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 quote trade war is not over yet and that just the 1st round of the game doesnt sound very optimistic here so we shall see what transpires on the 15th if it gets done will be optically pleasing for the trumpet mr ation despite heavy doubts of whether the agreement will be implemented in full by both countries know that one only covers the low hanging fruit and if china and the u. S. Can even come to an agreement here phase 2 which will involve industrial policy ip items that touch on sovereignty while that will be near impossible and while fears of an escalation between the us and iran seem to dissipate in the market president issued a new sanction on iran to punish the regime and crack down on its few remaining sources export revenue the latest sanctions target metals as well as construction manufacturing textiles and mining making basically the entire iranian economy also limits to any nations that have. Diplomatic ties with the us china is now caught in the middle as it has long
To excuse it but you can the country. And at least 7 people are killed in mob violence against migrants in south africa sparking a regional boycott of the country. Direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. All right a trove of lead to documents has seemingly exposed the u. S. As a major supplier of illegal weapons able garion a journalist has been buying a serbian when excuse me a serbian journalist claims that america has been buying serbian weaponry which has ended up in the hands of terrorists across the middle East Washington allegedly purchased weapons of from 2 serbian state owned Arms Companies apparently for police in afghanistan but those arms were then seen in islamic state. Ganda video showing militants in yemen you can watch our report on that in full on our you tube channel meantime these photos show some of the serbian made weapons and ammunition produced by the same companies we mentioned this ti
Is reinforcing his governments hard line against facebooks plans to launch their own Digital Currency libra which specialists are eager to point out is not actually a crypto currency joining us now just doesnt tell is cryptocurrency analyst ben swan then its good to have you here keeping the Virtual Currency be hot while christie is on assignment so 1st of all ben lets just get to the basics here what did the french finance minister Bruno Lemaire have to say about libor he seemed to make a really sweeping statement of opposition to it. Yeah hes very opposed to it whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because it gets into a statement is really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can tal
Whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not on Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because as he gets into his statement hes really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can talk about that a minute but he also specifically talked about facebook as an entity saying that the European Union in france specifically has not been able to trust facebook in the past for the things that it says it would do versus what its actually doing and so why would we trust facebook when it comes to currency i think there is you know obviously im going to disagree with him in terms of trying to outright ban crypto currencies but i think theres a valid point to be made there about the way things because conducted itself as a tech company if they were