just nothing we are now approaching across route this is an opportunity that we must call the stream on al-jazeera. think. that. china's new powers aquash hong kong to send a national security in or has just come into force. hello again i'm the stand here today and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up . nothing in the briefing that we've just received led me to believe it is a hoax democrats press the white house on just how much donald trump knew about allegations russia paid taliban fighters to kill u.s.

soldiers. police used tear gas to break up protesters demanding quicker reform from sudan's transitional government. european union is opening its doors to visitors from 14 countries but not to the united states amid a resurgence and coronavirus cases that. now china is imposing a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy it's been signed by a chinese president xi jinping and is now in force critics say the legislation erodes hong kong's freedoms brown reports. it normally takes a year for china's parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the country's most powerful political body the standing committee of the

national people's congress in hong kong china supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. a contentious measure that spits it he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imposing legal principles such as presumption of innocence and protection of the rights of the sox that it will have no race respectively fact the critics here say the new law now threatens to stifle even small displays of dissent like this one in a local shopping mall on tuesday china is causing passing a law without without even asking. police i'm not going to be proper procedures the laws passing had an immediate political impact democracy activist joshua wang announced he was resigning from the political party he helped

found before the party itself was dissolved also desponding 2 other smaller political groups that advocated independence. for hong kong this is the most dramatic development since its return from british to chinese rule since then china's had thousands of troops garrisoned in the city now its secret agents will be able to legally operate here as well a body to gather intelligence will also be set up the timing of this new law is no coincidence wednesday marks the 23rd anniversary of home kong's handover from britain to china police have sealed off the area around a convention center where locals and mainland dignitaries commemorate the event each year before the handover china promised that hong kong's freedoms including an independent legal system would continue for 50 more years to many people here now it seems that promise has been broken july the 1st is traditionally

a symbolic day marked by a large march but police have denied an application for another this year citing the coronavirus and the potential for violence several groups though are vowing to test the ban adrian brown al jazeera hong kong well let's now take a closer look at some of the main elements of this legislation china will set up a national security agency in hong kong and it what will not be surprised if advised by the local government that agency will have jurisdiction over what the law describes as serious cases trials involving national security secrets can now be conducted behind closed doors a maximum sentence life in prison and local government will also set up a national security committee chaired by the chief executive and decisions made by that body cannot be challenged in local courts monson lee is the founding chairman of the united democrats which then became the democratic party of hong kong he was also the face of the democracy movement before the handover in 1997 and he explains

how hong kong's power is being eroded. my party will stay on and i will stay in hong kong of course we realize that the prospects of being put into prison would be very high but the prestige of this law what this piece of legislation in fact for me means. is that when the british government returned hong kong to the people's republic of china 23 years ago it was on the promise of dumb show pink the then paramount head of china that hong kong will be run by hong kong people with a high degree of autonomy which means that apart from defense and foreign affairs we the people of hong kong will be masters of our own house in terms of the executive power educated power and judicial power now but

a person who does not everything is cheap instead of hong kong people born in hong kong is now the communist. instead of being enjoy a high degree of autonomy now the communist party will be ruling with comprehensive power of control now this is what this war is all about that they are now actually defining the new position. which is just another chinese city we have no degree of a country and all that is this is a problem they have complete control of even our courts this is what they would do not with every case but this they could at the ready there is they should do some small number of cases china may actually decide. now donald trump's relationship with vladimir pearson is again being scrutinized after russia denied making bounty payments to taliban fighters in afghanistan to kill u.s. soldiers the u.s.

director of national intelligence says the allegations are still being investigated and president trump says he wasn't told of the intelligence reports because they want deemed to be credible both democrats and the u.s. say that despite a briefing from the white house on tuesday they still haven't gotten the information they need they are calling for a full briefing from the intelligence community the president called this a hoax publicly nothing in the briefing that we have just received led me to believe it is a hoax there may be different judgments as to the level of credibility but there was no assertion that the information we had was a hoax and the chairman of the house intelligence committee says even if the information comes with caveats attached it should still be a major factor in the president's dealings with russia as we look at these allegations. number one the president of state should not be inviting russia into

the g 7 or g 8. we should be considering what sanctions are appropriate to further deter russia's malign activities not further ingratiating russia into the community of civilized nations. white house correspondent can be helped that has more from washington d.c. . the perspective of democrats is that they didn't get the briefing from the people they wanted the briefing they got a white house perspective they already know that perspective they wanted to hear from the intelligence officials and so they've there are sort of requests that this come from this information come from the director of national intelligence and also the director of the cia jeanne the house bill they also are concerned that the u.s. president has once again in their view socially put forward his infatuation with lattimer putin someone they believe should be held to account and so you heard there from the house intelligence chair adam schiff stating that he believes it's

time for sanctions against russia the russians should not be invited to the g. 7 to make it the g. 8 or in other words be part of the community of civilized nations the white house has repeatedly said that the president did not know anything about this that he had not been briefed but we do know that 2 anonymous intelligence officials have come forward stating in fact just the opposite saying that they briefed the president back as early as february of this year and in fact this was further developed in an intelligence briefing that was given to the president and then disseminated more widely to the broader intelligence community so these are revelations that are increasingly not sitting well with not just members of the house of representatives on the democratic side but also we know some members of the republican side as well that say they want more information and they want to hear from intel officials what the president knew and when when a u.s.

secretary of states my compare has addressed the u.n. security council eventual session on new can nonproliferation he spoke ahead of iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif who is also expected to speak very shortly from paris said he is hopeful the u.n. security council will understand the need to extend restrictions on iran. arms embargo on the world's most famous terrorist regime it's good to just bar on october 18th a mere 4 months from now or months this chamber has a choice stand for international peace and security united nations grounders intended the arms that are go on the islamic republic of iran expire betray us mission and its finest ideals we've all 'd pledged to old ethiopian prime minister ahmed is calling for a populist saying it was shot dead thousands of fans followed. as casca to protest

his killing the demonstrations turned violent a doctor has told reuters that 8 people were killed the police are investigating just what happened to the musician who is known for political songs about the rights of the aroma people they are ethiopia's the largest ethnic group that they have often complained about discrimination. well thousands of people have rallied in sudan accusing the transitional government there of taking too long to introduce reforms. to the security forces in the capital khartoum used tear gas to break up the crowds some want economic and political change while others are calling for justice for those killed during protests last year and supporters of former president omar al bashir also holding rival rally well our correspondent jim morgan is in khartoum she says the quarter protest drew crowds across the country. people coming out and taking to the streets ahead of the scheduled time of 1 pm local time which is around 11 g people have taken to the

streets 2 or 3 hours before that and that is not just in khartoum we've seen people in the western parts of the country such as central and western part of daraa for we've seen people in the southern part of the country the northern and eastern parts so it is indeed a nationwide movement just like the. professional association has called for as well as the resistance committees the bodies that are basically in every neighborhood calling for those protesters or revolutionaries as they're termed to put pressure on the government to achieve the goals of the revolution and the clauses of the of the power sharing agreement which include appointment of civilian governors and forming a legislative transitional transitional legislative council so huge turnout tens of thousands across the country just like people have been organizing for the past few days seen the arrest of the acting head of the former ruling party ibrahim one dude who is also the former minister for foreign affairs during bush years there he was

arrested last night with security forces accusing him of planning to sabotage and vandalize today's marches now we've seen security ramping up 2 days before today's protests we've seen bridges that connect the 3 parts of the states of term sudan and undermanned being blocked nobody's allowed to access we've seen heavy military presence around the roads leading up to the army headquarters to try to prevent protesters from getting to to the headquarters to start to to stage a sit in just like the one that was staged when former president on one of the shia was overthrown. still ahead for you on al-jazeera. and pakistan facing a big story. hello them all hossa dry and all the dusty weather through much of the middle east and the arabian peninsula but look at this on the satellite you see those bright

flashes of cloud there repairing across nor that i'm on produce there is a rather severe thunderstorm as you can see those tree limbs just came crashing down off the tree the winds were very very strong gusting to pretty high speeds but also just look at the rain that was also coming in across the blown all of those strong winds down through wednesday we could have a few more showers later the dates that same sort of area of oman it's mostly dry but again one of the shells likely in the southwest of assadi down across into western areas of yemen and also if you will working their way through eastern areas of turkey now through thursday it becomes a little bit more cloudy and showery across much of amman this quite a strong on shore flow away from those hot and dry 46 celsius in baghdad and also the same across into kuwait now down into southern africa to much as a cools not that high it's been fairly cool slightly just south africa over the last few days was still to see the end of the winds entirely across eastern sections of south africa but also quite a strong will flow through much of mozambique so quite a few widespread as we go through wednesday and also wednesday on thursday eastern

areas of madagascar say you fuchsias and the winds and showers back across into cape town as well. all right breaking in because the u.n. security council is holding a virtual session on nuclear nonproliferation focuses on iran a red herring right now on iranian foreign minister mohammad jarrett java general let's reference the security council was a stop british so that large and small nations are like my sit around the same table and cooperate for the maintenance of peace in accordance with the purposes and principles of the united nations the council cannot perform its great task unless big powers respect the principles which it was created to embody end of quote unfortunately 2 years later he was overthrown in

a cia coup mr president if this council falters again it will be a generational setback for the cause of multilateralism and the rule of law we have in past years seen how malign us unilateralism has intensely assaulted international cooperation and international institutions it's paralleled endevor to supplant international law with u.s. domestic laws as directly undermined global peace and security regrettably complacency has enabled and encouraged destruct lessness indeedy complacency is the root cause for why we are gathered here today. iran and other members of the international community up since 8 may 28th in

been bitter saying the u.s. government a course sponsor of security council resolution 2231 persistently flouting the resolution while you're also trying to force other states to join it in violating the very text it put forward it's more dangerous and for the 1st time in u.n. history a permanent member of the security council is punishing law abiding states and private citizens for not violating a council resolution we should all remember that resolution 2231 emphasized and i quote promoting and facilitating the development of normal economic and trade contacts and cooperation with iraq and of course

and yet not a single council session has been convened to reprove the us gov or at least investigate it's repeated by the age instead some european members of the council are contemplating as we had today further undermining the resolution and the council by further reinette getting under our own jacey pure commitments to cover this up or the united states has with some of its enablers. pressured the secretary to adopt a peer bears reading of resolution $2231.00 which is the polar opposite of the clear affirmation by the security council and i codes that conclusion of the j c p o 8 marks a fundamental shift in consideration of this issue and of course this

one sided interpretation by the secretariat has been repeated in the rejected by 3 jase if you're a participants china russia and iran and that me take this opportunity now to thank russia and china and other members of the security council who have expressed their concern over this moreover the united states along with its accomplices in the war crimes in yemen have gone further in their now infamous campaign of intimidation against international institutions most recently they coerced the secretary had to rely on set of said being allegations and forged documents to produce an attorney unprofessional report outside the scope of secretariat mandate under un a c r 20 to 30. not surprisingly the secretariat simultaneously tried to

absolve the saudi coalition of its bells documented child killing in yemen this status quo is needed acceptable nor sustainable the international community in general and the united nations security council in particular are facing an important decision to be maintaining respect for the rule of law or do we return to the law of the jungle by surrendering to the whims of an outlaw bully. mr president in spite of our strong and legitimate objections to the historic mistreatment of iran by the security council particularly throughout 8 years of aggression including the use of chemical weapons by saddam saying as well as in the course of the unnecessary nuclear crisis iran

showed its good faith by engaging in negotiations to reach a diplomatic solution as called for all security council resolution under new nuclear issue after 13 years of complex negotiations in 2015 iran and the 5 permanent members of the security council plus germany signed the joint comprehensive plan of action which is the next 2 and inseparable from resolution $2230.00 but iran clearly stated its positions immediately after the adoption of the resolution and again more recently yet it fulfilled all its commitments in good faith very fight by numerous i.a.e.a. reports in spite of this great historic achievement of multilateral diplomacy the president of the united states in may 28th in announced his country's

unilateral withdrawal from the case if you ate and the unlawful reimposition of all u.s. sanctions in material breach of resolution 2230. prior to that the united states had persistently committed multiple cases of significant performance of its jacey puree obligations it is important to note that even the previous us administration made every effort to minimize the positive impact of its sanction drifting up the geishas under the j c p o 8 and resolution 2231 this has all been documented in my numerous letters to the chase if you a joint commission coordinator and the un secretary general all of which have been ignored unfortunately i do european jase if you are a participant following the us withdrawal from the j.c.

puree the un secretary general the remaining jase if you're a participants and many other members of the international community ask iran to address its concerns through the mechanisms as stop nation in the chase if your way . to alarm the remaining jase if you are a participants to redress the unlawful withdraw the leaders of european j.c. purely participants request that iran to wait for only a few weeks to allow them to compensate for the losses iran in as a result of dream post us sanctions line expressly reserving iran as the immediate answer and under allograft 26 of j.c. puree i initiated the dispute resolution mechanism under this paragraph

36 on 10 may 28. however acting in good faith we refrained from applying the remedy prescribed in that case if your way in order to enable remaining jase if you're a participant to make good on their promises for a full year we continued full implementation of the chase if your way i trust that you are a bearer of the 15 consecutive i.a.e.a. reports which will you fight iran for compliance with this trace if you are a commitment including many that bet issued after u.s. veto unfortunately the ether in response to our strategic patience was not a long overdue assertion of european strategic autonomy rather it was over compliance with the us maximum pressure targeting all iranians on

6 november 28th thing i wrote to the court the night of the j.c. puree and the remaining j c p u a participant's under our a graph $36.00 that is the dispute resolution mechanism of the case if usa and i quote from the letter the united states has now reimpose which full effect are sanctions specified in the chase if usa and it's an excuse and no remedial measure has been implemented by the remaining case if you are participants most had effectively joined the restrictive measures against iran. either they should ensure iran's legitimate benefits by fulfilling their commitments made in their statements of 6 true life and 24 september 28th in in real and practical terms without further delay or iran bid have no option but to restore

a semblance of balance as the remedy that the participants can templated in the dispute mechanism did not resolve the issue in view of the above i formally call on the can for the convening of another ministerial meeting of the joint commission and of course from that that no meeting was convened and not one of the european jase if you a participant even bothered to write a report rebuttal for another 6 months having repeated the exhausted the dispute resolution mechanism to absolutely no obey my government was left with no recourse but to exercise its rights under paragraph 20 states and 36 of the j.c. puree to apply remedial action prescribed in j.c. pure and sees performing its commitments in part as prescribed in j.c.

on 8 made 2984 year after u.s. withdrawal and reimposition of sanctions in spite of all this a remedial measures have until now had no impact on the i.a.e.a.'s monitoring and verification our peaceful nuclear program thereby making any claims proliferation risk irrelevant indeed iran's peaceful nuclear program remains subject to the most robust inspection regime in history. from 2016 through 2019 over 92 percent of the agency's total comparable global inspections that are carried out in europe even the recent controversial report by the director general of the i.a.e.a.

on 5 june 2020 states that and i quote the agency continues to verify the non diversion of declared nuclear matel year after nuclear facilities and locations outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily used declared or iran under its safeguards agreements and of course having said that the agency must resist external pressures to manipulate its agenda the litany of forged documents at its doorstep have a stated objective of for every kid in the j c p o 8 there by. ending the agency's robust monitoring of current activities in iraq resuscitate thinks 17 year old allegations with no hurry freshened risks which were investigated and permanently

closed by the i.a.e.a. board of governors in 2015 will certainly not the agency nor will there said the cause of nonproliferation with the president to avoid taking too much of your time the details and references for d.s. and all other assertions in my statement are provided in 35 footnotes our mission has submitted the statement with its footnotes for secure action as a document of the security comes with the president matters which are extraneous to the j.c. puree by mutual agreement. such as iran's defensive capabilities and regional policies are being malicious speedways by the us administration. $100.00 full of its a nice and clients here it must be underlined that the bargain made in the

j c p o 8 was in total cognizance of our disagreement with the best and members of the p 5 plus one over certain issues to not be deceived we mutually agreed not to address these issues most importantly because the united states was not prepared to or even capable our address in our grave concerns over its unfathomable level our own states and build up in our neighborhood as bell as its menai behavior and constant interventions which have left our region in ruins the united states has carried out and i have spelled them out in the footnote numerous acts of armed aggression against iran and its neighbors invaded our neighbors tree times in the last 3 decades milked the region of its resources to destabilize in on states systematically supported terrorists and provided material

support for crimes against humanity in yemen the people of our region had enough of the malign u.s. presence and demand extermination the bitter irony here is that most americans also wonder troops returned home where they belong this very regime absurdly accuses iran of meddling in its own region yet of course. we want to partner with our our neighbors to create a strong creature that precludes the emergence of her germanic aspirations by any power regional or global a strong region that requires home grown political and territorial in stability and a strong region for which our neighbors need to exercise strategic self-restraint just like iran ever stood their stand that the president of the

islamic republic of iran put forward the whole mars piece and or hope that he can do it without us meddling some 6000 miles away from its shores mr president. the international court of justice clearly underlined in its $97011.00 advisory opinion on namibia and i quote one of the fundamental principles governing international relationships thus a stump this is that a party which is own or does not fulfill its own obligations cannot be recognized as retaining the right which it claims to derives from the relationship end of quote after of visually and explicitly seizing its participation in the j.c.

puree at the highest level and having why are they to each and every one of its obligations under the j c p o 8 under a solution $2231.00 the united states cannot arrogate to itself any right under that resolution nor can it enable is trying to save its face we are so caught me the ground for us. the timetable for the removal of arms restrictions embodies in resolution $2231.00 is an inseparable part of the hard won compromise and neighboring the j.c. if you are participants to finally agree on the overall package of the j c p o 8 un resolution $22.00 that. the resolution explicitly edges and i quote its full implementation under timetable and of of any attempt to change.