President donald trump considers we imposing sanctions. And this is. Coming up. Military admits for the first time that its soldiers killed muslim rangar whose remains were buried in a mass grave. Protests continue into his ear against austerity more than two hundred people are arrested on the Prime Minister calls for calm. The e. U. Releases a scathing report about kenyas president ial election but nairobi calls it little. European countries are meeting and irena and delegation ahead of a u. S. Deadline to reaffirm the twenty fifteen nuclear deal Foreign Ministers from some of the countries that helped broker the deal are in talks with the Iranian Foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif in brussels russia confirmed it still supported the deal on wednesday. We are discussing with the american or American Allies and friends that we should separate two things from each other first we want to preserve the nuclear deal with iran because its in our all in our interest to develop to see that Nuclear Weapons are developed with iran on the other inside we see the difficult role that iran has in the region. On in syria and yemen and of course our american friends are right when they say that we have to address or concerns about the situation and we have to discuss also with the foreign minister of iran what to do to bring another i would say to bring iran in another more positive role in this region. Foreign policy chief frederick im a greenie has just spoken after the meeting she reaffirmed support for the deal the European Union remains committed to support the full and effective implementation of the agreements including to make sure that the lifting of Nuclear Related sanctions has a positive impact on trade and economic relations with iran including benefits for the iranian people. The agreements as allowed for deeper cooperation and continuous dialogue with iran on all issues while we have expressed concerns related to other issues such as development of us what is the size and increasing tensions in the region this issue is quite outside the scope of the Nuclear Agreement and are and will be addressed in relevant formats and for a lets bring in the dim barber who is in brussels for us it seems that theres a united front there is that just one of the objectives of this meeting. The objective really years to present a united message that washington will have to listen to as we were just hearing from people like sigma gabrial the German Foreign minister are one hundred percent committed to keeping that nuclear deal with iran on track and they are extremely worried at any taking currying as they see it by President Trump with the terms of the deal now on friday to President Trump is expected to make a decision on reapplying Oil Sanctions. Boris johnson the British Foreign secretary just leaving the talks he didnt speak as he went into the building earlier on but sigma gabrial did and he told us that he needed to he wanted to separate the issues of what he said was the problematic role of iran as you heard in the region from the nuclear deal and earlier speaking in german he said that if the only deal of its kind on Nuclear Weapons were to be canceled this would be a bad signal to other countries given the dramatic situation in north korea similarly Boris Johnson put out a statement a written statement in the early hours of thursday calling the deal something that makes the world a safer place and their point is that you cant change the terms of the deal if congress were to try to do that then that would destroy the whole deal and it would be impossible to renegotiate it so they really are doing all they can to put pressure on the u. S. Administration not to jeopardize that Nuclear Agreement is because donald trump doesnt like the deal he wants to scupper the deal tell us know about the European Response to his stance on this. Which i mean ever since a President Trump said last october that he was not going to recertify the whole deal because of. Things like irans Ballistic Missile program and what he calls irans belligerent attitude in the region ever since then european leaders have been lining up to say we need to keep this deal in place there was a joint statement by two reason may the british Prime MinisterEmmanuel Mark home the french president and german chancellor Angela Merkel which was really quite strongly worded stressing that the deal was the result of thirteen years of diplomatic hard work and saying that it was the best way to ensure that iran did not move towards developing Nuclear Weapons which is the ultimate concern of course for the west some people in the u. S. Dont agree even if President Trump does waive those Oil Sanctions on iran hell still keep pushing to try to change the deal but in a deal thank you. Im Just International is calling for an independent investigation into suspected atrocities but me and my eyes military this comes after the army admitted for the first time that its soldiers made a ten muslim get their remains were found in a mass grave and Rakhine State last month scott had reports. For the first time yet most military has admitted wrongdoing in its crackdown on the hinge of community a statement posted on the Facebook Page of the militarys commander in chief said troops and bodies villagers murdered ten russians and muslims in Rakhine State calling the dead bengali terrorists. It said the army will take action against those involved the bodies were found in a mass grave in the village of in the one thing to note about the statements on the commander in chiefs Facebook Page what it doesnt admit which is that this incident is not an isolated incident that in fact we have amnesty the un and Media Outlets around the world who have documented how theres a much wider pattern of killings of Sexual Violence and the burning of villages across Rakhine State and so we need to see justice and accountability for this enormous range of crimes and not a pretense that theres really just you know one or few isolated incidents the announcement comes two months after the military issued the findings of an internal investigation into its Security Forces following attacks by revenge rebels in august the military concluded no atrocities had taken place the United Nations has been prevented by the government from undertaking its own investigation into what happened inside Rakhine State during august and september when an estimated six hundred fifty thousand people fled to neighboring bangladesh the un has called me on mars actions in rakhine textbook ethnic cleansing a charge the government denies. Even with this reversal of its own findings the military will face increased International Pressure to allow independent observers and investigators into Rakhine State scotland aljazeera. Theres been more violence between police and protesters in five cities during a wave of anti austerity rallies more than two hundred thirty people have been arrested during four days of demonstrations protesters are angry at the governments planned price and tax hikes the opposition is calling for the twenty eighteen budget to be scrapped to news is Prime Minister has called for calm when it happened was that he said. We would like to send a message to the protesters no matter what the government undertakes its top priority is improving economic and social conditions and ensuring the trust in the country and its institutions the government wants open dialogue regarding the demands nicholas knows direct of the Tunis Exchange conference a Research Summit involving all sides of the political debate in tunis and he joins us from beirut always good to see you nicholas know these protests say dont seem to be going anywhere away soon from the streets how damaging do you think this is for the government its very damaging for the government its already damaging the tunisian economy for sure its damaging also to european an external interests who are quite worried about the situation of another kind of seemingly unstable state on the mediterranean on their borders so all around this is great greatly concerning its also concerning to our tunisian friends as well who are experiencing extreme Economic Hardship but who are also scared about unrest and violence and some reports of thuggery and vandalism except for us so i would say really you have all of the Different Actors that have a hand in tunisia future theyre all quite concerned at this moment and do you think is benefiting from this disruption on the streets. I dont think anyone is really benefiting from this disruption in unless it resolves itself in these coming days and weeks into some fundamental reforms of the tunisian socio economic. Lets say if this goes in the direction of real reforms that addresses the vast majority of tunisians complaints about inflation corruption and monopoly monopolist behavior in their economy then we can see the tunisian people and their fragile democracy actually benefiting if however we as were already starting to see some reactions by some of the tunisian Political Class that this is merely an anarchist leftist thuggery then were not going to get tunisia is not going to get anywhere and the external actors that are outside of to use or that have a real interest in the safety and stability and development of the country are going to get increasingly worried europe especially cannot afford to have another failed state on the mediterranean and i would say purely from a humanitarian standpoint these problems need to be addressed and they need to get out and now how do they address them i mean the governments planned price and tax hikes they dont like it so what should they will. Well yeah that clearly doesnt work right i mean is it a good idea to reform tunisias economy by increasing the price of coffee of hair gel of of the basic necessities of life for the average tunisian know pretty much everyone agrees the real rot in tunisia is that an elite level and its an Iron Triangle between the Security Sector traditional mafias and economic elites the monopolist in the country that control the vast resources of the country ok includes by the way with a lot of european and american and International Institutions tunisia was just recently named as a major tax haven by the europeans for europeans so if that core problem the Iron Triangle is address tunisia can move forward but unfortunately it seems the government chose to take the easy way out which is to do some reforms which actually hurt the pocketbooks of tunisians who cannot afford any more inflation they cannot afford any more of the corruption theyve reached their limits and many of them are on the streets demonstrating and rightfully so thank you nicholas israel has approved more than one thousand one hundred new settlement homes in the occupied west bank the Defense Ministry committee signed off on the new homes on wednesday they will be built all across the west bank their approval could further strain relations between israel and the palestinians following the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital the settlements are illegal under International Law forces joins us now from west jerusalem its always a complex in lengthy series of approvals for these units what do these numbers actually mean heavy. Thats right it is an extremely complex process for instance in this group of numbers these eleven hundred twenty two settlement units seven hundred seventy of them are being approved at one stage of the process of the remainder being approved at the next stage of the process and there are more stages there are to some extent that can serve the Israeli Government politically because it has to satisfy a right Wing Coalition members who are very pro settler it has to satisfy or try to satisfy often critical settler groups more generally you accuse the government of not doing enough in terms of settlement construction and facilitating life for settlers in the occupied west bank and so making these announcements several times a year as it does can be a politically expedient thing to do nonetheless we have these eleven hundred twenty two new units being announced the activist group peace now says that more than half of them are well away from the border line with with israel proper meaning that they wouldnt be couldnt be part of any future land swap deal with a two state solution it accuses the Israeli Government of further hampering deliberately the chances of a two state solution on top of that the defense minister is in charge of all this is talking about nearly two thousand five hundred further plans for promotion weve had six hundred fifty tenders the First Tranche of those its believed announced this morning so this really does tally with what we saw last year when there were nearly seven thousand new units announced that was several thousand more than the previous couple of years or twenty eighteen at this stage at least appears to be panning out the same way and harry some ministers are linking expanded settlement construction at this weeks shooting of an israeli settler rabbi in the occupied west bank tell us that. Thats right the thirty five year old rabbi who was a resident of an illegal outpost near nablus he was shot dead from a passing vehicle on tuesday night there is still a huge manhunt underway by the Israeli Military looking for the shooter or shooters involved in that and his funeral took place in the same illegal outposts this is an outpost built without any even israeli legality to it let alone of course the fact that all settlement construction is illegal under International Law the Education Minister a major right wing in israel was there giving the eulogy hearing calls for revenge from some of the hundreds of mourners there he talked about the best revenge being more settlement construction and the defense minister Avigdor Lieberman who as i say is really in charge of the settlement operation in the west bank he was talking about post hoc legalizing this illegal outpost as a response to this killing so it shows you just how political the settlement process is both on the macro level in terms of relations with the palestinians and also in terms of satisfying internal political demands it does harry thank you. Still ahead on aljazeera. Its a National Plan of action with International Ambitions you can launch as a plan to clean up the environment but some already saying its not ambitious enough. The u. S. Steps up efforts to fight smuggling of a synthetic drug behind a nationwide abuse problem. Its been snowing in south korea its been snowing in japan and it looks like a wintry seed and these are very obviously snow showers for anybody whos seen satellite pictures before and thats the picture judger that alarms the south of of the korean. Peninsula and it was temporarily white out conditions of the heaviest snow is likely to be to the north of that and really more over japan than south korea but the breeze is still that youve got a bit more to come watch the temperatures will probably rise a little bit about tommy get to saturday because the strong winds die down to so should become just above freezing and the snow stops falling quite as heavily off to dropping quite a lot in northwest hampshire maybe but the whole card is what temps are still like minus ten in but it will start but it has been colder that coldest pervaded china so shanghai has marks on fire the east three well below average it will feel quite chilly in hong kong as well but again the breeze does a little bit by the time we get to saturday in shanghai and shes seven in hong kong theres no significant change that might feel a little bit different rain is still falling fairly heavily in malaysia its concentrating this time west of borneo but of a circulation hint here so for the potential down toward singapore fairly heavy rain is falling and will fall. Face of the. Game. This time ill just. Take you through the top stories european representatives have met on the rainy and delegation in brussels. To reaffirm the twenty eight fifteen nuclear deal the agreement needs to be signed of every ninety days in the u. S. President has until friday to decide if youll reimpose sanctions. Honest international is calling for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities by the military follows the armys admission for the first time that its soldiers killed ten who were buried in a m