Mr. Mnuchin against irans largest steel and iron manufacturers, set three entities and a vessel involved in the transfer of products. As a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime and we will continue our enforcement of other entities. Third, we are taking action against eight Senior Iranian officials who advanced the regimes destabilizing activity and were involved in tuesdays Ballistic Missile strike. Secretary pompeo will comment more on this. Todays sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the Iranian Regimes global terrorist activities. The president has been very clear. We will continue to apply economic sanctions until iran stops its terrorist activities and commit that it will never have nuclear weapons. I now turn it over to secretary ompeo. Mr. Pompeo thank you, steven. Good morning, everyone. Today President Trump is delivering on the pledge that he made, the day after iran attacked American Forces in iraq, there will
Mint will consider an inquiry into the cause of the fires including the role of Climate Change once the crisis is over jessica washington aljazeera penrose australia and taiwan opinion polls suggest the incumbent president sighing while as ahead of her challenger in saturdays elections the taiwanese have been closely watching the crackdown on antigovernment protesters and nearby Hong Kong Scott either has more from taipei early last year taiwans president saw in whens political future was on shaky ground her popularity had slumped after a party performed poorly in Regional Elections she resigned as party chair with some advising her not to seek reelection but then came a lifeline from an unexpected source china giving her and her Democratic Progressive Party a new hope. To crackdown on the prodemocracy protesters at hong kong shifted the political rhetoric in taiwan. Many grew concerned about chinas growing influence he says beijing ramped up pressure on the island and president sadat.
On plans to withdraw american troops from the region plus. The stand ready to support a medically australias Prime Minister sends more troops to areas facing the devastation from the rapidly spreading wildfires. Tello we begin with the latest fallout from the u. S. Air strike that killed a top iranian general washington has Just Announced a new wave of sanctions on iran that target the countrys steel and Iron Industries in a joint press conference with the u. S. Secretary of state my pompei oh the treasury secretary Stephen Newton said excuse me the 17 new sanctions will cost iran billions of dollars. Pump a also announced sanctions that would hit 8 senior officials that would cripple irans internal security system. We are announcing 17 specific sanctions against irans largest steel and iron manufacturers set 3 seychelles base sent to ds and a vessel involved in the transfer of products as a result of these actions we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime an
The way. Im going to go to school to including the to run to rap his. Securing their 1st n. B. A. Championship in state its on to gain 6 against the Golden State Warriors. Hello we begin with breaking news from sudan where an ethiopian envoy says the Opposition Alliance will suspend the Civil Disobedience Campaign and strike from wednesday in turn the military has reportedly agreed to release some political detainees and the announcement comes on the 1st day of the strike residents stayed indoors and businesses remained shut in much of the capital hard to protest leaders had been promising to continue their campaign until the military gave up power the military crackdown on protesters staging sit in on last week has left at least 129 people dead mohamed valas joining us here on set hes covered the protests in sudan extensively what are you hearing about the suspension. Yes it may look like may sound like a surprise to many but weve been hearing about it in the last couple of days the s
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