tensions and health care system that isn't equipped to deal with a pandemic before the weeks will tell of the peace and mass movement of people will also accelerate the spread of the corona virus from indian cities to its rule hot. a 13 year arms buying embargo on iran is set to end as the us fails to get its way at the u.n. security council. alone will come on peter davi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also ahead this half hour washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about the.

holding belo groups accountable the e.u. is preparing sanctions against officials responsible for a violent crackdown on election protestors. violent demonstrations in ivory coast after the president announces he will seek a 3rd term. iran will be able to stop buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.s. failed to get a 13 year ban extended to just one of the nation backed it in a vote at the u.n. security council iran says the u.s. quote has never been so isolated but the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back the sanctions from new york kristen salumi explains. it was a quick an unceremonious and to the united states' efforts to extend the iranian

arms embargo that is part of the war being if that follows who would you favor who works against 11 f. abstentions that draft resolution has not been a doctor every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o called it an inexcusable failure saying quote the security council paved the way for the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell conventional weapons without specific u.n. restrictions in place for the 1st time in over a decade under an agreement negotiated by the 5 permanent members of the security council and germany aimed at stopping iran from developing nuclear weapons the 13 year old ban on conventional weapons sales is due to expire in october russia and china accusing the us of undermining the deal had threatened to veto the resolution but didn't have to the dominican republic was the only other countries to vote for

it well it's a diplomatic tapestry it just demonstrates that. president trump and his team are not only bad at the strategy of approaching iran they are bad at just the day to day tactics of diplomacy it is unconscionable that they couldn't round up more than one vote for a resolution like this the u.s. has threatened to trigger the return of all international sanctions on iran through a snapback provision written into the nuclear deal but other members of the security council say the u.s. lost the right to do that when it withdrew from the deal 2 years ago europeans are warning of adverse consequences for the security council if a legal dispute over snapback ensues for them preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon remains paramount kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations or staying with a story as big as following its out of tehran he reports iran will be treating the

failed bid as a win over the u.s. even going into this vote at the united nations to extend the arms embargo we had had some strong rhetoric and language coming out from the iran president hassan rouhani had warned of a crushing response if the arms embargo had been extended from mr divides the reef had said that the u.s. approach was feckless and unpredictable and now we've had rain in the buses or to the united nations call it a day back to the rains or the very much see this particular back to let the united nations as a victory for themselves and use it to show how little support the united states has in its approach to iran but also to be used domestically by the iranians because this 2 $1050.00 nuclear deal didn't have total support across the political spectrum here and president hassan rouhani is and his government did take their political reputations to take a hit when donald trump pulled the united states out of that deal so this will be seen as iran as a diplomatic victory over the united states meanwhile the u.s.

department of justice says it seized iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed to venezuela both iran and venezuela are under u.s. sanctions or a burden many as more. the u.s. is calling it the largest seizure of fuel from iran its incepted for tank is carrying more than a 1000000 barrels of oil to venezuela after winning a federal court order last month where for tankers they're going to use them and they're there. they're not supposed to be doing that or arms are supposed to be doing that and so we did we see the tankers and we're moving them and moved to euston but iran says the liberian flag ships have nothing to do with them it accuses the us of lies and psychological warfare oh what our north along with know right now there's nothing planned because we haven't had a request from our venezuelan friends as they are reactivating their own refineries u.s. officials are experts in fabricating lies and carrying out shows in the media the

details of the capture are murky when the seizure or do is produce more than a month ago all of the ships turned off the tracking devices seemingly not wanting to be found but what's certain is that trump is ramping up his campaign against iran in venezuela at sea the public documents suggest that the united states negotiated with the owners operators of those 4 tankers and a range peaceably and agreeably for the transfer of the iranian oil refined oil headed to venezuela to other ships those ships are the ones that the president indicated have arrived in u.s. waters or about to arrive in u.s. waters that its way into has become increasingly more aligned to an oil from iran at a previously received shipments in may and june although venezuela sits a one the world's largest crude oil reserves it unable to refine its u.s. sanctions corruption and

a lack of investment is blamed for the decline of its oil industry the united states hasn't done a set too much to date actually seize the oil but the united states has a policy of. of trying to drive iranian oil exports to 0 they've frozen iranian revenues from from previous sales so in effect that was confiscated and yes this does ratcheted up another step venezuela and iran actis in defiance of u.s. sanctions for now decision at sea appears to stop much easier trade between the allies as a manly al-jazeera. the e.u. is preparing to sanction officials umbrella roussel for this week's crackdown on protesters tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital minsk for 6 months over last sunday's disputed elections the president alexander lukashenko has refused to talk to the opposition start asking reports from meant. was. was

slowly but surely protesters in minsk are taking over the city's main streets after days of police violence as demonstrators were beaten detained and chased away protesters came out in large numbers friday they were joined by workers from a state owned tractor factory throughout the country thousands of workers are on strike to protest against a looker shanker reaching them a slew of other kid appears we can't stand the situation anymore people are afraid but they will be monitored have more people and now factor because many muslims just the the wherever they have come out of their factory and are now heading to the city center the protests are not only against a police crackdown but also against what they call our rigged elections these are very unusual fellows. that arriving at independence square the protesters are met by soldiers protecting government house pension starts to

build but suddenly one soldier drops his shield and then this happens the. was. remember you have a mother to my baby you cannot do this why are you standing here that's. a right that was meanwhile look at shankar is warning of more fighting and as he accuses foreigners of provoking the protests you've. just know what it's stay clear of the streets now you have to understand that you and your children being used like cannon fodder people have already arrived from poland the netherlands ukraine and russia from open russia and the valley and the salt. the aggression against our country has already started ok you see in the july spirit detainees who were released talked about torture dance had to be taken to hospital immediately after their release others were treated by fallen ts who came to detention centers still

help in a moment we're. going to. fractures bruises dislocations brain injuries nose fractures abrasions. hemorrhage to brain and even to eyes is a nightmare fascist don't even do these things the government world does of mozart . while the government has tried to appease protesters by releasing detainees the wounds on their bodies had the opposite effect throughout the evening crowds at the independence square started swelling if tested and fiery mood in sharp contrast with the threatening words of. and his soldiers standing nearby step class and al-jazeera means. the opposition in ivory coast is warning of more protests today the president's decision to seek another day of demonstrations on friday turned violent protesters accuse allison ouattara of breaking

a 2 term limit but he insists a new constitution allows him to run again yes i meant address. this is what remains of a police station in the southeastern town. as opposition supporters clash with security forces. is the latest in a series of demonstrations taking place across ivory coast for a 3rd consecutive day the protests threatened to plunge the country once an island of stability into its biggest political crisis since the civil war of trying to turn the contention is a declaration by president unless and whatever to run again. we are protesting for the president to go because the constitution has been violated and we don't want to accept a 3rd. we call on the entire population of our records to join us in making what time i leave. in a broadcast last week the president announced his candidacy after a student successor. suddenly died of

a heart attack. the fear of the country sinking into political and economic crisis has forced me to reconsider my earlier position not to run again i accept the call by citizens who asked me to stand for president the opposition has warned that ivory coast cannot afford another bloody crisis. we invite the president of the republic to ensure that he can safeguard social peace and stability to do otherwise would be to open up a pandora's box that will give rise to uncontrollable. former 1st lady simone bug whose husband is still stuck in the netherlands after his acquittal by the international criminal court of crimes against humanity says providing a level playing field for all is the all a thing that can stop the country sliding into anarchy. i call him president of had a to make lot on backbone eligible to run and to free all held for the 2010 post-election violence he should also facilitate the return of exile of those ins

everybody ins. with tension building some residents of the financial capital has started stocking up hearing for the worse. still remember the events of 2010 i'm stocking up on supplies now look at the chicken we buy for 2000 c.f.a. it's now $3000.00 c.f.e. even snail transport fares have gone up by 30 percent. the president's supporters say a change to the constitution in pretty 16 which also drew violent demonstrations clears the way for him to run again. until 2010 ivory coast was considered one of africa's most politically stable countries since then it is seen violent demonstrations even mutinous by supporters. presidential election set for the. in the photo there are fears that the supporters could grow and plunge the country deeper into political tomboy comedy grease al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera.

japan expresses deep remorse as it marks 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war. and stuck between borders while hundreds of nicaraguans desperate to return home say they government has failed them. but. hallowed image logical landscape over europe has changed in the last week or so we've got widespread heat anymore we've got some admittedly but now with this winding storm up in the bay of biscay of injects a lot more moisture as a line of rain or thunderstorms across the middle man or the certainly was the north for example in northwest england is enjoying a bit of cooling in the lake and in italy it's rather hotter still training is to

pretty hot sunshine but in the middle and it's a line when it stretches from ireland through the low countries and down towards our brain here the potential for a mostly the 4 thunderstorms just sits there sitting nice and warm in scandinavia his woman up in germany remains locked you warm in the trains as that but get to sunday and much of france sees a drop in temperature as the threat of thunderstorms increases and that's true throughout the outs as well but less so in germany in fact this part of north near has warming up again so berlin's up 32 on sunday 31 among the data 27 to start a cooling trend on tuesday in africa most the biggest showers are coming through west africa at the moment a moving through guinea or bit to the side in sierra leone for. example or liberia of a carry on for a few days here. in

2008 al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities 'd. we return to see how the students and the skiing a helping change the face of india. super 30 announces iraq. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories so far today iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.n. security council overwhelmingly rejected washington's bid to indefinitely extended

arms embargo on tehran. the european union is preparing to hit the russian officials with sanctions after the crackdown there on protesters tens of thousands of people rallied for a 6th day of the last sunday's disputed presidential election. and the opposition in ivory coast is warning of more protests against the president's decision to seek a 3rd term they accuse allison watada of breaking a 2 term limit he insists the new constitution does allow him to run again. depends emperor has expressed quote deep remorse for his country's wartime past is marking 75 years since it surrendered to allied forces in effect ending world war 2 emperor or not he took hope the tragedy will never be repeated but there was no apology from the prime minister shinzo abi who thanked the war's dead for their sacrifice he avoided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which is cause divisions between japan china and south korea

lauren richardson is an expert on the region she says the prime minister mr b. has changed szczepan security policy. japan has made a lot of the pole of use of both the fed reparations and to normalize their relations with many of the countries that they did have conflicts with there are still some ongoing issues some of the victims especially in china and south korea the countries that well the brunt of japanese imperialism still pursuing their own forms of justice took quite a long time the conservative party and the ruling liberal democratic party has been pursuing mullally way in it's the fence and security policy a lot of officials believe that that peace constitution is quite outdated because it was signed in the context that it was kind of being forced upon japan by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was done sort of enacted in the context of the immediate

post-war when the u.s. was to demille it tries to plan but now that. almost immediately not that the cold war broke out and the u.s. and japan signed an alliance so almost even by that stage the peace constitution was sort of keeping at it kind of expire a day and certainly prime minister abbott has made it his new. primary objective is to change that piece constitution and you haven't managed to change it it's very difficult process that i think he has political legacy will be that he has changed the status quo of japan security policy by finding ways to work around . iraq's foreign minister has criticized western countries for demanding political change in lebanon as a condition for financial aid. and foreign leaders who visit beirut after the explosion of the poor the killed more than 200 people 2 weeks ago stephanie teka

report. a french navy ship with more than 700 soldiers docks in by. a root shattered port here to help rebuild a broken city. you know if you don't have so many things there are humanitarian emergency challenges and there will be future challenges of reconstruction but there are also challenges on the political side a government capable of taking courageous decisions will be necessary and finally there are also economic challenges to get out of this crisis major reforms will be needed. france's defense minister went on to meet the lebanese leadership the french have taken a leading role here in the off tomorrow of the catastrophic explosion and here at the same time the u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs together with the u.s. ambassador to lebanon here too and clearly a very busy diplomatic day hirani and foreign minister giving his opinion on who

should choose lebanon's next government. we believe that the government and the people of lebanon should decide on the country should not use the tragic native situation of lebanon condition. but many here don't see their presence that way i think this for them paul was. you know are taking advantage of this catastrophic event but that but that happened in bed with a week ago or 10 days ago in order to leverage their position and lebanon and egypt as well to advance their political interests i think they are in for a while and setting up the political agenda in the country because you know the country's political faction are interrelated or they have nations up with these foreign powers as diplomats negotiate what the next government will look like the people of beirut are having to come to terms of what's happened to their city what's happened to their homes and for those who've lost everything just having to

get through the day it's volunteers that are doing most of the work here any official help is notably absent and whatever the next government may look like many people will to. nothing will change and justice for all of this will never come stephanie decker al-jazeera beirut. and u.s. watchdog has investigated the nation's postal service which has warned it might not be able to deal with big numbers of mail in ballots in november's election the postmaster denies allegations of intentionally slowing down the postal service there is expected to be a huge rise in mainland voting as a result of the coded 19 pandemic president trump has tried to restrict the message because he claims it's susceptible to fraud mike hanna has more from washington last week democrats in congress wrote a letter to the inspector general asking came to take a look at the situation within the postal service now that has been dire indeed in recent months there have been all sorts of problems in the postal service there's

been a 10 percent reduction in letter sorting machines there's been delays of up to a week in postage and this all follows the appointment of louise to joy a close friend and confidante of president trump as postmaster general so it's likely that this investigation by the inspector general is going to look at the new postmaster general who has fired a number of people in key positions he's reassigned to others so certainly it will focus on what he has done to reduce the level of the services of the post office now looking ahead as well of course it's going to play a key role in terms of mail in votes for the november election given the ongoing pandemic but in july the postal service sent a letter to 46 states including d.c. saying that it could not guarantee being able to turn around the postal votes to get them in time for the deadline in voting so this is a key issue and obviously the any problems within the postal service particularly

one that may be allegedly manufactured is of grave concern to all within this country. hundreds of nicaraguans a stranded in panama pleading with the border authorities to let them go home but with coronavirus cases increasing across central america for those remain closed as manuel. stranded with no way of knowing when they'll get home some 200 nicaraguan citizens are growing desperate for panamanian immigration officials to grant them passage into coast rica and from there continue their journey back to nicaragua. that things are getting worse here every day and we're not going to solve anything by being here dying of hunger if we do not die of coronavirus we die of hunger so we need to get out of here and they can't stand in our way at least in our country we can be with our family. crossing the panama coaster reka border won't be easy the worsening corona virus outbreak in central america means border closures are

still being enforced panamanian health officials have said the only way out is coordinating through the nicaraguan embassy. we explain to them in particular about the migration that is held did not just in panama but in the whole world along borders and that they have to understand that we know they have uncertainty that panama is a kurdish country and they have been treated like human beings. complicating things further is nicaragua's policy of blocking cross border entry without proof of a negative coded $1000.00 test result last month more than $500.00 nicaraguan nationals were stuck on the coast rican border for more than 2 weeks until aid groups arrived to provide testing kits. nicaragua has one of the region's lowest death tolls with the country's president. who rarely makes public appearances faces many criticisms over a lack of transparency in his government's containment policy why no medical professionals in the country say the government is hiding the truth scope of the

health crisis and retaliating against any voices of dissent in that book. they never gave their real they don't defend them on the deceased dr forbidden to put go over the. human rights observers say nicaragua's government has downplayed a worsening health crisis nationwide and also failed to provide assistance to its citizens stranded beyond the country's borders. al-jazeera. for the 1st time in 6 months passengers from mainland china are being allowed to transit through hong kong's international airports the city is gradually relaxing its coronavirus travel restrictions it is a much needed boost to its flagship carrier cathay pacific on wednesday the airline reported a loss of more than a $1000000000.00 as more from hong kong. i'm in hong kong international airport there have been plenty of picture metaphors during this

crisis over the past 6 months and this is another one of them as you can see it's like a vast empty mostly and right now i remember this is one of the world's busiest international airport well things have eased a little bit on saturday as you rightly point out passengers arriving from mainland china are now able to transit in hong kong for up to 24 hours although they can't leave the airport terminal now why is hong kong doing that well it seems that there are so many university students in china who have to get back to europe or north america for the start of the university year there simply aren't enough flights in china because of the restrictions on sched jools to to help them so the mainland authorities have turned to hong kong where from here of course you can still fly to most places in the world or be it with a greatly restricted shuttle so that's that's one reason now it's going to help airlines like cathay pacific that's no doubt and this week c. x. posted

a half year loss of more than $1300000000.00 in fact you know traffic passenger traffic on cathay pacific has dropped by more than 99 percent compared to this time a year ago cathay of course not the only airline in trouble airlines around the world are also suffering a similar fate right now. british tourists have been scrambling to get home after the u.k. imposed a 14 day quarantine for travelers coming in from the netherlands wolter and france the measures which went into effect early on saturday were introduced after a surge in corona virus infections in those countries france is a popular vacation spot for british holidaymakers it's the 2nd most visited country for them after spain. mozambique's president has promised to create jobs to stop people joining i saw linked groups felipe in you see was visiting the northern province of kabul delgado days after fighters seized a port mozambique's army still trying to regain control of this gas rich area has

been captured by armed groups 3 times this year or much faster has more now from neighboring zimbabwe. in may. yet to discuss the crisis in mozambique but. there was no concrete with what the region can to assist mozambique he does not meet again on monday and say this time there be increasing pressure to actually do some one of the expectations that one would be of. sin from our leadership now is. i live or fact finding mission that we have been sent to mozambique and this is a mix of intelligence military intelligence political economy and. humanitarian experts trying to establish the extent and the gravity of the situation in couple of another muslim because mozambique's president felipe visited the area affected by the violence and he promised to do more to assist people there this speculation

some other countries in southern africa could send in troops to assist mozambique's army it's happened before in the democratic republic of congo in the city and in mozambique back when our fighters were causing problems there most of these governments this fight is affiliated to eisele are responsible for the violence the area in northern missouri it is rich in natural gas and some projects are worth more than $60000000000.00 there's a concern that the fighting could spill over into other countries in the region similar to what's being seen currently on the continent in the sahara region and the horn of africa. rick. top stories for you so far today iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.n. security council overwhelmingly rejected washington's bid to indefinitely extend an arms embargo on tehran kristen salumi has more now from u.n. headquarters in new york catch here is that the united states withdrew from the

nuclear deal 2 years ago and so members of the council are arguing particularly russia and china that the united states doesn't have standing to make such a claim because it withdrew from the deal unilaterally it can't now come back and claim to invoke part of that so there is no clear legal mechanism to settle this dispute in the council if the united states decides to go forward in that way this could be really. time or 2 is time for the security council and there is no clear mechanism for resolving the dispute. this comes as the u.s. says it seized iranian fuel headed to venezuela in flames the cargo of 4 tankers amounts to more than 1000000 barrels of petrol its biggest ever seizure iran has denied any connection with the shipment both iran and venezuela under u.s. sanctions the e.u. is preparing to hit by the russian officials with sanctions after the crackdown on protesters tens of thousands of people rallied for

a 6th day of last sunday's disputed presidential election the opposition in ivory coast is promising more protests against the president's decision to seek a 3rd term they accuse allison ouattara of breaking a 2 term limits but he insists a new constitution does allow him to run again the japanese emperor has expressed deep remorse over his country's wartime past on the 75th anniversary of japan's world war 2 surrender but there was no apology from prime minister shinzo update for the 1st time in 6 months passengers from mainland china are being allowed to transit through hong kong's international airport the city is gradually relaxing its virus travel restrictions. the u.k. has imposed imposed a 14 day quarantine for travelers coming in from the netherlands and france the measure was introduced after a rise in infections in those countries the news continues after super 30 more news in 30 minutes see that. the island of sardinia a famously

a deli college a spot. less well known as a proving ground for. investigating claims that years of military training and ons testing triggered cancer and birth defects amid the local population. secret sardinia people in power on al-jazeera.