Longer refugees seek protection from weeks after Easter Sunday bombings our correspondent visits a Police Station thats become a shelter. And critics say it is a song contest in name only this years year of vision is set to be one of the most political yet saturdays final takes place in tel aviv israel and this calls for performers and visitors to boycott the event in solidarity with the palestinians. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei 0 has been reassuring russia and the e. U. That washington is not heading for a conflict with iran as comments came during his 1st official visit to russia a key backer of to iran iran has blamed the Current Crisis in the gulf region on washingtons decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Dorman and mike pompei was on a mission a mission that didnt go quite the way he planned pompei has been on the road for the past week rallying support for washingtons iran policy last wednesday he abruptly pulled out of a scheduled meeting with germanys chancellor Angela Merkel instead he met iraqi leaders and warned them that irans threat to american interests in the region was growing he then postponed a trip to russia to share Iran Intelligence with european leaders in brussels but they didnt offer him that backing. The European Union side on the understates of the European Union site thats full determination to do all we can as i said with all instruments to implement it for our part of the Nuclear Agreement as long as it makes compliant next stop sochi in the Russian Black Sea resort pompei i met president Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov but again he got very little. People good we didnt support it and we consider it a mistake that the u. S. Exit did the Iran Nuclear Deal eager to win my game so we hope to find a political solution to the situation in iran and well try to assist you steve so that the situation doesnt turn into a military scenario. For you mr marty in recent days the u. S. Has considerably increased its military presence in the persian gulf but palm pale denies that the trumpet ministration is preparing for war were looking for iran to be a buck a normal country and thats our ask and we have applied pressure to the leadership of the Islamic Republic of iran to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see a war with iran irans leadership also tonight is its heading for conflict now pompei a has returned to washington on his European Tour allies and rivals alike warned him against war. Well lets get some analysis now as social Loman America expert at the German Institute for International SecurityAffairs Welcome to the show thanks for joining us having is this is start of a deescalation in the gulf well i feel know these processes hardly controllable and its a huge potential for misperceptions so steps on both sides are perceived to be offensive even if they essentially meant to be defensive do you think its reassuring tehran nonetheless that pompei as been out there talking to people talking to russia talking to the e. U. Well i think its kind of reassuring that hes so far unsuccessful unsuccessful to garner support for the socalled my small precious strategy but at the same time the u. S. Is deploying new military assets in the region and i think thats highly unstable lazing for pulse of the rein in the leadership what do you think about this shuttle diplomacy on behalf is it a one off effort or do you think america will be keeping up the pressure for this maximum pressure strategy that that you just mentioned will basically pay was trying to garner some of them see from allies in europe but also from partners of the remaining parties among the trees if you lay but he must not be successful necessarily because the u. S. Can and has not backed sanctions unilaterally and they are pressuring to run regardless of what the others do in their efforts at trying to save the deal so far have also been proven not successful at all ok well the administration in washington believes that the sanctions will strengthen the opposition undermine the regime of the mallos could they though wind up strengthening the hardly liners in iran. Sure i mean those are the 2 theories and it looks like as the 2nd theory that its strengthening the hard liners the socalled rally round deflect theory as actually whats happening on the ground in iraq ok as part of that rally around the flag theory in tehran weve seen a deployment of iranian assets in the gulf as well putting the the elite units of the Republican Guard what are the iranians doing off for their side now to to strengthen their position in the gulf militarily well theyre trying to put some pressure on the u. S. At the same time because they cannot match up militarily on the scale with the u. S. Navy in the persian gulf so what theyre doing is that they are trying to somehow retaliate asymmetrically and thats why theyre deploying some assets socalled proxies in the region and this also heightens the potential for escalation because of the proximity between u. S. Forces in syria. And iraq and these back forces just this morning we have reports coming in from iran that iran has indicated the country has already stopped some of its commitments under the nuclear deal what impact do you think there could have well those faily small steps and they are also only pertaining to these areas that the u. S. Reimposed sanctions on so these are actually steps which indicate that the iranian leadership is still interested in maintaining the deal and we will see the socalled ultimatum to the europeans to 60 days what they will do afterwards because its not really likely that the europeans can actually deliver economic benefits to iran because u. S. Sanctions are prohibiting European Companies even in europe to follow e. U. Law and with the economic threats and pressures increase you know with the military threats and pressures increasing as well what needs to be done right now to cool the situation off to get in effect of the escalation well as a. These processes are hardly controllable and what needs to be done is there needs to be an actor might be able to deescalate the situation but in this kind of environment its really hard to actually send signals of deescalation because the potential for misperception is so huge so i think this is kind of whats really dangerous about this whole situation that theres hardly a kind of space for for deescalation ok briefly if you could who should be the into look user you just mentioned could it be the europeans well prefer plea to europeans but so far theyre really cautious and kind of. Getting the United States to really accept that they want to maintain the deal and kind of put some put some money where their mouth is such a Loman America expert at the German Institute for International Security affairs thanks for coming in this mornings its to britain now where Prime Minister theresa my has promised to put her breakfast the old before parliament again in the 1st week of june she hopes that if its passed britain can formally exit the European Union before lawmakers head off on their Summer Vacation in july but the terms of britains divorce deal have already been rejected of course by politicians 3 times so shes currently talking with the leader of the Opposition Labor PartyJeremy Corrigan trying to find a way out of the impasse but the right wing of her conservative party which was a hard bracks a deal or no deal is suggesting that again it will not support her. And maybe it will be reintroducing her bracks a plan of support for her conservatives plummets to a record low level percent of opinion polls just days before the European Elections where with Charlotte Potts covering the story for us from london good morning charlotte why is threesome a choosing to do this right now. Well Prime Minister theresa may is determined to bring her Withdrawal Agreement through parliament in the week of june and the 1st week of june. To then get the Great Britain out of the european. Before the break here before parliament goes on at some a break in order to do so she has chosen the only way that is left cross party talks with the Opposition Labor Party theyve been talking for around 2 months now very Little Movement so far but they are both determined they say to find a compromise to find a way forward and to change the political declaration of the deal so that would define the future relationship the labor party wants to remain in a Customs Union with the European Union and to rescind may obviously see some hope that they will find Common Ground 0 so she might be moving a little bit towards set so this is something that there is some hope that they will pass it deal with the help of labor votes at some point in parliament but we have to also say both are under tremendous pressure from their party so from within the charlie and labor party especially to resign may from the right wing off the paci and at the moment it looks like this would be Wishful Thinking that she would get now all the votes that she could really pos her deal done in june it certainly does look like a Wishful Thinking when you consider how the political sands are shifting in britain right now just days ahead of European Elections certainly looking at the opinion polls whats the mood in the country ahead of these European Elections which britain was not meant to participate in. Well it certainly seems like british voters are very tired of the bricks and cause chaos of the past 3 years weve seen that in the local elections where the vote really pretty much voted out the incumbents of tory and labor party and chose parties so that was a big blow for the 2 main parties for labor and tory and were thinking that the European Elections are going to be some kind of mini referendum a protest vote that we are going to see theres a new party on the horizon here in Great Britain the brics a party under the leadership of nigel farrar she was the architect of the leaf referendum they can painting extremely successful throughout the country were seeing crowded rooms when nigel frosh takes the stage and they are polling highest at the moment in those European Elections followed by the labor party the liberal democrats and then in false place only teresa mayes conservatives and of course that would be a tremendous blow for the conservative party and so after the European Elections there will be pressure on may if if they. Really resist that many votes of course it will be more pressure for her to resign and make it even more difficult than for her to put that deal and front of parliament again and and get the votes this time to force time around some real question about her choice of timing right now. Thanks very much. Lets preview now some of the other stories making the news this hour sudans governing military council saying it has agreed with the Opposition Alliance to a 3 year period for the country to change to civilian rule a spokesman for the military council said a final agreement on the balance of power would be reached within 24. 00 hours. Venezuelan Opposition Leader juan wydow has accused president maduro government of trying to silence congress after Security Forces stopped opposition lawmakers from entering the National Assembly building he said legislators would reconvene for another session on wednesday meanwhile the countrys Supreme Court as charged for lawmakers with treason relating to last months attempted uprise. Amid some angry seems the senate of the u. S. State of alabama has passed a near total ban on abortion with a majority of 25. 00 to 6. 00 senators voting to make performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy a crime punishable by life in prison as now up to the states governor to sign the ban into law. And staying in the u. S. And San Francisco is banning facial Recognition Technology once signed into law it will be the 1st American City to make it illegal for local Government Agencies to obtain retain access or use that surveillance official say its all about having security without becoming Security State other American Cities could be following suit as a backlash to the otherwise and regulated technology gathers pace researchers say facial recognition can result in discrimination and often then if i was women and darker skinned people in correctly. And joining me now from the business desk is ben good morning ben civil disobedience civil Rights Groups rather in a city famous as a trailblazer. Are hailing this as a major breakthrough its an extremely strong signal to the Tech Companies to the politicians and also to the public so far the Tech Companies have been given free rein with this sort of technology its made the regulated and they can do what they want they can try it out as they want and its great for the development of these programs but take a country like china do you want to live in a secure was state or a Security State and in chinas example shenzhen the city of shenzhen is using these technology to nab jaywalkers for example but also count how many pieces of toilet paper you use what you could to a Public Toilet ok so this this issue of security and privacy is one of the big issues of our era isnt it but its but its ironic that sanford city the San Francisco thats a city thats the Global Capital really for Tech Innovation should be the one putting the brakes on one of its own major innovations its totally ironic i mean and and it could backfire i mean this could put the u. S. Even further behind china which is the Global Leader in facial Recognition Technology if its not able to you know experiment with this this type of stuff of course were talking about experiments on our lives and following our lives but governments do want this sort of thing do need this sort of thing too to create a secure state and ones like the u. K. For example and other governments are already looking at the Chinese Technology are interested in buying it london for example is talking about using it at Heathrow Airport instead of possible its using facial Recognition Technology and just take a look at london alone and it has half a 1000000 c. C. T. V. Cameras it could follow you every minute of your day ok there are some legitimate issues there for Law Enforcement they can use facial recognition to track down dangerous criminals terrorists i mean its an important tool as well for Law Enforcement but the question is how accurate is it because. At the moment its not all that accurate in many cases women are mistaken for men. People with dr skin as well theyre the accuracy suddenly drops down really low and thats really concerning when it comes to the police who are accused often of being racially profiling people in these programs ive created by people so the same thing could happen. To take a look at the accuracy i was trying out facial recognition at home and clicked on my mother in law or and what came up a picture of a stout ancient cambodian statue i mean it didnt really look like didnt didnt really work did it so some accuracy issues as well as an ethical legal issues ben thanks very much in. Ok were off to sri lanka now threats the Muslim Minority there have been mounting since the Easter Sunday bombings by islamists the left some 250 people dead now many of the countrys most visible muslims are refugees whove fled violence in afghanistan t