Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240714

In the sky and when that impact rumbled across the sea. I had a clear. Sense line of sight above the haze bang into a beautifully clear with sky there was no. Explosion in the sky there was no rocket streaking there was no plane coming down in flames and if there had been i would have seen it. Because i was looking right out i mean. A student aware of my surroundings when im at sea. It didnt happen. Until rebel is a pilot with more than 52 Years Experience and then a rose by sea engineer we asked him where the flight 990 might have been hit by an aside. I believe he lets the missile did not hit the sack rofft if we look at all the elements of the evidence that we received. Evidence from witnesses did not see any missiles in the air that night which was a very clear night before right all stations that have the aircraft on their screen saw no missiles being fired at that aircraft as we discussed earlier the debris field was fairly isolated and only found 400. 00 metres apart which would not have been the case of course if im a solid hit the aircraft at 33000 feet. Because of the 10 hour flight time 2 crews were required. Copilot jamail alba treaty was one of the members of the relief crew he would feature heavily in the n. T. S. B. Investigation 20 minutes after takeoff he took over from audio on one copilot of the active crew. Only 2 days after finding the cockpit voice recorder leaks from the n. T. S. B. Theyd made out leads to accuse each time a loud batouti of crashing the plane. I deeply regret. That some advantage benefit sources have led some in the news media to speculate on undocumented information protect way from one of the most sensitive investigative tools at our disposal oh my goodness. There were leaks on every investigation i had any responsibility for oversee team usa or for 27 others i had people sign confidentiality agreements and if there was an only then the media would take someones information and make it appear there was a lick this is a. Back a pilot egyptian committed suicide and mass murder and end of discussion just open and shut case and that troubled me had to make a whole lot of sense so as far as we could tell comes a very well established to have me back in egypt had military officer an unblemished record one of her senior pilots about ready to retire all sorts of reasons to stay alive why would he commit suicide and kill over 200 people on april 19th 2118 months after the crash the n. T. S. B. Issued its draft report finding that the probable cause of the accident was a result of the relief 1st offices Flight Control inputs i thought the n. T. S. B. Report was flawed in a number of areas. They kind of jumps on the conclusion that the handling pilot was mishandling the aircraft. With the finger pointed at suicide however i think they neglected to look at the other relevant evidence that was found not only from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder but also. Parts of the elevator control system. Nori was one of 2 translators hired by the n. T. S. B. To translate the cockpit voice recordings. In a photo of the u. K. And to have in motion with a better picture. It can show a sheet that seal and can often im smiling. When i do. So back to the atlanta hog in motion that they can one have had them kill mike you know that i think you have to be fucking fia. Achievement a cockpit voice recorder that with those units south of here but she is out of the out that im a open youre going back to get them fight that i had forgotten it can show the. Above all else what really seems to have condemned the 1st officer was his use of a common arabic phrase to a cult to which the n. T. Is to be translated as i rely on god more properly it is i put my trust in god this phrase was interpreted as the final prayer of a man intent on suicide and mass murder his motivation. At 149361 the night of the crash the flight data recorder shows a Rapid Movement of the right elevator the autopilot disengaged is followed by the copilot 2nd use of the i rely on god fries the throttle leave is a move from the cruise power settings to idle fighters move between 3 and 4 degrees nose down the plane begins to die in 12 seconds altitude he repeats the same phrase 9 times the captain returning from the toilet asks whats happening. Now but to the repeats the i rely on god fries and a mosque a corner or should sound. A little heat. And the mode then shifted a little wow. Then if. You know the numbers it is a little to hard of getting thick ice as it did then i lean a lot of folks. But jim hall remembers the initial response by egyptian personnel was somewhat different it was a general from egypt that came in the 1st general to take over and was the Investigative Team and this was the last time i was to see him. Reported to me that it appeared that. There was a problem with their policy that had caused the invest problem the accident. That person was a vice marshal mom do as he has not spoken publicly on this issue since the crash we were eventually able to contact him on a very bad phone line from a tip. Or 3 our march well what. Was called by getting the whole he said that when you listen to the cockpit voice recording you had to say it looks like weve got a problem with that. Is that correct. You dont remember her work or i preferred it for your girl once he reported back to cairo which he said he had. And. His that individual and the team. The majority of them returned to cairo and were replaced by another Investigative Team. That a rod and at that point in time. We had the official line from egypt that it had to be the problem with the aircraft where you recalled because of those comments. Or if you are. Very are trying. Very very here very hard work well for your you can write a right you want a lot of you are military both. Here on. Careful in your minded do you think but to be deliberately crashed the plane. Crew of course not. Let me put another scenario to you got a very busy n. T. S. B. You know t. W. I. 800 lots of other investigations it kind of feels like by they heard this phrase and they thought all thats easy pilot suicide lets totally wrong. And insult to bind us together as. We choose to wait we were asked to take this investigation to begin with we did it and a good job was done by the investigators the n. T. S. B. Has a worldwide reputation. For factual investigations and where we have problems with staff. In terms of workload we just extend the time for the investigation. We tried to tying the cop but voice recordings from the n. T. S. B. But they are legally able to release to the f. B. I. Also refuse to release recordings referring asked back to the n. T. S. B. But finally after 3 years of searching and long after all interviews for this film or completed we have time to copy of the cockpit voice recordings. Flight 990. 00 took off from j. F. K. At 121. 00 and climbed to normal. But i think. You saw it on the flight it 3 you know. About 20 minutes after takeoff the relief 1st officer. Comes forward and says he doesnt want to slate and suggest that he relieves the active 1st officer i doubt. That ill. Be. Any. Event there. Was. A lot of it 27 minutes after takeoff the captain goes to the toilet 12 seconds later we hear an unintelligible frights followed by what was translated as i rely on a. Pet dog and as an aviation safety expert with 42 Years Experience he teaches a crash investigation. We also asked him to look at the n. T. S. B. Report. What about the use of that oft repeated frights. Yeah its important is it very important not really i mean if you are in danger your lifes in danger and youre threatened youre going to say whatever you want to say and youre going to say rapidly in this case she rapidly less than a 2nd between each one of them statements of making that statement i mean this guys scared or something going on that he doesnt know he doesnt understand hes not trained youre not capable of handling this got him scared i mean id be saying something to. None of the egyptians involved in the 90 investigation would agreed to be interviewed without the permission of the government this wasnt given. At the time however the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority or e. C. I who by now were doing their own investigation issued a furious or a bottle of the n. T. S. B. Report on. The n. T. S. B. You selected facts and speculative conclusions to support a predetermined theory and particularly the n. T. S. B. Has conclusion that the proper book codes of the accident is that deliberate action of the 1st officer is not supported by any evidence of intent or motive it is inconceivable that the n. T. S. B. Can credibly proffer a probable cause based on pilot action when it admits the existence of unexplained damage to the critical of the theater component offered to president mubarak through ambassador the ambassador here. Listen to the cockpit voice recorder yourself. As an aviator so you can set and listen to it in your own environment. And so. You know we want i wanted. To. Edge every investigation. To be sure that we were doing the very best job we could to cup but voice recording last for a total of 31 minutes 45 seconds. Per head of whatever never had my old one but now im having the 11. And 11 what theyre up to have a surprise a man wants to crash a plane so every was trying to clear the cockpit he was pretty lucky that the captain wanted to go to the toilet in exactly the right time if he wanted to play the cup why didnt they lock the door why didnt he push the elevators all the way forward why did he retired the throttle when you would push the thought it was all the way forward ignoring take nickels and none of that makes common sense you know again the report speaks for itself im glad to participate in the interview. Because i have Great Respect for aljazeera and your viewing audience. In regard to the report. It is there and available. On the n. T. S. B. Web site friday wandering. Through the work of other federal agencies cast doubt on the reports conclusions. To. Cut. 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Like thousands of others. He disappeared. Witness follows a familys epic struggle for justice which became a National Cause and sent shock waves through the upper echelons of the political establishment in the shadow of the hill on aljazeera. Hello im Maryam Namazie in london just a quick look at the headlines for you now the french president emanuel has stressed deescalation in a phone conversation with the iranian president Hassan Rouhani on the faltering 2015 nuclear deal saying theyve agreed to seek conditions for dialogue to resume between all the parties by july 15th meanwhile irans Senior Nuclear negotiator is expected to announce a further reduction to to irans commitments under the deal iran had set a deadline of sunday for a year and other world powers to act and to protect it from the effects of u. S. Sanctions afghan political figures in stakeholders talks with the taliban at a 2 day meeting in cats are dozens of afghan delegates arrived in the capital doha following a pause in other discussions taliban negotiators have also met the u. S. Special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad ahead of the meeting which is due to begin on sunday. The head of saddams military genter has vowed to protect and implement a power sharing deal with the opposition after the 2 sides announced an agreement is set to be finalized by monday general abdul fatah says the time has come to rebuild the nation after months of political crisis. Throughout the 5th of july agreement with freedom and change and other powers is considered a win win situation and we are now late inning the way of the revolution because we will be seeing different practices in our country against corruption and against racism and against the dignity of the citizen and the honorable people of sudan we are now starting a phase of building a new sudan where everyone will face a transparent procedure and the law will be above everyone. Russian and Syrian Government will planes are continuing to launch as strikes in the rebel held province the last opposition stronghold in the country was heavily bombarded early on saturday rescue teams are searching for survivors at least 13 civilians including 7 children have been killed in the strikes in the last 36 hours. And who see rebels say theyve attacked warplanes one is in southern saudi arabia yemeni media reported a drone strike on jews on airport Saudi Arabian Officials Say Coalition Forces intercepted and downed who see drones targeting the kingdom comes often feel it is kind another strike on thursday. Those the headlines ill have more on everything for you in the 2100 g. M. T. News hour ill see you then aljazeera well now continues. On the 31st of up tight about 9099 egypt air flight 990 disappeared from ride and crashed into the atlantic about 111 kilometers of the east coast of the u. S. With over 200 casualties. The investigation into the crash was conducted by the National Transportation safety board or n. T. S. B. In washington d. C. But we will consent that it hadnt and havent the true cause of the accident when the federal Aviation Administration required a change in the design of boeings him 6 albums in 2014 we decided to revisit the case. Because american citizens died in the crash and there was the possibility of a criminal act if beyond stopped were among the fairest on the same in fact once the n. T. S. B. Had heard the cockpit voice recordings it wanted the f. B. I. To take over the investigation the f. B. I. Refused i repeated request for an interview referring us to their website and the history of the Boston Office it can be found a very brief mention of the f. B. I. 990 investigation. The f. B. I. Concluded that the tragedy was neither a criminal know what terrorist incident. This funding was not published until 2010 about 10 years after the crash yet the n. T. S. B. Did not attract its report or reconsider its conclusions. It was clear. In whatever language there was a struggle going on in the cockpit of the 767 but how was there a struggle what all we had was a cat come back inside. Whats happening whats happening and if you read the. Rest of this struck script that has been the text recording. It well youll see it. In flight 990 s last moments the captain returned to the flight deck and gave frantic instructions to his car. That night. That. He did. Theres no evidence according to the that the the data that was issued by the n. T. S. B. To indicate that it was a struggle in the cockpit so if im going to if im going to kill everybody and myself included i would have locked the cockpit kept anybody from forcibly prevent me from doing what i want to do been hes not somethings going on that scared this guy and in the end hes still hes got to go react and he freezes he doesnt know what to do and then the captain comes back and try to help you when you see him function as a team to try to recover the fly the airplane. Disconnecting the old i pod was another reason that suspicion kind to rest on gemma but today. A year after the crash the Egyptian Government asked the n. T. S. B. To interview captain jamal out and he had flown on the side bearing 767 from Newark Airport to los angeles the day before the crash. Captain aaron told investigators that the autopilot was hunting for the glide slide during the approach to ally x. And that because he was uncomfortable with the autopilots performance he had disconnected it and landed the plane and. I think happened in what my team saw happen and what we put forth. Is that albert to me. Who is monitoring this on autopilot felt something or heard something that wasnt quite right. A power many many hours experience hes trained and the 1st thing you do and suddenly youre going on youre not quite sure what it is you the shutters if you disconnect at all you want to get you want to get a few whats going on a watch thats probably here and we think the n. C. Just like that out of the leverage on the back was more than he hold down straight up now we also know that this same problem has occurred on a number of other operators of that same type American Airlines entered into Charles De Gaulle they had a similar problem with pitching of the and stabilizer problems and elevator problems. And 2 or twice with their own mexico on the same airplane. One of the main concerns the egyptians had with the n. T. S. B. Investigation was with what became known as the and then tell of jubal fries 27 minutes after takeoff the captain says hes going to the toilet theres a conversation between him and al but before the flight big door closes. 12 seconds later another voice is heard saying words which the investigation describes as and im intelligible fries. That amount of hama can sabotage your family and you had for the emotional family not the sleep messam at the hydraulic oneness and. Welcome back to me that the malignants outfit the sweet means the maumee miss america or been hey a cup of new hope they need the ability that scrape one has had so much the hydraulic well as hossam really have that consult the 2nd a new back to the bar and had that is a consult good will say i go oh i shocks the. But in a quote had. The n. T. S. B. Report says the 5 arabic speaking members of the Analysis Group concur that they do not recognize this as an arabic word words or phrase the entire group agrees that 3 syllables are heard and the accent is on the 2nd syllable for arabic speaking Group Members believed that they heard words similar to control that one English Speaking member believes that he heard a word similar to hydraulic before other members believe that the words were an intelligible. Like the n. T. S. B. We also found the socalled unintelligible fries difficult because of the loud quality of the recording. We went to sounded to new use techniques to clean the sound on ad copy that may not have been a viable during the original investigation. That would be indicating something is happening with the aircraft was unexpected and hes trying to assist the copilot in. Noticing what was happening at the time. That would be dynamite i think from my point you know i mean extraordinary important piece of. Why wouldnt why would anybody say either control or hydraulic if there wasnt something wrong with the system they realize now theyre going to big problem. But they never of the never been in town. The plains pitcher or up and down movement is controlled by its elevators in a 767 the elevators are operated by a system which terminates in a hydraulic jack now and is a pallet control act o. P. C. At. Each elevator has 3 p. C. s so that if one of them james the elevator can still be controlled by the other to an important part of the mechanical linkage that transmits the pilots control signals to the p. C. I. Is known as the bellcrank assembly at the time of the crash these were constructed with rivets that were designed to bright boy shia in the event of a p. C. I. Jam this would disconnect the control inputs from the jammed p. C. I. And allow the other 2 p. C. s to continue working on the 6 bellcrank assemblies 5 were recovered from the wreckage of 90 the rivets on no 5 was shown the n. T. S. B. Noted that this might have been caused by the impact of age it did 990 with the c im not going to. Attempt to. Get into detail engineering discussions with you. Because number one i dont have the time nor do i have the professional experience to get into those discussions. At 150 i am the captain returns and asks what is happening the elevators begin moving slowly downwards away from their original positions pushing the plane down. Engine start late as i move from Engine Running to cut off the speed brake is deployed the captain says pull pull with me pull with me. And suddenly the recording and. Everything. We know from right dot dot after its initial dive the pine actually climbed again reaching at least 24000 feet before it finally dived into the sea at some point the plane will start back up we know this because the wreckage was found in 2 distinct debris fields 366 meters apart was that Something Else broke they they were over they couldnt keep that leverage to keep thing going they couldnt level it off some writer play in the back there time and they never got there and if you never got there and the aircraft descended and accelerated to a speed just below the speed of sound which was way beyond the design limits of the aircraft and some point about descent both pilots managed to recover the aircraft into a climb but both engines have indicated indicated by the flight data recorder to be shut down. The speed alone would have caused. Aerodynamic forces only at craft weigh about the design limits of the aircraft and resulting in. Being detached from the. 7 months into the investigation the if i received a detailed safety recommendation from the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority urging an examination of the procedure checking elevate a bell cranks and they were the newest directive was issued by the f. A. A. To check the shared rivets or possibility of shared rivets in the bellcrank system in the elevator control system of the back of the airplane. So a directive was put out to look at the operators around the world and out of 152. 00 that were found defective 52. 00 of those were replaced and consequently boeing actually bought out a completely new system to replace the the bellcrank system at that time. These airworthiness directives were released in november 2000 and ordered that all 767 operators to perform a one time functional check of one shear rivet in all 6 elevator pca bellcrank assemblies within 30 days reworking or replacing the bellcrank assembly if needed. Failure of 2 of the 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can result in that single elevator surface but not both surfaces moving to a hard over position independent of the pilot command resulting in a significant pitch upset recoverable by the crew. Failure of all 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can cause an elevator hard over that may result in loss of control ability of the airplane most people remember this case now to see what had happened since we agree with us it was about. The n. T. S. B. Report shows that it relied heavily on dot who supplied by boeing well it you know youre going to look to the manufacturer who knows more about the vehicle. Than the manufacturer of the vehicle and. So we have in. Whether its air bus whether its embry or whether its a russian not a faction aircraft you know we under the Party Process include the individuals that have information that factual information that would help the investigators in terms of putting together the facts its worth noting that the n. T. S. B. Had previously stating that bowing had withheld an important report that could have explained the cause of the crash of t. W. A. Flight 800 in 9096 that statement was issued just 2 days before the crash should be debated now and not. That is the case then ive seen situations where manufacturers for their own economic interests are not forthcoming with the factual information when that happens its extremely disappointing but it does happen and it is happened. On numerous occasions but good investigative work usually if there is a situation will will determine. Where someone is acting out of their self interest rather than trying to act out of the incentives interest of worldwide aviation safety. We asked buying twice to participate in this documentary they refused saying their comments are included in the final accident report they said none of the mechanical Failure Modes examined during the investigation were consistent with the f. D. R. Data because the f. D. R. Elevated positions did not displace to the positions predicted by the failure mode and effects analysis during the initial pitch over and the elevator motions after the initial pitch over indicate that both surfaces were functioning normally. A memo issued in december 2000 by the chairman of egypt air mohamed fire mariah on explains how egypt air managed to reduce insurance premiums on the slate because of evidence absolving the company of responsibility for the accident it effectively how bowing responsible although the Government Island egypt there arrived at this conclusion it did not knowledge and lawsuit against boeing instead the Egyptian Government lodged a case in the name of the Agent Insurance Company accusing boeing of being responsible for the crash because of a malfunction in the tail elevator assembly however the case was lost because the original contract for the purchase of the plane registered as soup gap stated that boeing could not be held responsible for any injury or death of any person or loss or damage to any property including the aircraft is that we miss. An. What that that if. I began to be meek. Meek its an empty net and. Get that that mean. Or should it get added it didnt mean. And now i have to look at it and now im a school that we repaired with thought of before. And set up in hades following the boy and kind of pioneered this on these complex cases where youve got a product issue or youve got a aviation issue. And boy really would take the lead they would go reach out to the other syndicates or defend terror they might be in say here lets make a deal. Right now before we get started on this. We have some exposure you have some exposure we dont know who are going to play out but we do know that its in our common interest to get these cases resolved sooner not later and with less money and they put together a working package in agreement with arbitrary percentages to be adjusted later by arbitration out of the light of day and someone has picked a stalking horse thats jeremy the airline because in a direct relationship for the families and theyre given a bag of money its already have enough of these various participants very secret so youre saying that even though it looks like boeing never. The would have been a cut to vision for boeing i would say that there was contact we know there was reason how much. This contention seems to be supported by the records of a case heard by a new york court on the 18th of october 2001. The records show that at the hearing egypt is lawyer conceded the airlines right to sue bowing he told the judge that egypt it would pay full compensation and that boeing should not be asked for any financial commitments in the aftermath of that settlement even of power and well like a proven to have been responsible for the accident. Well i. Guess me i know i can then but then as. It is to me if you look at. A serious he has a quarter. Past mubarak unless he rob again you can i mean he has said i dont want to invest. In january 2040 more than 14 years after the crash the federal Aviation Administration issued a. You airworthiness directive that shows that the problem did exist with 767 elevators. All of the replacement of all bellcrank that still had share rivets with newly designed belt cranks that did not the if i only said we are showing this 80 to prevent continued operation with the yielded or failed shear rivets in the elevator p. C. A bell cranks assemblies and to prevent certain failure or jams in the elevator system from causing a hard over of the elevator surface resulting in a significant pitch upset and possible loss of control of the airplane. Thats after the fact fix and youre going to youre going to discourage people from from correcting mistakes if you hit them with that or the fact you had to prove what was wrong and. As we were finishing this film there were 2 crashes involving boeing 737 max aircraft the 1st was on the 29th of october 28th mean 12 minutes after takeoff from jakarta indonesia the 2nd was an Ethiopian Airlines flight which came down on the 10th of march 2019 killing or 157. 00 passengers on board the similarities between the 2 crashes caused several countries to ground or ban them excite aircraft from their yes buys. Boeing is an Incredible Company they are. Working very very hard right down. And totally they will very quickly come up with the answer but until they do the planes are grounded. These incidents prompted the u. S. Department of justice to investigate the licensing and marketing certification of buying 737 max aircraft issued by the federal Aviation Administration meanwhile boeing has said it does not respond to or comment on questions concerning legal matters with internal litigation or governmental inquiries is it right to say that i didnt see like the federal Aviation Administration and the n. T. S. B. Are frightened of Companies Like boeing. Most definitely. They have to be the. The manufacturer the larger it is the larger the arms and the reaches are to it i mean he just if you look at boy look at how far reaching their capabilities are to they have more government. Solicitors in washington d. C. Thats what im good their products are approved theyre a jordi of their companies to United States government. The inquiries into the 273 max i crashes will no doubt continue for months even years to come borrowing has already conceded that it might some mistakes when releasing this to model airplanes but there have been no concessions from anyone involved in the investigation of flight 90. 8 its a very sad situation that the or far it is have pointed the finger at a man who is trying to save himself and consequently all the passengers behind him. After almost 20 years this may come as cold comfort for the families that lost loved ones in the crash of egypt and 990 especially for the family of 1st officer john my out but 2. Traditional wrestling in senegal hundreds of village festivals. Now its a National Male and female school board to log arenas for the big prize money. To their love the purpose unifying cultural fold. And a way out of poverty from. Senegal wrestling with reality on aljazeera. However weve got the weather just falling away across southeastern parts of australia spot a cloud moving through the by introducing some wetter whether its the south australian adult actually pushes way across victorious about the time we come to sunday some wet weather i still say somewhat by the 15th souses the top temperature here of the sort of our weather system to be the heat about 18 celsius for want to see showers may just make their way into parts of New South Wales and over the next couple of days into the fosse out of queensland 18 celsius 2 in the path were going to see the temperatures falling back to around 17 as we go on into monday 21. 00 there for Alice Springs by monday that wetter weather will make its way to good parts of the southeastern coast of New South Wales just spilling out of camera just pushing across towards the east coast on the other side of the ditch we have some a wet weather making its way away from new zealand so lossy dry over the next couple of days but its winter dry weather clear skies temperatures falling away then so if youre lucky youll see a hive around 12 celsius on sunday make the most of it because ice temperatures really fall away crosscheck feeling of a crisp but lots of spots and sunshine with a high of 8 degrees. Is the minute you need. They were all around and i could. See it in your face and. You saying. No but those on your you know you may. Remember you know youre going to be. Easy. I dont know yet another. One of. Those the next britney that im. Going to. Cause a theater. This is an opportunity to understand the a very different way where there are limits and we dont believe the. 0. 0 i Maryam Namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up with iran poised to roll back its commitments on the 2015 new klia deal a french president pushes for a deescalation. A go she has returned to doha for talks to end the war in afghanistan the u. S. Peace envoy hails what he calls substantial progress. Free trade ambitions African Leaders meet in asiad to discuss the formation of the Worlds Largest trading bloc and greece get set for a snap election as opinion polls suggest a victory for the conservative opposition. Or a roll pop tart with sports as the Tour De France gets off to a bumpy start in belgium a big crash turns out many of the pretty rowdy favorites are flying dutchman to break history for the 1st a. Very warm welcome to the program our top story the french president emanuel the has telephoned his iranian counterpart Hasan Rouhani to convey europes continued commitment to the nuclear deal which is teetering on the edge of collapse he and rouhani have agreed to create the conditions for talks to resume by july 15th iran had set a deadline of sunday for europe and other world powers to act to protect it from the effect of u. S. Sanctions if that deadline is not met that iran is expected to announce of the reduction in its commitments under the deal. Well definitely not initiate anything to withdraw from the nuclear deal unless the other party does the other party has step by step americans directly and europeans in directly violated the deal we will show reaction exponentially as much as they violate it we reduce our commitments as much as they reduce that if they go back to fulfilling their commitments we will do as well this will happen at a rational and gradual pace more now from the same. It was just a few hours ago a call went around to reporters based here in iran inviting them to a press conference at the president ial complex here in the capital people in attendance at that news briefing are expected to be from president Hassan Rouhani is office of course from the Atomic Energy organization of iran and from Irans Foreign Ministry what were expecting to hear is Senior Leaders briefing reporters about the next phase of irans plan to roll back cooperation with the 2015 nuclear deal now iran has said over and over again that it will not go forward with its plan to do so if other signatories to the deal or able to help provide the Economic Relief that was promised as part of the deal help mitigate u. S. Sanctions or as the United States returns to the deal and lift economic sanctions that many iranian leaders have called Economic Warfare economic terrorism now with less than 24 hours to go before that deadline you mentioned expires it seems that nothing has changed and so stopping the rollback of cooperation with the 2050 nuclear deal seems very unlikely were not expecting any surprises tomorrow Senior Iranian leaders including president Hassan Rouhani himself have said that one of the things they will do is begin enriching uranium at higher purity levels under the agreement of the j c p a way article state that iran can enrich uranium up to 3. 67 percent in purity many leaders who here have said that they will turn that number into 5 percent president Hassan Rouhani in a speech just a few days ago he even said that iran will enrich uranium to any level that it deems necessary possibly as high as 20 percent and even more. Now afghan political as and stakeholders in talks with the taliban at a 2 day meeting in cata dozens of afghan delegates and arrived in the capital doha following a pause in the discussions and taliban negotiators have met the u. S. Special envoys out my finals at Charlotte Bennett sat down with him. This week is the 7th round of talks how do you feel about the progress between yourselves and the taliban so far very good been the best round so far can you put a percentage number on the progress youve made this week i rather not do that. I would rather say we have made substantial progress on all 4 elements that make the framework that we have agreed to a Peace Agreement which is as you know assurances on counterterrorism thats important for the United States and the world. Would draw all of foreign troops which is important for the taliban interest can negotiations that including a dialogue and an agreement on a road map for the political future of afghanistan and a complete comprehensive permanent cease fire. For the 1st time i can say we have had substantial progress on all 4 if you find out that the taliban policing some of these armed groups and that potentially al qaeda is still operating inside afghanistan what can you do at that point they know the. Red line then to stand and they have said that they will satisfy us on that then all have to be better for occasions. Of work for Ronald Reagan and trust but verify so there would have to be verification of about with regard to the commanders that are made so that we would not be satisfied until. We have all that done i can report to you that we have a very substantial progress on that do you believe that the political im here indoor actually has the power to command the taliban back in afghanistan 60 something 1005. Well we dont know that for sure that thats the case that talib here can speak on behalf of every. All over afghanistan but i do believe that they are there are a representative of the leadership of the taliban meaning theyre quite sure. Leadership sure that their authority to have and where theyre all tall of follower dig really or not they make the point that theyre quite united and what the leadership decides everyone follows and would love to see i do say i do think that when the ceasefire not the slats here the year before was announced there was peace and quiet all over afghanistan so that gives one. Some degree of confidence what the leadership decides would be followed by there are no guarantees and we will have to wait and see. What happens 1st we need to get an agreement and then to see whether they follow it but they understand what the consequences of not following the agreement that they make or if they dont on a road where they have agreed to do then we are free. To to do what we want the violence has increased in afghanistan this week its almost like the prospect of peace is fuelling the war whats it like watching that from here well i dont know whether this week has been the worst. Horrible weeks. Before but we havent reached an agreement we are both talking and fighting at the same time with new phrase and were looking forward to the phase when the fighting stops and a cease fire takes place it may take a period to get to that we are looking to a reduction in violence leading to a cease fire but we have an understanding also on that in the model it is that can lead us from where we are to a permanent comfort. And says ceasefire what kind of guarantees can you give to the Afghan People that a lot of the achievements that theyve seen with with freedom of press and womens rights over the last 20 years will be retained in a new political system that involves the taliban the taliban. I dont know whether they know this new afghanistan its us change i often mention to them. You know how long has it been since a particular member has been to kabul and some of them get angry with me for asking the question because they assume that i know how long its been since we came to afghanistan but its not the kabul of 1000 years ago its not afghanistan of 19 years ago afghanistan an old country with a young nation or a noble nation made of young people they need to. Learn about each other the taliban say they have changed that afghans need to know this new taliban have to see what has changed and the taliban need to know what this new afghanistan is like and reach some broader understanding mutual acceptance and the terms of an agreement about the future will be negotiated in the interest and negotiations but i believe this is a necessary for a step so im delighted that taking place secretary of state might pompei or has said that he wants to see a deal done by september the 1st good elections in afghanistan on september the 20 i feeling the crunch time wise we understand that election or scheduled for the 28 but for us. Peace and the Peace Agreement is more important thats the number one policy agenda and what comes out of the Peace Process will dominate. With the news out live from london and much more still ahead on the program they may be defeated on the battlefield but i sells ideology lives on for some well get the latest from a foreign and northeast syria about how to eradicate the armed group completely. California is brace for aftershocks as a massive earthquake rocks the southern part of the state and in sports india go top of the table at the cricket world cup can they stay there or who is here with the details. Of saddams military gentle says he will protect and implement a power sharing deal with the opposition general abdel fatah or han says the time has come to rebuild the nation off the months of political crisis over iraq comes through on the 5th of july agreement with freedom and change and other powers is considered a win win situation and we are now late inning the way of the revolution because we will be seeing different practices in our country against corruption and against racism and against the dignity of the citizen and the honorable people of sudan we are now starting a phase of building a new sudan where everyone will face a transparent procedure and the law will be above everyone. Opposition leaders say the deal announced the military will be finalized on monday they have been holding a series of Public Meetings to explain why they signed the agreement which has been met with both celebration and skepticism Alexia Bryant reports. From Early Morning until late at night in main squares mosques and on street corners. Sudanese people came together. Facing the drums of change and chanting civilian revolution. Hailing what some say as the 1st step towards ending decades of dictatorship but i think that i am telling the youth that the revolution is not all over the revolution has just started with the internet shut down by the military jump to news of the deal spread mostly by word of mouth and in Public Meetings held by opposition leaders have