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The Amanpour Hour

united states can find the agreement that satisfies everybody's tests the prevailing expert opinion is that if successful set of military strikes would only delay the onset of a weapon capability for a couple of years if you can put it all ten years the world could turn upside down 15 times in ten years and iran could be a different place to middle east could be a different place. we want to this issue and we will do our best provided that our partners are prepared to walk this road with us for a period of years according to the un international nuclear agency, iran followed the letter of that agreement and the tensions in that region were much much less& a very rare thing happened. all five members of the un council, including china, including russia worked

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world. >> the biggest democratic exercise starts this weekend and will take more than a month to complete as nearly 1 billion eligible voters in india, a deciding whether prime minister narendra modi & his bjp, hindu nationalist party deserve a third term united states and its allies are watching closely india's roaring economy and location and makes it a vital counterweight to china's influence in the region.& india knows it, which is why the west has been willing to turn an, a blind eye on human rights abuses, freedom of the press, and its treatment of religious minorities. >> cnn's will ripley, is there and explains just what's at stake indian prime minister narendra modi seems virtually unstoppable as india heads to the polls modi is widely expected to win a commanding majority of india's nearly 1 billion are eligible voters. >> the biggest democratic election in the history of

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podcasts welcome back to the program. >> israel and iran are in a face off with no direct globally bag forums for discussion was the 20 iran cle classic arms control agreement reached under the obama administration that contained iran's nuclear program under intrusive international inspections in exchange for billions in functions relief. but since donald trump abandon the deal back in 2018, at israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's urging iran has been enriching near weapons-grade uranium and surging ahead with its ballistic missile program from my archive this week, we revisit my conversations with all the key stakeholders at the center of what had been a landmark deal, a vital reminder of how negotiated agreements actually made that region more

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admiral has said the navy is going to escort commercial ships to the red sea amid tensions, which i suppose underlines the fact that israel could also strike other targets as well in the region, that there might be other options open to them, and the region. yes. there might be other options open to them, and the region.— there might be other options open to them, and the region. yes, there are more options — them, and the region. yes, there are more options open _ them, and the region. yes, there are more options open to _ them, and the region. yes, there are more options open to israel- them, and the region. yes, there are more options open to israel if- them, and the region. yes, there are more options open to israel if it - more options open to israel if it wishes to carry on at the moment. all the signs are that the iranians wish to play this down. an unnamed iranians official has been quoted at reuters news agency saying that there is no current intention to react tally it against us. iranians media have been playing it down. there have even been jokes on iranian social media, playing down what israel has done. i saw one that just showed a paper dart being thrown from a window and somebody saying, here is israel's air strike, implying that it is minimal. at the moment that is quite an interesting

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doesn't lob any more missiles in the direction of iran, then i think that this probably will draw a line under the episode. or the fact that the middle east is still in absolute turmoil. the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, is in finland. she has has called for a de—escalation. we have to do everything possible, that all sides should restrain from the escalation in that region. the escalation in that region. we have seen the massive attack with drones and missiles, about 300, by iran on israel. it is absolutely necessary that the region stays stable let's ta ke let's take you to the g7 meeting. we are hearing from the foreign minister. the goal is de—escalation.

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interest they take in each other, they really don't get it, as far as each other is concerned, they can't read each other very well, i think as a result of that, they both miscalculated, iran and israel, about the others' intentions, and that is not a good omen for the future. as well as that, precedents have been set, direct attacks on each other's territory, so neither is very encouraging for what is already an extremely turbulent and dangerous region. when you talk about the response so far, israel's allies had called for restraint and there has also been apparently cause for a iranian restraint, too. what do you see as the next step? well, everyone is calling for restraint, actually, pretty much except for, no doubt, hardliners in iran and a few hardliners in israel as well. itamar ben—gvir, the national security minister in israel, who said after the initial,

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the province of isfahan, which of course is not a place most of the public facilities. so really if israel intended this attack to take place, and if israel intended for it to inflict some damage, it is not something the public could be seen or used as part of this war of narratives.— narratives. on at is it a significant _ narratives. on at is it a significant province - narratives. on at is it a significant province to l narratives. on at is it a l significant province to hit narratives. on at is it a _ significant province to hit because of what else is there, for example we don't know if anything was hit, but there is a nuclear facility in that region, isn't there?- but there is a nuclear facility in that region, isn't there? there is a nuclear enrichment _ that region, isn't there? there is a nuclear enrichment facility - that region, isn't there? there is a nuclear enrichment facility to - that region, isn't there? there is a nuclear enrichment facility to stop| nuclear enrichment facility to stop it is one of the industrial hubs and it is one of the industrial hubs and it is one of the industrial hubs and it is home to an airbase fleet with a rainy and fighterjets from 1979. iran doesn't have a strong air defence but nevertheless that is one of its airbases and all the reports are that, if there has been an attack, if it is true what they are men american officials have been telling israeli media, and israeli

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in military conflicts. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent james landale who's injerusalem. talk is through the events so far, and what the reaction tells us about how this is viewed in the region? remember, we are still in that stage where the full facts are not known, and that those people who are commenting and talking about what has happened, and many of them have agendas to try and talk up or play down what has happened, but in terms of the basic facts, we know that iranian state media are reporting there have been explosions near a military base in isfahan in central iran. basically if you find tehran on a map and go due south it is there. essentially there have been reports of air defence explosions taking off, a senior iranian

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Governor Barasa, western MPs oppose new sugar sector tax payment system

"Directive will affect sugarcane farmers, majority of whom lack technological proficiency."

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Biden welcomes 'global partner' Kishida to White House

US and Japan strengthen ties to deter China

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