the origins of civilization i have a book in my shelves called history begins at soon there in mesopotamia between the tiggers and the euphrates river and that's been the idea of archaeology for a very long time that civilization began in the middle east in mesopotamia but that idea. and then all over the world but what's what's beginning to change that is evidence much earlier evidence of civilization as we would call it for example go back in turkey and it's pushing the date back right to the edge of the last ice age and those very early sites show evidence of great advanced technology and the only possible explanation as far as i'm concerned is that they inherited a legacy from an even earlier civilization there were of course scholarly archaeologists have long said about your work. ok wear what destroyed it but yes now new evidence which you threw in the book again has emerged or what could have destroyed it a comet and again yes that and the archaeologists hate this idea as well but this idea is coming from more than sixty major mainstream scientists oceanographers geophysicists geolo

they gave rise to mesopotamia, the land between the rivers, home to one of the earliest civilisationsodern day iraq. the water here is at its most pristine. untouched, you can drink it straight the streams. but almost as soon as it runs off the mountains, it becomes contaminated. this is the rubbish dump for sulaymaniya, one of the biggest cities in northern iraq. and everything gets dumped here. this is just one of the most extraordinary things i've ever seen. it's a mountain of rubbish. it looks like part of the landscape, and that's the point. all of this is leaching into the river, the problem may start here, but the consequences of it are really being felt downstream. our guide, nabil, grew up here. he once worked as a forklift driver overseas, but the beauty of iraq brought him home. now he's an environmental activist, dedicated to cleaning up the country's waterways. he says iraqis need to wake up to the nightmare they've created. this is a cancer. if we don't fix this, this cancer will spread, obviously, you can see this is a sliding down and going towards our life, which is o

also it is a reminder that the islamic state lost its territorial hold on the lafond and mesopotamia nevertheless the ideology remains so whatever isis 2.0 is taking shape this might be the beginning of that. shannon: i want you to comment on the us lifting waivers on countries that want to buy from iran. we have 5 remaining countries in the spotlight. china comes to mind is one to watch for, turkey, quick comment on how this works out for iran in those countries. >> the trump administration is trying to put what we obama administration got wrong, no need to sign a bad deal and give the iranian's a lot of leeway particularly on the financial side of the equation that they, did not earn from real concessions, they got us out of the deal and say they are going to take it further, change iranian behavior that is serious, this is what we should be doing. >> i would add it is amazing. t me we still talk about this administration is somehow beholden to moscow or the kremlin and yet you have one more evidence here of the trump administration squeezing russia's main middle east ally iran. t