nuclear sanctions on the a rainy and regime. president trump aim to put what he called maximum pressure on iran this included the toughest economic sanctions imposed so fond by the u.s. . but the kid really from said he wanted to try to bring iran to the negotiating table. negotiate promptly also a music row terry of state pompei o then gave iran a list of 12 demands that would serve as preconditions for the talks you want to negotiate sure you see the condition and i go but those conditions were completely one sided. and so harsh that it would have been suicidal for iran to accept off it says you see do you see or don't do you didn't see that go on the one hand trump wanted to scrap the original agreement even though iran was playing by its rules at the same time he wanted to negotiate a new deal that would cover not only iran's nuclear program but also iran's policies in the middle east and its arsenal of police to. trump completely misread the situation on the ground for us more namea to have only. been was out here a year ka

sanctions. system mrs ebadi it's a diabolical system the us president can choose 5 sanctions from a list of 12 but no one knows which 5 some of the mood be deadly for a company like to a town for example trump could ban us from using the american financial system. he said yes if an international company like total can't issue bonds denominated in dollars we'd be in big trouble. could also stop americans from buying shares in total right now about 30 percent of our shares are owned by american citizens because these sanctions demonstrate the power of american capitalism because the u.s. can impose its will on. international companies. are. multinational corporations pulled back from contracts they'd signed with iran the sanctions also made life hard for ordinary iranians these measures extended even to imports of medicines and medical equipment. supplies of pharmaceuticals from europe dropped sharply. to some iranians then when the alternatives. here i need this medicine for my wife's chemotherap

nuclear sanctions on the uranium regime. president trump aimed to put what he called maximum pressure on iran this included the toughest economic sanctions imposed so far by the u.s. . from said he wanted to try to bring iran to the negotiating table. to negotiate promptly also means secretary of state pompei o then gave iran a list of 12 demands that would serve as preconditions for the talks if you want to negotiate sure you see the condition and i go but those conditions were completely one sided. and so harsh that it would have been suicidal for iran to accept the offer to. don't go didn't go look on the one hand trump wanted to scrap the original agreement even though iran was playing by its rules at the same time he wanted to negotiate a new deal that would cover not only iran's nuclear program but also iran's policies in the middle east and its arsenal of ballistic missiles from completely misread the situation where the office morning. on iraq. so. far all. karol motto my. mil let him on him all gather. in may 2019 t

schick us that there are cracks in the wall of sanctions the u.s. is gradually losing international support. we'll just continue to focus on our domestic production capability. since ayatollah ruhollah khomeini came to power in 1979 the us has imposed sanctions on iran several times the 1st of these measures was ordered by president jimmy carter after university students seized the u.s. embassy in november 1979 and held 52 diplomats and civilian workers hostage. who the united. will you the hostages were held for 444 days until january 981 relations between iran's new government and the united states could not have got off to a worst start. the u.s. soon froze about $12000000000.00 in iranian assets and american sanctions made it difficult for iran to buy food spare parts and medical products overseas in 1905 president clinton impose new sanctions and these were a new job by the bush administration. washington accused iran of using the revolutionary guard corps to promote terrorism in the middle east the u.s. said the guard supplied weapons to and t

sanctions would stop being implemented in the coming weeks with the main thrust of the sanctions kept for later in march of next year so i think they stay despite our game as to who is going to blink 1st but clearly the president back home has managed to rally. a large majority of the e.u. member states behind him and behind his claim that turkey's activities in the eastern media turn and i'm no longer acceptable so we will have to see how other one is going to manage that i think there was a clear intention on the e.u. side to have some briefing space between now and march meaning to wait for the new u.s. administration to come in and to see whether it's going to indeed lean towards ankara and try to kind of cool things off you sir if you look at turkey right now as we speak they're stretching their capabilities of the extent that they are involved in libya the east mediterranean the syrian conflict they have problems with the with they too with the americans they have their own economic problems isn't this the moment of reckoning for president earlier than to say you know what drugs

sanctions against tehran the n.p.p. continue to engage in this activity even after they were being told by their own lawyers that the conduct was illegal the nature and scope of b.n.p. ps criminal conduct far exceeded that in any previous criminal sanctions case that's been resolved by the department of justice today's nearly $9000000000.00 penalty represents the staggering total volume of provable criminal conduct on b.n.p. as part. the iran nuclear deal generated a lot of opposition in the u.s. powerful lobbying groups like united against nuclear iran kept trying to block its implementation their primary concern was that iran would use the agreement to secretly develop nuclear weapons you arnie keeps track of companies that do business with iran and puts pressure on them to stop. i had a theory that we could engage in an economic war for. instead of using soldiers and bullets to try to use pen and ink to convince a regime to shame its behavior not only for the benefit of the united states but for france and the irania

treasury has today impose more sanctions against iranian individuals and companies . and nigerian security forces are rescued at least 15 students kidnapped in the northern state of cut scene and hundreds were taken on friday from a boarding school in concord a city the government is being accused of not being open about the number of children abducted. the u.s. health system is being strained under the pressure of the pandemic intensive care units have been running out of beds in at least one state mississippi and there were fewer than $100.00 available in los angeles county home to millions of people his rope reynolds. in california and across the u.s. the coded 900 numbers are staggering in los angeles county population 10000000 there were fewer than 100 intensive care unit beds available on tuesday in some areas like the central valley and counties east of los angeles there are 0 i.c.u. beds left more people will die because the whole system is that well statewide more than 42000 cases of covert 19 were reported on monday breaking all previous single day records w

sanctions that continue to be promoted by the iranian regime. under our laws a general license is in place today that allows medical devices to be exported from the united states to the iranian people the united states has a great respect for the people of iran and does not think to prevent them from accessing medical supplies or care. president troublous committed just supporting the people of iran and hopes one day for a better future between our 2 peoples you can say that humanitarian trade is exempted it is but when the owner of probably 90 plus percent of the foreign exchange in iran are available to iran is the central bank which can't be used for that trade now it's hard to say that trade can happen and so that's that's been a particular failing of trump administration's policy is both kind of the. the steps taken to close off those areas that are available for that kind of trade and the kind of unwillingness of the administration and its officials to support that trade and it's been a real problem it makes life for the ordinary iranians

sanctions.efined president says the action is an attack on his country's rights. how will this play out? this is inside story. ♪ >> welcome to the program. it has been battered with u.s. sanctions over the deployment of russian defense weapons. turkey has said it is evaluating appropriate action for what it considers a hostile attack. on, has insisted it will not rollback its missile system. turkey's military agency has had authorizations banned by the u.s. the organization's top officials will face asset freezes and visa restrictions. the delayed move comes as president-elect joe biden prepared to take office and it is expected to increase tensions between washington. the turkish president says sanctions going to stop his country from building up its defenses. >> from our nato ally the united states, we expect support in our battle against tourist -- against terrorist organizations, not sanctions. we are never a country that chases after conflict with its neighbors. we are fighting for the pros

sanctions so i think we should not underestimate the weight of the sanctions and the fed that they have been written by the u.s. congress this is not a white house executive order which can be changed with one pen this is been voted by the u.s. congress and would be quite difficult to undo so i do think that biden will have both leverage and something pretty difficult to undo unless and on these winning to give assurances that he will somehow realign with some of the u.s. interests and that i think there is some optimism at the ones response to the u.s. sanctions was 'd for his own stand out pretty much. use of the the the turkish establishment has been saying for quite some time is very simple which all the americas we would like to have petra systems we didn't get any answer from the americas and therefore we went for the russians for the $400.00 that's not what the americans are saying they saying this is completely wrong this is not what exactly happened between turkey under and the u.s. . ok let me remind you that turkey requested from united states that and said that he's ready to

sanctions against tehran the n.p.p. continue to engage in this activity even after they were being told by their own lawyers that the conduct was illegal the nature and scope of b.n.p. peace criminal conduct far exceeded that in any previous criminal sanctions case that's been resolved by the department of justice today's nearly $9000000000.00 penalty represents the staggering total volume of provable criminal conduct on b.n.p. is part. of the iran nuclear deal generated a lot of opposition in the us powerful lobbying groups like united against nuclear iran kept trying to block its implementation their primary concern was that iran would use the agreement to secretly develop nuclear weapons you want me keeps track of companies that do business with iran and puts pressure on them to stop. i had a theory that we could engage in economic war for. instead of using soldiers and bullets to try to use pen and ink to convince the regime to shame its be able not only for the benefit of the united states but for france and the ir

schick us that there are cracks in the wall of sanctions the u.s. is gradually losing international support. we'll just continue to focus on our domestic production capability. since ayatollah ruhollah khomeini came to power in 1979 the us has imposed sanctions on iran several times the 1st of these measures was ordered by president jimmy carter after university students seized the u.s. embassy in november 1979 and held 52 diplomats and civilian workers hostage. who the united. you the hostages were held for 444 days until january 981 relations between iran's new government and the united states could not have got off to a worse start. the u.s. soon froze about $12000000000.00 in iranian assets and american sanctions made it difficult for iran to buy food spare parts and medical products overseas in 1905 president clinton impose new sanctions and these were a new job by the bush administration. washington accused iran of using the revolutionary guard corps to promote terrorism in the middle east the u.s. said the guard supplied weapons to and traini

and european sanctions.ut the united states, the eu, and many latin american countries say they will not recognize the new parliament. maduro plans to ask the new assembly to a point special -- tell -- to appoint special commission to try enemies of the state, especially opposition leader, juan guaido. but that could bring on more international reprisals. >> i think it would be better for maduro to leave guaido alone and play cat and mouse with him. grab him by the tail and let him go. what will the world see? an opposition leader who once had 61% support, and now has half of that and losing more by the day. reporter: guaido has been recognized as venezuela's interim president by more than 50 countries. but his legitimacy has rested on being the elected leader of the national assembly. >> come january, when the new legislature is sworn in, the opposition will lose the only state institution it controlled, destroying what critics regarded as less remnant of democracy in venezuela. al jazeera. imran: in 2019,

sanctions brought the german russian project to a halt u.s. argues the pipeline is meant to isolate ukraine and divide the e.u. on saturday its ambassador to germany robin quintile repeated calls for germany to end the $1000000000.00 project. work is underway once again on the north stream 2 pipeline german authorities have given the go ahead for the russian ship academic cesky to lay another 2.6 kilometers of pipe by the end of the year but that is nowhere near enough to complete the project a total of 160 kilometers still have to be laid. only then with the underwater pipeline be ready allowing russian state owned company gazprom to deliver siberian gas directly. to germany. for that the u.s. has been watching developments with alarm late last week american lawmakers added measures against the baltic sea pipeline to the annual defense budget these provide for tighten sanctions against companies that certify or ensure the pipeline or that support the north stream to with products facilities or services. the text in the defense bill would gran

the sanctions are that to prevent iran developing. a nuclear weapon that's what washington is saying at least do you think that toxic has been working . i mean don't think that that watch is with anyone in the international community today and be fair that the various you are an official us as well as the human rights organizations that day and just and i might also say illegal u.s. sanctions have seriously how you know man's ability to combat this and then make as you know you don't use one of the a.p. centers. call me 19 in the region we don't want a 1000000 infected 50000 which is you know. 5 times the numbering iraq and 10 times those of sodium arabia and the u.s. is that out. any use will your arms access to money and goods that's done everything possible he does with an ice or with $19.00 you wanted to undermine data and government therefore basically looking at it as an opportunity rather than a calm one challenge that needs to be tackled by the. international community and this has serious international implications and defy t

to sanction non- syrians under that sanction act given by reason of bicameral support and the full implication and implementation how can this administration and then next administration to more fully utilize. >> thank you mr. chairman. concerning the question of non-yrians and targeting them under the caesar act we certainly will extend that desiation in the future because we agree with you and understand the intent to supply the assad regime from international support i will sathe caesar act had a remarkable chilling effect of those outside syriaight otherwise have restored relations with the assad regime to do business with the assad regime so the caesar act has been successful in designating a large active so far and we have been surprised by tha. and other words with the increased international economic relations andhe dog that did not bark considering the question to make designations and to be honest there is nlarger purpose behind that. with the state department and the treasury department and the intelligenc community we carry ouour designations with specific targets using the most ef

sanctions impede efforts to buy doses from the web. so we begin in russia where nearly released data indicates the actual number of coronavirus related deaths could be much higher than earlier reported according to official figures more than 35000 people died in november alone that is a 55 percent increase in mortality from the year before meanwhile in the u.k. scientists there say stricter lockdowns baby needed next month and the pushing for secondary schools to stay closed but a government minister says the expected approval of another vaccine could see restrictions lifted more quickly india has started a dry run of its vaccination program to test its transport and cold storage facilities that's as a country recorded its lowest number of daily infections in nearly 6 months i mean while iran is beginning human trials of a locally produced vaccine after successful tests on animals terran has had trouble securing other drugs because of sanctions on its banking sector. or let's start off with those figures from russia alexandra got for j

and european sanctions but the united states the e.u. and many latin american countries say they won't recognize the new parliament. plans to ask the new assembly to appoint a special commission to try enemies of the state especially opposition you know one by go but that could bring on more international reprisals declare. i think it would be better from a juror to leave quite a alone. and play cat and mouse with him grab him by the tail and let him go what will the world see an opposition leader who once had 61 percent support and now has half of that and is losing more by the day. my dog has been recognized it when israel is interim president by more than 50 countries but his legitimacy has rested on being the elected leader of the national assembly. come january when the new legislature is sworn in the opposition will lose the only state institution it controlled destroying would predict to god as the national remnant of democracy in venezuela. you see in human al-jazeera in 2019 declared himself interim president claiming the duros

is sanctioning p.r.c. tech firms c e e e c for enabling the majority regimes efforts to undermine democracy in venezuela their support to restrict internet service and conduct digital surveillance against political opponents is robbing venezuelans of a democratic future while the us has unsuccessfully attempted to install venezuelan politician want guy go as ruler of the country venezuela's president nicolas maduro continues to remain in power and his government is recognized by the united nations as well as backed by cuba russia and china meanwhile china is criticizing the u.s. move against the company from that country saying that not only is it an attempt to interrupt business between 2 sovereign nations but it is also illegal the may find the relevant actions of the united states are purely a pretext to suppress relevant enterprises in venezuela and china and china urges the u.s. to abide by international law and the basic norms of international relations to take concrete actions to correct mistakes an

sanctions this is a scuppering its efforts to access a vaccine. thanks for joining us here in the russian capital this is r.t. . the pandemics grip is tightening on germany where hospitals are warning the civilian overstretched the number of patients in intensive care is up 40 percent compared with the spring while every single german state is now deemed to be officially at risk these are all of the reports. german hopes for a loosening of code restrictions over the christmas period look in doubt as cases of the virus remain high across the country on sunday the state. became the final region to be categorized as an at risk area meaning the whole country is now in the highest risk level according to the scale used by germany's public health authority the robert cock institute in the south the state of bavaria declared a continuation of a state of emergency is blocked by the fact remains that the numbers is simply too high the figures must come down to the health system because it's already a threat it's not just the number of people who have coron

sanctions. a very good morning to you from our team here in moscow you're watching aussie international with me the carol. u.s. . intellects joe biden's invited donald trump to his inauguration claiming it will give a positive sign that the post-election chaos is ending but it's unclear whether the millions who still think victory was stolen from trump think this move will heal the divisions. no. charms the poor design still coming out chanting stop the deal and fighting multiple irregularities that's despite officials in swing state georgia saying a 2nd recount should confirm biden is the winner aussies don't quarter looks at how the reputation of u.s. elections as a whole may be starting to get a little tarnished. is only about a month left until the big transition of power in the white house and yet it looks like the battle for the presidency is not yet over this may be the most important speech i've ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter

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fabricated accusations against journalists of 2 russian news agencies charged with violating you sanctions . broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is art international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the turkish president has lashed out at his french counterpart claiming he is a burden to his country and should step down this represents a new low in relations between eta one and and comes as paris looks to crack down on radical islam following a wave of terrorism in france. kron is a burden on us and france are going through a very dangerous period actually my hope is that france gets rid of this mccraw in trouble as soon as possible well the spat between the turkish president at the one in france has been deepening for some time now you will remember that last week the french senate adopted a non binding resolution in which they officially recognize the independence of nagorno karabakh and they called for as a big shiny forces to need only in the war on terror treaties that had been captured in the disputed territory from september the 27th they're also

bad lie -- battle against terrorist organizations, not sanctions.e are never a country that chases conflict or tensions with neighbors or any other. we are fighting for the prosperity of our entire region and the world. the situation doesn't mean we will remain silent against our rights, laws and sovereignty being trampled, just like we don't want anyone's rights. we won't allow anyone to take our rights. >> robert hunter is the former u.s. ambassador to nato and joins me live from washington. good to have you with us on the program. the u.s. is angry about the relationship turkey and russia developed, more so after turkey's purchase in 2019. are these sanctions imposed by the u.s. going to have any effect on turkey? >> it is hard to say. i think in terms of the military sanctions being imposed, they are less than what congress has mandated and in the longer term, it might have some impact on turkish capabilities. it is more of a signal, to say to mr. erdogan that as a nato ally, if we are all going to be nato allies facing a lot of common threats,

sanctions that continue to be promoted by the iranian regime. under our laws a general license is in place today that allows medical devices to be exported from the united states to the iranian people the united states has a great respect for the people of iran and does not think to prevent them from accessing medical supplies or care. president troublous committed just supporting the people of iran and hopes one day for a better future between our 2 peoples you can say that humanitarian trade is exempted it is but when the owner of probably 90 plus percent of the foreign exchange in iran are available to iran is the central bank which can't be used for that trade now it's hard to say that that trade can happen and so that's that's been a particular failing of trump and ministrations policy is both kind of the. steps taken to close off those areas that are available for that kind of trade and the kind of unwillingness of the administration and its officials to support that trade and it's been a real problem it makes life for the ordinary iranian

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have ever appeared on the sanctions list so that's what we have for now. ok let's get more on the story now with our martin summers he's an independent journalist and joins us good afternoon to you martin what do you make of this story because on the face of it it does look like these journalists are being punished for what their boss supposedly has or has not done well i mean it's only going low level harassment visitors and they obvious thing questions you ask is why now these sanctions have been in place since 2040 and of course there's a long going war of sanctions if you like with with the escalated rhetoric around what's happened with the election of our own so the question with question is why have they done this no and of course the the war the question is is it legitimate to use sanctions as a means of preventing the alternative use that you don't like and of course at the most extreme we saw that in the news for you slowly with the bombing of the serbian national t.v. station or the missiles that were used to take out we all just 0 offices in kab

sanctions that were personal sanctions minute mind you that were imposed on the seal off russia's. news agency dmitry tursunov now they accused the journalist and they're called exist certainly outrage and mind you this is a criminal and. they are being persecuted for working with russian media outlets now the crackdown itself on these russian speaking latvian journalists had all of the intimidating attributes such as searches in their homes in their offices which were followed by really long interrogations with some of them lasting as long as 8 hours also of course their personal property and professional equipment was confiscated i'm talking about computers bank cards and all of that in the end the journalists were asked not to leave the country and sign a non-disclosure agreement let's see what would think had to say about that. the long term citizens that are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil with news agency according to a lot of you know the thrown into stone of the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed

sanctions from cos that have has more to temps. over now at the moment is that they've been accused of violating personal european union sanctions against the c.e.o. of russia's the receipt of the news agency any tricky still for now the russian foreign ministry they have already reacted to what's happening in riga and they said that latvia's crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of the u. . sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the foreign ministry said that the e.u. restrictions are all of a personal nature against mr gissin and they cannot apply to just about everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are under his management and they consider the aggressive actions of. security service a blatant example of violating the foundations for democratic society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the use of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations you would think a crackdown on dissent overt violation of the fundamental

announces new sanctions against china but the world's 2nd largest economy may be a chance to hit the reset button with the incoming fight at the ministry as we go to break your the numbers are for. the so. and that's connection from almost the last and ask for the last 70 and seeing and on the rest of the that's probably true but the commission sued. branch and schuster. does in the. legion mom. and i know you are so set on the open much to me mamma says that our. russian state television is on the demonstrators right now the propaganda machine. is always you are showing us. miracle. koku. i'm killing of. the boy. lead. china's government it's ready to hit reset and its relationship with the united states this as a trumpet ministration continues to hit government leaders with a fresh round of sanctions beijing says that we are a historical moment between the 2 countries meanwhile the u.s. state department announced new sanctions against 14 officials on china's top legislature the national people's congress standing committee over a national security law imposed on the financial hub o

on iran obama call them crippling sanctions these are the same sanctions that impose them brutal sanctions so while obama wanted to brutalize iranian women and children trample rot wanted to do the same thing. so. there's no real difference in the way in which they project us power and on the other hand while trying to murder general solar money as you correctly pointed out the person who was. most important in the fight against isis and the defeat of isis it was the obama regime that initiated the war in syria they they were key to the rise of al qaeda in ice is through their regional allies such as turkey tatar so you're abia the israelis we know from the 2012 defense intelligence agency document that the united states knew its allies were supporting the extremists between syria and iraq and we know from general since interview on al-jazeera the united states to a local decision to support this and we also know from jack solomon in his email to hillary clinton in february 2012 that it made it that al qaeda is on our side in syria so there's no real difference in the way in which obama an

sanctions. from supporters rally against what they call regs results and new witness testimony suggests they may have a point. the ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times i know. with a return address. files.

accusations against journalists have to be russia affiliated media sites charged with violating sanctions. also this hour nazi is pfizer proposed. in the u.k. and seeks approval in the united states his c.e.o. admits we still don't know if those who take the job will transmit the virus. from supporters stepped forward to cost them what they are calling a rigged presidential election we hear some of the latest testament i guess. is the ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times i know as with return addresses for thousands and accusations of massive mainstream media bias against the tapes of c.n.n. briefings leaked. i've been on these calls there's no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges. oh good afternoon just gone for moscow you watching international employees of russia affiliated news agencies. have been released from interrogations on condition that they will not leave latvia that after the journalists were charged with violating the sanctions. that the. all we know at the moment is that they've been accused of violati