secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government.

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up.

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what bryant hook the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other na

committed to a whole of government effort to change the rating regimes behavior secretary of state mike pompei announces a new special brew to run policy with iran after u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear deal plus we are not going to be the media strikes back editors around the u.s. in the world defend their journalism against attacks by donald trump. because. the queen of soul aretha franklin has died in detroit at the age of seventy six. and indians pay homage to former prime minister atal bihari. who passed away at the age of ninety three a seven day mourning period is now in place. welcome to the program the u.s. has announced a new foreign policy initiative aimed at changing the behavior of the regime in tehran secretary of state mike pumpin said the white house is forming a task force to coordinate and run its policy on iran was speaking to reporters at the state department he talked about the new initiative our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran but we must see major changes in the regimes behavior both inside and outside of its borders rosen jordan has more

secretary of state mike pompei a has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nat

house will announce what sanctions it will be re imposing on iran on monday secretary of state mike pompei oh say the sanctions are part of u.s. efforts to push back against what he calls iran's malign activity president trump pull the us out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal which lifted sanctions in exchange for iran curbing its nuclear program european countries and iran say they're still committed to the agreement iranian police have detained the deputy chief of the central bank a committed are and she was arrested with several others as part of a crackdown on financial fraud zambia's robbi has more from tehran. the detention of ahmed iraq iran central bank's top official in charge of foreign exchange comes just twenty four hours after he was fired and replaced now less than two weeks ago the head of the central bank was fired and replaced and all of this comes on the eve of u.s. sanctions going back into effect against iran also foreign minister jobs reef is expected to address parliamentarians in the morning about the country's foreign policy matters specifically about u.s. sanctions

secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s. government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nat

know john bolton is no national security advisor go chill go is a golden bowl and this this and mike pompei of who is the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when most a deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown in in the nineteen fifties by britain and the united states and the shah was in store that was when the pillar was reinforced but the pillar collapsed in one nine hundred seventy nine with the revolution in iran and that has never been forgiven getting or wrong the major ambition of the above and that's why we're coming into a very dangerous period when trump mosse ratify the agreement that a bomb assigned. with iran along with. the e.u. under which iran committed to its self as it frankly always had committed itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions would drop and so on we have dangers you know the dangers that the presented to us that is

john bolton is no national security advisor go chill go it on the whole boat and this this and mike pompei of who is the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when most a deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown in in the nineteen fifties by britain and the united states and the shah was in store that was when the pill was.

bolton is no national security adviser or go to a well isn't that on the whole and this this and mike pompei of who's the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when most a deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown in in the nineteenth fifties by britain and the united states and the shah was in store that was when the pillar was reinforced but the pillar collapsed in one nine hundred seventy nine with the revolution in iran and that has never been forgiven getting a raw on the major ambition of the above and that's why we're coming to a very dangerous period when trump mosse ratify the agreement that a bomb assigned. with iran along with. the e.u. under which iran committed to its self as a frankly always had committed itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions would drop and so on we have dangers you know the danger is that a presented to us that is so

north korean nuclear sites in a series of tweets trump said he was postponing a trip planned by mike pompei out of pyongyang that was supposed to happen next week hear of the full tweets i have asked secretary of state my campaign not to go to north korea at this time because i feel we're not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula additionally because of much tougher trading stance with china and i believe they're helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were despite the u.n. sanctions which are in place in the meantime he said in his third tweet i would like to send my warmest regards and respect to kick chairman kim i look forward to seeing him soon she had her tansey picks up the story now from washington d.c. . just a few days ago doldrum been pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters that its pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization of missile testing and stalled and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however house to be said might compare as last trip to north kor

secretary of state's trip to north korea which was planned for next week in a tweet trump said he asked mike pompei or not to go because north korea was not making sufficient progress denuclearizing the peninsula. does present us republican senator john mccain is to discontinue his treatment for cancer that's according to his statement by his family the eighty one year old vietnam war veteran who once unsuccess.

secretary of state's trip to north korea which was planned for next week in a tweet trump said he asked mike pompei or not to go because north korea was not making sufficient progress denuclearizing the peninsula. is present u.s. republican senator john mccain is to discontinue his treatment for cancer that's according to a statement by his family the eighty one year old vietnam war veteran who once unsuccessfully.

secretary of state mike pompei oh washington says it stands behind it's only a statement that pompei was specifically discussed terrorism islamabad says that didn't happen iraq comes ahead of a planned visit by pompeo to islamabad in the first week of september. i mean we need to understand the desires of the united states and they need to understand ours it is not a unilateral relationship these are bilateral times in a relationship that is bilateral and in which the objective is common you do have to understand each other we will not just understand them but we will also make them understand our. u.s. senator john mccain is stopping treatment for his brain cancer his family says he has quote surpassed expectations for survival the prominent republican u.s. senator and two thousand and eight presidential election candidate announced he had the disease last year mccain's a distinguished military veteran who spent years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. there is no safe level of alcohol consumption that's according to a study in the lancet medical journal that looked at alcohol intake

land seizures from white farmers in the pose to donald trump says i have asked secretary of state mike pompei to closely study the south africa land and farm sieges and expropriations in the large scale killing of farmers he then refers to a fox news segments which reported the south african government is now seizing land from white farmers but the government has actually not yet seized any major agricultural land in fact lamb reform in south africa is a racially charged debate but calling it large scale killings doesn't exactly stack up if we take a look at the statistics according to agri a group of hundreds of agriculture associations the killing of white farmers is actually at a twenty year low forty seven what killed last year and the peak of the violence nine hundred ninety eight one hundred fifty three farmers were killed it is a sensitive topic though because seventy two percent of land in south africa is in the hands of those farmers despite what people may help only eight percent of the population and that's why the presidents are around pose a announce plans this month to change th

secretary of state mike pompei oh essentially walked back donald trump's comments but donald trump said that he would be willing to meet with no conditions from your vantage point when donald trump says he'd be willing to meet hasan rouhani with no conditions does he mean no conditions imposed by iran or no conditions imposed by the u.s. . well as difficult as what we can see is some kind of parallel with what happened with north korea if you look at the way the singapore meeting presented the first meeting between the us president and the korean leader. started by saying that considered the opposing side someone could deal with and then you had a complete change after tarik where it was very aggressive and that led to a. an opening where they could be some room for negotiation and just before dinner meeting the singapore meeting and from issue this letter that he would not probably not meet kim jong un and then india and they met so here it might be part of the. negotiating raising the stake in order to get to a better positions but it's very doubtful that the reason no. preconditions

side we've heard from secretary of state mike pompei it says that the sanctions and the ones that they intend to introduce in november as well are necessary if they're to bring iran back into the realms of what he calls normal countries they've got to behave like a normal country that's the ask is pretty simple we think that most other countries everyone with whom i spoke understood that they need to behave normally and we understand that this is a country that threatens them. it does seem that none of those countries that my compost spoke to seem to be e.u. nations cities well the e.u. that is pushing forward with this unprecedented legal action to try and impede the world the effectiveness of these u.s. sanctions that will come into place on tuesday against iran ok thanks that was r.t. speak of a forest there in let's get the thoughts now of political analyst side mustapha profession he joins us on the line with us now and it's good to have you company again thanks for coming on firstly do you think that these measures implemented by the you will be effective. hello and thanks for ha

secretary of state mike pompei old has said that the sanctions are necessary if iran's to be brought back to what he calls the table of normal nations they've got to behave like a normal country that's the ask is pretty simple we think that most other countries everyone with whom i spoke understands that they need to behave normally and they understand that this is a country that threatens them it would seem though that none of those countries that secretary pompei spoke to were e.u. nations as they've as the european union in brussels has pushed forward with this blocking statuette it's the best weapon they have in their arsenal to try and tackle us sanctions against e.u. companies doing business with iran how affected of effective it will be though well that's anybody's guess at the moment as this is new ground we're entering into. sure ok thanks peter peter over there in berlin and also some conference in washington earlier thanks. but let's get the thoughts now of dr member he's an international economist professor of energy and economics and he's with us now and you're very welc

secretary of state mike pompei meets and on friday how will you work with the trumpet ministration and will offer post breaks it trade deals beyond the u.k. government's current policy of selling weapons to a country in the grip of violent drug war is joining me now is the founder and chairman of the mexican chamber of commerce in great britain evo dutifully if they're coming on let's just begin with who. isn't just by the violence election campaign how did he win well. i think i'm lou is a familiar face in mexico. and this and that is my new oil has been around in the political scene for as long as i can remember. he is a person that has committed his life to politics. in one side or the other three institutional channels. the p.r.i. the p.r. . and now martin so he's a familiar face to we are very these ones being the old establishment party but he's not. a new liberal is subgoal in there mark well what happened back in the late eighty's is that we had the first. separation between two groups in the right the p.r.i. was a party that basically ruled mexico for seventy five years since.

secretary of state mike pompei it was formed a special group that will coordinate washington's policy on iran as it's continuing to pressure the country with sanctions the head of a new group brought hook so as the u.s. is prepared to punish any country that does trade with iran. in our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. that continue this sort of trade with iran those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran's shipping in shipbuilding sectors among others the first round the first round of new anti iran sanctions were enacted earlier this month after president trump announced the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions prohibit iran from using the u.s. dollar and restricts trading in precious metals it also limits iranian currency flows as well as imposing constraints on the auto trade of the u.s. move has been widely opposed on criticized b

secretary of state mike pompei was formed a special group that will coordinate washington's policy on iran that says it continues to pressure the country with sanctions the head of the iran action group will be brian hook the state department's director of policy planning he says the u.s. is prepared to sanction any country trading with around in our sanctions regime yes we will we are prepared to impose secondary sanctions on regimes i'm sorry on on other governments. the continue the sort of trade with iran or those sanctions will come into effect on november fifth those will include sanctions on iran's energy sector transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran iran's shipping and ship building sectors among others. the first rounds of new and here on sanctions were enacted earlier this month after president trump announced u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions prohibits iran from using the us dollar and mistreats trading in precious metals it's also limits iranian currency flows as well as imposing constraints on me also trade the

on friday washington also abruptly canceled a planned trip to north korea by secretary of state mike pompei oh north korea has warned that the talks are at risk of falling apart is the peace process unraveling . it is slightly on the raveling i mean the problem all along was that trump signed out to a remarkably sin document again rather like the north and south korea comment on the correction which has some very concrete things in it until it seems to believe that this was a muffin everybody was sent suggesting that maybe this wasn't enough i do think that north korea if they want both sides are good but not invested it as loss of face with kim jong un to trump if he doesn't go ahead a bit north korea at this point is at risk overplayed its hand definitely they need to that's a phrase of dennis rodman's come back to the member of the do me a small little bit of something substantial needs to be done. just so much a fair analysis that was career analysts and foster carter there speaking to us from exeter in the u k. germany has handed back human remains taken from what is now namibia in an

president has decided to delay a visit to north korea by his secretary of state mike pompei all of which is planned for next week announcing the move on twitter trump accused beijing all of easing pressure on pyongyang up. washington began employing tariffs on chinese goods south korea has called trump's decision unfortunate shihab rattansi has more from washington d.c. . just a few days ago doldrum been pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters about pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization with missile testing and stopped and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however house to be said last trip to north korea was a bit of a disaster by many accounts kim dragoon even slobbering pair there was a great deal of pressure for stopping time to come out of this one from the more hawkish people around him drawing bold moves national security advisor for example but it is striking in these tweets but it's still very diplomatic very respectful towards chairman kim and he says he still does want a summit to take place at some point in the fu

side we've heard from secretary of state mike. pompei it says that the sanctions on the ones that they intend to introduce in november as well are necessary if they're to bring iran back into the realms of what he calls normal countries they've got to behave like a normal country that's the our ask is pretty simple we think that most other countries everyone with whom i spoke on this that they need to behave normally and we understand that this is a country that threatens them it seems that none of those countries that mr pompei o spoke to would have been european countries says the who has opted to go ahead with the blocking start cheat this legal framework that's directly intended to impede u.s. sanctions that are going to be put in place against iran. while the us president told. his plan to create a military force in space stressing it would have both defensive and offensive capabilities. the space force with with that's going to be great luck so much is happening now it's a great defense i'm not just talking about mars at the moment

secretary of state mike pompei or washington says it stands behind what it said in an earlier statement that pompei or has specifically discussed terrorism but is rather about says that didn't happen pompei is expected to go to islamabad in early september. i mean. we need to understand the desires of the united states and they need to understand ours it is not a unilateral relationship these are bilateral times in a relationship that is bilateral and in which the objective is common you do have to understand each other we will not just understand them but we will also make them understand our. the un refugee agency has the european union to take responsibility for one hundred fifty migrants have been stranded on board an italian ship for nine days now italy is refusing to let them disembark unless other e.u. states agree to take them in refugees and migrants began a hunger strike on friday but italy's far right in terry a minister has dismissed it on twitter saying they can do whatever they like. peru is closing its border to venezuelan migrants who don't have a passport who are coming

secretary of state's trip to north korea which was planned for next week in a tweet trump said he asked mike pompei or not to go because north korea was not making sufficient progress denuclearizing the peninsula. present us republican senator john mccain is to discontinue his treatment for cancer that's according to statement by his family the eighty one year old vietnam war veteran who once unsuccessful.

what he termed a better deal we didn't hear such language coming either from secretary of state mike pompei or from brian who's the new special representative in charge of this group at thursday afternoon announcement but suffice it to say plenty of people are going to be asking questions about one whether this group can be effective and to whether it's going to get the body and from the international community that other efforts such as the u.s. led effort to defeat i sold garnered when it was stood up about four years ago. and how much might this be part of a continued effort by the trump administration to revive us policy under president obama. well i couldn't speculate to that point to precisely mariya but what i can say is that certainly given that brian hook worked here at the u.s. mission at the united nations under john bolton who is now the national security advisor certainly there has to be a share world view of what iran represents in terms of national security interests as well as the larger issue of regional hegemon e and so certainly you might see some policies being put forwa

secretary of state mike pompei o told reporters it's clear the north koreans are violating international sanctions including the complete shutdown of illegal ship to ship transfers of petroleum destined for north korea we have seen reports that russia is allowing for joint ventures with north korean firms and granting new work permits to north korean guest workers pump aoe and foreign minister re on hold greeted each other during the singapore meeting just as the u.s. was imposing new sanctions on to north koreans illegally doing business in russia later accused the u.s. of not acting in good faith quote in order to build full confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the u.s. it is essential for both sides to take similar taney its actions and phase steps to do what is possible one after another what is alarming however is the insistent moves manifest it within the us to go back to the old far from its leaders intention. some critics of trump and kim's singapore summit in june say the u.s. did not demand enough accountability from north korea and so this new u.n. report really is no surpris

secretary of state mike pompei are also welcome the muslim eed holiday season far by president musharraf's ghani earlier that was probably on has yet to respond although unofficial sources say the group is considering taking part in the truce as follows a week of fighting across afghanistan which saw the taliban launch a massive assault on the provincial capital gardening units a.d.'s in has more for us from kabul. this is not the first time that president musharraf of any announced a cease fire on a religious holiday back in june in either the fifth or the end of ramadan president or any announced a cease fire for three days. taliban accepted the offer and many people here in afghanistan remember when taliban fighters and army soldiers share the same mosques right next to each other and how the treasure it was for many here and it is an inspiration that peace perhaps is. reachable and it's possible in afghanistan however this offer is quite different the duration of the cease fire proposal proposed by president romney is for three months like three days in a little fitter and also people

and secretary of state mike pompei are met on the sidelines of the asean summit in singapore on wednesday the u.s. imposed sanctions on two turkish government ministers in a protest at the detention of a us pastor accused of terrorism and turkey says the sanctions are unacceptable. yup that we have said from the start that the other side's threatening language and sanctions will not get any result we repeated this today. might pump a a we discussed how to solve issues how to take steps together it was an extremely constructive meeting there may be tensions and differences of opinion between countries but turkey always wishes to solve problems through the polar sea and dialogue mutual understanding and agreements more than one hundred thirty thousand people have been ordered to shelters around shanghai typhoon and dari nears china has raised its typhoon alert level at least one hundred fifty flights have already been cancelled and outdoor activities suspended in july john dari calls power outages to thousands of homes in japan. and forecasters say the temperature record for europe could be

secretary of state mike pompei or washington says it stands behind its earlier statement that pompei are discussed terrorism is long but says that didn't happen pompei was expected to travel to islam in early september. i mean we need to understand the desires of the united states and they need to understand ours it is not a unilateral relationship these are bilateral ties in a relationship that is bilateral and in which the objective is common you do have to understand each other we will not just understand them but we will also make them understand. now a judge in ecuador has lifted border restrictions imposed on venezuelans a week ago thousands of venezuelans and leaving the country every day to escape the economic and political crisis ecuador had said that they needed a passport to cross the border but a court suspended that decision for the next forty five days and that means that they will again be allowed to cross with just their national i.d.'s while many of them are traveling through a humanitarian corridor or opened by ecuador for people trying to reach peru and chile maria

announced that he'll get his secretary of state to investigate reforms in south africa he tweeted that mike pompei would closely study the south african land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers tribes twitted followed a segment on fox news that said south african government is nasties in land from white farmers. well the south african government is insisting that land reform will go ahead after gaining consensus from all major parties the ruling african national congress wants to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation seventy two percent of the land is in the hands of white farmers while the white south africans form just eight percent of the population the killing of farmers is at a twenty year low forty seven were killed last year compared to one hundred fifty three in one nine hundred ninety eight well let's get more on this now we're joined by correspondent farmer the village she's live for us and bella bella and south africa's poor poor province a very strong reaction in south africa. from not just the government

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work these these details out with north korea in the back room for the last time the last time mike pompei a went to north korea he wasn't exactly given the treatment he might have wished for he wasn't i don't think he's got a meeting with kim jong un and there was confusion at the end as to what was actually achieved. i mean it doesn't show that sort of north korea can play the same game here carrot and stick. as well and they should north korea should play the game and we should not underestimate north korea you know the president has come into office really frankly like any unlike any previous president but he's taking a negotiation chapter out of president ronald reagan's book there were three important facts and steps that president reagan would take. number one you have to respect the other side and you have to show that respect we saw that with president trump's unprecedented trip to north korea number two we have to make sure that we negotiate in good faith and thirdly you have to give the other party something to bring back to their constituents so i think that we're working those

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