Persons died with dozens more injured after six days a clear winner is yet to emerge from the vote as of now president while land. Is now only ahead of opposition candidate salvador. With a headline the news continues here on aljazeera after upfront statement thats a little better. But the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife listening provides a critical counterpoint challenging Mainstream Media narrative at this time on aljazeera Benjamin Netanyahu calls it a very bad deal donald trump says its the worst both leaders would love to tear up the Iran Nuclear Agreement but will doing so lead to a new war in the middle east thats our debate but first ill talk to the former president joyce banda about corruption and democracy in africa. To expand the thanks for joining me on up front in july of this year Malawi Police secured an arrest warrant against you over alleged abuse of office and Money Laundering offenses as part of the estimated two hundred fifty Million DollarCorruption Scandal known as cash which are up to twenty thirteen when you were president its been over three years since you left office and left the country do you plan to return to malawi to try and clear your name. I intend to plan to return to allow it but maybe let me get back to your question there was no warrant of arrest that was issued by the Malawi Police it was a press release announcing that they were hard in our interest up until now that was in july up until now there is no warrant of arrest what happened that day i was on my way home i had completed my fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson center and i formed malawi on the thirty first of july at Eleven Oclock in the morning that i would be returning to malawi under speaking to the chief of staff of the state of the office of the president cabinet the same day five hours later there was an announcement that there would be one and of honest up until now they werent overused has not been issued ok so no war interest theres no announcement of or interest but also lots of allegations from former colleagues of yours who have accused you of being involved including former colleagues of yours who are now behind bars convicted they are saying that you were involved you know that you heard them say yes what you said and i dont want and i can give you every day that when i was in office two years i came in to complete the two years of the former president and the first three its was the genesis of the corruption of the two years that i stayed in office there is now a Forensic Audit supported and funded by the German Government that shows that five hundred seventy seven billion or stolen in the thirstiest when i came in for my two years i asked and i was a little by the European Union and by certain that they interrogated the Financial Management system was being abused and on the seventh of september twenty eighth eighteen i made an announcement to the nation that i had been elected and i would be taking action during that period is the period that i arrested seventy two people and i asked the British Government to fun. And i want you to tell me how many president s in africa will conduct a Forensic Audit in their government during their time and that would be to report by the better to the audit firm is a Public Document on line and that document vindicated me it was a year after then six months after the release of that report after i left office that it was created in malawi that they were now pressurizing those that we had convicted and were already serving sentences so these people who were members of your Party Members your government your saying you were the pressured or the lying they were pressure and the evidence but not only that you must know that they were arrested being twenty thirty in november. And we spent a year and we had elections and i left office and six months after that they report that big a deal it was all featured at least it was after that report was really incredible and then they started mentioning my name to be clear for the sake of our viewers what youre on the wall what kind of evidence are you talking about that you say you have evidence i have i have evidence that people will swear under oath that we are approached also to implicate and you know about are we with you yes youre planning to return to malawi yes this is i mean that over the long run we have. I dont have to clear my name because malawians know what i did and my conscience is very clear today your a very well known very respected activist and speaker on development you gave a lecture in september last year for example entitled moral leadership the prerequisite for Economic Growth development and peace of africa wouldnt help your cause and your credibility to speak on these important subjects as you do if you were able to completely put all of these allegations to bed to clearing but to completely end any cloud that surrounds of the service surely you agree its not easy when you fight corruption that is why my position is that Going Forward as a free those that stick their neck out to say i am going to fight corruption and the conduct of what is it in their government during their time like i did it must be encouraged and supported because you fight for strong people and they fight you back and this minute that dont want to you and so at the end of the day for me it doesnt matter what i know is i dont need anybody to party on the back i know what i did and there are a lot of people that know what i did and that i will continue for as long as i live ok to raise my voice again to square up to let me ask you this many commentators say that cash was not only behind your loss in the twenty fourteen president ial election to peter rhetorical to the current president but that you also tried to an old election you do try to mold that election and people said us because you were worried you knew that we were to reckon with. Throw these charges at you thats why you tried to the the Electoral Commission in malawi announced that there had been fraud and that they are going to ask to seek for recounting and i see if that is the the kids then i think you malawians disease. Of their choice i am calling for iran but i am not a kind of even if there were had been a run i was not going to run going to run again no that is not up to me. I cannot of different stuff tomorrow yarns of youre not ruling it out you want running it if they want me to run again id run again but its not a priority for me it doesnt matter i believe that you and your city your people you dont have to be into that house you can serve your people at any level at any rate lets talk about the economy and Poverty Issues youve made a lot of contributions on since leaving office for the club to madrid and others when you came to power in twenty twelve you inherited a shock to the economy no doubt about one of your first moves as president was to accept the i. M. F. Led recovery measures that your predecessor had resisted which included a forty nine percent devaluation of the malawian currency a measure that many experts say hit the poorest malawians hardest there was a skyrocketing skyrocketing in the price of basic commodities by as much as fifty percent there was panic buying those protests on the streets looking back do you regret buying into the i. M. F. Treatment plan. You know i dont i dont think youre being fair to malawians the truth of the matter is that i had to make very hard decisions do we devalue the question by forty nine percent do we get back on course with im with the economy had grown by one point eight percent so define company as well but it is not that five percent there was money for only one week two Million People had no food six hundred seventy five women who are dying giving birth so therefore for me do i take these hard decisions theres one lesson that i lent is that when youre a leader you must be all inclusive i organized what i was called to the National Dialogue when the economy under there we picked only five six years because i had only two years to go it may make you have to listen to what the people do say but also as a leader in gave the people i have learned as a leader that when you engage the people those stand with you and by and by you what you should be looking on is then what was this tuition or they call me when i visited and what is this twitching of the Economy Today because. We had grown by over six percent from one point eight when i came when there were no lights there was no more doubt when i left we had water and its all the time and we overproduced our food by one Million Metric Tons of companies well put it in a different business dont look good youre proud of your Economic Resource i will go out of the air force that i made and since leaving office youve dedicated yourself not only to women and minority Rights Initiative but to Development Work to the club of madrid to advancing democracy youve argued that while africa really needs is not aid but trade but youve also had firsthand experience as president malawi of edelman always the countrys very a dependent country at what point would you be able to say that africa has outgrown a country that malawi have grown and do you know. In two thousand and one i mean in malawi see my always losing fifty percent of its aid through mismanagement and corruption in two thousand and six that same minister said that and was sucked in my opinion malawi gets forty percent of its budget of support from it if we serve thirty percent from corruption. All we would want to find is ten percent maui is not poor under so much let me speak in general about Africa Africa is not poor we are reaching the sources so what do we need to do in my opinion is to set our priorities right is to sit down and say wow how can we best use our Natural Resources for the benefit of our people so if i have a dream that one day we shall have dime was for cash gold for poor households that a country that is rich in diamonds we were these into their house for households for a thousand dollars a year so all the girls in that school and boys go to school all enjoy so my opinion in my opinion africa can move forward without eight if they can just sit their priorities right not that it is not important but to troops like where we are going we dont have a choice but what we must do is to see what is it that we could do our saves. To lift ourselves out of this difficult situation to respond thank you for joining me from. Donald trumps reckless war of words with kim jong un has many around the world worried about nuclear war but trump all by himself candy the truth might surprise you up from producer ryan coles has this weeks reality check. At the end i use a good nights sleep so it would be nice i think theres some sort of check on donald Trump Authority to launch Nuclear Weapons but heres a wake up call if the us president wants to start a nuclear war all by himself nobody can stop it he has the Sole Authority to launch the United StatesNuclear Arsenal thats hundreds of nukes ready to fly within just five minutes of. Yes launch officers working pairs. Known to the launch new except of course if you think there are other checks and balances youre not alone when asked in a poll forty four percent of americans said they think trump needs to ask congress. Before launching a new now a few u. S. Lawmakers who are worried about trumps rhetoric have sponsored legislation that would require congressional approval for a Preemptive Nuclear strike but that bill is stalled in congress and even if it did move through trump probably wouldnt sign a bill taking a stand on nuclear toys away thirty two percent of americans also think trump needs to confer with military advisors or cabinet officials but if you want to launch an atomic weapon not even a secretary of defense can do anything about it as william j. Perry once remarked nobody has the right to countermand that decision when former u. S. President Richard Nixon was nearing the end of his presidency his advisors started to get worried he might start a nuclear war president nixon was depressed drinking heavily and frightening members of congress with odd comments about nukes even though nixon worried u. S. Officials in the past nothing was done about it in fact the u. S. Arsenal is set up this way on purpose the us wants its adversaries to know that if the president orders a strike that order will be followed quickly and without question its what they call deterrence the idea that if your Nuclear Threat is credible and scary enough your adversaries wont test you and you wont have to use. This not make it work threats to say. They will be met with fire fury. Like the world has never seen and since trump has sole launch authority other nations watch his behavior closely nearly the people who set up the system made some big assumptions that the u. S. President would be at sound mind and careful with his words and tweets we. While the Iran Nuclear Deal was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy by supporters around the world israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu called it a very bad deal and donald trump called it the worst deal ever the u. S. President recently decided to officially decertify whats formerly known as the jane c. P. O. A the joint comprehensive plan of a. Action between iran and six other countries so that Historic Deal hangs in the balance in the u. S. Will the other five signatories follow trumps lead and would the deals unraveling lead to a new war in the region joining me to discuss this are trita parsi founder and president of the National IranianAmerican Council and author of the new book losing an enemy obama iran and the triumph of diplomacy and from Los Angeles Danny aiello on former Israeli Deputy foreign minister and former israeli ambassador to the u. S. Thank you both for joining me in the arena danny let me start with you youve been a staunch critic of both iran and the Iran Nuclear Deal the way you welcomed president trumps decision to decertify the deal in october because as you said at the time it creates an opportunity to fix it what is it about the deal that you think needs fixing i think that the. Legs in two major things first of all it does not include irans terrorism support of terrorism throughout the region trying actually to subvert and in many many ways to disrupt everything that goes in the region and the second thing is there. Missiles that they continue to test the with the corporation that they have with north korea and we know north korea just this week have launched the most powerful Ballistic Missiles so far this creates a very very dangerous situation so i would say to sum it up were all dependent right now because of this agreement on the goodwill of their thoughts and before i respond to that just to be clear for the sake of our viewers because you criticising parts of the deal and youre saying the deal itself is a lot of work are you saying that the deal needs to be amended or are you saying it needs to be scrapped. Well i think realistically i dont see it being scrapped we have to remember that it has six parties. Because of iran so its not just the United States it will be very very hard to bring the europeans on board let alone russia and china but definitely i think we can do some things i think its also the interest of all the other parties as well trita parsi a dunny says that you cannot do you kind of a deal that works it depends on the goodwill of the iranian government a lot of people listening to even if they dont support the israeli line on the middle east will say thats a very fair point how do you have a deal thats based on the goodwill of irans government because you dont have a deal that is based on the goodwill of the iranian government you have a deal that has put on iran the most Intrusive Inspections in limitations that ever has been achieved fortunately thus far nine. Reports have made it very clear the iranians are living up to every aspect of the deal and the i. E. Has the access that they need it is not based on their goodwill i think its important to understand if the United States through congress right now tries to change the deal the even if its an attractive change from the u. S. Or from the israeli perspective it is a violation of the deal if a single country goes in and just tries to change the terms of this deal so if one is concerned about not scrapping the deal it makes me very curious why are we then doing things that would ensure that the deal would get scrapped well i would say unfortunate the situation is not as sanguine as. Describes because military installations are exempt and in any case a specter is have to give enough time they cannot do just random and surprised. Checks so the iranians employee employer time to disguise whatev