story. and. it can forge narratives. the listening post gives you the full picture of. the u.s. sanctions have been really imposed on iran by the un security council members reject the move. this is al jazeera live from coming up protestors in bangkok declare the country belongs to the people in the challenge to the monarchy. russia's. president says he could choose a successor to supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg as early as next week. and

off the rails south africa's railway system grinds to a halt leaving hundreds of thousands. the u.s. has broken with all the other permanent members of the un security council and unilaterally declare the reimposition of sanctions on iran america's major allies britain france and germany say sanctions relief will continue the dispute is over the iran nuclear deal washington pulled out of that 2 years ago the other signatories say the u.s. no longer has the legal power to force through any changes diplomatic go to james bays reports. it's aroud it's even pitted the u.s. against some of its closest allies and it's now over 5 years since the iran

nuclear deal was signed in vienna joining the negotiations the us team under the leadership of the then secretary of state john kerry devised a mechanism called snap back if iran breached its commitments all international sanctions could snap back into place but that's not the way things played out the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal it was the u.s. under president trump that pulled out of the deal 2 years ago. despite this in objections from the rest of the international community the u.s. still argues it could trigger a snapback the one thing that the previous administration got right is they created provision where under u.n. security council resolution 2231. any one of the nations identified there had the right to say we want the sanctions that were in place prior to this that moment to

snap back and that's what will do the rest of the world have ignored the u.s. declaration and in some ways more important than snap back is what happens on november the 3rd but one of the diplomats who negotiated the iran deal told me even if joe biden is elected president on that day getting back into the deal might not be that easy i don't think it's as easy as some people have made it out to be that president i'm certain i want that yes and then everything we go back to status quo ante i think actually you're i mean insert why it's you argue that 8 man out and say she or the sanctions or other countries may see the united states issues coming out of. your ass so i think it's going to be much more complicated than just. yet diplomats say behind the. seems a great deal of pressure was put on the other members of the security council to support the u.s. position only one country the small nation of dominican republic did so whatever

washington says it seems that the plan to snap back sanctions has failed james bows out of syria at the united nations as a big giant us now live from tehran so what kind of reaction are we getting out of the iranian capital. well the reins have been pretty consistent with this stance that is that they believe that the united states is in no position to repose sanctions or even trigger that's that because they left that 2015 nuclear deal as far as iran is concerned the united states has no legal basis to do so but there is concern here in in teheran about how the united states will impose those u.n. sanctions as they see it and this concern that the united states may stop. ships on the seas and foreign minister javad zarif was speaking last night and he said that there would be a firm response to any piracy u.s.

piracy on the high seas now we have to talk about where iran is a place strategically the strait of hormuz where 20 percent of the world's world passes through and then and its narrowest point between iran and oman is around 39 kilometers the shipping lanes even narrower and and history does tell us even just last year when an iranian ship was seized off the coast of gibraltar by british authorities iran responded by seizing a british flag tanker so when iran says that they will respond history does tell us that they are likely to do so and there is a military buildup in the region and it does tend tend to be that could be a possibility of a military miscalculation but also iran is looking forward to that october the 18th deadline where the arms embargo runs out on iran and the united states try to extend the arms embargo and successfully and iran yes stage of odds are that they don't do any trade with europe in terms of arms they're looking to friendly nations

such as russia and china who are far less concerned with the u.s. sanctions against them. and i said help put this into context for us because of course iran was already under u.s. sanctions before this announcement was this announcement designed to increase u.s. sanctions or a failed attempt to bring other powers on board with the sanctions. with a bit of both the united states is operating under their maximum pressure policy which is trying to put as much pressure as they can on iran now iran's economy is already struggling the currency has lost a lot of its value since the start of this kroner virus pandemic the oil and banking sectors are under sanctions iran can't trade oil any revenues it did have the can't bring back into the country any assets that iran has outside of the country they can't get that cash into the country some medicines they can't bring into the country so iran is struggling and outside in the streets here into her and

when we were speaking to people many people were saying well how bad is it going to get it's already pretty bad but some people were concerned that it could get worse and that is a concern for the reunion authorities because they're already under sanctions and it's also about how the united states will impose these the united states is threatening 2nd resections or 2nd kind of punishments for countries that deal with iran and that's some of the frustrations that iran has had with the europeans now they say it's not enough for the europeans to oppose the united states because they have managed to find a way around the sanctions and to stand up to what iran calls u.s. bullying all right thanks so much there. now tens of thousands of tired protesters have ended a new round of demonstrations by presenting a set of demands to the monarchy it calls for the king's power to be limited a new constitution to be drawn and elections to be held produces a mob the monarchy is illegal in thailand demonstrators also placed the plug next

to the grand palace in bangkok clearing the nation belongs to the people more protests are planned for thursday and the general strike next month when haye has more from bangkok. for the significance 1st of all is the location where the protest was held tens of thousands of people turning out on saturday and where this park has been placed which is the park that you mentioned just across the road from the grand palace it's a historic site it's been the scene of many royal sirrah monies for centuries and it used to be a place that was open to the general public to use during the day as well but in recent years that's not been the case it's been off limits to the public so the protest leaders made it clear that that was one of their targets they wanted to retake this park for the people and that's exactly what they did and in the early hours of sunday morning they dug up a section of the concrete in the park and place this plaque into that area and now

the significance of the park itself is that it commemorates the 1932 revolution that turned thailand from an absolute monarchy into a constitutional one so the park says that thailand is for the people not just for the king 3 years ago an official park in another location nearby mysteriously disappeared overnight so that was seen by many certainly the protesters here and as another sign that the king was strengthening his power and perhaps turning thailand back into an absolute monarchy again. u.s. frezza and donald trump says he'll nominate a woman to replace supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on saturday he's promising to move quickly despite objections from democrats they say the winner of november's election should make the decision 2016 republicans refuse to consider president barack obama's choice for the court on the grounds it was an election year john hendren reports. president donald trump says he will appoint

a woman next week to succeed justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on friday to the u.s. supreme court it will be a woman a very talented very brilliant. with trump's rival democrat joe biden insisting that the next president should name a successor the nomination battle puts ginsburg at the center of yet another supreme fight even after her death let me be clear that the voters should pick the president the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider trump might face obstacles within his own party in a statement republican senator susan collins said i do not believe the senate should vote on a nominee prior to the election but republican leaders in the senate which confirm supreme court justices have vowed to move quickly i think they'll pick someone who

is ready to hit the ground running as they say ready to go before a committee almost senate moments notice and begin to circulate on capitol hill and it courtesy calls for the death of the supreme court justice just $46.00 days before a presidential election has the republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell parsing his own words after refusing to consider then president barack obama's nominee for $237.00 days today i am nominating chief judge merrick bryant garland to join the supreme court at the time mcconnell said the election was too close to approve a nominee the senate will appropriately revisit the matter when it considers the qualifications of the nominee the next president nominate whoever. that might be now mcconnell has vowed to go ahead even though this time the vacancy occurred less than 7 weeks before an election only one nomination has come closer

to election day that was in tune $64.00 now ginsberg's name is attached to another struggle this time over her successor john hendren al-jazeera chicago. well still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state my home pay always touring latin america and encouraging renewed action against venezuelan president nicolas maduro. and after a day of violence against women. for another major rally in the capital minsk. the weather looks fine and tried see many central parts so few but i was towards the west to see some terrific downpours recently has led to flash flooding to southern areas of france you can see this little maryada various of low pressure

which it produces some very unstable air and that has led to the really poor weather with some heavy downpours and this further showers as we go on through the next couple days by to portugal say yet more rain that what's the weather coming across northern parts of spain joining up with that wet weather that we have in place across central and southern parts of france now so there will be further problems to come here you come across into central parts of it was easterners if you have a slushy fine and dry asked for a storm down is the eastern side of the met you can see that's pushing to the south of crete now and that will gradually continue to push for the south was fizzling out as it does so that's monday's pitch and then still more wet weather there cross southern parts of france in particular with the risk of further flooding pushing right down towards the peyronie's well the past of africa could see one of 2 shallow is just around north eastern libya from a little. disturbance in the mediterranean plenty a showers there into central africa as per usual about where they should be but watch out for some rather wet weather making its way to that western side

mauritania for time. after nearly 2 decades of conflict in afghanistan. the warring parties meet face to face at the negotiating table we're watching them now we're in a different phase and i wish the afghans can't blame the united states to you know to this is also looking at it with urgency it's a blast but i don't see that the urgent need of the africa some of the key players of the peace process talked out 0. 00000000000000000000000000000000000.

0. 000 come back you're watching out 0 time to recap our headlines now u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was threatening consequences if the u.n. fails to reimpose sanctions against iran but britain france and germany insist relief will remain as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. tens of thousands of type protesters have ended a new round of demonstrations by presenting a set of demands to the monarchy that calls for limits to the king's power a new constitution and elections. u.s. president says he'll soon nominate a woman to replace u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on friday democrats say the nomination should wait until after november selection. staying in the u.s. and trump says he'll improve a deal to allow the social media platform take talk to keep operating in america the chinese apple partner with u.s.

firms oracle and wal-mart the white house had applied pressure on the company overall to cold national security concerns about an all new downloads has been delayed by a week downtrodden said as part of the deal to talk would set up a $5000000000.00 cation fund but its own buying down says it's not aware of that equipment and only learned about it through the news in a statement it says it's always been committed to working on initiatives for students around the world alarum agave is a tech analyst he says the deal is interesting because it combines oracle and wal-mart's different strengths well it means presumably if it means that he stays with saying it's on an on again off again then oracle would run at least the data aspect of the us operations in oracle of course it's very good when it comes to

online security they don't have any experience with consumer products but of course wal-mart does so perhaps a oracle wal-mart combination might make some sense but remember this is a product that's years primarily by young people teenagers and very young adults so having a enterprise business related company running it could be problematic if oracle were doing it all by itself i think it's mostly political although if i were trump i'd be careful about alienating so many young people who use a kick cut many of them are voters but having said that i think it's partially its relationship with china and partially the fact that it is at least theoretically possible for by canst a company that owns to have access to a certain amount of data from u.s. citizen so the issue is will oracle make sure that the data doesn't get into the chinese hands and if that's the deal the china might make some of the money but not have access to the data and that could certainly address u.s. security concerns. colombia's president even decay wants his venezuelan counterpart to be prosecuted as a war criminal the colombian leader made the plead your ng

a visit by the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh venezuelan president nicolas maduro is accused of warmongering in the reports the u.s. secretary of state might bomb pale came to south america to strengthen an 18 month campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure directed at the president of venezuela nicolas maduro to keep. the. peace. he received firm backing in colombia the final leg of his 4 nation tour from president of. the colombian leader highlighted the report released this week by united nations mission on venezuela alleging unlawful executions in force disappearances arbitrary detentions and torture. using international

justice we should go ahead and as i said many years ago denounce nicolas maduro to the international criminal court. but during his 7 years in office has heard it all before and withstood several attempts to overthrow him the latest a failed military incursion 5 months ago he remains defiant my bumpy one then in the heat up my pompei was in a war mongering tour against various waiter but it's backfired on him and he's failed in all his attempts to get the governments of the continent to organize themselves in a war against venezuela a great friend of the message of america brazil colombia and several other governments in the region support the us stance on venezuela others condemn what they see as interference by washington. the people that have to take care of my dear are the people of venezuela not the united states might promptly or doesn't have to take care of more during the venezuelan voters does all the ideological battle rages the humanitarian crisis continues in northern brazil pompei you

visited some of the hundreds of thousands of venezuela migrants who have crossed the border to escape economic and political turmoil then a swale or won't take them back while it tries to contain the coronavirus pandemic . of the doura has made it clear he doesn't plan to go anywhere either. than you shriner al-jazeera the latest and the government protests in argentina brought traffic to a standstill in the capital one of cyrus the economic crisis the pandemic response and proposed judicial reforms all angered demonstrators are also questioning the removal of 3 judges from the corruption investigation into vice president cristina fernandez the. another anti-government rallies expected in the better russian capital soon police arrested more than 300 female demonstrators in minsk on saturday bad demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko following last month's disputed election our correspondents vos and saw the latest police

crackdown. yet. the. after last thanks and self last week the women are back here on the street women have been driving force 1 for these protests. since the very 3 women were the opposition leaders 2 of them have fled the country one is in think tanks and i don't women here thinking over and they are still praying and shouting for look at . police arrived women are running away they are trying to hide into their shops and restaurants here in this area so that is a panic and i. feel . a. sense of women by now have already

been put in the detention vehicle some of them quite aggressively you're pushed inside they keep pushing the press away all the time as well they also have of course been detaining journalists over the past weeks as well so everyone has to be really careful here some women are really emotional some are crying and shaking out of fear because of course these man up very intimidating they also have in the past been trying to grap them actually reveal their identities to make sure that they will be held accountable for what they have done. hundreds of thousands of people in south africa have been left stranded after parts of the railway system closed down train services have already been severely limited because of the pandemic now railway bosses say there's an unprecedented level of vandalism and theft from ada miller reports from johannesburg. about 1200000 commuters across south africa's

houghton province use these trains every day they're a lifeline for those travelling to work in school who can't afford more expensive transport such as minibus taxis but with coronavirus lockdown restrictions limiting timetables and now widespread theft train services across south africa are facing a crisis thieves have pillaged stations stolen cables and fanned allies to facilities in how to province alone trains are operating at under a 3rd of normal capacity we considered as a. proton is an economic hub if you really infrastructure it's a revolution in france which is the one that only many economic activity saw it is a real economy from that angle in this mobile footage the eaves a scene risking 3000 volts of electricity running through the cables to get to the valuable copper in another video men can be seen removing corrugated iron sheeting

from the roof of a railway station these are over here traction why is which supply power to the trains little remains. the passenger rail agency prosser has had to rent diesel run locomotives to pull the trains instead the government says the stolen copper is melted down and exported through mozambique to markets in asia it's believed it will cost at least $120000000.00 to replace the stolen and damaged equipment and facilities. this is one of several metro railway stations and offices across the halting problems vandalized and looted much of the damage happened after security was pulled out months ago leaving this station and many others and gardened security was withdrawn after it was uncovered that contracts had been awarded illegally prosser is an organization that was overrun by months and serves

as a lot a target in number of full kiam strategic areas within prosser and the contracts the security contracts were designed to favor security companies and the people who are benefiting from their inside prices. while the rail agency was lost to place and administration by the minister of transport to fix its problems the government has not given a clear timeline of when the train system will work properly so as a mess of cables dangle in the air so too through the hopes of hundreds of thousands of commuters desperate for a reliable transportation system for me to malaya al-jazeera johannesburg so than the government is being urged to do more to prevent damage and loss of life from heavy flooding there are warnings of more flash floods as authorities work to stop disease spreading in affected villages. or from sindh.

the small letup in the suffering of sudan's flood victims in singe a town in south western sudan and tired neighborhoods remain completely cut off. the higher share of the neighborhood is only accessible by consumers the law of the law sent his wife and children come for the displaced but chose to remain behind to guard his flooded house he's angry at the lack of. the response from the government has been very weak for the past 3 years we've been begging the government to reinforce the flood defenses but they didn't we went and spoke to everyone from the local authorities to the national government and still nothing. that was floods 400 years in sudan completely destroyed most homes in this neighborhood the government has defended its response so far saying that it's been handed by international economic sanctions as well as the shop full in the sudan

he's palmed i want to know about i know what bad you know who do what at that our house was the 1st one to be flooded in the neighborhood we were asleep we could only save our lives everything we owned got swept away sudan's rapid deployment forces of sprayed insect sights on pools of stagnant water to kill mosquito love but given how widespread the flooding has been it's almost impossible for everywhere to be disinfected the destruction of thousands of quick look through by the floods also is a great bend to the population you know and i guess it's like unicef are now helping the government run the budgets to help the census to deal with and it all breaks. up one of the numerous comes for the displaced in syria unicef medical stuff immunizing children against missiles and other communicable diseases the health care workers say they are doing everything they can to avoid outbreaks is getting up our nutrition said bella. now at the lectern why it's getting.

to be honest some buy from anyone is you know and also to detect early. monitors and kids and to trick them into the face that they need. to admit the government in recent days issued new allots to communities living on the banks of the nile that rains in the highlands of neighboring ethiopia could did to flush floods sudan's humanitarian aid commission say 650000 people have been affected since the start of the rains in mid july millions of others are facing hardship as the cost of food and chance put so as because of the flood disaster 'd and long running economic tomboy in sudan how do all jazeera cinda in south western sudan. now australia has recorded the sharpest drop in new coronavirus cases in 3 months

following a strict lockdown in the city of melbourne just 18 cases have been confirmed across the country thousands of people in melbourne have been arrested this week for defying stay at home orders to attend anti lockdown protests the state's leader says rising in faction rates in europe should serve as a warning about lifting restrictions too soon this is a good dialogue a day where we tourists can be proud of the work they've done their commitment their resolve have a look at europe but the minute it's heartbreaking to see all that those communities have given all the sacrifice that might and they're they've got cases running perhaps more water than the 1st wife. some of these notions as well as a bit of commentary around the place about here or well death rates in 2nd wives are lower. that's not what the data sign it's not what the data are in europe a sign you got to see it off the world's largest captive elephant population is

being affected by the pandemic a number of sanctuaries in may and being forced to close down because of a lack of tourism support animals who've worked in the logging industry many cannot be released back into wild because of an increase in poaching. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is threatening consequences if the un fails to reimpose sanctions against iran but britain france and germany insist the relief will remain as part of the 2015 nuclear deal said bay has more from to her around. well the iranian reaction has been pretty much consistent that is that the united states is in no position to reimpose these sanctions or even trigger the snap back mechanism because they're no

longer a part of the 2015 nuclear deal there devolves raef the foreign minister here was speaking last night now he reiterated that point but there does seem to be concern from the iranians about united states unilateral actions such as stopping iranian ships and iran has warned if that does happen iran will respond tens of thousands of type protesters have ended a new round of demonstrations by presenting a set of demands to the monarchy it calls for the king's power to be limited a new constitution and elections criticism of the monarchy is illegal in thailand the u.s. president says he'll soon nominate a woman next week to replace u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg she died on friday democrats say the decision should wait until after november's election and on trump says he'll approve a deal to allow the social media platform take talk to keep operating in america

the chinese apple partner with the u.s. firms oracle and wal-mart the white house has applied pressure on the company citing national security concerns what's being called a march for justice is expected to start in the belorussian capital soon similar protests are expected nationwide most of the 300 female demonstrators arrested in minsk on saturday have been released now demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko. australia has recorded the sharpest drop in new coronavirus cases in 3 months following a strict lockdown in the city of melbourne dozens of people were arrested for defying stay at home orders to attend down protests. there's a wave of sentiment around the world where people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not hired because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously

we cover the big stories and report on the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean when i was a child my that's never be afraid to put your hand up and ask a question and i think that's what i observe and does he ask the questions to people who should be accountable and also get people to give their view of what's going on was cool. to see. the people of afghanistan have seen war for much of the past 40 years from the soviet invasion of the late 1970 s. to the rise of the taliban in the 1990 s. . and it's eventually fall from power in late 2001 there have been 6 democratic elections since then but finding consensus among the gun is not.