tom ackerman reports from washington. two days after the massacre by a lone gunman firing hundreds of rounds a minute president donald trump was avoiding the issue of tighter restrictions on gun charges about. once a proponent of gun control candidate trump won the backing of the national rifle association by promising to make gun ownership even easier a promise he's repeated since entering the white house as your president i will never ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms never. each time a mass shooting happens forty nine killed in orlando last year thirty three killed at virginia tech university in two thousand and seven twenty seven at a primary school in connecticut in two thousand and twelve the call goes out to tighten regulation of guns especially in curbing access by the mentally ill this problem of mass execution. is a uniquely american problem despite the fact there's no evidence that we have a higher rate of mental illness than any other country but in february signed legislation that

tom ackerman reports from washington. two days after the massacre by a lone gunman firing hundreds of rounds a minute president donald trump was avoiding the issue of tighter restrictions on guns we started about. once a proponent of gun control candidate trump won the backing of the national rifle association by promising to make gun ownership even easier a promise he's repeated since entering the white house as your president i will never ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms never. each time a mass shooting happens forty nine killed in orlando last year thirty three killed at virginia tech university in two thousand and seven twenty seven at a primary school in connecticut in two thousand and twelve the call goes out to tighten regulation of guns especially in curbing access by the mentally ill this problem of mass execution. is a uniquely american problem despite the fact there's no evidence that we have a higher rate of mental illness than any other country but in february signed legislation

harassment harvey weinstein's being accused of decades of inappropriate behavior towards women tom ackerman reports. harvey weinstein one fame fortune and academy awards by being one of hollywood's most daring film producers but within days of a new york times report chronicling his alleged misconduct with women weinstein was fired by the company that bears his name weinstein issued a blanket apology for his behavior since then more women have come forward to recount their experiences with weinstein all of them unpleasant and he immediately . exposed himself and that you know began pleasuring himself and i just stood there dumbfounded at the scandalous show in the spotlight on what used to be known in hollywood as the casting couch for powerful figures exploited those below them in the industry many of hollywood's biggest names have remained silent since the scandal broke but meryl streep was among the first of the industry's elite to condemn weinstein's long rumored offenses saying the behavior is inexcusable but the abuse of power familiar women of hollywood are not alone more and more wo

his thinking in his speech that tentatively set for early next week ok thank you for that update tom ackerman in washington d.c. here is early yet and i who is a policy fellow for the middle east north africa program at the european council on foreign relations joining us from istanbul to talk about this one the thing i always think about early is that this was a deal signed by six nations plus iran just because the u.s. pulls out a looks like it will pull that that surely doesn't mean the end of the deal entirely well this is certainly a point that u.s. allies in europe have been making consistently both with the trumpet ministration and the u.s. congress this is a multilateral deal and one party cannot break it by walking away alone and neither can one party unilaterally even if we negotiate the deal so this is yet another. action by the trumpet ministration that is really diluting the standing of the u.s. within the international community and what does it do for iran i mean if the idea of sanctions or if the idea of u.s. sanctions comes back what i know we're crystal ball gazing about wha

unless they're actually planning to move there well for more we can speak to tom ackerman who is in our washington bureau so tom this just literally broke what in the past five ten minutes or so what else do we know. well this apparently represents a further ratcheting up of the tense relations between the united states and turkey and specifically the government of president air two on the specific circumstances the united states just a couple of days ago had protested the arrest of a local of what they described as a local employee of their consulate in istanbul the foreign minister of turkey a couple of days ago had described this arrest as due to part of the dragnet against alleged. plotters plotting to overthrow the government there particularly members of the movement and this man was accused is identified only as empty and he was accused of being a member of that group the the embassy denied absolutely that he had any ties to the girl and it's and just as background the turkish government has since donald trump's accession to the white house has repeatedly petitioned for extraditi

harassment harvey weinstein is being accused of decades of inappropriate behavior towards women tom ackerman reports. harvey weinstein one frame fortune and academy awards by being one of hollywood's most daring film producers but within days of a new york times report chronicling his alleged misconduct with women weinstein was fired by the company that bears his name weinstein issued a blanket apology for his behavior since then more women have come forward to recount their experiences with weinstein all of them unpleasant and he immediately . exposed himself and. but you know began pleasuring himself and i just stood there dumbfounded at the scandalous show in the spotlight on what used to be known in hollywood as the casting couch for powerful figures exploited those below them in the industry many of hollywood's biggest names have remained silent since the scandal broke but meryl streep was among the first of the industry's elite to condemn weinstein's long rumored offenses saying the behavior is inexcusable but the abuse of power familiar the women of hollywood are not alone more and mo

tom ackerman reports. in typical style the u.s. president heightened suspense over the fate of the landmark nuclear deal with iran when he posed with senior military officials cryptically he said maybe it's the calm before the storm donald trump wouldn't explain whether he was referring to iran but again he made clear his distaste for what he's condemned as an embarrassing deal made by his predecessor barack obama we must put an end to iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement as to the letter of the deal his administration has twice certified to the u.s. congress that iran is fundamentally complying with the terms earlier this week defense secretary james mattis said holding iran to it was in america's security interest i believe at this point in time absent indications to the contrary it is something the president should consider staying with but if he does refuse to certify it donald trump could force congress to make the next move it has sixty days to review its op

the president makes his announcement next week a few days before the resort of occasion deadline tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. so it's a calm we report from a refugee camp in the democratic republic of congo where thousands of burned dns have sought refuge and a hundred sixty art galleries all under the same roof showcasing the best of london's free. hello the weather is improving again from melbourne having had a cold day fronts going through the sun's come out now you can see sort of a string of frontal it's way to new zealand it's when it gets new zealand things start to pick up so for australia bit of a breeze bit of rain maybe for adelaide but the reason northerly so temperatures are rising again twenty in melbourne supposed to thirteen twenty three in adelaide yes admittedly the skies will not be blue they will be wet and that rains generally speaking moving eastwards through camber towards sydney probably not into brisbane but there's to temperatures still say around the twenty mark which tends to be perth with a southerly been at sixteen or seventeen for a couple days largely su

the president makes his announcement next week a few days before the resort of occasion deadline tom ackerman al-jazeera washington post and i had an al-jazeera also suchi won the nobel peace prize in one thousand nine hundred one but is minimized leaders still worthy of the owner. and one hundred sixty odd galleries all under one roof we showcase the best of london's frieze art fair. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. have the heavy rain that was falling in southwest a chopstick the high and i was moved westward so it'll probably be a wet day in north korea now but the trend is for that rain to become lighter for the cloud to disappear for hong kong to come back into the sunshine and study photographs which is compatible with a good part of central and southern china even up in sichuan to go a long way north of where you pick up what is now once again developing rain but of course the rainy season should be coming in to malaysia and indonesia and it is more or less this is a daytime pictures and you see over land of the temperature rises showers fall but they quite

congress to weaken restrictions on the purchase of guns silencers and armor piercing ammunition tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. the death toll from hurricane in parts of rico has now climbed to thirty four the news comes as the white house says it's preparing a twenty nine billion dollars disaster aid request for congress after hurricane struck by to rico texas and florida present visit in puerto rico two weeks after the island was hit by the powerful storm some officials there including the mare of the capital san juan have strongly criticized u.s. relief she reports from san juan. it's clear that donald trump has made up his mind about the success of his administration's relief efforts in puerto rico during a self-congratulatory event shortly after landing the president praised the military to local officials and members of his cabinet for the emergency response i'm suggested that the crisis in puerto rico wasn't as bad as the aftermath of other hurricane disaster if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people

with tools tom ackerman is in washington for us tom what's your sense as to what mr trump is going to do. well actually he knows for sure the president is given to what might be called mercurial impulses and so we don't know for sure he does have a speech tentatively scheduled for sometime next week shortly before the or on or before the next certification date now his administration twice has already certified the deal as having been as iran having been in compliance but as you heard his statement last night that the united states believes that it is not a lived up to the spirit of the agreement and by that they mean things like encouraging the proxy groups like hezbollah or other. activities that the united states such as ballistic missile development which are outside the framework of the actual treaty now again this treaty was never never put before the u.s. congress so by certifying or refusing to certify it he is basically throwing the ball into the court of the u.s. congress and as you explained they have sixty days in which to reimpose order or continue the sanctions lifting p

president makes his announcement next week a few days before the resort of occasion deadlines tom ackerman al jazeera washington the american civil liberties union is suing the trumpet ministration after it rolled back measures on birth control guidance issued by the attorney general just sessions will allow employers to exempt themselves from providing health insurance to their employees that covers contraceptives the document is aimed at protecting religious freedom c.l.d. human nor suit has been filed in san francisco federal court it claims that change would be unconstitutional or for more on this diane estabrook joins me now from washington diane just give me a real sort of explanation as to why the union is quite so angry and wants to bring this lawsuit. well the a.c.l.u. says that this could be a huge setback for women's reproductive rights now keep in mind before obamacare most many many health insurance plans didn't cover birth control or women who had insurance had to pay high co-pays for birth control for contraception under obamacare that went away most people were covered most

congress to weaken restrictions on the purchase of guns silencers and armor piercing ammunition tom ackerman al-jazeera washington the french parliament has voted to adopt a controversial antiterrorism bill that grants security forces sweeping powers police and intelligence agencies with us given the extra powers under france's state of emergency those measures will now become permanent critics say the law harms civil rights the authorities say it's vital in the fight against terrorism that reports. a majority of m.p.'s passed the new counter-terrorism law that incorporates many of the special powers given to the police under the state of emergency the interior minister says it's a way of combating an ongoing threat we. are still in. even if i saw my have suffered some military defeats more than two hundred people have been killed in attacks in france in the past two years in mass a people pay tribute to the latest victims two women killed in the city's train station on sunday under the new law police can raid homes and arrest suspects without warrants and place people under house arrest wit

they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement to speak to our desires correspondent tom ackerman live in washington and thomas is looking pretty certain now but the president will decertify the deal. well it's not certain and we must point out that there are advisers to the president in the white house and close to him including defense secretary james mattis who publicly just a few days ago said that it is in the interest of the united states in the interest of the united states and its security interests to keep to the agreement so in the face of that if trump says that he is ignoring those advisors and saying that. that is more important that the united states see that iran abides by the spirit what he calls the spirit of the agreement rather than the letter of the agreement that in fact it looks clear that that will be the decision of congress to decide what the next step will be what step that will be it's a good question some of his allies on capitol hill say that their real objective is to force iran to go back to the negotiating table and expand its its mandate or rather