To outrage. Across iran as the government takes full price response 50 percent its not. Sure lichens are voting to elect a new leader with ethnic divisions on the rise after the deadly Easter Sunday bombings. But we begin in the u. S. For President Donald Trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter as she testified before congress on friday many of out of it was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine until she was really cold earlier this year well the inquiry is looking into whether trump withheld military aid to ukraine in exchange for the promise of an inquiry against his political rivals back home aljazeera is heidi joe castro has more from capitol hill. And trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t. V. And he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine a woman he ousted
Try to get ukraine to help him with his Political Campaign for reelection now taylor testified behind closed doors 2 weeks ago but according to the transcript that was just released he said he had a clear understanding that there was a quid pro quo and he said the idea for this came from trumps private attorney who was empowered by the president to circumvent regular diplomatic channels in order to carry out this Foreign Policy in ukraine that prioritize trumps political interests above that of National Security now moving forward investigators have announced that public hearings will begin taking place next week which is at the key of what democrats who are trying to impeach President Trump want to accomplish they want more members of the American Public to hear the case for impeaching the president from these witnesses themselves up until this point all of the hearings have happened behind closed doors so the information to americans have has come through hundreds of journalists but
The step this new action will also be under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency dorsetshire body has reaction from tehran. What this means is that the future of this socalled way thats the Nuclear Agreement extending bleecker and bleaker with each step that iran takes this is the 4th that theyve taken so far since may of this year thats when president Hassan Rouhani said that because the United States withdrew from this deal and imposed a series of new sanctions on iran the european signatories that are left are not complying with the steal and until that happens iran will continue to take these measures to get back its Nuclear Program on track and to make up for the loss times of the past 4 years since they decided the greed to slow it down because of this deal the president was adamant that they are still in this agreement but its really up to the europeans to the side whether or not the seal has a future. Iraqi protest as a blocking roads and bridges in the cap
Security aid to bribe the Ukrainian Government to help him with his Reelection Campaign the witness in question here is ordered some of the u. S. Ambassador to the u. And initially he had testified that there was no quid pro quo but upon reviewing the transcripts of other witnesses who had implicated him directly he now says his memory has been jarred and in fact explicitly remembers telling ukrainian officials that this security money was contingent on ukraine issuing a Public Statement saying it would investigate the son of trumps political rival joe biden now what is the significance of this reversal in testimony while some land was widely considered to be one of trumps closest allies he was a donor long before he was named ambassador and the fact that his 1st instinct they had been to protect the president and now hes moving away from trouble is indicative of the growing strength of this case to impeach the president the white house has responded to the release of these testimonies
Salehi announced that iran has now added another 30 advanced centrifuges mahabharata zines. We want supposed to have 30 chinese centrifuges we wanted to work on it after we tested 20 chinese centrifuges then 3 to 4 years later to work on the 30 chinese centrifuges but we faced political challenges and senior authorities decided to show irans potential power and determination this is another step taken by iran to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal authorities here say since the United States withdrew last year and imposed if syriza further sanctions on iran the remaining european signatories have yet to uphold their end of the green meant and until they do iran will continue to advance its nuclear program. That is something to European Union is continuing to warn against we have continued to archie ran to reverse such steps without delay and to refrain from any further measures that would undermine the nuclear deal you know that we as the European Union remain committed