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A grim prospect for europes biggest builder and dima is putting the emergency brakes on too is announced in a press release that it had suspended activities in iran until further notice the e.u. has reiterated its rejection of u.s. sanctions and is encouraging european businesses to carry on dealing with iran to protect european businesses from the effects of secondary sanctions of sanctions that the u.s. imposes outside of the study we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in ...

November for sanctions which have the oil penalties in there and then some kind of net effect on their economy in twenty nineteen and so what do you make that of what the europeans are saying because i mean they are saying to iran now please do not withdraw from this deal please do not ask your nuclear program they say that really the future of security in the region and the future security in the world is stake here are you concerned about the danger of an escalation in the region even militari...

Like to go for everything. sincere, we want to talk to you. what they really want to do is to get more money, and to people across the middle east. >> harris: before i let you go, what kind of leverage do we have been dealing with the ran now that we did not have a year and a half or two years ago? >> i think we have allowed, these european companies who have shown as was said, will show you the group used to hanging with. so quick to do business as they sacrifice every principle, calling for th...

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There might be a second summit. but the north koreans are aware that if they were to come out publicly and declare the singapore summit a failure and to say they simply cant work with the u.s., thats also going to put the trump administration in a bit of a corner here. so the north koreans feel at this point they have some leverage. but yes, the u.s. does have to wonder, are they going to be perceived to be taken for a ride once again? >> will ripley, thank you for the reporting. and now on to...

A means of leverage we have seen a great deal of progress in some cases the ukrainian government has been sort of dragged to it and the pressure that the that the west has brought on them has been the thing that is has made the difference for instance with the anti-corruption court this actually the reforms were introduced thanks to western pressure so its a very delicate balancing game both within the ukrainian government and with the west at the moment theyre not turning off the taps however p...

And get into sentencing and then try to strike a deal. his best leverage was before this. but he intended to go -- he went ahead with the trial and his leverage gets reduced over time once you are in trial, obviously depending on the outcome of the trial. it has always been a big surprise to people that paul manafort wars willing to send himself to jail for many, many decades. over 70 years of age. they dont know if that means he believes president trump will pardon him. is he certainly recess a...

Of control. a million to one, the dollar to the venezuelan currency. what do we do? >> it could spark huge migration flows. could make our immigration problem worse. destabilize the neighbor colombia that were very close to. i always thought what we need to be doing is bring about some type of break in this situation. as a unity government essentially, where the opposition is able to be brought into the government in venezuela more and a process of moving things forward. the only way to execute ...

Behavior. so far theyve shown no indication theyre prepared to do that. the president has made it clear repeatedly that he viewed the iran nuclear deal as one of the worst in american diplomatic history. i thought he was right on target on that. were not going to allow iran to get nuclear weapons. >> the problem is we no long ver the leverage. we have the financial leverage. not diplomatically. can china and russia move in and buy all of this oil, not worrying about the u.s. sanctions, whereas e...

Military exercises in a key shipping lane in the persian gulf. with me right here is aaron david miller, a cnn global affairs analyst and was an adviser to the white house in his two decades at the u.s. state department. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> lets talk about these sanctions on the horizon, really right around the corner. how impactful might that be? does that impose some leverage the u.s. might have over iran? >> first of all, a lot of pain for the iranian economy. inflation is...