victims of the iranian regime of the iranian people. we will continue to expose the regime's corrupt monopolies, malign activities, crooked self dealings and outright oppression. in his triptary did he will continue to engage with the iranian diaspora. the goal is a conference of call the iran that addresses destabilizing behavior. we ask the islamic republic to behave like a normal country so it can enjoy the privileges of a normal country. with regard to ms. soles, this -- withturning to the regard to ms. soles, the development of -- with regard to on the programs for allowing the regime to develop an political rate ballistic missiles is a failed policy that the world cannot continue. it is time for nations to join us holding i ran to a new level of accountability for its destructive behavior. thank you. [applause] >> the world community wants to keep iran nuclear deal. our allies. the germans. the deal.to keep the world community wants to keep the deal. let's talk about normal countries. what's talk saudi arabia. is that who our alli

actions, and we continue to say that the longest suffering victims of the iranian regime are the iranian people. we will continue to expose the regime's corrupt monopolies, maligned activities, crooked self-dealings and outright oppression. as the secretary did with his trip to the reagan library, he will continue to engage with the iranian government. we ask the islamic republic to behave like a normal country so that it can enjoy the privileges of a normal country. with regard to missiles, this means returning to the pre-iran nuclear deal consensus. iran's nuclear proliferation and development of ballistic missiles must be addressed together, not separately. placing temporary limits on iran's nuclear program, while allowing the regime to develop and proliferate ballistic missiles, is a failed policy that the world cannot continue. it is time for all nations to join us in holding iran to a new level of accountability for its destructive behavior, especially islamics' pursuit of ballistic missiles. thank you. >> the world community wants to keep iran. the germans, the french, the british

when you the iranian regime to change its behavior. if they're willing to do that, there is a very bright future in store but we need to see that behavior change first. >> it is worth noting that after the jcpoa was implemented and there was sanctions relief, the iranian government did not spend it on their own economy and helping their own people. terrorism continued and the iranian people saw that. the kinds of protests we are seeing now are different in the green revolution. you are seeing it across all different socioeconomic statuses in iran. it seemed different that it is against the regime itself including those there. it is remarkable thing that is happening. >> it is. >> the last question has been asked multiple times. what is the possibility for high-ranking meetings between the united states government and the iranians? >> i met with the iranian deputy foreign minister on the margins of the joint commission meeting i presented him with a list of americans who are being unjustly detained inside of iran. i said these people ha

the iranian people saw that. the kinds of protests in the are different w from the green revolution in that you're seeing it across all demographics and socioeconomic status in iran. it is different. is against the regime itself. a remarkable thing that's happening right now in iran. >> it is. ask this n i have to question. it's my last question. people want to know here what is he possibility for some high ranking meetings between the united states government and the government? and what are the prospects there? iranian deputyhe minister in vienna a number of when we were still in the iran deal. of esented him with a list americans who are being unjustly detained inside of iran. i said these people have suffered long enough and they need to be let go. hmi conversation at the time. the president and secretary have made clear that we are ready those tiate and to have discussions. i think the ayatolla and the and the foreign minister have all indicated they're not interested in talking. that's their position. we re

policies have done to the iranian economy and so what iranian leaders are likely to be doing in meetings at the u.n. now is to be discussing weight is that their european partners and russia and china the remaining signatories to the twenty fifty nuclear deal can help them to repair their country's economy certainly there's been many moral victories the rhetoric coming out of other signatories all of the international support for the nuclear deal and for iran to stick with it all of that's been good for iran in terms of giving it moral victories but in terms of practical impact on the ground to help sustain its economy that really hasn't helped them much there hasn't been enough activity to help. build confidence for investors and banks and large companies to keep doing business with iran and that's had a drastic effect on the value of iran's currency as well as its overall economy and as far as the iranian delegation is concerns and i guess they're well aware of the reality and it's this the u.k. france germany openly at all with donald trump over his withdrawal from the iran nuclear de

if what they actually want is peace on their terms and to rid yemen of any iranian influence. no no this is not true i mean the piece the terms of the united nations resolution twenty two sixteen end of story and this is very clear why not the united nation or mr griffiths you know what cards to implement this your united nations resolution twenty two sixteen and the stand of the legitimate so you know governments and the allied forces i mean the. coalition that a coalition is ok the who you are not allowed to be in a two to control the whole yemen you are. a minority or you are in a part of the me yemenis people so if you want to get involved in the in the political process you're most welcome but as a military as a militia ok as a militia armed by iran that their sole enemy of the out of snow this is not accepted. the arabs allied forces they will not accept at all that the who thing will become like cause by law in lebanon or the militias in iraq no way no way they want not accept that at all so it's very clear if you want to do if you want to make peace if you are you know

the iranian regime has a choice to make. either come to the table to resolve these issues do diplomatically or face unrelenting economic pressure. if we see the fundamental desire changes in behavior, only then will we consider easing the pressure of sanctions. turning to north korea, are severe economic pressure continues in his gilded the outcome of the first meeting between a north korean leader and the u.s. president. the trump administration is committed to working towards a complete verifiable irreversible at the nuclear is north korea. secretary pompeo has been unwavering commitment to this result. the administration has the number of sanctions authorities that apply to the dp arcade. these authorities limit access to technology and equipment that could be used to support its wmd and missile programs and hold the regime accountable for its widespread human rights abuses. we have urged all united nations member states to take firm action and applying pressure to the dp arcade. international solidarity and continued pre

saying that he was having illegal meetings with iranian s in an attemptr' to coach the iranians on how to toughernd your policies. i'm wondering if you share the view that these meetings are illegal. whether you do or not, if you have noticed in your attempts to get with europeans on board with the new u.s. policy, that efforts by secretary kerry or any other former official is interfering or undermining your efforts. sec. pompeo: what secretary kerry has done is unprecedented. this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror, according to him, you don't have to take my word for it. these are his answers. he was telling them to wait out this administration. you can't find president for this in u.s. history. secretary kerry ought not to engage in that kind of behavior. it is inconsistent with what foreign policy in the united states is as directed by this president. it is beyond inappropriate for him to be engaged with this. i saw him in munich. at the security conference, he was there with secretary moneys and wendy sherman. i am confident th

as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism the iranians are accused of intensifying many conflicts especially in afghanistan. iraq lebanon and yemen and continued backing for militias such as hezbollah the us government says hezbollah fighters base in lebanon have gone from strength to strength emboldened by their battlefield experience in syria and the americans accuse iran of undermining legitimate governments and american interests in the middle east the report details a worsening of war in afghanistan and coordinated attacks by the taliban and its affiliated hakani network someone launched from pakistan which provoked the us to recently cut three hundred million dollars in security eight let's take a look at the report other findings the u.s. state department says there were about eight thousand five hundred what it caused terrorist attacks around the world last year the task killed eighteen thousand seven hundred people there americans attribute the twenty five percent year on year four in the number of deaths to victories against eisel and improved security in iraq despite th

as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism the iranians are accused of intensifying many conflicts especially in afghanistan. iraq lebanon and yemen and continued backing for militias such as hezbollah the us government says hezbollah fighters base in lebanon have gone from strength to strength emboldened by their battlefield experience in syria and the americans accuse iran of undermining legitimate governments and american interests in the middle east the report details a worsening of war in afghanistan and coordinated attacks by the taliban and its affiliated hakani network someone launched from pakistan which provoked the us to recently cut three hundred million dollars in security eight let's take a look at the report other findings the u.s. state department says there were about eight thousand five hundred what it caused terrorist attacks around the world last year the task killed eighteen thousand seven hundred people there america's attribute the twenty five percent year on year four in the number of deaths to victories against eisel and improved security in iraq despite th

protests to storm the iranian consulates in made ongoing if a corruption and full public census. this is out zero live from london also coming up in the program. civilians protests and while turkey's president warns of a bloodbath as he discusses the fate of the syrian province with the leaders of russia the wrong. stopping of a far right presidential candidate throws brazil's election deeper into chaos. and long queues a starbucks opens its first store in italy but it's already facing an official complaint from the challenging. seven iran has reportedly closed its border crossing with iraq after protests to storm the iranian consulate in the southern iraqi city of basra assessing the light them straight as are angry at what they see as a radian influence in the region it's the latest escalation following weeks of deadly protests triggered by a lack of basic services and deep dissatisfaction with the government on friday one more protest to die and taking the death toll since monday to twelve ism heywood. to being a day of tension tolman a sing and dance the uranium consonant on

mission of the iranian consulate in basra and said that the government the authorities there in buster had to find out who was responsible and punish them to the maximum extent of the law now he also at that same time last night some in the iraqi ambassador to tehran to protest the attack officially and in person now the foreign ministry of foreign ministry spokesman also pointed out that this was an attempt part of overt and covert attempts to drive a wedge between the friendly relations of the government of iraq and iran and at the same time he said that even though there may have been there may have been. events outside of the control of the government going on in basra he said it was a failure of the iraqi government that was unable to use its police force and buster to protect an iranian diplomatic mission and he said it was a failure of the government to fulfill a pledge that they had made to the iranian mission to make sure that state protected now a parliament is also taken note of this the commission the parliamentary commission on foreign policy and national security has take

and mr add on because the iranians want the extremists to be put under pressure with without bloodshed so now that the turkish government is going to be under pressure to deal with al-qaeda which unfortunately they've been supporting in the past so the israelis by bombing northern syria they're actually bombing those areas that were that that have nothing to do with their so-called border and they've been i think trying to support al qaida and through these attacks that they've been carrying out over the past few days now the russian minister of defense has said what happened was the israeli jets had flown behind the russian plane in order to create friendly fire in order for the syrian air defenses to shoot down the russian plane now the aisle twenty which is the russian plane is let's launcher and and slower than israel's f. sixteen c. think it could have been used on path to as it's a sitting duck waiting to be used. well i think one of them russian military and the russian air force make such a statement obviously it must be true because they're the experts and they definitely knew

quite a number of differences and for russia itself iranian excessive presence in syria is also quite challenging because it puts a trace for both. syria government regardless of whether stays or a transition period. you know is over and then another person is in power anyways access for running a presence in syria would bother israel united states europeans and turkey all other activists concerned but on the other hand it's. everyone should understand that iran running presence in syria was there before two thousand and seven definitely it has increased its presence military economic cultural humanitarian during this seventy years of wars and of course it's on the realistic to talk about complete withdrawal of iran from there so i think that would be also one of the major challenges for moscow to come to terms with iran of how the what will be the limits of iranian presence in syria after the war is over if there washes off the iranians in the near future to limit their presence in iran because this is a prerequisite by the international community by the israelis in particular would

he made that clear to the iranian leadership today. i think iran was also a very big part of this speech, a very tough message sent to the iranian regime, designed as well directly to appeal to the iranian people who are increasingly standing up to their own dictatorship there. melissa: ambassador, that is where he took it next. he said, look at a the iranians. they are bad neighbors. they are not respecting borders around them. they don't respect their neighbors and they don't respect their own people to say the very least. that they're robbing their own people of the money that they need to sustain themselves. and that it is really as advocates of their people as well that we all need to get up together and stand up against the iranian power. did he make that argument in your mind? >> he did. i think, in the past the argument has been made the nuclear issue and what iran does in the neighborhood in terms of intervening or threatening its neighbors in the region, that those are separate issues. i think what he has done sort of brought

claimed responsibility but the iranians have a different take talking about regional terrorists. on the attack and how iran might respond also on the grid the times i mean ferry disaster incredibly two days after the sinking a person has been rescued alive. this is very much the exception the death toll is now close to two hundred and correspondent malcolm webb this kind of disaster is nothing new to the region and on the tiny indian ocean to the maldives a presidential election will happen on sunday it's a small place but the politics is big accusations of corruption opponents being put in jail and fears of a return to. could taxes make you healthier and. is meant to curb how much you smoke but is it working. you with the news grades live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com and a parade to remember the beginning of the iran iraq war has ended with at least twenty nine people dead gunmen opened fire on a military commemoration in the southern iranian city of as well as it was quick to claim responsibility an iranian military spokes

we are supportive of the iranian people having the leadership they want. as for former administration officials engaged in a behavior, i will not say today, only to the extent they are the admonitions i suggested toward secretary kerry would apply to them as well. thank you wall. have a great weekend. >> on newsmakers, the guest is vermont senator patrick leahy, the top democrat on the appropriations committee. he talks about the push to pass spending bills to fund the government beyond september 30. he has asked about the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh, which the judiciary committee is expected to vote on next week. you can watch the interview sunday at 10:00 a.m. and six at 1 p.m. eastern here on c-span. washington post reporter bob woodward is our guest talking about his new book "fear: trump in the white house." on tuesday, ken starr discusses watch nextontempt." week on "washington journal." >> what does it mean to be american? that is this year's student cam competition. we are asking middle and high school students to answer it by producing a s

in to the iranian militia, especially, and many of the iranian military leaders, to them there is not really a border division between syria and iraq. we still try to see it in those militias, theye are looking at this hezbollah model. they are there to promote --tural and the long-term excuse me, cultural and other political interests of what we see as the iranian government, backednd these iranian entities. so the united states leaving syria scares syrians, iran has universities and every syrian city, it has mobilized 32,000 fighters, many of whom have not run -- iran isi not necessary want to pay the high cost that they would have to pay if they were bringing iranians indirectly to fight instant -- directly to fight syria. they are promising these foreign fighters citizenships, and 30 2000s is even more than the yachts to fighters --yazda fighters. demographictching changes, what iran is engineering is not a short-term plan. proposal thatrm they fear. >> and it was done in baghdad in 05 and 06 with a change of demographics in that city. to the point of your numbers, , in iraq weiam

eight the general assembly the value of the iranian ryall against the american dollar was one hundred fifty thousand reales now that he's made his speech in a day in to this u.n.g.a. the value now stands at one hundred eighty thousand iranian reales that's what you have to pay to buy one u.s. dollar and to give you a sense of how drastic that number has has changed fluctuated over the last year this time last year we were we were paying thirty eight thousand reales to buy one american dollars so really it does represent not just the impact that the american sanctions in american threats and american policy have had towards iran's economy but even in the last day or so what what is happening at the u.n. may have how it how it may have impacted on iran's economy just in twenty four hours a jump of thirty thousand rio also the price of the dollar so there really is a lot of tension here in iran among iranian people about what's happening to the country's economy and no doubt that's going to be on president hassan rouhani is mind as he goes on with meetings and as he goes on to address th

volunteers or officers and since they occupy such a high status in many parts of iranian society and for many people within iranian communities this attack is very personal now we're still waiting to hear officially any sort of speech from the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei but in a statement he did give condolences to the families and express his desire for an investigation but people we've been speaking to on the ground and alyson observers with close contacts within the government say that the supreme leader is very very angry about this attack and wants some sort of actionable decision to be taken quickly and that's something that's unique in this case many times when we see iran or iranian assets around the world coming under political military attack the response is pretty much cookie cutter iranian officials say that they will respond at an appropriate time with appropriate measures but in this case one and all civilian and military leaders alike have spoken up for and in defense of the i.r.g.c. and have said that they will take immediate action and that some sort of re

economy. —— iranian. if you're sitting in donald trump's shoes, he seems to be successful. anti-us, of course, is not the only one concerned about iran's progress and the support of progress in the region. -- and the us. absolutely. the congress are very concerned about this. i was recently in iraq, and i can tell you they are using all the elements and tools at their disposal to try and influence the formation of the next iraqi government. the revolutionary guards are making deals with iraqi politicians and making threats. the iranians allah to say about their own role as supporters of proxies who are terrorists in the middle east, but will be heard today from president rohani, you would think that it president rohani, you would think thatitis president rohani, you would think that it is the united states that is the supporter of terrorism. -- rouhani. on that specific point, let's try to be evenhanded about this. it depends on your political view and where you are in the world. when donald trump describ

the iranian rial is trading 140,000 to the dollar. plus more than two thirds of its t lue and why this is important for supreme leader can either take a scarce dollars compass card currency or it can say to the cuts were still that the central bank, but they can't have it either race. you've gotav to make a choice ad we intend to force them into that decision. very briefly turning to russia, the assistant secretary has summarized interactions on russia. we sanction to it until russia related individuals and entities that are targeted key sectors of their economy. april 60 designated seven of the big fish oligarchs. individuals the previous administration was unwilling to touch but we did reach out and touch them in a very clear fashion and her actions been felt. the russian stock market experience and the biggest plunge in four years and is still not recovered its value. one of the elites i've seen his worth of them have. othersal like that are vexed ovr airbus $3 billion as a result of our actions. i north korea, i have to assure you

this is only one person one percent of even less than one percent of iranian economy. people that i think do it that one percent and some myspace i think you. need that currency that carries so much change go up or come down. but. in their face it hurts fundamentally their currency rate is very clear. it's also we have a specific. exchange rate. you refer. to relations between iran and the u. . so when their foreign ministers of the two countries can meet. to do with the behavior of america. our foreign minister. to talk about with the u.s. . in the past. various talk with taylor some. do not have. any problems if they. return. to its promises to its commitments. then this situation would be different. where then just we were together we were at meetings we had meetings. with experts from both sides where you were meeting each other was themselves a bit dull. as. themselves they were not responsible it was them to play. thank you listen. to. me i was from this response we thank you very much mr president for you today this morning you will be you were the security coun

yes i think the iranian president while having a very strong point that he keeps hammering on which is he does abide by the united nations security council resolution two two three one that enshrined the iran nuclear deal. in international law that the american president is violating that impression is pressuring other to violate this is definitely a strong point for the americans for the iranian president but like the american president in fact like most other leaders we've heard the last two days they are of course very selective about the facts and they're very selective about their own policies and they're certainly none of them would dare look in the mirror if you will so clearly the iranian president boasts about iran's respect international law but when it comes to iraq when it comes to syria when it comes to lebannon when it comes to yemen and so on and so forth of course it is playing in a gray area everyone realizes it and everyone is worried about it but i think the iranian president prefers to talk about iran being part them and parcel of international legality and when we

government to try to overthrow the trump administration that doesn't give permission to the iranian government to basically supply intelligence to terrorist organizations that are engaging in terrorism inside the united states that doesn't give iran permission to sanction the american people severely at the same time that there is a rhetoric of supporting the iranian people the american people so the general inconsistences that we see in u.s. foreign policy could be a sudden develop when you look at u.s. iran relations the united states had the one nine hundred fifty two week with a tiny iran and it seems they haven't learned anything in the last sixty or seventy years they want to change the iranian government as john kerry the former secretary of state said just a few days ago the plan that the u.s. government has a store over to the iranian government and they're actually working very hard at it if you look at the speech that mr compo and john bolton had at this organization called united against nuclear iran in the york just a few hours ago you could sense this. progress in term

the iranians of course have a highly complicated political environment. the supreme leader, who is the final authority in iran, has officially banned any formal negotiations with the trump administration as a result of the politics of the nuclear deal and the american policy towards tehran. but the same time there's a recognition that iran doesn't have a lot of good options, and if there's a chance of using the president's own interests of having a high—profile summit to their advantage, it's not improbable the iranians will seek some sort of backchannel with the administration. for more on the un general assembly meeting this week and all our stories, just go to our website: in the maldives, the opposition candidate ibrahim mohamed solih has claimed victory in the presidential election. his supporters have held celebrations in the capital, male. in his victory speech he said it was a moment of happiness and hope. he called on his rival, president abdulla yameen, to accept the will of the people. this is the happiness. a moment of hope. a moment of hist

a problem of the military iranian presence in syria which is aimed to open in you from thinking this is the israeli position and israeli already did. that if we know that allow any air you're running and presence in syria is there for this is the reason of the israeli attacks in syria we don't have any problem with the russians with the syrian regime the problem is the the fact that bashar assad they love you ronny and stew. the. military presence in syria and this is a red line for israel and israel has made it clear also to the russians that. it's not acceptable for her and how you think that it's very clear that even the even though there is a crisis between israel and russia now because of this unfortunate accident i don't think that israel will stop. change its policy concerning the iranian in their presence the military presence in syria what happened yesterday evening is being seen by russia as health to all behavior a provocation do you think israel apologizing for this mistake as you say is going to be enough to diffuse the situation. i did not say that was a mistake they sa

there was a point at which i wanted to find common ground with the iranians. and their lead negotiator, abbas had a grandchild, so had i. we shared photos. we were human. it didn't change our national interest. it didn't change our tough positions, but it did make us understand each other a little better. >> which is so vital, the idea of hearing the story of the other. i think many people certainly in some circles, a lot in the united states, it's always a zero-sum game. >> yes. >> in order for me to win you have to lose. there seems to be an idea that it's just weak to give -- to negotiate. but we've talked about that. >> indeed. you have to find some common ground with the people on the other side of the table and, in fact, even the people on our side of the table with the europeans, russians and the chinese. and at the same time you have to lead the other side with enough power to make the deal endure. so one of the things president obama understood, secretary kerry, secretary moniz and my entire team was we had to leave the iranians with enough power so r

the american and iranian navies are active there and iranians provoke the americans to see what the american navy will do. you make one mistake there in a situation like this that is really tight, you could see something that neither side anticipates. that is what i worry about. the unanticipated consequence. >> you just mentioned secretary of state pompeo. let's listen to what he had to say. >> we will not let iran get away with using a proxy force to attack an american interest. iran will be head accountable for those instances. if they are responsible for the arming and training of these militia we will go to the source. >> interview with cnn there. that language draws an image, think, of the u.s. and iran standing at a line, phil, and kind of this staredown. with that said, how close is the u.s. to some sort of real altercation with iran, do you think? >> i don't think very close but let'snd. we have opportunities in the united states short of some direct confrontation with the iranians. i mentioned early iranian activities with militias in places like yemen and syria. you could easily s

syrian government and the iranian government to accept u.s. israeli demands of the syrians have a new missile system that allows them to more accurately target is really a way that will limit the freedom of action of the israeli military in syria and that seems to be the main thing that the u.s. and israel care about it seems that you know the civil war in syrian involvement of russia and the other players who have gone in without a u.n. mandate has created so many twists and turns have it robert if we if we look at what bolton said say that the u.s. forces are going to stay in syria while iran forces are outside iran do you think the u.s. officials a setting new limits now do you think we've previously heard the that they were there to fight i sell to combat terrorism in your opinion has that changed. well the rhetoric is changed how watched the actual policy has changed or will change it's still a matter of speculation meaning that the demeanor rina for the u.s. military were means. used here in syria for direct u.s. military means if you're

i literally lived through the evil of the iranian regime. i remember nearly dying by iranian rockets in a combat outpost with the 82nd airborne and nearly being killed by this regime and at the same time had to watch us soldiers die in front of me because iranian groups were hell-bent on conducting these attacks. it is sickening to see this country exporting terrorism so the president, the iranian's deserve everything coming to them with the sanctions and what is about to happen to them, the toughest sanctions we have seen yet, the trump administration is about to release over the next four weeks sanctions intent on eroding the iranian economy, restricting access to international financial markets and restricting their military and government's ability to have access to these cash rewards and it is necessary considering everything they are doing. rob: almost as ridiculous as those photos with john kerry and the iranian leaders is this idea that the eu is going out of its way to circumvent the sanctions the united states is putting on the cou

hillary the iranians have blamed the us gov states and israel for this attack but the u.s. denies any responsibility so what do you make of the blame game and the diplomatic fallout from this that's at. well it's not really new the united states for a long time from when i was in the u.s. government has long supported rhetorically and in the u.s. congress has in fact allocated hundreds of millions of dollars in prior years for various projects to destabilize destabilize iran and to do so through supporting groups that call for or want the overthrow of the iranian government so this is not really something new we've we've seen it for decades i think on both sides i think the iranians have come to really understand that and how to deal with it from the united us side i think we're dealing with a new team here in washington that doesn't quite understand what iran can do to what it calls confront the united states we have people like john bolton who has worked for the m e k has taken money from them to give speeches we have the president's private lawyer who also takes tens of

iranian shia worshippers usually travel to kabul at this time of year but iran's been hit by u.s. sanctions since august the value of its currency the reaal has plunged for the iranians getting to college is expensive now and for some even the price of a hotel room is simply too much of in their cars off the hotel business in karbala in previous years was booming and now we can only make ends meet last year we had more than two hundred seventy big iranian religious groups staying at my hotel alone and now there are just seven small groups. from the economic point of view the u.s. economic sanctions on iran have really affected iraq's religious tourism when iranians come to my shop to buy souvenirs most of them can't pay i sure is marked by prayers for sessions and food handed out at stores like this one all over iraq is held on the tenth day of the holy was of the heart of the death of a mom to say one of the grandsons of prophet muhammad who many see almost as the third. he died thirteen hundred years ago in a battle where the city of karbala now stands for mind here put a year a

border injuring that the iranian consulate in basra has been burned iran has been extremely angry about that now there's nothing to link these two events but here in iraq there is a lot of speculation that this latest missile attack in kurdistan is iran showing that it can strike back and it can strike back powerfully. north korea has market seventieth anniversary with a huge military parade but unlike previous occasions it didn't show off its intercontinental ballistic missiles it follows kim jong un's talks this year with the u.s. president donald trump on the denuclearization of korea robert pride reports from seoul. it had all the usual pomp of previous military displays but lacking much of the hardware especially the missiles compare this with this. particular bill looking at a military parade in april last year commemorating the birth date of north korea's founder kim il song. bristling with the medium and long range missiles it was provocatively testing on a regular basis. even at the start of the thaw in relations earlier this year north korea was showing off the intercontinenta

sanctions have reduced the number of iranians visiting iraq on one of the holiest days for. these seals with nowhere to swim an al jazeera exclusive investigation unveils the head inside of animal parks in china. hello there recently we've been seeing some showers over the northern parts of turkey but there's a sinking southwards now and you can see quite a few of them over the northern parts of iran instead i think they could be a couple more here as we head through the day on friday but the rest of that cloud has largely broken up as we head through the day marty's top temperature will be around twenty degrees of course in tehran will be in the high twenty but the south it should be still a very hot one force in baghdad at forty three for q eight city will be getting nine hundred forty five here in doha still hot and very few made in that humidity is making sure the temperatures don't look too high on that the moment is so i thirty eight degrees will be our maximum but it will still feel very very hot and very very sticky they could be a little bit of cloud just flirting w

generally iranian problems that have existed there the iranian leadership must be considering options that's a given what do they feel they can do as a reaction to this i think what will happen is as i said earlier they're going to try to further securitize the province of course a stun in order to also suppress any kinds of protests and you know it will have is behind this attack it will be easier to even militarized the province against further protests and unrests. many things. a man's been found alive in the tanzanian ferry that capsized two days ago just moments before it was shuttled to dock and he's one of only forty one people who survived at least one hundred ninety six others drowned in the victoria on thursday tanzania's president is blaming overloading and negligence for the disaster he's ordered the police to arrest the boat owner malcolm webb has more now from the ugandan side of lake victoria. lake victoria lies across kenya tanzania and uganda all three countries have a lot of corruption poverty and poor regulation they safety doesn't waves come. regulations say that a

nikki haley is rejecting iran's finger pointing at washington over a deadly parade attack she says iranian leaders should look closer to home the iranian president hassan rouhani is clear who he blames the revolutionary guard is vowing revenge for the attack on that military parade the fallout is reporting worldwide diplomats have been summoned by iranian officials after twenty five people were killed when a gunman opened fire in the southern city of. iran's foreign minister summoned the emma roxy shanshu to fair following a tweet by a prominent iraqi political scientist which said the attack was quote not an act of terrorism envoys from the u.k. the netherlands and even denmark of also being called into the foreign ministry in tehran their governments accused of harboring opposition groups to gulf countries are being blamed for backing the group which carried out the attack senior iranian military officers are pointing fingers at saudi arabia while the president says the u.s. . is intent on creating instability while before leaving for the united nations general assembly in new york mr ro

iranian currency has collapsed over the past few months since the withdrawal of the u.s. from that nuclear deal. then was a position of the fierce land of sanctions on on iran in early august so i think yes the iranians seem to be to me seem to be interested actually and reengaging the united states but they want to hear something different they want to hear different tone from president from other. thank you president tom is not the although he he described president rouhani in a more positive tone i mean last night but he's still threatening them and they're very. away. so probably. he thinks that why are blowing the smoke some pressure on these two countries probably would be he would be getting something from both of them yeah very different rhetoric on both of these countries is as you are saying reserved his harshest comments for. not just for not just the leadership but iran as a country saying it was a sponsor of international terror. or words for north korea and its leader and that was quite dramatic contrast to what we heard that you had the north korea a year a

it didn't come as a surprise that the iranians accused. the u.s. and saudis of masterminding this attack in a fast but they've also summoned the envoys of the netherlands denmark and great britain accusing these countries of harboring iranian opposition groups what does this suggest as far as who they think is responsible. the fact that they some of the europeans is also not particular pride missing since some of these separates pistorius ations are essentially headquartered in europe many of them being in london particularly this. separatist organization has been and ducting activities are next in line for quite some time i'm so that in itself was not surprising nor is it surprising that the iranians would be blaming or hinting at blame at the united states saudi arabia and the u.a.e. what is perhaps a little bit different this time around is that there are circumstantial evidence that makes it much more difficult to dismiss the iraq i mean accusations out of hand but i mean you have a scenario in which the secretary of the national security advis

there is a lot of frustration not only among abby iranians but also among the other parts of it was a funny population against the government over water shortages over unemployment and so forth so there is been some home grown kind of. nation in a buddhist on hand and there have been certainly. been trying to use that for their own purposes ok i'll leave the toll on the job and thank you very much for that. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world a woman who's accused the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify in front of a senate panel lawyers for christine blasi ford are said to be negotiating the conditions of her testimony the committee had earlier delayed a vote on cavanagh's confirmation. an indian bishop accused of raping a nun has been refused bail in order to remain in police custody to face questioning bishop franco was arrested in southern corollas state after the pope suspended him from office a lookout has denied the accusations. and thousands of people have rallied in cities across russia against a pla

it'd been a day of tension culminating in the iranian consulate. after being stormed by a group of protesters they tried to set it alight the day before but were pushed back this time though it was left. demonstrators bent in their anger about iran's alleged involvement in iraqi politics and its failure as i say to deliver key services to the city people here believe the politicians have turned their backs on that neglecting government corruption has caused a systematic decay of its infrastructure yes yes i don't know why i'm living comfortably at parliament and inside the green zone and while we're out here dying of hunger and thirst why are young people in graduate school in the market selling onions all the government jobs are restricted to the parties. at least fifteen buildings connected to politics in the oath or it is have been targeted in the past few days this is the shell of the provincial government offices. some iraqis have been killed him what's regarded as iraq's shia muslim heartland in northern bass were hundreds of people were atte