In a scheme to raise funds to build a wall along the Us Mexico Border. Russian Opposition Leader alexina volley is in a serious but stable condition in hospital speculation grows that hes been poisoned. And a massive one day tally for corona virus infections in india is testing finds 29 percent of new delhi residents have antibodies because at 19. And in sport in turmoil as coach says a team is ready to begin a new era of success and her aiming to win their 1st trophy in almost a decade in the Europa League final against sylvia. Welcome to news out top story the u. S. Secretary of state has requested u. N. Sanctions be reimposed against iran because iran has violated the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal that request would in theory begin a 30 day process that could result in a snap back of sweeping u. N. Sanctions but the validity of the u. S. Case is complicated by the fact that washington withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal 2 years ago. Says under the sanctions that iran would stop it would stop iran from enriching uranium or purchasing weaponry our message is very very simple did i say it will never allow the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons the u. N. Sanctions will continue the arms embargo. The place to say to that these restored sanctions will also reimpose accountability for other forms of iranian line activity that the authors of the nuclear deal foolishly downplayed. Iran will again be prohibited from Ballistic Missile testing. Iran will be back under sanctions for Ongoing Nuclear activities such as the enrichment of Nuclear Material that could be applied to a Nuclear Weapons program well irans ambassador to the United Nations said that the u. S. Had no legal standing to reimpose sanctions its no longer a signatory to the Iran Nuclear Deal. Today the us attempted to mislead the international community. By resorting to lawyers contributions to supposedly initiate a mechanism under resolution 2231. 00 according to a conclusive legal fracs the us is not a j. C. If you are a participant and has no right to trigger the socalled its not an ism. Its arbitrary interpretational resolution 2231 cannot change history and thus we are of the Firm Conviction that the letter sent by the us today to the Security Council president all references there in is not on board and has no legal standing and thus you know admissible lets get more now from christian salumi has been following the story from United Nations headquarters in the has already been reaction from france germany and the u. K. Signatories to the iran deal who all sit on the Security Council now theyve made it clear that they oppose any unilateral u. S. Attempt to really impose sanctions what are they likely to do now. Well thats a very good question because we have 2 very strongly opposing sides here the way that the j c. P. O. And the snapback provision as its referred to is written into the deal is that any party to the deal can trigger the reimposition of sanctions within 30 days if it shows a violation of the deal so mike pompei i was secretary of state came to the United Nations submitted this letter showing what it says is the irans noncompliance the fact that it started reimaging youre a past amounts that it is supposed to that it was supplying weapons to various groups in the middle east and they say that that is enough under the deal to automatically reinstate these sanctions as you mentioned earlier other people say other countries on the Security Council say well the United States with drew from that deal and therefore they dont have the right to trigger snapback anymore and the position of the europeans here is very key this put the europeans in a very difficult position they are very keen to preserve the nuclear deal and so they said it in a statement germany france and the United Kingdom that they cant support the u. S. Move its a unilateral move that they say is incompatible with their efforts to support the deal so what is likely to happen the u. S. Will claim that the sanctions are in place others will say that they are not the u. S. Has threatened to sanction any country that violates the sanctions on iran we are likely to see a tense time in the Security Council in the u. N. For diplomacy but in terms of iran its also possible that things. That theres a wait and see approach iran indicated as marjoram said. Nothings going to happen in 30 days that theyre going to do anything in 30 days this isnt the council seat Everybody Knows that theres an election for president in the United States in november and so there may be some attempts to keep it low on the down low until the elections happen and see if a new administration is elected but really theres no clarity no mechanism here to solve that dispute when you have to when you have different positions between veto wielding members of the Security Council. Thank you very much from the United Nations chris sincerely thank you chris and all i can we can now speak to ashish production hes a senior United Nations analyst at the International Crisis group joins us live now from new york via skype so a very eventful off to noon there in new york we heard from actually say oh now he was making the argument that the u. S. Does have the right to pursue unilateral u. N. Sanctions on iran under the under resolution 2 to 3 want to use saying that that resolution is essentially independent of the text of the Iran Nuclear Deal is there a solid legal argument or mechanism for challenging the u. S. Argument. Well firstly i you know ill say that you know the secretary pompey statement has been consistent with what the u. S. Has been pushing for over the past couple of years on this issue asserting that despite its withdrawal from the g c p o if it retains the rights and privileges of a participant because of that one paragraph in resolution 2231 now is or is actually challenging the position i think we wont see much beyond what the ether we came out today you know which was for them big shift no prior to this u. K. France and germany and i think theyve been a little bit coy and a little bit cautious about openly coming out and resisting in rejecting the u. S. Legal standing claim but at the same time russia and china had been clearly. Asserting their claim that the u. S. Is no longer a participant now there have been claims that you know may be the International Court of justice or maybe the uns office of Legal Affairs could get involved realistically you know we do this is an issue primarily for the Security Council itself you know the Security Council is the only place that really dont expect there to be can i just ask you you dont expect there to be any kind of vote on any resolution in the next 30 days well if you listen to secretary pompei rose statement earlier i think he definitely expects a resolution being put forward that the u. S. Will veto a resolution that would have continued determination of sanctions now that could come from maybe the Dominican Republic the state that supported the u. S. Last week that the arms embargo vote but outside of that its hard to see you know whether the other participants will put forward a resolution russia certainly you know is hinting at you know maybe some procedural games that might happen at the council there might meeting even tomorrow to discuss this issue but you know the real challenge in this in this debate is is political rather than legal. Right so and i mean on that point then what is it enough for the european signatories of the Iran Nuclear Deal to sit on the sidelines and try to bribe their time and until november in order for this deal to be maintained in some way are there is there going to have to be more opposition from the european members of the Security Council of the United States well firstly. You know i think the a 3 havent necessarily been sitting on the sidelines in the period leading up to now again you know secretary compeer earlier today singled out the european members of the deal saying that they didnt do enough or didnt take any any good faith efforts but in reality in tehran one might say the same thing. Sure sure and i think that if we are in a very difficult position but they were working behind the scenes to try to find some merrells zone where there could be some way to keep so the concerns about conventional arms embargo expiring without you know really triggering a Nuclear Crisis which you know if you follow the u. S. Logic if snapback were to be legitimate you can really see that leading to a situation where iran walks away from the nuclear deal then you are youre back in a pretoria 15 situation and you have a Nuclear Device in your hands and thats really not to the interest of anyone and so across his group what weve suggested is that in fact it is probably the best thing for all the other members of the council and in fact a lot of the other Member States of the u. N. To talk hold their ground i think and so i just not true and on that point about Holding Holding their ground how much could this bring about a real crisis at the u. N. Security council just how much could it bring about more dysfunction than weve ever seen before and even if they do even if they do nothing even if they were to essentially ignore this u. S. Initiated process does it you know either way is it just going to completely undermine the Security Council. Thats certainly possible in the its a scenario that i think all Council Members have been dreading for basically the past year and we have to keep things in perspective and the council has been been in you know situations before like iraq 2003 where its faced you know serious challenges to it to its legitimacy and credibility now having said that you know we are in uncharted territory now because this is a situation where like you and your colleagues have already said you know the councils own permanent members are interpreted in its own decisions in different ways in possibly not recognizing the reimposition of its own resolutions so over the next couple of months i think what were going to see is 2 parallel realities one in which the u. S. Will assert that its triggered snapback which it did today that 30 days from now snap back has been successful because no one else was able to present a resolution claiming the opposite and then after those 30 days that all of the past u. N. Sanctions on iran have been reimposed on the other hand russia china the europeans and other members will claim that thats not the case the u. S. Doesnt have standing and i think that the next part of that will be the implementation of it and weve already seen signs that the u. S. Is willing to to push and pressure other countries to implement the sanctions aligned in their their domestic policies but i think there will be a Counter Campaign to to not to not basically you know implement any of the sanctions keep the Practical Impact of snapback you know very limited all with the aim of making sure that theres no damaging effect to the nuclear deal all right thank you very much for your analysis on that appreciate it. Joining us from new york ashford on the International Crisis group. Washable stood out for you on this news hour from london 2 weeks of demonstrations and still not giving in protest as in baton rouge defy warnings of the new government crackdown. We look at the future for mali the United Nations joins the regional condemnation of the military coup. And then later in sport cricket players are taking no chances as they head off to take part in the sports most lucrative league. Out steve brown a former chief strategist u. S. President ronald trump has pleaded not guilty to being charged with fundraising fraud accusations right to an Online Campaign that raised 25000000. 00 that was supposed to help build his Us Mexico Border will the department of justice says bannon received more than a 1000000. 00 of the money raised through a Nonprofit Organization hundreds of thousands of which he used to cover personal expenses is also facing a Money Laundering charge each charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 is in prison ok brothers on a joins us live now from new york whats been happening there. Well there still a lot of activity outside this courthouse as were waiting perhaps for steve bannon to walk out those front doors were not quite sure because we do know that he did post bond 5000000. 00 bond that was agreed upon with the judge and the prosecutors and the band and defense team he is in the courthouse but spoke to the judge via video link because of coronavirus concerns theyre trying to keep people as separated as possible through his lawyer he did plead as you mentioned not guilty to both of the charges the entire hearing lasted less than 15 minutes it was pretty quick bannon didnt say much at all other than a couple words to respond to the judge when she asked him a few questions but other than that it was pretty quick he will now according to the judges ruling will now onesies released from hero awaiting trial he will not be able to travel internationally and will only be able to truly move between a virginia connecticut washington d. C. And new york the 4 states where he has business interests ban and is basically accused up with 3 other people of setting up this nonprofit and asking for money from people to him. He said would go completely to build Donald Trumps border wall on the southern border but according to the indictment they received more than 25000000. 00 in contributions but the indictment says that steve bannon siphoned off about 1000000. 00 of that for his own personal expenses and that is very much in violation of setting up a nonprofit its quite frankly illegal and thats why there are these 2 counts against him hell have another hearing in a couple weeks from now but its important to point out that bannon is much more than just a one time long advisor to President Trump hes really the Global Leader of the right movement he supported for. Candidates and advised them in italy germany france and in brazil as well so this certainly has some International Ramifications in that regard but a long story short is banned in pleading not guilty he could be released from this jail house here any time this evening but wont be able to travel internationally as his trial will move forward all right thank you very much for the latest from new york April Elizondo all that has been some reaction from the u. S. President on all trying to this he has said that he was not aware of the allegations and that he feels sad his former adviser i think its a very sad thing for this to ben and i think its surprising but this was something as you know just by reading social media and by reading whatever it is and by speaking to mike and mike and all of them i didnt like that project i thought that was a project that was being done for showboating reasons i dont know that he was in georgia i didnt know any of the other people either lets now speak to political analysts an author eric can he joins us live via skype from washington could this be harmful for trump. Oh absolutely this could be because what this does is this reminds voters every day that President Donald TrumpSignature Campaign issue back in 2016 building a wall along the u. S. Southern border and having mexico pay for it still has not come to fruition and now that his chief strategist steve bannon has been indicted on the salacious charges this is something that will remind voters every day that the president didnt get this done but more importantly now another and her of his vaunted team and a long line of them has now been indicted. It when you speak about voters i mean there is so much happening in the country right now challenges rating to the economy the coronavirus i know in terms of who is paying attention to this is it likely to change the sentiment all support for trump among his base how would you how would you break down the sort of public reaction there in the u. S. Sure right now when you look at the polling data and we have to remember president dont the election is less than 80 days away and President Donald Trump is losing both in the National Polls by anywhere from 7 to 10 points hes a recent poll out today and pennsylvania shows that hes down by 9 points so were talking about an incumbent who is losing in key battleground states that he will need to win in order to secure reelection and he needs more than just his base at this point to get em over the top and what he