it puts the united states in a bind. even if the united states do not partake in this operation as u.s. officials have tried to say overnight, even if the united states did not partake, does the united states have advance warning? does it benefit? israeli press reports say u.s. officials are satisfied with what the israelis have done. either way, it puts the united states in a very bad position in any perception of talks over iran's nuclear program. >> how is this being seen in iran? >> people basically believe this was carried out with u.s. support because all israeli acts of terror and sabotage have been carried out with support from u.s. military bases surrounding iran, u.s. embassies, sometimes other embassies. we also have a history where iea -- iaea have passed on intelligence to the israeli regime. whether biden himself knew it or not, there is the possibility the pentagon and the cia went behind his back, as with all repeatedly during the trump administration. whether biden knew or not, it does not make a differe

states but of business from other countries who cooperated with a country that the united states doesn't like for some reason is now under threat that is against western values just like the so-called magness is against western values because people can be you know their property can be taken away from them their right to travel kind of the limit that based on decisions not taken by the court but by decisions taken by bureaucrats you know by bureaucracy beijing is decisions or newspaper reports that's very concerning asked for they want to me a russian economy is remarkably stable we survive their coronavirus pandemic much better than doing that they despite some very bad predictions from there that they i don't like shoving throwing there but when i heard american predictions for example about iran losing millions of people and us american staying away from it i heard that in the early it went early 2000. when i thought that this wasn't just you know laurel and here we have. the house we should get back on topic though. dimitri the whole coronavirus handling of course is a very big issu

states or the alliance with united states. north korea is a concern but it's a different kettle of fish if you like to compare to china with china what we're seeing is an expansion of its military orbits political and claims over the south china sea which a graphical claims if you like expressed in military terms by the occupation and the construction of artificial island in the occupation off asylum with military assets and that's causing a direct concern to a lot of states within the asia pacific particularly countries in the around the south china sea south asian countries like vietnam in particular philippines and what's happening here is that they're trying to secure the few lines of communication for this is expressed in terms of the modernization and expansion of naval assets quite naturally so in order to secure these maritime waterways from scenarios in which they could be altercations with chinese national battle or naval and commercial in nature which could lead to an inadvertent escalation between partners so that

despite predictions from the united states. i don't like shade denfraude. sami: we should get back on topic. the coronavirus is a big issue. let me ask this question. are we necessarily heading toward deterioration between the u.s. and russia in relations? you could look back to the 1980's and see the sort of stance ronald reagan took towards the then soviet union, it would have been described as a very tough stance but ultimately come limited -- ultimately culminated in warm relations with gorbachev. >> right now, we can't put anything the biden does at the beginning of his presidency on any kind of pedestal to show that he is different from anyone else and is going to have a markedly different u.s. foreign policy. because he hasn't had time to do anything serious when he came into power, he did everything that was easy, he signed back up in the paris accord, stated he wants to get the iran deal back on track, these are easy things to do. but when it comes to difficult issues like what to do with russia and the hybrid nature of warfare that we see happenin

troops relations are at such a low point that there's no there's no one left in the united states lobbying interests behalf and no one in washington is really worried about angering her any more there's a sense that there's nothing left to lose so biden for the 1st time was actually able to follow through on his promise and use the term genocide method in istanbul so clearly the government in ankara knew this was coming but still they are so angry about it. well of course they are angry about it because they are angry that turkey's a nato ally and a strategic so-called strategic partner in the camp politicizing history and be biased rather than being objective on historical facts that of course will linger turkey but turkey is also in a position that does not necessarily take. biden's words at a level well where they think too much of it in the sense that they will they day know that this is not a legally binding decision it's a symbolic decision to call to use the word for the 915 year events. having said that of course there is a public reaction and political reaction because. there is a

the number of refugees allowed into the united states this year will soon be increased from its historic low president joe biden had initially agreed to limit admissions 215008 cap set by his predecessor but he faced criticism from his own party and says the cap will be increased by mid may. the united nations nuclear watchdog says iran is enriching uranium at 60 percent purity confirming earlier statements from tehran it comes as members of the 2050 nuclear deal continue efforts to revive the agreement in vienna the head of the iranian delegation says talks are on the right track. former italian interior minister and deputy prime minister matthew selvi has been ordered to stand trial the right wing likud party leader has been charged with kidnapping for refusing to let a migrant ship dock in sicily 2 years ago ukraine is expelling a russian diplomat after one of its officials was detained in russia russia accuses alexander source the nuchal trying to obtain classified information ukraine rejects the allegation is calling it an illegal detention was the headlines the news continues on al

the united states sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half and half by the end of.

secretary of defense makes it probable that israel informed the united states the united states tacit approval because to take undertake such an action if israel was behind this attack to undertake undertaking the day before the u.s. secretary of defense arrives in israel would be quite risky if the americans were not informed of such a plan and i think in a way this this helps the united states this attack to explain during the negotiations that iranian regime through its proxies in iraq has been attacking american forces we see a number of attacks i think have been attacks recently and america has only recently. retaliated once saw that you argue regime has tried to use its proxies to pressure the americans in the nuclear talks then we saw recently that brought advanced centrifuges and that's another a pressure point which now it seems that they nor longer have it judging by the new york times report for being sent back by a number of months i think what is important to note is that there have been 2 attacks in the press that have been no attributed to israel in the last year both o

states is rethinking its military posture and that the region is no longer the united states priority and i think interestingly a more subtly internal to the u.s. government this is a message from the white house to the pentagon to central command to those who do middle east policy that the united states government is giving a push back signal inside the government to those who do the military to those who do middle east policy that again this is no longer a priority all right under us for many this could be an indication that biden is delivering going to election campaign promise he made which is about the need to rethink the way the administration should be dealing with saudi arabia. well yes i mean it there is it's a very much a tight group walk there by the by elements in is doing here because on the one hand there was the promise that they would you know kind of rethink it recalibrate the relationship with the crown prince who have been so man and trying to put some distance between the administration and the crown prince and obviously making it clear break from what happened pre

the united states is not configured for this. every chinese aid and development worker sees he himself as a vanguard for larger chinese business. i don't think anybody and u.s. aid to things that way but i need to start thinking that way if they are serious about the whole of government approach. i'm going to differ slightly from ibish on the presence of the united states fleet. texas is competing with markets in asia, competing with saudi arabia for markets in asia to export, and in some ways, the fifth fleet is underwriting the geopolitical risk of a buying saudi arabian oil. i am not sure if we start thinking strategically if that is going to make sense, particularly for texans. hussein: that is the argument are as referring to. i was just saying, that is precisely the argument i was referring to that many people are making. hashem: biden made this quite clear that he will definitely need to rebuild ties with nato and we are talking about nato, we are talking about russia at the same time because that is where the western thin

basically was vice president of the united states and told by the president obama essentially to take a pass while hillary clinton tried to run. this is someone coming in who sort of mama many people perceived to win at the margins, and as josh said, to now look at him trying to do something on the scale of it the new deal or the great society, i am interested in how you see it. do conservatives look at joe biden as potentially that consequential? liz: i don't know. i think that is an open question. i think there are a lot of conservatives, and i would point out that i call myself a libertarian, so i am not quite on the same page as them with this. but a lot of conservatives have been slightly surprised how progressive biden has been. what they expected to be was that he would be ideologically moderate but this positionally more out there, but they are seeing the reverse. for those of us who have had to pay more attention to biden from when he was the vice presidential nominee in 2008, so i was going through information about him, i am not terribly surprised by this, nor am i terribly

states don't only not follow the laws in the united states with impunity, but violate international law. in fact, the commissioners found , importantly and uniquely in this report, that systemic police violence in the united states against black people constitutes a crime against humanity under the rome statute, that it is a widespread attack on a civilian population, in this case, black folks in the united states, accomplished through murder, torture and other qualifying me. it is one of the main highlights of the report. steve: i want to underscore this point, i found it so fascinating. thank you for letting me take a look at the report early, but you basically say we are unable to fix this and need international intervention. we need the international criminal court to take action because the united states has proved itself unable to take the corrective measures that need to be taken. i want to underscore that i have that right. and i know there are complexities, but what would it take for action like that to take place? nada: the international prosecutor of the icc has the capac

envoy said that the united states understood that you are not the united states would have to lift the sanctions that are inconsistent with the 2015 chase e.p.o. lay the iran nuclear deal essentially what iran has been demanding from the start. tarik of course nobody expects these proximity talks will be easy but how long and arduous do you think this process will end up being well i think it will take some time because both sides apparently are coming into this discussion with pretty hard line positions iran's position as reiterated by the foreign minister job is very is that the united states 1st needs to remove all of the sanctions that were imposed under the company ministration and also possibly compensation for the financial damages to the iranian economy on the u.s. side there are 30 demands that iran reversed the steps that have taken to step outside of the uranium enrichment the limits of the j.c.b. away so i think the europeans have a bit of a challenge to try and bridge this gap although there are some suggestions of a phased approach or a step by step or action for action a

that's the united states capitol police officers a suspect is in custody both officers injured all 3 being transported to the hospital and that statement coming from the u.s. e.p. just in the last 5 minutes or so ok allan thank you for now stay there and we'll see if i can get you back on the phone to get into it with whatever they need to understand having a look at google maps here at the same time as well trying to get a. handle on things so the north barricade vehicle where when you on independence avenue as alan says the other side i think from the picture we're looking at. all this could be the you know i'm struggling to get a bearing on that to be honest. but some of the close up pictures that we're seeing now as well of and as allan said the report that vehicles have. that barricade. 2 offices apparently hit suspect taken to hospital and this is all what are we now trying to think of the date at the moment forgive me 2nd of april so you know 3 months almost since the insurrection on the capitol which brought all that huge new security it was an extraordinary great big ring of

here in the united states and see we would want full approval for this vaccination because of course you remember the only operating on temporary american c. approval which was granted to make sure that they could get shots into people's arms and millions of people have received their vaccination this is good news as i see coming on the back of what was essentially bad news on wednesday that's when johnson and johnson said that they were stopping shipments of vaccination to the united states that's because millions of doses of the drug were ruined at a factory in baltimore. as a new government after a scandal over a secret deal to buy russia's vaccine doses brought down the previous administration the crisis paralyzed one of the e.u.'s hardest hit countries more from november. swearing in a new government and hoping to turn the page on a terrible year for slovakia's ruling coalition. president says on a couple to over praise the coalition for reaching an agreement in 4 weeks you know unfettered contesting the real fulfillment of the success of your agreements will be if these governm

and nearly half the population of $67000000.00 have had a 1st jab in the united states president joe biden is promising to deliver $200000000.00 shots by the end of the month so far almost 30 percent of people in america have received a dose the slow pace of the vaccination campaign could hamper economic recovery the block is predicted to grow less than 4 percent next year the u.s. and u.k. are expecting nearly double that. all right let's bring in our guests in reading in the u.k. we have simon clark associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading and grenoble in france barry pradelle ski associate professor of economics at the national center for scientific research and invertebrate germany. political analyst and a huge oil monet professor at stanford university in berlin welcome all of you to the program rick let me start with you today so the world health organization has sharply criticized europe's vaccine rollout as unacceptably slow just how bad is the situation currently and how much could this potentially be prolonging the pandemic in europe. well o

it does not necessarily mean there is a command and control of what you might call the united states central like in iraq and syria where they might give guidance on conducting the insurgency. but the fact is the operations of these insurgents in mozambique appearing in the newsletter of the islamic state, in the news outlet of islamic state. so there is some kind of communication going on. also, these insurgents in mozambique come to the islamic state central african progress. the fact that they have been allocated as an additional province, as it is so-called, of the, shows there is an ideological link. so i would redirect with the previous test said about the local grievances, and they do need to be taken account. on the other hand, there is a very clear ideological link to the islamic state. this did not emerge in a vacuum, have been underground for years with al-shabab, fundamentalists, and so forth. hashem: you spoke earlier about the disenfranchisement of the people there. this is an area particularly, cabo delgado, where with the ruby deposits and the liquefied natural gas, i

states -- what the precedent is for the united states. a colleague used to tell me that we try hard to get ernest, direct, sensible foreign policy. when you compare that to look at china, russia, europe, asia, latin america comes out to be this orphan. the one dealt with last. i guess my question is given the legacy of american foreign policy in the region that has not put latin america first and foremost, and you have talked about root causes, how do we square that and bring it around, given we have really never been that good at latin american foreign policy? >> very good point. in foreign policy circles, amongst scholars of international relations, international politics, one says latin america is traditionally perceived as the backyard of the united states. that is not the only reason why the u.s. considers it secondary importance. the key issue is, we do not have nukes. if any of the countries in the region had nukes, our status and policymaking circles in washington would go up. i do not know if i would subscribe to counseling any l

2013 forward with the united states that indicates to me a person in important position all right so i think you've both made albeit informally good points on that one let's shift things a little bit and talk perhaps to philip about miguel diaz can now he becomes 1st secretary of the communist party but he's not an unknown in the world of politics he's in fact the cuban president what do we know about his political inclinations philip and where he might stand when it comes to political reform. well 1st it's very important to recognize that what's going on today and this weekend is a party congress and really. that raul castro was that he worked very assiduously to separate the party from the government and so that we killed the as can i was elected president 2018 and so there will be other obvious continuity and the government the government in effect takes its direction from the party but i think we can make too much of this change party leadership are. so what do we know about me yes q no he was is an engineer he was a regional party leader and then was brought to a banner in an ef

states have made it clear kiev will not be left alone if russia launches an offensive in the region we'll discuss this with our guests shortly but 1st now the in baba reports. it's pictures like this that have got the government in kiev so concerned a week ago 4 ukrainian soldiers were killed in fighting in the east now here is accusing russia of preparing to expand its military presence in the separatist controlled regions of done yes going to hanscom as well as the border with crimea to the south moscow maya but a bully davies calling the head banging on thursday ukraine's foreign minister called on moscow to quote immediately and unconditionally reaffirm its commitment to a political and diplomatic settlement and a cease fire regime and. now president joe biden has spoken directly with the ukrainian leader flooding is alinsky the white house says he affirmed the united states is unwavering support for ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of russia's ongoing aggression my bedtime now we discussed the situation in the bus in detail president biden assured us th

and welcome to the program fully back to bill it's been in the united states the longest running war but it's now set to end president joe biden plans to withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan by september the 11th this year that's exactly 20 years after the invasion was ordered by george w. bush following the attacks on new york city and the pentagon the planned withdrawal will miss him a 1st deadline for a pullout that the trumpet ministration agreed with the taliban last year the us has some $2500.00 soldiers in afghanistan as part of a nato mission is spent trillions of dollars on the conflicts and lost more than 2007 member since 2001 washington says it will reposition its troops in the region to keep an eye on afghanistan but some u.s. officials have criticized the decision they say is a grave mistake that could embolden the taliban and lead to more violence senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said foreign terrorists will not leave the u.s. alone simply because up our politicians have grown tired of taking the fight to them the president he says needs to explain to the

that is what we are doing with the united states. gun violence, inequality and race, far-right populism, america's retreat from the world, everything is on the table with our special guest today. he served as a french diplomat for more than three decades. he served as france's ambassador to the unit's dates, united nations and israel. and he was the french negotiator on the iranian nuclear issue. let me start. you took this tweet down but there was a tweet you issued once that i found very compelling. it said after brexit, after trump, a world is collapsing. your response to that was, the content was right. maybe the framing was wrong. i look at that and say, that was a world collapsing. my question is is that world m back? >> actually, i was right on the substance. i was not right as a diplomat to say it. it was not criticizing donald trump shared it was simply that i realized on the eighth of november 2016 that all the western world, the u.k. and the u.s. and i was thinking of my own country was facing a global crisis. 40% of our c

i will castro used most of his opening speech to repeat accusations that the united states is tightening an economic news around cuba to sabotage its companies and monetary reforms impose chaos and to provoke a social uprising. this was a thinly veiled reference to an increase in demonstrations and expressions of political dissent in cuba. coincides with an acute economic crisis and scarcity of primary goods. while i live i will be ready to continue fighting for the country and socialism with the most strength than ever let's shout together long live a free cuba the. crown castro ended perhaps for the last time with the slogan point to his brother fidel. fatherland or death as cuba's communist party prepares to face an uncertain future without a castro at the helm you see in human al-jazeera. well at all gaston is in half an hour with more on how cubans are reacting to roll castro stepping down. what does raul castro's retirement mean for ordinary cubans all the sectors of the population are broadly supported by the government particularly those that lived through the huge improvements i

problem that we have there in india we see that across united states but the fact is in some places take the state of texas for example in us you've got more people working in the renewable sector already today right now than there are in oil and gas and that's only going to continue to increase so we can actually be much more ambitious than what the current president is calling for and that's a good thing so there's no we don't have a whole lot of time left let me just ask you this i'm going to excess ask you to expand a little bit on what michael is saying how can countries from your perspective better invest in renewables and provide energy access for the poor. well i think they can definitely start doing a lot of the financing towards renewable energy in terms of helping individuals in particular community sectors except i think the point about just transition and the fact that employment in the coal sector needs to transition to 2 more the new but energy employment is one area i think in south africa we are seeing people on the ground communities except for engaging in the old

states and around the world for almost 9 and a half minutes he knelt on the neck of floyd in the city of minneapolis nearly a year ago it took about 10 hours for the jury to convict chevon on all 3 charges and 7 is sentence in 2 months and 8 weeks in faces up to 40 is in prison. we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional 2nd degree murder while committing a felony by the defendant guilty verdict agreed to this 20th day of april 2021 at 1 44 pm signed your foreperson juror number 19. same captioned verdict count 2 we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count 2 3rd degree murder perpetrating an eminently dangerous act find the defendant guilty this verdict greed to this 20 if they have april 2021 at 1 45 pm signed by a jury foreperson journal or 19 same caption verdict count 3 we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count 3 2nd degree manslaughter culpable negligence creating an unreasonable risk by the defendant guilty. well george floyd's family and their lawyer have spoken on the phone with president joe biden and thanked him for his support

meet with the united states without united states easing sanctions. haydn started off in office with this approach. the difference in the changes that this did not work. the u.s. envoy was able to convince others in washington because there is a divide in washington, he was able to convince people here there could be indirect talks with iran, proximity talks, what is happening now in vienna. he said publicly -- and this is critically important -- he said that the u.s. understood the u.s. would have to lift the sanctions that are inconsistent with the 2015 jcpoa. what iran has been demanding from the start. >> nobody expects these proximity talks will be easy, but how long andrduous do you think this process will end up being? >> i think it will take some time because both sides are coming into this discussion with hard-line positions. iran:'s position is the united states needs to remove all the sanctions imposed under the trump administration and also possibly compensation for the financial damages to the iranian economy. on the u.s. side, there is d

i think well it was the united states in terms of your more christian the derby and the fact that in the. end except the set was right when you said that issue that this procedure that way since i was an angel was not all there around even though there was that referendum but 100 percent of the editor told us in russia had the right to come to that you know the voting stations i came you know all my family. and the majority shouldn't rule her the sad or change the constitution that was included there was not all of it then you or you know the new rules or the elect and the president basically is going to be an exception all the other brands and will not be able to stay for more than 2 terms but also there are many other things which people support such as you know defining the family as a union or man and woman which makes it possible to combat one sex marriage later on the way russia and other majesty which are supposed to protect russia from western influence as they were given is supported by the people and. going to disappear was i think part of the. you know i gingerly started t