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throughout the week ahead. This is BBC World News

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Today, I'm Alpa Patel. US media told Donald Trump said

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firing James Coney believed great pressure and described him as a nut

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job. The new revelations come as Donald Trump sets off as his first

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overseas trip as president. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

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welcomes Sweden's decision to drop an investigation

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into an alleged rape. And its attempt to

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extradite him from the UK: Seven years without charge while my

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children grew up without me. Today is an important victory for me

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and for the UN human rights system. Also ahead: The polls have closed

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in Iran's presidential elections - after a high turnout forced them

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to be extended three times. We start with yet more turbulent

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development in Washington, hot on the heels of President from's

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departure on his first foreign trip, US media published two new

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revelations. The New York Times is reporting that

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the president described his sacked FBI chief James Coney as a nutjob.

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They show document summarising the meeting saying I face great pressure

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because of Russia has taken off. The Washington post has also published

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an article saying a current White House official has been identified

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as a significant person of interest. In the FBI investigation into links

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between Russia and the Tramp campaign. We will have more for you

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with our correspondent in a moment. But both those stories were

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published only minutes after Air Force One took off from Andrews air

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base taking Donald Trump on his first foreign trip since becoming

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president. They are going on a nine-day tour of Saudi Arabia,

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Israel, Belgium and Italy. The trip was billed as a chance to build the

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Wright -- visit places sacred to major religions. But could the

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turmoil in Washington overshadow the strip? Our chief international

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correspondent is in the Saudi carrot Talanoa

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-- the Saudi capital where Donald Trump will arrive. The rumours are

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staring in the region President Trump as room of them reporting, is

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facing extreme pressure at home over the handling of the intelligence and

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could end up cancelling this trip and then his next up in Israel. We

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all knew this trip matters a lot to President Trump and it is certainly

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mattering to the Saudi kingdom. It is now only hours before the

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American president makes Riyadh in his first stop on his very first

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foreign visit. This is the city under tight security, and a city

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which has taken on all the stops that to make this a visit like no

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other. Everywhere you go here you see the slogan, together we will

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prevail. This summit, they say, like no other in history. This is the

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place full of superlatives now, not that one summer but three. A meeting

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with Saudis, rule cueing Royal rules, Gulf leaders, of the Gulf

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region. And leaders from across the Arab and Islamic world. It is about

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turning the page about what they saw a infuriating relationship with

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Obama and his retreat as they saw it, from the Middle East. They have

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hailed President Trump from the start. That's go back to those

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revelations in Washington. We can speak to our correspondents there. A

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complicated story, talk us through the New York Times article. What

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does the paper say it has seen? What it is saying is talking about this

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meeting that happened last week between Donald Trump and several

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senior Russian officials in the Oval Office. They base their report on

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official readout, an internal read-out of the meeting. It says

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Donald Trump says James Coney: the FBI director he fired, was a nutjob

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and what was under a great deal of pressure about Russia and that by

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firing James Coney, it took that the pressure off. So these were once

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again, the revelations about Donald Trump's intent in firing James

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Comey, a view into its mind in this hell is happening in his mind, make

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a meeting with Russian officials, has figured centrally in this

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investigation. At the same time, we also have the Washington post saying

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the investigation into the links between the Tramp administration and

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Russia has identified a person of interest. What more can you tell us

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about that? The person of interest, not a suspect but this is someone

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they consider integral to the investigation. The article lists

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several senior club officials who have acknowledged they had ties or

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had meetings with Russia, one is Rex Tillerson and the other Attorney

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General 's Jeff Sessions. The final is fromson-in-law Jara killing micro

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Jared Posner. -- Jared Posner. We cannot confirm

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anything but it sounds like the investigation is now centred or

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looking in through the White House talent officials rather than save

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poor man thought we were the campaign manager since disconnected

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from the campaign. All Michael Flynn, who was the national Security

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adviser who was fired because he was not upfront about his conversations

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with that Russian ambassador. Fast moving events in Washington,

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meanwhile Donald Trump is on a plane to Riyadh, what do you think has

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reaction will be? All of these stories broke about an hour after

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the doors closed on S Air Force One, he has called this a witchhunt and

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was tweeting about it. He will feel like this is a pressure put on him

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by a media treating him unfairly, another word he used in a recent

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speech. I'm convinced it's not going to be happy about this. The problem

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for him is he will land in Saudi Arabia where it will be difficult to

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classic negotiations and closely watched meetings, going forward and

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in Italy, Israel, Brussels, and he will have journalist asked him about

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this probably more than what they want to be talking about which is

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his foreign trip. Going back to the New York Times, how damaging could

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this article be? How reliable are those sources? The New York Times

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says that there facing these on an official read-out fixing the basic

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these on a official read-out which is a document produced by the

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government or the White House itself, then circulated internally.

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They have seen presumably this document which is authentic from a

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reliable source. The White House itself isn't specifically denying

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these were words that Donald Trump said, that he talked about relieving

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pressure, they are fraying it as being part of the Tramp negotiations

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with Russia, inventing them to cooperate on the policy goals. As

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far as the serious goes, this points towards intent, for firing the FBI

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director, in soon another data point. He was pressured by Donald

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Trump it is alleged, to stop the investigation, and early reports

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suggested it was because of Russia. suggested it was because of Russia.

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We will see. It is serious though, and I think Donald Trump's critics

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will point it to an example of where possible obstruction of justice. You

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mentioned intent, what do you think Donald Trump means by great pressure

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on James Comey? That is the big question. Last week, Trump said that

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he had the Russian investigation in mind when he fired James Kammy. --

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James Comey. I don't want to get into Donald Trump's mind here, he

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has a tendency to talk of the cost and choosing words indelicately, but

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it is obvious that he is upset about the way James Comey was dealing with

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this investigation. The ordinary grandstand. They expect the

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investigation to go on, but that James Kammy was mishandling it,

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according to the White House. Thanks for joining us.

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The founder of the wikileaks website, Julian Assange,

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says it's a "victory" that Swedish prosecutors are ending

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their investigations into claims he carried out a sexual assault.

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He's been taking refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy

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Speaking to the media - he said he would not be leaving it,

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because he could still be arrested by police in London.

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Ecuador's Foreign Minister called on the UK to allow Mr Assange

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On the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy Julian Assange emerged this

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afternoon to have his say on the end of the Swedish

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Today is an important victory for me and for the UN human rights system.

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Seven years without charge while my children grew up without me.

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That is not something that I can forgive, it is not

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But prosecutors in Sweden have not cleared Julian Assange,

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they have simply said they can't pursue the case any further.

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TRANSLATION: There are now no further measures

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remaining which are possible to advance the investigation.

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In order to proceed, it would be necessary

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for Julian Assange to be formally served notice of the crimes

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This was a measure that was to have been conducted during an interview

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in London, but Mr Assange refused to make this possible.

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This complex international drama began in August 2010 when two women

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alleged that Julian Assange had sexually assaulted them

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In December that year he was detained in Britain under

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In May 2012 the Supreme Court upheld a decision to extradite him

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And in June Mr Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

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The Metropolitan Police mounted a 24-hour guard at the embassy.

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By October 2015 it had cost over ?30 million.

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Julian Assange is no longer wanted on an international arrest warrant

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but the Metropolitan Police say that if he stepped out of the embassy

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they are still obliged to arrest him for failing to surrender to a London

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At the embassy this evening his supporters were jubilant.

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But in Sweden, the woman who accused him of rape issued

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a statement saying he was evading justice, and expressing her shock

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that the investigation was being shelved.

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Julian Assange was not held without charge with for seven years.

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He was subject to extradition proceedings with in the EU,

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under the European arrest warrant scheme he would have received

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a fair trial in Sweden had he chosen to go back.

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The reason this has lasted seven years is entirely down

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to him seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy rather

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than going to face trial in a country that has governed

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The founder of Wikileaks says it was fear that he would be

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extradited to the United States for leaking classified information

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that drove him through the doors of the Ecuadorian Embassy.

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So despite today's dramatic twist in this long-running

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diplomatic and legal saga, tonight he is back inside.

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The polls in Iran's presidential election have now closed

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after a high turnout forced officials to extend voting

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by six hours.The incumbent President Hassan Rouhani is facing

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strong competition from hardliner Ebrahim Raisi -

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who is proposing a tougher stance on the West.

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Wisley is a reporter from BBC's Persian service. When will we get a

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result? Sometime in the afternoon -- morning Saturday. It just closed a

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few minutes ago at midnight run time it is unprecedented. The

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announcement of the final results will take longer. Interesting that

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was at a high turnout, what prompted that? Absolutely. What is at stake?

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This might decide around was on her future at the end of the day. The

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state-run TV and media have bombarded the audiences with themes

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of people participation and so on, because the regime wants a high

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voter turnout because it will give more legitimacy. Reform minded

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people want to turn up because they want to stop the victory of Abraham

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raised the, but his stop supporters want to stop the current incumbent.

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We can now go to a senior reporter at the Carnegie endowment. Tell us

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how important the Iranian nuclear deal plays into the selection? --

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into this election? The current president has a deal to deliver on

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the nuclear programme but there will be disappointment at how he has

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carried it out. If he is re-elected, they will remain a strong advocate

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in Tehran for the trade deal, if Hassan Rouhani loses and Ebrahim

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Raisi wins, then his two main parents, Obama and Tehran,, will

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have left the scene. Then he will be under the care of. I want to feel

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ambivalent about the deal won he will be

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fixing apart from the nuclear deal, what can you tell us about what the

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Iranians are voting on with macro Iranians elections are always an

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free, an fair and unpredictable, and only six individuals were allowed to

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run. I think that the incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, was the most

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moderate options that many Iranian moderate voters have. Ebrahim Raisi

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on the other hand, is in many ways a mini me of it around's supreme

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leader who wants to stay loyal to revolutionary principles, animosity

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to the United States, a regime which retains its Islamic piety, so I

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think even though the fact it was a close election, there was a stark

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choice between these two candidates and competition between them is

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genuine. But the big question will be, this election was rigged

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beforehand given so many candles were disqualified, the big question

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is, will also be big after the votes are counted? -- read after the votes

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are counted? That remains to be seen. How will the West be seen

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after this election? Much of the West including the United States is

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in such internal disarray, that it in such internal disarray, that it

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is very inward focused, the Trump administration views they run very

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differently than the Obama administration. The Trump

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administration is very cynical about Iran, so if Hassan Rouhani wins I

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don't think it will change that view and if Ebrahim Raisi wins they will

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be more cynical. I think it will help the cause of hawks in

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Washington who want to isolate Iran if Ebrahim

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Ebrahim Raisi wins because it will show the European countries that

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Ebrahim Raisi is a hardliner, a bad guy. Worth if Hassan Rouhani and his

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Foreign Minister, will break Iran looks like it is run by a more

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pragmatic and reasonable actors. Give us an idea, please, about how

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Iranians feel about this election. Has it divided the country?

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Definitely. The country might settle for political pundits and historians

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and sociologist, it might settle the issue of where it run stand in terms

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of the centre, periphery, urban, rural, modern. It is a tight race

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and the focus of Ebrahim Raisi has been the urban and the rural with

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promises of job and economic benefits, three times what they are

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getting. The reformers have called getting. The reformers have called

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this impractical. The effects of those promises for a population that

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has not seen the benefits of the promises of Hassan Rouhani, is very

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strong. I don't think can take it for granted that he can win or lose

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at this stage. Thank you both for being weather. Won being with us.

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Next, we have the sport news including a Russian billionaire's

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bid to buy Arsenal. The polling stations are all

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prepared for what will be the first truly free elections in the many's

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history. It was a remarkable climax to what will surely the most

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extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer. It's been a peaceful

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funeral demonstration so far but the police are at the crowd, we don't

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know why. The ritual is established here, they were in good spirits but

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Branson. In the last hour, East Timor has become the world's newest

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nation. The challenges ahead are daunting. But for now, at least, it

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is time to celebrate. US media are reporting that Donald

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firing FBI director James Comey firing FBI director James Comey

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eased great pressure on him, it comes as Mr Trump heads off on his

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first foreign trip. The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

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says he will neither forgive nor forget, after Sweden said

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it was dropping its investigation The disgraced former

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New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is facing a prison sentence

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for sending obscene messages He pleaded guilty in federal court

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to "sexting" a 15-year-old girl. Before his fall from grace,

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he'd been a high profile figure in the Democratic Party,

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with links to Hillary Clinton, His or your sport. There is usually

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on the ownership of the Premier League double club Arsenal. The

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minority shareholder has made a bid of around ?1 billion to buy out the

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majority chair. It's understood this bird has been rejected. The manager

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Arsene Wenger is still keeping people guessing. His contract

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expires after the FA Cup final next Saturday when the board are expected

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to discuss his position. Arsenal's final league match is at home

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against Everton, on Sunday, could that be his last

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I think what is most important for us is to win the football game

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After that, what happens to me is less important.

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I am here to serve the club and the best way

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Meanwhile, lots of other Premier League managers have been giving

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their final pre-match news conferences of the season. Jurgen

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Klopp's Liverpool need to beat Middlesbrough on Sunday to be sure

:22:40.:22:43.

of a top four finish, regardless of the result. Klopp says they will be

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spread strengthening the squad during the summer. We aren't just

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working on the players, we have a lot of people around and have good

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positions for different players, but it's not that we want to talk about,

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we want the team better. Every year. What I wanted to say, it's not that

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easy because we have already agreed cueing been a good side. If we have

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our first 12 to 14 players, the world is not full of players, that

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makers plan immediately. Week you can be sure we will speak to them.

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Myriad Sharapova says she will not Myriad Sharapova says she will not

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procure a wild card for Wimbledon and will go by qualifying. She has

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relied on wild card sense her doping ban. He was denied a wild card to

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the French Open but her ranking allows her to enter Wimbledon

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qualifying in which he needs to win three matches in a rotary the first

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round. Rafael Nadal's unbeaten run on clay is over. The Spaniard was

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knocked out of the opening info by Dominic Thiem, losing in straight

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sets 6-4, 6-3. He will face Djokovic or del Potro in the semis. Zverev

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will take on John Isner in the other five semifinal. As expected, the

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Colombian filling with the lived up to his billing as the fastest man in

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this year 's tour. Tom the moon position of race leader.

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Some goal for you now. Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from next week whether

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BMW PGA championship. He announced he is suffering from the same rib

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injury he suffered in the off-season were trying out as new clubs. That's

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all the sports for now. Let's remind you of our top story this hour, toe

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Joe Mellor two -- two new revelations in

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Washington. The what New York Times says the president described his

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sacked FBI chief James Comey as a real attempt to nutjob. Won as a

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realtor two. It also says the pressure is off. The Washington Post

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says a White House staffer has been announced as a key figure in the

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investigation into the front campaign. We'll have more of that in

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the next hour. Goodbye for now.

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