with sanctions on iran will they. you never know i mean beijing was the beijing and moscow actually during the obama administration were what were the biggest susannah's helpers we got to see how it works out here but again president trump has turned up the rhetoric against china on a whole host of trade issues but last week we saw the president reaching out to the chinese and a lot of analysts saw that as a precursor to trying to sort of appease the chinese on some issues to get some more sort of concessions on putting pressure on iran but again as i said i don't think chinese businesses are going to go along fully and help out iran on the other hand there will be some trickling down to assist iran and iran will appreciate that but again they will be losing money because this as i said when you're in the position of you know the beggars can't be choosers so we'll see if we'll see what happens here iraq's are a mess thank you very much for talking to al jazeera now fighting has intensified around the port city of had

sanctions on iran to using b.b.'s not bombs just sound up for palestinians speech watching all the civil walk through of going under the rug. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be precise this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here i mean you are live with video of the. split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. welcome back this week the u.n. sent a special report only stream poverty and human rights to britain to investigate the h

said that iran was committed to the deal committed to its promises so the deal is going on and iran is committed to its promises so we are waiting for the trumpet ministration to come back to the negotiating table all the partners of these two national deal are still around the negotiating table but the trouble is mr administration. left the negotiations and they're fifty zero so we are going to wait for them to discover what and the obama administration discovered before the sanctions will not help to make peace ok. and sure let me ask you do you think that the trumpet administration has actually articulated what they think is wrong with the deal besides as france was saying just that it was something that happened under the obama administration do you think that they have actually articulated what they don't like about the deal. yes they have multiple times little bit more trouble ministration have some of the top disagreements being the sunset clause iran could start and reaching uranium in about eight years in about ten years and all those ten to fifteen years and all the sanctions

so these are all good signs as far as iran is concerned that iran can continue exporting its origin and it has been i think successful you see iranian oil exports were saber in the spring about two and a half million barrels per day and the reports were that already in summer many customers of the stopped buying or has reduced their purchases but the data are a bit contradictory for example some reports said in september union all exports were one point eight million barrels per day whereas the first two weeks in october satellite companies. planet. tank you're tracking companies as reported in the press they said iranian oil exports were two point two million barrels per day in the first quarter the first two weeks of october so the figures are contradictory but they do show that the iranian oil exporters were architect of the part of an i.o.c. who had been there five six years ago two thousand and twelve thirteen through this you know more a major sanction of the united nations they are used to and they are successful they can manage that better than they did last time show us the con

iran cannot do what trump wants, forces inside of iran neutralise each other. you have to nurse it and be patient, and use lots of drugs, homoeopathic ones. iran is a very complicated situation. a cure has to come from within iran itself. all the outside world can do is really help. i think donald trump and his sanctions are relevant in the long run. there are 35 rounds of sanctions and all of those have been revived. but he did not impose them. they have been imposed before, and didn't work! there are many parts of the world where the paper poppy i'm wearing on my lapel would mean absolutely nothing. in the uk it's way of commemorating the nine million who died from combat injuries during the first world war. sunday is the centenery of the armistice which ended the fighting. no one who served in that war remains. the last combat veteran died seven years ago. it weighs into the thought, agnes, as to whether we sometimes remember too much? i think there is a short and a long answer to that. the short answer is it is extremely important to remember. a nation that

major sectors of iran's economy. and it's been called game over for european football as we know it leaked documents show the continent's top football clubs have been quietly planning to control of european football and form their own elite league we'll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story. i'm a diff kimani welcome to the program a christian pakistani woman whose case made world headlines is not yet free despite a supreme court decision finding her in a sense of blasphemy and lifting her death sentence. husband a six has also told an exclusive interview that he fears for his wife and the rest of their family's safety it's also emerged that how loyal has fled the country the supreme court decision to acquit her has stoked days of protests by islamist hardliners bibi was sentenced to die. for blasphemy in twenty ten after neighbors accused her of insulting the prophet mohammed. i'm joined now by shallow shams from asia desk thanks for joining us so w. has found out that authorities are still holding asieh

supported invasion of iran this was a big mistake when saddam invaded kuwait iran stood by. them invasion of kuwait however the us war in iraq are enough cornerstone saudi arabia u.s. war on yemen nato a war on leave may have had nine wars nearing the last twenty thirty years which all has happened are there by the us or by a nato will or joint cooperation between our neighboring countries and nato and the us like man like lead like iraq what about the fact that israel was one of the first countries to welcome donald trump's decision. leading to some critics say that the us is basically outsourced foreign policy to israel israelis saudis did the right thing to impede a peaceful resolution of the rainier nuclear crisis they did everything to create another war in iran everyone knows israelis they did everything to push the us to attack iraq it is well known and now they did everything the us to attack iran to create another design. for the region when trump took the office i believe netanyahu took the opportunity to convience him to withdraw from the nuclear deal to go to con

goals, i've covered iran now since 1973, and i covered the iran/iraq war. i used to go into the supermarket to figure out how desperate they were during the war when meat and fuel were rationed, families couldn't get their kids to school because public transportation was lousy and public transportation had fuel shortages and the shelves were bare. you would see a few bags of rice or tea but basic commodities were scarce. when i go back to iran they can't keep portions in stock. there will be shortages but you can get pampers, diapers and oreo cookies. the smuggling network is very efficient. the idea we will squeeze iran economically any time soon is an illusion. we will get their oil sales down from 2.3 million barrels a day which it was in september 2017 down to probably a million barrels a day, but there are all kinds of schemes, whether there is talk of the russians buying discounted iranian oil. there will be a lot of discount offers that will be very lucrative. the russians then selling their oil to compensate for the shortage of iranian oil in the gl

ignorant about iran as the supreme leader of iran was about the united states. they hope that is still the case. on syria, tools the united states has per pushing back against the iranians influence their would include reconstruction. i don't think the russians are there granades want to be handed the full tilt for reconstruction and there will be a move toward reconstruction whether we like what has happened or not. this will happen. there will be pressure and there will be european country saying this is the best way to get some of the migrants back into their homeland. to use reconstruction effectively as a lover you have to have unity of donor countries it worries me because i'm not sure the united states will be able to promote a unified approach on reconstruction given the jcp o., given the declarations of the european union as an enemy. i thank you. >> i'd like to say on iran for one more round of questions and ask you to go into your areas of expertise. ken jeffrey was talking about gaps in intelligence that the u.s. might have with iran. where do you th

bad faith what's keeping iran at the table. i guess currently the calculation and that is going on for some months now is are we in different senses of the term better off by staying in the agreement and if european trade can be kept alive to some extent through what the e.u. has introduced as their special purpose lady call s.p.v. if russia and china it keeps some of their trade going with iran if oil exports to china albeit be limited still happen then this can happen within the framework of the nuclear agreement and then iran is basically getting some of the dividends of the it minimized or reduced but there is more to the nuclear agreement than just the economic dividend there is also a political dividend or a security dividend these are things that are basically in the many talks iran held with the remaining partners of the g.c.c. that can basically be decisive to see whether then iran comes to the decision to say we we sing like you talk to you thanks for joining us are adamant about about. thinking. the polish prime mini

in iran the government has been . elected by the people by the majority of the people there is democracy there you've. women's rights i'm not saying everything is perfect but we have never had an issue with for example driving little on other things and. let's say what he said would be arabia doing in yemen what did they do and still try to do in syria is there any. action that you can. call. supported by the popular governments in those countries where did all the ousted. president of these countries in the middle east and that up showing up was it not saudi arabia supporting them and. even arming and funding the terrorists in syria and in iraq and then. i think right now almost everyone knows. the us have worked together closely to just curb iran's influence in the region but the more they have been trying the less they have been successful because anti american sentiments. have been on the rise not only in iran but also in some other countries in the region i have had friends from. these countries neighboring count

companies from doing business with iran which meant iran's oil industry was directly targeted for the first time he described iran and libya as two of the most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the world the first significant pressure on iran directly related to its nuclear program came from george w. bush in twenty ten were obama signed it to draw used actions he described as the toughest ever passed by congress they were aimed at uranium banks and its oil and gas sector a breakthrough was finally reached in twenty fifteen with the iran nuclear deal indian assets one hundred billion dollars one force and but earlier this year donald trump with two from that agreement leading to renewed u.s. economic sanctions in two phases the first came in august and ninety days later in november the second round of sanctions targeting iran's ukridge of oil exports an energy industry are coming into force well despite the u.s. withdrawal from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal the e.u. russia and china are all sticking to the terms of diplomatic editor james bays reports from un headquarters in

deal how feasible feasible is it for the to continue to do business with iran. we have to distinguish between the european states and the european company and we have to remember the fact he sees commerce do you b.n. completely by a lot of oil from. the islamic group of do good for iran and when it comes to kind of these new financial macan isn't that you in countries are talking about in alder to help it you know here is to minimize the impact of these sanctions probably the european politicians on honest about the fact that a lot of the smaller a part of european companies companies on roger lee trying to push themselves out of the iranian market simply because they can't afford deliver cautions from from from the us i have no doubt that the european states are serious in order to create that kind of financial macan isn't to help iran but there is a limit to how far they can go and had the same time over the despite the fact that you know or the last three or four months you have been talking about one of the stop pushing a very specific image can isn't in ord

iran pay for that behavior. and it's not like in the case of iraq and neighboring country iraq and say we have vital interest. iran has not been historically active in yemen. it shows it to escalate. we did virtually nothing in response. i call that superpower malpractice. one last point with regard to what mark said. the iranians have out negotiated us historically. i disagree in one sense and that's we have out negotiated ourselves. it's not the day are so clever. they are clever to all the people but we have come to this or this conflict and i cannot explain why. something deep in the american character it's not just republicans or democrats we think that there is some kind of clever formula by which we can open up the dial on the back of the irradiance and move it a couple notches and suddenly they will become our friends again. this fantasy has dominated our diplomacy on the republican and democratic side for three decades. i'm mystified by it. i like to see that change. >> with that we will open it up to t

sanctions have kicked in the place on iran's another nation's doing business with iran unless that is you received an exemption will dig into the deep. parties saya tavenner and then will investigate the international reaction from not only nations but businesses with steve malzberg and there's considerable and potentially consequential brecht's in the c.e.o. of straw market hillary ford which is here with the latest star to correspond at the taj a suite joins us to consider where all the garbage has gone this hard retail of trash may shock some of you all that directly has but first it's a mad line let's go. the u.s. supreme court will not second guess one of the trump of ministrations first regulatory rollbacks to limit so-called net neutrality which under former president barack obama sought to ensure all internet data be available to more people and to those particularly in rural locations the obama era rule sought to ensure the internet was not discriminatory and outlawed such discriminatory efforts by providers of websites platforms apps or communications delivery the federal co

iran policy. and what is the iran policy look like potentially if the iranians are right and they can wait out trump and there's a new president in the white house in 2021. i want to begin there because i think it's important for us to acknowledge that the iran issue in some respects has become very partisan and polarizing. in other respects it's has a deep bipartisan foundation to it. the foundation to it is the concern that both democrats and republicans have about iran's nonnuclear behavior. support for terrorism, missile program, human rights abuses. support for exogamous slaughter in syria, and its destabilizing activities in the middle east and around the world. that's where a new president will begin, facing an islamic republic that continues its aggressive and destructive behavior and a sanctions structure that will be predicated on all of this behavior and be very difficult or left as a result. the other reality that this president will face in 2021 is that a number of the restrictions th

president donald trump hopes they will maximize pressure on iran iran sanctions are very strong the strongest sanctions result for a vote. we'll see what happens with the rod but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a building enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no difference. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message here ran ramping up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and the sanctions cut deep let's find out just how they are affecting the people in iran europe because it is a correspondent with german public broadcasters a day off and he joins us now from the iranian capital of tehran europe before you set the scene for us on how this latest round of u.s. sanctions are affecting the local economy what are these punitive measures designed to do. you know

economic sanctions have been reinstated on iran as a result of the u.s. pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement with iran and five other nations the sanctions will impact businesses in and others doing business with iran from banking to shipping but most importantly they will impact iranian oil exports for his part iranian president rouhani appeared defiant saying the nation will continue to sell oil the entire thing is made up muddy mess of international relations we'll get into that in a moment but what are the sanctions and how do they compare to previous sanctions for more here's here r t producer injure as u.s. sanctions design a push iran's oil exports to zero came into effect today the hard line initially signaled by president soft and as a deadline approached with countries that have already cut their purchases to zero now being granted waivers to buy iran's oil embargo in fact iran's oil exports may well go up and knock down this month these were billed as the strongest sanctions in the history intended to prevent iran from

iran relations have suffered another downturn after. the renewal of all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifth deal has responded with claims that washington. passed punitive measures made the islamic republic more self-sufficient on saturday iran allows to its making its own fighter jets for the first time the country's state media say there are one hundred percent of a new made and will be used for a short support missions. after announcing that sanctions would be reimposed trying to start his twitter message to resemble the tagline from game of thrones however this apparently didn't sit well with the network behind the hit series h.b.o. says it would rather his trademark wasn't quote misappropriated for political purposes and sanctions that will come back into force in just two days as we call it all off reports what will happen on monday everything that was achieved under the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal will be no more piling on top of penalties imposed additionally by the trumpet ministration there

when it comes to iran u.s. presidents have pursued a policy of containment for decades trying to limit iranians economically militarily and politically in their regional and global affairs even the twenty fifteen nuclear deal that president barack obama championed that gave iran back some of its financial freedoms many iranians saw that is just a softer approach to the same containment policy but by turning back the clock on bilateral ties with iran what president donald trump has done is to show people here that during his administration there will be no blurred lines between friends and enemies but if trumpet hope pushing iranians towards poverty would inspire them to topple their own leaders he'll likely be disappointed previous protests never got big enough all he's apparently done is make people here miserable. do you think mr trump is a crazy man who made the situation in the region drastically worse his involvement in the region and sanctions have made the people hate him i really don't think that he's t

crude in exchange for to iran scrapping its nuclear program even though iran complied with all terms of the deal trump called a disastrous and pulled out unilaterally now with the final push the american leader has delivered while iran keeps abiding by all the demands of the twenty fifteen deal makes while still shipping finance banking you name it really the u.s. hopes to put a damper on all keys sectors of iran's economy in total more than seven hundred entities including both individuals companies and even ships and their craft will be banned from doing any business with iran row if you exemptions here in their food or from a suitable industries but the list is not very long to be frank speaking of exemptions by the way the u.s. also seemed very concerned with the economic well being of its allies. we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends in our. well from this you might assume bolton is talking about europe after all it likes to think of itself as america's biggest ally but apparently that's just not the case and trump's advise the there wa

am sure there were gaps in our meetings about iran, gaps in our perceptions about iran. but i am sure whatever our gaps were, our leader, our president was not as ignorant about iran as the supreme leader of iran was about the united states. i hope that is still the case. [laughter] jeffrey: um. wouldools include red instruction, because i do not think either russia or held fors to be before reconstruction, and there will be a move toward reconstruction carrie. this will be waiting at to get the migrants back into their homeland. but to use reconstruction effectively as a lever, you have to have unity of donor countries, and it worries me because i am not sure the united states will be able to promote unified approach on reconstruction given the jt the declaration of the european union is an enemy. anyway, thank you. iran.ould like to stay on is talking about in u.s. intelligence. i realize you have been outside of u.s. government for some time, but what do you think the u.s. intelligence is right now with respect to iran? picture,ys have a good to be in this position wi

we ask all nations to isolate iran's regime. as long as its aggression continues but we do not intend to allow our sanctions to be invaded by europe or any body else. you know we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran looking at the latest official so for the child i want to see the same. with friends like that who needs enemies who want to be muscles that wouldn't be blinded to what american sound would you want us europeans to say economic interests a move one time economic relations with iran. we never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone. we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends and allies he. wants a mean for zero. on they are now giving two countries themselves for you in for that indicates that they have the maximum pressure on the wrong. and now they are changing that maximum pressure enough pressure. that's also on the question because they cannot. be nee

oil from iran none of them are going to get any types of currency back to iran and iran can only import humanitarian goods or necessary goods those moves that are not subject to sanctions back to iran so they're kind of bartering their oil for food or medicine and are necessary goods as you said the chess game is is far from complete here all these sanctions from the u.s. point of view go to work. they fail iran seems to be fairly confident that it can withstand these sanctions if they do fail from an american point of view does that signal that the dollar can no longer be used as a foreign policy weapon. yes i agree with your question because now we have european union that they are coming up with a specific channels of trade with iran banking transaction with iran and if our if these channels are built for a more formal and more usable ways of working with iran this of course is going to weaken nine's and dollar as it were and also iraq is now selling its oil in a local currency to these countries so i agree i mean if he pushed this more or if we want to use this as a weapon is going

iran a lot of these tributaries of the of the tigris flow from iraq but iran really accounts for something like twenty percent of the water flow into the iraqi water system eighty percent comes turkey and syria so turkey is much more important partner in this in this aspect we have to we have to have some kind of regional water water treaty a water. system that allows for the various demands of these various countries without destroying the the cultural viability of the down down the river countries downstream countries in this case iraq these are i mean well established procedures and systems for creating bilateral and multilateral treaties riparian treaties that allow for the distribution of water and equitable way this has been ignored because of the crisis in iraq for the last forty years has not been a party to any of these agreements turkey went ahead and built its huge dam system without really much much consideration of what was going to happen downstream same thing happened in syria with the building of a diamond the said lake and so on very little consideration was given to the e

and how iran is likely to react. they believe they can write out sanctions and outweigh the trump administration. has refused to negotiate on the nuclear issue with the trump administration and undoubtedly hopes to have a new administration after 2020 to negotiate with. for that reason, iranian officials will be watching the midterm election as much as americans. we are fortunate to have with us our expert panel to look at the number of issues. this panel will include the ceo of the foundation of defense for democracies. michael durand of the husson institute. and patrick. we will look at the likely impact of sanctions, what additional u.s. policies are needed to deal with a wider range of iran's behavior. and what needs to be done, if improved to get to an nuclear agreement. is that in the cards? i will reduce the speakers in order. our first speaker is patrick clawson. he is the senior fellow and director of research at the washington institute for policy. initiativethe iran there. he is widely consulted as an anal

sanctions for about forty years up to now iran has resisted it and has been able to hand though iran has been greatly damaged because of the u.s. sanctions their aim and the objective of the u.s. sanctions is to bring your reign in the economy to a total collapse i believe the u.s. would prayed that are there beginning of the u.s. sanction is tool to bring regime change in iran i believe this is something the united states has experienced for war has already failed and the once again president trump would fade in his strategy to bring regime change in iraq this time is the friend be occur the united state of shelley has why elated the united nations security can console dissolution because the un security council resolution two two three one approved a rainier nuclear deal and the united states is the only member of u.n. security council to draw your needle. really and to violate the sanctions and the second fact is the are there members of permanent member of united nations security council russia china europe they are your to defend and to support the u.n. resolution and the irania

companies from doing business with iran which meant iran's oil industry was directly targeted for the first time he described iran and libya as two of the most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the world the first significant pressure on iran directly related to its nuclear program came from george w. bush in twenty ten were obama signed it to draw used actions he described as the toughest ever passed by congress they were aimed at uranium banks and its oil and gas sector a breakthrough was finally reached in twenty fifteen with the iran nuclear deal iranian assets worth hundred billion dollars one force and but earlier this year donald trump with two from that agreement leading to renewed u.s. economic sanctions in two phases the first came in august and ninety days later november the second round of sanctions targeting iran's lucrative oil exports and energy industry are coming into force well despite the u.s. withdrawal from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal the e.u. russia and china are all.

we'll see what happens with iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions for their heritage this is an economic war we're standing up to a billion enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death bulis shame. ramping up the rhetoric iran is pointing the finger at donald trump and its leaders talking tough in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. and let's get more now with correspondent your browser who is joining us from tehran he is a correspondent with the german public broadcaster c they asked new york we saw all the regime bringing out tens of thousands of supporters over the weekend how are these tough sanctions likely to affect support for iran's leader leaders. well what we saw the pictures we saw on the weekend of course was a well stage propaganda show organized by the iranian government as you said they should thousands of people from all over the country to to i

we have built an enormous coalition to keep this world safe and to deny iran money. i'm very confident the sanctions that will be imposed this monday. not only the crude oil sections but financial sanctions put in place by the treasury department and over 600 designations of individuals and companies will have the intended effect. to alter the iranian regime's behavior. that's our expectation and the reason for president trump's policy. >>chris: specifically sir, do you have a firm commitment from india and china that they will stop all oil purchases in six months?>> we have already taken more crude oil off the market than any time in history. watch the efforts that president trump's policies have achieved. we've done this while making sure american consumers don't suffer. - - that's important for american consumers in the march 2 zero continues. >>chris: you're talking about how effective these the imposition of sanctions are but as you well know, there are some people who are criticizing the sanctions you are imposing and think they're not tough enough. let me put

about iran. as the supreme leader of iran was about the united states. i hope that that is still the case. >> un-syria, the tools the united states have for pushing back against the iranians influence there, would include reconstruction. because i don't think either the russians or the iranians want to be handed the full bill for the type of reconstruction that syria needs. and there will be a move toward reconstruction. whether we like what's happening or not. this will happen, there will be pressure in refugees going back, there will be european countries saying this is the best way to get the migrants back into their homeland, but to use reconstruction effectively as a lever, you have to have unity of donor countries. and it worries me, because i am not sure the united states will be able to promote the type of unified construction, given the jcp hill, given the direct -- given the declaration that they are in enemy. thank you. >> i would like to say on iran for just one round of questions and ask you each to go in on your areas of expertise, so ken,

knees and trying to stop iran from meddling. you are looking skeptical. wendy: i'm skeptical because in the past sanctions have never stoppebad behavior. when we had the most comprehensive sanctions enforced by everyone, when the europeans started negotiating ieven 2006 earlier with iran, they had 164 centrifuges in the nuclear program. by the time we got to seris negotiations in 2013, they had 19,000. sanctions may in fact create resistance and nationalism in iran, which they have lived off of. it will hurt the iranian peoplea it may bringto the negotiating table ultimately, but the revolutionary guard corps can do very bad things with very little money. laura: knowing the iranians as you do and the whole range of opinion, how great is the risk that iran starts working on its nuclear program again? wendy: i think that risk will go up over time because the deal is being hung onto by a thread amid euonpe's support to hol it. i think what we may see is more state sponsorship of terrorism, usmoreagainst american troops that are in

we'll see what happens with the iran but they're not doing very well i can tell you iran is not doing very well but to run shows little sign of bending a defiant president hassan rouhani pledge to ignore the sanctions. this is an economic war we're standing up to a billion enemy yes that he said on hussein was in front of us today it is trump there is no death. and talking tough and testing their military hardware to. these drills designed to send a message. up the rhetoric in a bed to stop economic hardship from turning into anti regime sentiment. back here at the big table now with an ing reka he is head of the usa trans-atlantic relations program of the german council of foreign relations with this slapping of new sanctions on iran the u.s. really is now in a go it alone policy when it comes to iran and it leaves europe in a very difficult position doesn't it it does because europe has an interest to do this together with america we had the greatest success of pressure on iran when we did this together and now. in an irony iran has achieved one of its most supreme goals that is to

demands to join the new sanctions on iran. part of an. ambulance is here to power allies the streets of paris for a second day in a row in protest against emanuel micron's reforms shock poll shows right wing leader marine le pen that's overtaken the french president for the first time of next year's eve holiday tree elections. good evening our welcome this is r.t. international. studies is heading to the polls tuesday as if votes in critical election we can bring you live pictures from polling stations in still lots of people keen to express their political opinion in a country that's divided over the trump of ministration the democrats are desperate to rest back control of congress from the publicans and as a result the campaigning has been fierce. you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. and that's what the democrats i. two words are going to define one of the two thousand and fifteen election one which kavanagh and the other is caravan supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh wit

if it feels that the deal is no longer worth it for iran that iran will retain the right to begin reaching nuclear material once again all right thank you scott heiler has more from beijing on what president xi thinks about the u.s. is decision to reimpose sanctions on iran china is the world's largest importer of iranian oil so obviously these sanctions would hit this energy hungry country very hard now earlier on monday a spokeswoman with the ministry of foreign affairs said that the legal trade agreements between iran and china need to be respected she went on to say that the united states and its decision to reimpose these sanctions on iran is regrettable she also said that china stands with those nations who have vowed to uphold the agreement with iran that the united states has backed out of now obviously this comes at a very interesting time when trade frictions between the united states and china are at an all time high but also it comes at a time when the united states needs china's role in its negotiation with north korea let's make to remy brazeau he's an economist at the french

those european union as well as iran china and russia are sticking to the iran nuclear deal is something the u.s. administration and all the time doesn't like that's why he is now a why the administration put now beef to the bone so to speak so that we're leaving the contract the nuclear deal and we're now in re imposing sanctions now will this impact those the e.u. and china and russia and no not really despite the fact that it doesn't make for good relations this with the u.s. secretary of state might pump a of says that eight countries will be exempt from the sanctions who are they what are they getting special treatment. who are they i would like to know interesting left on this. very true public background call from mr pompei and the treasury secretary munson nobody mentioned those countries but it is assumed an american press is writing about this stuff to write about it right now that this is south korea. and japan who are two of those eight jurisdictions as they're called here who get a waiver now the money they those jurisdictions make through those waivers with iran has to be h

withdrawal from the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal you've got the e.u. and russia and china which are all sticking to the terms of diplomatic editor james by his reports in the u.n. in new york on what they might do next. this is being described by the trumpet ministration as the toughest sanctions regime ever imposed on iran the country's oil exports are being targeted although eight countries have been given temporary waivers to allow them to still imported raney an oil for the time being the administration is now reintroducing all of the sanctions that were frozen under the iran nuclear deal in twenty fifteen the iranian economy is in a bad place there's no question about that inflation is high unemployment is high and the currency has depreciated significantly but i think it's worth noting that these are not historical anomalies for the iranian government they've been dealing since the revolution with high inflation the triumphant ministrations campaign against iran is both political and economic on the economic track iran is already hurting and thes

iran's ambassador to britain joins me in london. >>edand with c hit "broad city" and a new memoir in her pocket, i talk love, vulnerability, and the rest with millennial superstar abbi jacobson. >>> plus, as we come to grips with the dangers of digital media, our walter is speaks with a tech world innovator who says technology is still a force r good. >>> uniworld is a prousponsor of "amanpour & co." when bea tollman founded a collection of boutique hotels, she had bigg dreams, and those dreams were on the water, a leriver specifically, mult rivers that would one day be home to uniworld river cruises and their floating boutique ettels. today that dreamsail in europe, asia, india, egypt, and more. bookings available through your travel agent. for more information, visit uniworld.com. >> additional support has been provided by rosalindlter, bernard and irene schwartz, sue and edgar wachenheim iii, the cheryl and philip milstein family, and by contributions to your pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. >>> welcome to the progr