as a matter of. al-jazeera. iran's president dismisses u.s. attempts to reimpose u.n. sanctions as european leaders challenge washington's legal authority off to withdrawing from the agreement. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up you could use more words against me and you'd be absolutely right. joe biden reminds republicans of their stance on supreme court nominees 4 years ago and accuses them of hypocrisy now united and defiant protesters in baton rouge

gather in their thousands to keep up the pressure on president alexander lukashenko . on the aftermath of sudan's at worst floods the government and aid agencies battle to repair the damage and prevent disease. hello welcome to the program our top story iran's president is saying the u.s. faces certain defeat after it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions on rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washington's latest move to pressure attack iran has left it isolated from the international community the u.s. says the sweeping measures are a consequence of the violations of the 2050 nuclear deal which donald trump pulled out of in 2018 and in a sign of rising tension between the united states and the other world powers

members of the u.n. security council france germany in person argue that the u.s. does not have the legal authority to climb iran has violated the agreement nonetheless the u.s. secretary of state is threatening consequences for any other nations that don't comply with further details expected from washington on monday as a fake brings us the latest now from tehran. sanctions or no sanctions an unprecedented division at the united nations is seen as a diplomatic victory by iran iran's president seemingly mocking the recent us defeats at the security council. in the game today we can say the u.s. policy of mix member less cool and legal pressure against the iranian nation has turned into mex member isolation for the united states. but if the u.s. stops iranian vessels to enforce sanctions this was a warning from iran got all recover if the u.s. wants to use resolution 199 to inspect raney and ships based on international laws

is considered piracy and will be dealt with and the united states will be held responsible for the consequences. and it's here any response would likely be carried out the strait of hormuz one of the busiest shipping routes in the world with 20 percent of the world's oil passing through u.s. warships and water mains are based in the region in an already tense environment iran's conservative majority parliament is considering further action against the u.s. if they re impose sanctions. on iran there are various ideas in iran in among lawmakers from abandoning to a to even withdrawing from the nonproliferation treaty or severing ties with. iran you lawmakers have discussed all these ideas it rains already finding it tough living under sanctions but let's not just don't we are working hard from morning to night but we get nothing because these sanctions have disrupted life economy

everything it's very tough and that was ok to us just as well sanctions have had many impacts for example on patients the price of medicine has gone up to the increasing exchange rate with the dollar that even if medicine is available if we face more sanctions the lives of many patients might be at risk iran's leaders are treating the u.s. isolation at the u.n. as a victory while many iranians are suffering hardship. donald trump's maximum pressure campaign calls iran's currency to use value and stop iran selling its will or accessing international markets but what iran does next very much depends on how the u.s. decides to implement its view that u.n. sanctions a back in place with the u.s. isolated at the u.n. security council and the europeans wanted to preserve the nuclear deal in this ongoing diplomatic battle between the u.s. and iran iran believes it now has the upper hand assad bake. the wrong. democratic presidential nominee joe biden has been speaking in the last half an

hour he's saying that if he wins the election in november he should be able to replace president donald trump's nominee to the u.s. supreme court speaking at a campaign event in pennsylvania you also said that i wish not to be replaced before the election should be on it of course ruth bader ginsburg was a pioneer of women's rights she died on friday at the age of $87.00 president trump has move very swiftly he has said that he will announce a female nominee to replace or next week but of course biden says that that would be breaking his own rule the only rule i'm going to follow related to the supreme court nomination was the constitution's obligation for senators to provide their advice and their consent to the president's judicial nominee when he created a new rule mcconnell rule absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in election year period no cover 7 outs and many republican

senators agreed with him including the current chairman of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham of south carolina who at the time said quote verbatim here's what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if there's a republican president in 2060. and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the 1st term you can say lindsey graham said let's let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to crow and you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right and of cool and that's now speak to alan fischer who is following the story in washington and so joe biden taking him his heels in saying the value to replace

anyone nominated by the republicans and by president trump but the democrats power in this in this massive seems to be limited finale. and it's tough for joe biden to say listen to the words from 4 years ago and you've got to hold people to those words because 4 years ago or joe biden as vice president to barack obama insisted that the medic garlin nomination deserved a hearing in the senate and also a vote even if it was an election year he talked about the republicans just doing this as a shore of raw political power and that is also a consequence of losing elections the republicans took control of the senate 201420162018 and they won the presidency 4 years ago and when he talks about the constitution he's right the president is allowed to nominate supreme court justices and the senate says that they wall advise and confirm and that's

exactly what donald trump is trying to do he intends to name a successor to rick bader ginsburg by the end of the week and he's hopeful that mitch mcconnell might well push through that nomination before the election in november the 3rd or joe biden was doing was appealing to republicans who have said they don't think there should be a vote we know 2 of them are already on the record they are susan collins who is a republican from maine and lisa murkowski the senator from alaska and there may well be a couple of others who are sweating but their voices would only really be had if mitch mcconnell moves to hold a vote sometime before the election of course he could try and push something through in between the election and the inauguration and that lays the groundwork for a constitutional crisis if joe biden wins the election in november the thought possibly the strongest argument that joe biden makes is that voting is already under way in

many states early voting we've seen long lines and he said that people have decided that they are going to vote for the president the president chooses the supreme court justice so that process. this is no underway and also interesting he was appealing to voters to tar note because he said look if we get a conservative majority on the supreme court a lot of things that democratic voters like could well be at risk and under threat what is interesting is that in the hours since ruth bader ginsburg's death was announced those donating to democrats and democratic causes are talking about a huge surge in fundraising all right thank you very much for the latest on that story from washington alan fischer thanks alan on out security forces have been deployed across egypt following calls for mass protests by an exiled opposition figure mahmoud ali a former contractor for the egyptian military is behind the call to action he's

become well known for revealing details of corruption previous protests for preventive high security services through the rest of political activists. well now batteries tens of thousands of people have been marching through the capital demanding a change in government with some estimates putting the tunnels above 100000 weeks of smaller demonstrations culminated in a mass launch on sunday is the scene of some 6 weeks now since the disputed election last month the president alexander lukashenko back in power there's a large police presence in the capital with many protested having to tank the internet has also been shut down. that russian is with the protests in minsk. this march is called a march for justice they are saying that look attractive should be brought to court to a tribunals for torture and the things that have happened in the last couple of weeks that they were also trying to get 2 of his followers to be independent ballots one

of his residence is because all the roads were blocked so the groups are. 'd increasingly difficult for us to gather together very quickly and there are rallies all those kinds of circumstances crowd are not of quickly thought they are running also ongoing right now it takes clear that welcome whiplash surprise in fact on the protesters but i have to trust that the people who are still on the street most very well that they could be detained any minute police and army is in full force across the city i'm across the country in other places as well there's a complete overload of for the french and so right now more than a 1000 people have been detained really after reaching out so yesterday it was funny to hear that silly talk modern of the sanctity goes even kill the pain all these women so they have to go back and forth undisturbed well that believe is actually used in public buses now like real normal public transport to be telling

people so at the moment that this rally is too large for them to intervene but police will always wait until there's a smaller group and then they started telling people. now a bit of news from afghanistan a series of government as strikes in northern afghanistan has killed at least 24 people the afghan defense ministry says 30 taliban fighters died in those attacks but witnesses told the associated press news agency that civilians were actually killed the strikes happened as afghan government officials and the taliban meet in count off the peace talks to try and end the decades long conflict and then elsewhere some developments in syria russian warplanes of canada as strikes there in northwestern syria those strikes targeted an area just west of the city of idlib which doesn't contain any there are no residential buildings there northwestern syria is one of the last parts of the country held by rebels fighting against government forces. saddam's government aid agencies and volunteers are now in

a race against time to stop outbreaks of disease following record breaking floods they fear the spread of water borne illnesses like malaria more than 120 people have died in 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed the government says more than 700000 people have been affected by the rising waters and the trouble is far from over well al jazeera is mohamed is following this story for us from heart to him and he says there are fears about the spread of disease. latest is that the government has revised the numbers upwards up 270-0000 people have been affected in 17 or 18 states that sudan is composed of says the government and people put in many parts of the country. with how small the recession or the floodwaters have been mainly due to heavy rains pounding not only sedan but also the highlands of ethiopia where lect the source of the blue nile is for the pushing more water into

these tributes of the nile which has been mainly responsible for the flooding we've seen in the past weeks and months so what we're seeing us to action where there are also stagnant water supplying around almost everywhere in those 17 states and there are concerns that there could be outbreaks of diseases like malaria chicken fever all of them caused by the mosquito as well as diseases like cholera and dysentery because of thousands of put latrines being destroyed during the floods and emptying their contents into the floods that are still lingering in most parts of sudan you're watching al-jazeera live from london much more still to tell you about the program migrants his campaign down in greece a veil we housed in and now a facility but it's not ready to receive them. and

disharmony in chile the indigenous people embroiled in a land dispute it's getting more dangerous. i was saying some nasty weather across western parts of europe recently a middle area of low pressure swirling away head drawing the moisture from the western side of the mediterranean pushing that wetter whether it too could pass of central and southern france northern parts of spain also seeing some of that west so whether i was all c.s.s. where the dry weather is the fine weather and the sunshine is in temperatures getting into the low to mid twenty's here further west there we go with yet more wet weather see go on through monday that western part part of france saying somewhat to weather northern areas of spine will portugal also seeing some showers

along with spells of rain for a time that will sink is well little further south what's in the swiss as we go through chews day to the north of that still 5 and dry across east passes and lovely sunshine but a change underfoot up towards the northwest wetter and windy weather will pile in across the british isles as we go through the next couple days and that temperature is going to drop significantly as we go into the 2nd half of the weight may want to cross northern africa it is generally dry you know in the breeze the side there from our old storm in that eastern side of the mediterranean plain see a showers across central africa nigeria seeing some particularly big downpours over the next couple of days that where the stretches all the way west africa. russia has jeopardized the united states security interest we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft to commune

with russian goals he retreated not peace in the full russian on knowledge is in. the we're. rocking back on main story this hour iran's president has warned of a crushing response to the united states after it may be unilateral moves to reimpose sanctions britain france and germany say they won't cooperate with the americans and the sanctions relief iran under the 2015 nuclear deal will remain in place in our other top stories democratic presidential nominee joe biden is

a senate republicans to do what is right and speaking at a campaign rally just now he said that if he wins the november election he should be able to nominate we've begun the successor and that donald trump's nominee should be withdrawn. and then tens of thousands of people have been marching through the better russian capital again demanding a change in government as a large police presence in the capital with many protesters having been detained. or in other stories of following people moving into a new refugee camp on the greek island of lies boss of describe the conditions inside as horrible after concerns that the a sleep built facility is just not ready for them around 1000 people have arrived in the new settlement in the past few days they were displaced almost 2 weeks ago after the morri camp burned down even 12000 people homeless i mean don't want to go to a new camp demanding to be taken instead to the greek mainland and a rally in support of the refugees on lesbos has been taking place in the german

capital protest as a calling for the immediate evacuation of all greek refugee camps after the 5 morea stephanie deca is at the last ball scamp. well they're trying to settle into a camp which seems to be pretty much not ready for the around 9000 people who were put in here over the last couple of days part of that greek police operation to get them off the streets since mori account birddog almost 2 weeks ago now so we've been seeing people throughout the day they are free to come and go as they please more or less at some point today where they were told to close the gates but in general they are free to do so until the sun sets getting mattresses and supplies to try and make these tents somewhat more comfortable there is no nothing on the ground at sandy ground pebbles a lot of people telling us you know what they have to sleep there's just very thin blankets and they can feel the stones it's getting colder you can see it's incredibly windy it's getting colder already you can only imagine what winter will

be like which is only a couple of months away the question is this is supposed to be a temporary camp but i think i think it's safe to say that there won't be a new count built in the next couple of months and the weather is only going to get worse so i think that is certainly a challenge ahead will now move parts as calling for the resignation of israel's prime minister have been underway this is the 13th week in a row that thousands of people have gathered in front of benjamin s. now his official home in west jerusalem demonstrations accuse him of corruption and mishandling the coronavirus pandemic causing fountains of job losses the prime minister's trying on corruption charges of course is still ongoing with hearings soon. well hundreds of people are also rallying against coronavirus restrictions in the german city of distilled off it's organized by a group which has health similar protests in the cities on saturday germany reported its highest daily infection rate since the month of april some areas are implementing local restrictions in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.

meanwhile here the u.k. has recorded just under 3900 new cases of the coronavirus compared to nearly 4 and a half hours and on saturday but the health secretary is warning that the country is at a tipping point and coke says that if people don't follow social distancing rules new restrictions including a 2nd national lockdown that could be brought in coronavirus case in the u.k. have risen sharply in the past few weeks on saturday the government announced fines of up to $13000.00 for people in england caught breaking self isolation rules so on again go has the latest now from london. the british health secretary matt time called double down on the government's message that people needed to stick to the rules if the country was going to avoid any more social restrictions while the prime minister boris johnson said last week that going into a national lockdown would be disastrous to the country is still reeling from the economic aftereffects of that 1st knocked out of the u.k.

has seen cases already double in the past week hasn't seen that correlates with any more deaths toll but they're very worried that britain could be going down the way of spain and france which has seen a spike in numbers now being followed by an increase in deaths as well a u.s. judge is temporarily blocked an attempt by the white house to ban downloads of a chinese owned messaging app the ruling on we chat came just hours before the ban was due to take effect the judge cited concerns about free speech and said the app is the only option for those communicating with people in china on friday the trump administration ordered the ban because of national security concerns. well now to thailand tens of thousands of people 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 limit him with a new constitution and elections criticism of the monarchy is illegal in thailand

demonstrators placed a plaque next to the grand palace in bangkok declaring the nation belongs to the people while protests are planned for thursday and a general strike next month when haye is in 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 just across the road from the grand palace it's a historic site that's been the scene of many royal ceremonies 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 plaque 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. i want to tell you about a centuries old conflict of a land and discrimination which is escalating in south and chile the struggle pits the indigenous people against the government and private landowners well now younger approaches are organizing and some are taking up arms to expel people they see as foreign as our latin america and it's really seen human was given exclusive access to markets the communities that reside in southern chile she's found the 1st of 2 special reports. this vast landscape is just part of what many call

my rock in the land of the indigenous. rich for trial region stretching south of the bill bill river for 400 kilometers today it's part of chile but as these mapuche of flags indicate some of the land is being reclaimed increasingly by force the in the last 4 months they've been nearly daily arson attacks on trains trucks and forestry companies that now own the lion's share of the land but also against farms in homes owned by ordinary chileans and people on both sides of the conflict are being killed. outside of a jail in angora a push of community leaders announced we'll fight by any means necessary for the release of those they call political prisoners of chile accused of carrying out attacks that we are being persecuted and imprisoned for the morning our land for many years we were repressed but now we've learned to organize and defend ourselves

with the my butcher widgeon or spokesman says new deployments of chilean special forces units to the region are escalating the confrontation it's getting dark hair and well it was starting to steam out military trucks passing by this is right below ground level of course the gaza strip and we're also seeing where trees have been chopped down the plughole blocked the road so the cars can pass and it will be . worse as the night goes on as it becomes darker because it's part of an ongoing campaign a sabotage on the part of those who say that they have to spell the political obvious up their land for hundreds of years neither the spaniards nor the subsequent chilean state was able to conquer the comeback of my bullshit but by 880 chile's army succeeded in driving them off most of their land destroying their rural economy and plunging them into deep poverty that persists to this day.

now many communities are trying to take back what they lost like this property owned by chile's largest forestry company. but they say it's also about countering 140 years of humiliation today they've gathered for a game of palin and incest or a sport played between 2 communities in order to reinforce their ethnic and cultural bonds 32 year old susannah suttle says that like many more pushes her grandparents took up spanish names to try to offset deep racism and discrimination by chileans in my wildest dream only one that you know some of us may not have names anymore but we still have blood and beyond to shame to feel we are from a new generation that has the strength to rise up again. more than 12 percent of chileans identify as much to change yet chile's constitution does not recognize

their existence as indigenous people for a supermarket owner delafield size says he too belongs here he takes us to see the remains of his family's country home just hours after it was burnt to the ground by unidentified armed men were the same sort of. i feel nostalgic anger knowing they burned down something that belong to us nearly 100 years we can through build our memories but i'm going to rebuild the house right here because no one can throw us off our land. those resorting to violence are a minority. but mcgill until melech kill says they're part of a larger and so strong conflict that the chilean state is refusing to address except with force. that's a military plane with state of the art technology to intercept telephone and radio signals over flies day and night when you see things like this who can deny that the steer a tree is being militarized possible. which also become obvious is that there's no

easy solution to a complex dispute to which most chileans were oblivious until now that it's become impossible to ignore you see in human al-jazeera political chile. and as the conflict you see i was describing there escalate some are hoping that a new constitution could actually a the ground work for peace and reconciliation so on monday the 2nd part of libya's report from southern chile. and now a memorial concerts being held in lebanon some 40 days after a massive explosion devastated the capital. musicians of banded together to perform outside beirut sara museum and one of the

worst affected neighborhoods museum has been closed since last month's blast which killed at least $190.00 people another line people have not been found. are it will there's more everything we're covering right here of course comment and analysis on our web site of course you can get us on life streaming there as well. just on mind you of the top stories now iran's president has warned of a crushing response to the u.s. after it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions assad rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washington's latest move to pressure to iran is left isolated from the international community meanwhile burson france and germany say they won't cooperate with the americans and that sanctions relief iran under the 2015 nuclear deal will remain in place well in are all the headlines democratic

presidential nominee joe biden has a senate republicans to do what is right after the death of justice ruth bader ginsburg speaking a campaign event in pennsylvania he also said the late supreme the u.s. supreme court judges wish not to be replaced until after the election should be on it president trump has said that he will announce a nominee to replace or is only as next week the only rule are going to fall related to the supreme court nomination was the constitution's obligation for senators to provide their voice and their consent to the president's judicial nominee. when he created a new rule the mcconnell rule. absolutely no hear and no vote for a nominee in election year period no calvi 7 arts. what a bring you the latest now on developments in baton rouge because tens of thousands of people of march through the capital men's demanding a change in government some estimates have put the turnout today at

a 100000 out of course have been weeks of demonstrations and it culminated in a mass march that tends to take place on the weekends especially on sundays since that disputed election last month but president alexander lukashenko back in power now that has of course been a large police presence in the capital with many protesters being arrested the internet has also been shut down and security forces have been deployed across egypt following calls for mass protests by an exiled opposition figure ahmed ali a former contract of the egyptian military is behind that call to action he's become well known for really revealing details of corruption in the country previous protests were prevented by the security services through the arrest of political activists erupted at the top stories this hour at talk to al-jazeera is coming up next.

what was called to be the ability. on the previous episode of talk to al-jazeera. the afghans are paying attention learning the lesson of that period we use surge in the ever learn the right thing. and that's why we've started the peace process a lot of that's they were watching them we're going to monitor these negotiations and we'll help with that help was needed but ultimately now we're in a different phase in which the afghans old and the then the in the see the guy.