signaling that it is willing to work with the new administration here is iranian president hassan rouhani. 2 embryos that are today in the bowl is in the coat of the united states and washington has to return and fulfill its obligations. chair arm more trumps political career has ended but the j. c.p.o. way is still alive. all of his efforts to destroy the j c p a way were unsuccessful and he failed as all right i'm joined tonight by now you are more mortazavi she is in washington d.c. she's a journalist political analyst and host of the iran podcast it's good to have you on the program let me ask you what what would be the best thing in your opinion what would be the best thing that the by demonstration could do to turn down the volume turn down the temperature in these iranian u.s. relations. i think that's exactly a great point you're making to turn down the volume because under president trump 4 years of maximum pressure as i call it 4 years of maximum failure because it didn't achieve any of the stated goals of the trumpet ministration we saw tensions are also increased trigger point

signaling that it is willing to work with the new administration here is iranian president hassan rouhani. 2 embryos that are today and the pole is in the coat of the united states. and washington has to return and fulfill its obligations. chair arm more trumps political career has ended but the j.c. way is still a life. all of his efforts to destroy the j c p a way were unsuccessful and he failed as all right i'm joined tonight by nader more mortazavi she is in washington d.c. she's a journalist political analyst and host of the iran podcast it's good to have you on the program let me ask you what would what would be the best thing in your opinion what would be the best thing that the biden ministration could do to turn down the volume turn down the temperature in these iranian u.s. relations. i think that's exactly a great point you're making to turn down the volume because under president trump 4 years of maximum pressure as i call it 4 years of maximum failure because it didn't achieve any of the stated goals of the trumpet ministration we saw tensions are also increased to point out

president joe biden to return to the 25 to nuclear agreement and to lift sanctions against iran rouhani says his country promises to fulfill its commitments under the deal if the united states does so was well honey was quoted as saying that quote the ball is now in the court of the u.s. rescuers in china are redoubling efforts to communicate with a group of miners trapped underground for 10 days and new handwritten note sent up from the stricken miners requested they be given another phone 22 miners were trapped in the gold mine with an explosion sealed off an entrance to the site. at least 3 people have died after an explosion ripped through a building in central madrid one building partially collapsed and the residents of a neighboring nursing home were evacuated the city's mayor says initial investigations suggest that a gas leak holds the black. we want to head down to the black sea to a sprawling palace that has its own amphitheater a teahouse and even hell a pad he won't sit well the kremlin critic alexina volley has released a 2 hour video of the results of an investigation clai

emerging from hotel quarantine in rouhani now these w.h.o. scientists can finally get to work the investigation into the origins of the pandemic is highly sensitive and closely guarded beijing appears keen to avoid criticism of how it handled the crisis from the very beginning that some people who have lost family members to the virus are publicly accusing conventional far it is of concealing the outbreak when it 1st emerged in the city in december 2019 right wasn't gore or it is the w h o x team debts listen to our experiences the relatives of the current virus dead. i want to find out the truth. i can go to 100 missiles. but if they don't i would think the investigation in rouhani was just to show a formality to fool the walt all who are not of the whom trends or trends. to w.h.o. says the focus of theft as it is to determine how the virus jumped from animals to humans in holland where the 1st cases a notch but it's unclear how much access china will give the research as to the sites they want to visit and the people they want to talk to be

signaling that it is willing to work with the new administration here is iranian president hassan rouhani. 2 embryos that are today in the bowl is in the coat of the united states. and washington has to return and fulfill its obligations. chair arm more trump's political career has ended but the j. c.p.o. way is still a life all of his efforts to destroy the j c p a way were unsuccessful and he failed as all right i'm joined tonight by now you are more mortazavi she is in washington d.c. she's a journalist political analyst and host of the iran podcast it's good to have you on the program let me ask you what would what would be the best thing in your opinion what would be the best thing that the biden ministration could do to turn down the volume turn down the temperature in these iranian u.s. relations. well i think that's exactly a great point you're making to turn down the volume because under president trump 4 years of maximum pressure as i call it 4 years of maximum failure because it didn't achieve any of the stated goals of the trumpet ministration we saw tensions are also increase

that inside of iran there's been a lot of criticism against iranian government an argument that the rouhani government has not responded to many of these different measures by the trumpet ministration that the iranians view as highly provoke provocative such as the assassination of celine mani this estimation of fact resulted by the israelis and their argument is that the rouhani government's restraint has actually invited further attacks so it could have been a move that is primarily driven by domestic iranian politics a measure like this in order to appease those voices while at the same time not provide the trumpet mr ition with a pretext to escalate matters further and certainly not to drag this towards a military confrontation so what does joe biden have to offer to reassure iran a given that president trump seems to have demonstrated that the that the us word isn't worth anything. well biden i think has been quite clear he is seeking a clean compliance for compliance meaning the u.s. goes quickly back inside a deal and so do the iranians there are some technical questions because ther

rouhani administration who has less than 6 months left in office they're expecting president biden to lift the sanctions that the former trump administration imposed on iran since they withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2013 the iranian position is that there is no discussion there is nothing to talk about or no way to move forward between the 2 sides until the u.s. lives the sanctions and returns to that nuclear deal of 2015 but things are not quite that simple we've heard from officials within the new administration in the united states who say it's not just a matter of president biden deciding to sign back into it to come back into it there is a lot of different factors the events that unfolded over the past 4 years under former president trump has really put us further strain on the relationship iran has with the united states the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif has said that trump and pompei o and company are now relegated to the dust bins of history as a result of their actions so there is a sense now iran will do nothing else until they see action from the new administrati

conservative voice in the country had said that iran needs to take further steps president hassan rouhani did completely agree with it but it appears now he has actually decided to go ahead with this because legally he's bound to but the iranians have told the i am december 30th that he intended to do this but they hadn't given the time we understood it to mean that iran was giving the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden a grace period to see what he would do in terms of returning to the nuclear deal of 2015 before they took this step now it's important to note that iran was enriching at this level prior to the 2015 nuclear deal. well iran says its nuclear projects are for civilian purposes and not to attain weapons but the whole point of the 2015 deal was to restrict iran's path to a nuclear bomb and lift sanctions on sudan humans enrich to 20 percent it gets much easier to increase its purity and 90 percent refinement needed to make nuclear weapons is then just a technical step away but you also need enough fissile material to make a bomb in 2019 iran broke the dea

that inside of iran there's been a lot of criticism against iranian government an argument that the rouhani government has not responded to many of these different measures by the trumpet ministration that the iranians view as highly provoke from vocative such as the assassination of saline mani this estimation resulted by the israelis and their argument is that the rouhani government's restraint has actually invited further attacks so it could have been a move that is primarily driven by domestic you ronny in politics and measure like this in order to appease those voices while at the same time not provide the trumpet mr ition with a pretext to escalate matters further and certainly not to drag this towards a military confrontation was just a policy from the quincy institute for responsible state craft speaking to me and i'll go and sit you up to date and more world news at the top of the hour must be from bisley has your dean company's business update in just a moment and of course there's always the website yes that's always the website they don't need a cult of the day. in the in the.

emerging from hotel quarantine in rouhani now these w.h.o. scientists can finally get to work the investigation into the origins of the pandemic is highly sensitive and closely guarded beijing appears keen to avoid criticism of how it handled the crisis from the very beginning but some people who have lost family members to the virus are publicly accusing conventional forages of concealing the outbreak when it 1st emerged in the city in december 2019 rather it was a move gore or if the w.h.o. eggs team daedalus into our experiences the relatives of the current virus dead. i want to find out the truth. i can go to 100 meters. but if they don't i would think that the investigation in will hand was just a show of a formality to fool the walt. but of whom trench or trench. the w.h.o. says the focus of theft as it is to determine how the virus jumped from animals to humans in rouhani was the 1st cases and urged but it's unclear how much access china will give the research as to the sites they want to visit and the people they want to talk to beiji

signaling that it is willing to work with the new administration here is iranian president hassan rouhani tool it moves that today in the polls he's in the coach of the united states. and washington has to return and fulfill its obligations amount mcwhinnie chad all more trumps political career and it but the jay c.p.o. way is still a life all of his efforts to destroy the j c p a way were unsuccessful and he failed as all right i'm joined tonight by they are more touch more dissolved she is in washington d.c. she's a journalist political analyst and host of the iran podcast it's good to have you with on the program let me ask you what would what would be the best thing in your opinion what would be the best thing that the by demonstration could do to turn down the volume turn down the temperature in these iranian u.s. relations but i think that's exactly a great point you're making to turn down the volume because under president trump 4 years of maximum pressure as i call it 4 years of maximum failure because it didn't achieve any of the state of goals of the trumpet ministration we saw

the next location on his list is rouhani union hospital. again he pretends to have symptoms he's asked to register. it so as a single so. close all. the mail. this screening patients with basic questions. which laws are just very good order in the past maybe. deal with all loops rather than even only one week the mysterious disease was named 19. you know. the testing center is a short walk away. there are so many $100.00 students queuing to get tested for the virus. they need to make an appointment to wait in line. on just 2 weeks almost all. of them. are burdened. with one. drop off from ill fasold or long term out until they shop listening to. them not. because there are so many people waiting for tests and checking into the hospital. it is a long long waits. thank you. on your wife's good. to anyone around me to me she wouldn't comment on any easier to maneuver. the. current residents are reporting that hospitals are unable to cope. in the evening the doctor who led beijing's coronavirus crisis team makes an announcement that changes eve

iran's president, rouhani said the breach proved western democracy is weak.hina self righteously pointed out that at least its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in hong kong hadn't killed anyone. criticism and a certain amount of gloating was predictable from america's adversaries but there were sharp words from allies too. like prime minister boris johnson. >> inso far as the president consistently has cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, i believe that was completely wrong. >> and even one of president trump's stonchest supporters had this to say. >> the rampage of the capitol yesterday was a disgraceful act and it must be vigorously condemned. >> reporter: netanyahu though, ended on an optimistic note. >> i have no doubt that american democracy will prevail. it always has. >> reporter: millions, especially across the western world, hope that he's right. and billions will be watching closely. ♪ ♪ oh, this is how it starts ♪ lightning strikes the heart ♪ the day has just begun ♪ brighter than the sun ♪ oh, we could be the stars ♪ falling

. >> iran president rouhani said the breach proved western democracy is weak. china's self righteously pointed out that at least its crackdown on prodemocracy activists in hong kong hadn't killed anyone. >> criticism and a certain amount of gloating was predictable from america's adversaries but there were sharp words from its allies too. like prime minister bore is johnston. >> as far as the president consistently is caught on the outcome of a free and fair election, i believe that that was completely wrong. >> and even one of president trump's staunchist supporters, israel's benjamin netanyahu had this to say. >> the raffage of the capitol yesterday was a disgraceful act and it must be vigorously condemned. >> netanyahu, though, ended on an optimism note-- optimistic noat. >> have i no doubt that american democracy will prevail. it always has. >> millions especially across the western world hope that he is right. and billions will be watching closely. elizabeth palmer, c become s news, london. >> duncan: while the assault on the capitol is dominating headline

there is a sense of optimism that six months of this rouhani administration left, there could be some easing of tensions before iran has its next presidential election. this latest claim will be completely dismissed by iran and seen as ridiculous at this stage. >> president trump has been in texas touring the border wall with mexico. he's insisting that he deliver on one of his key campaign promises, but he promised he would make mexico pay for the fence, and that has not happened. john homan reports from mexico city. john: this was the promise -- >> we will build a great wall along the southern border. john: he hasn't gotten anywhere near finishing that. president trump has done something else instead, turned the country itself into his walls. in mid-2019, he threatened tariffs if mexico didn't tighten its border, so the country put its national guard on the banks of the river with guatemala, toughened up its checkpoints so that those from neighboring countries couldn't get through. >> i think we saw a dramatic decrease in arrivals at the u.s. -- at the u.s.-mexico border as a result

. >> we are going to be hearing from president hassan rouhani during his scheduled weekly cabinet meetinger on wednesday morning. he is likely to respond with the same rhetoric we have heard from iranian officials, that any kin d of hostilities toward iran would be responded with similar measures. iranian military officials said over the past few weeks that iran is willing and able to defend itself against all enemies. we heard from the iranian foreign minister who was in moscow on tuesday. he tweeted, saying there is no reason for iran to show goodwill to return to the nuclear deal of 2015, to return to full compliance. he said it is the united states that has to take the next step and iran will respond. iran sees israel as using this opportunity to pressure this new administration to getting what they want. they said there si no -- is no room for negotiating or amending this nuclear deal, it stands as-is. host: what is the view from washington? let's find out live at the white house. the biden administration indicated it could sign up to the nuclear agreement again. any reaction from th

year we've charted the development of this global pandemic the epicenter of a global disaster the rouhani went to market in january 2020 have met at least sealed off but it was too late. the novel coronavirus had already spread to humans from animal salt here setting off a deadly pandemic the 1st corporate 19 death was recorded in wu han on january 11th a month later the disease had killed more people in china than the sars outbreak in 2003 with hospitals overflowing a city of 11000000 went into food lockdown drastic social distancing measures allow china to contain the virus. but by know the pandemic had long spread beyond its borders with europe becoming the next hot spot by the end of march italy had overtaken china as the washed hit country in the city of bearable the army was called in to cart off the coffins of those who perished in the hospitals when emergency wards ran out of ventilators doctors had to choose who wish to live or to die. on a from 9th a grim milestone 100000 corporate 1000 deaths worldwide 2 days later the us registered the most coronavirus deaths in any country or

iranian president hassan rouhani has called on the u.s. president elect joe biden to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement and lift sanctions on tehran iran he said his country promises to fulfill its commitments under the deal if the united states does as well ronnie was quoted saying that the ball is now in the court of the u.s. . rescuers in china are redoubling efforts to communicate with a group of miners trapped underground for 10 days and you hand written notes sent up from the stricken miners requested they be given another phone 22 miners are trapped in the gold mine when an explosion sealed off the entrance to the site. here in germany the government has extended the current coronavirus law down to mid february although the country. they'll be a lot more of these to be seen medical masks will be compulsory on public transport and in shops the so-called f f p 2 masks off a greater protection but common surgical masks will also be allowed. and there's to be much more working from home the government's imposing strictly. before that

but we begin in china things have returned to normal in rouhani from which coronavirus originates and the city is celebrating its success. it is almost as if nothing had ever happened here life is back to normal in the city where the coronavirus 1st emerged china has brought infection rates down to almost 00. current exhibition the communist party celebrates victory in what it calls its war on the epidemic with tributes to soldiers and medics who work themselves with store station during the outbreak but 1st and foremost the party celebrates self and the general secretary xi jinping was hailed as the man who led the country to victory. john hi is one of them he is on his way to the municipal government. but isn't this the people's government taking pictures is not allowed. not the country i mean i think they should change their name from the people's government of one hand to the bureaucrats government of one hand. john hi normally lives in the southern city of shenzhen but returned home to one han in january when his father broke his hip the elderly man received free treatment at a m

going to be like cyrus one but we were surprised actually we when we knew all at that moment after rouhani went into lockdown and after china went in to love them that it was going to be quite a difficult time and. and i think that scientists were. kind of by us thinking that the pandemic was going to be another virus like for example in one some virus we were actually some of us were thinking about the corner virus and there were there but we were not that. sure and i think it was a problem and the w.h.o. also was a little bits lol trying to to declare this an emergency and to to prevent we're also putting out a problem with a vaccine a lot of people are saying it's not 100 percent that we know 95 percent is fantastic it's one of the best acting we've ever had. if it's the best thing that we ever have the problem is that these were spread to require assists so the buckskin probe is not that a 100 percent effective preventing infection but it's good preventing these. patients and dying so it's a great vaccine actually it's kind of you have to wonder of the achievement of this scientific ac

that they're ready willing and able to defend themselves the main issue here now is as president rouhani highlighted this morning is the return of the united states to that nuclear deal of 2015 the reigning position is that because the u.s. left in 2013 and impose a series of sanctions iran is not going to comply completely with the agreement so they've taken steps to reduce their measures under that agreement and that the latest was there was a law that's been passed in early december which is in 8 its goal is to get the sanctions relieved from the united states government the rainiest have now sped up in richmond levels 20 percent as of january 5th the next step will be in late february and they've given that line to the by the administration they say if the united states doesn't show any signs of returning to the lifting any of the sanctions iran will go ahead and reduce its commitment further by limiting access to the i spector's as of now the iranians have allowed those inspectors to come in without any advance notice about it after the end of february if nothing has changed then ir

administration the 1st is that you have both the new body ministration here in washington and the rouhani administration in iran both at the same time prepared and determined to pursue diplomacy that's a fundamentally new dynamic that the israelis do not want to happen they're trying to prevent that diplomacy from going forward the 2nd which does not get reported nearly as much as i think it should are the israeli domestic politics particularly for the military the military has seen in israel has seen its budget depleted over the past year by having to help the country contain code that they've caught on their military to do that scene distribution etc and that is really strong the idea of budget so it's very interesting in the general's comments he not only talked about the iran threat but some but spoke even more specifically about the billions of shekels that it's going to require the israeli military to have in the new budget and how much of that the prime minister netanyahu is facing elections in march now the previous elections that netanyahu had that yahoo has had to face over the

success god bless the united states of america god bless israel and while the iranian president hassan rouhani says they would welcome the u.s. returning to the 25th the nuclear pact adding that donald trump's decision to withdraw his aggressive policies since have been a complete failure to embryos that is immediate the ball is now in america's court if they return and apply their commitments we will also conduct our commitments trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on its entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful. well the other big issue on the international level is the climate crisis and as we mentioned biden has signed an executive order to rejoin the paris accords here's what brunell has more from los angeles we're going about right now i don't want to get i have a lot of i want rejoining the paris accords is one step in president joe biden strategy to fight global warming biden plans to spend $1.00 trillion dollars on rapidly deploying clean energy technology around the country with an enforcement mechanism to reach 1st stage

but 1st we go to china the city of rouhani is working towards some semblance of normality i slow down. almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic broke out many countries are now running vaccination programs the biggest vaccine developers expect to be able to produce more than $5000000000.00 doses in 2021 with 2 doses necessary per person that would mean around a 3rd of the global population could be immunized this year none the less it will take a while before all the almost $8000000000.00 people on the planet a vaccinated yet time is pressing 2000000 people have already died of covert 19 and infection rates continue to rise many countries remain under lockdown economies of ground to a halt leaving many people struggling to make ends meet. but china's will hound was the pandemic began things are different at least officially. this chinese hip hop artist raps about love happiness and life struggles even if not about a more immediate issue here in the coronavirus. the only reminders of the pandemic in this concert venue are the mosques and the way audience members keep a little dista

iranian president hassan rouhani addressed a cabinet meeting a short while ago he didn't comment on the israeli plants and said it's up to the u.s. and the europeans to comply with the nuclear deal is the us had to borrow from to iran. he didn't directly respond to the threats made but his chief of staff spoke following that meeting where he said that these are just empty words but iran does is not interested in starting any conflict but it will defend itself if need be we heard also from the president he didn't specifically talk about the threat but he talked about where things stand with that nuclear agreement and what iran hopes they will receive in the coming weeks from the remaining signatories let's listen to what he had to say yet one whole year we waited and listen the europeans made promises which they either couldn't or wouldn't deliver on we then began putting aside some very commitments and if they rejoin the deal we'll do so was world and for an entire year we kept going forward this way but we've always said as soon as you return to deal will return to full compliance the

iranian president hassan rouhani addressed a cabinet meeting a short while ago he didn't comment on the israeli plans and said it's up to the u.s. and the europeans to comply to the nuclear deal. yes one whole year we waited and listen the europeans made promises which they either couldn't or wouldn't deliver on we then began putting aside some of our commitments and if they rejoin the deal will do so was well and for an entire year we kept going forward this way but we've always said as soon as you return to the deal we'll return to full compliance the next hour. russia says the kremlin and washington have agreed to an extension of a shared nuclear arms control pact but under moscow's terms russia's deputy foreign minister made the comments to state media u.s. president joe biden had proposed a 5 year extension. china's government says it flew warplanes over taiwan as a warning against foreign interference and separatism since the 1st official comment from beijing about the presence of its jets over taiwan last weekend. farmers have resumed their protests against india's new agricultur

the epicenter of a global disaster the rouhani went to market in january 2020 have met it leased sealed off but it was too late. the novel coronavirus had already spread to humans from animal salt here setting off a deadly pandemic the 1st covert 1000 death was recorded in wu han on january 11th a month later the disease had killed more people in china than the sars outbreak in 2003 with hospitals overflowing a city of 11000000 went into fool lockdown drastic social distancing measures a low china to contain the virus but by no the pandemic had long spread beyond its borders with europe becoming the next hot spot by the end of march italy had overtaken china as the washed hit country in the city of bearable the army was called in to cart off the coffins of those who perished in the hospitals when emergency wards ran out of ventilators doctors had to choose who wish to live or to die. on a from 9th a grim milestone 100000 corporate 1000 deaths worldwide 2 days later the us registered the most coronavirus deaths in any country status it maintained for the rest of the year in new york bodi

certainly the rouhani administration who has less than 6 months left in office they're expecting president biden to lift the sanctions that the former trump administration imposed on iran since they withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 and the iranian position is that there is no discussion there is nothing to talk about or no way to move forward between the 2 sides until the u.s. lives the sanctions and returns to that nuclear deal of 2015 but things are not quite that simple we've heard from officials within the new administration in the united states who say that it's not just a matter of returning to the nuclear agreement we've also heard from the director general of the. me that is the atomic energy organization that is tasked with enforcing the rules and regulations of the nuclear deal police that deal in iran they monitor the nuclear program in the country and he's also said that it's very very so complicated at the moment since the iran has taken steps to reduce its commitment to the nuclear deal so there is a lot that needs to be done for the nuclear deal to be revived there is

we've just been hearing from the president hassan rouhani who was speaking during his weekly cabinet meeting he didn't specifically respond to the accusations made by pompei or but he referred to the secretary of state as somebody who is stupid he didn't go any further than that he said that what the the world is witnessing now is not just a transition of one government to another in the u.s. but rather a fall of the actual system itself. the accusations made by secretary of state my pump aoe were quite shocking to many people here the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif was tweeting in real time as the accusations were being made saying that these are just empty words they are no they don't have any basis in truth and that really the u.s. government should look at their close allies saudi arabia in terms of those responsible for the 911 attacks there is a sense that this accusation not only puts the incoming biden administration in a much more difficult position but also there is much more of a chance now that president trump could possibly. use such this as an excuse for some kin

population do you agree with that with my judgment as well you do agree yes iran's president has an rouhani has called on the biden administration to return to the nuclear deal which trump withdrew from in 2018 has also called the outgoing administration's iran policy a complete failure to embryos that is immediate the ball is now in america's court and if they return and apply their commitments we will also conduct our commitment trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on its entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful. to nazir's prime minister is appealing to protesters telling them he's aware of their anger and frustration been 4 days and 5 nights of violent clashes between police and protesters in several cities as anger mounts over growing unemployment and poverty shallop ballasts reports. the thousands of tuna's ians protest each feeling disappears and frustrated this week the feelings have boiled on to the streets the coronavirus pandemic has crippled the fragile economy leaving a 3rd of young tunas ians unemployed they blame

car the central china sea increasing cloud the some snow trying to creep along the yangtze towards rouhani not much but a little bit. significant rays fall in recent plays throughout borneo north and south flooding in the cyrus and the potential to repeat the same in the north because that's where the concentration of top big sun storms will be for the next couple of days it's much drier in most sumatra and peninsula malaysia tis dry of course most of in the northern plains we still got persistent fog and lower quality . gay calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allowed child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls ballots often legitimized and legal one is pedophile on air online jumping to the college section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there a. move. coming up top stories on al-jazeera donald trump's become the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice the house of representatives has charged him with inciting an ins

president hassan rouhani has given the order for the move the photo facilities so we'll start with dorsett you've already gotten from terror from today don't bring us up to date with this one. well come all this was quite a shock for all of us as well of we heard from the government spokesperson on the right be who gave gave an interview to one of the local news agencies here which he declared that iran has begun the initial steps to take start the 20 percent enrichment at fordo facility this is the one of the 2 facilities that is capable of enriching uranium the other one being in on the government spokesperson said that this took place at the order of the president this morning and this is something that even though the president had not agreed to this was part of the bill that was passed through parliament in early december due to the fact that iran has seen no sanctions relief since the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2013 now under the nuclear deal of 2015 or the way as it is known iran is allowed to enrich uranium at 3.67 percent that is the cap but since 2019 iran has taken 5

stories that are making headlines around the world after 2 weeks in quarantine in the chinese city of rouhani team of experts from the world health organization has begun its investigation into the origins of coke at night they want to better understand where the virus came from to prevent future outbreaks it's not clear what chinese authorities will allow them to see pakistan's supreme court has ordered the release of the british born man convicted over the killing of american journalist daniel pearl 19 years ago a panel of 3 judges acquitted auckland omar saeed shaykh of involvement in pearl's kidnapping and beheading his 3 kohak you were acquitted last year european powers have warned that iran is undermining hopes of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal by resuming 20 percent uranium enrichment iran today announced that production was ahead of target and rejected washington's call to comply with the agreed curbs tehran says the u.s. must 1st rejoin the pact which was abandoned by donald trump in 28. for adjusters have clashed with security forces in the lebanese city of tripoli for a 4th night

and the iranian president hassan rouhani says tehran would become would welcome the u.s. returning to the 2015 nuclear pact he added that donald trump's decision to withdraw and his aggressive policies of a sense have been a complete failure to lose that is immediate the ball is now in america's court and if they return and apply their commitments we will also conduct our commitments trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on its entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful. north korea's nuclear program is one of the major foreign policy issues facing the new u.s. administration washington's approach to dealing with pyongyang changed considerably during jarring donald trump's 4 years in office but that did little to get the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions. james bays reports. the usual a new submarine launch ballistic missile unveiled at a military parade in pyongyang further evidence that north korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and the missiles that could deliver them from your peers this despite

well president hassan rouhani has been holding his weekly cabinet meeting this morning and he didn't directly respond to the threats made but his chief of staff spoke following that meeting where he said that these are just empty words but iran does is not interested in starting any conflict but it will defend itself if need be the chief of staff for the president also said that this is the kind of rhetoric that is indicative of a desperate system after seeing their ally a strong ally former president u.s. president trying to leave office this is now their acts of desperation when they're talking in such a manner we heard also from the president he didn't specifically talk about the threat but he talked about where things stand with that nuclear agreement and what iran hopes they will receive in the coming weeks from the remaining signatories let's listen to what he had to say yet one whole year we waited and listen the europeans made promises which they either couldn't or wouldn't deliver on we then began putting aside some of our commitments and if they rejoin the deal will do so a

do we muslim population do you agree with the judges well you do agree yes iran's president hassan rouhani has called on the biden administration to return to the nuclear deal which trump withdrew from in 2018 it's also called the outgoing administration's iran policy a complete failure to embryos that is immediate the ball is now in america's court if they return and apply their commitments we will also our commitment trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on it's entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful. corona virus strain 1st detected in the u.k. has now been detected in at least 60 countries that 10 more countries than a week ago called into the world health organization it believes the new variant is up to 70 percent more infectious than the original strain the w.h.o. also announced the south african strain has been reported in $23.00 countries. russia's health watchdog has announced a 2nd coronavirus vaccine developed there is 100 percent effective russia began mass trials of corona in november it's made by siberia's vecto

conservative voice in the country had said that iran needs to take further steps president hassan rouhani did completely agree with it but it appears now he has actually decided to go ahead with this because legally he's bound to but the iranians have told the i am december 30th that he intended to do this but they hadn't given the time we understood it to mean that iran was giving the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden a grace period to see what he would do in terms of returning to the nuclear deal of 2015 before they took this step now it's important to note that iran was enriching at this level prior to that 2015 nuclear deal by about a western risler not a serious hurry for such as the prime minister benjamin netanyahu had to face i have to say about this. well he responded very soon art announcement came from tehran he said that iran's actions cannot be explained in any other way than the further realisation of its plans to develop a military nuclear program and this of course has been one of netanyahu as key focuses throughout his time in office since he came

reaction are we likely to get from the iranians well we're going to be hearing from the president hassan rouhani during his scheduled weekly cabinet meeting a. her on wednesday morning and he's likely to respond with the same kind of rhetoric that we've been hearing from iranian officials and that is that any kind of attack or hostilities towards iran we responded with similar measures iranian officials here and military officials have said over the past few weeks and iran is ready willing and able to defend itself against all enemies at forward this nuclear deal believe it or from the ring foreign minister mohammad javad zarif who is in moscow on tuesday he tweeted saying that there is no reason for iran to show goodwill to return to the nuclear deal of 2015 to return to full compliance he said why should iran do anything further is the united states who looks to from the deal they are the ones that have to take the next step and that iran will respond there is a bill that was passed in parliament here in early december. i called a plant strategic plan to lift sanctions and that has forced the

well the iranian president hassan rouhani says they would welcome the u.s. returning to the 2050 nuclear pact adding that donald trump's decision to withdraw and his aggressive policy sense have been a complete failure. embryo's that is immediate the ball is now in america's court and if they return and apply their commitments we will also conduct our commitments trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on his entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful let's bring in p.j. crowley who's a former deputy white house press secretary in united states assistant secretary of state for public affairs he's joining us from alexandria in virginia thanks for your time so we now know that the president biden will have his 1st call with a 1st foreign leader with canadian prime minister justin trudeau that will take place on friday and the white house press secretary said that joe biden's focus will be regaining america's seat at the global table how does the president go about doing the acts for i think even in 7 ho

well in the past few minutes theory me and president has some rouhani dismissed trump as a tyrant he called on the new administration to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal joe biden's pick for secretary of state anthony blinken has been addressing little east policy in front of a senate committee on iran lincoln wants to consult with israel and gulf allies to return to the 2015 nuclear deal he wants a longer and stronger agreement. lincoln says he recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel and the u.s. embassy will stay there he says he also wants to build on recent u.s. brokered normalization deals between israel the united arab emirates bahrain moroc oh and sudan blinken also reiterated biden's campaign pledge to end the u.s. support for the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen for more on this we're joined by al jazeera analyst of our good to have you with us so so far let's start with the overall picture here is this a u.s. administration there is going to focus now more on multilateralism the exact thing that the trumpet ministration tried to pull the u.s. away from. i think the b

with chinese scientists and others who've been on the ground working to contain the outbreak here in rouhani and she described their discussion so far as frank going forward though when they get out of their hotel today they don't have finalize plans yet but they do know that they'll be here in new han for at least a few weeks and as you mentioned they're studying 3 different theories firstly in 1000 perhaps 1st came from washington and that secondly they got a look into the market where the 1st $1000.00 plus 2 was identified and see how the pandemic 1st spread from that point and thirdly they're going to visit the institute. of calls for more you missed us president donald trump alleges that covered $1000.00 leaked from that lad and marion cribbins did confirm with us that they had been in talks with chinese scientists from that lab now so far she says the team are in good spirits looking forward to the rest of their mission but they have warn the public that this is the beginning of a very deep dive a very long investigation and to expect any conclusive findings after a few weeks would be

sentiment that more hear more in the coming hours we have a weekly cabinet meeting by president hassan rouhani the likely respond in similar manner and this is the kind of rhetoric we've heard over the past few weeks in general about a any kind of a threat either from israel or the united states before president biden took office they view here is that it was the united states who broke away from that nuclear deal and imposed a series of sanctions on iran and iran in turn has reduced its commitments slowly step by step and now they're at a point where they say they will not return to the deal unless they see some kind of a gesture from the united states and there was some hope that the biden administration would do that but that has yet to happen the iranians for their part the parliament has passed a law mandating the government to speed up the nuclear program and they have now given the united states till the end of february before they will limit access to i expect that known as additional protocol so that we no longer be surprised as it's to the nuclear sites of the feeling here is now the

and some seem to use the event for diplomatic ammunition iranian president hassan rouhani said it shows above all how fragile and vulnerable western democracy is in china the foreign ministry accuse countries of double standards for supporting protesters in hong kong while condemning the capital siege. alright let's bring in our guests in washington d.c. rena shah political advisor and founder of republican women for biden in atlanta jill cartwright activist and georgia state white organizer with southerners on new ground power and in doha jocelyn sage mitchell assistant professor at northwestern university welcome to the program jocelyn let me start with you today you heard a moment ago some of that international reaction that's been coming in regarding the events in the capital in washington d.c. yesterday you know countries like iran and germany and italy all reacting to what went on what does what happened in washington d.c. signify to the rest of the world and say about the state of american democracy right now. well thank you for having me and that's a great opening question well

has obtained videos smuggled out of china that show the earliest days of the covert 19 outbreak in rouhani they show police cracking down on journalists and hospital wards full of newly infected people. a security scare near the u.s. capitol building is tested washington d.c. has extensive lockdown and security operations a fire broke out a few blocks away forcing rehearsals for joe biden's an alteration to be banned. and at least 20 people have been killed in sudan south tough for region of the fighting between rival tribes in neighboring west stuff for more than a 100 died in violence on sunday. a russian court has ruled that opposition leader alexina valli be kept behind bars for the next 30 days he's faced a hearing the day after flying to moscow from germany where he spent 5 months recovering after being poisoned the judge ruled that by traveling to germany in about he had violated conditions requiring him to report to authorities over a previous criminal case the 44 year old was in a coma when he was flown to berlin in august or the valley is calling on his supporters to take to the

that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power now meanwhile iranian president hassan rouhani he said the chaos illustrates the privileges of america's democracy putting much of the blame on the sitting u.s. president what we saw last night and today in america demonstrates to failure of western democracy and reveals how fragile and weak is foundation is we saw what calamities a populace has imposed upon his own country over the past 4 years he's blemish the dignity and reputation of his country. and while the storming of the capitol forced lawmakers to actually take a recess and shelter in place halting the certification of the election the process was finished in the early hours of thursday morning making joe biden officially the president elect biden will assume office on the 20th of january interestingly markets the united states were relatively unfazed by the turmoil in washington with the dow closing wednesday at fresh record highs and following the news of the certification in the early morning hours world markets continued to rally into thursday with nearly every major