Boiling over this morning a day after the kingdom announced its cutting ties with tehran and bahrain will be cutting ties with iran and saudi Officials Saying iranian diplomates have one more day to leave their country and shia protesters storming the Saudi Embassy on sunday angry over the execution of 47 men accused of terrorism including shia cleric alnimr. Began three days of mourning and he has been buried in an undisclosed cemetery and he was a central figure and protests by saudi arabia shia minority and arrested in 2012. This morning Irans Foreign Ministry accusing the kingdom of covering up the executions. Moves to another and this indicates its intention and it is wonton of diplomacy to create tension after tension and crisis after crisis. Major sunni and shia powers in shia and yemen and fears the standoff could have tensions across the region and Al Jazeera Gerald tan reports. Reporter the Saudi Embassy ablaze in tehran. Iranians lash out after leaving shia cleric was among
Ending gun violence in america. The president complete with attorney general Loretta Lynch today. The topic of discussion, allow to get guns off the streets. He says hes tired with congressional inaction and hes using executive powers to tighten up the nations gun laws. A lot of the work has gone on behind the scenes to take a look at what the president ask do using his executive authority has been grounded in the knowledge that the gun lobby and the republicans in congress who regularly do their bidding are going to look for ways to stop it. Mike viqueria joins us from washington. Mike, the president seems, appears ready to take on this fight. Well he does and josh earnest went on to say that whatever the president proposes they feel they are on solid legal ground. It was a year ago when president obama what infamously said he was going ouse his pen to Block Congress on some of the issues that frustrated him and none more so than his own reckoning, than president obamas own accounting
That Economic Data and the chinese currency sinks stock markets worldwide. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Two ranchers at the center of a standoff in oregon plan to turn themselves in to federal authorities today. Armed Anti Government protestors have been holed up since saturday. They are angry over that prison sentence for the ranchers who burned federal property and they say they will not leave the Federal Building until the government hands over the land. The group is occupying a Remote National wild life refuge near burns oregon, led by ammon bundy. His father led another antigovernment standoff in 2012 at a nevada cattle rank. Bundy said they are prepared to stay for years if they have to. Al jazeeras Carol Mckinley joins us on the phone now live from burns. This protest has federal workers saying home today. What are authorities doing to break up this stand your . The f. B. I. s gotten involved now. They came in yesterday and theyll pro bowl
Alnimr. He used the pul pulpit to criticize. Protests in iran turned violent fire bombing the Saudi Embassy in tehran. Saudi arabia responded by cutting diplomatic relations with iran, all travel trade and commercial relations. Many saudi allies in the middle east have followed suit but unease that saudi arabia and its allies already feel over a newly ascendant iran. Home of islams holiest shrines but shia iran openly challenges that asen dance asen assen assentientcy. Aascendantcy. New sanctions on irans Missile Program and separately, congress has voted to tighten visa restrictions on travelers to the United States who have been to iran. Both have the iranians crying foul and warning that any new sanctions will put the Nuclear Accord in jeopardy and that is why the saudiiranian power struggle is bound to drag the United States into the fray and there is a growing realization that last years Nuclear Accord gives iran more space to project its power instead of curbing it. Iran consider
Fugitive who fled to mexico is fighting to stay there. Why the process of extraditing him to the u. S. May be complicated. And in the week ahead venezuela the land slide win by the opposition, and accusations of corruption saudi arabia is cutting diplomatic ties with iran, and demanding iran superintendent all diplomatic work in the country. Tension erupted following saudi arabias execution of 47 men, including a prominent shiite cleric. The Deputy Foreign minister fired back after the announcement. Accusing the kingdom of trying to cover up the executions. Gerald tan reports the situation escalated when the Saudi Embassy was attacked in tehran. The Saudi Embassy ablaze. Protesters after the execution. Saudis said they made repeated protests for their embassy to be restored. We are determined not to allow iran to undermine our security. We are determined not to let iran mobilize or create or establish a terrorist cell in our count ri or in countries of our allies the execution of nimr