now there are doubts over whether iran co is to be floated all a report by the reuters news agency suggests that saudi arabia is pulling out of the stock offering amid fears that the sale could prove less lucrative than expected. the saudi government announced plans to sell five percent of the oil company back in twenty sixteen at the time it believed around coal would be valued at two trillion dollars or more. but several experts have since called that estimate into question and the financial advisers working on the proposed listing have reportedly been relieved of their duties. so these energy minister and incidentally also the chairman of saudi aramco denied reports that the i.p.o. was off thing in a statement the government remains committed to the initial public offering of saudi aramco in accordance with the appropriate circumstances and appropriate time chosen by the government. but just what the appropriate circumstances are remains unclear around because plan to buy a stake in a major petrochemical company thus increasing its market value could be one reason the government for buyi

lebanese shia organization hezbollah is therefore a necessity the political and military group which iran co-founded in the early one nine hundred eighty s. is to this day an ally and. an essential tool in the latter's resistance to israel . i'm. it's through syria that iran has provided hezbollah which logistic and strategic count. and if you talk to iranian officials today many believe that the reason israel did not attack iran at the height of the nuclear standoff was because they were afraid of hezbollah loss of power of retaliation not because of iran's capabilities so for tehran defending the damascus regime as a question of self interest it must not for as of late two thousand and eleven the islamic republic decided to send military advisors to hezbollah in syria to support bashar al assad's efforts to crush the rebellion. and. tehran had its own outlook on the syrian conflict in its size the civil uprising among part of the population against bashar al assad never took place tehran saw it as a conspiracy engineered by the west and israel. turned on was why i support bashar assad beca

public his son crown prince mohammed bin son mine once the south five percent of the company known as iran co such divestments would open up the company's finances to independent auditor is but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to do that officially the saudi government says the offer is been postponed not canceled robert mogilny he is a senior analyst at the same group it's a consultancy an advocacy organization he says saudi arabia has economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were a lot of reforms that were on the agenda but had yet to be implemented and i think we have to remember that that's the context within which the i.p.o. idea came about now. after the enthusiasm around that i.p.o. has subsided we see a very different economic context in saudi arabia the i.m.f. issued relatively positive con

now there are doubts over whether iran co is to be floated all a report by the reuters news agency suggests that saudi arabia is pulling out of the stock offering amid fears that the sale could prove less lucrative than expected. the saudi government announced plans to sell five percent of the oil company back in twenty sixteen at the time it believed around co would be valued at two trillion dollars or more. but several experts have since called but asked most into question and the financial advisers working on the proposed listing have reportedly been relieved of their duties. so these energy minister and incidentally also the chairman of saudi aramco tonight reports that the i.p.o. was off saying in a statement the government remains committed to the initial public offering of saudi aramco in accordance with the appropriate circumstances and appropriate time chosen by the government. but just what the appropriate circumstances are remains unclear around because plan to buy a stake in a major petrochemical company thus increasing its market value could be one reason the government hogs fo

iran. and they co ld start hit by this as well. and this may not be the last ve there's another deadline coming up in november when iran could beooking at more sanctions. of course, the president has said he's open to talk to iranian president rouhani. but they had some back and forth onn twitter and public about that. not clear if that's actually going to happen. ba to you. >> all right. we'll wait and see. thank you, tracie. reporting from capitol hill. >>> 14 before the hou now. theewseum changed its mind about controversial merchandise. the newseum pulled fake news t-shirts from their gift shot. it came from uproar from journalists saying it's attacking the very thing it's designed tcelebrate. the newseum released a statement, we apologize,na josts are not the enemy of the people. >> we have new details this morning. on an apparent attack on the president of venezuela, at lst half a dozen people have been arrested. the authorities saying the that the suspect used a pair of drones each packed with two pounds ofxplosives to try to

happen, but in that case, iran is going to face indefinite and extremely punishing economic consequences? well, first of all, there are a host of countries that will continue to cocially asian countries. and i think across the world, people are keen rising that the united states is behaving ina that the united states is behaving in a dangerous manner, using the dollar, using financial institutions as weapons and this is something we're now seeing being used against turkey and that's going to continually isolate the united states. of course, the united states is still a very important power but what i'm saying is the world is changing as well. iran will not be able to change its foreign policy because iran's policy in syria and iran is what prevented isis from coming into iran. not only did iran stop the extremists that western governments helped create with the saudis, look at the intelligence agency document of 2012. the most important military intelligence organisation in the world, the pentagon, stated early on in syria the dominant militant forces were the dominant militant forces were the extremists and they would create a salafists entity between syria and

co—operate with another country. that's what i was trying to say. iran we can see it from the plunge in your currency to the abandonment ofjoint—venture deals and european investment. we can see it in the oil business, we're about to see it more in the shipping business as well, because let's not forget, phase one of the reimposition of sanctions came on august 7 but more expansive sanctions are going to come in in november. you can talk about the morality of it, you can talk about the rights and wrongs of it, but in the end the iranian economy is in a very deep hole. the iranian economy is definitely going to face difficulty, it is facing difficulty and it will continue to face difficulty in the months ahead, but i assure you that iran will persevere. we've gone through greater difficulties. in the 1980s, when the united states was helping saddam hussein, giving him... and the europeans by the way, giving him chemical weapons to use against the iranians, we survived. we were alone for eight years, one of the few countries that actually supported us was

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facebook fans hundreds of pages proof and accounts linked to iran and russia but once it cools co-ordinated into frantic behavior including an alleged pedophile. let me. also you to come donald trump's presidency is looking increasingly precarious so as to form a same shit so found guilty of numerous federal crimes. the shooting and entertainment complex in the us city of jacksonville florida leaves two people dads and eleven inches. i was just going for a i'm here in moscow this is the weekly on r.t. international all top stories from the past seven days facebook's up at me and he and his crusade against fake news is another banning spray in an effort to stamp out the phenomena and that by the limits efforts to sway political opinion. explains. thanks for joining us millie but franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts doing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not the us of those b

agreement since two thousand and seventeen washington has withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal the un human rights council unites co and the paris climate accord we spoke to investigative journalist david lindorff and former british politician george galloway for their thoughts. donald trump is a bull in a china shop and he's knocking over all kinds of institutions this is just the latest china shop that he's lumbered around and he did the same with nato he did the same with the european union he's done the same with the potus climate arrangements done the same with the iran nuclear deal and so on so is the great disruptor. to have an enormously negative impact. the us economy i mean. u.s. is a huge trading country i think you would fly in countries becoming skeptical. about any further dealings with the us including you know some of the us is the largest partner secure many. european countries in general and in asia i think it would be hugely damaging to the u.s. relations with its trading partners. president of the international olympic committee has admitted the war on doping in sports might never be won but tho

concentrate on the small to medium—sized businesses from europe operating in iran so we can at least continue our economic coas in the end to be expected. do you think europe has less power now than it has had in decades? the european union is still the strongest economic power in the world. we have the largest single market, with now 500 million people. but what we have to understand in europe is that only together we are strong. 0nly together we have eyesight with the united states, with russia or with china, and that is why we have to be strong on external affairs, with one position but, on the other hand, we have to invest in the necessary reforms to make our european union more effective, less bureaucratic, and more competitive, and, of course, the transatlantic relations remains enormously important for us, even though at the moment, under this president, we do have some different views on important political matters. david mcallister, thank you for coming on hardtalk. good morning. there's a lot of fine weather to be had across the british isles today. most of us will start the day sunny and although

that's why iran is turning for help to european powers, co- signers of the nuclear deal. pe is devising a plan to sidestep unctions and deliver to iran economic benetsuaranteed in the nuclear deal, according to the u.k.'s ambassador to iran, rob macaire >> as i said, there is no single recipe that is going to... noet magic buere. but in the area of protecting european companies through issues like the blocking statute which is a piece oe.u. legislation in increasing the mandate of the european investment bank. in work through export credit facilities and wk looking at special purpose financial vehicles and of course also engaging with the u.s. a wdministratiore there has been a very senior level engagement to talk about what exclusions would apply to us sanctions. >> sayah: in many ways saving the nuclear deal means takinon washington. >> i wouldn't put it in those terms. i think the united states is our oldest and closest ally and there are a lot of things that we continue to agree with the u.s. on when it comes to iran policy. obviously we have one major disagreement whi

examination of tucker society which under president at iran is drifting towards extremes masculine muslim i'm assortments. this turkish french co-production was a change in many countries but in turkey it was of course highly controversial. and. i was feeling very powerful while we were shooting it like. as if we could. i think the control of the world you know. we could like bird then how. could. she. know. we can do more films and that's doesn't object why women pick them as subjects don't show them as victims but like as figures that they can speak up for themselves. for a long time that has not been the case. and an amazing lot of on the video takes things to extremes until they reach critical mass. yet. hear a woman is formed from modeling clay god makes her according to his own absurd ideas and. moving stories that raise disturbing questions not a has a own way of presenting them but the film questions of violence against women. and then there had happened a rape case in. which which had. disturbed me a lot so i wanted to make something about that. i was interested by the by standers effect which means that the more peopl

iran contra, you're right. i actually co-whatever, broadcast those with judy woodruff on pbs. and they made a decision that the country had just been through an impeachment and you shouldn't do one again. but i have to say i think there's a gigantic difference. iran contra was a very serious problem. it was an off the books operation that went against a congressional mall. watergate was a series of events. it was across the board. i'm often asked, and i'm expecting it so i'll answer it anyway, what about now? this is nothing. we've had nothing remotely like it, where the president himself condoned these not just criminal activities but set this whole atmosphere of fear and vengeance and enemies. and there was nothing like it. i pray there will be nothing like it. i think we just have to be sure to hold the president accountable and get after the congress, if they're not doing so. also, get after them if they're going crazy on one particular issue. i won't even have to mention, because they're still looking for corruption and they just sort of can't find it. so it should balanc

jon: can i get your quick -- vonnie: get your quick thoughts on the iran: ipo? ipo?an cothink some wire reports this morning suggests strongly that a was the king himself who pulled the plug on this thing. during ramadan it was sort of obvious from the news that they are now pursuing saavik. it doesn't bode well for vision 2030, that's how i see it. interesting. we will have to have you back areas thanks for joining us. coming up, our next guest says that a nafta deal has to get done as soon as possible to prevent uncertainty for mexico. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: welcome back to "bloomberg markets." jon: turning to the story of trade and the bathtub, president trump calling the tentative trade agreement between the u.s. and mexico incredible for workers. for more, let's welcome daniel koerner. in your opinion, how would you describe the significance of today? daniel:nt this is important, particularly for mexico, it's is the and it shows that mexico wanted a deal and that we still need to see all the details. that the u.s. is actually willing to make concessions that th

sanctions prohibits iran from using the us dollar and restricts trying in precious metals it also includes limiting iranian currency flows as well as constraints on the cartwright spirit co nine takes a look at the kind of impact u.s. sanctions have had in the past the trumpet ministration has imposed so we think sanctions on iran with the goal of her tailing so-called iranian aggression and blocking all path to iranian nuclear radiation now the outcome of such a move is hard to predict but from what we've seen so far unilateral u.s. sanctions are rarely successful but that certainly wasn't for lack of trying the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice the next it has issued sanctions on key russian oligarchs we would force the band or during the united states will stand idly by as venezuela. we will enforce the embargo the question is are sanctions. the u.s. announced it would be sanctioning turkish officials over on crowe's detainment of an american pastor turkey didn't respond so highly you know shown patience but the step america has taken does not with its a step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect tow

after negotiations between russia iran and turkey but unfortunately it seems like there's not going to be any distance deescalation going on anytime soon. i don't cos i thank you for bringing us up to speed on that story . around two hundred fifty protesters at the university of north carolina at chapel hill pulled down a controversial confederate statue on monday night the one hundred five year old monuments known as silence had long been seen as a symbol of white supremacy. erected in nine hundred thirteen it commemorated those who died fighting for the slave holding confederate states in the american civil war the monument had polarized opinion on campus for decades and have been vandalized in the past although many store it is racist and offensive others argued it was part of the south's heritage and should therefore have been preserved the university for this for its part condemns the toppling of the statue as unlawful and dangerous but did acknowledge the monuments divisive nature at least one person was reportedly arrested during the demonstration and police are investigating the act of vandalism the incident forms part of a growing backlash

making claims about foreign policy that the white house does not co-sign, remember, he said the president supports regime change in iran. rudy giuliani said that. the reason he's been able to get away with all this is because the president is okay with it. rudy giuliani is not going rogue here and acting in isolation, he's saying what the president wants to say. he's saying what the president wants to hear and that's why all of this is happening. it doesn't just reflect on rudy, it reflects on the commander in chief. >> and rudy's audience is one plus, right? the one being donald trump and the plus is the base. i mean that's who he's talking to when he says this racist thing about islam, that's who he's talking to. he's on fox and knows exactly who's watching, donald trump and those 35% of core folks that will never go anywhere. >> but he is part of a legal team, or maybe it's spokesperson, it's joe peschi like figurehead. >> joe peschi in "my cousin vinny" might have in the end been a better lawyer than rudy giuliani is today. >> what if jay sekulow and emmet flood and other lawyers involved in actual lawyering, do wi

talking to their co-workers about this sudden and tragic loss. >>> three months after pulling out of the iranent trump reimposed sanctions on iran. they now don't have the backing of major ally is in europe. breaking down the latest. >> reporter: the u.s. is turning up the heat on iran, snapping the first set of sanctions suspended under the ira nuclear deal back into place. >> i with drew the united states from the horrible and very expensive, and a deal that didn't work, the iran nuclear deal. >> reporter: the move comes months after president trump with drew the iran nuclear deal. it prompted protests and could persist as the administration threatens even tougher sanctions targeting iranian oil and the country's central bank. >> i hope everything will be fine with us in iran. i will tell you, they are a much different country than they were four months ago. >> reporter: benjamin netanyahu welcoming the move and urging other countries to do the same. the goal of applying maximum pressure to iran may fall short without help from china or the eu or other countries. the eu not only does not su

spent 14 years of residence in the middle east and served as co-front and a sheet inserted a particularly. some really great expert on iran, on syria, on nonproliferation, on compliance issues. i'm going to turn to each of you just give me your reaction to assistant secretary, to anything that struck you or stood out to you? >> yet. i mean, i thought it was a very important reiteration of some of the key points that we've been seeing come out of the administration. one thing that struck me, perhaps particularly as an international lawyer, was a statement where she said iran has not yet demonstrated to the world that it is rectified its egregious record of noncompliance with articles two and three of the npt. and my own view is that the iranian nuclear archive that was taken out of iran by the israelis is raising a lot of questions, indeed, but whether iran is currently in noncompliance, currently in violation of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, as well as iran's top rates of safeguards agreement with the international atomic energy which is required by the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. and i wonder if the statement

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co-have put these sanctions back in at any point. now, what they're telling us is that's because iran has been using the money that had got released when the sanctions were relaxed to sow chaos in the region. it doesn't smell right. you know why? they've been doing that all along. in fact, that was a big point for trump in nixing the original deal. remember? it doesn't do anything with all the menacing that they're doing. however, remember back in 2015, all the countries involved said the deal was just about nukes, not all the other bad stuff that iran was doing. just for context. all right. then they say, well, there's new violations of what they were supposed to do under the deal even though they walked away from the deal, which you would think would relieve iran of those types of considerations. but that's not true. international inspectors say that they are complying with the deal. what does that leave? i wonder if this tweet -- put this tweet back on the screen for people, the one the president put out there. i wonder if the tweet with the president admitting that he knew what th

responsible for starting the fire to co nta ct is responsible for starting the fire to contact the police immediately. president trump re—imposes sanctions against iran the iranian president, hassan rouhani has accused the us of psychological warfare and says talks and sanctions couldn't go together. other stories. brazil has re—opened its northern border with venezuela to those fleeing economic and political turmoil there. it had been closed in response to an order from a federaljudge. 500 venezuelans have been crossing the border every day. that's on bbc mundo. the standoff between police and protesters is continuing in bangladesh. dhaka has been gripped by protests for more than a week now — and they've turned violent. rights groups have criticised the police for "unlawfully attacking" students. the protesters want better road safety. bbc bangla. and take a look at this. a shark expert greg skomal was looking for great white sharks off cape cod in massachusetts — and he got more than he bargained — because one breached beneath his feet. a court in germany has sentenced a mother and her boyfriend, to twelve years injail, for sexually abusing her yo

co-star, bute tire audience. that's why mahnaz is in suchan high d (afshar speaking under music) >> erdbrink: to me, it seems as if they're making do. but in iran the set continues out there in the real world. iran is a country with a lot of, ruhich means that a lot of fun things are actually banned here under islamic law. but that of course doesn't mean thatun things don't happen i iran. listen here for instance. something is happening here. of course, i know what happening here; my friend sooni is giving a zumba ass. inside, women are dancing, they're wearing sports clothes. and these are all things that we are not allowed tfilm. not only foreign journalists are not allowed to film, no one is technically allowed to film those. this is another gray area: exercises allowed here, also for women. but when it looks like jumping or dancing-- like zumba-- it suddenly isn't anymore. where do they draw the line? >> what do you think? pretty cool. >> yes, it is. >> erdbrk: with elastic? >> (laughs): yeah. s erdbrink: the question is, can i tell sooniry about starting a zumba business thout getting her into trouble? (dance music playing) look, these are

iran's going to hell economically. russia is. china is. my god, the list is unbelievable. and we're doing all right. explain, lucy. tomorrow. >> morgan debon, who's the coed blavity, just raised $6.5 million for her site. the reason that's important is because she's an african-american woman. it's the largest fund-raising number for an frnl frm this year. african-american women only raised $36,000 while most people are able to raise $1.3 million for a start up, mostly white men for a startup. african-american women only raised $36,000. it's a huge raise it's very important and we've got to field goal out how to get more of that if we want to grow -- >> what's her name again? >> her name is morgan debon. the company is called blavity. >> google. bet the message out. >> in ohio donald trump's disapproval rating is 24 points higher than john kasich's. the reason i know that is george conway tweeted that out. george conway, who's kellyanne conway's husband. >> shannon pettypiece, jamal simmons and charlie sykes with unusual information. when we return, let me finish tonight with the greatest broadcast news person of all time. you're watching "hardball." hai

iran uncertainty. >> thank you. >>> the global trade turmoil continues to weigh on the minds and bottom lines of farms in the midwest. let's bring in mike, a michigan-based middle man for a coocessing company and also the president of bamp marketing, short for beans are my passion a marketing firm for bean farmers in case you didn't know. i don't think beans need marketing. everybody loves them, don't they do they need that kind of business i see you're laughing. glad you like that >> everybody loves beans. >> of course they do >> right. >> tell me about the effect that you're seeing as a result of what's going on with the trade war with the president and china and tariffs? how are beans being affected in the united states. i understand you focus on navy beans. >> yes we're actually standing outside a field of navy beans today and this field will be ready in about 40 days to be harvested. it will then be sent to ontario for processing and ultimately to the eu when it arriving at the eu, because it originated in the united states, it will be assessed a tariff, 25% tariff. >> what's the average price for beans and the metric you use you sell them for what and what's the chang