new jersey has teams on the ground this is the main business lobby. to bring the winning documentary and light. fare for the lives of more than a 1000000 displaced people after russia objects to the number of aid routes into syria. alone can be found this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up more deaths reported in mali protests now the president is promising big changes to the government. president donald trump finally puts on a mask is the u.s. registers another record high number of covert 19 infections. counterfeit cash in libya we'll have the latest on attempts by the war $24.00 half dollars to fund his

attacks. begin this news are with the u.n. security council decision that could immediately affect more than a 1000000 syrians living in rebel held territory members have agreed on a compromise that will allow only one border with turkey to remain open for a deliveries a group say they're deeply concerned over restrictions on the flow of aid the deal was made after russia backed by china pushed to shut down a 2nd crossing across the entire country more than 11000000 people rely on humanitarian aid the conflict has led to vast numbers of people living in camps after being forced from their homes these 500000 children will wake up tomorrow morning. and realize that we have let them die our show them that the

german ambassador asked of those people who gave the instructions to give instructions to cut off the aid of 500000 children. to look into the mirror more demand for assistance has been steadily rising a record of more than 1700 trucks cross the syrian border in a caring u.n. aid the most since the war began and the spread of coronavirus could make things even worse several 100 cases have been detected but aid groups warn this could be much higher since testing is extremely limited. has more on what to stake with the loss of one of the turkish border crossings. him is the the almost 1000000 civilians who live in areas like a green like. green and all the areas on the border with turkey and jobless will have no access to aid and food they would have to wait for aid to go all the way from bible how to travel east to worse those areas the people who were

pushed by the syrian government during its last offensive to take over the oscars of aleppo and who had nowhere to go except for those areas they will be now severely compromised while this is going to be a critical situation for the syrian opposition just back in february we have to remind our viewers that when the syrian government backed by russia most a major offensive to take over there are scores of aleppo and what happened is that basically millions of people had no way to go except the area of the border area with turkey they were stranded they were waiting for days and days with the temper so was dropping below 0 for 8 to arrive and aid was trickling down very slowly and civilly has died because of that suffering this explains why the united nations humanitarian chief was saying basically that denying another border crossing is going to cause going to cause death and suffering for the syrian opposition and for the syrian people and syria's are now pretty much concerned because they know that

with only one course a border. border crossing which is bubble how remaining the only lifeline for the millions of people stranded inside syria this could be the extreme really delicate situation. it was all 1st on the number of aid routes into syria has been costs and 2014 the un security council originally authorized aid to flow through 4 border crossings 2 from turkey one from iraq and one from jordan in january this year opposition from russia and china forced the routes for iraq and jordan to be dropped the 2 turkish crossings were allowed to continue for another 6 months now once again at the insistence of russia and china has been reduced to a single point home law on job the aman is save the children's advocacy and media directive for syria he says displaced people are being forced to do anything they can to survive. the situation is quite diana's so complicated this point you

don't even know where to start explaining to people the truck and additionally. the northern city had about 1000000 people and 1500000 people living in it now we're seeing 4000000 people which means in the last 9 years i don't there were more than 2500000 people who've been displaced into the area if you just look at the last year alone this is only 2019 there with the major escalation in the conflict in april in june and lastly in december 2020 that saw another more than a 1000000 people get displaced another one some families we talked to have been that long away from conflict with everything they own which is about fatah if anything and we're talking about mattresses and just something to survive for 10 times we we meet families who are doing the utmost the contras are 5 we met 3 children who were living their parents had died in the escalation of conflict they were living in an abandoned car these are the people we're talking about and all of the after oximetry 4000000 people who live there more than 2000000 of them are children under the age of 18 these children have nothing to do with what's

happening in their only trying to get to school to go to do anything the kind of their lives and then we saw the security council coming in saying one border crossing is enough to n.g.o.s or help all of these people because potentially there is there's work that can be done with you and. iran's supreme leader has defended the country's foreign minister denounced as elia by some hard line politicians johns or if was interrupted several times while briefing the newly elected parliament on foreign policy issues including his negotiations with washington. we have a bit it. is the home book all relations with government should be in accordance with the law and shari'a questioning and investigation are your rights as it has been mentioned in the law but insulting and accusing someone without providing accurate information are not your right and some of them are for burden. of more let's go to said big in tehran i said what's behind all of this.

well as you said this all started when conservative politicians heckled and interrupted foreign minister divides and some of them called him a liar now these are scenes people are not used to seeing here but this is the most conservative parliament the country has seen since the revolution back in 1989 and it was voted in earlier this year in a voter turnout that was so low that it's never been that low since that that revolution now conservative politicians here are upset at the state of the economy and the handling of the nuclear deal by president hassan rouhani and his reformist now of course this nuclear deal is porton to curb iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief donald trump pull the us out of that deal and impose sanctions now conservatives have never made a secret of the fact that they're not really pleased with the deal they never were for it and they thought that the united states and europe could never be trusted now they've summoned president hassan rouhani to parliament also on this talk of

impeachment but fos the supreme leader is concerned he's looking at the bigger picture economies still in the u.s. sanctions they're dealing with a krone virus pandemic and there's been a number of suspicious incidents one there was an explosion at a suspected missile site and one at natanz nuclear facility so he's called for unity in the face of the u.s. and he said that the united states is using economic approach. political and propaganda means to bring iran to its knees so he said to parliamentarians well you have a right to question ministers and government but behave and do it in a manner that is acceptable to the people but also show solidarity in the face of us aggression thank you that said baghdad life from tehran. polls are now closed in hong kong where pro-democracy parties are selecting their candidates for upcoming elections turn out for the primary has been higher than expected and legislative council election september will be the 1st since beijing imposed its

new national security law earlier this month. and molly prominent m.r. has called on protesters to stay home and remain calm that follows a series of violent protests against the government in which a number of people have been killed these are live pictures now from by michael ware prayers are being held for some of the victims president abraham has promised to form a national unity government and to dissolve the constitutional court in a bid to quell the protests reports. in bamako a solemn feel well for protista think he'll see say this is a year old was killed on friday his family says he was shot in front of mali's national assembly. his mother was sick already when we broke the news to her she had a seizure the neighbors came out and we comforted her with words from islam. thousands of people gathered for friday's protests the 3rd since. they pushed their

way into the grounds of parliament and the national television station burned tires and barricaded roads in the capital police responded with tear gas. gunfire was heard 60 people were arrested. the protesters returned on saturday but in smaller numbers. their anger is directed at president abraham. demonstrations began in june after mali's constitutional court overturned election results and evolved to include frustrations over the economy alleged corruption and insecurity from groups. repression reinforces our determination and we will continue with our watch until the end of the regime of ip case which today is a council for mali on saturday evening case who responded in a televised address. to continue to do privilege i will continue to favor dialogue

with all the active forces of the nation for the establishment of a consensual government tame composed of republican and patriotic groups and not the break is and demolishes of the country molly deserves basic the man. he promised to dissolve the court at the heart of the disputed election results hold re-elections in contested areas and form a national unity government next week they're an important 1st step. and i think the idea is that the president is going to join with the opposition and have hopefully real dialogue. and and hopefully this will take place under the eyes of eco wasse the regional group that i think can actually help make sure that this moves forward smoothly. you know position had earlier rejected katie's offer to reform the constitutional route and demanded the dissolution of parliament

following friday's embraced 3 of their leaders were arrested and they had cooled his range and it's unclear where the president has his concessions will satisfy them and stop the scenes repeating. the dallas. still ahead on al-jazeera. labelled extremists but this rap group in the usa they're calling for equality and a demanding an apology. u.k. plans on a $900000000.00 boost to its border security as it prepares for life after bricks it. and more very heavy rain across areas of asia of course the rains have been particularly heavy through much of the korean peninsula and especially across areas of japan meanwhile across into central china the river waters continue to rise this

is we had a new bay province and really as far as you can see there is just water you know see where the river is or indeed where dry land should be now there is some more rain in the forecast as we go through monday should be across the same central areas not as heavy as it has been but instead the very heavy rain working its way across the korean peninsula and pushing on into western and central areas of honshu with a continuous journey north and east as we go through to say i'm back into central china this is when the rains will once again be heaviest of course it does mean the river levels will continue to rise across into enters a similar sort of story of course the monsoon rains have brought some particularly a tarantula downpours but take it into the northeast west bengal and the sound this is where these pictures are coming from and they have been some very heavy downpours the last couple days on there is more to come you can just see the streets underwater and of course people's homes are flooded and the is more in the 4 cars site is a go through monday very heavy again through the northeast but nepal as well across

into be tan similar story on tuesday and all the while the rains very heavy through central and southern areas. can change the way we see the world that can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful it can obscure truth forged narratives and rewrite them to listening post gives you the fruit picture on a jersey. they signed up for a luxury cruise but found would never come ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no mo when i went to investigate for new zealand dantley folk know romps. 0.

just there a reminder of our top stories this hour aid groups say they're deeply concerned over restrictions on the flow of aid into syria the un security council agreed on friday to a compromise that leaves only one border crossing with turkey open. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei defended the country's foreign minister who was denounced by hardline politicians who called him a lawyer surrounds a reef was heckled during his address to parliament on foreign policy issues last sunday. there have been calls for calm from a prominent them ahmed mali phone violent antigovernment protests ali's president has promised to form a national unity government and dissolve the constitutional court response to protesters who want him to resign. images on social media appear to show a libyan warlord wholly for hostile as mobilizing towards the city of sirte libya's

un recognized government shared the images saying they show armed vehicles and 2 russian made air defense systems moving toward the strategic port city forces back easy tripoli based government have been massed on the outskirts of sirte the coastal city is a gateway to major oil facilities in the region. meanwhile billions of dollars worth of currency printed in russia are being circulated in libya the un recognized government in tripoli says the rival dinars to the central banks currency a counterfeit some libyans are refusing to accept the new dinars because the currency is found in war holy father military campaign like trying to reports from the former rebel stronghold of misrata. more than a $1000000000.00 worth of new libyan bank notes found in 2 shipping containers a couple of months ago were yet another sign of russia's influence in libya the cash that's found on the mediterranean island of malta was on route from the

printing works in moscow to khalifa haftar his forces and he certainly. the u.s. government welcome the seizure saying the alternative dinar notes were counterfeit libyan currency printed by a russian state owned company and ordered by an illegitimate parallel entity. it's 4 years since the parallel central bank in eastern libya controlled by hunter began printing billions of its due north and russia a look and feel almost exactly like the official currency from libya's internationally recognized central bank in tripoli they've been circulated in most cities across western libya except misrata known as libya's economic. half there's accused of using the banknotes to fund his failed military campaign to capture tripoli. we saw the head of the east and central bank said the priority is to fund the war in tripoli these counterfeit notes were used to pay fight his and of course inflation and the value of the libyan do not to decrease business owners and residents say while their sons are fighting on the front lines they can play their

part in the fight against have to by boycotting the banknotes. these notes are counterfeit that recognize central bank of tripoli has refused them so business people in misrata refuse to accept it. have to use this money to destroy al capital refusing to deal with it is how we as businessman a protest spiting in the fight against them. russian support is being seen as further escalating the libyan crisis creating parallel institutions to the central bank in the national oil corporation russian mercenaries from the kremlin backed. have been seen in. libya's largest oil field leaders in tripoli say the house of representatives in the east has taken out loans of $21000000000.00 to fund have to bid to take control of libya economic experts say there are over $8000000000.00 worth of these russian notes in circulation the impact on the economy is likely to

be felt for years to come now a trainer al-jazeera misrata. human services have reportedly agreed to allow the u.n. to access the stranded oil tanker which could be on the verge of triggering a natural disaster tanka has been stranded off the coast of home for more than 5 use it's carrying more than a 1000000 barrels of crude oil the reuters news agency reports the herpes of approved the deployment of a technical team to the site. well the president has commuted the prison sentence of his longtime adviser raj a star on the man who led the russian investigators and is defending its work form a special counsel robert mueller has made his 1st public comments and nearly a year writing an op ed in the washington post a minute he says stone remains a convicted felon in writing so despite the get out of jail free card stone was found guilty of witness tampering lying to congress and obstructing a congressional investigation now to mike hanna who's in washington d.c.

mike this is pretty unusual for robert mueller what else did he have to say. well it's unprecedented for robert mueller his previous public pronouncements on his report dealt with one single fact he said the report speaks for itself however in this op ed that he wrote in a newspaper he's making very clear that he's making substantive comments about the report insisting for example that roger stone a remains a felon as he does in terms of law and that is justified he defensive work of his research into the russian links to the u.s. election making very clear repeatedly that there was russian involvement in the election outcome and that russian involvement was tilted towards president trump's victory he also says that he could not draw the direct contribution that the campaign actively operated with russia in terms of achieving that result but he

does point out that roger stone was a very important intermediary between wiki leaks which was producing hacked e-mails and the trump campaign he does not go into the point of whether roger stone was connected to russia in any way but he said the outcome certainly was in russia's interest and that is getting president trump as president he points out as well that roger stone was convicted of 7 felonies and basically he's arguing that the president trumps comments are unacceptable he doesn't mention president trump by name but in the last line of his op-ed he says that any claims that the integrity of his team is in any way in doubt is false i think that my can of their life in washington d.c. . united states has recorded another daily high of new calls of 19 infections more than 66500 cases were confirmed on saturday meanwhile president donald trump is one

of the mosque publicly for the 1st time since the outbreak began to call him reports from maryland. this is the end of that many health experts have been hoping and waiting for the u.s. president sending a message to his supporters that it's ok to wear a mask for many not doing so is a kind of political statement but before leaving for a visit to this military hospital he sent a different message with his words when your hospital especially in that particular setting where you're going to do a lot of older people that in some cases just got off the operating table i think it's a great degree where you got to have a pretty good bet but i do believe that by the time and. far from the universal endorsement that might make his supporters change their habits in many of the states hardest hit masks are not mandatory and the numbers of people being tested for and dying from the coronavirus are climbing quickly in florida another day of

record cases but despite the figures disney world reopened there with restrictions on smaller crowds masks are mandated inside the park but not in this state and the republican governor is not promising any changes soon we really believe that you know those in that 65 enough age group are at the increased risk and we're continuing to advise them to talk to limit close contact outside the home and to avoid crowds armies which as much as possible in another hard hit state louisiana the democratic governor has closed bars and mandated mess so it's become clear to me especially ash after the numbers that we saw yesterday that our current restrictions are not enough the people that we've been making to the people of louisiana to do better abiding by those restrictions and doing better by complying

with our mitigation measures just have not produced the results that we had hoped for and the results that we need pretty much across the board the experts all agree the easiest. the cheapest way to make sure the virus doesn't spread out of control to make sure hospitals like the one behind me don't become overwhelmed is to wear a mask but once again the us president does that leave a message to his followers with his words that they don't necessarily need to follow the advice of the experts political hain al-jazeera maryland puerto ricans are demanding the removal of all symbols commemoration colonialism protest is wearing indigenous clothes demanded a statue of christopher columbus be taken down along with memorials to other colonizes they want to rename city squares and streets in the u.s. territory puerto rico is one of many places witnessing movements to disown their colonial past. bollywood star amitabh and his daughter in law. have both tested positive for covert 19 the 77 year old actor is being

treated in hospital. as acted in more than 200 films of the 5 decades his son be shaken and his granddaughter also test positive india reported another record number of daily infection sunday with more than 28000 new cases it's the 3rd worst affected nation after the u.s. and brazil. united kingdom is planning a multi $1000000.00 boost to improve its border security following breaks that the government's announced a $900000000.00 funding package it says will create new border control posts and increase the border for stuff by 500. customs union at the end of the year he has the details from london. this is all about refocusing the attention back on brics it's the u.k. government's plans for what will happen after the u.k. leaves the single market and the customs union of course an awful lot of focus and

attention has been elsewhere as the country has dealt with the economic turmoil surrounding covert 19 also the u.k. is weeks away from trying to finalize a trade deal with the e.u. that's meant to be in place by july but the british government made it pretty clear that it's willing to plow ahead with its brakes it plans with or without a trade deal in place so these announcements are important to be able to show the e.u. that it's serious about moving ahead with the country's breaks it plans which is why the country has earmarked $900000000.00 to help bolster the country's borders hundreds of new border guards will be hired new facilities will be established a little bit further inland for major ports like dover to avoid trucks from being snarled at the border a new i.t. system will be in place as well all of this will be phased in over a period of 6 months at the start of next year but there are concerns that because of this phase even approach it will lead to exploitation by the likes of smugglers

it can also potentially lead to trade disputes all of which will need to be resolved before this new scheme is fully in place conversely the e.u. intends to introduce its side of the arrangement by changing border arrangements that from the 1st of january next year. for decades of rap music has turned the spotlight on police brutality. many of the genre stars are household names today and several have had problems with the or far as he's now an aspiring group of rappers in the u.s. state of florida has been able to extremists after one of their members was arrested and charged for the inciting a riot the group say that just fighting could just just as andy gallacher reports. when the ghetto boys released the song crooked officer in 1993 it wasn't the 1st rap song to address inequalities or police brutality. the houston rock group followed in the footsteps of dozens of artists long considered the voice of

african-american communities. and police departments to have made their own videos in a bid to improve community relations. now a group of rappers in miami are in the spotlight after one of their members was accused of vandalizing police cars marco lopez was arrested and charged with smashing police car windows the case and accusations that lopez wants to actively recruit people to violently protest led to this tweet from senator marco rubio the group says because of the tweets they received threats from people on social media and they want an apology we are going to let your or anybody who's going to be famous and charter likes not me and is in a negative light i do that because you know we know where we stand. we're peaceful group you know we stand for change you know. and we will always have following the death of george floyd miami like cities across the nation so protests and looting but hip-hop scholars say rappers are often accused of being agitators and that's

wrong and in certain instances you get exactly what you're describing now with these you know if. these kinds of labels coming from powerful institutions but look who's right about the reality george floyd was himself a rapper known as big floyd in his hometown of houston when he died in police custody the music community rallied around a case they've longed for for many have led peaceful protests that remain angry over continued injustice may have. i woke up wanting to see the world power down yesterday to. see black hear that as protests and calls for police reform continue across the country but so than slaves say they'll keep on making music trying to keep. the southern slaves aren't listed by any organization as an extremist group nor are they monitored by the f.b.i.

the group's calls for senator rubio to retract his statement have so far fallen on deaf ears senator rubio has refused to apologize despite the case not being heard yet the group says they'll continue using their platform to call for equality and justice and the gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. result is there and these the top stories aid groups say they're deeply concerned over a strict sions on the flow of aid into syria the un security council agreed on friday to a compromise that leaves only one border crossing with turkey of. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei defended the country's foreign minister who was denounced by some hardline politicians have called him a lawyer divans or if was heckled during his address to parliament on foreign policy issues last sunday we have a bit mad on birds the home book all relations with government should be in

accordance with the law and shari'a questioning and investigation are your rights as it has been mentioned in the law but insulting and accusing someone without providing accurate information are not your right and some of them are forbidden. polls are now closed in hong kong where pro-democracy parties are selecting their candidates for upcoming elections voter turnout for the primary has been higher than expected at legislative council elections september will be the 1st since beijing imposed its new national security law earlier this month. there's been calls for calm from a prominent mom in mali following violent anti-government protests these president has promised to form a national unity government and dissolve the constitutional court in response to protesters who want him to resign. images on social media appear to show libyan war holy for half dollars mobilizing with the city of sirte libya's u.n. recognized government shared the images saying they show armed vehicles and 2

russian made defense systems moving toward the strategic port city humans who these have reportedly agreed to allow the u.n. to access a stranded oil tanker which could be on the verge of triggering a natural disaster the tanker has been stranded off the coast of hold for more than 5 years. from a special counsel robert muller has made his 1st public comments in nearly a year to denounce president trump's decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime adviser role just stone in an op ed in the washington post melissa's stone remains a convicted felon and rightly so despite the get out of jail free card stone was found guilty of witness tampering and lying to congress. those are the headlines more news on al jazeera after the listening post. as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take

a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote followed the u.s. elections on a. trip that ministration officials today again blame carrying a target. on. a. college official site if. it will enable you to record believe that. virus originated. hello i'm richard just britain you're watching a special edition of the listening post code at 19 as the world's 2 most powerful countries the usa and china staring each other down so far it's been a war of words and sound bites a blame game over the origins of the pan down.