A critical source of finance but there are other reasons behind the shortage of cash in the country. On iran for example affected its funding for its ally in lebanon which is also under sanctions this is disrupted the flow of remittances countries also stop providing help to a country they believe is controlled by their rival iran people are starting to take to the streets there is panic over the currency losing value which has hurt their spending power last month the government declared a state of economic emergency for these protesters however this crisis is not new and they want those in power to be held responsible for years of mismanagement and corruption well lets talk more about whats happening in lebanon from beirut we have sami executive director of the lebanese policy studies thanks very much for being with us. So i want to ask you 1st help me out with this the central bank has enough currency reserves including dollars for the next 30 months but there isnt enough dollars for
A critical source of finance but there are other reasons behind the shortage of cash in the country. On iran for example affected its funding for its ally in lebanon which is also under sanctions this is disrupted the flow of remittances countries also stop providing help to a country they believe is controlled by their rival iran people are starting to take to the streets there is panic over the currency losing value which has hurt their spending power last month the government declared a state of economic emergency for these protesters however this crisis is not new and they want those in power to be held responsible for years of mismanagement and corruption well lets talk more about whats happening in lebanon we have sami executive director of the lebanese policy studies thanks very much for being with us. So i want to ask you 1st help me out with this the central bank has enough currency reserves including dollars for the next 30 months but there isnt enough dollars for importers a
Justice leaving important details around. Its midnight here in moscow and youre watching our International Live from our studio with me in a direction to welcome to the program saudi arabia is claiming to have proof and thought iran was behind the bombing of its Oil Refineries at the weekend and that the attack was not conducted from yemen iran swiftly with the defense ministries claims as lacking real evidence can more pin has the details. But we heard the press conference from the Saudi Ministry of defense earlier and we also understand that at this point mike pompei o has arrived in saudi arabia for his working visit and he is referring to the attack as an act of war in blaming iran but at the press conference that we heard they announced that they had carried out a thorough investigation and come to some pretty specific conclusions. The attack did not originate from yemen the attack was launched from the move and was unquestionably sponsored by iran its not in the range of yemens c
One the target at the president s campaign rally. And tunis he is president ial election heads toward a runoff there passing a law professor against a jailed the media mogul. Now a possible political setback for israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early exit polls from the countrys Election Rerun have put the longtime leaders future in doubt he was hoping to secure a 5th term centrist benny gantz may derail those plans netanyahu was forced to call the rerun when he failed to form a Coalition Government following aprils voters hes been trying to appeal to right wing voters by promising to annex parts of the occupied west bank while hes neck and neck with Opposition Leader benny gantz the channel 12 preliminary exit poll gives netanyahu still a crude party 33. 00 seats and dances blue unwise alliance at 34. 00 now both are still well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority the minority Arab Alliance the socalled joint list is set to come in 3rd with 11 seats and predicted to be
A great job landed the plane on the down. Local news live from moscow this is to the us then where the intelligence chief is none too keen on the fully relinquishing the power to monitor americans phone calls and Text Messages hes putting early pressure on congress to reauthorize the National Security agencys Surveillance Program which is set to expire at the end of this year reporting next his kind of open. While the Trump White House as well as dan coats the outgoing director of National Intelligence are urging congress to renew the freedom act of 2015 and this ability of the National Security agency of the United States to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect its necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it and that it would be in the interest of the country overall for congress to renew the freedom act this is what dan coats said as technology changes. And communicat