let's read the tweet that mohammed java and zarif posted a short time ago. he says, terrorists noted an eminent iranian scientist today, this cowardice with serious indications of an israeli role. he says, show what he describes desperate warmongering of perpetrate as a run around calls on the international community, especially the e.u. to ends their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. another senior official, the chief of staff of the iranian military, tweeted a short time ago that we assure you we will not stop prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of this assassination of soccer is a day who he described as a motto carried, thanks for that. and i'd like to bringing that now where cornelius other bar that he is with the german council on foreign relations and an expert on iran, a very good day sir. what do you make of these developments? well, this is something that had to be sheer, it this falls right into the transition period in the united states. we will see president trump walk out of office in january and it's becomi

iran's outraged foreign minister terad zarif tweeted the attack javad zarif tweeted the attack was an of state ter was an act of state terror and saying there are serious indications of israeli involvement. and while he offered no evidence, israel has long been suspected in the assassinations of other iranian nuclear scientists. the israeli government has yet to respond, but in april, 2018, prime minister benjamin netanyahu mentioned fakhrizadeh in a news conference accusing iran of lying about its nuclear ambitions. >> remember that name-- fakhrizadeh. >> reporter: whoever killed the scientist, it's likely to escalate tensions between tehran and washington. earlier this month, president trump apparently asked military aides about possible options against iran's nuclear program, but is said to have decided against it at the time. the concern now is this situation could escalate, with iranian leadership vowing to retaliate. now tz tyab, cbs news, london. >> brennan: now to the holiday shopping season getting underway tonight. the pandemic has made this black thiday unlike any other, wi

and we heard foreign minister zarif who is one of the there running foreign minister said only a few days ago. that would be very easy to return to the iran deal and that america knew what it had to do. and so for that, of course, both sides are insisting that the other make most of the adjustments. and that'll be, you know, it's not going to be easy because so much has changed over the last 40 years, the trump administration, because iran has many reasons to trust, distrust the united states. but at the same time, there's a lot of pressure for a deal. the united states and president biden in his administration are not going to want to get into a military confrontation with iran in its lunacy for the united states to get into another war in the middle east particularly. well, the country is powerful, is iran and, and secondly, iran needs to get out of sanctions. iran has to move forward. iranian people are fed up their poor, the currency has collapsed. we have about 70 iranian students in our university, and they can't pay their bills. it's a terrible situation and that's just the ti

that's right, he is mohammad javad zarif. he is calling it an act of state tara he tweeted, in the last few minutes, terrorists murdered an imminent threat iranian scientists today. this cowardice with serious indications of an israeli role, as you mentioned, showing disparate warmongering of perpetrate is. zarif goes on to say that iran calls on the international community, especially the european union, to end what he says, a shameful double standards and condemn the act of state terror. that's from the foreign minister. what do we know about the scientist? he was a leading nuclear and missile scientists, and he was someone that was called the father of the iranian bomb intelligence agents. agencies in the west say that he was someone that my master minded, the secret nuclear weapons program, that agencies believe iran was developing. we have to also say iran has always denied ever trying to create a nuclear bomb. it says its nuclear activities peaceful. but the un's nuclear watchdog believes that he lives this coordinated

foreign minister zarif tweeted -- "a sincere message to our neighbors -- trump's gone in 70 days. but we'll remain here forever. betting on outsiders to provide security is never a good gamble. we extend our hand to our neighbors for dialog to resolve differences. only together can we build a better future for all." axios, which reported the possible sanctions, said the trump administration hopes the move will make it harder for joe biden's administration to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, which trump unilaterally withdrew from. in cancÚn, mexico, at leastwo local reporters were wounded after police opened fire against a crowd of people protesting femicides and violence against women. protests erupted across the state of quintana roo monday after the body of 20-year-old bianca alejandrina lorenzana, known as alexis, was found earlier in the day. she had been missing all weekend after leaving her home to work. at least a dozen other femicides have been reported in the state of quintana roo this year. on average, 10 women are murdered in mexico every day according to mexican officials

president elect joe biden lifts sanctions, javid zarif told iranian media that biden could safely lift sanctions by signing 3 executive orders. automatic and junction, one theme can be done automatically. america will implement its commitments as part of the un security council resolution. and we would fulfill our commitments in the g, c p. o, and this needs no negotiation or conditions and it's feasible. i got a strong if mr. biden becomes president he'd be capable of lifting all sanctions. if he doesn't, it means he doesn't want to. ethiopia, the government says to ground forces are destroying bridges in an attempt to stop the military's advance to their main city. now this week, prime minister announced what he called a final offensive to end the conflict in the region. police in germany have fired water cannon at protesters in berlin. thousands of people have gathered in the capital to protest coronavirus restrictions. now it comes as the parliament is debating laws that would allow the government to impose coronavirus measures. critics say it gives the government too much power. w

. >> reporter: iran's foreign minister javad zarif has called the killing an act of state terror. accusing israel of being behind it. although tonight, neither although tonight, neither israel nor the pentagon is commenting. israel was widely blamed for four other assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists between 2010 and 2012. fakhrizadeh's killing comes as concerns grow over iran's uranium enrichment activity. that was what the now severely weakened iran nuclear deal, from which president trump withdrew, was meant to halt. >> james joining us now from london. joe biden has signaled his administration would rejoin the nuclear agreement with iran. but any iranian retaliation could complicate that. >> reporter: that's right. tonight, iran is already vowing revenge. this puts president-elect biden in an awkward position. because the middle east is already in a attention situation. this pushes the situation there further to the edge just before he takes office. >> james, thanks so much. >>> now to the yearlong abc news investigation into the crashes of the boeing 737 max jets. the

jawad zarif is pointing the finger at israel and also he is demanding international attention. terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. this cowardice with serious indications of this really rule show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. iran calls on the international community and especially you to end their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. well, so far there has been no response from israel and truly at this point, we cannot make any conclusions about possible connections between this murder and also the rhetoric that we have been hearing from israeli officials on iran's nuclear activities. but the fact is that 2 years ago and $28.00 taking the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called up the name of the murdered scientist and accused him not only of being behind the alleged military element of iran's nuclear program years ago. but also he accused them of continuing to covertly run the program up until present times. remember the main focus of the so here's this director writer and uses the generally name is to announ

well, 1st of all we heard from the foreign minister, zarif, who is making it clear that tehran only treats this as a terrorist attack. once again, he's calling it an act of state. terror towards a reef is also pointing the finger at israel and is saying that this case demands serious international attention. terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. this cowardice with serious indications of israeli role show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. iran calls on international community and especially you see and their shameful double standards and condemn this act of state terror. israel though, has not responded so far and at this point, surely, we cannot make any conclusions about possible connections between this murder and also the rhetoric that we kept hearing from israeli officials for when it comes to the nuclear activities in iran. but the fact is that 2 years ago in 2008 thing, benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel, called out the name of that scientist. accusing him not only of being behind the alleged nuclear weapons program in the past, but also accus

the country's foreign minister zarif has tweeted there were serious indications of an israeli role in the attack. israel has not commented on the if at a country road in the heart of iran, transformed into a scene of horror. the images are too graphic for us to show body parts live in a bloody end to a controversial life top scientists must suffer because the day perished here. in what seems like a targeted attack. the conquering him was shot at and about 15 seconds later. and the sound pickup truck loaded with explosives blew off about 15 to 20 meters away from its cars. but the inflicted wounds on him that led to his mosque state made you describe him as an imminent nuclear scientist. but he was also a member of the powerful revolutionary god, whose job is to preserve the country's cleric dominated system. this is a refined o.p.m. with other senior officials making the country supreme leader indicating just how powerful a role he played in tehran was father of the program because he was running this program, which as you know, is part of an international dispute. it's this role that

iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif, has condemned the killing "as an act of state terror".or us. hello there. friday was a decidedly chilly day, particularly in those places where fog lingered to. the weekend promises something just a little bit milder, but it will often be quite cloudy, that cloud at times will produce the odd spot of rain and some quite murky conditions as well. low pressure to the southwest, high pressure to the east of us, that is driving a fairly gentle southerly flow across the british isles. you can see a few different weather fronts moving through bringing some patchy rain, but with that southerly flow we are importing some slightly milder air. we've still got some pretty chilly conditions, though, across the northern half of the uk, and a frost to start off across the far north of england. parts of northern ireland and scotland, a bit of fog through the central belt. any rain and scotland becoming increasingly confined to the far north, but at the same time this big lump of cloud pushing up from the south across much of england and wales producing

but i think that speech by zarif met the degree of criticism him back in iran. fall saying that larry from is an old friend of biden, knows him quite well from his time when he was in new york and feels as a personal chemistry. but i don't think that that's really likely to take it very far. and at the moment, washington is putting on its new sanctions. they promised sanctions every week. but what's different, what's important about these sanctions is that these are not sanctions on the nuclear issues. these are making inskeep type sanctions. i think she is dealing with human rights violations and both of them out of but not the nuclear issues and closer to god. i have my sanctions by the german ministration, of course. neither of the ministration tone drunk, of course, believes the we won the election, but a bit damp. so who is going to win? and just he explained, so are israel or as you, we believe israel when it says that it's destroying iranian targets in syria and, and wine. why is there be no so-called, mainstream media reporting of ass strikes on the capi

come out that could have come from outside iran, for example, the iranian foreign minister, jawad zarif. he has already said that there are, quote, unquote, serious indications of israeli role in this. and we do have to come back to what was said by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu 2 years ago and 2018 when he specifically named that scientist and called him the man behind the alleged iranian nuclear weapons program member. the main focus of the so here's right here. and he says, the generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activity is you know what that is a special look to will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments. and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. it continued this work in a series of organizations over the years. well, we do have to remember also that it's been knowledge by the international atomic energy agency that the iranian nuclear program is intended only for peaceful purposes. but accusations have been coming from israel all along that they still suspect that something could be cooking

iran's foreign ministerjavad zarif was quick to point the finger at israel. he tweeted. ..r trita parsi is an iran expert with the nonpartisan think—tank, the quincy institute for responsible statescraft. he told me who he believes is behind the assassination. well, i think obviously there is no clear evidence at this point but israel is the most likely culprit here because the combination of political intent and capacity to do this really reduces the list to only two countries — the united states and israel. and bibi netanyahu has a clear interest in this. if the iranians respond, he may get the war that he's been trying to start for more than a decade. if they don't, still, it will really damage the prospects for renewed diplomacy under biden. but it's also unlikely however, i think it's important to point out that if israel is behind it that it would do so without some form of at least a tacit green light from the trump administration. ok, so why would israel be targeting him in particular if that is indeed the case? well, remember in 2018, when the israelis had done a r

foreign minister javad zarif was quick to lay the blame. he said in a tweet, the killing had serious indication of israeli involvement, but presented no evidence. this really prime minister had named fact result in 2018 as the director of iran's nuclear weapons program. a key part of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work. this is how dr. morse, in fact, is the head of project about put it. remember the name for his? so here's his director right here. and he says, the generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activities. you know what that is? special activity will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments previous assassinations of 4 ring and scientists between 201-2012 have also been blamed on israel. with u.s. officials briefing the press about his rating involvement. so based on the background briefings to the press, there is very strong reason to suspect both israeli and possibly even u.s. involvement. given the very public pronouncements of u.s. officials that they

we're hearing from the iranian leadership because so short time ago, the foreign minister mohammad zarif posted this tweet, he had to say, terrorists and eminent iranian scientists today, he calls it cowardice. and he says there are serious indications of an israeli role he says, is, quote, to disrupt war mongering of perpetrate is. iran is calling on the international community, especially the european union to end their shameful double standards. and he contends this act of state tara, another authority, the chief of staff of the iranian military tweeted, as well, we assure you we want to stop prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of this is asinine. and he just goes on to describe it as a motto. thank you for the we can get more from a better band, the tele blues, senior from the foundation for defense of democracy. that's a progress around the think tank. welcome to d. w. iran's foreign minister is blaming israel. what do you think? well, great to be with you as the earlier package you aired mentions no foreign power has taken credit for the killing of these other body. and, but

this was the iranian foreign minister, jawad zarif, again making it clear that the iranian officials see this as a terrorist attack and also instantly pointing the finger at israel in this case. now again, to put this into perspective, we have to remember the words of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. because 2 years ago he was talking about this particular person alleging that he was behind the military wing of the arabian nuclear program. something else that needs and he always said was that despite assurances by the authorities in tehran that they know law, they were no longer involved in any kind of military activity. when it comes to their nuclear program, the israelis believed that they proceeded with that. and here's a part of the speech by any minute in the whole, in which we heard these words. remember the main focus of the. so here's the generally is to announce the closure project. but then the special activities, you know, we're going to use special work to be carried out under the title of scientific know how developed and in fact, this is exactly what iran

iranian officials, including the foreign minister mohammad javad, zarif suspect israel was behind the attack, but haven't provided evidence. the u.s. actually general antonio, the terrorists has restraint it to go at 1st. the car carrying him was shot at about 15 seconds later. i mistimed pickup truck that was loaded with explosives blasted about 15 to 20 meters away from his call, inflicting wounds on him that led to his death. said fayed has more on this from tahrir on. the defense minister said to me has been speaking and now he has shed some more light. on the incident, he said the gunman opened fire around 10 to 15 seconds later a bomb exploded, which was on back on the back of a truck and then the gunfire. continued there was an exchange of gunfire, not too of most in fuckers are these gods were injured. he was also injured. he was taken to hospital but died a short while later. now we're also hearing from falls news agency, which is the 7th official news agency here that one of the gods was also killed in our other top stories ethiopia's government denies the prime minister has

we also heard considerable anger from foreign minister zarif and the european union issued a statement saying that all parties should show restraint and again, calling on iran to show restraint and said it's shameful that no one's condemning terrorism and yet asking for restraint. so we're still waiting to see what iran's response will be. yes, there is considerable anger and calls on the establishment here to do something in tehran. we'll talk to you again later on as we wait for this funeral ceremony to begin for iran's top nuclear scientist sasson ated on friday. his funeral due to happen today. monday on to other news and a day after ethiopia's prime minister claimed victory in the to grow region leaders of the to ground forces. so they shot down a military plane and captured the pilot. the t.p.a. left told reuters the pilot was on a mission to bomb the area when the plane was shot down in fighting the government troops there for 3 weeks and say they've retaken the northern town of oxen. meanwhile, state media says at least 70 graves have been found in the ticket in town of matter

iranian officials, including the foreign minister mohammad javad, zarif suspect israel is behind the attack, but haven't provided evidence. the u.s. actually general antonio, the terrorist has restraint it today or hold to homilies.

they later died in hospital iranian officials, including the foreign minister mohammad javad, zarif suspect israel was behind the attack. they've not provided any evidence. a military commander has promised to retaliate. iran previously expressed concern that u.s. president donald trump would try to punish the country before he leaves office in january. it to go or hold.

iranian foreign minister, zarif has described the killing as murder and said, terrorists are responsible. he says there are indications of israel playing a role. although he did not provide any evidence of that, israel has refused to comment. let's go straight away to as a break in tehran, and i said, beginning to be able to piece together what took place here. what more do we know? well the confirmation came via the defense ministry in a statement now they said that he must in fact result. they came under attack alongside his guards by terrorists. he was seriously injured. taken to hospital and medics were unable to save his life and he died today. now they gave their condolences to the supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini, and the nation know some of the news outlets hair, the semi official ones have given a bit more detail. they said that there were signs of an explosion, an exchange of gunfire. they also said 3 or 4 assailants were killed in that exchange. now another news agency linked to the revolutionary guard. they said that a truck was used to block his car. that truck then explod

iranian officials, including the foreign minister mohammad javad, zarif suspect israel was behind the attack, but they have not provided any evidence. a military commander promised to retaliate . iran previously expressed concern that u.s. president donald trump will try to punish the country before he leaves office in january almost in fact, there was a professor of physics at the a mama say in university, a former head of the physics research center. and a senior scientist at the iranian ministry of defense, weston and israeli intelligence claim, he was the man in charge of project ahmad, which they say was iran's attempt to build a nuclear bomb. but iran denies ever having tried to develop a nuclear weapon report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog. the i.a.e.a. identified him as playing a key role in work to develop nuclear technology is also believed to retain links to iran's revolutionary guards. he was subject to a un security council asset freeze because the council says iran refused to make him available for an interview with the international atomic energy agency. we're going to ha