measures against iran it's targeting the country's oil and financial sectors but iran's president hassan rouhani says it will be business as usual for attack iran trumpet ministration israel promising sanctions that were originally listed as part of the twenty fifth the nuclear agreement the move will have hundreds of businesses including those from countries linked with to her on all the u.s. secretary of state says there will be consequences for any nation that continues business with iran we hope a new agreement with iran is possible but until iran makes changes in the twelve ways that i listed in may we will be relentless in exerting pressure on the regime . as a reflection of the result today we are closing our sanctions that were previously listed under the nuclear deal this includes sanctions on energy banking shipping and ship building industries. since the trumpet ministration came into office we've done one thousand rounds of sanctions turkey one hundred sixty eight arabian entities today sanctions will accelerate the rapid decline of international economic activity in iran sin

been shaken up the minister of the economic minister the federal minister was replaced president hassan rouhani has gone out of his way to illustrate to his people that he's taking the economic chaos in the country seriously in addressing his relatively new team he put out his sort of forward thinking iran's policy going forward and that would be to continue to sell oil and to break these u.s. sanctions he also said that no white house ever in his estimation has been as opposed to fulfilling its international obligations and its international commitments and he said that no white house has been as racist as this one is taking a shot at his american counterpart president donald trump so very very defiant words coming from president hassan rouhani now we have to say that while the civilian government was doing what they were doing there were large scale military exercises going on as well one of the things that the american government that this white house pointed to was the reason behind pulling out of the nuclear deal in re imposing sanctions was iran's ballistic missiles program that i

sanctions against iran targeting the oil and financial sectors the toughest so far but iran's president hassan rouhani says it will be business as usual for. the trumpet ministration is re imposing sanctions that were originally lifted as part of the twenty fifth the nuclear agreement the move ahead hundreds of businesses including those from countries linked with iran. is joining us from there how concerned are iranians at the reimposition of these sanctions. well if if you listen to officials you know the first bit of official reaction we got this morning was from president hassan rouhani himself speaking to his economic team which is recently been shaken up the minister of the economic ministry the federal minister was replaced the president has gone out of his way to illustrate to his people that he's taking the economic chaos in the country seriously and addressing his relatively new team he put out his sort of forward thinking iran's policy going forward and that would be to continue to sell oil and to break these u.s. sanctions he also said that no white house ever in his estimation has

reinstates all three nuclear deal sanctions hassan rowhani vows to continue selling its oil thousands of sri lankans march in support of newly appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa as the political crisis deepens over his nomination a paper trail accusations that millions of americans are being denied the right to vote in the midterm elections i'm joined again with the sports from the ring to the octagon box of floyd mayweather announces he'll fight a japanese mixed martial arts style we'll explore how cold crossovers becoming big business. hello the un's human rights council is reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its record on human rights a saudi delegation is in geneva right now to face questions over the murder of. a mall and other rights issues and addressing the council delegation restated the kingdom's position that it's investigating the case and will prosecute those responsible for the killing the president of saudi arabia's human rights commission had addressed the council here's what he had to say animal. kingdom of saudi arabia has already. it's really good and

tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions while they're showing this is an economic war we're standing up to a billing enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and the sanctions cut deep let's find out just how they are affecting the people in iraq europe because it is a correspondent with german public broadcasters idiot and he joins us now from the iranian capital of tehran your before you set the scene for us on how this latest round of u.s. sanctions are affecting the local economy what are these punitive measures designed to do. you know officially the u.s. government denies that aiming for a regime change in iran although they would definitely appreciate it so the iranian leadership is convinced that this is the actual drivin

this morning was from president hassan rouhani himself speaking to his economic team which is recently been shaken up the minister of the economic ministry the federal minister was replaced president hassan rouhani has gone out of his way to illustrate to his people that he's taking the economic chaos in the country seriously in addressing his relatively new team he put out his sort of forward thinking iran's policy going forward and that would be to continue to sell oil and to break these u.s. sanctions he also said that no white house ever in his estimation has been as opposed to fulfilling its international obligations and its international commitments and he said that no white house has been as racist as this one is taking a shot at his american counterpart president donald trump so very very defiant words coming from president hassan rouhani now we have to say that while the civilian government was doing what they were doing there were large scale military exercises going on as well one of the things that the american government that this white house pointed to was the reason behi

i'm sara kelly welcome to the program aronian president hassan rouhani is urging his country to stand up to what he calls a bullying enemy he was speaking as the u.s. reimpose all sanctions lifted three years ago as part of an international deal to limit tehran's nuclear program the restrictions target key areas of the iranian economy including the oil financial and shipping sectors but rouhani says that iran will not be intimidated by the measures. at markets like this one iranians have been feeling the costs of sanctions long before they came into effect the mere threat has sent inflation soaring and prices doubling in just a year leaving household budgets squeezed there was a man here today who did not have money to buy a lotion for his baby because the economic situation is getting worse the people are very poor and times are hard each of. the effects are felt beyond the bazaar with iran's oil and finance sectors washed it major international companies are withdrawing from tehran at this advertising business they have had to sack several staff. that's really heart breaking it's he

reporting live in san francisco, ansar hassan, abc 7 news. >>> ansar, thank you. dramatic new body camera video shows what some of the survivors had to go through to make it out of the tkedeadly camp fire. >> oh, that's >> butte county deputy aaron farndley turned on his body cam because he thought he was not going to make it out. with his car broken down, there with his car broken down, there was no clear way out. luckily, a bulldozer showed up. the deputy flagged it down. they squeezed as many people as they could. others followed behind on foot. here is the amazing news. that entire group was able to make it out safely. >>> evacuation orders are still in effect in parts of butte county after the latest storm. heavy rain brought flash floods to areas already devastated by mandatory evacuation orders in two areas. nd properly maintain its power lines. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> in a statement to the mercury news, pg&e sas it is appear of the lawsuit. the primary focus is supporting first responders, helping communities. >>> in san fra

abc 7 news reporter ansar hassan is at one of the evacuation centers.. their five homes were all destroyed. they're now staying in tents at the glenn county fairground. meanwhile, in southern california a new fire erupted today. this one is in simi valley. firefighters were able to get it under control at 150 acres and they are making some progress on the larger woolsey fire. abc news reporter natalie brunell live in ventura county with the latest. natalie? >> reporter: firefighters were able to make some good progress over the weekend but check out this destruction. that home belonging to a firefighter who is back on the fire lines and we are under a wed flag warning meaning strong wintds and bone dry conditions fueling more flames. firefighters on the front lines battling fatigue and a new round of ferocious santa ana winds and now new fires erupting. flames coming dangerously close to cars in l.a.'s simi vamly. >> they're going to shut down the 118 completely, the eastbound lanes. >> eporter: containment numbers for the woolsey fire increasing but ta

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iranian president hassan rouhani says iran and iraq could raise that annual bilateral trade to twenty billion dollars despite u.s. sanctions he made the remarks following a meeting with visiting iraqi president barham salih the visit comes just weeks after the u.s. reimposed sanctions on iran's key oil industry as well as its banking and shopping it's as shipping it said to washington says tehran is a break in the two thousand and fifteen international nuclear deal and interfering in regional conflicts same as robin has more now from tehran. during their talks iranian president hassan rouhani and his iraqi counterpart burnham sali discussed the importance of security cooperation between their two oil rich nations rouhani made the point that it is up to the countries in the region to handle their own security a familiar tactic or iranian leaders used to publicly bolster the importance of their own role simultaneously characterizing the role of the united states as foreign interference roger my side of the mountain. stream. which they were both of the opinion that all people will benefi

sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force but iran's president hassan rouhani says tehran will defy the measures the champ administration is really imposing sanctions that were originally lifted a spot of the twenty fifty nuclear chord the move will hit hundreds of businesses including those from countries linked with tehran let's go live to our correspondent in iran's capital zain bits ravi zain so how a rainy reacting to the reimposition of these sanctions and what will this mean for them. well the rain ians have already told us everyone we spoke to have said that these sanctions this deadline is really meaningless because all of the damage that needed to be done by president donald trump's government by the white house has already been done over the many months ever since he was a candid it many people here in the business community have been shaken meant much of the foreign investment that was coming into the country has already been scared off so iranians are really experiencing this deadline as another day in the difficulty they're facing because

iranian president hassan rouhani says his country will proudly bypass u.s. sanctions targeting iran's crucial oil and financial sectors the penalties came into force today and are part of u.s. efforts to curb your once weapons programs and restrict its influence in the middle east the u.s. has about took place relentless pressure on tehran. around eighty people have been kidnapped from a school in the city of them end up in the western english speaking part of cameroon report suggests most of those abducted are children a video purportedly showing the kidnapped children has been released by a group calling themselves on bob boy friends to the armed and well phone separatists who are fighting for the independence of cameras north west and south west regions. all right let's bring in our africa correspondent you increase in lagos he just returned from an extended trip to cameroon adrian what more do we know about the kidnapped girls and boys. well in the video you can clearly see how they're scared that they're very nervous and they're are asked by one of the

economic sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force iran's president hassan rouhani says he's countries will probably bypass the mission. now the us president says a saudi erotic coalition air strike on a school bus in yemen resulted from human error in an interview with the news website donald trump says the bombers did not know how to use the weapon properly in august a u.s. bomb was used in the attack that killed fifty one people including forty children the incident drew attention to the use of american weaponry weaponry by the saudi iraqi coalition in yemen's war meanwhile fighting has intensified there on the many port city of hard data more than one hundred fifty fighters from the coalition and who the rebels have been killed at the weekend the united nations wants safe passage so it can deliver aid it says four hundred thousand children could die from malnutrition a warning that not to. report contains some disturbing images. the name amal means hope in arabic amal died on thursday at the age of seven the doctor who treated her says there are many mor

flurry of reaction from officials throughout the day the first person to speak of course president hassan rouhani the iranian leader speaking to his economy team during a meeting a speech that was broadcast live throughout the country on state t.v. he made he struck a very very defiant tone saying that iran will continue to sell its oil and it will break these sanctions so there is no mistake on and how iran intends to move forward presidents and rouhani during that speech also lashed out at his american counterpart at the white house of u.s. president donald trump saying that never in the history of the united states had there been an administration the white house that was this supposed to sticking to its international obligations and that was this racist so he's using very harsh terms the temperature certainly is ratcheting up in the halls of power here into iran now it's no coincidence that on the same day or at least it seems like it's no coincidence that on the same day the sanctions kicked back into effect iranian military. officers launched large scale aerial exercises war games t

during their talks iranian president hassan rouhani and his iraqi counterpart burnham sali discussed the importance of security cooperation between their two oil rich nations rouhani made the point that it is up to the countries in the region to handle their own security a familiar tactic or iranian leaders used to publicly both of the importance of their own role simultaneously characterizing the role of the united states as foreign interference roger my side of the mountain. stream. which were both of the opinion that all people will benefit from stability in this region we don't need foreign intervention regional countries should have closer relationships and mutual cooperation especially iran and iraq and iran and to commit time to form a new regional establishments that would cater to the interests of all nations and so we attach a high importance to the role of iran iraq must be an area for common interest for regional nations not a field for conflicting desires the economies of iraq and iran rely on their bilateral trade and iraq is one of the few countries to get a temporary

i'm brian thomas welcome and thanks for being with us a rainy and president hassan rouhani has vowed to bypass u.s. sanctions calling them illegal washington reinstated the measures as expected just a few hours ago following its withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal that was back in may the restrictions target all key areas of the iranian economy including the oil financial and shipping sectors. at markets like this one iranians have been feeling the costs of sanctions long before they came into effect the mere threat has sent inflation soaring and prices doubling in just a year leaving household budgets squeezed. there was a man here today who did not have money to buy the lotion for his baby because the economic situation is getting worse the people are very poor and times are hard. the effects are felt beyond the bazaar with iran's oil and finance sector major international companies are withdrawing from ted. at this advertising business they have had to sack several stuff. that's really heartbreaking it's heartbreaking for the people that we talk to to say that i'm so sorry there

wants tehran to end its ballistic missile program and abandon regional conflicts ronnie and president hassan rouhani says that tehran will defy american demands and in peru a truck crashed head on into a passenger bus on monday local media reports say that at least eighteen people are dead among them twelve women and children the bus has been traveling along a highway near lake titicaca. the trial of the notorious mexican drug lord joaquin guzman also known as el chapo has opened in new york prosecutors allege that he smuggled tons of drugs into the united states including cocaine and heroin and oversaw a campaign of killing and kidnapping if convicted he faces life in prison the first day of jury selection was held on monday. he's been notorious for decades as the head of a multibillion dollar drug cartel accused of a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings now mexican drug lord joaquin guzman known as el chapo faces seventeen criminal charges in a u.s. federal court in brooklyn under unprecedented security measures which include deployment of a special gas detection device chapo has b

tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions or that this is an economic war we're standing up to a believing enemy yes that he said i'm hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message he ran up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. let's cross to tehran your browser is standing by he is a correspondent with the german public broadcaster say the f. as we mentioned there york iran has responded to the new sanctions with military maneuvers what message is the drill intended to send. when i think it's obviously meant to send the message of strength and preparedness to their own people to the iranian population it show tell them that their government and its military forces are prepared to respond to any kind of threat from outside that they're strong and that they don't want to submit to the sanctions that president rouhani said to

wants tehran to end its list of missile program and abandon regional conflicts iranian president hassan rouhani says that tehran will defy american demands. a video purportedly showing some of around eighty schoolchildren kidnapped in the city of london in western english speaking part of cameroon has emerged has blurred the faces to protect their identity the captors say that they will only release the students if they are allowed to set up their own breakaway state. around twenty palestinians have been injured by israeli forces while trying to break the decades long maritime blockade of the gaza strip israeli military fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters really forty fishing boats were forced to return to shore. the u.s. olympic committee has moved to shut down the country's governing body for gymnastics it follows botched reform efforts after a sex abuse scandal the team dr larry master is serving life in prison for molesting more than two hundred and fifty five jim this. while the ninety four year old former concentration camp guard has gone on trial in germany a man is

wants tehran to end its ballistic missile program and abandon regional conflicts iranian president hassan rouhani says tehran will defy american demands. the trial of notorious drug lord el chapo real name king whose mind is set to begin in new york under tight security he's accused of leading a criminal enterprise that sold vast quantities of cocaine and smuggled billions of dollars into mexico. french president i knew in my call has repeated his calls for a quote real in european army as he attends ceremonies commemorating the end of world war one mccaw said europe needs a joint military force to better defend itself against china russia and even the us . a former nazi concentration camp guard has gone on trial here in germany the man is facing hundreds of counts of accessory to murder for alleged crimes at the start tough camp in nazi occupied poland over sixty thousand people were killed at the camp and time is now running out to prosecute those responsible . it is likely to be one of the last cases of its kind ninety four year old johann after arriving in court today accused of being

hassan mentioned an example outside of his personal company. but also the specific business group on health partnered with us to do an event a couple of months ago where we heard from mostly very large employers about things they were doing to try to chip away at the costs they are facing and that is really what is driving them. it is the cost that they are facing that is a real problem. i guess one question is do we really expect employers to take an active role in that given that most employers are in the x-business, whatever that is and the hr director are not health experts either. they're probably more comfortable talking about pension plans than health plans. so to what extent do we believe employers will take a leap here. let's start with anybody that wants to address that. >> mr. employer. >> so you're right. not every employer wants to get involved in modifying and shifting the health care system. we are not health care providers. we're food distributor, i have to remind myself every day but we spend a lot of money on health care and h

out of a nuclear deal with iran he called the fact of the iranian president hassan rouhani says tehran will not cave in to american demands the sanctions are targeting arounds banking and oil sectors. only to be washington bureau chief alexander phenomenon that with state department around representative brian hawk here's what he had to say about iran sanctions thank you for having us and it's you who what do you hope the sinks can achieve what we hope it will achieve two things we hope that it will deny the regime the revenue it uses to conduct terrorist attacks in europe and in the middle east and other threats to peace and security we also hope that the pressure will bring iran back to the negotiating table critics say in reality you are seeking a regime change in iran is that true it's not true the future of the iranian regime is up to the iranian people we very much would like to see a change in the regimes behavior a change in his policies so that it doesn't present as many threats to peace and security and that it also then provides a way of life that the iranian people deserve

as well as related that its all its predecessor was considered close to beijing iranian president hassan rouhani says iran and iraq could raise their annual bilateral trade to twenty billion dollars despite u.s. sanctions it made the remarks following a meeting with visiting iraqi president. the visit comes just weeks after the u.s. re imposed sanctions on iran's key oil industry as well as its banking and shipping sectors washington says tehran is breaking the two thousand and fifteen international nuclear deal and interfering in regional conflicts. well let's get more and main story there is reports from the us that the cia has concluded that the saudi crown prince was behind the murder of jamal soji lets me not only who is an expert on side of political affairs and the director of the think tank the gulf institute joins us from washington d.c. welcome to the program i'm curious first of all to get your assessment of what the mood must be like at the top level in saudi arabia we're not hearing a great deal from the crown prince and his team but what's your assessment of how they will b

now wants to force iran to abandon its nuclear weapons programs iran's president hassan rouhani says that his country is in an economic war with the u.s. and that the same sions will calls ordinary iranians to suffer. iranians think carefully about what they buy these days especially when it comes to luxury goods this woman says she mostly window shops because of the economic hardship. given. to hop on over the high prices negatively impact every individual and every family it was a barbie houses the people used to be happier. now whenever they want to buy something they have to weigh up whether they really need it or not he doesn't need to know the real simple jewels. food prices have doubled over the past year just know the threat of sanctions long before they took effect. iran's national currency the reality has lost more than two thirds of its value over the past twelve months in relation to the us dollar. devaluation of the currency threatens my existence other people's existence the psychological pressure means people queue up to buy dollars to be on the software side. now that

abc 7 news reporter anser hassan is reporting on how it is having an impact. >> reporter: a group of tourists waited in line for the cable cars which they didn't know weren't coming. they were sent back to the barn as air quality throughout san francisco reached dangerously high levels. the decision was made to pull them off the streets. a big downer for some foreign tourists. >> it is different. not like new zealand. >> reporter: they are standing in line not for tickets but refunds. the night tours all canceled. >> i was excited. finally get to go explore alcatraz. yeah, bummer. >> reporter: in all, 11 daily tours for friday also canceled once again due to the poor air quality. >> it is not ideal. we don't want to cancel our tours. but we want to make sure it's a little bit safer for both our crew and visitors alike. >> reporter: it is lights out at the union scare ice rink. they are closed until further notice. it is not just the big tourist attractis. norgian tourists had to cancel lunch. >> it is the cafe close to the bridge where we were supposed to have our lurch, and it was c

at oracle arena, anser hassan, abc 7 news. >>> steph curry responded to the accident tweet, don't need any reminders but all the time god is great and god is great all the time. appreciate all the texts. >> we've been sending out alerts on this story threw the app. enable push alerts to enable the the latest updates. >>> steady rain in the last 24 hours has given firefighters the upper hand in containing deadly camp fire in butte county. the fire is 95% contained. the wet weather helped subdue the remaining hot spots on the edges of 153,000 acre wildfire. the death toll is at 84 with close to 600 missing. nearly 14,000 homes zrid. meanwhile search and rescue crews spend the holiday weekend working through the devastation to look for victims. abc 7 news reporter jobbena fordin' is on-site. >> camp fire vips are getting help they need. at the booth that should be the busiest there is no one. >> there are people out there mo have loved ones who are among the dead at the morgue that we have not been able to identify. >> jim davis is with the company using rapid dna to identify people kille

ansar hassan, abc 7 news. >>> that's horrifying. ansar, thank you. dramatic new body camera video shows what some survivors had to go through to make it out of the deadly camp fire. deadly camp fire. oh, that's not good. >> that is something to see. he turned on his body camera because he thought he was going to die. flames quickly surrounded them. with his car broken down, there was no clear way out. luckily, a bulldozer showed up. the deputy flagged it down. they squeezed as many people as they could. others followed behind on foot. here is the amazing news. that entire group was able to make it out safely. >> oh, my goodness. evacuation orders are still in effect in parts of butte county after the latest storm. heavy rain brought flash floods to areas already devastated by the camp myer. the flash flood warning expired last night. the sheriff's office still has mandatory evacuation orders in two areas. >>> 35 families filed a lawsuit against pg&e for losses in the camp fire. it alleges the utility failed to safely and properly maintain its power l

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at oracle arena, anser hassan, abc 7 news. >> steph yur responded to the accident tweeting, don't need any reed minders but all the time god is great. and god is great all the time. appreciate all the texts. >> we have been sending out alerts on this story through the abc 7 mobile app. free to download. enable push alerts to receive the updates. >>> steady rain the last 24 hours has given firefighters the upper hand in containing the deadly camp fire burning in butte county. right now the fire is the 95% contained. the wet weather helped subdid you the remaining hot spots on the edges of 153,000 acre wildfire. the death toll is at 84 with close to 600 people missing. nearly 14,000 homes were destroyed. meanwhile, search and rescue crews are spending holiday weekend working through the devastation to look for victims. abc 7 news reporter jobina fortson is in paradise with the major rode block officials face. >> it's busting inside the family resource center. camp fire are camp fire victims getting the help they need but at the booth that should be the busiest there is no one. >> there a

at oracle arena, anser hassan, abc 7 news. >> steph curry respond to the accident tweeting don't need reminders but all the time god is great and god is great all the time. appreciate all the texts. >> we've been sending out alerts on the mobile app. it's free to download. enable push alerts to receive the updates. >>> steady rain in the last 24 hours has given firefighters the upper hand in containing the deadly camp fire burning in butte. the fire is now 95% contained. the wet weather helped subdue the remaining hot spots the of the 153,000 acre wildfire. the death toll at 84 with six hundred missing. nearly 14,000 homes destroyed. meanwhile search and rescue crews are spending the weekend working through the devastation looking for victims. our reporter is in paradise with one major rod block officials face. >> it's bustling inside the family resource center. camp fire victims getting help they need. but at the big time that should be the busiest there is no one. >> there are people out there who have loved ones who are among the dead at the morgue that we have not been able to ide

. >> richard hassan has a piece in slate, writing about election rights and voting rights and the votingar. he said what's happening in florida is a nightmare. 2020 could be so much worse. the new voting war has threat tond undermine the foundation of american democracy that election officials can fairly and accurately count ballots and they can declare winners who we accept as legitimate. >> as elections are are getting closer, especially in florida, it's ray sr. thin margins, we have the stakes are so high. and we have to be careful not codelegitimize our democracy while we wait to determine the outcome. the most important thing in all of these elections is to get the outcome right. we want to find out who the voters chose. we have to give election officials time to do that. there are millions of ballots still being counted nationwide and we have to let officials do their jobs so we know who accurately won. >> in california, you've got this -- it's striking to me, two republican candidates, young kim, in the 39th district of california and a republican named mimi walters in the 45th di

let's begin with zaha hassan. >> [ applause ] >> good morning. thank you to the organizers of the conference and doctor anthony for inviting me to share some thoughts with you today. what i want to talk about today is the nature of the palestinian relationship to israeli health -- israel. the relationship has been one defined by a series of if only's -- only the arab government and the plo would just do one more thing or not do just one more thing, peace would rain between arabs and choose and they could live together side-by-side in peace and security in the middle east. the first if only came after the palestinians saw the expulsion of reporters of the indigenous arab population of palestine. at that time the if only plus -- if only israel's neighbors with signed peace agreements with israel israel might allow the palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties. that it only came from the ambassador to the u.n. during israel's bid for membership in 1949. since then we have had arab countries sign two peace agreements and the plo ha

what we have is a group of people, like hassan rouhani who technocrats -- i detest the term moderates -- who are deeply committed to the islamic republic and its ideals and they think the way to achieve this by smiling, blowing smoke in your face rather than spitting in your face. then there is a group around the revolutionary guards who believe that resistance, resistance resistance is the way , to go. right now the latter camp, the revolutionary guards are quite delighted by the country's economic problems. ever since the iranian rial started to crash in march, they have mobilized their media and speeches by their leaders to contrast the successes that iran has been having in the regional policy, which they run in places like syria and yemen, with failures of the economic policy for which the rouhani team has taken responsibility. see, we,heme is that, we can do it. we, the revolutionary guards can do a good job but those guys can't. and so those guys, technocrats told us that when they replaced the person who was somewhat of a buffoon that we would have a team running, but we haven

. >> news reporter unser hassan is live in palo alto where he spoke with experts. unser?rter: yeah, doctors say they're seeing twice as many kids with respiratory issues for this time of year. if your kid is having a hard time believing, bring him in. >> his young daughter has been coughing a lot. >> sheep had a cough and bit i've fever. we decided to get her checked in. >> reporter: this doctor is with palo alto medical foundation. he says they're seeing twice as many kids with i have respiratory issues for this time of year. >> running, laughing triggering a cough i'm worried about their lungs. >> reporter: the likely cause in the poor air quality caused by the fire. it's especially a problem for baby abc young children because their lungs are still growing ef when it's over 51, it's a problem, over 100, it's dangerous sfoogs this weekend we've been at 160, 180. >> reporter: symptoms include rashes, headache abc mood swings. one or two weeks of bad air likely won't cause long-term damage but advises parents to still get their kids checked. >> the longer you breathe in p

. >> unser hassan has that story from fremont. >> reporter: a few seconds after tipoff, beaut collegeirst to score. >> i wanted the team to play. >> reporter: the roadrunners led most of the night against a tough home team. the coach says none of his players lost their homes but every player knows someone who did. >> it's just a good escape but it's never out of our minds. >> reporter: the school made the decision to let the players play even thole school is closed till next week. for these athletes, it's more than just a basketball game. >> normally we play for ourselves, our family, our school. now we have a whole county behind us. it fuels us to play. >> for a lot of the fan that ca anfor themo ssupporthe butwas v being out of school and be able to play a game is a big deal. >> reporter: then came the final buzzer. and a win pore beaut college, a win they'll take home to butte county. >> it's bigger than basketball. it's fun to play our best but you know, the reality is, people have it harder than us. so we've got to do everything we can. >> abc7 news. >>> playing with a purpose. >

economic sanctions targeting iran's oil and financial sectors have come into force iran's president hassan rouhani is has this country will quote proudly by. the roots of the map seventy nine high school students and their principal they were taken from a presbyterian boarding school in the city. in the west and turkey's vice president . has called for an investigation into newspaper reports that. body was disposed of by dissolving it and the acid. in the news agency also said that investigators are focusing on who gave the order for the assassination. took center stage at the u.n. human rights council delegations in geneva have been questioning saudi on human rights as part of a regular review of the kingdom's conduct member states have also been criticizing the abuses committed by the solve the coalition and the war in yemen but the saudis have come on the heavy criticism from the astray. delegation. a stranger deploys the killing of jamal khashoggi reports that the killing was premeditated a deeply alarming astray recommends saudi arabia fully cooperate with investigations related to th

unser hassan has more from danville. >> it's unheard of that someone, 15 years old, would drown in a swim class. >> reporter: attorney andy swartz watched video with the parents of 158-year-old benjamin curry. he says the video supposedly shows the pe teacher aaron bekar using his cell phone as ben drowned. >> the teacher had his cell phone in his hand and looking at his phone. >> reporter: according to police reports, back in may is, 57 students in his fourth period pe class were told to tread water for 3.5 minutes. the video shows ben struggling to stay afloat. sft lawsuit says bekar was negligent saying he had minimal training in water safety and his lifeguard certification expired and no lifeguard were present. >> most other school districts don't allow these classes without teachers and lifeguards. >> this parent says he's worked with the teachers at the school for over 30 years. >> i'm absolutely shocked. the teachers we've known the teachers for years, and they are so conscientious, it is beyond my comprehension that would happen. >> reporter: sthst district says it can't comm

man behind what they're a terrorist event in melbourne had links to isolate him but identified as hassan holly fisheye ali he crossed a card filled with gas cylinders in the city center on friday for stopping dead a man and wounding two others he later died in hospital from being shot by the police investigators say he was known to counter terror offices. the reuters news agency says the u.s. may stop refueling aircraft from the saudi and iraqi television the fighting in yemen trumped administration has been under pressure to limit its assistance in a war that's created a huge humanitarian crisis. because president. has dissolved parliament clearing the way for a snap election in january two years ahead of schedule a political crisis began two weeks ago when the president replaced the prime minister well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera correspondent station consul watched by fidel. if you look down on to police you will see a european capital. ancient city walls and orthodox churches mingling with the glass and steel structures of a modern s

can tell you iran is not doing very well but iran shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to the billing enemy yes that he said i'm hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into an anti regime sentiment. back here at the big table now with an ing reka he is head of the usa trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america we had the greatest success of pressure on iran when we did this together and now. in an irony iran has achieved one of its most supreme goals that is to divide the west and divide europe and america and now we have t