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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR January 11, 2018

Coming up in the next sixty minutes. European Union Remains committed to support the full and affective implementation of. A united front raney and officials meet to defend the twenty fifty nuclear deal while the us President Donald Trump considers reimposing sanctions. Im a C International calls for an investigation into suspected atrocities by mere miles military after its admits its soldiers killed muslim ranger. Mudslides and flooding sweep away houses in california at least seventeen a dead and more and missing. Over is the controversial choice to apparently draw ceremony for the Australian Open. Last year because she was serving a dark. European countries that helped to broker the twenty fifteen Iran Nuclear Deal a cooling on the u. S. To reaffirm it support the eve Foreign Policy chief and the Foreign Ministers of britain france and germany met an iranian delegation in brussels they say the deals essential for International Security the agreement needs to be signed off every ninety days President Trump has until friday to decide if hell really impose sanctions. 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 agreement has 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 listing the size and increasing tensions in the region this issue is right outside the scope of the Nuclear Agreement and are and will be addressed in relevant formats and fora. Lets go live now to our correspondent nadine barber who is there in brussels nadeem there seems to be complete unity with regard to the european members of this people plus one group who supported the Iran Nuclear Deal. There is martin unity in terms of stressing the importance of not doing anything that could jeopardize the deal and the reason for vita is because the e. U. Foreign ministers have been stressing that its the way they see. The way forward to stop iran trying to push for a Nuclear Weapons program theyve all been saying in unison that so far iran has been complying with the deal and its been allowing inspectors to do their job and just after the meeting finished mama george zarif the Iranian Foreign minister tweeted the following there was strong consensus in brussels today that iran is complying with a j c p o a the nuclear deal that the iranian people have every right to its dividends and that any move that undermines the deal is unacceptable the european three and the u. Of fully aware that irans continued compliance can is conditioned on full compliance by the u. S. The vats of veiled threat that if on friday President Trump does reapply sanctions on irans oil industry that iran would consider that a breach of the deal they then could take unilateral action the head of Irans Nuclear program a Nuclear Organization rather has said this week that iran is capable of greatly increasing its uranium enrichment if there was a violation of the twenty fifteen deal thats why the europeans are so worried that americans shouldnt do anything hastily and how seriously is the threat being taken of the u. S. Not signing up to the next at ninety day waiver. Well i think many people are suggesting that on friday President Trump will refrain from reapplying those Oil Sanctions but since october he said that hes not going to recertify the deal and its possible that he will not get serious about pushing congress to make. Legislative amendments to the deal now the democrats have said that they wont agree to any changes that are not backed by their european allies in the european allies are saying any change will completely destroy the deal and it wont be able to be really renegotiated so bit of an amp us there the europeans know that theyve got a friendly ear in parts of washington but President Trump has called the deal the worst ever he accused president obama of giving away benefits to iran and hes likely to keep pushing at least for sanctions on more of the iranian economy if not for a complete withdrawal from the agreement all right nineteen thank you for that nadine barber there live in brussels. Was saying best ravi as our correspondent whos following developments from terror on. A busy few days for irans foreign minister divides reef as he engages in a flurry of diplomacy to try and reinforce International Support for the twenty fifty nuclear deal signed with western nations he met with survey last brothers counterpart moscow on wednesday before leaving for brussels due to meet european leaders zarif spoke to reporters on the plane echoing what irans leaders have been saying all along iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal its an example of how peaceful dialogue can yield positive results and the United States is only isolating itself on the International Stage that it be limited from the International Perspective it doesnt seem that the u. S. Withdrawal from the deal is acceptable to other members of the International Community everyone has stressed to the point that its necessary for the u. S. To stick to its commitments their multilateral commitments and the u. S. Just like other signatories of the nuclear deal has to meet them back into her on the government says that it is prepared for any decision by the u. S. President donald trump and that the world should prepare for a worst Case Scenario a political impasse that would see the deal collapse iran restart its Nuclear Program on wednesday a spokesman for Irans Atomic Energy Organization said that if the u. S. Ditches the deal iran will expand its Nuclear Program to levels not even seen before the deal was signed strong posturing by irans leaders a reminder to the white house that iran is held up its side of the bargain all right we can now talk to hama and mousavi a professor of Political Science at the university of tehran thank you for talking to us how are the people of iran taking this moment all the apprehensive do they seriously think that the u. S. May pull out of the deal. Yes i mean of course there is concern i think im donald trump in nate and you know the three decisions tomorrow scenario one is that he decides to really cause the Nuclear Sanctions on iran that were seized on the the application of which were seen as a result of the nuclear deal if he does bad hes essentially withdrawn from the United States from the nuclear deal and iran has made it very clear that if that happens it will also be crossed from the deal under the second scenario is that he decides to continue staying in the deal and that would be the ideal case of course and i think the third scenario which is probably the most likely scenario is that he wore continue to stay in the deal but he was tried to implement new nonNuclear Related sanctions now if that happens and i think that is the most likely outcome and what is happening is that you launch benefits from the deal are continuing to deny inish as a result of all the sanctions the trumpet ministration isnt all going on you want in the past year and i think if we do continue to do that if the trumpet ministration continues to do that i think it will lead down to a path that iran will withdraw in the long run because the benefits you on was supposed to receive out of the deal or according to a lot of people and according to the protests you just witnessed in the weeks have been very slim thats the thats the next point i wanted to make because if indeed donald trump does pursue that scenario scenario number three then that will do very little to settle what seems to be a very restive population in many parts of iran at the moment given that they feel that theyre not receiving the benefits from this nuclear deal. Yes and this has been a strategy of the Donald Trump Administration since the first they came into office essentially what hes doing is that years not really imposing Nuclear Related sanctions but hes implementing sanctions through other excuses and the result is the same essentially for the uranium economy it is making the europeans very restless in regard to it investing in iran and as a result iran is not seeing the kind of Foreign Investment it was hoping to receive out of the deal and i think that is the main point in the sense that if the United States this decides to withdraw from the deal then you want to not continue to up hold the deal with the europeans because the United States is not saying that we will not be part of the deal its saying something more in saying that even at other companies europeans chinese russians dislike to do business with iran were going to implement sanctions on them and the result is that a lot of european banks are not working with iran even today so even before all of these concerns in the result has been that the iranian economy has not improved as much as people were hoping it will and how far is the credibility then of president rouhani and his fellow reformists depended upon the success or otherwise of the nuclear deal in the in searing benefits. The wrong government is suspect and especially his Foreign Policy team like doctors the real doctor iraq to dr robin cheek they have invested immensely in the nuclear deal i mean we have to remember the army came into office five years ago on the agenda of weeding a nuclear deal with the west and as a result of that improving the iranian economy now he did reach a deal with the United States and five other countries in the arabian economy has improved slightly so he has done something but it has been much less than people were expecting and i think if the deal falls apart then its going to have a huge impact on raw army and the reformists especially considering the fact that were going to have parliamentary elections next year and in three years were going to have president ial elections. Thank you very much indeed that imus international has called for an independent investigation into suspected atrocities carried out by mere miles military this comes after the army admitted for the first time that its soldiers murdered ten muslim ranger their remains were found in a mass grave in record time state last month so to hide the reports. For the first time in mars military has admitted wrongdoing in its crackdown on the range of community a statement posted on the Facebook Page of the militarys commander in chief said troops and buddhas villagers murdered ten russians are 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 had 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 religious 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 well as is the me im a country director for the center for humanitarian does over me says its no coincidence that. Admitted to killing ten am rakhine say on the very same day that two journalists with charged for violating the countrys secrecy laws. Theres a lot of speculation about that and the reason hasnt been formally stated so some news reports for example the New York Times have pointed to the arrest of journalists who admits hanes last month and charged yesterday under the official secrets act and the suspicion is that they were researching alleged abuses in Rakhine State that they had evidence of this so one theory is that well the minute you know military are doing is trying to get ahead of the new story and show that the action before that story broke and of course thats just speculation at this point or a number of people have drawn a link between the arrest of these two best journalists for more answers and what weve seen today in terms of the amounts were from the memo miller i think what were going to see is a continued disconnect between the domestic position and the International Position and the International Position and seen uses of them on access for the u. N. And others to independently verify the allegations of abuses that have been made while domestically theres no pressure from the local population for so lets say in. International organizations and they will address it themselves but that will not i think satisfy the International Community so i think the gap between whats happening inside the country and outside is only like you. But there are a lot more to come on this aljazeera news hour including protests continue in tunisia against austerity more than three hundred people have been arrested by the Prime Minister and his calm the worrying impact of slotting on a cholera outbreak in democratic republic of congo and in sports a limpet champion low fat gets ready to start a new chapter in his career and. The only thing and the Opposition Leader saying. There are major hurdles to clear before a new Coalition Government can be formed and other merkel is hoping for progress on a deal on the final day of talks in berlin it would break a political stalemate theres left germany without a full government since elections in september mrs Merkels Christian Democratic Union party and the opposition social democrats have been trying to find Common Ground to begin formal legacy ations on an Alliance Sheet of farm. Weve made a lot of preparatory work but there are still big hurdles to clear i can say that our party will be constructive to find the necessary compromises but of course we will also focus on the knowledge that we have to conduct the right politics for our country here we are. Poised to be we will look at the progress made over the past four days in its entirety which is quite a number of issues we have identified together as common interests but there are still big hurdles to clear and it will definitely take all day. Lets go live now to our correspondent david chase is there in berlin sounds very much david as if theyre trying to manage expectations do we think that there will be a deal which will allow them to go into formal negotiations by the end of the day or not. Good question martine its been an extraordinary period of political limbo for germany they really must get on with government so these talks are vital but they are only talks about talks now been taking a range of opinions from think tanks and analysts here in berlin and they say there is indeed a lot of Common Ground between the parties but one of the most intriguing interesting points they were making was that there seems to be no chemistry between the parties and that theres no real grand vision theyre going to have to take to the country to move germany forward its more like are trying to construct a Patchwork Quilt of votes but no real vision for what where they want germany to go no real mission there pointing out and also that social chemistry within the social democrats itself and that is also diffic

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