With the french president Emmanuel Macron. Iran says it will start to enrich uranium closer to a weapons grade level, if European Countries dont find a way to save the nuclear deal by sunday. Hussein ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in washington. He says he isnt optimistic about the current iran non nuclear deal. I think it was dead the minute president from withdrew the United States from it and i think its been a zombie ever since. Iran has been more or less abiding by the conditions, they now say they are going to exceed their low uranium enrichment stockpiles and go beyond that in terms of stretching its limits, that i think the logic of it was destroyed when the United States left and so, while i mean it is clearly in europes interest and irans interests to try and string the death throws out as long as they can, ido the death throws out as long as they can, i do think this is a Mission Impossible here. What then is irans strategy . As you say,
And Joao Gilberto, who brought bossa nova to the world and helped redefine brazil, dies aged 88. President Hassan Rouhani of iran says hes urged European Countries to save the International Nuclear agreement, during a phone call with the french president Emmanuel Macron. Iran says it will start to enrich uranium closer to a weapons grade level, if European Countries dont find a way to save the nuclear deal by sunday. Hussein ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in washington. He says he isnt optimistic about the survival of the deal. I think it was dead the minute President Trump withdrew the United States from it, and i thin its been a zombie ever since. Iran has been more or less abiding by its conditions, although they now say theyre going to exceed their low enrichment uranium stockpiles and then go beyond that in terms of stretching its limits. But i think that its been effectively dead. The logic of it was destroyed when the United States left. Whi
Of the vote is in. A further 15 of democratic voters have declared themselves to be uncommitted not favouring any candidate. This is seen as strong pushback to biden from key demographics that he might need to win the state again progressives, voters of colour, and arab and muslim voters concerned by his stance on the israel gaza war. Activists in the state had been organising to send President Biden a message no ceasefire, no vote and encouraged voters to select the uncommitted option instead of the president s name. The movement has wide ranging endorsements, including congresswoman rashida tlaib, who posted this earlier. I was proud today to walk in and pull a democratic ballot and vote uncommitted. We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that our government is about us, about the people. When 74 of democrats in michigan support a ceasefire, yet President Biden is not hearing us. This is the way we can use our democracy to say, listen listen to michigan. Earlier we heard fr
we ll look at that claim and what it could mean for the conflict. also on the programme. the passengers and crew managed to escape from this. but five people were killed in the other plane involved in the crash injapan. in the uk. the government is claiming success on processing asylum claims. we ll have a look at the numbers. and a new discovery goes on display it s more than 100 million years old. a marine reptile nicknamed sea rex we will start with developing news out of the middle east. hamas says its deputy leader has been killed in an explosion in lebanon. saleh al arouri was deputy chairman of hamas s political bureau but is also known to have been deeply involved in its military affairs. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments. this is the aftermath of the explosion thought to be hamas office in beirut. reports six people killed. local media have described as an israeli drone attack. bbc hasn t verified that. the israeli militar
Hello and welcome. Im Lynda Kinkade with the latest on the israel hamas war. An Israeli Ground offensive appears all but inevitable. Authorities in gaza saying more than 4,300 palestinians have been killed in the past two weeks after the hamas Terror Attack in israel which killed more than 1,400 people with around 200 others missing or captured. Hundreds of Armored Vehicles along with thousands of israeli troops are now poised to strike at hamas at a moments notice. On saturday, the idf Chief Of Staff again repeated what theyve heard all week, that we will enter gaza. An Idf Spokesperson told cnn its not a question of if at this point, only when. The timeline, you know, that changes according to many variables on the ground, in the air, and across the sea. The important thing is that the idf will conduct significant Military Operations in order to defeat hamas, in order to bring our hostages home, and in order to fundamentally change the Security Situation that we have in southern isra