Heart of government lawrence lee aljazeera in london. Always good to have Bill Schneider with us Public Policy professor at George Mason University in our washington new center hi bill this is pretty serious stuff the more i think about it the more information that comes out and when you consider the socalled special relationship which these 2 countries have and basically President Trump has decided. The future of a diplomat something thats never really been done before bill its come out here and im not sure if youre hearing me. Not thats a shame ok we will come back to Bill Schneider shortly on technical crew will reconnect with washington there in the meantime. Speaking of President Donald Trump he has issued another threat to iran over its Nuclear Program hes done it on twitter. That iran has long been secretly enriching. In total violation of the terrible 150000000000. 00 deal made by john kerry and the Obama Administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of years sanctions will soon be increased substantially well it was only earlier this week that teheran announced it would be exceeding at the limits on iranian enrichment set out under the nuclear deal which the u. S. Pulled out of last year zimbabwe has more from tack on. As the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president s top diplomatic adviser walk the line between American Economic pressure on iran and iranian diplomatic pressure on europe to ignore u. S. Sanctions if they want to keep the Nuclear Deal Alive but if emanuel baan had hoped he could convince iran not to continue reducing cooperation with the joint comprehensive plan of action he likely left disappointed iran says the rollback will stop when sanctions do. A yawn i guess it is really funny that the americans who broke the deal completely asking for an emergency meeting of the. Day to complain about iran reducing its commitments the u. S. Says iran has bad intentions well if enrichment is bad why do they enrich themselves the only country that has used Nuclear Weapons against innocent people is the United States the 2015 deal is essentially transactional iran curbs Nuclear Activity so it can sell oil and generate revenue that process stopped working when the u. S. Restarted sanctions and now its playing out on the open seas earlier this week the British Royal marines seized an Iranian Oil Tanker off the coast of japan after the horizon is called it an act of piracy that undercuts londons commitment to the nuclear deal and a breach of the j. C. And on wednesday u. S. Officials once again put out a call for countries willing to form a military coalition to patrol shipping lanes off the coast of iran and yemen a move that could make things even worse the potential for things going on without. Getting an agreement. Is very difficult as well every nation. Regardless. Agreement went direct french president emanuel necron has said it is time again for dialogue american sanctions didnt bring iran back to the new go. Table as us President Donald Trump might have liked in fact iran now says it will not stop producing cooperation with the j c p a way for anything short of a lifting of banking into Oil Sanctions but the british this week seized an Iranian Oil Tanker in International Waters because america asked them to and the United States is now calling on other militaries to help patrol middle eastern waters to protect shipping lanes from what they say is an iranian threat all Things Considered any hope france might have head of a negotiated solution to any of this might be overly optimistic zain basra the old 00. 1 irans defended itself against the u. S. Accusations that an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in vienna more on that with john holl. I think the most important thing to come out of this meeting at the i. A. E. A. In vienna is that iran is not at this moment anyway planning to take any further steps away from the new clear deal although each envoy for some arab body did affirm that after another 60 days now if indeed the parties have still not come back into full compliance with their commitments to iran under the deal particularly the europeans of course and their commitment to protect irans economy under the deal will then it will be prepared to launch a 3rd phase of actions in response but pointing out that no Firm Response has yet been decided upon by iran was struck by the told the ambassadors in the room that once again. The enrichment that iran is undertaking is its right under the nonproliferation treaty is required for purely peaceful purposes and that iran has never tried to create or acquire weapons of mass destruction he made the point that simply repeating the baseless accusations against iran pointed of course at the United States does not magically authenticate them he said and he painted the u. S. As the ultimate aggressor both in the region and in the current state of the nuclear deal you know that the issue of and which meant is not permitted under the number of version 2000 this is the right of every member to the nonproliferation treaty and this is irans right and saw a lot we are doing is in a very transparent manner is under the surveillance of the y. A the inspectors are there really a singular activities and theyre monitoring they have nothing to hide it is questionable therefore what the United States will feel that its achieved out of this meeting a meeting that he had called of course of all the board of governors of the i. A. E. A. Looking presumably for some sort of International Unity of purpose towards iran and finding instead in the room only division and no formal conclusion reached by this meeting the board simply saying that all the parties must come back into compliance the division very clear among the signatories themselves to the deal. Lets go back to our top story the resignation of britains ambassador to the United States im going to try again with those not a Public Policy professor at George Mason University can hear me right this time bill yes i can one to follow theres a lot we can talk about with this story i want to start with the simple fact that it appears the president of the United States has decided in a roundabout way the future of another countrys diplomat is that a dangerous precedent perhaps which has been set here i would use or decided but he has indicated something very undiplomatic that he will no longer deal with the diplomat sent by another country which is a very rare diplomatic circumstance indeed and mr deryk the ambassador to the United States has decided he could no longer function he was set to retire at the end of this year but he basically has decided to resign because he has no function anymore if the administration will not deal with him thats whats extraordinary so do you think it will change the way that the next ambassador behaves or indeed how any number of ambassadors from any number of countries might want to think about what theyre writing down now. Other ambassadors are expressing support for mr derek the British Ambassador there saying he did the same thing all ambassadors are supposed to do namely give a frank and candid assessment of the political situation in the country that they are sure that they are assigned to thats their job and youve heard from a lot of what weve heard from a lot of ambassadors all over the world not just british but ambassadors from many countries saying their job is to give frank and candid assessments thats what the diplomacy is all about the only thing the short mary here is that someone leaked the cables with those assessments and that is very undiplomatic indeed so it does yeah that isnt diplomatic but as you say its the what was written shouldnt actually be surprising and in many ways and ive read commentary to this effect is that. It was basically pointing out in his opinion that what a lot of people think that the emperor in fact does have no clothes on was saying what a lot of people think anyway it is it really just come down to the personalities the effect that is present donald trump who does appear to have a very thin skin. Well there certainly mr trump as a thin skinned americans were not surprised by this event mr trump does not tolerate any criticism he is very sensitive to that if anyone criticizes mr trump he has already said his his daughter or his wife once said if anyone comes after him hes going to go after them twice as hard and he doesnt care if someone is a diplomat or an ambassador none of that impresses him if you criticize mr trump hell come after you in Many Americans and a lot of people overseas regard that as a bullying temperament a sign of narcissism nevertheless thats the way he behaves americans have i wouldnt say gotten used to it but they understand thats his temperament his personality i think its coming as a bit of a shock to diplomats and particularly to the british also about build a relationship between the United States and the u. K. The special relationship which we hear so much about im sudden to think that the special relationship is more really based on history and even the politicians talk about preserving that very important relationship right now the relationship is very very bad. And you sort of wonder what there is to preserve right now. Well thats a very big question and people are asking that that very question is there still a special relationship the president the United States doesnt appear to think its very special he immediately went after the Prime Minister when she defended the British Ambassador and he said she was full of she had made a terrible mistake she refused to take his advice on negotiating a deal to get britain out of the out of the European Union and for that hes forcing her to pay a price hes saying that shes foolish and that she doesnt know what shes doing that is extremely rare from an american president to a british Prime Minister that is something that has never been done in the open before and i think its it is really a sign of mr trumps temperament and his selfregard that he feels perfectly comfortable bullying an ambassador and even bullying a Prime Minister which the United States of a country that the United States has a very close relationship with just extraordinary isnt it when you spell it out like that isnt it Bill Schneider joining us from washington great to talk to you thank you sure heres what weve got coming up for you on this news hour the u. S. Labor secretary defending his role in the case of multimillionaire Jeffrey Epsteins sex trafficking scandal also american weapons of war more than the French Connection going to connect those dots for you a little bit and sport for wimbledon stream mixed doubles pairing lee will be here with that and news from the mens quarter finals. Now u. S. House of representatives oversize Committee Hearing is looking into the deteriorating conditions in Detention Centers at the southern border with mexico House Democrats of 2 and some of the facilities and say the state of the markets is demoralizing. We touched the area we need to be on i think. He didnt think they ever had oh this is like you 2000 people it was there were alive to humanize them only just the mere show we love we are certainly someone here to help them grow up and down here. We are creating the generation of children now will never forget what we did to them this time trauma can go away with any number of. This kind of trauma. Injuries in our country and no amount of how airman we always want to call it and no amount of talking going to make up for what we did to a whole generation either children are going to be 50000 to 18 Year Old Girl members that you know i think theyre good for them john hendren in washington with more on this one that some real emotion from rashida to leave there isnt a new democratic congresswoman who is clearly making this a front and center issue. Welcome all the hearing was called kids in cages Inhumane Treatment at the borders so you could pretty well know that there was going to be some emotional talk at this hearing you heard it right there that was one of many democratic members of congress expressing outrage at the trumpet ministrations policy of separation of undocumented immigrants at the border and this separate detention of children you did have some republicans pushing back one from texas says ive never seen a child in a cage there theres some disagreement over over the terminology there but you also heard and immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent talk about those facilities he was the former chief of that agency who recently left and he said they were not meant to house that many people under those conditions they were meant for temporary holding of much smaller number. People and he said if you dont change the program that theyre just going to get worse but he said you cannot blame the administration you need to blame in his words this surge of Central American immigrants fleeing poverty and violence in their own country but perhaps most poignantly you heard from the mother of a young 19 month old child who died after she was held in one of those detention facilities from a viral lung infection this is what yasmin juarez had to say in her tearful testimony to congress think the next day you know what i mean. Its like they tore out a piece of my heart like they tore out my soul i wanted to have a better life for her and a Better Future and work hard so she could keep growing like she was but now we cant do that because shes gone im here today because i want to put an end to this and make sure we do not allow any more children to suffer and die in this way. Joan whats been the administrations line on this because this is whats weve got the hearing going on now this is not a new issue its been going on for a lot of time before that you had the child separation issue was well what does the administration actually say to all these criticisms. Well the administrations line on this is essentially that child separation began under the a bomb administration and it was a deterrent this is one of the things you heard from that former ice chief it was a deterrent that actually stop people coming from the border they say that in june border arrests were down Something Like 28 percent but either way you look at it no matter what your perspective is there is a crisis at the border its just what that crisis is depends on who you are the republican say the crisis is a surge of Central American immigrants to that border the democrats say the crisis is the Detention Centers themselves but with the Trump Administration saying it is planning on raids to arrest people whove been given their final deportation notices in the administrations words sometime fairly soon in places like los angeles and texas that crisis is only likely to intensify john hendren in washington thank you the republican chairman of the u. S. Senate Foreign Relations committee has introduced a bill seeking to hold saudi arabia accountable for human rights abuses it also criticizes the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon but does not go as far as to stop weapons sales to the kingdom republican senator ted cruz joined democrats in criticizing the state department on the process that the state department followed for these weapons not to put too fine a point on it was crap under the law under the arms export control act the Administration Needs congressional approval and has a 30 day notification period the department had 30 days to take it to congress and follow the law and it was foolishness not to. It looks to us these days as if the United States is the junior partner in this relationship do you know or do you not know whether civilian casualties have increased due to Coalition Airstrikes i would say in a general sense here that there is a delta in information on what is attributed to a coalition ascribed casualty and what may be ascribed to either hooty or one of the adversarial car ill be happy to give you some fairly definitive information that states that they have doubled over time in the fact that youre talking around this is maddening and when another u. S. Cabinet secretary is facing pressure to leave his post as the fallout busy continues from the sex trafficking case involving billionaire financier Geoffrey Epstein labor secretary alexander a constant is accused of giving the nod jailed epstein a sweetheart deal while he was a government attorney though acosta denies this more from patty callaway. The u. S. Labor secretary is under pressure facing calls for his firing now defending his past connection to a sex offender his acts are despicable hes describing the acts of this man Jeffrey Epstein hes super rich works in finance owns homes all over the globe and even has his own private island he hangs around the most powerful men in the world according to published reports inside his 77000000. 00 new york city mansion there are pictures of him with the current u. S. President donald trump past president bill clinton mohammed bin psalm on the crown prince of saudi arabia even a british prince but hes not just popular powerful hes also an admitted sexual predator of children in 2008 he admitted to soliciting child prostitutes his sentence 13 months in jail but he was allowed to leave pretty much every day to go to work the reason it cost is defending himself is because hes the man who made the deal then the u. S. Attorney in florida and thats why some say he needs to be fired i am calling on secretary acosta to resign it is now impossible for anyone to have confidence in secretary of constance ability to lead the department of labor if he refuses to resign President Trump should fire him a pastor came out wednesday to defend his past and save his job same state investigators were going to let epstein off the hook when his office intervened whether a plea that guarantees jail time and guarantees registration to ask whether that plea source is going to trial how do you weigh those too. If going to trial is viewed as the roll of the dice today the u. S. Attorney in new york is now willing to take that chance hes charged epstein with sex trafficking of minors and more women are coming forward to say they were raped by epstein and they say he knew they were under age what hurts even more. If i wasnt afraid to come forward sooner so maybe he wanted to let some other girls a victim blaming herself the man who made the deal blaming state prosecutors and now facing a new trial a way to see if there is still a 2 tiered system of justice one for most of the other for the richest few political hay aljazeera washington algerian politicians have elected a new chairman of parliament his name is name and he is the 1st Opposition Party member to be put in the role and he replaces a member from the National Liberation front which has ruled algeria since 1962 prodemocracy protesters have been demanding an end to the old government which led to the resignation of longtime president dubbed as these but if we go back in april you know if you say you were you told how at this session takes place at a sensitive time for algeria youre presented today a new approach for dealing with the Current Crisis facing our country an approach based on the ability of algerians to Work Together to overcome the crisis frances military has admitted that antitank missiles found during a raid in libya belong to the french army the us made javelin missiles were recovered from the base of warlord holly for half an hour on the outskirts of tripoli from says the missiles were intended for the protection of a French Military unit deployed for Counterterrorism Operations in libya are the documents found with the ammunition suggests the weapons actually belong to the u. A. E. And butler has more from paris. A of p. And where it is News Agencies say that they have received a statement from the French Defense ministry and in a statement the French Defense Ministry Says these missiles are indeed french they are u. S. Made javelin missiles that the french gave to their forces operating in libya now thats interesting in itself because france has always been very vague about its presence in libya now the French Defense Ministry Statement also says that these missiles were in fact defective they were supposed to be destroyed what the statement doesnt say though is how on earth these missiles ended up in the hands of forces who are loyal to Khalifa Haftar i mean thats the big question and potentially a very embarrassing one for the french government because the french government have always said that they are not supplying any weapons or to libya that would be in breach of a u. N. Arms embargo and over the Years Campaign is and critics have accused france of supporting. In the sense that france perhaps feels after is someone that they can partner with in the fight against fighters in the region but france has always denied that theyve denied that support and said that they backed publicly the u. N. Peace process. 13 people have been killed in strikes in syrias province these pictures show the aftermath of an attack on a hospital that killed 6 people according to the Syrian Civil Defense the last major rebel stronghold in Syria Government troops backed by russia have been bombarding the area for months. History has begun a crackdown on undocumented foreign labor in the country the government says the measures measures are designed to protect lebanese workers but there are concerns its targeting the syrian refugee population has that story from. The deadline has passed lebanons ministry of labor is going after Foreign Workers who dont have permits Officials Say this is about enforcing the law and protecting lebanese jobs but for his livelihood is at stake. He tells us he is a father of 6 and he has nowhere else to go there is from the syrian city of but he arrived in lebanon a decade before the war began he says returning is not an option. I have been working here for the past 13 years and now i need a work permit and i need to legalize my status or also i cant work we lost everything in syria. There are no jobs there. Are you know there is not considered a refugee but he is among what the Ministry Says is the hundreds of thousands of syrians competing with lebanese citizens for jobs. The ministry of labor says this crackdown is not related to any. Refugee camp aims waged by Foreign Ministers or. Movement party but the timing is questionable because it is the latest in a series of measures seen targeting syrias refugee population in lebanon. Those measures have included evictions from somebody. Curfews deportations and the demolition of tents that are made of concrete but the Ministry Denies singling out syrian nationals. We are not targeting only one nationality but it happens that the syrians are the largest number that is why they consider this a crackdown against. Lebanese Officials Say fewer than 2000 syrians have leaked. Work permits and they believe 1500000 syrians are in the country half a 1000000 more than are registered with the un but even for those registered and working getting proper documentation isnt easy and the person in the refugee situation may find it more difficult because they may be lacking certain documents and at the same time because we know that most in lebanon today live in poverty the United Nations is also discussing with the ministry of labor to get a better understanding of how this would affect Syrian Refugees in lebanon. Its already affected there who says he needs to find new sponsorship and the few 100. 00 needed to renew his papers he thinks the lebanese government is trying to force them out leaving them with 2 options starve or die in syria so to. Beirut. On the news all when we come back. Were in china where a National Emergency has been declared scrambled. Also looking at the state of Media Freedom a major conference in london and sport crickets to. 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Its mid summer so high temperatures and humidity produced some pretty big thunderstorms in those days had some remarkable dampens recently ran north dakota for the plains states do tend to generate and still living out again but is nothing much organized at the moment with temperatures around about 30 or more markets quite humid from florida northwards and back through the midwest beyond that is dry and quiet but just down here this circulation much is seeing the gulf of mexico this could develop into a tropical depression possibly more than that but watch that quite closely because the potential for rainfall than on the gulf coast is quite tremendous on the Pacific Coast its quiet not particularly in San Francisco but more or less where youd expected to be throughout the caribbean we have recently seen some pretty big shows particularly in haiti where you can see in the green dots there lights repeat and so maybe folks see more in jamaica western cuba coming back towards honduras and costa rica but the breeze keeps blowing occasional light showers seem quite likely everywhere but the biggest ones will be focused and i cant tell exactly where im guessing jamaica will get wet for the constants of south america things are warming up at last in argentina 45 where the series. So the term precrime comes from this movie minority report in which a prediction is being made about something the individual has not yet done but is going to do and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they perform that act if you would have asked me 37 years ago if we would have gunshot detection or video cameras in neighborhoods or be able to predict what crimes occur i would have said youre crazy precrime coming soon on al jazeera traditional wrestling family guy has a village festival. Now its a National Male and female school board to marjories to make money. Aljazeera love the focus unifying cultural fold. I dont play politics the. Senegal wrestling with reality on aljazeera. On the news on here at aljazeera these are all top stories britains ambassador in the u. S. Has resigned just days after a leaked all diplomatic cables in which she described the administration of donald trump as inept kim dart says it was impossible for him to stay on after he was slammed by trump on twitter. President trump says he will soon increase sanctions on iran substantially accusing it of secretly enriching uranium think years attack iran denies this iran did announce it was breaching the limit on your rainy and richmond outlined in the nuclear deal only at this week and i got a mile and mother has told us politicians are infant daughter died after receiving poor medical care while in custody of american Border Patrol she recounted the story at a hearing in the u. S. Congress. You would have heard us say many times that journalism is not a crime once again that has been the message from a major conference in london on press freedom 80 journalists were killed in 28 in the worst year on record with 15 of those deaths happening in afghanistan alone of course the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul thats dominated our headlines for months now and the shooting of a young sparked protests in slovakia as well he was investigating government corruption youve got mexico as well so many journalists there are the killer of the missing 10 been killed this year and while the shooting of 5 employees at the capital is that newspaper in the u. S. Shocked the country with course now President Trump is continued to criticize the press which he calls fake news and around 348. 00 journalists lets not forget detained around the world 60 of them alone are in china with 19 people facing charges of false news in egypt that in course includes our own journalist Mahmoud Hussein Charlie Angela has more from that press Freedom Conference in london. This is the 1st ministerial summit on global Media Freedom bringing together some 70 Foreign Ministers International Organizations and about a 1000 journalists some who you can probably see behind me and what theyre trying to do is work out how to best defend media from censorship abuse attacks and misinformation and theyve started the conference by promising investment the u. K. Has pledged 15000000. 00 to developing countries who want to improve their independent media and theyve been marked out for bangladesh sierra leone and ethiopia to start with theyve also him up 3700000. 00 specifically for the middle east to support Media Freedom there and the intervention side weve seen foreign secretary jeremy hunt make 5 pledges hes going to be creating a Global Media Defense Fund administered by the by the knesset hes going to be creating an International Taskforce to help governments meet their targets move that ranking system of the World Press Freedom index and thats going to be reviewed by the United Nations hes going to be helping to advise countries on how to strengthen the Legal Protection for journalists and that will be headed up by a human rights lawyer a male to me a most interesting link hes going to be forming a group of governments who will act as a Rapid Response unit when crimes are committed against the Media Freedoms and lastly hes going to be getting the countries whove attended here to sign a declaration promoting freedom of expression but i think the most interesting point thats been made today was one from a gone in journalist and an ass and backed up by that human rights were saying at the moment the west is being incredibly contradictory giving aid to promote democracy with one hand while with the other hand taking that money back and putting it in banks and private accounts often from the very people who are in charge of those initial countries so lots of thorny issues to unpick here and also calls from journalists to really make sure these measures have some teeth to consider sanctions in the future. 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