amy: ravi ragbir?his hypocrisy, because he himself is not merit to be in the office he is in right now, but if you look at the larger scope of it, it is part of the plan, when we talk about specificmigration from countries. countries that don't have the resources because they have been raped by americans, taken away the resources, so they don't have the education process, have the higher skill level of people who can migrate and want to migrate. so it is deliberate. it is also the fact that he did not look at the 11 million is that he will now be a lot of focus on them to remove them. aboution ice, talking ethnic cleansing that this administration is focused on. it is a deliberate aspect of that plan. also remember, his daughter and son-in-law have been selling visas to people from other parts of the world. you can look at merit-based and it is follow the benjamins, baby, like omar said. selling visas,ay people paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a asa, that they put money into development p

sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to lead to more hardship zain bus ravi old a zero to one aqa trainee you has been following reaction from beijing. china certainly feeling very squeezed in its position at the moment the months it's been telling the world and the u.s. that it opposes these unilateral sanctions that its relationship with iran is lawful and that should be respect. by the u.s. on the other hand the timing is critical it's in the middle of some very important trade talks and what china wants more than anything at the moment is a solution and end to these tit for tat tariffs that have been escalating over the past year so it has to really walk a very fine balance now since last year china has really gone closer to iran these two countries have a lot of cooperation iran is a big supporter of china's built and wrote initiative and many chinese energy companies have invested billions into iranian oil fields so it really wants to maintain that relationship it's a key relationship on the other hand iran is not china's biggest trading partner. the u.s. is so it will r

thank you very much, ravi agrawal, editor of foreign policy magazine.o come on the programme: we take a look at how us artists responded to the turbulent years of the vietnam war, with some of their most important work. also on the programme — more from westminster on a very turbulent day for the british prime minister, theresa may. this morning, an indian air force plane carrying mr gandhi's body landed in delhi. the president of india walked to the plane to solemnly witness mr gandhi's final return from the political battlefield. ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. in doing so, it's become the first country in the world to approve the change in a national referendum. it was a remarkable climax to what was surely the most extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer. it's been a peaceful funeral demonstration so far, but suddenly the police are tear—gassing the crowd. we don't yet know why. the pre—launch ritual is well established here. helen was said to be in good spirits, butjust a little apprehensive. in the last hour, e

thank you. >> thanks, ravi. >> good afternoon. my name's margaret king. i'm a soma resident. my message is very simple to the port. slow down. you've spent five years studying like lanes for the embarcadero enhancement project. you spent five years studying the lot since the warriors project felt apart. all of a sudden, you're on a six-week collision course. you can get off. it's within your power. if you're not going to do that because of the things that you've heard today, do it because it's your legal obligation. the port entered into a settlement in 2017 with the state land commission. you undertook obligations with public lands to make findings about the burton law and commitments. you agreed to enter into an extensive public dialogue. i believe wallace said it when he said you can move on, build it, or engage the public. thank you. >> thank you, margaret. >> barbara, patricia, valerie, and looks like carrie or cory. >> hi. i'm barbara inaba, and i've lived at the port side for 25 years. i'm a senior. i know i look young. any way, my first experience with the fisherman's

in a moment we'll hear from them best ravi on iran's reaction to the latest developments but 1st here is alan fischer and washington initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to add protection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops but the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for to terrorists. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan no

sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to lead to more hardship zain bus ravi old a zero to her on. osama bin jab that explains the economic impacts of the u.s. sanctions. iran is a top contributor to the oil producing bloc of nations called opec its oil production has fallen from two and a half billion barrels a day in twenty seventeen to just under one and a half million barrels today iran's economy relies on oil and gas and roughly eighty percent of its exports are from the hydrocarbon sector the international monetary fund says inflation in iran could hit forty percent this year as u.s. sanctions have already had an impact on the economy i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices and if you notice or oil prices are going down very substantially despite the fact that already half of their capacity is gone so can the united states bring down iranian oil production to zero iran doesn't seem to think so feature me just trying to think you can drive iran's oil exports to zero by plane such games this

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so we at this point walt talk to the same bus ravi who is an tehran right now and we will try to establish a connection with robin just a moment so say what if with all this rhetoric that's going around what is the latest that we're hearing from iran. well supreme leader of the of the of come in a made a speech from his residence into iran yesterday evening tuesday evening speaking to some of the country's top leaders civilian leaders including president hassan rouhani the speaker of parliament the head of the judiciary was also there as well as several military leaders and he covered a wide range of issues almost everything currently on iran's plate he dived into it relatively deeply but one thing really stuck out that sort of goes along with what we're hearing out of iraq and we were hearing with the latest u.s. moves with regard to its embassy he said that a lot of what the united states is doing the uproar it's creating in the middle east right now it's a lot of it he suggested was for show he said that there are real power is not as strong as their outward show of grantor and so he wa

have support for him however it's also important to note that this is not a simple battle between ravi gandhi off the congress and prime minister nouri and 3 more the of the b.g.p. regional parties are bound to play and over ready crucial role in this election and could well be kingmaker because they are increasingly strong before the current noreen's or more the government for 30 years india was dual ruled by quotations and many of the original parties could play a role in selecting who the next prime minister will be by deciding who they will support by minute in the regions more the for a 2nd term on the challenger of the gandhi image as well in delhi thank you very much. thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across albania demanding the resignation of prime minister and the rama opposition parties called the demonstrations hoping to force rahman to resign and call snap elections the violence is the latest in 3 months of anti-government protests albania as a member of nato and a candidate to join the european union. protesters took their grievances and their moloto

comes amid escalating tension between washington and tehran more now from same bus ravi. now what we're seeing in terms of this attack on the u.a.e. port the allegations of an attack that the united states says was carried out by iran iran has said that that was possibly a false flag operation carried out by the united states or israel also providing no evidence for this so certainly they are on opposite sides of a story that both countries leaders are trying to control and to that end in the last few weeks what iran has been doing is pushing the diplomacy narrative they've been trying to reach out to gulf arab neighbors they've said that their arms are wide open and they're willing to sign a non-aggression pact kosovan serbs have protested against arrests in the in kosovo demonstrations are angry about police raids on the semi autonomous region largely populated by ethnics. dozens of people were arrested in an empty smuggling operation earlier this week so be it says the move was designed to intimidate and has put its troops on high alert. israeli government has reduced

a a newborn foal that fell ravi. it's not getting out of there. >> keep moving. they just cleared a path to go down the canyon wall so she doesn't try to crawl up the side. she's walking. >> mom nearby and mom is worried. >> mom actually delivered down there in all of that. now they have to work their way back up. >> mom did not deliver down there. >> yeah, the wobbly legs. >> mom isshe an area that's easier for her to get down because this foal needs to eat. >> she's pushing him. >> success. >> so cute. maybe that's just the extra oomp it needs to get the strength in its legs and start walking up. >> these people are thrilled. >> he's hooked mama. these people were ready to help this horse out. >> that's awesome. >> it feels like it just takes forever to be seen. when this woman's number was called, she didn't expect what came with it. >> is that a drive through? >> there was a a woman inside sitting in the chair waiting and if we run it, you'll notice the elderly woman ran into a car parked out in front of the office which crashed into the office. this woman ju

here and tensions are still specially with more american military presence in the region same bus ravi al-jazeera from. saudi arabia state owned energy company around care has stopped pumping oil through a major pipeline after a drone attack the government says 2 stations were targeted on the east west pipeline that's a crucial supply line that transports saudi oil from the eastern province to the halt on the red sea with the rebels in yemen say they launched strikes to warn the kingdom to stop its aggression this 100 thought iraq in which they are 7 drones belonging to the air force of yemen attacked pumping stations related to the strategic pipeline that carries oil from east to west in saudi arabia it was a successful operation we found assistance from people living in saudi arabia and we had excellent intelligence the attack is seriously damaged the economy of the enemy. and un brokered talks between her theory balls and representatives of yemen's government are taking place in jordan the u.n. says her 3 rebels are withdrawing from 3 major ports partly as agreed under a cease fire

developing story natasha butler is standing by in paris with reaction first let's go to zain this ravi in teheran and zain what really has to look back just a few weeks to rein in the oil waivers being removed more sanctions being applied on the country to see why this is push the iranian president to act in the way that he has. absolutely the iranian government will say that what it is announced today is a reciprocal move to the united states placing more sanctions on iran this time at the same time that oil waivers expired earlier this month what happened was the united states placed nuclear sanctions on iran directly attacking the framework of the deal limiting iran's ability to sustain the limits on its stockpiles of nuclear materials here in the country iran was left with one of two choices either limit its nuclear production guaranteed under the j c puree or go over that stockpile limit that is what iran's government iranian president hassan rouhani has announced today they will go past the limits on their stockpile of enriched uranium and heavy water and they've also said option

supplied warships in the gulf in a move it said was a message to iran well we'll be speaking to zain ravi in tehran but 1st let's go to rob matheson who is in baghdad rob do you have any lace any more for us on the this embassy warning that's been issues. at the moment the warning is as you mentioned before it's to all non-emergency stuff in the embassies here in baghdad which is a few 100 meters away from where i am but also to the consulate. as well the point is that the emergency stops are being asked to leave but all the other stuff the stuff for the deployment for the embassies and for the the consulate in bill are remaining and the other important thing to note is the fact.

talk to teams going quito because this is when people start taking a serious indian cricket courage ravi shastri says the upcoming world cup is set to be the most fazeli contested in history that see time champions are on my way it's england and i ranked 2nd in the world behind host nation india will play a woman games against new zealand and bangladesh before getting the world cup campaign underway against south africa on june 5th. any d.m. can beat any team on a given day you know if you look at 20142019 now the gap is much more than that between games you know you see what i've done is done was in 2014 see what they are now what bangladesh was what they are now you know so it's a strong competition so can of afghanistan they got their world cup preparations back on track they beat island by a 126 runs in belfast comes after being thrashed by the same team on sunday gonna stand a getting ready for their 2nd world cup. now 40 years old filipino boxer manny pacquiao is showing no signs of slowing down is set to face 30 year old american keith thurman in a welterweight title fight on july

warships in the gulf in a move it said was a message to iran well we'll be speaking to zain a bus ravi in tehran but 1st let's go to rob matheson who is in baghdad rob do you have any lisa any more for us on the this embassy warning that's been issued . at the moment the warning is as you mentioned before it's to all non-emergency stuff in the embassies here in baghdad which is a few 100 meters away from where i am but also to the consulate. as well the point is that the non-emergency staff are being asked to leave but all the other stuff for their deployment for the embassies and for the the consulate in the bill are remaining and the other important thing to note is the fact that. they this has not been expanded to other u.s. citizens living and working in iraq is what we're talking about people in the oil and gas industries we're talking about people in construction we're watching that of course very closely nevertheless this is a significant ramping up of the rhetoric if you like but at the same time in many ways it's an understandable approach if as the u.s. says there is a credib

in a moment we'll hear from same bus ravi on iran's reaction to the latest developments but 1st here's alan fischer and washington. initial reports suggested the u.s. was peering to send additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to. protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally cong

can address the crisis sakit more on this from zain bus ravi joins us on the line now from tehran and zain just who is this man and how influential is he in iran. well mr foley had pca is a senior member of parliament or even elected official and the chairman as you say of the national security and foreign policy commission in parliament is significantly strong institution within the parliamentary structure limbs are one of the few bodies whose members regularly are able to and accrue to give interviews to local and foreign press or in a sense one of the forms of outreach for the establishment for the government to communicate its message to the wider public to the international community and so it is certainly a strong player in the in the overall establishment parliament itself is a strong body last year when the us president on from the country pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal and iran's economy started to collapse it was parliament that began proceedings for impeachment against several of president hassan rouhani cabinet members and managed to mention just a handfu

market based response to the demands of chinese movie going audience listening posts i mean actually ravi now on the new blockbusters of chinese cinema. thank you. there are blockbuster action films made in china with the chinese cuts but almost none of them are actually set in china 140 or 2 was released in july 2017 in an unnamed african country workers in a chinese factory are taken hostage by mercenaries from europe. when they don't know what you do join. right good member of the un security guard the action hero is actor and director who plays an ex-military man my problem is people like me get used to. $875000000.00 in box office only means $140.00 or 2 is not just the highest grossing film ever made or distributed in china it's the highest grossing non english language film of all time. to make the question read see which came out in february 2018 and is based in a fictional country modeled on venom called the aware. and the wandering earth released in february this year takes chinese cinema even further afield it's a science fiction film set in space together these are the 3 most

a large part of the world he's calling for talks to be held in iraq or cata algis there is a must ravi is intact ron. at the moment things in iran are very turned so everyone is hanging on literally everything a new leader is saying so in that sense these comments are significant coming from mr father as far as negotiations really every member of the civilian and military leadership in this country in the senior ranks right from the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini himself all the way down have continued to say the same thing we've repeated it like a month where they will not renegotiate the nuclear deal they will not carry out talks with the united states and especially they will not carry out talks with this current administration in the white house of u.s. president donald trump in our other headlines the united nations is warning of a western humanitarian crisis in syria's edler province that's after hospitals and refugee camps in the deescalation zone were bombed by russian backed government forces at least $180000.00 people have been forced from their homes or. protesters in sud

to sell weapons to its regional allies more on that in just a while 1st so let's hear from same as ravi our correspondent in tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east so $1500.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign minister jihad zarif said american decisions are endangering international peace and security he said u.s. accusations against iran are only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but reports of emerge the during a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april job odds are if met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate intelligence committ

first place by pulling out one year ago has in a way caused the situation and from tehran he is in bed ravi on iran's response to the new u.s. sanctions in a strongly worded statement iran's foreign ministry condemned the latest u.s. sanctions this time targeting iran's metals industry iranian foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said the u.s. moved once again violated america's international committee he threatened legal action and said the united states would be held responsible for damages resulting from these latest sanctions but experts say existing sanctions have already made things so bad that more sanctions are unlikely to make things much worse. i think what america is doing now is just repeating their position banking sanctions have already made many problems for a rainy and trade missile and other sanctions might make any difference i think it's a big agreement for his next election and as there has not been any result with north korea the u.s. is trying to increase pressure on iran the latest u.s. sanctions hit iran as europe rejected what it called iran's ultimatum of non-c

she have a tongs they will have a global reaction to these developments shortly but first signed us ravi reports from fed up. exactly one year after the united states pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal iran says it will suspend some of its commitments under the landmark agreement. after the u.s. introduced new sanctions earlier this week designed to target the framework of the deal itself effectively forcing iran's hand president hassan rouhani led world powers know his country will not abide by stockpile limits on enriched uranium and heavy water he said iran could also resume the production of uranium enriched to a higher level than it currently manufactures and rebuild a heavy water reactor without the oversight of its partners in the nuclear deal more namely call him as the united states wanted to pull out of the way to make iran withdraw the day after so they could refer the case to the un security council in order to redouble pressure on iran however iran did not fall into this trap and did not play in the united states course in practical terms it is a first step by iran

indian cricket coach ravi shastri says the upcoming world cup is set to be the most fiercely contested in history its time champions are on their way to england and are ranked 2nd in the world behind the host nation india will play warm up games against new zealand and bangladesh before getting their world cup campaign underway against south africa on june 5th. any d.m. can beat any team on a given do you know if you look at 20142019 now the gap is much closer match between games you know you you see what i've done is done was in 2014 see what they are now what bangladesh was what they are now you know so it's a strong competition 40 years old filipino boxer manny pacquiao showing no signs of slowing down pacquiao sets a face 30 year old american thurman in a welterweight world title fight on july the 20th in las vegas back here coming off a points when. in january he's won 4 of his 5 fight since losing to floyd mayweather back in 2050. times now dead or make. my journey will continue. that's. what i want to prove. ok more sport for me in a couple of hours but for now. thanks andy and

out by sitting down a sitting volleyball team already has dozens of medals to their name same day as ravi went to meet them. this is the highest ranking sitting volleyball team in the world and one of iran's best hopes to win battles and make the top 10 at the next paralympic games at tokyo 2020. every paralympic games they've attended iran sitting volleyball team has won medals i rode in paralympics gave their best performance to date at london 2012 finishing 11th overall with a total of $24.00 medals including 10 gold. and this time coaches want to make sure their athletes ranked even higher on the leaderboard. better money has iran deserves to win the title as was shown in previous tournaments because we work harder and harder and harder we have very good players and management we've been ranked 1st in the world for almost 20 years everyone has high expectations of our. figure doing well at the tokyo summer games isn't just about when it's a matter of national pride on the world stage even a friendly match with a close ally russia it's no time to hold back this may just be a friendly m

. $1124.00 tuesday morning moscow time thanks for watching ravi tuned in around the world that we days going ok or so things looking so far this morning much more from his of course and on the breaking news as it happens at r.t. dot com. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. in a world of big part of the movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes watching the hawks. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it

out by sitting down sitting volleyball team already has dozens of medals to their name same day as ravi went to meet them. this is the highest ranking sitting volleyball team in the world and one of iran's best hopes to win battles and make the top 10 at the next paralympic games at tokyo 2020. every paralympic games they've attended iran sitting volleyball team has won medals i rode in paralympics gave their best performance to date at london 2012 finishing 11th overall with a total of $24.00 medals including 10 gold. and this time coaches want to make sure their athletes rank even higher on the leaderboard. better morning as iran deserves to win the title as we've shown in previous tournaments because we work harder and harder and harder we have very good players and management we've been ranked 1st in the world for almost 20 years everyone has high expectations of our. figure doing well at the tokyo summer games isn't just about when it's a matter of national pride on the world stage even a friendly match with a close ally russia it's no time to hold back this may just be a friendly

stand by sitting down a sitting volleyball team already has dozens of medals to their name zain baz ravi to meet them. this is the highest ranking sitting volleyball team in the world and one of iran's best hopes to win battles and make the top 10 at the next paralympic games at tokyo 2020. every paralympic games they've attended iran sitting volleyball team has won medals iranian paralympics gave their best performance to date at london 2012 finishing 11th overall with a total of $24.00 medals including 10 gold and this time coaches want to make sure their athletes ranked even higher on the leaderboard i. remind you have iran deserved to win the title as was shown in previous tournaments because we work harder and harder and harder we have very good players and management we've been ranked 1st in the world for almost 20 years everyone has high expectations of our. figure doing well at the tokyo summer games isn't just about when it's a matter of national pride on the world stage even a friendly match with a close ally russia it's no time to hold back this may just be a friendly match bu

sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to lead to more hardship same bus ravi old a zero to one. in delhi am one of china's most important points some twenty million barrels of iranian oil are reportedly stranded waiting to clear chinese customs. with the united states ending waivers on a rainy and oil purchases this week the future of the shipment is unclear the u.s. has tightened sanctions on all countries that continue to buy iranian oil after the first of may that includes china iran's biggest customer beijing says there's no justification for the u.s. policy. firmly opposed to unilateral sanctions and the so-called jurisdictions imposed by the u.s. . roughly a quarter of iran's exported oil is sold to china about half a million barrels a day the two countries have grown closer in recent years president xi jinping mediterranean counterpart in beijing last june just one month after the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran iran is a key supporter of china's built in road infrastructure initiative designed to ease chinese global trade but analysts say china may have no option but to

by sitting down there sitting volleyball team already has dozens of medals to their name same this ravi went to meet them. this is the highest ranking sitting volleyball team in the world and one of iran's best hopes to win medals to make the top 10 at the next paralympic games at tokyo 2020. every paralympic games they've attended iran sitting volleyball team has won medals eroded paralympians gave their best performance to date at london 2012 finishing 11th overall with a total of $24.00 medals including 10 gold and this time coaches want to make sure their athletes reg even higher on the leaderboard are happier to me ron that. money has iran deserves to win the title as was shown in previous tournaments because we work harder and harder and harder we have very good players and stable management we've been ranked 1st in the world for almost 20 years everyone has high expectations of our team has figured doing well at the tokyo summer games isn't just about when it's about or of national pride on the world stage even a friendly match with a close ally russia it's no time to hold back t

ravi, what if the exit polls are not accurate?is party don't get a majority? what is going to happen next with a leadership —— narendra. is going to happen next with a leadership -- narendra. if the exit polls are wrong, that could imply a couple of scenarios. one, that the bgp doesn't win enough seats on its own, so it would need to cobble together a coalition aligns with other like—minded parties in india. that would mean the government wouldn't be as stable as it was last time —— stable, or as decisive as it wa nts to time —— stable, or as decisive as it wants to be in government because it needs the approval of other parties. but then there are other outcomes. if the bgp doesn't win anywhere near enough seats to form a government, then that could be the formation of a government that does not include the njp —— bjp, but the exit polls don't pointed out, we will know sure for soon. thank you so much for joining us from new york. we will have special coverage here on bbc news. let's bring you up—to—date on the day's other news s

find out how this is likely to go down in washington 1st though straight to tehran there is a must ravi is in the iranian capital for us and joins us now and zain this call for agent talks is. is it echoed in other parts of the ruling establishment there. well that is an excellent question at the moment things in iran are very tense so everyone is hanging on literally everything any leader is saying so in that sense these comments are significant coming from mr bush and as far as negotiations really every member of the civilian and military leadership in this country in the senior ranks right from the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini himself all the way down have continued to say the same thing they've repeated it like a mantra they will not renegotiate the nuclear deal they will not carry out talks with the united states and especially they will not carry out talks with this current administration in the white house of u.s. president donald trump there have been news magazines and papers that have published articles in op eds suggesting that iran sit down and hold talks with the unite

before iran rolled back some of its commitments under the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement zain bus ravi reports from tehran. within the last twenty four hours a fleet of american warships has gone through the sways canal into the red sea and is getting closer and closer to iranian waters to iranian sure the sea but iran's armed forces has been relatively reserved and any sort of show of force or talk of force in response to what is a clear american move against iranian security iranian borders even the supreme leader himself while still not only come in a has been silent on all matters with regard to the united states since president hussen ramana made a statement made an announcement that iran would begin to lessen its cooperation with the twenty fifty nuclear deal but the supreme leader's thoughts on the matter his feelings on the issues are likely to be made known here at the weekly friday prayer sermon the government has also called for an anti american demonstration of protest to follow the prayers this week it's all fairly standard but it comes as the chances of an open conflict b

deal same bus ravi reports now from an oil expo in iran's capital tehran. hours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions and to hold welcome in important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful public relations no matter the circumstances we hope for that bind us together than what divides us when the united states reimposed sections it granted waivers to some of the runs biggest customers ending those waivers and to run supply means prices at the pub are likely to rise to address suggestions by u.s. president donald trump that some opec members namely saudi arabia and the united arab emirates might increase production to make up for iranian oil or not making it to market it's probably put is even more dangerous to the very existence of the organization not to talk of that but does it with all of that is. the morphs to divide this organization to saw is seeds of discord. to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took decisions let alone implemented t

doesn't really have major influence on iran's foreign policy as a neighbor's ravi explains from the iraniancapital. mr fuller is a senior m.p. he's an elected member of iran's parliament there is power is distributed between the parliament the presidency in the judiciary with the supreme leader of course sitting on top of all of these institutions and at the end of the day what the supreme leader says that is what is actually actionable so mr followed as a senior and p. and the chairman of the iranian parliamentary commission on foreign policy and national security does hold a great deal of sway in this body is has the capacity to call on the foreign ministry to call on the presidency to question senior leaders but in terms of actual state policy it doesn't necessarily have the authority to influence the making of those decisions of foreign policy of diplomacy of military strategy and in response to this tweet the supreme national security council actually issued a statement saying as much saying that the personal opinions of individuals aren't shouldn't be taken as is the policy of the sta

house officials say that they have yet to receive a response let's get more on this now from same bus ravi he has been following the story from tehran and zain in the face of mounting u.s. pressure iran's leader ali hominine has been very clear he said that there will be no war but nor will there be talks where have these latest remarks come from. well mr felder is a senior member of iran's elected parliament he's an iranian m.p. and he is the chairman elected in 2018 of the iranian parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy so it's a very important legislative body but the fact of the matter is that it still sits under the umbrella of the supreme leader of the coming day and so it doesn't necessarily translate into actionable policymaking the body can summon the foreign ministry it can summon the president and it can ask questions it can carry out legislation but it does so as everything here is done everything happens under the umbrella of the supreme leader and so nothing is actionable until the supreme leader says so having said that his comments do reflect a perh

house selling weapons to its regional allies more on that in just a bit 1st so let's hear from same as ravi our correspondent in tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east so $1500.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign minister zarif said american decisions are endangering international peace and security he said u.s. accusations against iran are only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but reports of a merge the during a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april joe barger is met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate intelligence committee the

belt by sitting down sitting volleyball team already has dozens of medals to their names aimed as ravi went to meet them. this is the highest ranking sitting volleyball team in the world and one of iran's best hopes to win battles and make the top 10 at the next paralympic games at tokyo 2020. every paralympic games they've attended iran sitting volleyball team has won medals i rode in paralympics gave their best performance to date at london 2012 finishing 11th overall with a total of $24.00 medals including 10 gold. and this time coaches want to make sure their athletes rank even higher on the leaderboard. better morning as iran deserves to win the title as we've shown in previous tournaments because we work harder and harder and harder we have very good players and stable management we've been ranked 1st in the world for almost 20 years everyone has high expectations of our team this figure doing well at the tokyo summer games isn't just about when it's about her of national pride on the world stage even a friendly match with a close ally russia it's no time to hold back this may ju

1500 troops is needed to improve the defense of his country and its allies against iran they must ravi has more now from the iranian capital tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east so $5000.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign minister jihad zarif said american decisions are in danger in international peace and 6. he said u.s. accusations against iran are only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but reports of emerged that during a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april jobar juries met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate intellige

accused the americans of trying to start a war let's go live now to the iranian capital and 0 samus ravi is there what are we to make of these comments and. will adrian mr fall a 100 p. shape is a member of parliament a senior one at that he's the chairman of the national security and foreign policy commission of parliament and he was the one who tweeted 2 weeks ago saying that iran should have a negotiating table somewhere in the middle east suggesting perhaps one of the allied arab neighbors iraq or qatar as a place where the united states and iran can talk about how to deescalate ongoing current tensions between the 2 countries not just economic sanctions but also the military buildup in the region and on the face of it his comments today would seem to suggest that there might be contradicting standing iranian policy coming from the supreme leader coming from the presidency coming from the foreign ministry but we have to point out that he didn't say that iran was reciprocating in those talks in any way what he did tell us gives us some say. sense of what the discussions might be that

parliament on sunday president hassan rouhani the unity in the face of pressure that he calls unprecedented ravi has more now from terror. while it is a matter of routine for the new head of the islamic revolutionary guard corps to address iranian members of parliament and answer their questions major general hussein salome's turn comes at a time of heightened tensions with the united states the new i.r. g c chief assured m.p.'s that a war with the united states is unlikely because americans know the closer their military hardware comes to iranian territory the more vulnerable it becomes to iranian defenses and iranian firepower the head of the ira gc's air force was also present and reinforced his boss's comments saying warplanes and warships that represented a threat in the past have since become an opportunity and potential targets since moving closer to iran shores following the briefing a senior m.p. and the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy commission said iran can hit targets up to 2000 kilometers away and estimated that american ships are at most 500 kilometers aw

dale same bus ravi reports from an oil expert in iran's capital tehran.ours before more pressure from u.s. sanctions and to hold welcomed an important guest the boss of opec his visit to an oil and gas exhibition a signal that iran remains an important member of at least one very powerful public relations no matter this a comes to us says we hope all of that but it has to get done that would divide us when the united states reimposed sections it granted waivers to some of the runs biggest customers ending those waivers and iran supply means prices at the pump are likely to rise to address suggestions by u.s. president donald trump that some opec members namely saudi arabia and the united arab emirates might increase production to make up for iranian oil not making it to market it's probably potentially more dangerous to the very existence of the organization not to talk of that but does it with none of that is. the morphs to divide this organization to saw is seeds of discord. to the extent that. we are not able to sit down and took decisions let alone im

sanctions are not temporary enough and likely to lead to more hardship zain bus ravi old a zero to one well iran isn't the only country feeling the heat president donald trump has increased pressure on cuba. putting on sanctions that had been suspended for years last month he activated provisions of a twenty year old law alike to me more recent iran sank. the helms burton act aims to punish a u.s. enemy by penalizing other countries if they do business with them the act also allows u.s. nationals to sue for damages of a private property seized during the cuban revolution the first lawsuits filed this week targeted the miami based carnival cruise lines which is accused of using ports without payment to the company that owns them and bruce fein assisted in drafting the helms burton act which we mentioned just now he is a constitutional lawyer and joins us from washington thanks very much for being with us so what do you what do you make then of the way the way the president is activating this law now given that you are one of those involved in putting it together. yes it's been waived fo

united states unless donald trump commits to the 2015 nuclear agreements he withdrew from the same bus ravi reports from tehran. in his 1st media briefing as iran's new foreign ministry spokesman abbas moussavi wasted no time getting to the point if the united states wants talks with iran the starting point is returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. now we won't have any negotiation with the united states and on line has always been respect for international agreements to restate could return there with. and based on delusion so we have no prospect for negotiation and invades for developments. as to offers by 3rd parties while iran's leaders are open to hearing from concerned friends mousavi says mediation isn't necessary yet stubbornly sticking to its guns seems to have worked in the iranian government's favor the u.s. has rolled back hawkish language and even with the american military buildup still in the region a war seems much less imminent iranians often say they don't care about iran's strategic victories or even standing up to america they care about things like the price of diapers for

from iran on monday iran had announced it would quadruple its production of low enrich uranium samus ravi reports now from tehran. * in iran ramadan is usually a time of spiritual reflection charity and family but for a 2nd year in a row as iranians began a month of fasting there was escalating pressure from the united states. every day they face angry exchanges with american leaders a buildup of u.s. forces on their doorstep warnings to commercial flights in or near iranian airspace and threats from arab neighbors saudi arabia the u.a.e. and bahrain all that on top of an economy in freefall from the failure to out of the sky that it will trump or america can't do anything iran is not iraq even though they are strong iran's armed forces will stand against them that's going to get. them is on your mark we think our military is as strong as bass but it isn't we should never place america directly i'm afraid because we keep saying they can't do anything they finally well and the seat of the islamic revolutionary guard corps that took to the streets in the revolution and changed everything so

here and tensions are still specially with more american military presence in the region same with ravi all to syria from. saudi arabia says its main east to west oil pipeline has been bombed in a raid by unmanned aerial drones the who the rebels in yemen say they were behind the attack on that the saudis are calling terrorism and that act of sabotage the drones hit to oil pumping stations on the pipeline near riyadh a 1000 kilometers north of yemen the pipeline is owned by the saudi oil giant aramco which says it's halted supply cornelia my as an economist specializing in the oil and gas industry she doesn't believe the drone attack will have a major impact on the saudi economy. it's not that significant because you know for the next few days they can happily you know load. in 2 ships but what is significant is that the at the east to west pipeline was actually built during the iran iraq war precisely to make sure that if things going got tough and arabian sea and the and on the in the gulf of gulf and the straits of hormuz they would have another evacuation route. through. the red sea