usually the iranian president would be upset. now it's reverse, the iranian president gave a modest speech. and they're actually enjoying this moment at this point. not saying they're going to be comfortable in the long run. but so far, they have actually come out strung out of the things. >>. >> i don't think it has anything to do -- when we have -- the conversation in washington is whether tillerson did or did not call the president of the united states a moron, rest assured the secretary of state of the united states, does not have any credibili on the international scene. >> that's -- >> it's not a judgment of him, there may not be anyway around, but that's scary. >> so far the iranians have been benefiting from what trump has been doing. >> politically, inside of iran, how do you expect them to take advantage of that. they're benefiting at the moment. how do you expect they'll take advantage of that. >> far, the political balance has not shifted dramatically, in the sense that rouhani is still there. if the europeans cave an

iranians, stay out. russia, by the way if you start flying bombing missions against our troops that's it end of it, period. i think we need stop mandy pamberring around and live with it. >> wait, the iranians you're saying -- >> i'd keep them from supplying, from taking -- >> every time -- >> every time they do t i'd geaftgo after them. when is the last time somebody went after israel for taking out an s 400 in syria? never. >> they dent want transfer from syria to lebanon of weapons. >> lebanon, syria, i don't want them in there. i don't want to be threatened. either from iraq, turkey. >> so maybe we should nominate you. >> i won't serve and i tell you what we need to do something. >> and so you're not very happy with the policy, i'd take it? >> lis hadden rsh i'm not trying to criticize -- first of all i wouldn't criticize mattis for anything. i think iltk it's difficult for somebody like him or even tillerson to articulate what i just said. there may be a lot better way to say it but i don't think we'

when we see iranian troops in syria, iranian malicious in iraq and other iranian-supported shia, malicious in lebanon and bahrain and even in saudi arabia, they have what is called the hezbollah and the hijaz. - from their perspective, syria, was always considered a trojan horse for the iranians. if they lost iraq to the iranians, we need to take syria back and i think, that probably what made syria a win or lose situation for them. - what they do want is to see the emergence of at sunni led government which would be friendly to saudi arabia and hostile to iran and what you've had since 2012 is essentially this spiraling, escalating regional proxy war which is basically so intense because it's so thoroughly penetrated be regional politics. - [narrator] saudis are the dominant power in the gulf cooperation council. the military alliance has carried out an intense spamming campaign in yemen where the houthis, a shia rebel group backed by iran, overthrew the sunni government. - that look like to them that now, the iranians were actually trying to establish a beach hut on the peninsula itself

a potentially even leaving the iranian markets then the benefits for iran to be compliance with the deal which they currently are will essentially have been evaporated and i doubt moment i fear that we may see the iranians taking the first steps towards restarting the nuclear program which will only further ratchet up tensions and further increase the risk of war thus the big danger here this is not just about killing the nuclear deal this is automatically putting the united states on a path towards a military confrontation in the region well like you wrote when obama was trying to make a deal with iran he had a choice of nuclear iran a war since trump now wants to cancel the deal does that mean he wants war. if he counsels a nuclear deal he will likely end up only facing two options war or accepting a nuclear iran since it's clear he doesn't want to have a nuclear iran one has to ask oneself is he doing it because he wants to drive things towards a war but from a security standpoint with us involved in iraq and afghanistan want to war with iran be a disaster for those two complains

keep the iranian out. tell assad you're going to have to live there the way it is and you're not going to have a good life because there's hardly anything in. number two is you drop another barrel bomb out of an airplane. it's the last time we're going to have an air force. you're done. we should have never let that happen in the first place. we should have taken his total air force out. could have done it. it would have been very easy. assad, congratulations. it's kind of a comfortable prison you're going to be in the rest of your life. iranian, stay out. you're not going to be part of that. russia, if you start flying bombing missions dwens our troops, that's the end of it. period. i think we need to say this is way it's going to be. if we need to do this for years, fine. >> iranian, you're saying -- >> keep them out. i'd keep them from supplying. i'd keep them from taking -- cha exactly. every time they do it, i'd go after them. the isiraeli do it exactly righ. when is the last time somebody went after

former informal adviser to obama administration and a half of the national iranian american council. on physical. consequences for their country speak. against them what can be done to. trita parsi welcome to the show it's great to have you on our program so it's. so was elected during his campaign he made quite a lot of anti islam comments but so far none of this has really been acted on was it all just a ploy to fire up his base or really hold some kind of grudge against muslims. i think is incorrect to say that it's not been acted upon because it only took him roughly ten days to put into place the first muslim ban which ended up of course being deemed unconstitutional in the courts he went all the way up to the supreme court but then donald trump himself pulled it and presented a new version of that ban which is also now being blocked and will probably end up going to the supreme court so i think it's a he clearly has acted on it i think that he does so largely because he has a base that has been fed some of this islamophobia and wants to see it acted upon but we haven't seen him

positions are supported or iranians positions are supported or iranians causes are listened to, theresecretary goes there and comes up with some sort of agreement, perhaps agreeing to demands from the iranians government, for example, then that might lead to some sort of big cat to the judiciary to potentially release her. —— diktat. how realistic is that scenario?m can happen. you have to bear in mind that the judiciary is an adversary of the government and tries to sort of the government and tries to sort of oppose the government at every corner. that cannot be resolved internally, but with the foreign secretary visiting iran, there is a host of different issues that are being discussed, and a whole series of issues in which iran wants the support of the british government, especially in its dealings with in the region, with saudi arabia, with syria and someone, so in the context of our broader picture and a broader understanding that can come about as a consequence of discussions that are held between the foreign secretary and the iranians foreign minister, the iranians political s

— iranian woman held prison in tehran.cepts he could have been clear when talking to mps but the husband would like the comments retracted in public. during us for the latest is our assistant political editor, norman smith. call it an error or a slip of the time. these remarks have provoked massive controversy at westminster. —— slip of the tongue. he might have jeopardised the case of zaghari—ratcliffe and she might face an even longer jail term zaghari—ratcliffe and she might face an even longerjail term as a result of his incorrect remarks. downing street says mrjohnson spoke with his iranian counterpart this morning and they said his remarks were not the cause of the decision to review and possibly increase her sentence. they also say mrjohnson had said nothing which might in any circumstances give them justification for increasing the sentence. mrjohnson also appears to be standing by the line issued by the foreign office late last night, suggesting when he said mrs zaghari—ratcliffe was their teaching iranian people

that was an iranian on holiday, and that was the sole purpose of her visit.le purpose of her visit. my remarks on the subject before the foreign affairs select committee could and should have been clearer, andi could and should have been clearer, and i acknowledge the words i used we re and i acknowledge the words i used were open to being misinterpreted, andi were open to being misinterpreted, and i apologise to mrs nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and her family if i have inadvertently cause them any further anguish. it is not good enough. if it is a matter of pride that the foreign secretary is refusing to admit simply that he has made a mistake or that i feel bound to say to him that his pride matters not one ounce compared to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe's freedom! after a week of obstetrician and bluster, will you finally take the opportunity today to state simply an unequivocally, for the removal of any doubt, either here or in tehran, that he simply got it wrong? carla ferstman is the director of human rights organisation redress and has been working with nazan

and through the support of the iranian experts they have. to be able to use the air to air missiles into land to a size and in fact this messiah has been just. this is sort of them has been used by the yemeni force. they've called it. and you can also see here military vehicle on the right that has. that is being used in the launch and the both the militants have been given this. and it has been destroyed. this. was about to hit the city of the drawn and we have droid this is an iranian missile that has been given to the host is. right so even if nato spokesman from the saudi led coalition speaking in riyadh about the targeting of the airports in the saudi capital following the. firing a long range ballistic missile that traveled over the border with saudi arabia which was intercepted by the saudis so our senior political analysts who are on bashar is standing by he joins us now from. and so marwan we heard him making the case that this specific type of missile could not have been obtained or used without help from the iranians essentially f

after more than two and a half years of fighting in yemen saudi arabia's coalition and iranian backed the fighters are at a stalemate while the country is on the verge of famine and cholera is spreading wherever the saudis look in the middle east they see iran yemen isn't the only country where they're facing off and iran always seems to be one step ahead in syria iranian soldiers and hezbollah fighters along with the russians of help shift the civil war in favor of president bashar al assad that's at the expense of the anti outside forces riyadh has been supporting the saudis have been accused of allowing thousands of its citizens to fight eisel in syria the iranians have done very world they backed president bashar assad very solidly in very determinedly from the beginning of that contrasted with the behavior of the u.s. to western governments in terms of their support for the syrian rebels and the iranians have always been very strategic in their and i think the view from riyadh the the outcome of the syrian crisis has definitely been one that has consolidated iran's position in th

on saturday, november 4, iranian-backed houthi rebels in yemen fired an iranian-made ballistic missile at saudi arabia's capital. by monday, riyadh, in the midst of a pal ace shakeup, described the attack as a war. and ordered all ports close. they said it was necessary to prevent iran to continue to arm the houthis but the move also spelled dire consequences for yemen civilian population suffering under the third year of punishing wartime conditions. in a country where nearly 70% of the population needs some form of humanitarian and protection assistance, port closures have the distinct look of collective punishment. although saudi arabia this morning announced it would begin lifting the restrictions, this dramatic si against of events underscores the potential this war has on any given hour or day to explode in a regional confrontation and even greater humanitarian catastrophe. from the regional perspective, yemen remains a critical foot hold for iranian influence on the southern flank of the middle east. the conflict there allows the iranian regime to sew enstability that is to its

an iranianjudiciary websites and an iranian state tv. the foreign secretary's remarks were the basis of the renewed action against nazanin so in conclusion after one week of obtuse cajun and plaster, —— obfuscation and bluster, will he finally take the opportunity today to state simply and unequivocally for the removal of any doubt, either here or in teheran, that he ' ? mr speaker i am more than happy to see again what i said to the right honourable lady last week, that yes of course i apologise for the distress, for the suffering, but that has been caused by the impression that i gave that the government believed, that i believe that she was there any professional capacity she was there on holiday and that is the view of... i do apologise, i do apologise and of course i retract any suggestion that she was there in a professional capacity. you must have heard that from me about a dozen times. regrettably more than a faint whiff of opportunism hangs over this urgent question. others will question the wisdom of having this discussion at a

but this one is iranian which is the proof that the iranians have succeeded despite the war n sneaking this missile into yemen territories and maybe put together by yemenese or iranians or hezbollah operatives and that is taken to saudi arabia as a game changer. it is an act of war by the iranians and hezbollah and saudi arabia and rightfully so. if they had the opportunity to send tons of missiles to saudi arabia they would do it. o that is an enforcement argument and all you need to tand up to the iranian ex-pungment but you need to do it in the right way. >> within two days of president trump urging the world to come together against iran they turned on qatar which i think is a strange way of trying to present a united front. >> ok. while talking about yemen, when ill the war in yemen stop? if l -- let's read a little bit about what his uncle did in 1965. , supporting ng the civil war, he distanced himself from all sides and he played a part to all yemenese. since that time saudi arabia became like an equal partner to all of yemen. i think it needs to be discovered again and to reac

they keep firing old-fashioned scud missiles on us, but this one is iranian which is proof the iranians have succeeded, despite the war in sneaking in this missile into yemen territories, and maybe was put together by yemenis or by iranians, or by hezbollah operatives. that is taken to saudi arabia as a game changer. it's an active or by iran and its rightly so. the iranians, if they had the opportunity to send tons of missile to saudi arabia they would do it. so that's what and force my argument in saudi arabia need to stand up to the iranian expansionism but do it through the right way. >> lets let's not forget in tods president trump urging the sunni arab world to come together against iran, the southeast and others turned on qatar which i think was a strange way of trying present a united front. >> okay. talking about yemen, when will the war in yemen stop? [laughing] >> if mohammed bin salman republic about what his uncle faisal did in 1965. in 1955 king faisal who was supporting part of yemeni in the civil war, he distanced himself from all sides and he brokered peace to all human

what i would say, trying to take proxy iranians with groups is not necessarily -- i mean, the iranians have a working withice of groups like hezbollah. and this is a dangerous -- i they're expert in how they do that. i think in yemen and also in syria, it's been shown that they maintain levels of direct and indirect influence that has far outmatched the sunni arab's states to do the same. a problem into be every regional conflict, i think, going forward. >> jamal, michael huffman would like to know a little bit more about the background, did that-wise, and how shape mohammed bin salman's world view? where does he get his advice? >> i was surprised to learn yesterday, from a friend of an americanaches in university, that he advised mohammed bin salman. so that was good news for me, he does reach out to proper advisors. but the same friend said to me, he doesn'tme angry, listen to my advice. [laughter] >> and he has the best advice, when it comes to development and changing the face of saudi arabia. dollars onllions of those consultants. so he has no problem with advisors. benefit from o

iraqi red crescent on the iranian red goodison. b. are delivering. this. to the needy people and i mean i'm presuming and maybe not correctly that there's a lot of areas you haven't been able to fully assess yet especially as you mentioned the rural areas. yes the main just. getting young district in the northern part. getting some information even now from some other villages in the villages. partially in or out of the diminished after the earthquake. quakes also contributes to carry on. the people they predict growth. getting there are just. the weather conditions not. around ninety eight he says you stayed at shelters. so just we are. trying to make sure that all this people in the rural area. reached by the workers. are still. trying to reach them and i mean presumably you do do you need more assistance to be able not only to reach people in rural areas the relief effort and to you know potentially rescue that the missing. actually disaster. nature nature is to make two disasters if the manmade disaster. countries eleven million people. suffer because

has well law and the iraqi of iranian pakistani volunteers who've all struggled for years to push back the extremists that were funded by the one stream if they were funded by saudi arabia and unfortunately the united states as we know from documents that have been revealed the defense intelligence agency documented two thousand and twelve the wiki leaks documents we know that the united states has coordinated the movement of extremists and the bringing of them into the country of syria but you know things have shifted in change of enormously on the ground and hopefully least talks will help pave the way for. the conflict to come to an end but i think as your reporter was saying a couple of minutes earlier that it looks good on paper but it i'm sure it's going to be very complicated in the weeks and months ahead yes i mean and they were ality is there a lot of different different ethnic groups as lots of different opposition groups. it all does sound great on paper because it seems that steps have been made forward politically but how difficult is it going to be to implement what was d

and he says there will be more damage on the iranian side to sujit a lot geographical differences iranian landscape is much more mountainous than its counterparts on the iraqi side to the west but remember that that landscape and the location of the political border a lot of it comes down to these geological faults that shape the landscape so repeated earthquakes on these faults of lifted up the mountains in their present configuration and created that mountainous landscape on the iranian side whilst keeping the iraqi territory rather sort of subdued and flatter with consequently fewer casualties when an individual earthquake strikes aftershocks are inevitable fortunately each of the the ones recorded so far since the main shock have been much smaller on the mark and shoot of four and five we can't predict exactly when and where they will occur they could occur over the next days and even months in this region we've already seen with the first aftershocks that they're occurring on a sort of broad north south distribution south of the main shock and that's probably indicating sort of furth

rhinians —— iranians.rpart and 110w about it with her counterpart and now borisjohnson has been asked to do more and he has said he will, he will go to iran and he has spoken in the past about visiting her in jail. that the family would like to see. for now, thank you. downing street says it will tighten the ministers' code of conduct, after the international development secretary held a meeting with the israeli prime minister without informing the foreign office. priti patel was on holiday at the time and the bbc has learned that after the trip, she suggested some of britain's aid budget should be given to the israeli army to support its humanitarian operations. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, report. holiday snaps of a different kind. when priti patel travelled to israel for a break in august, she did not just to see the sights, she also visited politicians and charities, 12 in all, without telling the foreign office. the most important meeting was with the israeli prime minister, something

after more than two and a half years of fighting in yemen saudi arabia's coalition and iranian backed goofy fighters are at a stalemate while the country is on the verge of famine and cholera is spreading wherever the saudis look in the middle east they see iran yemen isn't the only country where they're facing off and iran always seems to be one step ahead in syria iranian soldiers and hezbollah fighters along with the russians of help shift the civil war in favor of president bashar al assad that's at the expense of the anti assad forces riyadh has been supporting the saudis have been accused of allowing thousands of its citizens to fight for myself in syria and the iranians have done very world they backed president bashar very solidly in very determinedly from the beginning and that contrasted with the behavior of the u.s. to western governments in terms of their support for the syrian rebels and the iranians have always been very strategic in their clerk and i think that viewed from riyadh the the outcome of the syrian crisis is definitely being one that has consolidated iran's p

long and bloody and destructive conflict in syria it's being spearheaded by the russians and the iranians and the turks they've been in consultation with other players in the region including israel and also a telephone call between putin and trump are the pieces falling into place go ahead adele well let's hope so we have. historic context. with russia ruled these two major developments in the region would have not achieved one is the celebrated and now counter version and the iranian. control over the program and second the ending of the war in syria by defeating terrorism it could have ended in different way the russians the main objective as i can see is to keep the geographical integrity one country of syria which is on the objectives of the other says important. what happened between that phone call between mr trump and mr ford and very important the superpowers because this trump can actually pull the strings on regional powers that might have a different edge and i don't want to second guess whether there is but it is very actually important that all the powers that come thirdly y

have no problem with the iranian people and that the iranian government is your target no i'm telling you first that you have a problem with the people because these sanctions mostly target the people rather than the government and i don't want to say i'm looking for anyone who wants to invest ten will be one hundred percent successful my oldest son lived in germany for three s and came back to iran because it's a better income iran small business owners appear to be optimistic about their future and they're appealing to european investors not to judge them from afar but to come and see for themselves. to her on twitter is doubling its one hundred forty character limit it means longer tweets for those who struggle to condense the message on the micro-blogging site the company announced that the changes will be effective immediately stop reports. have you ever struggled to write a tweet in just one hundred forty characters and would a few actual letters help you express yourself better that sentence was the length of a standard tweet one hundred forty characters now though twitter has

is present at the moment and that is to tend to the iranian influence in the region and ok. you mentioned you mentioned iran let me go to adel because it always goes back to iran here ok so what are the pieces on the board here we have the american military that says it's going to maintain its presence and it's not given a real justification except to keep make sure there isn't isis two point oh ok fine well being there might create it ok that's what usually happens ok and also we have the israelis which i would say at the very least want to see a destabilized syria they can capitalize on that and we have the saudis that will not leave any stone unturned here and then we have someone like donald trump has already been said on the program he might change his mind after his golf game we don't know ok i find this adel to be extremely dangerous even though we have i think the pieces coming together to cede some light at the end of the tunnel but there are some people that want to keep the darkness there and go ahead and. if you have to you're careful not to second guess because

there is no doubt about the fact that the iranians are at fault here.hs now, but i have also been appealing to our foreign secretary to help a young mother separated from her daughter, denied medical access, denied consular access, has been on hunger strike, is suicidal. i have been appealing for help, and what he has done is not a gaffe, not a blunder, it is a serious mistake. it is a grave error, which as a result, my constituent is facing fresh charges, and may have to stay in jail for longer. we are told that boris johnson has this morning spoken to nazanin‘s husband, richard. you may not be able to comment on that, but do you think that the foreign secretary is now belatedly tried to get to grips with this case? iambic to make this clear, i am not here to make party political points. i want to get my constituent back home and reunited with her family. to get my constituent back home and reunited with herfamily. some to get my constituent back home and reunited with her family. some good tory ministers have been dealing with this well. if borisjohns

now his words have been cited in an iranian court as evidence against her.moment, i will be talking to her husband, but first this report from political correspondent chris mason. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe with her young daughter, gabriella. mrs zaghari—ratcliffe was arrested in tehran in april last year and has been injail ever since for allegedly plotting to topple the iranian regime. her family insist she was there on a family visit, but look what the foreign secretary had to say about the case to mps last week. when you look at what nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe was doing, you know, she was simply teaching people journalism, as i understand it. mrjohnson did condemn iran and did offer to visit mrs zaghari—ratcliffe in prison, but his remarks about what she was doing in iran led her to being hauled before a court there at the weekend and being accused of spreading propaganda. and her family say the foreign secretary simply got his facts wrong. he needs to make a clear statement that, you know, she wasn't working training journalists — she was there on holiday

on iranian state tv they showed boris johnson's comments on iranian state tv they showed borisjohnsonty. on the official website of the iranian judiciary it says the foreign secretary's statement sheds fresh light on nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and asa light on nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and as a result she is guilty. her family are extremely distressed, richard ratcliffe is extremely distressed. the foreign secretary needs to go to place back, bring back my constituent and reunite her with herfamily, back my constituent and reunite her with her family, this back my constituent and reunite her with herfamily, this isn't funny, this isn't a gaffe or a blunder, this isn't a gaffe or a blunder, this isn't a gaffe or a blunder, this is life or death. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may's closest ally in the cabinet, damian green, has insisted that the police never informed him of allegations that pornography had been found on a computer at his office in parliament. a former head of the metropolitan police, sir paul stephenson, has said his force was aware that material had be

do you mean iranians that work i've no idea what the iranians said i wasn't privy to that to that conversation but i'm sure he explained the situation to the iranians and we'll have to wait and see what the outcome of that is we know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown and attorney blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging. what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging seems to be going on at an industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise papers you know worried that there is a maze has been involved has been does. in effect advisor on tax dodging i'm not i'm not in the slightest worried by that i'm sure that he can defend himself on

and the iranians have now moved in their emergency response teams very quickly i have to say setting up field hospitals moving into heavy machinery to try and get to people that may still be trapped in the rubble now iran as you heard in that report that is one of them i saw is it the active regions in the world to the iranians and what they need to get done but that still doesn't mean that this is going to be over anytime soon some seventy thousand people have been displaced what we're also hearing is that the local doctor glass part has been shut down for safety reasons alison area gets very cold so that's going to have an impact on people's heating also going to have an impact on the ability to cook food so a lot of misery still to come within that area itself but the iranians are bringing in as much as they can the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps is in kind of right now he's directing operations so we're still going to see that death toll rise as the day goes on is likely to be quite high given that this was all those sparsely. populated areas within the villages an

she encouraged the united nations and international partners to take necessary action to hold the iranian regime accountable for these violations diplomatic editor jim space joins us live now from the united nations there's a lot of aspects a lot of angles on this story james i think probably the priority perhaps the first should be this horrible humanitarian crisis and yemen which perhaps is about to be exacerbated yes well i think many observers would say that saudi arabia has for many months possibly you could even argue years been strangling the supplies that have been getting into yemen the pipeline getting in to yemen now they all completely blockading yemen to really threatening the people of yemen and the u.s. is deeply concerned. the blockade of yemen means no humanitarian aid is coming into a country that is in desperate need it also means vital commodities are harder to get the cost of food rocketing the price of fuel going up sixty percent in recent days the u.n. has been expressing its deep concern but a news briefing in geneva the situation is catastrophic in yemen it's the

government jobs are left let's let the wrong damage on the iranian side however we've had some people injured in and around so many a problem on the iraqi side i can tell you that you are in baghdad where i am right now yesterday night we felt the earthquake we were building shake everybody was on the streets people were panicking and they basically people in baghdad nearby. as well did not lead into your art or further further by the earthquake. basically our aftershocks that. would happen after the main quake hit. what we are doing today or what's important today is that to respond quickly to the people who were affected on the iranian side or important since our colleagues in the iranian red crescent have already deployed yesterday night to. rescue. around the hundreds and some before rescue rapid response teams are now on the ground providing medical supplies blankets tents and other needed facilities to help the people who are injured or to find the people who are still under the rubble what's also important in such a case is that people which rest their memories and how to deal

nazaneen zargari—ratcliffe, from north london, is iranian and british. her case seemingly undermined by the british foreign secretary. borisjohnson‘s comments to mps last week suggested she was in iran training journalists before her arrest. when you look at what nazaneen zargari—ratcliffe was doing, it's just, you know, she was simply teaching people journalism, as i understand it. her family always clear the thompson reuters foundation employee was just visiting relatives with her young daughter. i don't think it was helpful, i think it was a mistake. and i think, you know, it's a mistake that needs to be corrected. she was in a very bad way on saturday, when she'd just come out of the courtroom, and just cried for most of the phone call, you know, because she was bewildered as to why these new charges were coming. the iranian judiciary‘s website suggested the foreign secretary's comments shed new light on her case. it has meant five years in prison for plotting to overthrow the regime could be doubled to ten. the foreign secretary had to call the iran

long and bloody and destructive conflict in syria it's being spearheaded by the russians and the iranians and the turks they've been in consultation with other players in the region including israel and also a telephone call between putin and trump are the pieces falling into place go ahead adele well let's hope so we have. historic context. with the russian rule these two measured developments in the region would have not achieved one is the celebrated and now counter version and the iranian. control over the program and second the ending of the war in syria by defeating terrorism it could have ended in different way the russians the main objective as i can see is to keep the geographical integrity one country of syria which is on the objectives of the other says important. what happened between that phone call between mr trump and mr jordan's very important the superpowers because this the can actually pull the strings on regional powers that might have a different edge and i don't want to second guess what that engine is but it is very actually important that all the powers that come t

thousands of iranians have been left homeless after suffering their country's that least earthquake in more than a decade at least four hundred people were killed and more than seven thousand injured the u.s. geological survey puts the epicenter on the between border. in iraq and iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far are in iran's mountainous kermanshah province the worse that town appears to be. meanwhile on the iraqi side there are reports of extensive damage in the nearby town of darby on the can in one can reports from baghdad. first responders quickly deal with the wounded in western iran a seven point three magnitude earthquake bringing schools of the injured through hospital doors i found i fell from the balcony it was so far. pieces of glass fell on me and hurt my hand. you rivals from remote towns swell the hospital to capacity the injured continue in ever increasing number as more people are found in the rubble the death toll rises to the earthquake was centered on the iraq iran border near the iraqi town of halabja striking at nine eighteen

influence in the region not only in lebanon we have to remember hezbollah of course being an iranian island but iran in syria iran and iraq so there is this effort to curb iranian influence a saudi led effort with the support of the united states so people here are quite worried that lebanon is and many analysts are saying in the eye of the storm so many thanks david out of there live in beirut u.s. president donald trump has begun his twelve day tour of asia in japan meeting with prime minister shinzo trying call japan a crucial ally but two are expected to hold talks aimed at countering north korea's nuclear threat trumps tour of asia is the longest in the region by a u.s. president in twenty five years that will include south korea china vietnam and the philippines speaking to u.s. troops at your code base trump promise to defend american values we will never yield never waiver and never falter in defense of our people our freedom and our great american flag no dictator no regime and no nation should underestimate an. american resolve lived out of tokyo scott highlights so what sh

—— iranian state tv. some sort of plot by the british government? -- iranian state tv. times with her daughter gabriella before she was arrested in april last year. the foreign secretary said that the uk government had no doubt she was on holiday at the time, that he accepted his remarks could have been clearer, but still we have iranian state television, which is in the hand of hardliners, that's an important point to make, saying the foreign secretary had unwittingly confirmed the words of iranian sources. that's how they put it. you will remember the foreign office put out a statement on tuesday saying the iranian foreign minister had said that boris johnson' the iranian foreign minister had said that borisjohnson' comments had not had an impact on the case, but it is certainly clear that elements within the raid djim are continuing to use his comments against this british iranian mother. —— within the regime. against this british iranian mother. -- within the regime. and arrays in and iranian news industry has described her as one of the secret managers of bbc persi

that has been a strong turnout in the iranian capital despite u.s. warnings against investment in the country secretary of state rice told european countries to avoid investing in iran but as the reports from the less hold to stifle interest. iran's state run auto maker is launching a new line of cars but there's another reason for this event as the nation's self-proclaimed posts of industry iran who wants to show off the country's manufacturing ability. works for the italian car part company group so what do european businesses think about the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson warning to stay out of iran from a business business course we do thing it seems for the having is they will only be environment. so far we expect to receive these. are not that much concern not from. but we do money through the situation come here let's do this business let's to do it together and. the iranian government is keen to highlight the potential of the country's big industries but at this palma granite festival we met iran's small business owners the message her

after the war in syria are underway in saudi arabia and russia president vladimir putin is hosting iranian and turkish leaders in the black sea resort of sochi russia and iran are major allies of the syrian president bashar al assad who made a surprise visit to saatchi on monday turkey back some syrian rebel groups the same time saudi arabia is hosting a separate summit of various syrian opposition groups the u.n. special envoy to syria stephanie restore says his priority is ensuring the strongest syrian opposition delegation had to geneva later this month the saudi foreign minister has pledged to help the opposition come out unified following monday's resignation of the head of syria's main opposition bloc. two aircraft have landed in the yemeni capital sana'a for the first time since the saudi led coalition tightened its blockade sixteen days ago now it had prevented aid from being delivered despite increasing pressure from the un and humanitarian groups the un earlier said more than thirty flights carrying aid had been cancelled as one millions of people face starvation. in the un's com