iran is a rogue regime. it's been a threat throughout with theast, not only ballistic missile programs but it's acted for decades as a nker for terrorism and its style in the retoday is a breach of agreels. i don't take what they say seriously at all. are you re really -- of erned about the people ran, having -- that this is an avenue the iranian government can use? mr. bolton: our dispute with the ayatollahs who have taken iran from a respected place in the international community to a rogue state. our dispute has never been with the people of iran. we wish they had the ability to control their own government. it won't have any effect on that >> gambling those two treaties, i'm trying to figure out what are the open path or potential blocks you still have with iran and actually the palestinians? mr. bolton: this has less to do with iran and the palestinians than with the continued consistent poll sthoif united states to reject the jurisdiction of the international court of justice which we think is po lit s

hook, coordinate the pressure campaign on iran. previously, he found international strategic consulting firm based in washington, d.c., held senior positions in the george w. bush administration as assistant secretary of state for international organizations, senior advisor to u.s. ambassador to the united nations, special assistant to the president for policy, the white house chief of staff's office, and counselled the office of legal policy. before that he practiced corporate law. please join me in thanking him for his service and welcome him and rebecca, my colleague here at hudson who has written widely on the security threats especially proliferation and missile threats. i want to thank them for the time they're spending this morning with us on this issue. thank you. >> thank you for joining us. i want to thank my friends for being here to share with him -- share with us his perspective on the issues. what we're going to do this morning is brian is going to deliver remarks and then brian is going to have a seat again and we're

iran. just this monday, the russian defense ministry announced plans to equip syrian air defense forces with the s300 anti-missile system. a move characterized by john bolton as a, quote, significant escalation end quote in the seven-year civil war. in august, iranian defense minister amir hatam icon firmed iran's commitment to the assad regime, affirming iran would have a, quote, presence, participation and assistance, end quote in the reconstruction of syria. increasing military escalation by russia in the idlib province which has been temporarily averted by a russia-turkey agreement threatens to exacerbate an already devastating humanitarian crisis. with over 400,000 syrians dead and over 6 million displaced. my question to the trump administration is this, what is your strategy? moreover, we don't even know what your long-term objectives are. i'm alarmed that the president's statements regarding his strategy on syria have been so overwhelmingly at odds with statements from his senior ca

iran to as close to zero as possible. if they want to retain an exception under the sanctions law, which is the fiscal year 2012 national defense authorization act, which allows for an exception if a country allows for a sanctions exception if the country significantly reduces their purchases of iranian oil every six months. there needs to be a significant reduction each six months increments as measured. the agrees definition of significant reduction is 18%. so each customer must reduce their purchases of iranian oil 18% each sequential six months to retain this exception. more recently after appeals from countries such as south korea, which buys con den sate, not necessarily crude oil, but is spent for alternatives. they have modified the stance a little bit. officials will evaluate on a case by case basis and they say we will work with our partners with the goal still the goal of driving iran's oil exports as close to zero as possible. maybe my talk is useful because press analysis has been all over the map. some artic

and hezbollah and iranian agents in syria pressure on iran around the world pressure on iran and iraq especially southern iraq and ultimately perhaps even military action against iran in company with the us a saudi arabia and perhaps even israel as being ultimately the thing they will turn to if regime change doesn't come out come about some other way that's why i liken it to two thousand and two and two thousand and three it looks like the same road map to me all over again can america afford to deal with iran and cause instability there a force in neighboring iraq and afghanistan aren't even a livery at. asking my opinion absolutely no we can't look at it twenty two trillion dollars in debt looking at an interest payment on that debt that's going to equal the defense budget next year the next looking at almost no discretionary federal spending when you put those two things together the defense budget and the interest payment on the debt no we can't afford it but we seem to have leaders who like dick cheney and two thousand and two believe that deficits don't matter believe that as l

whole anti iran dr. i think that's part of it and if you know the neo conservative philosophy like i know the neo conservative philosophy you know that their big target is iran their fascinations their fixation is iran i think they might be getting ready to be surprised personally i'll put my. magic hat on and say that i think we're going to have a singapore moment with regard to iran and i think the president is going to turn the tables on john bolton mike pompei o and the rest of those nutcases in the administration i think we're going to have an extended invitation to rouhani to zarif and trump is going to find a city geneva comes to mind and they're going to sit down if ronnie and zarif will eventually accept and trump is going to go to that meeting and he's going to sit down with these iranian leaders and he's then going to say right before the u.s. midterm elections so it'll be a november surprise he's going to say i have just worked out a deal it's better than the deal president obama worked out a

calling on the world to isolate iran. well he is pretending that the world community is actually happy with him withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal which is ridiculous he was followed by macro and who was very clear in saying we need engagement we need to plan this the we need dialogue and. macron is not the only one upset with the united states about this it's all of the other signatories to the deal and that's remember the deal with also approved by the entire european union and by the entire security council so the u.s. is the outlier in this and i think the rest of the world except for a few places in the gulf and in israel are seeing the u.s. as going down a very very dangerous path trying to strangle the iranian economy making things miserable for ordinary people in iran and trying to get the people in iran to rise up on the one hand the administration says it doesn't want to it's not going for regime change and yet you have. donald trump's lawyer rudy giuliani just this week talking to the the and me k. the terr

then, we also have jim and joel making up the iran -- ending iran's presence. the units under control need to get out of syria. this is a diplomatic priority for jim's work. it's a priority for my work to impose sufficient pressure on iran that the cost-benefit analysis changes in terms of proliferation in syria extending also to iraq. we are trying to change the cost-benefit analysis and line behavior for iran and syria . >> is there any hope for partnering on a limited scope on stabilization and reconstruction. have using the calculus begin this change? is iran moderate its behavior or showing that it is not worse but part of the solution. >> when you saw the press reports, you then had attacks on our embassy a couple weeks ago and then you had attacks on saturday in bosnia and you also had missile launches so so we have the president who has signaled that we are taking what seems to be escorted tory behavior half of iran very seriously in america will take quick and decisive action to protect our properties and our people in iraq. so it's important the irani

zero oil imports from iran. and it has almost totally lost japan that as of the end of september was down to a very, very tiny import volume of 22,000 pounds a day of iranian oil. nearly zero. taiwan also, a very small, and it is also zero. >> somewhere in the mid evaluate european union and turkey. european bars were still collectively taking and as was italy, greece and spain, still taking about 300,000 barrels a day of iranian oil, and about half of what they were importing when mr. trump announced the pullout from the iran nuclear deal in may. however, given the exposure of u.s. companies to the u.s. -- of the u.s. companies to the u.s. market, this does signal that the fact that they're still importing 300,000 barrels a day does signal some degree of defiance of u.s. policy or at least perhaps the anticipation for you that the administration will not take the confrontational step of actually imposing sanctions on any european companies. and the administration has basically continued the approach of the prev

whole anti iran dr. i think that's part of it and if you know the neo conservative philosophy like i know the neo conservative philosophy you know that their big target is iran their fascinations their fixation is iran i think they might be getting ready to be surprised personally i'll put my the magic hat on and say that i think we're going to have a singapore moment with regard to iran and i think the president is going to turn the tables on john bolton mike pompei o and the rest of those nutcases in the administration i think we're going to have an extended invitation to rouhani to zarif and trump is going to find a city geneva comes to mind and they're going to sit down if ronnie and zarif will eventually accept and trump is going to go to that meeting and he's going to sit down with these iranian leaders and he's then going to say right before the u.s. midterm elections so it'll be a november surprise he's going to say i have just worked out a deal it's better than the deal president obama worked ou

are leaving iran in droves and on november 4th, more sanctions will hit iran's oil sector, and ayatollahs know, they know, under the president and mike pompeo's leadership, the united states will no longer turn a blind eye to their wicked ways. this is quite a record, quite a record. for just a few months the secretary of state, an office that has been held by some of the most distinguished statesmen in our history, names like jefferson, madison, i'm confident that future generations will also look kindly on the name pompeo even if they can't pronounce it. of course, secretary of state is only the latest accomplishment for mike pompeo. he graduated first in his class at west point, you may have heard a certain president say. he then served with the cavalry in europe after the cold war. after the army, it's true secretary pompeo took a wrong turn and became a lawyer. but he turned his life around as a successful businessman in his adopted home of wichita, kansas where his fellow kansans would later nominate him in repeated landslides. then he served in congress before serving as the 70th s

now the iran nuclear deal was signed three years ago between toran five permanent u.n. security council members as well as germany it took almost a decade to thrash out that deal its main aim was to put an end to a long lasting standoff over iran's nuclear activities and discuss the issue further crossing live now to us are slotting from iran's task use agency thanks for joining us good to have you on the program what was the very big news today do you think this ruling of the international court of justice was expected or has it come to you as a surprise. oh well thank you for having me in fact this ruling by the u.n. top court is considered kind of a victory which was welcomed by the iranian foreign ministry today into iran over i was hearing that the diplomats into wrong there are. reaching a favorable the result from the court to rule in favor of iran however they were not sure that what the ruling of the court could be but they were hopeful that they could reach a good ruling from the court side and how do you think the u.s. is going to respond we're still obviousl

should lift its sanctions on humanitarian goods to iran iran has hailed the decision by the international court of justice as a victory and washington says the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter so mr ravi reports on. its own spree memphis in the case of iran versus united states of america the fifteen member bench of the international court of justice ordered the american government to make sure that sanctions against iran do not impact humanitarian aid or civil aviation the united states of america in accordance with its obligation is under the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity economic relations and consulate right is shall remove by means of it chooses any impediment is arising from the measures announced it on eight may twenty thousand to the free exportation to the territory of the islamic republic of iran of medicine is on medical devices food stuff is an agricultural commodities spare part of this equipment and associated services including what antti maintenance repair services and inspection is necessary for the safety of aviation iran argued that sanctions reimposed

should lift its sanctions on humanitarian goods to iran iran has hailed the decision by the international court of justice as a victory but washington says the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter saying this troubling reports from tehran. in the case of iran versus united states of america the fifteen member bench of the international court of justice ordered the american government to make sure that sanctions against iran do not impact humanitarian aid or civil aviation the united states of america in accordance with its obligation is under the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity economic relations and concert of rightist shall remove by means of it choosing any impediment is arising from the measures announced it on eight may twenty thousand to the free exportation to the territory of the islamic republic of iran of medicine is on medical devices food stuff is going to cultural commodities spare parties equipment and associated services including what anti maintenance repair services and inspection is necessary for the safety of aviation iran argued that sanctions reimposed aft

some sort of money to he's part of iran and a very popular of iran but russia is able to sort of say you know well we can deal with this aspect with iran and that we may disagree with them on their relationship with israel i don't know but that's not a missing to russia relationship with turkey for example exactly exactly but that's the sort of essence of eurasian ism as i understand it is that you know you respect the people have different cultures but you also understand it's multi led culture it's not just a single in westernized idea of mono valence of a single value that you give to here you see it in the western one of these always is the one liner here of north korea or iran for grass airport china in the us or against us and so those ideas which i think are emanating out of russia and because russia had a particular experience of you know the worst of all worlds in the recent history i mean of total liberalism economic new liberalism. stalin ism before the is really quite was got its sovereignty back and its aim is yes keep it always true this is all the time we have here and

our dispute has never been with the people of iran. wheelie wish they had the ability to control their own government. -- we only wish they had the ability to control their own government. treaties,g those two whattrying to figure out sort of open pass is still have with iran and the palestinians? less to do: this has with iran and the palestinians than with the continued consistent policy of the united states to reject the jurisdiction of the international court of justice, which we think is politicized, ineffective, and relates to our views on the international criminal just -- criminal court and the nature of so-called purported international courts to be able to bind the united states. >> it is also closing doors in the end. amb. bolton: closing doors that should not be opened to politicized abuse, which is what we have consistently seen in the icj. >> thank you, mr. ambassador. as you know, yesterday the french government denounced the iranian government for a terror plot in paris. national council of the iranian resistance, leadi

and hezbollah and iranian agents in syria pressure on iran around the world pressure on iran and iraq especially southern iraq and ultimately perhaps even military action against iran in company with the us a saudi arabia and perhaps even israel as being ultimately the thing they will turn to if regime change doesn't come out come about some other way that's why i liken it to two thousand and two and two thousand and three it looks like the same road map to me all over again can america afford to deal with iran and cause instability there a force in neighboring iraq and afghanistan aren't even over yet. asking my opinion absolutely no we can't look at it twenty two trillion dollars in debt looking at the interest payment on that debt that's going to equal the defense budget next year the next looking at almost no discretionary federal spending when you put those two things together the defense budget in the interest payment on the debt no we can't afford it but we seem to have leaders who like dick cheney in two thousand and two believe that deficits don't matter believe that as long

in august iranian defense minister amira tani confirmed iran's memo to the hassan resume confirming iran would have a presence, participation, and assistance in the reconstruction of syria. increasing military escalation by russia in the province which has been temporarily averted on a russia turkey agreement threatens to exacerbate an already devastating humanitarian crisis with over 400,000 syria instead and over 6 million displaced. my question to the trump administration is this, what is your strategy? moreover, we don't even know what your long-term objectives are. i'm alarmed that the president's statements regarding his strategy on syria have been so overwhelmingly at odds with statements from his senior cabinet officials. earlier this year president trump stated that the united states would be coming out of syria, quote, like very soon" and that we should, quote, let other people take care of it now. naovely asserting that the ongoing conflicts in syria and the resulting humanitarian crisis there will no longer be of concern to the united states. in april after ordering missile s

what iran says is clear, no war, no sanctions. no threat no bullying, just acting according to the law and the fulfillment of obligations. we support peace and democracy in the entire middle east. we consider nuclear knowledge and imperative and nuclear weapons prohibited as victim of terrorism in the past and today we have always been and will always remain in the forefront of genuine confrontation with terrorism. today we mourn the martyrdom of tens of innocent people who were recently murdered on saturday in cold blood by terrorist who shamelessly accepted responsibility from a number of western capitals for their heinous crimes. in interviews with some western based broadcasting outfit that are financed by petrodollars. in a random we have condemned -- in iran we have condemned all acts of terrorism without equivocation. we will continue to do so. we welcome the strong statement from the security council on this issue. but why in the leaders of this terrorist operation including the organizations that have publicly claimed res

iran's most famous sculptor remembers it all well. parviz town of ali teaches here at the mom their institute of art in tehran one of his sculptures was to be sent to the exhibition in berlin. for him an essential aspect of the exhibition was to show the mutual influence of already and and occident. proud of how india toggle flipout highgate you or your family it's about the intersections between iranian and western culture. our work is often influenced by western schools because we didn't have our own tradition of sculpture so we had a poetic and literary tradition but we had very little tradition when it comes to spatial content except in architecture. ah. you know on their mentality today is very rainy and. today's iranian woman wants to express herself to show herself in the best possible light. is. when i turned forty or fifty years ago that didn't exist i mean everyone was emulating the west or those that are today they're proud of themselves and that is a good thing so they used techniques his instruments for their works. but t

calling on the world to isolate iran. well he is pretending that the world community is actually happy with him withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal which is ridiculous he was followed by macro and who was very clear in saying we need engagement we need to plan this see we need dialogue and. macron is not the only one upset with the united states about this it's all of the other signatories to the deal and let's remember the deal with also approved by the entire european union and by the entire security council so the us is the outlier in this and i think the rest of the world except for a few places in the gulf and in israel are seeing the u.s. as going down a very very dangerous path trying to strangle the iranian economy making things miserable for ordinary people in iran and trying to get the people in iran to rise up on the one hand the administration says it doesn't want to it's not going for regime change and yet you have done all trumps lawyer rudy giuliani just this week talking to the the and meek a terrorist

and leaders into iran say it's all. the beginning it could have gone differently iran could have conducted a ground campaign in tandem with syrian allies but flying its own missiles through iraqi air space to hit a target inside syria by itself is about sending a message to everyone with a military presence there think twice before threatening iran. the united nation's highest court has rejected a request from bolivia to order chile to negotiate with it over access to the sea but libya's president ever met alice travel to the netherlands to attend the hearing at the international court of justice this country lost its only coastline to chile in a war one hundred thirty five years ago but the court ruled that a treaty in one thousand nine hundred four settled that matter and chile had not made any undertaking to negotiate the call. by too early vote to three find the republican of chile did not undertake a legal obligation to negotiate his submarine access to the pacific ocean for the nation state of bolivia. i suppose i

and iran back in one thousand nine hundred i had been violated something iran had pressed the i.c.j. to rule on now this is not the first time that the usa has dismissed an international court or an international body and not abided by its ruling back in june of this year we know that the u.s. withdrew from the human rights council calling it a cesspool of political bias it was also an attack by donald trump in september so last month on the international criminal courts over a possible action that could be taken against americans who are alleged to have committed war crimes in afghanistan as far as america is concerned the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction no legitimacy and no authority. the i.c.c. playing near universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country. violating all principles of justice fairness and due process whether ron had welcomed that ruling today saying that that ruling showed that the u.s. sanctions were cruel and illegal against the people and the citizens of iran but it doesn't seem like that ruling is going to change the opinion of the united states we know tha

calling on the world to isolate iran. well he is pretending that the world community is actually happy with him withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal which is ridiculous he was followed by macro and who was very clear in saying we need engagement we need to plan this the we need dialogue and. macron is not the only one upset with the united states about this it's all of the other signatories to the deal and let's remember the deal with also approved by the entire european union and by the entire security council so the us is the outlier in this and i think the rest of the world except for a few places in the gulf and in israel are seeing the u.s. as going down a very very dangerous path trying to strangle the iranian economy making things miserable for ordinary people in iran and trying to get the people in iran to rise up on the one hand the administration says it doesn't want to it's not going for regime change and yet you have done all trumps lawyer rudy giuliani just this week talking to the the and meek a terrorist

i don't trust iran, iran doesn't trust us. i believe they're carrying out incredibly mulaaligned activiti in the middle east. they are the major sponsor of state terrorism, so there are a lot of bad things about iran. but iran would be even worse if they had a nuclear weapon and could project that power into the middle east and deter our and our allies actions to stop that maligned behavior. we still had even after the deal lots of sanctions on iran for all of that bad behavior. so in this case if you want sanctions to work you need countries all around the world to enforce those sanctions. so as much as the administration hates multilateralism to get sanctions enforcement absolutely requires multilateralism. >> so i would say this, the more one doesn't like or distrust iran or north korea, the more you have to read ambassador sherman's brand new book. it's called not for the faint of heart, lessons in persistence and power. when you understand how hard it is to do that, you gain new respect for the system. ambassador wendy sh

iran's most famous sculptor remembers it all well. parviz town of ali teaches here at the mom their institute of art in tehran one of his sculptures was to be sent to the exhibition in berlin. for him an essential aspect of the exhibition was to show the mutual influence of already and and accident. which i am proud of how in guitar the whole of proud how you get your your back it's about the intersections between iranian and western culture give. our work is often influenced by western schools because we didn't have our own tradition of sculpture so we had a poetic and literary tradition but we had very little tradition when it comes to spatial content except in architecture. off. you know on their mentality today is very iranian. today's iranian woman wants to express herself to show herself in the best possible light. is. when i turn forty or fifty years ago that didn't exist i mean everyone was emulating the west. today they're proud of themselves and that is a good thing so they used techniques his instruments for their works. bu

but they were never found better to go where they let's just be honest there were people in iran who didn't like the fact that you were negotiating you know that of course there were people in iran and now they feel vindicated they could be indicated and they say it's a good omen do you think it's a good omen well i don't agree with them and it's because they did with me but i was negotiating you think it's a bad omen that the u.s. i think it's not good for the international community that one country as powerful as the united states would decide to leave international agreements and it's not just a you know that they left unesco day left the climate change agreement they left nothing day late date left turn traffic part are you going to follow them is the question we know the u.s. are now leaving all these treaties with nobody's defending the u.s. here is iran now going to stay in the nuclear certainly not follow the united states because they're a bad example or are you planning to stay in the deal indefinitely but. iran has given the europeans some time because they asked us for s

iran's most famous sculptor remembers it all well. parviz town of ali teaches here at the mom their institute of art in tehran one of his sculptures was to be sent to the exhibition in berlin. for him and essential aspect of the exhibition was to show the mutual influence of already and and oxidant. proud of how in guitar the whole of powder how you get your you know about me it's about the intersections between iranian and western culture give us our workers often influenced by western schools because we didn't have our own tradition of sculpture. we had a poetic and literary tradition but we had very little tradition when it comes to spatial content except in architecture. i've got it for you on their mentality today is very iranian. today's iranian woman wants to express herself to show herself in the best possible light. that the. chance when i turn forty or fifty years ago that didn't exist i mean everyone was emulating the west. today they're proud of themselves and that is a good thing so they used techniques his instruments fo

should lift sanctions on humanitarian goods to iran iran has hailed the decision by the international court of justice as a victory but washington says the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction in the matter so in basra the reports from tehran. in the case of iran versus united states of america the fifteen member bench of the international court of justice ordered the american government to make sure that sanctions against iran do not impact humanitarian aid or civil aviation the united states of america in accordance with its obligation is under the nine hundred fifty five treaty of amity economic relations and concert a lot of writers shall remove by means of it choosing any impediment is arising from the measure this announcement on eight may twenty thousand to the free exportation to the territory of the islamic republic of iran of medicine is on medical devices food stuff is going to cultural commodities despair parties equipment and associated services including one t.v. maintenance repair services and inspection is necessary for the safety of aviation iran argued that sanctions reimposed

and the desire to have a loyal that would cover the losses from iran when iran sanctions kick in in about a week or two isolate iran more through gulf partnerships as well as looking to saudi arabia to put pressure on the palestinians related to middle east peace and so there is a significant investment we also don't know what is happening behind the scenes with jericho shinar and other senior officials in the white house and certainly if the democrats take a chamber of congress they're going to look into that but right now the white house has leverage deeply into the relationship with saudi arabia and is very loath to weaken that. joe rubin just one more question to you before we move on to the rest of august koran is very much on the cards on the table has been for a very long time but in the last four weeks we've heard about pressure being put on saudi arabia pressure being put on the crown prince himself is the trumpet ministrations iranian strategy in tatters right. i wouldn't say it's in tatters but it's under duress there is certainly a lot of questioning here in washington t

deadly terror attack on a military parade in iran. professes his love for the north korean leader kim jong un while pyongyang remains coyer over america's hostile action. either in a warm welcome for me in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow minus column brainwashed for world news at this hour after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the us has once again handed it to open to peace talks with the islamic fundamentalist group the taliban however it doesn't seem that the militants are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increase in control the groups exerting on the ground team managed to get access to a taliban militant commander and raise the subject. well the americans never want to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban has never asked the americans again to cooperate against the islamic state the americans are bombing us while we fight against isis. and the latest suggestion of direct talks between the taliban in washington came from the u.s. state department on friday this is ministration has made it cle

iran argue that sanctions reimposed after u.s. president donald trump pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal in may violate a little known french agreement that predates the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution the court agreed but didn't call for the complete lifting of sanctions falling short of the resulting decision that iran would have wanted judges did ask the u.s. not to interfere with banking transactions related to food medicine and air safety . but even as the judge read the ruling its practical application remains a question mark and any history made here by the i.c.j. judges is likely to be symbolic at best both shall refrain from any action which might be a good heavy or extend the dispute before the court or make it more difficult to order saw with no policing mechanism to enforce its decision in practical terms the court's judgment is more recommendation than ruling iran has been arguing that the approach by americans to war to iran has been illegitimate as well as unlawful by taking the case to the

sanctions against iran last week e.u. diplomats touted a so-called special purpose vehicle to enable financial transactions and protect companies doing business with iran the trumpet ministration plans to reimpose sanctions which were lifted pursuant to the twenty fifteen international nuclear agreement with iran in november mr trump has abrogated the agreement while both the u.s. allies and adversaries in the deal have sought to pervert preserve it by salvaging economic guarantees made to iran but oil industry executives are signaling that the s.p. does not provide them with adequate adequate insulation from u.s. penalties iran's biggest european customers include toe tell and their chief executive told an industry conference that his company quote cannot afford to take the risk to be banned from using u.s. the u.s. financial system according to the financial times and for more on this important and influx issue we are joined by our friend and the expert over there berlin r t correspondent peter oliver peter thanks for b

there's no question it's not a secret i'm not a state secret i don't oppose the deal with iran because i thought that it's really to look yourself. but also do something to put billions of dollars in the hands of the sponsor of terrorism around the world living. in the wrong. let's bring in these political correspondent hans bronte is following the story for us hi hans so there are some sticking points between these two leaders the iran deal is essential when you're germany continue savoye support for the agreement as a way to to negotiate with iran can these two leaders find common ground while in their press conference they have made a big point of the fact that they have common ground on many issues that there are many areas of which germany and israel to agree and want to deepen the rotation of ships but that they all continue to be issues on which they agree to disagree the iran deal is one of those although i'm going to say that germany is absolutely opposed to iran gaining nuclear weapons the question is simply in which way one could achieve that and germany continues to think t

and then condemn iran implement the ruling and confiscate iran's assets it's obvious that their evidence is illegal and the incident itself is also under question while the world court has no power to enforce decisions for iran there's more on the line than two billion dollars which this case is another chance for iran to take america to task on a world stage opening remarks by the u.s. legal team looked to be a tough act to follow lawyers representing the iranian side begin their opening remarks on wednesday. a deal between russia and turkey to prevent a syrian government offensive in the last. word armed groups have removed all heavy weapons from the frontline in creating a twenty kilometer demilitarized zone as a condition to avoid an assault on the province which is home to three million people say to her reports. the turkish army has reinforced its observation posts all around province which borders turkey and sent additional troops to patrol a planned demilitarized zone to separate government forces from opposition fighters the demilitarized zone is being established after a deal b

policy towards iran where we need to have tough sanctions on iran for negotiations potentially related to nuclear issues and to counter their terrorism support in the region we're going to need allies and they may not be there for us as we need because we're withdrawing from these multilateral flora yeah and supporters of multilateralism both say so what's the point then john of having all these un bodies like the ice age a and these binding international protocols that the americans would just withdraw from meant is this a blatant disregard of the international whatever or and went further and hans american isolationism do you think it is troubling these are international institutions that the united states was present for the creation of in fact the united nations was founded in san francisco california in one nine hundred forty five we we take ownership of the ideas in many respects of these institutions are key which have strengthen american security and the american economy and international human rights so when we withdraw we weaken these institutions that much of the world looks

iran to iran is very happy with this decision today saying that it proves it is right in the sanctions by the u.s. and not only illegal but they're also cruel in relation to citizens and the people who live in iran this judgment by the i.c.j. is a binding judgment the usa cannot appeal it but it does not seem to want to recognize that judgment today again perhaps putting the usa in the trumpet ministration seemingly above international law did charlotte the music you there live from paris with the latest all that court ruling backs. so that shot let's go live now to political analyst say it was not a question for more reaction on this thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today. a surprise perhaps to some people expected ruling by others what's your take specifically on the u.s. reaction to this of this courts ruled as the questions the quality of the line is poor actually but with regard to this court ruling i need to say to some may see it as a success a crucial success. in you know all the island with the illegals moved that's the sanctions that has been you know a p

and then condemn iran implement the ruling and confiscate iran's assets it's obvious that their evidence is illegal and the incident itself is also under question while the world court has no power to enforce decisions for iran there's more on the line than two billion dollars which this case is another chance for iran to take america to task on a world stage opening remarks by the u.s. legal team looked to be a tough act to follow lawyers representing the iranian side begin their opening remarks on wednesday same. to her on. a deal between russia and turkey to prevent a syrian government offensive in the last couple help moving forward rebels have removed all heavy weapons from the front line and it led creating a twenty kilometer demilitarized zone and this is a condition to avoid an assault on the province which is home to three million people are reports. the turkish army has reinforced its observation posts all around province which borders turkey and sent additional troops to patrol a planned demilitarized zone to separate government forces from opposition fighters the demilitarize

terroristf the behavior of iran, ronald reagan designated iran the first state sponsor of terror. engaged in now is outright terrorism as a state itself. terrorism,onsoring these are terrorist attacks they are planning. so i think our friends in europe take a look at this and i think it makes this unfortunately persuasive evidence for our point that it is not just the nuclear threat of iran. and that one of the mistakes of the iran nuclear deal was that it didn't address the other aspects of persuasive evidence for iran's n behavior, in military terms and in terms of terrorism. >> i want to ask about saudi arabia. the question about iran and your arabia, this is where education at the alexander hamilton society, we have clear national security interests with respect to keeping saudi arabia coalition innd the the gulf, but we also had human rights concerns. how do you see that balance playing out over time? amb. bolton: we've said the saudily to government, the president has, secretary pompeo has and i have said we expect them to get to the bottom of this. we expect there to be acc

-iran policy and syria. and on middle east peace, i think jared kushner is going to hope that saudi arabia will pressure the palestinians to accept less than what they have been seeking for decades. mbs himselfis that seems to be 40 with the possibility of endorsing the u.s. position, but in august, king salman came out and said that a two state solution should result in a fair and just equitable resolution to the refugee issue. so i doesn't seem like saudi arabia will be there when the administration needs it, to bless and endorse their peace plan. even if they did, i have doubts as to whether the palestinians would buckle under saudi pressure, given this is an existential issue for the palestinians. on syria, the administration seems to want the saudis to deploy military forces to syria to relieve the pressure on the u.s. and to contribute financially. to date, saudi arabia has only committed $300 million, $100 million of which has actually gone into u.s. accounts, a what saudimpared to arabia could offer

calling on the world to isolate iran. well he is pretending that the world community is actually happy with him withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal which is ridiculous he was followed by macro and who was very clear in saying we need engagement we need to plan this the we need dialogue and. macron is not the only one upset with the united states about this it's all of the other signatories to the deal and that's remember the deal with also approved by the entire european union and by the entire security council so the u.s. is the outlier in this and i think the rest of the world except for a few places in the gulf and in israel are seeing the u.s. as going down a very very dangerous path trying to strangle the iranian economy making things miserable for ordinary people in iran and trying to get the people in iran to rise up on the one hand the administration says it doesn't want to it's not going for regime change and yet you have done all trumps lawyer rudy giuliani just this week talking to the the and meek a terrori

to lift some sanctions on iran washington instead scraps a decades old friendship treaty with tehran. the british prime minister says a fine line i'm brags that in front of a deeply divided party less than a fortnight away from a crowded summit with e.u. leaders. concerns rise over the safety of a prominent saudi journalist who's gone missing in istanbul. and the nation soldiers have been ordered to shoot looters as survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami desperately search for food aid is slowly arriving on the island of sin away z. where hundreds of thousands of people have gone hungry the days aid workers are calling for more body bags to be sent to the worst affected areas more than fourteen hundred people are now confirmed dead but the rescue is expecting the death toll to rise under thomas reports in the city of. the mosques are in part to hide the smile the white tulle pool in is because liquid is dripping through the orange one from the body wrapped inside there's not much dignity in this but in pali right now there is a lot of meat at the row row hotel there searching

iran withdraws its forcesst not a deterrent against iran. if i ask those troops and say your tour is to stay here until iran leaves and they say, yes, that's our mission, we're not operating against iran. of course, that would be illegal. >> congressman, our forces were sent to syria to defeat isis. >> with is there withdrawal according to the national security adviser, dependent upon iran withdrawing its forces? >> i think he's making an analytical judgment -- >> it's not an analytical judgment. you're telling these troops when they can go home. you're telling the parent whs when their sons and daughters can go home. if the national security adviser said your daughter can come home when iran leaves, it seems to me, that's pretty dependent on iran. >> skongman, the guidance we have been given is we're there to bring about the defeat of isis. we're proud of the progress we've made. the diplomatic pressure is going to be predominant. >> the national security adviser has given you different guidance. if that's what the troops are hearing f that

because britain is and now after many years of opposing iran on the same side as iran and russia and china against the united states on the iran nuclear deal what do you make of a trump appearing to threaten their own again and again and britain being on the same side as russia and iran that was really hurt in a mainstream media news it's such a complicated place the world. sometimes sometimes the pieces go to the wrong end of the board when it's convenient and sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend and therefore the most alliances have to be forge and twitter was ever thus. so yes britain doesn't want and most of the you don't want to go ahead and sanction iran the hold down the iranian government because there are riches to be made in iran there are there is great trade to be done in iraq there is oil to be bored in iran there is a great deal of advantage to be gained. in the time honored rail politic way all dealing with the wrong. truth be told they never liked that is the u.k. in the you never lie the us obsession with the wrong the us obsession with iran goes back to the

iran's most famous sculptor remembers it all well. parviz town of ali teaches here at the mom their institute of art in tehran one of his sculptures was to be sent to the exhibition in berlin. for him an essential aspect of the exhibition was to show the mutual influence of already and and occident. proud of how in guitar the whole of proud hargate you are you about me it's about the intersections between iranian and western culture. our work is often influenced by western schools because we didn't have our own tradition of sculpture so we had a poetic and literary tradition but we had very little tradition when it comes to spatial content except in architecture. i've got a full year on their mentality today is very reining in. today's iranian woman wants to express herself to show herself in the best possible light. is. when i turn forty or fifty years ago that didn't exist i mean everyone was emulating the west of those. today they're proud of themselves and that is a good thing so they used techniques his instruments for their work

to lift some of its sanctions on iran plus. i have treated the european union with nothing but respect the united kingdom expects to say. british prime minister to resubmit gets a standing ovation after laying out her breakfast at bottom line at her party's conference and is an end in sight to iraq's months of political uncertainty is finally a pick for prime minister. thank you for joining us indonesia has put out a plea for more body bags as years of disease adds to the walls on the island of so no way c. five days after an earthquake and tsunami well authorities say it's callers of an accountant people are likely to still be buried in collapsed buildings the official death toll has topped fourteen hundred a third of those have already been buried but they often is that number will soar more than two and a half thousand people have been hospitalized with serious injuries seventy thousand have been displaced the united nations has expressed frustration at the speed of the response it says hundreds of thousands of people urgent

some sort of money to he's part of iran and a very popular part of iran but russia is able to sort of say you know well we can deal with the suspect with iran and that we may disagree with them on their relationship with israel i don't know the listening to russian relationship with turkey for example exactly exactly but that's the sort of essence of eurasian ism as i understand it is that you know you respect the people have different cultures but you also understand it's multi led culture it's not just a single in westernized idea of mono valence of a single value that you give to here you see it in the western one of these is always is the one liner here of north korea or iran for grass airport china. or against us and so those ideas which i think are emanating out of russia and because russia had a particular experience of you know the worst of all worlds in the recent history i mean of total liberalism economic new liberalism. stalin ism before that is really quite was got its sovereignty back and its aim is keep it always true this is all the time we have here and went way too f

some sort of money to these part of iran and a very popular part of iran but russia is able to sort of say you know well we can deal with this aspect with iran the that we may disagree with them on their relationship with israel i don't know but that's not a missing to russia relationship with turkey for example exactly exactly but that's the sort of essence of eurasian ism as i understand it is that you know you respect the people have different cultures but you also understand it's multi lead culture it's not just a single in westernized idea of mana valence of a single value that you give to here you see it in the western one of these is always is the one liner here of north korea or iran for china in the us or against us and so those ideas which i think are emanating out of russia and because russia had a particular experience of you know the worst of all worlds in the recent history i mean of total liberalism economic new liberalism. stalin ism before that is really quite well it's got its sovereignty back and its aim is keep it always true this is all the time we have here went w