be the hero world needs right. now. threats of sanctions from europe against foreign governments repeatedly violating u.n. arms embargo in libya as a team from the i.c.c. arrives to investigate we'll cross. follow him down jordan the saudis iraq live from doha also coming up a fight that's a long way from over warnings from iran's president as corona virus infections reach an estimated 25000000 people. a show of force drug cartel fighters display their strength and defiance during a visit by the mexican president. and fire rages through the historic non-computer

in the western front the building dates back to the 15th century. we begin in libya and multiple developments in the conflict the european countries are struggling sanctions against foreign governments interfering in the ongoing instability in a joint statement the leaders of france germany and italy say we urge all foreign actors to end their increasing interference and to fully respect the arms embargo established by the united nations security council we are ready to consider the possible use of sanctions should breaches to the embargo at sea on land or in the air continue. and a team from the international criminal court the i.c.c. is now on the ground to investigate possible war crimes committed by forces loyal to warlord only for have to are expected to include a visit to the mass graves last month the 3 person team will also investigate booby

traps left behind by have to ask fighters south of tripoli. to see credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing men women and children. are wired is in tripoli with more details on the i.c.c. investigation the government so far seems to be reluctant in revealing the details about the team's. details exactly but we know from sources with the government of national accord nearly $225.00 bodies have been recovered from the mass graves around the city of lahore now and also last secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that in the past few weeks about the secret prisons will have to opponents including civilians in women were told sure of it and murdered and voted in the mass graves that's according to

eyewitnesses government officials and local officials from the city of along with medical sources now the team is also due to visit several areas in southern tripoli to check the areas where they land mines were planted in civilian areas specially those if you like ends our neighborhood insular dean and also in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport these areas were like near to or a battlefield during the military campaign civilian areas had. land mines were planted what helped us forces namely by the russian mercenaries from the bag group and they killed dozens of innocent civilians who were impatient to return home immediately after the end of the fighting. well it's been 9 years since the u.n. security council unanimously referred reports of atrocities in libya to the i.c.c. granting judges jurisdiction to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity the investigation into have to on his forces includes allegations of

massacres kidnappings torture and mass burials also alleged war crimes such as the bombardment of civilian areas as well of the targeting of hospitals and medical workers during halftime hours 14 month siege of tripoli. you mentioned the i.c.c. is also investigating reports of booby traps and improvised bombs planted in the homes by have tossed fighters as they retreated from the capital's suburbs well richard chance d. is a political science professor at george washington university he says the i.c.c. investigation of the threat of e.u. sanctions may signal the situation in libya is changing. well i hope we've reached a tipping point one of the things that really characterizes libya. is the idea and this has been a characteristic a hallmark of middle eastern international politics for decades now is the use of proxies and what's made this particularly dangerous is that you have. many

nation states and paramilitary organizations associated with some of these nation states aligning with either the tripoli government or the broke of or hopefully the idea is that we've we've reached a tipping point the sanctions will be imposed if these violations are substantiated one of the key players here of course is the united states and the united states while you know the past is vacillated in terms of its support for the flurry of essentially is something called it last year with the. car but the role of the united states is important the role of other support of countries for the g.n.a.t. france is problematic france has been accused of violations of the united nations security council resolution 1970 in terms of violating the arms embargo but

it's inherent to that so again the power politics of this is going to come for. elsewhere a new battle could be looming in the city of sirte forces of the internationally recognized government are pushing further east from misrata closing in on the city of sirte that's a gateway to libya's bahrain oil terminals a government of national accord says it's planning to recapture the area from after hours forces witnesses on the jna say about $200.00 vehicles moved eastwards from the was the town of to work the g.n.a.s. forces recently recaptured most of the territory held by after ending his bid to capture the capital tripoli iran's president hassan rouhani says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population may have been infected with corona virus he added another 35000000 could be at risk of infection iran has officially reported about 271000 cases but rouhani his office says his much higher figure is based on

research estimates by the health ministry further restrictions are being enforced around the country after a surge in new cases has no car to get. him one of the most important matters is it here is to medical recommendations and social distancing to limit the spread of the corona virus according to the ministry of health estimates 25000000 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus so far and we have lost about $14000.00 of them within $150.00 days it is possible that $30.00 to $35000000.00 citizens are at risk to be infected in the coming period this means that the number of patients who would be hospitalized will double it is possible the virus will continue until march al-jazeera same bus ravi has more on those claims by president rouhani. this alarming hard to believe number comes on the 1st day of return to lock down to a lockdown situation here in the capital tehran after we've seen

a record number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks now in the hours since this meeting took place in the hour since the president made this statement about 25000000 people potentially infected number that he said could turn into 30 or 35000000 in the next few months there was clarification from the secretary of the science committee on his taskforce and this gentleman put out a statement saying that the number that mr rouhani was talking about reflects those who were tested and showed signs of having antibodies and those were people that were potentially asymptomatic for the covert 19 virus and were not hospitalized he also made the point of illustrating that actual figures of infection and death that iran compiles that it then sends out to the world official confirmed figures those come from people who are hospitalized and are tested positive in swab tests for the covert 19 coronavirus now what we see here the figure that mr rouhani is talking

about perhaps a better word than infection is it's the total number of people that have been exposed in the country to the coronavirus now whether he misspoke or whether this was president hassan rouhani trying to fire a warning flare to illustrate iranians that remains a serious problem that they have to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously the point that the president made today either way is that iran has been and remains the worst affected country in the middle east. israelis have been protesting in tel aviv in west jerusalem against the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic police used water cannon in west jerusalem to try and disperse the crowds israel reimposed restrictions office in cases last week something that angered demonstrate is that in protest for weeks over the economic situation and lockdown measures there are also chants demanding that prime minister benjamin netanyahu resigns

a force that has more now from west jerusalem. there are 2 simultaneous sizable protests going on one here in west jerusalem close to the prime minister's residence where we are hearing reports of water cannon being used again of a large number of streets around the residence being sealed off in order to keep protesters away and as you say this other major protest intellivision there been small protests throughout the country there are those who are protesting as part of a long term campaign against benjamin netanyahu on the grounds of wanting to get rid of a prime minister who's also facing trial under trial in 3 corruption cases but the numbers have been very much buttressed and swollen by people who are protesting against the economic fallout of the pandemic the protests in tel aviv are largely or at least they've been talked about as protesters from the communities of small business owners of restaurant owners because they feel that they are unduly

bearing the burden of the shutdowns that have been taking place as you say the restrictions imposed last week further restrictions imposed just a couple of days ago including beaches to be closed from next week all non-essential shops and malls to be shut down during weekends gatherings restricted to 10 indoors and 20 in open spaces but they also plan to shut down all restaurants from 5 pm on friday there was a revolt from restaurant owners who said they'd already bought all of the perishable goods for this weekend the government reversed itself on that because it was afraid apparently of the kind of street protests and public disorder that could have resulted from from that e.u. leaders have ended a 2nd day of talks on a coronavirus bailout plan with no deal they're negotiating an $860000000000.00 economic rescue package but they've struggled to agree on issues like how much should be made available as loans and grants and as there was nothing in barbers

following developments from london. well we have seen concessions on saturday to the so-called frugal for the netherlands sweden denmark and austria who'd been calling for less of this recovery fun to be in terms of grants and more in terms of loans shall michele the e.u. council president suggesting that the grants section could be reduced from $560000000000.00 to $500000000000.00 another call from particularly from the netherlands was any country could effectively have a veto over the particular member states covered recovery spending plans something that is very worrying really for the likes of spain and italy who are likely to be the big recipients of these funds michel there suggested that there could be what he's calling an emergency break a 3 day window where any member state could trigger a review by the e.u. 27 of the nation's plans and we heard from italy prime minister contect who put out

a video saying that things have proved more complex than was 1st thought and that they'd reached an impasse and the e.u. the use commissioner for the budget commissioner you had his harness tweeting a solemn reminder as he put it to member states that the coronavirus was still around saying that it's high time to reach agreement which allows us to provide urgently needed support for us citizens in economies well not just vats but there's the matter of the 7 year budget to agree on and that's really crucial because it will commit funds to things like the new green economy some countries have objected to an idea of allocating 30 percent of the total budget to meeting the carbon neutral target of 2050 poland who didn't sign up to that target wanted no reference to talk it just shows how many complex issues there are and why it's no surprise

that this whole process is dragging on. and globally more corona virus infections were recorded on saturday than any other day since the outbreak began the world health organization reported a global rise of nearly 260000 over 1000 places that's 20000 more than the previous record a day earlier the biggest increases came from the united states brazil india and south africa. also to come here on al-jazeera including french protesters march to remember a young black man who died in police custody his family continue their campaign for the truth. and al-jazeera speaks to the u.n. secretary general about why he thinks the world has been pushed to breaking point more in our stay with us. there are very crowded picture throughout much of northeast asia as you can see

ticals it also means some very heavy rain in the 4 calls through sunday the very heavy rain just to. stay generally offshore but look at this across the korean peninsula some really pulls trading back across right the way down towards sichuan now on monday we will see that rain tragedy caraway from the korean peninsula is still training back into the southern and central china so again not helping at all with the flooding situation but to the north is fine and dry 33 in beijing and 25 celsius in harbin with a chance of wanted to policy indonesia plenty of showers here and some thunderstorms and yes again will be saying quite a loss of heavy rain borneo also picking up some heavier downpours java not see bad over the next couple of days it will see scattered showers and thunderstorms really from southern myanmar right across through cambodia and on towards vietnam and then up towards the a india we've got some very heavy rain but take in the northeast you can see here that we've also had a few showers of into new delhi is generally the waynes here

a quite a bit lighter than elsewhere and you can see it hasn't. brought the city to a standstill as we go through sunday the rains wrong again very heavy across the north and northeast and pushing on again into nepal and bhutan. the politics of division have pushed india into the grip of a historical reckoning i am afraid because i'm not on the minority thing to afraid of where do these ideas come from the tragedy of more lives how much we've tried to send a close getting to school a happy family move over the course of joining me opticians our seat on the final part of my journey when i had to become a target of the hindu fust policy in search of india's sole knowledge is 0.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour investigators from the international criminal court of arrived in libya's capital to look into whether forces loyal to war nor the need to have tough have committed war crimes meanwhile the leaders of france germany and italy have issued a joint statement urging an end to foreign interference in libya. iran's president hassan rouhani says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population may have been infected with corona virus iran has officially reported about 271000 cases. and israelis have been protesting against the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic police used water cannon on protesters in west jerusalem from disperse the crowds israel reimpose restrictions after a surge in cases last week. now the mexican government is analyzing

a video showing dozens of gunmen and armored vehicles apparently belonging to the powerful you list drug cartel it seems to be a show of force ahead of a visit by president lopez obrador to 3 states where the group has a stronghold john heilemann reports now from mexico city. these are mexican government forces instead this video appears to show someone else is on. a mensch over there saying the alias of the mess you'll also get us of on this the leader of the holy school new generation kauto will believe them or not the video hasn't been authenticated but it showed up online just as the president and his men were lopez obrador was touring the group's heartland and it seemed to send a straightforward message that these videos show the overwhelming on strength there is cocoa cartels have a taxi which we could call vital law. why outlaw being is using

violence against the state against government forces to push forward their agenda which often means getting the government back off from going after their assets busting their drugs and arrest in their less sexy on is on saturday our phones will darius or mit screw security minister tweeted this there is no criminal group with the power to successfully challenge federal security forces and definitely not with this obviously staged video. that this cartels never been scared of attacking authorities about 3 weeks ago i met screw city's police chief we shot up and blamed the group for the attempted hit. this late to show of force increases pressure on the government struggling to deal with gang warfare and record violence john heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. where raul benito's man hours from the national university of mexico he says the cartel video could prompt the president to take

a harder line. if there were many of these he is trying to capture and they believe they're dimensional he's really sation the early christians he counts they mention to he's he's on and he's is delighted to the united states and the mental he's very angry with the government and 3 weeks ago. we saw for they have track of the organization against the chief of police of mix city. for 2 not only that you felice he is good right now and the attack was fatal for the release agent for the interim station and they are trying to send the poor myth of the mexican population and they have many that were many military power the president mentioned this is today yet they didn't even if he's going to mint it one of the year from fargo. it failing in the effort to do gold it could look at those 2 to be good citizens and

many people in mexico it says this is that the because he said that if you start the depressive but by the sheets of the cartels mainly the cartel the boatman is to change to start the year and he's using the army and he's using their they they the u.s. 8 to to face these powerful. because. the call of negotiation and goodwill for the government those those who work this is just the many people in mexico once how do i. tell. a protest march has taken place in northern france and memory of a young black man who died in police custody 4 years ago adama troll or he was arrested on his birthday after running away from offices approached him for an id to check but hours later he was declared dead now he's been convicted over his death but he has more. in the paris up

a pass on thousands marched for justice for all. troy a young frenchman of mali and heritage who died in police custody in 2016 police say he died of natural causes his family say officers caused his death for 4 years his sister asked to has campaigned for the truth i never thought we'd still be here after 4 years that i'd still be demanding truth and justice for 4 years we've suffered relentless pressure but it's made us into soldiers the black lives matter movement of protests against george ford's death in the us have propelled atomised case back into the spotlight in france and made an ass or a figurehead for those fighting against racial injustice and police brutality to. make by little brother's name a symbol to tell the world that our brothers have the right to live and that they have the right to help build this world and build france and their own lives people

walk through streets knew where adam lived and where he died were not a match rory was arrested he was taken to this police station when his family came to find out what had happened it was several hours before police officers told them that he was dead france has a history of abusive arrests this week 3 police officers were charged for manslaughter in connection with the death of a delivery driver in paris in january cedric's was of algerian origin his family says officers held him down while he cried out that he couldn't breathe the charges are rare in france where police are often accused of acting with impunity police violence is something we experience all the time in our neighborhoods even if not directly ourselves we witness it all the time we've seen the similarities between george floyd and. its police violence infamy this is our moment to face it. in the march was organized on the 4th anniversary of adam as death

a young life lost in circumstances that are still to be kyra fied until they are his sister and her supporters won't give up will forget. al-jazeera pass off. tens of thousands of protesters in the far east of russia rallying against the arrest of a popular governor. fergal the governor of coverups region was arrested last week and flown to moscow he's accused of plotting the murders of his business rivals 15 years ago supporters in his home region say the accusations are politically motivated. kuwait state news agency is reporting that the emir. has been admitted to hospital for a medical check up the 91 year old ruler is in good health according to state media the crown prince and his designated successor. has temporarily taken over some of his responsibilities the u.n.

secretary general antonio protest is said the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world to breaking point exposing deep divisions in societies across the globe he made the comments during a speech marking nelson mandela international day our diplomatic editor james bays spoke to him earlier. in your speech secretary-general you describe a world out of balance you say we are at breaking point it is an idealistic speech but you are a realist how do you achieve the things that you want to achieve now my believe is that people. now aware of the enormous fragility of our world of our economies and of our societies for as you with the erosion to a microscope a virus that has put their face put us on our knees for as you know the nation to climate change visualization to lawlessness in the cyber space facilitation to the new risks of nuclear proliferation again and my hope is that people will understand that when recovering when taking profits or the opportunity that of course after

the coffee we need to restart when recovering people will be aware of the need to address the fragility that have caused the chaos that we have in today's world with the government and that requires fighting inequalities that require active climate action that requires international cooperation on the digital space that requires a in the end much stronger unity and solidarity in the way international relations are conceived well it's not obvious that we are going to win this battle we see also nationalists we see populist we see people trying to use the convience. to promote racism and xenophobia to the 5 but my feeling is that if one looks at the world populace are not doing well fighting the culverts and i hope people will understand that only by international cooperation and only by a very strong sense of sony that it would be able to not only overcome the call

with but to build a system that addresses the fragility is there to cover those the most rated. nominations are opened for candidates in the hong kong's legislative council vote in september it will be the 1st election under a new security nor imposed by beijing which critics say it restricts freedoms agent ban reports from hong kong. well given all the tappan in hong kong during the past few weeks the return of covert 19 befall out from the national security law there have been big questions as to whether the election jus to be held in just 50 days time will in fact happen on saturday though the nomination process began and candidates began registering their names for the election but this election poses something of a dilemma for those whom the pro-democracy camp people like joshua want because in order to stand as a politician in hong kong's parliament he would have to pledge an oath of allegiance to the basic law reform kong as well as the government of the special

administrative region but of course some of these candidates could well find themselves disqualified before the nomination process actually ends in 2 weeks that's because several of them stand accused of taking part in protests including demonstrations inside the parliament building and then of course last weekend we had that unofficial poll by the pro-democracy camp to help people decide what candidates they will do to choose for this election and beijing has ruled that that poll was illegal monsoon floods of forced more than a 1000000 people from their homes in northeast india red alerts remain in place across assam state and rescue teams have dispatched hundreds of boats health officials say at least 72 people have been killed the flooding is seasonal but the coronavirus pandemic is complicating efforts by stretching emergency resources. stained glass windows on the grand organ of the iconic song sample cathedral in the western france have been destroyed in

a fire known as the north cathedral police say and also investigations now underway it comes 15 months after the devastating blaze that in paris reports. the cathedral of st peter and st paul in not in flames more than 100 firefighters were deployed on saturday morning hours later thick plumes of smoke were still rising from the building president emanuel called the church a gothic jewel. in the fire started in 3 spots i can confirm to you i saw it with my own eyes inside the cathedral the prosecutor spoke a while ago saying that an investigation was going to be opened i think it subjectively too soon to come up with conclusions having spoken to the teams who were on site there reporting a certain number of analyses. just 15 months ago the fire came close to destroying . in paris fire reports suggest not cathedral wasn't nearly as badly damaged.

the fire came as a surprise given concrete beams were used to replace wooden tempers destroyed in a previous fire partly as a precaution against another blaze the a hard. time for a quick check of the top stories on al-jazeera the leaders of france germany and japan and foreign interference in libya and threatening sanctions if necessary they issued a joint statement as the un recognized government push towards. an area controlled by forces loyal to the eastern warlords. meanwhile investigators from the international criminal court have arrived in libya's capital they're looking at allegations that forces loyal to have to committed war crimes mahmood of the war had reports now from tripoli according to the government paramedics team nearly

225 bodies have been recovered from the mass graves around the city. and also. secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that in the past few weeks about the secret prisons where opponents including civilians and women were tortured and murdered and buried in the mass graves that's why this is government officials and local officials from the city of. e.u. leaders of evidence 2nd day of talks on a coronavirus bailout plan with no deal when they go sheeting an $860000000000.00 economic rescue package but they've struggled to agree on issues like how much should be made available as loans and grants. iran's president says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population may have been infected with corona virus based on new

research an ounce by the health ministry israelis have been protesting against the government's handling of the pandemic police used water cannon in west jerusalem to try and disperse the crowds israel reimpose restrictions office urgent cases last week one of mexico's most notorious drug cartels is displaying the scope of its power in a social media video coincides with a visit by a president and raise money lopez obrador to 3 states which are cartels strong homes. and the u.n. secretary general has delivered a stinging critique on inequality in the world during a speech marking nelson mandela international day and tony can tell you says the world at breaking point and the coronavirus pandemic as expose the deep divisions in our societies. those were the headlines the news continues on the al-jazeera the inside story stretching them to watch it but i'm.

already embroiled in a war for years in yemen faces an unprecedented environmental disaster a damaged oil storage facility is not really threatening marine life in the red sea who is to blame and can catastrophe be averted before it's too late this is inside story. rather than welcome to the program. years of civil war.