0. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elbow. there on supreme leader criticizes western powers in a speech to mark when a verse 3 of the iraq war comes a day after the u.s. to impose more sanctions. peter told me you're watching al-jazeera live from our world headquarters here and also coming up. protests in egypt demonstrators are demanding president bill fattah el-sisi step down. counting the

cost of sudan's worst floods in a century inflation grows to crippling levels as the waters recede. this is about power. pure and simple. and joe biden challenges president trump's motives for rushing through a replacement of the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the top story iran's supreme leader is addressing the nation a day after the u.s. made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions against tehran is marking 40 years since the start of the iran iraq war but many are awaiting reaction to the u.s. declaration on sunday iran's president threatened a strong response if the sanctions are imposed britain france and germany say sanctions relief will continue al-jazeera has as said big joins us from tehran what else has he been saying. well he's

been talking about the iran iraq war and he said that saddam hussein was just a tool in this war and the real people behind him was the united states and the u.k. and just to bring some context where iran is currently they are under u.s. sanction economy u.s. sanctions the economy has been struggling the currency has lost a lot of its value in fact is that its weakest point it has ever been but also he spoke about the sacrifices of normal iranians he meant mentioned general carson for the money twice he said that the war had defined the country had given its identity and protected the islamic revolution but when mentioning some of the money he mentioned the talents that had come out of this war he mentioned the founding father of iran's missile program who was then assassinated and he is drawing parallels to the modern day situation in iran finds itself in and also it's

a warning to those that may look to iran that may think about attacking them he specifically said that if anyone was to attack this country they now know that iran will not back down and iran will fight so here is the message that he's sending today is not only just for normally rain is because he is the spiritual and political leader of this country he's talking trying to bring keep alive this memory of the iran iraq war this war that defined this country politically but also a warning to the united states they has been a military buildup in the region and he's talking about the strength of iran the strength of iran's missile program and the sacrifices of normal people but you also mentioned the revolutionary guard iran's revolutionary guard which was established by the former supreme leader ayatollah khomeini and this is a force that is one of the most now is one of the most powerful institutions in iran one of the most influential also in the region and he answers directly to the

office of. the supreme leader so this is very much a a speech to rally the troops to get the public behind iran in these tough times the country is facing countries facing not only economically but also in the region shouldn't this be the president doing this today. where usually is the president we have military parades up and down the country usually into iran this event is held at the muzzle of former supreme leader ayatollah khomeini but because of the covert 19 pandemic that hasn't happened and that's why we're hearing that the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini is stepping in but the president hasn't rouhani did speak yesterday following the announcement of the united states that they considered the u.n. sanctions are back in place and president hasn't rouhani mocked the united states saying that their maximum pressure had turned into maximum isolation but how many

is the highest authority in the country he is the political and supreme leader political theological leader of the country and he's with is absolute and remember that the military and the revolutionary guard answer to him to he's office and he has the final say so this is quite significant that he is speaking in specially a day after the united states announce that those sanctions are back in place because we still don't know how the united states will impose those sanctions and there is concern here into her own that the united states may stop iranian vessels now iran has issued a warning that they consider that as piracy and they that and that they will respond if that is the case so this could be a prelude before that telling the people that look get ready things could get worse and also to rally really rally the troops and ready the institutions behind the struggles the country is facing thanks very much bigger correspondent there in iraq

. protesters defied security forces in egypt to stage antigovernment protests the police fired tear gas in just south of the capital cairo the demonstrators are calling for president abdel fattah el-sisi to step down. those protests continued into the night in the egyptian capital these are pictures of a march through one neighborhood demonstrators were chanting slogans against the military in egypt 2nd largest city alexandria there was a heavy police presence of purity had been heightened across the country after calls for mass gatherings by exiled opposition figure mohamed ali the former contractor for the egyptian military is asking protesters to stay out until their demands are met. to how do most egyptians unite out of love for the egyptian people take back your country again don't leave it in a hands down with the sisi regime down with this regime don't go home

do not go if you go home they will detain us don't go home we're in the streets and now we need to stay there. with him lawrence is a professor of political science and international affairs at the american university he says most egyptians are still reluctant to take part in the protests . well they're not that large not that widespread yet but that's largely because of the actions of the. it were over a 1000 preemptive tensions that metro stations bus stations in areas like this and there's been a crackdown arrests of intellectuals university students so common citizens all to agree and larger protests i think what's important here is not. their size and the focus that they're happening at all in such a tightly controlled situation and really provoked by nothing as this is just the anniversary of the protests last year now we do have an egyptian citizen dive or 2

or maybe 2 weeks ago we have a large lawsuit with us against the former prime ministers and i think that should be torture and so all of this is really about shining spotlight on why speculate rights violations egypt and i expect larger future. for this continuing humiliation of egyptians by regime officials and of course the living conditions getting steadily worse so i hope that comes together to create a certain how who will all of anger and then each potential protester has a choice do i go out and was being arrested risk if i were arrested to have my family cracked down upon or am i gonna sort of play it cool and wait for a larger protest. plock installed by protesters next to the grand palace in the thai capital bangkok has now been removed it was put in place to symbolize the country's transition to democracy as tens of thousands of demonstrators turned from

anti-government rally over the weekend they want political reforms and limits to the power of the monarchy criticism of the king is illegal in thailand. some of the world's largest banks have allowed trillions of dollars in suspected illicit funds to be transferred from a report by an international the international consortium of investigative journalists it names 15 major banks including h.s.b.c. standard chartered and the central bank of the u.a.e. it says they sent more than 2000 suspicious activity reports to u.s. authorities over 17 years they're not necessarily proof of any wrongdoing but the report does say banks loan money to be moved despite concerns over the origins the economy of sudan is taking a battering after record flooding its currency the pound is declining against the u.s. dollar that's leading to inflation and food price increases the government has reactivated an economic state of emergency more than 120 people have died and 100000 homes have

been damaged. from hard to. the 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 are not happy with how slow the recession or the floodwaters have been mainly due to heavy rains pounding not only sudan but also the highlands of ethiopia where lect the source of the blue nile is for the pushing more water into these tributary of the nile which has been mainly responsible for the flooding we've seen in the past weeks and months so we're seeing us to action where they're also stagnant water sliding 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 this is 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 delegates from sudan visiting the united arab emirates to discuss taking the country offer us a list of state sponsors of terror the delegation is expected to meet american officials in abu dhabi so don says its inclusion on the list has hindered its ability to rebuild the economy and it needs 8 last month sudan as the u.s. not to link its removal to the normalization of relations with israel. the u.s. democratic nominee joe biden has condemned president trump and leading republicans who are pushing to replace the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg he said that would be an abuse of power before november's presidential election and

senators to delay a confirmation vote until after that alan fischer now from washington. the supreme court has suddenly become the dominant election issue in the united states donald trump says he's going to move forward with filling a vacancy this week democratic challenger joe biden says with early voting already under way that simply wrong the people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote to jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in raw political power. no i don't believe the people of this nation will stand for. president trump told a rally in south carolina on saturday he's sending his nomination for consideration to the senate this week it will be a woman a very talented very brave if. you average joe's in yet but we have numerous women on the list that are thought to be

2 leading candidates amy connie bennett is an appeals court judge a favorite of conservatives and has been considered for earlier vacancies and there's barbarella go up a lot and move in from florida which would be the more political choice but the white house might not be able to push through any nomination before the election in the last 45 years the process has taken on average 68 days the election is just over 40 days away and there's questions about the president even making a nomination before november the 3rd texas republican senator ted cruz is in no doubt that in order for a supreme court nomination to go forward you have to have the president and the senate in this instance the american people voted they elected donald trump but there's potential for the court to become the center of a constitutional crisis if republicans can push through a nomination before the election let me try to do it before the inauguration on january 20th but if joe biden wins that election that could cause problems the democratic leader of the house says the of ways to delay

a nomination we have our options we have arrows in aquiver that i'm not about to discuss right now but the fact is we have a big challenge in afghan tree republicans see the vacancy as an opportunity to change the face of the supreme court securing a conservative majority for years to come and they also believe it could galvanize support around donald trump both know and on election day and of people are talking about this they're not talking about the u.s. reaction to covert about unemployment or about health care all big issues before the death of a supreme court justice. alan fischer al-jazeera washington still to come here on this program. we will miss that content the personal contact. a general assembly in like never before world leaders are set to mark 75 years since the creation of the u.n. as a supreme ceremony. and a symbol of loss for victims included 19 in brazil

a moralist created in one of the worst affected cities. hello i'm places i think squatting down now across the eastern side of your still plenty of showers just around the out southern parts of france northern areas that's by and polish cool further north this line of cloud this cold front that's going to sink further south which in this was over the next couple days and that will have was quite a change for all of us as we go through the course of the the week shows that continuing then for the remainder of monday across central parts of towards c.s. most of warm sunshine generally most places getting up into the low to mid twenty's a $23.00 celsius there for london in a similar temperature actually as we go on through choose the show is to continue

across central parts of europe that it swiftly and the balkans some lively showers and thunder downpours certainly a possibility i will continue to push a little further faces to the hate that remains in place over towards c.s. and if they will not see bad pay comes out change that this is that band of cloud and right and that cold weather rain all showers pushing through as you go on through wednesday and of the change in temperatures 24 celsius in london on shoes day just 15 celsius the 4th day i have not lows into single figures fine if you are close northern africa but it will be breezy for more than possibly and egypt. close your eyes. listen. to the lesson i never thought i'd be singing a column in with the foyer i never dreamt of it where the words fail music speaks

to short films about how music can knock down the rules and inspire hope for a better life a.j. selects on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour iran's supreme leader is addressing his nation a day after the u.s. to clear the reimposition of sanctions is marking 40 years since the start of the iran iraq war but many are waiting to hear his reaction to the u.s. move. there being anti-government protests across egypt the police fired tear gas in several cities demonstrates the calling for president abdel fattah el-sisi to

step down. sudan's economy is taking a battering in the wake of record flooding there its currency continues to decline against the u.s. dollar that's leading to inflation and a rise in food prices. the russian opposition leader settle on a ticket office is in brussels to meet top e.u. officials today but the government in belarus says that amounts to interference with its domestic affairs it comes after tens of thousands of people again marched through the capital on sunday demanding that the president resigns and step stands that was and joins us live this half hour out of minsk step good morning what's expected today with this e.u. foreign ministers meeting and ticking off sky is trip to brussels. yes 30 kind of sky us invitation to address the european union foreign council could actually be the start of

a new phase in the political crisis in belarus europe has been quite reluctant to interfere to back the opposition fully in the last couple of weeks out of fear that . would go further into the influence of russia but since last week look at shanghai and putin had a meeting and put in to rated his support for europe has become more and more assertive the european parliament has adopted a resolution saying that. not being recognized as the president of anymore after november 5th that's when his term officially finishes and they have also said that they want to work together with the opposition council which is headed by sideline a kind of skier so her visit to brussels brussels is significant the european union foreign affairs council will also adopt recommendations how to deal with. as you said minsk and mosco have reacted quite angrily with this visit both calling it

interference in internal affairs here in belarus on the mining of silver ran a t.v. also moscow has the foreign affairs spokeswoman says this is from earlier statements by europe that they wouldn't interfere and there wouldn't be any geo political games being played it turned out not to be true so some really harsh words coming from moscow and minsk so the pressure is now much more on the geopolitical front as it was before this you have something of an uphill battle step as you're talking to us we're playing a picture of this and of. the russian leader mr putin and there was a point wasn't there was 70 days ago. the e.u. countries were signaling look you know on your road. in effect the kingmaker here is whatever mr putin decides to do in the equation of internal domestic politics.

exactly the opposition has been very careful from the beginning not to. president putin because they know very well that he has a very big stake here in belarus so the opposition always sad we will still want to work together with russia we want to have talks also with russia but so far russia has never reached out to the opposition leaders so they have actually been pushed and pushed more and to decide of europe also human rights came out last week showing the. torture of that has happened and b. things that have happened since the election results were presented that also of course you were before we difficult position because they can't just sit and watch while this is happened happening in europe itself in 2020 and what we think is going to happen today i mean given the events of last night and yesterday.

well she is that there was a big rally again on sunday every sunday for the last 6 weeks tens of thousands up to 100000 people have taken to disorient despite these mass detentions because look i shank our strategy has been to continuously arrest and detain people more than 12000 people have been detained in the last 6 weeks the whole opposition leadership has been detained and put behind bars but still these people have no leaders right now go to the street continue to go to the street it was very clear yesterday that there was a lot of confusion because the police were trying to block all the roads to all the strategic parts of the city but this part of this they managed to go to the street that made their demands for its ok step we'll leave it there many thanks to our correspondent there live for us this half hour in minsk now world leaders are set to address the united nations to mark 75 years since its creation the u.n.

secretary general antonio terrorists will open the special ceremony later one day ahead of the annual general assembly however this year the event will be nearly almost completely virtual because of coronavirus to get a jam space reports now from a subdued u.n. headquarters in new york. the u.n. is marking its 75th birthday but there's little mood for celebration normally leaders travel from around the world to new york this year known the coming it's all being done remotely the general assembly hall is often packed to normal years this time it will look like this a strict limit of just one delegate per country i have the immense privilege of addressing you today president trump seen here last year had toyed with an in person visit again but he decided against it probably because of the lark lost the atmosphere. this year like all the other leaders will be on the big screen only was speeches played on video. much of the real diplomatic work is normally done join

countless face to face meetings but this year the normally bustling corridors are empty but we'll do several virtual meetings with heads of state in different areas that are very relevant for us but we will miss that contact that personal contact that i believe is very important for the promise it to be think when we look at the ambassador christophe has been is one of germany's most senior diplomats he was charged in the merkel's foreign affairs advisor and now serves on the un security council ambassador we're speaking face to face see to be distance of course in your world diplomacy most of the meetings now virtual meetings what's lost when you don't do things in your world face to face diplomacy is about finding solutions finding compromise and you don't get that you know virtually you need to talk to to you know to to the people that have different opinions and you have to be able to

sort out compromise you have to find out where the red lines and you cannot do that sitting back home and go on on screen you need these personal meetings there's one place that the lack of world leaders at this year's general assembly will be celebrated and that's among the population of this city it means they'll be no closed roads and no traffic jams with olmert combe voice on the city's streets jamesburg sirrah at the united nations. an opposition leader in ivory coast is calling for nationwide civil disobedience in protest against president alassane ouattara as attempts to secure a 3rd term now the former president on record and betty is challenging his rival in next month's elections whatever it was cleared by the constitutional court to stand again despite serving his maximum of 2 terms. michael is from the l.s.e. in london he says tensions are being heightened by reports that whites of his camp

is planning to rig the vote. well i mean merriment biddy has the most supports i mean by ghost party has the most support the last man who is currently. disqualified it looks like a big year really is the next person with the most votes so it's quite significant he used a significant candidate in this particular election and one of the reasons why what terrorists kind of this is the same contentious is actually that he originally didn't really want to leave the sea he deliberately introduced even the vice presidency into this new questions just so out of these he can plan and read different meds video if hootin sleeps at the very least he couldn't be there vice presidential candidate if you're a regional kind of he did not die and so now he's had to quit himself out as a presidential candidate because the other candidate downs well taric doesn't have

enough votes to get my joe t. either in a fast round or in the 2nd round so we're looking for a very precarious situation where the only way what our can't win is actually too rigid a election and already we are hearing reports that you know we go green to transfer anything the battle young's in done go out in the west who are going north block in the center and our gang in the south to try and intimidate the out tanks to protest us out rigging our tents and you lockdown has come into force in the spanish capital as cases rise across europe more than 850000 people in the worst hit districts of madrid are directly affected they're only allowed to leave their areas for work school or health care social gatherings are limited to 6 people parks are shut and shops must close by 10 o'clock in the evening spain has the highest number of corona virus infections in europe with more than 640000 confirmed cases. a

monument dedicated to those who died because of the pandemic has been unveiled in brazil the architect of the infinity memorial says she wants to provide families with a symbol of their loss monika reports now from rio de janeiro she said the shore to lost her father to the novel coronavirus 4 months ago her family among the hundreds of thousands who have lost a loved one now their names are recorded on a memorial for 1000 victims. the 39 metre long monument weighing almost 2000 kilos is the 1st of its kind in brazil months. solid bugs in seeing his name here has given me closure i feel the memorial has immortalized him he is no longer just a number in the long list of people killed by the pandemic now i feel this as my 2nd home zed his father died last may and his body placed in the family tomb for

safety measures prevented the family having a proper wake or funeral even those who have not been buried or cremated here have a right to be a part of this memorial there are 30 names that have already been engraved on the medal but as you can see there's space for $4000.00 in total. it's a small fraction of the total of brazil's kovan $1000.00 related deaths more than 136000 have died in the pandemic making the country the world's 3rd largest hotspot and the numbers are still growing architect santos says she has been working in 7 tears for the last 10 years but never witnessed so much pain she decided to create a memorial to help families move on. virus took us by surprise and put our lives on standby more so for those who lost loved ones and were unable to say a proper goodbye this sculpture in the shape of waves is meant to show us that life

goes on that's why i called it infinity. the pandemic also seems without end claiming thousands of lives every day in brazil but just said he says the memorial is a chance for people to stand together in difficult times and to honor and remember those they've lost monica and not give all just sirrah rio de janeiro. ok let's have a quick skip through your top stories so far this half hour to iran 1st with the supreme leader is addressing the nation a day after the u.s. to clear the reimposition of sanctions against tehran is marking 40 years since the start of the iran iraq war and criticized u.s. foreign policy he told the audience iran won't back down in the face of aggression big has more now from tehran it's a warning to those that may look to iran that may think about attacking them he

specifically said that if anyone was to attack this country they now know that iran will not back down and iran will fight so this is the message that he's sending today is not only just for normal hearing is because he is this bridge and political leader of this country he's talking trying to bring keep alive this memory of the iran iraq war this war that defined this country politically but also a warning to the united states they has been a military buildup in the region antigovernment protests have been taking place across egypt the police fired tear gas in several cities demonstrates the calling for president abdel fattah el-sisi to step down the u.s. democratic nominee joe biden has criticized president trump and leading republicans pushing to replace the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is urging senators to delay a confirmation vote until after the elections on november the 3rd sudan's economy

is taking a battering in the wake of record floods its currency continues to decline against the u.s. dollar leading to inflation and a rise in food prices a plaque installed by protesters next to the grand palace in the thai capital bangkok has been removed tens of thousands turned out for anti government rally across the weekend they want political reforms and limits to the power of the monarchy condemnation of the king is illegal in thailand. a new lockdown has come into force in the spanish capital more than 850000 people in the worst hit districts of madrid ah directly affected they are only allowed to leave their areas for work school or health care social gatherings are limited to 6 people shops must close by 10 pm up next a.j. selects a season for the moment of hi i'm steve clemons i have a question that's nice days it's hard to filter out the newly sinking track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping

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