Of course this is the latest in a series of incidents that have seen an escalation between iran and the United States in this which. Found now in a nationwide interview on u. S. Television President Donald Trump has likened his National Security adviser john bolton as a whole new aggressive tone comes as bolton warned iran on sunday not to take washingtons prudence for weakness. Do you feel like you were being pushed into military action against iran by any of your advise i have 2 groups of people i have dubs and i have hawks you have some i have. John bolton is absolutely a hawk is up to him hed take on the whole world at one time ok but that doesnt matter because i want both sides you know some people said why did you put your i was against going into iraq for years and years and before it ever happened i was against going into iraq and some people said oh i dont know i was totally against it was a private citizen never made sense to me i was against going into the middle east to wish friend 7 trillion dollars in the middle east right now. In washington to talk more about this 1st interview donald trump given to n. B. C. In a couple of years i think certainly since the infamous list to hold what else was said. Well cmon this wide ranging interview trump again took credit for having not given the green light to the planned u. S. Military retaliation on iran for the downed drone earlier in the week but again he sent to make signals he said that he was not looking for war with iran but he also said quote that if there were a war obliteration like youve never seen is what iran would experience now when asked what exactly he wanted iran to do to avoid further escalation the president s answer was simple he said no Nuclear Weapons the point he did acknowledge is that in fact the nuclear deal to go she did with iran by the Obama Administration was to that very purpose which iran was following up until recently and then last year of course pulled the u. S. Out of that agreement now in this interview. Was also asked to respond to a u. N. Report out earlier this week that found credible evidence in the words of the investigator that saudi arabias crown Prince Mohammed bin some on was to blame for the murder of u. S. Based journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the u. N. Say that the u. S. Should have done more to hold saudi arabia accountable. I think its been heavily investigate i hope by everybody i mean i have to have seen so many different report about the f. B. I. Heres where i am ready. Irans killed many many people a day other countries in the middle east this is a hostile place is a vicious hostile place if you want to look at saudi arabia look at a red and look at other countries i wont mention names and take a look at whats happening and then you outside of the middle east and you take a look at whats happening with countries ok and i only say they spend 402450 1000000000 over a period of time. All money all jobs but in the right long as they keep lying all over long some of this behavior but im not like a fool that says we dont want to do business with them and by the way if they dont do business with us you know what they do theyll do business with the russians or with the chinese they will buy we make the best equipment in the world but they will buy great equipment from russia and from china chuck take the money take their money. So that was trump saying that he does not think the u. S. F. B. I. Should further investigate saudi arabias role in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi towards the end of those statements he was saying that are implicating really that saudi arabia these arms sales from the u. S. To saudi arabia totaling more than 400000000000. 00 was an exchange or rather was payment for American Protection now thats been a long criticism from democrats in congress who deplore the idea of the u. S. Gaining economically with the lives of civilians in yemen paying the price however last Month Administration officials bypassed congress to go ahead with 7000000000. 00 more worth of bombs and aircraft support sold to saudi arabia the u. A. E. And jordan citing a National Security concern because of irans growing aggression in the area that is what is your castro in washington thank you for that lets go back to u. S. National security adviser john bolton as we said he is in israel he was saying that iran shouldnt mistake u. S. Prudence for weakness making those comments alongside Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu in jerusalem the 2 have been discussing Regional Security as tensions increase we heard between washington and tehran more iran can never have Nuclear Weapons not against the usa and not against the world and as he made clear yesterday referring to his earlier remarks the president said i just strike stop the strike from Going Forward at this time rob matheson a westerner islam with more on this one what was actually expected to come out of this meeting is the sort of regional trip for john bolton. Well its pretty thin on the ground as far as the detail is concerned because as you can imagine all the parties that taking part in these meetings are playing things pretty close to their chest but what you did here was john bolton taking the opportunity of that press conference to state quite clearly what the u. S. Position was with regards to iran and the Prime Minister of israel did exactly the same thing ahead of these meetings which are going to be taking place here in jerusalem over the next few days and which are also going to include russia the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is very clear on 1. 00 thing he wants to have fixed and fixed quickly is irans military presence in neighboring syria as far as israel is concerned that is essentially a red line and that is something that it will not tolerate and Benjamin Netanyahu has been making making it very clear that there is every intention to try to push iran out of syria and away and decrease the threat that israel sees from those military installations but also an interesting they the Prime Minister also wants to use these meetings to show that israel is center to Global Politics its center to the negotiations and diplomacy that can go on in the middle east and around the rest of the world which is why hes brought both the United States and russia and his own country together to try to find some way forward some discussion point on the perceived threat from iran but of course also this is an important timing for him in his political life because the Prime Minister since the late may has been struggling to put together some sort of government in 5 months didnt manage to do that is now facing elections back in september so the timing is the of this meeting is key for him the role of the russians in all of this is very important and its expected that the u. S. And israel are going to try to put pressure on the russia. Ins who would then put pressure on their key middle eastern ally iran both countries are in the process of supporting the regime of syrian president Bashar Al Assad and to try to get iran to try to decrease the amount of what they regard as provocative actions and low and strong rhetoric that its producing and ideally get it to war heads towards some sort of negotiations whether or not russia will be either able or willing to do that is an entirely different thing just quickly because weve got a guest in studio were going to be talking about the issue of middle east peace in a moment but maybe you can set us up with what Jared Kirshner president ial advisor Donald Trumps president ial advisor has been saying about his plans for a peace plan. Well hes been talking about the more than the details that were unveiled about this economically driven peace plan that hes proved forward the details initially came out late on saturday night they overall picture is that he hopes to pull together investment worth about 50000000000. 00 which would go not just to areas within palestine like gaza or the gaza strip or the west bank but also to some of the neighboring countries around israel and palestine to help bring up the economy the idea being that by alleviating some of the high level of unemployment in palestine and also reach rebuilding some of the infrastructure then it would create a more level Playing Field if you like which would then lead to a better chance of a political solution being found unfortunately the palestinians who have chosen to respond to this rejected out of hand the p. L. O. Has issued a statement saying the plan is abstract promises only the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on saturday that without any sort of political solution there was no point in talking about an economic solution hamas which is gain control of the gaza strip something said palestine is not for sale those opposed say the economic problems of palestine are created by the blockades by the restrictions that israel is placing on palestine israel says those are in place for security reasons but the palestinians say if you remove those security restrictions then it will be a chance for the economy to grow but only at that point ok rob matheson in west jerusalem thank you as promised abraham fried out with and syrian studio associate professor of conflict resolution at the Doha Institute there is a lot of conflict to resolve yet i dont know that you and i are going to do it in 2 or 3 minutes but lets talk about 1st what what rob was discussing there the fact that and im loath to say deal of the century because i think that is a thats a branding exercise from the trumpet ministration but this deal this cushion a plan its an economic plan as rob was pointing out it doesnt actually look at the issues which have given rise to the economic problems just as well its 3rd the money at the problem. Why yes you are absolutely right kiran and thats actually the very image of reason for this plan that it will not work and its absolutely baseless of dealing with this. Most complicated conflict in the world that the syrian conflict and this is by the way the economic approach is not the new to the proceedings and these are promises of making policy in an economy of vibrant economy and prosperous and it was said many times on 993. 00 with the oslo agreement that is find was there was a bank and gaza where promised to be a single poor hong kong but was on the outcome was a disaster a disaster for everyone except for israel and then kryten from rome wasnt that the focus of the quartet as well and when tony blair was the middle east liaison for their kids so thank you very much carol because thats actually the 2nd promise and actually in 2000 there was a global or an international approach supported by the court by the International Community that with salam fayyad was Prime Minister is the build institutions we are supporting you and building these institutions and once you build them youll prove yourself youre able to mint then or to control security and there was a bank and all of that then the state will come as a result but here we go the Palestinian Security in the west bank was trained the way to the pacific at their protests was were all trained by the americans and build these Security Units in the west bank proved to be the most efficient actually more efficient than what the israelis use the good sort of security in the west bank but what was that is of the result jerusalem is gone in american terms. Approving jerusalem as the capital of israel and moving them at embassy. There is no and theres nothing so the policy has got nothing again so it would be nonsense for the policy. It has to be for the for the 3rd time because this is not the know everyone just looks at it and thats why they have not go into the. Thats why this lets just ask you about us iran as well is there any point even trying to predict what happens next i just i feel we getting this contradictory line again donald trump talking about his his whole security advisor john bolton we know hes been looking for conflict with iran but then by the same token trump was praising iran and saying we want to make iran crazy again and praising them for not shooting down a. Plane with with people on it its its this contradictions from within the administration again while hes using this system rather gee he the problem with that hes still thinking that the entire International Conflicts can be managed the way of that he used to manage his real estate that doesnt work because thats what hes trying to do is that on one hand try to offer some promises false promises on the other hand make it make iran get again all of these things and this latest statement that were hearing from john bolton we should not be surprised this is coming from john bolton the most hawkish person in the u. S. Administration and israel while he is while he has friendly he didnt exactly and then you know on his right hand also there were the freedmen the American Embassy there was more hawkish than even netanyahu and the ball themselves you know is not ended so we should not be a surprise of this theres a but what were going to see is to respond to a question were just going to see a modest collation and but i dont think were going to see a full scale war or an open confrontation between iran and the United States for many reasons i will. Thank you for it i will talk to you again later on thank you thank you. Want to look at turkey as well now vote count vote counting is beginning in the largest city there istanbul in a controversial rerun of the Mayoral Election now back in march the opposition candidate was declared the winner of the 1st vote that result though no after the Ruling Ak Party filed a legal challenge over alleged irregularities heres the team in stand bull weve got hashing the whole bara in a moment with reaction from that Party Headquarters but 1st cynical c. R. U. An update from you at the opposition republican peoples Party Headquarters. Go ahead sinan bring us up to date. While the us says you said we are in front of the Election Coordination Center of the Republican Party c h which actually had the lead on march 31st what 14000 votes and istanbul at almost one and a how about recall the polling stations were closed and. The ballots are being counted counted currently around 10 percent of the ballots have been counted and according to what we learned from the information provided rage and says that the c. H. P. Candidates occam him of all those who won on march 31st lease right now but of course it will take some time to count all the votes to do you know the who you know the real winner of the election i can tell that here at c. H. B. Coordination center there is a huge interest for the Election International media and turkish people have shown interest to this place because they believe that they have already voted for a criminal law on march 31st then they believe that their votes are counted as invalid by the supreme alexion board thats why they are trying to reclaim their mayor and reclaim their votes and since there is the story International Media is also hugely interested in the topic people are very curious about the results there is patience and everybody is waiting for the last minutes to ration who is going to be the winner and well get that information with you later on also with a whole bara he is outside our. Headquarters in istanbul hashim. The candidate for the ark party. Has just arrived to be a stumble headquarters of the party and i have to say theres a sense of anxiety and expectation about what could come out of the Election Results in the coming hours now the other party has learned to lessons from the march it action 1st about 400000 disgruntled Party Supporters in istanbul decided not to cast their vote and the other Party Managed to go knock on doors of most of these people and convince them to take to the ballot face time to make a difference the 2nd lesson was that the kurds may mate Something Like 20 percent of the electorate during the 30. The march election and they were the ones who took the ground in favor of the c. S. P. Of the. Opposition party. By the media in the last few days suggesting that. The kurds in istanbul just say neutral in this election is widely seen by. The other party as good news if the decide not to take to the ballot so eventually the boys down to whether the disgruntled party voters are going to go to the ballots and cast their votes in favor of an island and whether the wind not show up if that happens then he believes he can secure a Comfortable Lead but i have to say we have to wait and see what happens in the coming hours of course there in istanbul thank you. Its a busy news day here on aljazeera but still to come. As Brazilian Police get tough on crime the poor and the innocent get caught in the crossfire. Really makes me sick because we ar