He says that the reason for the popularity of the late president , the martyred president of the Islamic Republic of iran, is his look his special view on muslims, on the oppressed, on the oppressed of the world. It was a very unfortunate incident that the presidency of our late president , the serving president , who is truly in the great nation of iran. And other islamic countries had mercy on mr. Raisi in terms of the services he had for the immigrants compared to the previous governments in many cases such as education and health, and the fact that the immigrants who had just arrived from afghanistan were able to receive them at mr. Raisis order. Get the documents so that our students can study in schools. The elders of afghanistan call the martyred president of our country the protector of the quran of the oppressed nations they know they praise the administration of affairs in iran without delay after the martyrdom of ayatollah raisi. On the last day of the commemoration ceremony
W welcome to our studios in the capital tahan, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. The zuly regime keeps pounding the densely populated gaza stroke relentlessly for the eighth day in a row, killing civilians and reducing buildings in the besieged palestinian territory to ruble. In one of the latest strikes, the regime killed 27 palestinians in jadalia north of the gaza strip, around 2300 palestinians have of been killed. And nearly 10,000 wounded, over 700 children are among the dead. At least 15 hospitals have been damaged by israeli shutting and air rates. The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas says at least 21 israelis and foreigners held by the group were also killed in the air strikes. Attacks began last saturday. More than 42000 gazons have been displaced since then. Now more than 1 million palestinians in northern gaza face an israeli deadline on saturday to flee the south. The territory remains under israels complete sie with no access to electricity, water, food a
Anchor my name is christopher , good to have you with us. The u. S. President hosting the german chancellor Angela Merkel in washington. It has been the first facetoface meeting of the two leaders, a great deal at stake. Donald trump talking about Germanys Health in afghanistan help in afghanistan and talking favorably about nato, which he slammed during his campaign. And Angela Merkel insisting on the importance of a Strong European Union come another area where donald trump has been critical. Reporter the first handshake between the u. S. President donald trump and german chancellor Angela Merkel delivered the friendly symbolism that was widely expected. The agreement on defense and security, but especially on trade. Donald trump pledging to put america first, and he wants to reduce the gaping trade deficit. He feels his country has come second in the past. Donald trump i would say negotiators for germany have done a far better job than negotiators for the United States. Hopefully we
Now convinces us that the dynamics in the National Unity government significantly improve. The taliban are probably not going to comment to the negotiating table. The Afghan Security forces will not be the miracle we had hoped and to some degree convinced ourselves it would be. And elections will probably not happen in 2016. That leaves us with no real way out of what was supposed to be the beginning of an emergence of a slightly abnormal constitutional situation that we are in now. That is why we are looking at alternatives. We have run out of the optimistic scenarios we once had. That is what is sinking in and making 2016 a particularly challenging and different year, even though the fundamentals may not change that much. Mr. Kugelman i imagine we will discuss how things are going to be getting worse, etc. , which is true. But to start with context, things are bad, but it is not all bad. There are plenty of people that did not expect the National Unity government to get as far as far
Certainly makes you think about it very carefully and watching the film on women and womens right is what is this reconciliation all about. And that is about an afghanistan that works with the rule of law and that supports the rights and responsibilities of all citizens, but particularly women. On the questions of reconciliation im sure they are still high on the administrations agenda but the principles remain very much the same. The second point you asked me to talk about our the elections. Hes done a wonderful job on that. Two things that are important to me. One is what is the outcome here and it is an election that is seen by most afghans as legitimate and a leader as someone they can say here is someone we can support Going Forward into second being appointed ambassador made that the United States has no favorites and has no candidates in this and the election is a matter for the people of afghanistan. They will choose the future leaders. The final point on that is a good questio