13 year arms buying in bargo on iran is set to end as the u.s. fails to get its way at the u.n. security council. hello and welcome i'm peter w watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about the. protesters in belarus gathered to remember a demonstrator killed during a rally against disputed presidential election.

and expressing deep remorse japan pledges never to repeat the tragedy of conflict as it marks 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war. iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.s. failed to get a 13 year ban extended just one of the nation back to a vote at the u.n. security council iran says the u.s. has never been so isolates is now over the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back sanctions from new york kristen salumi reports. 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 you want to favor who

was against 11 f. abstentions the 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 country to vote for it

well it's a diplomatic pastorally 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. the us department of justice says it seized iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed for venezuela both iran and venezuela are now on the u.s.

sanctions here's laura button. 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 on sets of us 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 0.09 with a number of no 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. 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 running 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 arranged 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 sit so when the world's largest crude oil reserves its 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 sees 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 oil sales so in effect that was confiscating it and yes this does ratchet it up another step venezuela and iran act isn't defiance of u.s. sanctions for now this season at sea appears to stop much easy trade between the allies nor does a man the al-jazeera. the funeral of a man killed during protests is about to begin. to that location in the. meanwhile. a large crowds are gathering at the sites of his death for another day of demonstrations against the disputed presidential election. among the protesters step just looking at these pictures is difficult to know whether that's the memorial or the beginnings of a protest. i think both

thousands of people have. our ford morial 34 year old man. killed here a couple of nights ago during the protest a mountain of flowers is here behind me people bringing in flowers from everywhere and they are also. 6 very impressive old holding their hands showing a peace sign meanwhile a lot of. hope. i can show you. all in in the last hour or so. even. in a row protesting not only. police crackdown that we have heard stories of torture. scenes of. taken off the streets.

protesting the elections. a a for. elections so far has not responded to. the planning any other protests in the days ahead. 1 0. all around.

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officials in afghanistan say a member of their peace negotiating team has survived an attempted assassination the interior ministry says fazio coffee was attacked on friday afternoon near kabul she's part of a group representing afghanistan in the forthcoming peace talks with the taliban who for years said to be in good condition the taliban has denied any involvement in the attack the opposition in ivory coast is warning of more protests to denounce the president's decision to seek a 3rd term another day of demonstrations on friday turned violent protesters accuse allison ouattara of breaking

a 2 term limits but he insists and you constitution allows him to run again with interest as more. this is what remains of a police station in the southeastern town of. as opposition supporters clash with peculiar to forces. is the latest in a series of demonstrations taking place across ivory coast for a 3rd consecutive day the protests threatened to price the country once an island of stability into its biggest political crisis since the civil war of 2010. the contention is a declaration by president and us and we're told to run again. we are protesting for the president what to go because the constitution has been violated and we don't want to accept a 3rd term 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 but. 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 but 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 and

everybody ends. 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 supporters say a change to the constitution in pretty 16 which also drew violent demonstrations clears the way for. for him to run again. until 2010 ivory coast was considered one of africa's most politically stable countries since then it has seen violent demonstrations even mutinous by some of us. presidential elections set forth in the book that our fears that these protests could grow and place the country deeper into political tomboy. al jazeera. still to come here on this program

closing shop why businesses in colombia being forced to shut their doors for good. and flying high once again we're in hong kong with airport has risen transit flights from mainland china. hello the rain is returning to sumatra than the satellite picture seems fairly obvious that there are so under storms streaming through born here into sumatra and trying to catch jakarta as well that's in the forecast for the next couple of days so that's the line of significant showers there are plenty for the north and a few appearing now where they weren't before in much of an easy job there is no longer a draw arland but as yet you're not going to for wet season not returned to it still in the dry season there are pictures of the south of that blate winter i

suppose you'd probably call it now australia is quite an active one we've got one circulating low to the east of new south wales another one just to the west of western australia both are fairly active so that means wind and rain running through western australia and then going through the bite strong winds drifting down the coast towards victoria and then tasmania with that low drifting south as well staying in the tasman sea not even reaching new zealand and the picture on sunday is a better one for places like city were 20 degrees again but the average but an increasingly breezy and went picture at least for the south australia and victoria as i said new zealand's doing quite well you've got a couple of nice dry days was relative all relative. on the counting the cost how powerful banking and political plans destroyed lebanon's economy controversy of a son's troy's to oversee laughter america's recovery from the pandemic plus

a company awarding billions for a gas plant that wasn't even. counting the cost of al-jazeera. award winning documentaries from around the world. on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera your top stories so far this half hour 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 funeral for

a man killed during protests and below roosters to take place in minsk shortly crowds are gathering at the site of his death row another day of demonstrations against the disputed presidential election. and the opposition in ivory coast is warning of more protest against the president's decision to seek a 3rd term they accuse allison whatever of breaking a 2 term limit he insists a new constitution does allow him to run again. japan's emperor has expressed deep remorse over his country's wartime past as marking 75 years since his surrender to allied forces in effect ending world war 2 emperor nero he took hopes the tragedy will never be repeated but there was no apology from the prime minister shinzo of a. who thanks the war dead for their sacrifice voided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which is cause division between japan china and south korea but laura richardson is an expert on the region she says prime minister has changed

in fact japan's 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 or in 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 enforced the punjab and by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was done sort of enact it in the context of the immediate post-war when the u.s.

was to demille it tries to plan but now that. almost immediately after 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 i guess he's 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 . india has seen another record in delhi corona virus infections confirmed more than 65000 cases despite that the prime minister praised the country's handling of the outbreak in their own remote he said almost 1.5 trillion dollars would be injected into infrastructure projects to boost the economy he made the announcement during a ceremony celebrating india's independence day which marks the end of british

colonial rule but if you're happy. corona is a big crisis but it's not so big that it can stop the victory journey of self-reliant india today it is our priority to take the lives of people the economy out of the effects of corona as soon as possible because your old b. of the national infrastructure pipeline project we will spend more than $1.00 trillion us dollars. the colombian economy has suffered its worst slump on record as businesses struggled during the virus pandemic and asunder m.p.'s he has more now from the top. it's the end of the line for the hair salon until recently a successful endeavor of hairdressers and race and his partner but almost 5 months of coronavirus restrictions and a lack of promise government assistance left them with no other option but to close its doors. we were doing very well. cycling to further invest in the

shop we built it with much in the specially love it's very sad to see your dreams come to an end like many other countries taking a heavy toll in colombia but it's hitting particularly hard in a country that has seen a steady economic growth for 2 decades and where more than 5000000 people had risen from poverty to enter into the middle class we are facing the most. strongest recession that we have in the history of. data we are getting basically an economy. and. in terms of firms just closing down. this is something that has never happened country before. many shops that have reopened are struggling to get back into gear and normal times this would be teeming with people at this time but as you can see

there's barely anybody here and more than 10 percent of it's i've already closed for good. others are striving to keep the doors open. raised in a low income family through hard work he was able to open a successful restaurant in an up and coming neighborhood. with the pandemic he has reduced his staff from 16 to 4 people and has been operating at a loss hoping things will turn around soon but he's pessimistic. i fear the country will go back to the 8. and we're seeing it already with the streets emptied out and colonized by the pool that's it showing us how fragile our new middle class really is. and it's destroying it a lot of people are falling through the cracks. the government has announced a series of measures to deal with the crisis pumping billions into the country's central bank and promising debt relief and economic assistance but for many it has

already been too little too late to keep the lights on in the room. 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 coronavirus travel restrictions it is a much needed boost to its flagship carrier cathay pacific. reported a loss of more than a $1000000000.00 adrian brown has more now 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 jewels 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 in this week cx 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 protesters in lebanon have been calling for an independent international investigation into the beirut port blast that killed more than 200

people 2 weeks ago but the leader of hezbollah hassan nasrallah says he won't trust the findings of such an inquiry to he missed and i meant well and it was yet to have meant. will not be conducting an investigation or making accusations we will wait for the official lebanese investigation but if the f.b.i.'s participating in israel is related to the attack you will not be able to reach anything if lebanon accepts an international investigation the 1st objective of such investigation will be to absolve israel from any responsibility for the explosion if it is responsible . iran's foreign minister has criticized western countries for demanding political change in lebanon as a condition for providing financial aid was the latest high profile figure to visit beirut as attention turns to recovery and reconstruction in the aftermath of the explosion stephanie jacka. a french navy ship with more than 700

soldiers docks in beirut shattered port here to help rebuild a broken city. you know if we don't have so many days 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 iranian foreign minister giving his opinion on who should choose lebanon's next government model don't but do not. believe the government and the people of lebanon should decide other countries should not use

the tragic needed to to ation of lebanon big condition. but many here don't see their presence that way i think these foreign powers. 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 and the region as well to advance their political interests i think they are in for one shot 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 and 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 tell you nothing will change and justice for all of this will never come stephanie decker al jazeera beirut. mozambique's president has promised to create jobs to stop people joining eisel linked groups philippe a new scene was visiting the northern province of kabul delgado days after fighters seized a port town the most and big zambia's still trying to regain control of this gas rich area is being captured by armed groups 3 times this year. a u.s. watchdog is investigating the nation's postal service which is warned it might not be able to deal with the large numbers of mail in ballots in the elections in november postmaster general who had to join denies allegations of intentionally slowing down the postal service is expected to be a huge rise in mail in voting as a result of the pandemic president trump is trying to restrict the method because he claims it's susceptible to fraud is in 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 troy 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 problem within the postal service particularly one that may be allegedly manufactured is of grave concern to all within this country. recapping your top stories here on al-jazeera 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 against tehran this comes as the u.s. says it seized iranian fuel heading for venezuela and claimed the cargo on 4 tankers amounts to more than $1000000.00 barrels of petrol its biggest ever seizure iran's denied any connection with the shipment with iran and venezuela on the u.s.

sanctions the funeral of a man killed during protests in belarus is taking place in minsk crowds are gathering at the site of his death for another day of demonstrations against the disputed presidential election. is there among the protesters. thousands of people have. our ford morial after 34 year old. killed here a couple of nights ago during the protest a mountain of flowers is here behind me people are bringing in flowers from everywhere and they are also. in the silence which was very impressive all holding their hand here showing a. lot of. opposition i can show you how large these crowds have. hours.

in a row the opposition in ivory coast is promising more protests against the president's decision. to accuse allison watts of breaking a 2 term limit 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 the prime minister shinzo update india has confirmed a new daily record for corona virus infections during his independence day speech prime minister narendra modi said almost $1.00 trillion dollars will be injected into infrastructure projects to boost the economy more news in 30 minutes counting the cost is next.

hello i'm down in jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week corrupt bankrupt banking and political clowns have destroyed lebanon's economy people can't get access to their bank accounts billions have been moved out of the country president trump wants to install his own man at the bank overseeing latin america's recovery from the pandemic but some nations are opposed to the moon. and the case of the gas plant that wasn't built but the company was awarded.