of being involved and promised revenge, deepening even further the long—standing tensions between shia irannd sunni arab states. james landale, bbc news. friends and admirers of ronnie corbett gathered at westminster abbey today to remember the entertainer who died last year at the age of 85. he was best known for his partnership with ronnie barker in the two ronnies. our arts correspondent david sillito was at the service. we're here to celebrate the life of ronnie corbett... name — ronald goliath corbett. laughter westminster abbey is a place for solemn state occasions. today, though, it was anything but. this was a celebration of a lifetime of laughter. it's a memorial but, uh... i might start laughing in westminster abbey, and i will not apologise! # happy feet... # a lot of people will be laughing and people crying, and my memory isjust laughs. these are friends and colleagues from the days of cabaret, the frost report, the two ronnies — 60 years of show—business memories. and inside — a certain easy chair, and behind it a very specific number of candles. four candles. no, fork 'andles

of being involved and promised revenge, deepening even further the long—standing tensions between shia iranates. james landale, bbc news. also making news this hour: south korea's military says north korea has fired a number of missiles off its east coast. it's believed the tests, fired from the coastal city of wonsan, were of land—to—ship missiles. they are the latest in a series of tests pyongyang has carried out in defiance of un sanctions. injapan, four workers at a nuclear research facility have been accidentally exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. the accident occurred when workers at the facility north of tokyo were checking on the storage of radioactive materials, and a bag containing radioactive dust split open. the workers are thought to have inhaled plutonium dust despite wearing protective clothing. a teenager has been killed during opposition protests against the government of president nicolas maduro in the venezuelan capital, caracas. witnesses said the seventeen year old was hit in the chest by a tear gas canister fired by a policeman at point blank range. britain's an

of being involved and promised revenge, deepening even further the long—standing tensions between shia iranates. james landale, bbc news. dalia dassa kaye is the director of the centre for middle east public policy and a senior political scientist at the rand corporation. she's in santa monica for us now. thank you very much for your time. this comes at a difficult time in the region, of course. yes absolutely. a tense time in the region. it comes in the context of a serious risk in the arab world and the gulf between the saudis and qataris with support from the iranians and growing tensions between the iranians and saudis, with the aftermath of donald trump's trip to saudi arabia in recent weeks. growing tensions between the two and growing concerns in iran it is being targeted by saudis and others in the region with backing from the us. a difficult time in terms of iran's domestic politics as well. absolutely. first of all, i think this is going to be viewed as a huge security failing domestically within iran, having an attack like this occur on its territory. islamic state is fighting in

of being involved and promised revenge, deepening even further the long—standing tensions between shia iranb states. james landale, bbc news. eight people are now known to have died in the london bridge attack on saturday night. police searching for a frenchman who went missing during the attack have found a body in the river thames. xavier thomas who was 45 had been in london with his girlfriend for the weekend. police have made three further arrests. ed thomas has this report. in the most darkest moments... returning to london bridge. the police officers who were the first to face the london attackers, and comfort the injured, here to lay flowers and remember those who died, in a city grateful for the bravery of officers like pc green. it is really important to have that support from the public and, you know, obviously, our thoughts are more so with the casualties and everything that happened here. and today, police searching for xavier thomas from france say they recovered a body from the thames. he was on holiday in london and his girlfriend. she's now in hospital seriously injured. and

of being involved and promised revenge, deepening even further the long—standing tensions between shia iranb states. james landale, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. south korea's military says north korea has fired a number of missiles off its east coast. it's believed the tests, fired from the coastal city of wonsan, were of land—to—ship missiles. they are the latest in a series of tests pyongyang has carried out in defiance of un sanctions. myanmar is mounting a big search operation for a missing military transport plane that's said to have disappeared over the andaman sea. reports say it was carrying 122 passengers and crew, most of them soldiers and their families. nations with the worst records on plastic pollution have promised to clea n plastic pollution have promised to clean up the rack in asia. —— their act. four workers at a nuclear research facility injapan have been accidentally exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. the accident occurred when workers were checking on the storage of radioactive materials, when a bag containing radioac

of being involved and promised revenge, deepening even further the long-standing tensions between shia iran and sunni arab states. james landale, bbc news. jane: the history of humanity might be getting a rewrite. the recent discovery of fossils and north africa indicate homo sapiens emerged earlier than previously thought. that is according to research that has just been published in the journal, "nature." reporter: the face of one of the first of our kind. more casts of bone fragments of the earliest known homo sapiens. the discovery of these fossils was presented in paris. they completely change the theory of how modern humans evolved. >> the common wisdom that there is probably some sort of vision -- some sort of garden of eden in sub-saharan africa 200,000 years ago is familiar to us, emerged rather rapidly. what the work in jebel irhoud has shown is that we have to push back in time much further. the age of the origin of our species. reporter: human remains in a ethiopia kenya, and tanzania , suggested that east africa from which the species first emerged 200,000 years ago. but the di

across the great islamic divide, sunni isis has been an historic foe of shia iran. tehran today, london, paris, manchester in the past weeks. as it fights for its diminishing hartland, isis has vowed it will strike its enemies at home. it may be a desperate tactic, scott, but it continues to claim victims. >> pelley: mark phillips in our london newsroom. mark, thank you and police in london today recovered a body from the thames river believed to be the eighth fatality from saturday's van and knife attack on london bridge. dozens were hurt. ten are still in critical condition. the police shot and killed three attackers. coming up on the "cbs evening news," the defense challenges the story told by bill cosby's accuser. and later, china looks not to washington but california to fight climate change. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ sfx: engine revving ♪ (silence) ♪ do yno, not really. head & shoulders? i knew that not the one you think you know the tri action formula cleans removing up to 100% of flakes protects and even moisturizes for sofia vergara hair you may sometimes suffer from a dry m

they have all accused it of supporting shia led iran, along with islamist extremists.verage by the doha—based al jazeera network. qatar strongly denies supporting terrorist groups. but saudi arabia's rulers, encouraged by president trump's recent visit to riyadh think qatar is not taking a tough enough stance against terror groups and shia—lead iran. the united arab emirates has warned qatar to change its behaviour or face isolation from its neighbours. the uae, together with saudi arabia and two other states, last week imposed unprecedented sanctions against qatar over its alleged support for terrorist groups. it's led to the worst crisis in the gulf region for decades. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet spoke to the uae‘s minister of state dr anwar gargash, and asked him how he thought this crisis could be resolved. the main ask is an acceptance by qatar that it has to change course in its support of what is an extremist jihadist terrorist agenda. it is true that qatar has long been accused of backing groups linked to al-qaeda, in conflicts like syria,

across the great islamic divide, isnni isis has been an historic foe of shia iran. s,hran today, london, paris, manchester in the past weeks. as it fights for its diminishing heartland, isis has vowed it will strike its enemies at home. it may be a desperate tactic, scott, but it continues to claim victims. >> pelley: mark phillips in our london newsroom. mark, thank you. and police in london today recovered a body from the thames river believed to be the eighth fatality from saturday's van and knife attack on london bridge. dozens were hurt. ten are still in critical itndition. the police shot and killed the three attackers. late today south korea's military said the north launched multiple ground-to-ship missiles, from its east coast. this latest test came as the head of the u.s. missile defense agency told congress that north korea's recent advances have caused him, "great concern." vice admiral james syring said his agency has to assume the north could hit the u.s. with an icbm. coming up on the "cbs evening news," the defense challenges the story told by bill c

they have all accused it of supporting shia led iran — along with islamist extremists.rage by the doha—based aljazeera network qatar strongly denies supporting terrorist groups but saudi arabia's rulers, encouraged by president trump's recent visit to riyadh think qatar is not taking a tough enough stance against terror groups and shia—lead iran. saudi arabia says if qatar wants normal relations with them, then qatar must act in their words a normal way towards them. saudi arabia, together with the uae and two other states last weeked imposed unprecedented sancitons qatar over its alleged support for terrorist groups. it has led to the worst crisis in the gulf region for decades. 0ur chief internional correspondent lyse dounce spoke to saudi arabia's foreign minister adel al—jubeir and asked him if pressuring qatar financially to get them to do what saudi arabia wants, amounted to bullying. they are one of the richest countries in the world. we want to send a powerful message is that if they want to have normal relations with as they must act in a normal way towards us.

side in the region-wide rift between shia iransunni saudi arabia. and syria's war is part of that rift. saudi arabia and iran back opposing sides in the sectarian conflict. while hezbollah's supporters in lebanon remain loyal, its popularity in sunni countries across the middle east, which had risen after the 2006 war with israel, has now plummeted. the group is now perceived as killing sunni civilians inside syria on iran's request. >> they very much played a role in the regime tactics to isolate, surround and starve out communities, the siege and ultimate fall of eastern aleppo had hezbollah's fingerprints all over it. >> reporter: but hezbollah claims it is fighting terrorists in syria and making sure they don't cross over into lebanon. >> ( translated ): our fighters are injured fighting terrorists and protecting our borders. they are protecting our people, our villages and our towns. >> reporter: however, for all it has lost in regional popularity, the group has become hugely strengthened militarily. and it is capitalizing on

across the great islamic divide, sunni isis has been a historic foe of shia iran. tehran today, london, paris, manchester in the last weeks. isis has vowed it will strike its enemies at home. it may be a desperate tactic, scott, but it continues to claim victims. >> mark phillips in our london newsroom, thank you. >>> and police in london today recovered a body from the thames river, believed to be the eighth fatality from saturday's van and knife attack on london bridge. dozens were hurt. ten are still in critical condition. the police shot and killed the three attackers. >>> coming up, a defense challenges the story told by bill cosby's accuser. >>> and later, china looks not to washington but california to fight climate change. not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega-3 power. introducing megared advanced triple absorption... it supports your heart, joints, brain, and eyes. and is absorbed by your body three times better. so one megared has more omega-3 power than three standard fish oil pills. new megared advanced triple absorption. with motionsense

leading a campaign against a fellow sunni muslim country they say are two supportive of rival shia muslim iran. qatar's foreign minister tells me know and understand how it came to this. >> what is shocking is the measures that have been taken, it was like a collective punishment from the countries in this region, by trying to block qatar and even blocking the people of qatar. james: they say you are far too close to iran, supporting a country sponsoring extremism and terrorism. >> we don't know what makes them thinking that we are doing this. we have taken our measures -- we have a relationship with iran, a normal relationship. we want a positive relationship with iran. we don't want to have an escalation with anyone. we want to resolve all of our conflicts by dialogue. james: but dialogue with iran is no part of donald trump's agenda. today he tweeted his full , backing of saudi-led punishment of qatar. during my recent trip to the middle east, i stated there can no longer be funding of radical ideology. leaders point to qatar. look!" he is accusing you in that tweet. >> regarding president

leading this campaign against a fellow sunni muslim country they say is too supportive of rival shia muslim iranit came to this. what is shocking is the measures which have been taken against qatar. it was like a collective punishment from three countries in this region, by trying to block qatar and even blocking the people of qatar. they say you're far too close to iran, that you're supporting a country which is sponsoring extremism and terrorism. well, actually, we don't know what makes them thinking that we are doing this. we have taken our measures with iran. we have a relationship with iran, a normal relationship. we want a positive relationship with iran. we don't want to have an escalation with anyone, not with iran. but we want to resolve all our conflicts by dialogue. but dialogue with iran is no part of donald trump's agenda. today, he tweeted his full backing for saudi—led punishment of qatar. "during my recent trip to the middle east, i stated that there can no longer be funding of radical ideology. leaders pointed to qatar — look!" so he seems to be pointing at you and accusing you

leading this campaign against a fellow sunni muslim country they say is too supportive of rival shia muslim iraname to this. what is shocking is the measures which have been taken against qatar. it was like a collective punishment from three countries in this region, by trying to block qatar and even blocking the people of qatar. they say you're far too close to iran, that you're supporting a country which is sponsoring extremism and terrorism. well actually, we don't know what makes them thinking that we are doing this. we have taken our measures with iran. we have a relationship with iran, a normal relationship. we want a positive relationship with iran. we don't want to have an escalation with anyone, not with iran. but we want to resolve all our conflicts by dialogue. but dialogue with iran is no part of donald trump's agenda. today, he tweeted his full backing for saudi—led punishment of qatar. so he seems to be pointing at you and accusing you in that tweet. actually, regarding president trump's tweet, we had a meeting directly with president trump, between him and his highness the emir, a

leading this campaign against a fellow sunni muslim country they say is too supportive of rival shia muslim iraneen taken against qatar. it was like a collective punishment from three countries in this region, by trying to block qatar and even blocking the people of qatar. they say you're far too close to iran, that you're supporting a country which is sponsoring extremism and terrorism. well actually, we don't know what makes them thinking that we are doing this. we have taken our measures with iran. we have a relationship with iran, a normal relationship. we want a positive relationship with iran. we don't want to have an escalation with anyone, not with iran. but we want to resolve all our conflicts by dialogue. but dialogue with iran is no part of donald trump's agenda. today, he tweeted his full backing for saudi—led punishment of qatar. so he seems to be pointing at you and accusing you in that tweet. actually, regarding president trump's tweet, we had a meeting directly with president trump, between him and his highness the emir, and he told us that there are some allegations about differ

they have all accused it of supporting shia—led iran, along with islamist extremists.eera network. qatar strongly denies supporting terrorist groups — but saudi arabia's rulers, encouraged by president trump's recent visit to riyadh, think qatar is not taking a tough enough stance. saudi arabia says if qatar wants normal relations with them, then the country must act — in their words — in a "normal" way towards them. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet spoke to saudi arabia's foreign minister and asked him if pressuring qatar financially amounted to bullying. they are one of the richest countries in the world. economic talk is not significant to them. we want to send a powerful message to our brothers in qatar that if they want to have normal relations with us they must act in a normal way towards us. nobody wants to harm qatar or the people, we also made that very clear but what we also made very clear is that we will not deal with you so long as these policies continue, and not allowing them over flights over our territories is our sovereign right, it s

if this information had come out from, say, iran or some of the shia militia groups in iraq, i would still treat it with a huge barrel of salt, but i would be more inclined to believe that version than the russian version of events. >> glor: speaking of the kill, we are coming up on the third anniversary of the declaration of the caliphate from baghdady. i guess this strike would have happened exactly one month before, may 28th, june 28th, 2014, was the declaration. he is and they are in a much different spot than three years ago. >> absolutely. they have lost most of the terrain that they at one point held. i would air view that i.s.i.s. surprised and impressed itself in 2014. they bit off more than they could choose, took huge swaths of territory, which i think is why their collapse has been more precipitous than we ants paid. but let's not confuse the shrinking expense in syria and iraq with diminished capability to strike in the west and conduct terror operations. the former headquarters of i.s.i.s.'s c.i.a., theirer foreign intelligence branch was retaken by turkey in a town cal

states to identify iran as the enemy and identify with the saudis and other sunni nations who believe the fight to the end and the middle east were in the gulf is about sunni versus shiand saudi plus versus iran? to interrupt one more time. obama thought it was important for the united states to be talking to both sides. here is a complete shift. and you think it is the right thing. mike: part of it. yes, i think it is appropriate to see iran as a significant strategic challenge to u.s. interests in the middle east. there is a long list of things that concern us. very quickly. they themselves conduct terrorism as a tool of state. they provide support to terrorist groups. charlie: where are they doing that, for the benefit of the audience? where are they conducting terrorism? through hezbollah? mike: themselves, the state of iran through the igc force. they conduct terrorism against israeli and jewish targets around the world and against their neighbors. it has been ongoing for a very long time. that is themselves, right? they are the only country in the world i think today practices terrorism as a tool of statecraft. secondly, they provide support to international ter

iran predominantly shia and the islamic state group is mostly sunni, so they have not been supporters up to this point in iran. give us a picture of the islamic state group's current strength or lack thereof in iran. >> while the fight between the islamic republic and isis is indeed sectarian, the islamic state doesn't have family support within iran, as you said. but iran is multiethnic, multireligious society and it does have a sunni population of its own. the sunni population has populations near the pakistani haser he dashed border that -- near the pakistani border -- in the kurdish areas in the northwest part of iran as well, there has been a history of violence and a lot of economic grievances and political grievances that could easily be capitalized on, and i think have been, but groups such as isis. effectwhat is the likely on public opinion, there is involvement in syria in its fight against the islamic state group. might this have an impact on public support for that? >> public support has been whining to a certain degree, just because of the high degree of iranian loss of l

that are fighting alongside the border in syria, certainly the shia forces that are engaged in syria. iran is everywhere throughout the middle east. the last seven years have been a disaster, allowing the iranians to expand all across that important reebgion. >> in your opinion, what is the greater threat, the islamic extremists of the sunni variety headquartered in raqqah and around the world or of hezbollah and iran and the shia extremism? what is more different? >> they're fundamentally different. one is a powerful nation state with wealth and resources and an organized government and an established piece of real estate upon which they have complete control. so from a long-term -- as a long-term threat to the united states of america, i would say that iran poses the longer challenge. but i always hesitate to rank order them. isis is an enormous risk to the united states today. and we have to do everything we can to defeat them. >> major changes in saudi arabia and the kingdom succession this week. did they surprise the united states? and are you comfortable with the relationship we have

forces struck, shia militia forces backed by iran, fighting for assad, because those forces were getting too close to a military base where u6789. is and british forces train opposition fielters to fight isis. so the u.s., it was the second time we have struck syrian government forces. first time was after the sarin attack. second time was last week. and then just yesterday, day before yesterday, the russians attacked western-backed, western-trained syrian opposition forces who are fighting isis because they were getting close to a shia militia group. so what is happening now is these forces used to be separated. now they are getting closer and closer and closer together. this is a growing risk and it is something that, that the pentagon needs to pay attention to. the state department needs to pay attention to, the situation room at the white house needs to pay great attention to. >> the risk is show you end up with somebody doing something that causeses the other person to react and then it comes spiraling out of control. >> escalation. >> that is how wars are started. >> thank you for

. >> from iran, i'm sorry. 30's they support -- provide support to shia insurgent groups in the middleast. yemen is a great example. in thelitant groups eastern provinces of saudi arabia. shia groups in bahrain. that support is intended to overthrow those sunni regimes. fourth is it is iranian state policy for the state of israel to disappear. it is iranian state policy for iran to become the head of power in the middle east calling shots, reestablish the persian to thein a similar way weight vladimir putin sees himself reestablishing the russian empire. and put the nuclear program on top of this. this is a country that poses a significant set of issues. charlie: notwithstanding the fact they just had an election and someone who might not be a moderate in our judgment but was more moderate than the other candidates. >> certainly more moderate than the hardliners. but this is not a moderate from our perspective. realize that this was an election, put every single candidate for president was approved by the supreme leader. this is not exactly open democracy. charlie: there were some they

against isis aided by coalition forces in iraq there's iraqi coalition forces that some are shia some looking towards iran but we're using those as allies that's in our interest so courtney let me ask you this how does this and syria has been engaged in this civil war civil conflict since twenty eleven far longer. anyone predicted is there a diplomatic solution or is this just going to be a fight to the death well it is a fight to the death and has been a fight it's not going to end with any bad news it's they're still going on but if you've ever been endure an airstrike which i hope you haven't been the sonic booms are enough to terrorize the population major jets u.s. fighter jets screaming over syria is not what anybody wants but they also want to see u.s. special forces how does it how does it add it and eventually first with isis that's the u.s. is goal to get rid of isis but then they have to figure out some to pull out a magic solution and it has to and you have to get into the table with the iranians you have to come to the table to the russians on the carries an easier way to use our secretary of

arabia now in january last year the saudi embassy in iran was actually set on fire amid a violent protests after the arab states executed a prominent shia cleric accusing him of terrorism now iran said its embassy in yemen was hit by a saudi air strike iran and saudi arabia support of course opposing sides in this civil war there now iran accuse saudi arabia of being behind the deadly terror attack that killed eighteen people into iran just two weeks ago saudi arabia denies the accusations and in the most recent development saudi arabia detained three iranian citizens claiming their members of iran's armed forces something iran has denied the official rhetoric between the two states has also repeatedly been tense . aggressive policies in the region seem to undermine security and spread strife and wars saudi arabia is a country where i don't think the word election has any meaning they've never seen a ballot box so it is kill the children and destroy the houses infrastructure and national resources of yemen this is a serious crime we would welcome the opportunity to see iraq act like a normal country to be a peaceful country to not inter

it could have been shia terrorists backed by iran but they could have been sunni terrorists. there was upheaval this week with the announcement of a new succession plan, a new king to be named who will have a mandate to really change the culture of saudi arabia because of the drop in the price of oil. there's a lot of internal turmoil, social turmoil in saudi arabia but also that continuing struggle between sunni and shia islam. >> could be some political motivation. we've seen an uptick of isis inspired attacks in the u.k. but they're losing ground elsewhere. if this attack was indeed isis, do you think it's a sign of desperation? >> it certainly is. you think about it right now, the fight that's going on out in eastern syria is shia and sunni islam coming together to squeeze is but this is really the beginning of the end. this battle will continue and the west will feel it in the frag pattern as the terrorists seek to hit out at either side of islam. >> all right, stevewashington, thanks for your analyses. >>> in london families evacuated from more than 600 apartments devas

. >> obviously iran is shia. that would be the opening of a new front.ery desperate organization that is desperate to convince people on the edge of gee haddism to join them. and isis is losing territory. they're frankly getting their butts kicked right now. when you try to recruit somebody, it's hard to convince them of that when you're losing. so they are trying to lash out to show we're still here, we're back. so i do expect there is going to be more attacks in different places. but this makes it even all the more important to keep prosecuting the fight against them and lib rat rocca. but we have to win the next generation, which is the 7 or 8 year olds that need to learn how to read and write, need to have opportunity because having people with opportunity denies isis the opportunity to recruit its next terrorists. >> okay. thank you very much. always great to have you on "new day". >> any time. take care. >> winning the peace, always so important. all right. we have big news for you, and it's not tragic. the top movie in the country, shattering reco

forces struck shia militia forces backed by iran, fighting for assad because those forces were getting too close to a military base where u.s. and british forces train opposition fighters to fight isis. u.s. -- it was the second time we've actually struck syrian government forces. second time was last week. the day before yesterday, the russians attacked western-backed, western-trained syrian opposition forces who are fighting isis because there are getting close to a shia militia group. what is happening now is these forces used to be separated and now they are getting closer and closer and closer together. this is a growing risk and something that the pentagon needs to pay attention to. the state department needs to pay attention to. the situation room in the white house needs to pay great attention to. charlie: and the risk is something causes another person to react and then it becomes spiraling how to control and that is how wars start. thank you for coming. michael morell, back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ ♪ charlie: christopher plummer is here. he is an oscar, tony, and award-wi

capital in tehran as part of a broader regional conflict between the sunni of isis and the shia of iran. they've been fighting not only in that part of the middle east, but in syria. >> the question is beyond the adversarial nature of their relationship, now that there's actual wli terrorism in the borderers of iran itself, the capital of iran, what retaliation might there be? >> the concern of u.s. officials is that iran would retaliate not just against isis elements, but against the saudi arabian government, a key u.s. partner in the region. this could be a spark that could ignite a major regional conflict. >> a lot of people watching this one closely. jeremy, thank you very much. >>> we've got dramatic new video to show you this morning of a brazen attack on police outside the famed notre dame cathedral in paris. the suspect armed with a hammer and knives shouting "this is for syria" before he was shot and wounded. nbc's keir simmons has that story. >> reporter: the attack, terrifying and sudden. the assailant armed with a hammer, launches at a police officer. the crowd panics in the

iran is back t asaad regime. that's where i conducting most of the attack. it's part of a broader set of regional tensions between the sunni of isis and the shia of iran. >> obviously they're adversaries as you point out, but then again, striking right in the heart of tehran, striking at the shrine outside tehran. what is the likely retaliation that isis or elements of isis might see? >> the concern is iran would retaliate against other sunni countries like saudi arabia in the region, and th could be the spark that could ignite a broader regional war. that's something u.s. officials will have to keep their eye on. >> thank you for that sryhi morning. >>> another major story. a slew of new developments around donald trump and the russia investigation. it's all happening one day before this explosive testimony on capitol hill tomorrow. there's a report today that then fbi director the attorney general jeff sessions to keep him from ever being alone with the president again. as for sessions, there's a new report this morning that he has offered to leave his post amid tension now with the president. peter alexander at the white house for us this morning. peter, lots to

iran from the last two elections? and second, do you see this as a shia and sunni war in the region? and finally, if president trump's recent visit in the region will change any poll change from the u.s. of bringing peace from the pad past administration to the new administration? >> those are three questions. >> three big ones. >> do you want to takive in these? i'll keep taking them. >> going on from the elections which i figure we would at some point talk about the elections. the recent election that's -- you have to remember the recent elections are within the very limited scope that iran allows for it's democratic expression if you want to call it that. and president as we all like -- he is a man of the system. i look at him as someone that is trying to keep this regime this system going. because he recognizes and i think the supreme leader agrees with him on this that there's a lot that's not quite working with the government as it is. i think they recognize certain things need to be tweaked or changed. but i think fundamentally he is looking for ways to move forward. and even

when i look at what president trump is faced with, iran has really established the shia powerhouse iniddle east now with the isis and everything that is happening through the the levant. and i think what president trump is looking at is there is this relationship building between several arabic nations to fight back against the iran influence. and if he does the tel aviv to jerusalem move it would fracture that. so i think that's the real issue he's facing. >> also throw the prospects of a peace deal out the window. thank you. >> how are marketing reacting to the possibility the president will leave the parties climate deal? we're joined for a look at the opening bell. >> hi, guys. fascinating conversation there. it looks like this president is out of step with business on this paris climate change deal. look, this morning if you woke up in washington, d.c., the papers were full of ads signals out the president, asking him to stay in the deal. this was signed by 25 ceos at the end of what has been a personal process of outreach to the president about the climate change deal. they want

there are the other challenges, iran is the main challenge. it is about the shiahey rejected to come in. do you know that the only sunni party today ready to spend money on the palestinian issue is qatar? the saudis didn't spend a dollar. the egyptians you can talk with... seriously, they are not ready to invest in the palestinian issue! it might be easy if trump can convince them and we would be more than happy... you don't see a watershed moment of diplomatic opportunity for israel. what you see is more of the same. more of the status quo. i will ask you a final question. what is your vision of where israel is a generation from now, 25 years from now? with the political separation, which is a positive outcome of oslo, i am not afraid for democracy. the gazans are not going to vote in the knesset and i don't want a bilateral state, so palestinians who live in the west bank... they enjoy their own political independence, they don't have to vote to the knesset. this is the reality on the ground today. we should not keep it as the status quo and improve it from the

headed by the united states, backed by russia and the jews, embedded by iran and the bigoted term jihad is used to describe all shiain essence the groups that claim , now to be fighting isis, albeit isis, non-muslims, isis presents them as the mortal enemy of all muslims. if you are a kid who's angry at western foreign-policy, it is very easy to get access from this kind of information of propaganda. it's true twitter accounts get taken off-line, youtube videos get taken off-line, but these guys have gone to ground more than just physically. they are using whatsapp, they used telegrams encrypted , messaging. jeff: it is interesting when they try to confirm whether the something like this is true or not, they look to social media. michael: of course. funnily enough, the russian ministry of defense, in the first few months of their intervention in syria, they produced videos that we hit isis in such and such location at such and such time. and then you had open source friends in groups debunk these videos, saying you provided evidence to produce what you just said. we located this video and this terrain and 100 miles