilles mentioned in the course of the conversation russia and more generally speaking central asia foreign fighters in syria. that is major threat for the russians. that is not only reason they are there, and that is not something that iran shares with them or us, for instance. the russians maintain under much more active diplomatic channels both in the west and region and iranians have basically on syria. iranians only need the saudis on syria and only need the saudis at all in the vienna talks. russia keeps talking to the turkey and much more regular and consistent manner. so there are differs in the rationale. russia is not probably looking for the same type of strategic projection as iranians are. russia is certainly less concerned with hezbollah. the question is when and how those dif

>> yeah, absolutely and we've come to the point where the ayatollah khamenei is not the most hard-lineatives in iran. the revolutionary guards who have been profiting wonderfully from the smuggling during the sanctions regime, actually opposed nuke deal because it is bad for business, they, he has got to placate them. at the same time he is trying to reach out to young people just as american presidents worry about their legacy he is worried about his legacy and what the future of iran will look like. again, there is certainly no love among the clerics, the mullahs for the united states but their primary focus really is on the rising generation and one of the reasons they went along with the nuke deal, even though it is tremendously advantageous to them, politically they didn't like it because they don't like any dealings with america but they have to get sanctions up, they have to get money in, give something to young people to placate them because they want more freedom. bill: there is no question about that. come back to the question, what context is the comment, hey, it is not dire

the agenda for a meeting between russian president vladimir putin and iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khameneie two leaders met in iran. both have been staunch supporters of syrian president bashar al assad, and today khamenei criticized u.s. efforts to begin peace talks. migrants stuck in limbo along the greek-macedonian border stepped up their protests today, staging hunger strikes and blocking trains. they're mostly economic refugees who have been denied entry by balkan countries because they're not fleeing war. hundreds gathered behind gates and barbed wire fences, shouting at police. others taped or even sewed their mouths shut in a sign of protest. flags flew at half staff in the west african nation of mali today to begin three days of mourning for the victims of friday's attack on a luxury hotel there. state television aired photos of the corpses of two of the suspected gunmen, appealing for information on their identities. three separate groups have claimed responsibility for the deadly siege that left 20 people, plus the two attackers, dead. in nigeria and cameroon, five suicide bombe

. >> did you see the comments by the ayatollah ham neighbormy saying -- khamenei saying that chant death to american doesn't mean that, it means death to american policy? did you see that? >> i didn't see it. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i guess it's better than the alternative, right? [laughter] >> would that be a -- [inaudible] >> but, you know, look, i think what i would say is what we've said in the past on this which is that the way that we will evaluate the iranian activity and their role in the international community is to take a close look at their actions and not be distracted by their words. and that's certainly what we did in the context of the international agreement that was reached to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon. and all along we closely monitored their compliance with the interim agreement, and we're closely monitoring their implementation of the comprehensive final agreement than reached. that's evidence that we're, you know, very focused on their actions. and that's how we're continue to operate. okay? >> getting back to paul ryan's comments abo