the world. threats of sanctions from europe against foreign governments repeatedly violating a u.n. arms embargo in libya as a team from the i.c.c. arrives to investigate war crimes. hello i'm darren jordan this is our 0 live from doha also coming up millions of voters outside the country are excluded but parliamentary elections will go ahead for the 3rd time since syria's violent uprising began. a show of force drug cartel fighters display their strength and defiance during a visit by the mexican president. this could be our new means of transportation.

for sure but for some a little scary and we take a look at what could be the future of long distance travel in europe it's called the hype and. we begin in libya and multiple developments in the conflict the european countries are threatening 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 is now on the ground to investigate possible war crimes committed by forces loyal to the warlord alley for half an hour

that's expected to include a visit to the mass graves found in last month the 3 person team will also investigate booby traps left behind by afghans fighters south of tripoli the i.c.c. says it's received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing men women and children but one of the wide has more now from tripoli. 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 horner and also. the secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that in the past few weeks about the secret prisons where opponents including civilians in women were told toured 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 a land mines were planted in civilian areas specially those if you like ns are neighborhood insulated 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. landmines 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 un 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 his forces includes allegations of massacres kidnappings torture and mass burials also alleged war crimes such as the bombardment of civilian areas as well as the targeting of hospitals and medical workers during half dollars 14 month siege of tripoli and as you mentioned the i.c.c. is also invest. getting reports of booby traps and improvised bombs planted in homes by have to fight as as they retreated from the capitals of suburbs where richard chan's the is a political science professor george washington university he says the i.c.c. probe on the threat of sanctions may signal a 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 up or met 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 has 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 up for. elsewhere a new battle could be looming in the city of 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 main oil terminals the government of national accord says it's planning to recapture the area from have to us forces witnesses on the jna say about $200.00 vehicles moved eastwards from misrata towards the town of to work the g.n.a.s. forces recently we took most of the territory held by after ending his bid to capture the capital tripoli syria is holding parliamentary elections on sunday is the 3rd such ballot since the uprising began in 2011 the government has regained more territory since the last vote was held 4 years ago but at least 30 percent of

the country remains under opposition control syria's government souls are no ring a un led peace process that would pave the way for internationally monitored elections so how to reports. syrians will elect a new parliament it's the 3rd such vote since the start of the uprising in 2011 the last time large parts of the country were outside government control president bashar al assad's forces have since recaptured nearly 70 percent of territory they lost to the opposition as in previous elections candidates need to be vetted by security and the credibility of the election has been further questioned by the exclusion of millions of syrians who left their country or have been displaced by the conflict. in 1000000 people in the north of the country for example won't have any representation in the next parliament and the deputies who are supposed to represent regime held areas are not real representatives they won't stand by the people they are beholden to the regime which has absolute power and control. but

president bashar is facing challenges results of previous elections were not recognized by the international community the syrian leader will need to agree to political reforms in order to receive western aid to rescue the economy devastated by hears of war and corruption. and the election. process. after much delay the u.n. announced the creation of a committee to rewrite the constitution ahead of internationally monitored elections there hasn't been any progress elections contradict the political transition agreed on by the international community but assad seems to have different objectives many say syria's president is ensuring the incoming parliament

whose job is to ratify a new constitution will reject any changes to the president's powers and tenure in office. old warlords. all my mail and people who fought with his forces on the ground so he knows. this people who will be voting soon for their constitutional amendments they know they will be accountable changing the constitution when you talk about. transitional justice the syrian president showed little willingness to agree to political concessions even when he was losing the war he now believes he's won largely thanks to the help of his russian and iranian allies for many this latest election shows how little has changed in assad syria senator al jazeera beirut 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 is office says is much higher figures are based on research estimates by the health ministry for the restrictions are being enforced around the country after a surge of new cases. has no card to get favorable one of the most important matters is that 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 that the virus will continue into march al-jazeera same as ravi has more on his 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 hours 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 corona virus pandemic police used water cannon in west jerusalem to try and disperse the crowds israel reimposed restrictions after a surge in cases last week something that's angered demonstrators have been protest

for weeks over the economic situation and lockdown measures and also a chance demanding prime minister benjamin netanyahu resign sorry force that has more now from west to salem. 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 morals 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. also to comment on al-jazeera including hitting a wall european leaders failed to agree on the coronavirus rescue plan. and

a fierce debate rages on in the us over when to head back to school but it's children who are stuck in the middle in that statement. and they're very catty picture throughout much of north east asia as you can see ticals it also means some very heavy rain in the 4 calls through sunday the very heavy rain just east of generally off shore but look at this across the korean peninsula some really trading back across right the way down towards sichuan now on monday we will see that rain tragedy caraway from the korean peninsula missile 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 too 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 particular in the northeast and 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. which is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in 2008 al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see

a food could cross deep lines of division jewish history to be a cruise ship it together we cook together the casual the people that love history . rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. oh. welcome back a quick recap of our top stories here this hour investigators from the international criminal court have a ride in libya's capital to look into whether forces loyal to the warlord only for have to 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. syria is about to

hold his 3rd parliamentary election since the uprising against president bashar al assad 9 years ago the opposition says that the light switches are missing as the candidates or rather members or allies of us that's party they're expected to boycott the polls. and iran's president hassan rouhani says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population may have been infected with coronavirus iran has officially reported about 270000 cases. 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 as there is not 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 we heard from italy prime minister content who put out a video saying that things approved 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 70 year budgets 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 cases that's 20000 more than the previous record

a day earlier the biggest increases came from the united states brazil india and south africa turkish rescue workers have recovered 9 more bodies from a lake van where a boat carrying migrants sank 3 weeks ago the death toll now stands at 545 people have been arrested over the incident make van is near the iranian border and is a frequent crossing point for migrants heading to europe. kuwait state news agency is reporting that the emir. has been admitted to hospital for a medical checkup the 91 year old who is in good health according to state media the crown prince and his designated successor. has temporarily taken over some of his responsibilities the mexican government is investigating a video showing dozens of gunmen and vehicles apparently belonging to the powerful the a list go 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 home and reports now from mexico city. these are mexican government forces instead this video appears to show someone else's army. and men show they're saying the alias of the mess you'll get us of on this the leader of the police school new generation cotto. video hasn't been authenticated but it showed up online just as the president under his manuel lopez obrador was touring the group's heartland and it seemed to send a straight food message this video showed the overwhelming. cartels. which we could call. 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 alfonso 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 going warfare and recall violence john home and al jazeera mexico city. monsoon floods are forced more than a 1000000 people from their homes in northeast india red alerts from aid in place across state and rescue teams have dispatched hundreds of boats health officials say having 72 people have died the flooding is seasonal but the coronavirus pandemic is complicating efforts by stretching emergency resources. in the u.s.

as the 1st day of the new school year approaches a nationwide debate is now raging should children be sent to classrooms during the pandemic or stay home and be taught online reynolds of course now from los angeles . well sanjay list parent brenda dell hero is helping her 10 year old daughter emma with school lessons online it's been kind of stressful just because i i think i quit at more where i feel like with that more work here than art school emma's mother says virtual learning is not ideal but she's against sending her daughter back to class the risk outweigh everything i can of by cat risk my kids getting sick or possibly getting somebody else sick or their teachers or vice versa on friday california governor gavin newsom laid out detailed guidelines for school reopening including mandatory mask wearing schools in counties with low numbers of

cold cases and downward trends may reopen otherwise the school doors must remain closed schools that don't meet this requirement they must begin the school year this fall the distance learning school reopening has become a national political issue president donald trump says democrats are scheming to make him look bad and they think it's going to be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed no way so we're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools back in may the house democrats approved 90000000000 dollars to support schools reopening safely but the republican senate has not approved that measure but when you make it about politics than just people trying to. score points and get elected i mean that's what i really think it is a disservice to how credibly important this issue is the conservative dominated school board in orange county california recently vote. to allow schools to fully reopen

without masks or social distancing it's time to get these doors open and get these babies but the school board has no power to order schools to reopen that's a decision made by local school districts and so far the county's largest districts say they'll opt for virtual learning los angeles and san diego schools will also use distance learning for students brenda del hero has a message for trump my kids are not getting pics i am not going to send my kid to school to see if they're going to get covert and to see if they're going to survive an agonizing dilemma for parents teachers and kids now weaponized for political purposes rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. u.s. president donald trump has tweeted to say he's saddened by the death of civil rights hero john lewis flags have been lowered to stop in the capital and on of the

late congressman many u.s. politicians have paid tribute to numerous trumps and to arrive a job biden called him a moral compass while former president barack obama said no it's got to see his own legacy play out in a meaningful and remarkable way. researchers in the netherlands are exploring whether a super fast train network could become an alternative to short haul flights in europe the so-called hype a new technology is based on trains traveling through near vacuum tubes but some transport experts say it's more realistic to improve existing technologies step vasant has a story from the netherlands. this old russian oil pipe in the middle of the dutch town of delft now has a futuristic function it's used as the 1st european test center for a whole new means of transportation the hyperloop a sort of tube train that can travel at this beat of an airliner electric the 1st in the world will just be able to prove these kinds of technologies and the next step is also to prove them at a higher speed. mosque received worldwide attention when he 1st mentioned diaper

lupin 2012 but a dutch company says its design is now the most advanced the idea has attracted the attention of one of the busiest airports in europe amsterdam's schiphol bajan having terminal or station right next to the departure hall part of a larger european network another station. board instead of an airplane a hyperloop and go co it can go to berlin or london in just one hour target. a recent study by state poll shows that 520-5012 1000000 passengers of the 73000000 predicted to fly between schiphol and european cities could travel by hyperloop this is how the hyperloop should work this cabin is connected to electromagnetic field so there's no resistance and it can travel at extremely high speed inside this you know air pressure this could be our new means of transportation in

a faith for sure but for some a little scary i mean. that's why the cabin is the zine to make travelers as much at ease as possible traveling up to a 1000 kilometers an hour in a windowless jupe there's a very comfortable way of speeding up and slowing down vehicle or you will feel almost nothing although can we walk around that is a very good question some of the questions we do research on as well also the question whether or not passengers can use the toilet has yet to be answered train experts out of on hassles as predictions that travelers can use a hyperloop in the near future are far too optimistic. but that is all it's a fantasy that's all it's good to invest in research to find out if it's possible and to know what we can learn then that's fine but to say this is realistic i would say it's not absolutely not he suggests the netherlands to invest in existing

technology such as magnetic trains in status which he says are cheaper to build and safer than atlanta aims to be the 1st to develop the hyperloop and plans to open in europe in center in corn in the next year but the city's 3 kilometer test track will have to prove that the super fast international train is indeed the way to go step last an al-jazeera. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the leaders of france germany and italy are urging an end to foreign interference in libya threatening sanctions if necessary they should a joint statement as the u.n. recognize government push towards that's near an area controlled by forces loyal to eastern warlord and if i have to. meanwhile investigators from the international criminal court of a ride in libya's capital they're looking at allegations that forces loyal to have

to committed war crimes or the of the wire have reports now in tripoli according to the government paramedics team nearly $225.00 bodies have been recovered from the mass graves around the city of and also. secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that and the past few weeks about the secret prisons where opponents including civilians and women were tortured and murdered and bit in the mass graves that's according to eyewitnesses government officials and local officials from the city of. syria's about to hold its 3rd parliamentary elections since the uprising against president al assad 9 years ago the oppositions say the vote lacks legitimacy as the candidates or even members of the allies of assad's polity iran's president says 25000000 people more than

a quarter of the population may have been infected with the corona virus further restrictions are being enforced around the country office in new cases israelis have been protesting in tel aviv in west jerusalem against the government's handling of the pandemic police used water cannon in west jerusalem to try and disperse the crowds e.u. leaders have ended a 2nd day of talks on a coronavirus bailout plan with no deal then negotiating an $860000000000.00 economic rescue package the mexican government is investigating a video showing dozens of gunmen in the vehicles apparently belonging to the powerful your list go drug cartel seems to be a show of force and a visit by president lopez obrador to 3 states where the group has a stronghold so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening post station counsel watching. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of

a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. under. the tree. hello i'm richard guess bird and you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories we're covering this week poland reelect president after the government turns back the clock to the good old days of state controlled television he won the nobel peace prize last year but now the ethiopian prime minister has shut down a major news network and jailed.