Those accusations so until those 5 demands are met are the protests about going to go ahead with more demonstrations this weekend ok with the latest from Hong Kong Sara thank you the u. S. Has impose new sanctions on iran for the 3rd time in a week iran immediately hit back by announcing its plans to further scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal. Jordan has more from washington d. C. Another day another round of u. S. Sanctions against iranian officials hezbollah and businesses in India Singapore and the u. A. E. But wednesday sanctions included a twist the u. S. Is offering a 15000000. 00 reward from a fund meant to find alleged terrorists to get information about the people running what officials call an illegal scheme to sell oil on the world market these people they say are members of irans Islamic Revolutionary guard corps coots force or i. R. G. C. This network has moved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit oil that money is then used to Fund Terrorism i
The sudan is celebrating another major step toward democracy the countrys ruling military reaches a firm deal with civilians that should eventually lead to elections. And tensions in moscow as police try to fend off the baycol an unauthorized opposition rally with dozens detained this just a week after Security Forces arrested more than a 1000 people turned testing a ban on some opposition candidates in city elections. I am. Told. By my ash waiter its good to have you with us another mass antigovernment rally in hong kong is growing increasingly tense this is the 9th straight weekend of protests thousands of demonstrators have blocked a major road in the city center despite Police Appeals to clear the area. Hong kong has seen months of unrest triggered by a controversial extradition law the unrest has now evolved into a Wider Movement for further democratic reforms the past 2 weekends have seen a surge of violence from both protesters and police who have fired rubber bullets and tear g
Reaches a firm deal with civilians that should eventually lead to elections. And tension in moscow as police try to fend off what they call an unauthorized opposition rally with hundreds detained this just a week after Security Forces arrested more than a 1000 people protesting a ban on some opposition candidates running in city elections. I am. I my ash waiter its good to have you with us in hong kong tear gas has been fired at protesters after they vandalized a Police Station earlier thousands of demonstrators blocked a major road in the city center the spike Police Appeals to clear the area hong kong has seen months of unrest triggered by a controversial extradition ma the unrest has now evolved into a Wider Movement for further democratic reforms in the past 2 weekends have seen a surge in violence from both protesters and police who have fired rubber bullets and tear gas. T. W. Charlotte has some pillows in hong kong and joins us now for the latest charlotte what more can you tell
This is r. T. International. Term says that he called off a strike on iran with just 10 minutes to go it comes amid escalating tensions between washington and tehran lets get an update from our correspondent in new york last caleb moore what more do we know about trumps remarks. Well according to what trump has posted on social media it seems that there were 3 spots in iran 3 locations that were selected for u. S. Military strikes however 10 minutes before the strikes were to take place donald trump learned that there would be a casualty of roughly 150. 00 people as a result of these strikes and he felt that was not proportionate and it was not proportionate to a single unmanned drone that was being hit now of course donald trump was referring to the u. S. Drone that was written recently shot down by iranians over the strait of hormuz now iran says that this drone violated their territory in the southern part of their country however u. S. Officials are saying that this drone was shot
Place now what the iranians are trying to do is trying to push the boundaries trying to see you know how far they can actually go where the red lines are for the americans and it is very very difficult now and i see you know if we look at if we hear the debate on capitol hill right now between republicans and democrats but also within the parties between the white house and different departments in washington because becomes quite clear that its difficult to come up with a coherent approach because of the kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place because on the one hand we we can you know we have to make sure that the iranians dont do that again we have to make sure the rings dont escalate further we have to establish these red lines kind of with a lot of resolve and determination at the same time we also do or a military escalation in terms of a full out war so how do we do this without kind of crossing that threshold of war here and that is the very very difficult task but the fa