ravi: i am going to venture that yes, there will be a time. whereed at this company people vote on her favorite things. we did an analysis of red states and blue states. it showed that there's actually a lot of agreement. there's more agreement between red states and blue states than between men and women, between young people and old people, and between americans and people around the world. largely there's agreement about things that are not part of the partisanship. things that that are less controversial, krispy k reme make doughnuts that taste good but are not good for me. it is just when they become controversial that they become part of this partisanship that it all breaks down. think sometimes we overplay the number of things that are part of this partisanship. i think there may come a time when -- you see this when war happens. people rally around the flag we stop faking about ourselves, red state and blue state. we start thinking about ourselves more holistically, where partisanship is not a thing that news is about. therefore it wil

ravi: so during the war, the tigers lived here.ther kept coming back here making sure that he made his presence known. >> jeeva: i think the thing is that it was, it has a lot of, you know, family stories, so even a lot of my cousins have a great attachment to this house. can i get you some more crab curry? >> anthony: please, thank you. thank you, so beautiful, thank you. so delicious. i've been to a lot of places, just after really awful, awful conflicts. some nations there is a simmering and boiling sense of injustice, rage, humiliation; particularly when you have large groups of young people unemployedandering around. do you think that there is any possibility, that if everybody doesn't get their recipe right, that we could see, you know, another generation of adversaries? >> dr. ravi: generally speaking, people want to get on with it. because, my generation, they certainly don't want to go back to that. i think that generation that might, are the 5-6 year olds at school now, would have forgotten the horrors of war. as you go b

ravi: yes, we could.bably, as i said on the external accounts, because of the narrowing of the accounts, the situation may not be as bad as expected a few years ago. but it is something we will watch. the growth story turns around, then the whole story could turn around. quickly, what are the other state owned companies you consider to be a problem? vi: one of the largest is as scom. around the south african post office, but fundamentally the biggest is s-com. the biggest concerns are around them. that poses the biggest contingent liability to the government. bhatia talking with us about the south african rating. now let's talk about bitcoin. it has shown no signs of slowing its meteoric rise. the cryptocurrency is now more than 800% this year as it gains greater mainstream attention. the asset may be lended further legitimacy. how much further can bitcoin's run continue? let's bring in mark cudmore from singapore. let me ask you about that legitimacy with the futures contract. could it lend a little more

for six months now the year ravi's have been writing articles about history and old buildings in prague for the online encyclopedia and they aren't the only elderly people in the czech republic creating wiki pedia content it's become something of a.

ravis's role changed tpd did not sign the letter asking for him to resign.mount ofve a huge respect for what was accomplished of the company and what was accomplished generally. companies have to evolve, so we evolutionin favor of positive ways, and i don't think that is necessarily a focus on indie individual -- any individual, but are pleased to see the company moving for conference they must. emily: what is the lesson tp has learned from the way uber story has unfolded? jim: uber works in reverse dog years. if i take away one message it is that governance and culture really matter. in the flurry of growth out here in silicon valley we need to keep focus on governance and culture. emily: how is that? revenues, weild build the cultural aspects that companies what they are and it moves through its life history. uber moves through life history so quickly that the models have granted to keep up. i think there is a general lesson to make sure those models around governance and culture inr the same discussion companies as the business models but often drive them

the film stars margo ravi as tanya and alison janney as her mom. >> she spent even look like me. >> it tells the dramatic story of tanya's rise and fall to figure skating fame and infamy including the troubled relationship with her mother which she told oprah about in 2009. >> probably when i was 6 or 7, it started. she became very abusive, beating me and dragging meful on the rink, beating me with a hairbrush. >> sandy said she never was abusive. >> i gave her one swat at a competition and this type of thing because i was trying to do her hair and they were calling her on the ice. >> sandy said she worked three jobs to pay for tanya's training and sewed her costumes by hand like this one of a kind pink sequin dress. her goal she said was to help make tanya's olympic dreams come true. she claims it was tanya who wasn't always the easiest person to be around. >> i wanted her to have what i couldn't. >> tanya was at the top of her game in 1994 when it all came crashing down. the most notorious scandal ever to rock the world of skating. >> why? why? >> when we caught up with tanya in 2012

with a difficult time for those involved at the center of that story john and just for some context ravi is according to one agency the gun violence they say that in two thousand and seventeen there were two hundred seventy three mass shooting that's three or more people dead in an incident eleven thousand six hundred fifty have died so far this year twenty three thousand five hundred injured it does again raises specter of debate within the u.s. all about gun control the gun lobby on the constitution. that's right so this is absolutely going to rekindle that debate but the problem that gun control advocates continually have in this country is that it runs up against the second amendment which depending on who you talk to whose interpretation you're using either says that people have the absolute right to bear arms or a limited right as many people believe but congress is firmly in republican hands the republicans are firmly pro gun control and what we have seen time and time and time again with these shootings is that congress has not taken action or it has sought to take limited action

corruption so n.g.o.s have stepped in to fill the information gap the listening posts i mean actually ravi now on how the indonesian media tend to toe the corporate and government line. in two thousand fifty five is swept through indonesia's rain forests but i don't mind telling you. that. my last column landed two point six million hectares of floods an area roughly the size of rwanda was said to flee to clear space for palmer plantations. the fires produced in just three weeks more greenhouse gases than germany does in an entire year. the fires led indonesia news bulletins as long as they were burning but the minute they died down so did the coverage. forest fires have become an annual occurrence in indonesia and still the country's media seldom devote the column inches and airtime needed to explore the causes behind the let me move money for. it is easier for journalists to cover sports or the economy because they have scores and numbers their stories are much easier to write than environmental stories where journalists have to understand biology ecology waste and chemistry. going to mi

with serious humanitarian crisis is likely to become an important benchmark of their success zain bus ravi al-jazeera to her i want her update next year and i was there at the end. mr trump do your job. lives are at stake tough words from centonze map six weeks after hurricane wrists landed of puerto rico and the letter that divided palestine we marked the anniversary of the powerful declaration. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. hello that dry low humidity northeast monsoon setting quite nicely of the china and it's still left with temperatures what you might argue quite high twenty four in shanghai and twenty nine in hong kong probably feels beautiful but once more because the circulation is happening in the philippines we're feeding moisture back into the east coast cloudy or rather more humid at least in hong kong come friday to. start to rain i suppose later in the day or maybe on saturday. west of china otherwise it's a dry and the humidity environment and he was talking about the mass of rain over the philippines in the last twenty four hours and this is the

he is using the resignation of hariri to cover up its own internal political crisis there is a mess ravi has been speaking to a member of parliament for the iranian national security and foreign policy commission. not having hussein is a member of the iranian parliament he's also the spokesman for the parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy he gave us his perspective on the events unfolding in saudi arabia over the last few days regarding the resignation of the lebanese prime minister he said there's no doubt in the iranian government's mind that saad hariri was pressured by the saudi government to step down and it was a cord needed effort to distract from saudi arabia's own internal political problems here's what he had to say. in the government of saudi arabia there has been a coup and saudi arabia tried to use the resignation of saad hariri to hide tunnel movements and thought the saudi government but the first headline is the resignation of saad hariri not incidents happening inside the government of saudi arabia so we believe that this is coordinated now he

problems or a conflicts through dialogue instead of allowing them to be divided by this kind of event as ravi with the latest from tehran zain thank you. syria's government and its allies have launched a military assault to push i saw out of the last strip of land the controls in syria russian jets have been pounding the city of al book amal on the syria iraq border and the deir ez-zor countryside six members of the same family were killed after residential areas were hit the syrian army's elite forces iran backed shia militia and as paula fighters are leading the operation on the ground on friday i saw was pushed out of there as or city the armed groups last major urban stronghold in the country. is tracking those developments from gaziantep on the turkey syria border. the military campaign to take over a welcome mat is underway the russians are pounding i still position in fiber turn of the syrian army pounding wheel for some of an elite unit which is going to engage with i still love the videos are concerned about their fate of a double of people were killed during those strikes i said and

the same bus ravi. letters in libya have agreed to the emergency repatriation of refugees and migrants facing up use and detention camps scandal is a hot topic at the summit of african union leaders and ivory coast the announcement by french president follows the outcry over a video apparently showing african migrants being sold as slaves and libya reports from the summit and. one of the end of this summit we are expecting a joint statement by europe and african leaders that will announce the creation of an anti slavery tosk force and i want. this task force will be used to save and protect refugees as they travel to tree roots in africa and in particular in libya would also be used to speed up the tree return to their countries of origin and help identify possible asylum seekers there is no doubt that the issue of slavery and migration absolutely dominated the agenda here at the summit in abidjan but there is a lot of concern amongst those who say. perhaps the approach their leaders are taking is not t

is in bus ravi al-jazeera looking. let me as president is preparing to run for a fourth term off the constitutional court overturned a ruling on the missing reelection if even more or less wins in twenty nineteen his time in office will be extended to nineteen opponents have held large rallies around bolivia calling the ruling democratic don't ask why my reports. became president of bolivia in january two thousand and six he stood and won again an election law was changed and he was again reelected. the constitutional court is not in the constitution the prevent further reelection it also ignores a referendum that last february now already voted to limit the number of times the president can serve consecutive terms. every citizen has been limited by the electoral law and the constitution is now able to run for election those who will ultimately decide are the bolivian people it is a nation excepted the result of the referendum and appealed against it saying had been the victim of a slur campaign and that his work remai

with serious humanitarian crisis is likely to become an important benchmark of their success same bus ravi al-jazeera to her. still to come on the program. about four as protest the run up to the centenary of his famous declaration. and talk to victims of election violence in kenya killed dozens of people since focused . well i was in the storms are over now in new south wales a.c.t in victoria the circulation offshore still bringing big waves on to the coast near sydney some measuring up to eight metres more typically three to four metres so that's nasty but the weather otherwise is free of cloud satellite pictures suggest it is warming up in perth up to about twenty six with us disappointing not the case to dance to adelaide in melbourne sydney is warming up slowly about the still that breeze keeping things disappointingly chilly i think you'd agree in melbourne and adelaide was twenty seven is a figure in sydney and i come across the tasman sea there is that very active storm system but quite often they lose their impetus on the way across so if a new zealand you have one good day the r

the same bus ravi al-jazeera. the un syria and voice stuff and the restore us says the syrian government has agreed to a ceasefire. after days of heavy bombardment it came at the start of talks in geneva to try to find a way of ending the violence our diplomatic editor james bays reports from. the syria talks in geneva back on but for now with only one of the two sides present u.n. envoy stefan de mistura met the delegation from the opposition. but the government has been involved in a major intensification in eastern. geneva the suspicion is they wanted this aerial bombardment to strengthen their hand at the talks and you have any optimism when you see what's going on with these people as you're supposed to be. well i was just informed by do russia and then do it today or did people a meeting their russian proposal to end their government they've accepted a defiant it's difficult because we were and are very content up till now we need to feel where they did take place but it did not point that they've actually b

the former prime minister is the man who moved mountains shaking their faith won't be easy as in bus ravi al-jazeera looking. a report by human rights watch says venezuelan government forces systematically abused opponents of president nicolas maduro during a political crackdown only to see it the group says more than five thousand people were detained and most of them were beaten sexually assaulted or given electro. shock's rights group described it as a level of repression and seen in venezuela in recent memory. venezuela's removed its ambassador to the u.n. from his post rafael romney raise a former oil minister has been sacked and with a major anti corruption campaign targeting the oil industry the u.n. says the venezuelan government has not notified it of any changes to its representation. libya's president is preparing to run for a fourth of the country's constitutional court overturned a ruling on limiting reelection if his wins in twenty nineteen it'll give him nineteen consecutive years in power opponents of held rallies around the country calling the ruling undemocratic. became

the former prime minister is the man who moved mountains shaking their faith won't be easy as in bus ravi al-jazeera look. here's what's coming up here on al-jazeera with living conditions already syrians are facing a new threat for survival as winter sets in and european union african leaders pledged to do more to help thousands of migrants stranded in libya. i am. hello and welcome back the weather across much of eastern china is certainly fine at the moment same goes for taiwan but once you get into indochina still the threat of showers across central parts of vietnam in particular further north towards annoyed by to should be brining up as we head on through into saturday with temperatures there looking pretty good at twenty four degrees hong kong still fine food to shanghai dry and bright across the rest of indo china the weather's also looking pretty decent the moment much of lies through into meum are dry it with sunshine now as we head across into south asia for the bulk of the region is looking fine but once you get further south towards chennai and you start to pick up on some r

the former prime minister is the man who moved mountains shaking their faith won't be easy as in bus ravi al-jazeera looking. a major bust in china after nearly twelve tons of pangolins scales were confiscated it. was discovered on a ship and it's calm from at least twenty thousand penguins in africa endangered animal is the most hunted in the world because it scales are used in traditional medicine a ban on the global trade of the animals came into effect in january. take a look at the headlines on al-jazeera there is calling for more sanctions and the complete isolation of north korea united nations security council has held an emergency meeting following the younglings missile test for korea says the launch proves it has the capability to hit the u.s. mainland u.s. ambassador to the u.n. issued a strong warning to north korea north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it we have never sought war with north korea and still today we do not seek it if war does come it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday

something rizvi has been able to accomplish in a few months just ahead of next year's elections zain bus ravi al-jazeera islam a bad. one thousand people have been killed by russian airstrikes in the east and go to the syrian capital the latest casualties come as russia denies responsibility for the deaths of dozens of civilians in strikes targeting the weekend meanwhile attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict have stalled because the syrian government delegation has yet to arrive in geneva and diplomatic editor james bays reports. peace talks in geneva were supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before the timetable of failed diplomacy is actually crossing the agony of the people of syria. parts of aleppo province. and the outskirts of damascus bombarded the assad government has been intensifying its onslaught in the days and hours before talks due to start. assad didn't leave a single corner that hasn't been destroyed if you want to fight it don't target civilians instead take on the armed groups at the front lines god willing they'll teach you a lesson

washington a surface to air missile was displayed at the at was displayed at the celebration same that's ravi reports from tehran. every year the iranian government and its supporters celebrate student day named for the demonstrators who overread it took control of the u.s. embassy in one nine hundred seventy nine it happened in the aftermath of the revolution that overthrew the royal family and saw the rise of the islamic republic of iran. with the american rejection of the nuclear deal and aggressive rhetoric from president donald trump the annual event has this year taken on added significance by the means of told us that we've come here to say in a powerful way that america cannot do a damn thing and until the last drop of blood we will defend our country. and america we have no problem with the people of america but we don't welcome the government of america. each year the old embassy grounds become a rallying point with anti-american chances slogans. and the event is an insight into the ideology the iranian establishment works tirelessly to keep alive the events of that they are as impo

it was a lot of different victories including ravi's here in hoboken. >> murphy takes office january 16th. he says he and republican governor chris christie will meet in the next few days to discuss the transition of government. murphy defeated lieutenant governor kim guadagno in tuesday's election. the victory came as virginia also picked a new democratic governor. democrats celebrating historic elections in delaware county, beating out republican incumbents for two county council seats. the last time a democrat served on delaware county council was in 1980. democrats had historic wins in key races in bucks county as well. >>> congressional democrats are celebrating as well saying last night's results opened the door for them to retake power next year. chuck schumer called the results a rejection of president trump and his policies. he warned they should be a stop sign for the republican tax plan. it's a plan he says hurts the suburbs by eliminating the state and local tax deduction. >> if you continue to try and eliminate the state and local deduction, you're going to kill suburban

as ravi has more now from the capital islamabad. is a very very different morning here in islamabad today three weeks and a few days after it all began the protesters here have gotten what they wanted the resignation of the law minister at the center of all the controversy and the government has now actually promised them that they will also investigate themselves and find out what led to the proposed amendment to the oath is taken that left out the name of the prophet to begin with in the days you know it's already so close the main airport in bali jutes a volcanic activity on the island has been spewing thick ash and steam into the sky since tuesday tens of thousands of people remain stranded at bali international airport after flights of perspective will cancel the national disaster agency has issued the highest alert saying around one hundred thousand people must be evacuated from the area surrounding the volcano. at least eighty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian asterix in syria twenty

. >> so, ravi, what do you do with the stock?eighed down lately amid questions about the production delays and the bottlenecks around the model 3, not to mention the financial strain that's going to take. and yet, here comes tesla again with a flashy new release of very innovative cars stock's up over the last year, but down over the last few months >> well, the near term is going to be determined by the model 3 and how quickly they can ramp up production there, but clearly, opening up, whether it is with commercial class-a trucks or pickup trucks or even extending into the roadster are certainly positive for the long-term thesis and expanding the terminal value in the dcf the near term is about model 3 >> we'll see if we get updates there after the quarter. ravi, thank you for joining us from morgan stanley. karl from kelly blue book. >> as we head to break, take a look at shares of williams-sonoma, after the retailer posted weak guidance for the fourth quarter stock down more than 11% we'll wrap up some of this morning's earnin

. >> ravi, and enjoyed your analogy about sugar and maybe you mention diabetes,. maybe when we create something when the technology will create something like refined sugar, it is exciting, but there are consequences like a public health problem of diabetes and that's a technology developer myself, our community has sensed the pace of development is increasing. and so, the opportunity to regulate behaviors for this consequences become shorter and shorter. i wanted to ask bill and justin, in your line of work, have you noticed an acceleration or just par for the course the way technology is changing both opinion research and political messaging? >> well, the most profound impact of technology on the political process so far has been the huge acceleration of fundraising opportunities from small donors, president obama's campaign was funded primarily by small donors particularly in 08 and i think we saw that with bernie sanders this time. so, we are talking about ads, but the most profound impacts have been the fund raising, the change in the fundraising culture in t

president on trying threatened to abandon the iran nuclear deal zain bus ravi reports. there was little time for ceremony after vladimir putin landed into her on he went straight into an hour's long meeting with his counterpart iranian president hassan rouhani on most other occasions talks between the leaders of these countries would almost be considered routine but with the islamic state of iraq in the levant having been beaten back in syria and iraq and iran's expanding influence in the middle east moscow into one are likely to play a key role in shaping future events in the region. we have had a great and fruitful cooperation with iran regarding syria through our collaboration with turkey the situation in syria is going the right way when it comes to the fight against terrorism. the russian leader also reaffirmed his support for the multi-party nuclear deal with iran for his part the iranian leader hailed russia as an important partner in stabilizing the middle east. they were two leaders speaking in almost perfect harmony iran and russia are developing their strateg

hoping the situation doesn't go from bad to worse and tests have been beirut thank you well samus ravis in teheran for us and has more on how iran has been reacting to. hours after the resignation of lebanese prime minister saad hariri in which he criticized iran for its involvement in his country and in the region iran's foreign ministry spokesman back home cost me rejected those allegations and said that the sudden resignation by the lebanese prime minister was both regretful and came as a surprise to teheran accost me also commented on the optics of the resignation saying the fact that hariri resigned outside of the country in a hasty manner in saudi arabia were all signs that he was surrounded by parties that did not have lebanon's best interests at the tops of their agendas nor the best interests of the region the wider middle east at the tops of their agendas he pointed a finger at iran's usual suspects united states saudi arabia and israel and he said that these countries have come together in designed this situation to create a destabilizing event not only in lebanon but somethi

to step down the would of a parliamentary vote which they described as blasphemous the same bus ravi reports from islamic bob. after more than three weeks this sit in has turned into a celebration. supporters of pakistan's blasphemy laws were able to force the government into giving in to their demands not only has the federal law minister step down but the government of pakistan muslim youth noon has also agreed to investigate itself. a crowd of just thousand cities of millions to a standstill here by choking a main artery in and out of the capital city and this really is becoming a common way and all too common a way of achieving any kind of power here in pakistan by being a destructive force on the streets and effectively laying siege to islamabad and then making political demands but the threat of force leaders of this fringe group have been bolstered by their newfound influence on the country's political affairs pakistan was great on the basis of the belief that there is no god but allah and mohammed is the messenger of allah we know that for seventy years food has been committe

rock and blues very obviously about to things like the beatles and johann sebastian bach even even ravi shankar and he was a real showman and what he really did was introduce a new style of playing the electric guitar so he was into lots of lots of overdrive in the amplifiers and he made things that once upon a time were considered noise of things like distortion and feedback and fuzz made them actually into an integral part of his music let's look at how that sounded in a bit more detail. when jimi hendrix exploded onto the london scene in one thousand nine hundred sixty six he was just twenty three. the talent became one of the most influential of all time. but jimi hendrix died after just four years at the top german monica done a man with his girlfriend at the time of his death and she got to know another side of jimi hendrix. and. he was a whole different person than has imagine he had a reputation as a wild rebellious man but he was in fact a very charming very intelligent and creative and inspiring person he was interested in the problems of the world and was always looking for w

future holds a sentiment felt by many here in a different freetown sierra leone philippine president ravi good eternity has made a policy change in his controversial fight against drug gangs he's ordered local police units to stand down and the drug enforcement agency to take over. has more from manila president to go to their to so-called war on drugs has been the center of police operations since it took office more than a year ago. but the police have faced mounting criticism and accusations of rampant corruption and human rights abuses. now there is a major shift in the campaign to has ordered all the police drug enforcement units to be disbanded and the philippine jug enforcement agency to take the lead in illegal drugs operations in the capital manila police officers are heading out to set up roadblocks their aim now they say is to cut down on street crime. going to. speak up when it's going to certain degree with regard to the right. we could see that this may seem like a point but this is now at the center of many operations according to governments that majority crimes being comm

s have al-jazeera they pretty well same bus ravi is in tatar on a small how iran is reacting to hillary's resignation and the criticism that follows it hours after the resignation of lebanese prime minister saad hariri in which he criticized iran for its involvement in his country and in the region iran's foreign ministry spokesman back home kasumi rejected those allegations and said that the sudden resignation by the lebanese prime minister was both regretful and came as a surprise to teheran accost me also commented on the optics of the resignation saying the fact that hariri resigned outside of the country in a hasty manner in saudi arabia were all signs that he was surrounded by parties that did not have lebanon's best interests at the tops of their agendas nor in the best interests of the region the wider middle east at the tops of their agendas he pointed a finger at iran's usual suspects united states saudi arabia and israel and he said that these countries have come together in designed this situation to create a destabilizing event not only in lebanon but something that was desig

the former prime minister is the man who moved mountains shaking their faith won't be easy as in bus ravi al-jazeera looking. scientists are warning people not to underestimate the dangers of the amount volcano in bali tens of thousands of locals were evacuated after the volcano started spewing ash last week but some have already come back to their villages. unlike other evacuees none at taba has no plans to go home she's been in the evacuation shelter for two months and knows exactly how dangerous mt agam can be during the last eruption in one thousand nine hundred sixty three four family members were killed a scorching gas clouds and rocks rained down her scared after what happened to us in and in sixty three not as close have reach our village i'm sure a much bigger eruption will happen the only thing i hope is that it will happen fast because i'm bored here there was no warning system fifty four years ago and she barely survived villages decided to run only after eruptions had lasted for weeks five hundred of them didn't survive. being nearly two people didn't know what was happening

india they are all out for two hundred five with captain to nishant amal top scoring with fifty seven ravi ashwin and arvind data taken seven of the wickets between them. new zealand all blacks will have a new captain for their final rugby test of the season against wales on saturday. takes over from karen reid who's injured his back while brother look at comes in at number eight a full read. here is going to everybody else have you you know available when it's opportunity for someone so it's a big opportunity to go. to the plate and do the job. well so it's disappointing to lose your leader and go it's going to hundred. now the rugby team are going through difficult times on and off the pitch as it prepared to face a strong england team in london haven't won an international this year and their rugby association declared itself it came being disputed world. reports well as you can hear the samoan saying preparing here in southwest london for the guy because they are already very good spirits be a little surprising considering the problems they have had with mom and the prime minister of t

something rizvi has been able to accomplish in a few months just ahead of next year's elections zain bus ravi al-jazeera islam about russia is the nine responsibility for the deaths of civilians after it conducted a series of air strikes targeting i saw in syria over the weekend and this comes as the latest round of un backed talks in geneva are delayed because the syrian government delegation still hasn't arrived james bays reports. peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before the timetable of failed diplomacy is actually create the agony of the people of syria. parts of aleppo province. and the outskirts of damascus. the assad government has been intensifying its own slaughter in the days and hours before talks due to start. assad didn't leave a single corner that hasn't been destroyed if you want to fight don't target civilians instead take on the armed groups at the front lines god willing they will teach you a lesson. briefing the u.n. security council in new york the man who's supposed to lead the talks on tuesday stefan de mistura conde

about top top story the resignation of lebanon's prime minister said in the same bus ravi is live for us now from the iranian capital saying what are we hearing from the government there. the government is still due to give any sort of official reaction we haven't heard from the senior leadership as yet but an adviser to the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has been speaking on local channels and he said that. this this resignation by the prime minister of lebanon was words was not a good idea it was it was something that maybe i'm mistaken and will no doubt be bad for the government of lebanon but also the people in the country and he suggested he pointed a finger at the united states and saudi arabia saying that those countries. operating in this region thrive on crises of this kind and and he suggested that the way forward for the country beyond this resignation is dialogue and not division and that's the sort of message that iran has been pumping out to all of its regional friends and enemies alike in. all this come as a surprise to iranian leaders. but you know that's that's

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they were at the bottom of a ravi ravine.order protection agent rogelio martinez passed away from his injuries and this morning what exactly happened is still a mystery. but sources close to this investigation are also telling abc news that these two agents were responding to a sensor which detects human activity at the border, but they say there is still so little evidence that, george, they cannot rule out the possibility that they fell into that ravine accidentally. >> many more questions to come but the president and others calling this a brutal attack. >> reporter: yes, george. in addition to president trump and texas senator ted cruz, the governor here, greg abbott, he is calling this a murder and is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. >> marcus, thanks very much. >>> thank you, george, and now to the $85 billion showdown between the trump administration and at&t. the justice department has sued to block the company's bid to take over time warner and rebecca jar sis is here. re