satellite organizations that have been vital for the operations of the united nations i would add to these institutions all of which have been awarded to the nobel peace prize i would add the builders of the peace that they have forged a lead embodied and up all that from cordell hull to dog commercials from kofi annan to marty's hari thousands of civilian and military personnel in gauged on the most difficult ground they have dedicated and put their lives on the line to the service of the united nations their commitment is an honor to us we are indebted to this sacrifice we are indebted to the 10s of thousands of individuals sacrifice there is in need and it is incumbent upon us to face reality head on our shared home is in disarray this is a reflection of the state of the world and the foundations are crumbling a war walls are being chipped away at and at times by those who built them to lose that have been viewed as unassailable of being breached war of annexation chemical

weapons use mass detention are occurring with impunity rise that have been hard won are being trampled upon and our international system is a hostage of rivalries it has been weakened in the ability to prosecute individuals responsible for these abuses the pen demick is sowing fear of decline narratives of collective impotence and here wish to reiterate the following given the medical emergency and the climate challenge given rights violations we need to act here and now with those who wish to do so those who are able to do so by harnessing possible avenues of cooperation this is what we have done in recent months at the european level we in europe have risen above our differences with a surge of unprecedented solidarity this we have done with africa lessening the debt burden supporting health systems and delivering assistance to the most vulnerable people this is why we have done with the world health soundly mr secretary general with the unanimous adoption of resolution which paves the way for more effective respond. stupendous mixes it is at night that it is beautiful to

believe in light these words were penned by a diamond don i for my part believe in this multi-lateralism of action not rhetoric for this reason i will attend the at the paris forum the world conservation congress the generation equality forum and wherever i can meaningful contribute i will alongside other so to make multilateralism a reality this is necessary to honor our commitment honor our commitments while guns on the other side of the world have not yet been silenced this is our duty and we shall not fail. ok that was french president emmanuel mohan there speaking at the un general assembly which is holding a one day special event to mark the 75th anniversary of the united nations the event is being marked with the theme the future we want the future we need reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism and that was

a big part of want the french president had to say they're saying he believes in multilateralism of action he went on to say i shared home is in disarray and he talked about collective impotence which i thought was quite interesting that's bringing out their plan to get us in james space is that the united nations james i think you're missing in there too to the french president what did you make of what he had to say. well as you would perhaps expect from president mark call has made it a centerpiece of his foreign policy multilateralism he set up an alliance of multilateralism he's trying to get the world to work together again that was the focus of this speech but i have to say that also is the focus of this day of most of the speakers here 75 years since the u.n. was founded to try and deal with the problems of the world war 2 the world coming together to try and stop future war coming together for the common good that is

what the u.n. as a body is trying to reinvigorate old list but of course they know that in the last few months they've been tested by covert 19 in every single leader has been focusing on their own country their own problems and the u.n. has seemed somewhat irrelevant interesting to the president macro of course climate as quite an important element of that speech because it was the paris climate deal that was just one element of multilateralism that the u.s. has pulled out all over the last 4 years with the barack of 1st policy of president trump you see. all these world leaders here one after the other of this set piece to commemorate 75 years and it's worth reminding you what we saw a couple of hours ago which was the opening of the event the old places 1st speak it goes so the host country on this day those country of course the u.n. base in new york city in the u.s. was the united states and yet instead of president trump giving that 1st speech as

he'd been billed to all the ambassadors they'd all been told to expect a speech by president trump all the video recording like the other ambassadors president trump for some reason did not record a speech and instead rather than being represented by his deputy in these matters the secretary of state the foreign minister effectively of the u.s. might pompei or his own bias of the u.n. it was actually the acting deputy ambassador to the u.n. they gave that speech and i can tell you many diplomats scratching their heads wondering whether that was a deliberate snub. thank you that diplomatic editor james bays at the united nations. and as james mentioned the senior u.s. leaders gave the u.n. general assembly a skip u.s. secretary of state want pohnpei 0 in the past hour announced a raft of new sanctions on those involved in iran's defense six's 27 entities and individuals have been hit with new measures including the iranian defense ministry and pay was also announced sanctions on venezuelan president nicolas maduro who has

built a close relationship with the temp home just imagine what iran would be therefore able to freely purchase more advanced weapons we have no intention of letting that happen the president's executive order announced today gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u.n. arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u.n. sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the year in the ministry of defense and armed forces logistics . and iran's defense industries organization and its director let's go back now to james talk about this james said this sanctions announcement by the u.s. on iran this was expected wasn't. it was expected it's quite a long complicated story this but let me try and simplify it as much as possible kim and take you back 5 years to

a hot summer's day in july in vienna i was there late in the evening when world powers came to a deal with iran with iran the iran nuclear deal now some of the powers the u.s. and france notably were somewhat concerned about what to do if if that iran didn't didn't come up with its commitments to this nuclear deal and so they built into this a mechanism called snap back the team of the secretary of state john kerry devised this which meant that rather than having if iran breached on the deal to bring back each of the different sanctions measures against iran in the u.n. security council they'd have a simple procedure the different iran didn't comply that they'd all snapped back at once and all it needed was one of the signatures of the nuclear deal to trigger that now of course what happened was 2 years ago the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal yet it still feels it can trigger that snap back and it did this weekend it says triggered that snapback it says all

international sanctions should come back into force the problem for the u.s. is the rest of the u.n. security council and the rest of the international community it seems do not agree that's the case and they believe that the u.s. had no right to trigger this snap back because it's no longer part of the deal that's why the u.s. is going ahead now and push more sanctions of its own on iran to try and punish iran i think we need to look forward now although the snapback issue is part of a very tense moments with regard to iran. in the international community and for that matter the us the bigger moment is coming up in november with the us elections certainly if we have a president joe biden in november then he will try to get back into a iran nuclear deal maybe the existing one or a slightly renegotiated one but if we have a president donald trump for a 2nd term where do you go then we're beginning to run out of road and the fear for many here is the only place this will then go in the direction of conflict ok james

bays there thank you let's get the perspective from tehran as a big joins us live from there are said how is this likely to go down in tehran both foreign minister devolves reefers been doing online q. and a and he and he was informed of these latest round of sanctions and he said that it's nothing new that the united states intention was to bring the population to its knees and it has failed and the ring of perspective very much here will be will you know we've got a new round of sanctions so what already the banking sector isn't dissensions oil sectors under sanctions the united states sanction the office of the supreme leader this sanction the foreign minister divides raef and this latest announcement well the iranians are just step back and say well what's left sanction what really they're looking forward to is how the world and the united nations will respond to

the united states saying that the you know you end sanctions back in place and how the united states will enforce that because that will determine how iran responds and even in iran there are political differences as to how iran should respond to the united states if they start trying to impose those u.n. sanctions on iran thank you that has a big live from tehran. ocean opposition leader said lana to kind of skier says the e.u. must impose sanctions on president alexander lukashenko she spent the day meeting with top european union officials in brussels the government and bellows is accusing the e.u. of interfering in its domestic affairs it comes after tens of thousands of people marched through minsk on sunday demanding the president's resignation i am also asking you to demonstrate solidarity with their people support biller a civil society and media organizations that remained under constant pressure by

authorities consider criminal investigation against those individuals involved in human rights crimes in bill rose such as rapes and tortures . i have compiled the list of people who participated in their brutal crackdown sanctions against them can be adopted under european magnitsky act. step arthur has more now from minsk. it's been quite a delicate balancing act until now in the past 6 weeks since this political crisis started between the government here and also the opposition on the other hand and europe because the more pressure was coming from europe and the opposition on the government here there was a lot of fear that the bellows and the local shanghai would be more pushed towards russia so for a long time there was this hope that the russian put in could have been engaged in

some kind of dialogue looking for a successor for a look at shankar a replacement someone who is better accepted by the people here and valorous but since the meeting between the 2 leaders last week between look at shanghai and potent in which put it has reiterated his support for a look at this whole question of vanished foot and also promised to put more money into his regime one and a half 1000000 a 1000000000 u.s. dollars so since then the mood has changed and now i think we can safely say that the kind of sky u.s. visit to brussels for could be the start of a new face of this whole crisis bali's the former defense minister who has been appointed by the military as the new interim president made the announcement on state television also named vice president a sequel to the group of 50 nations known as ecowas has been putting pressure on coup leaders to move forward on plans for

a transitional government the military joined to has now now has 18 months to hand of power completely to a civilian government. still ahead on on. nearly 800000 people affected by the record breaking floods in sudan we'll show you some of the damage along. the. hollow we have a developing tropical system which is going to bring some very heavy rain into japan and see the circulation here that's going to continue just making its way further north as it had some wet weather in recent days around japan this weather system this weather front vacs in the process of pulling out of the way but we'll see that west the weather just gather push up towards q shoot towards honshu as we go through chews day and on into wednesday will be very heavy at times we could see

some localized flooding in tokyo certainly in the mix here as well for a time some very heavy busts of friday want to showers into the eastern side of the korean peninsula some heavy showers to northeastern parts of china beijing will see some light showers from time to time what's the weather down swards the south and some big downpour said you possibility head again could see some localized flooding have seen flooding in parts of western india with the latest in the monsoon rains pushing right up across kerala kind of soccer mom russia easing further north was a little circulation there in the by have been golson all tropical storm this one actually this was new that's made its way across myanmar into bangladesh northeastern parts of india will see some heavy rain as well pushing all the way up into nepal for this couple of days. on counting the cost an aging population soaring debts and recession can japan's

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facing the world. all that was happening at the u.n. senior u.s. officials gathered in washington to announce new sanctions on iran 27 entities and individuals have been hit with new measures including the iranian defense ministry . and opposition leaders said lana to come skier says the e.u. must impose sanctions on president alexander lukashenko she spent monday meeting with top european union officials in brussels. by top story now the united nations is marking 75th anniversary ahead of the annual general assembly meeting this week a 1000 mayor has addressed leaders and dignitaries and called on nations to reaffirm their commitment to a collective human. i left it all the way jordan certainly isn't that mona the united. it has made great strides in achieving the goals agreed upon by the international community has been able of the past decades to make many contributions for the advancement of humanity saving millions of people and

changing their lives for the better it's through its various institutions and organizations which are no longer conceivable to imagine our contemporary world without them but it is still falling short of finding the necessary making isms to impose its principles upon its members or the right of might still outweighs the might of right in the different regions of the world in a different areas of our modern. doors is the director of the project on un governance and reform at the center for international studies at the university of oxford he joins us on skype from oxford said we heard there from the emir of qatar just a little bit of what he had to say what stood out for you from the india's address . i think his his mention let's. see needs to come together to address the pandemic and to cooperate more broadly and also that reform of the united nations as long if we too. i think his remarks were flecked the fact that qatar has been particularly active in making this u.n.

75 commemoration not just an opportunity to mark the successes of the u.n. but also to set a roadmap for the future. shape. tani the ambassador of qatar new york was chosen to be one of the 2 facilitators along with the ambassador of sweden to negotiate a declaration which is being agreed today by all a 193 member states and so he yet again of qatar finds itself at the end of the center of. what needs to do what needs to be done to innovate at the united nations so i think qatar is can be very proud of how today is turned out turkey's president read on among others spoke about the need to the to reform the security council the 5 permanent members having all of the power i mean how difficult is it

to implement that sort of reform and are these calls for reform growing louder. it's so hard to have institutional reform of the security council because you need 2 thirds of the un's membership and they find permanent members to agree as james base as vote. early on now is his era. and member states are divided particularly between countries like brazil india japan germany leading african countries that want more permanent members and those countries like italy korea turkey that would like to see more nonpermanent members so the international community is very divided on this on this point so i don't think we'll see any change on that soon at doesn't mean that the u.n. hasn't been innovating but it's been doing it in different ways and i think an

exciting area is the area of technology. we have the 1st secretary general antonio to terrorists with a science and engineering background and he's been trying to find ways in which the u.n. can get closer to the people that it seeks to so. last week their food and agriculture organization led by a true junior of china. entered into a partnership with google the technology company to create a platform using big data so that anyone in the world with basic internet access can tap into information on agriculture climate. environmental issues to help steer the planting of their net crops so that's one of the instances in the big big issues that security council are not possible but actually on the ground the u.n. is innovating as never before ok thank you time sam dawes there director of the

project on your own governance and reform. u.s. president donald trump says he'll announce his nominee for the supreme court by sascha day he says he's looking at 5 candidates to replace the late liberal justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on friday from all on the story let's go live now to our want correspondent kimberly really so the president is moving very quickly illness. yeah the president moving in an accelerated timeline he says and has announced as of monday morning here in washington that he will likely make the announcement of his supreme court pick to replace the human rights and women's rights icon ruth bader ginsburg who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87 that he is likely to make that announcement either wednesday or rather sorry friday or saturday but 1st we know that she will be lying in the great hall in repose of the

supreme court for at least 2 days so that people can pay their respects because she was very much revered here in the united states now in terms of that accelerated timeline why is the u.s. president moving so quickly well there are a couple of reasons 1st of all he's behind in the polls there's no question that the back of his mind is the consideration that he may not win reelection so he would not have the opportunity to make a supreme court replacement pick as of a 2nd term if he doesn't win this election and the other consideration is the fact that even if he does win any sort of pick that he makes could be blocked if republicans lose control of the senate in the upcoming u.s. election so this is why the u.s. president's pushing very hard he says he's making some consideration fact we know that he worked the phones over the weekend in advance of saying that he will now make this pick by the end of the week ok thank you for the white house correspondent can really help it. a new lockdown

has come into force in the spanish capital. my apologies we seem to have a bit of a problem with this here but as i was saying more than 850000 people in the worst hit districts of madrid are effected they're only allowed to leave their areas for work school health care spain has the highest number of corona virus infections in europe with more than 640000 confirmed cases new roles are also being implemented in 2 french cities deemed as virus red zones france reported more than 10000 new coronavirus infections on sunday down from a record spike the previous day but the number of deaths is rising for the 1st time since a nationwide lockdown was defeated in may that house about it is following the latest developments across europe. well it is cause for concern because in the past 24 hours we've seen 10000 new cases of corona virus being registered and we've seen cases climb steadily over the last few weeks what we haven't seen until now though

is hospital admissions really going up but that does seem to have changed doctors in some cities including mass same bordeaux is seeing and saying that they're seeing so many people coming into hospitals now that the intensive care unit could be under serious pressure very soon if that continues to be the case now the french government is continuing to tell people to be extremely vigilant and what it's done in order to try and avoid a national knockdown because that's something that the government of said repeatedly wants to do it is given thora te's in the regions and the local regions to put in place local restrictions across europe this is difficult balance that has to be met by governments on one hand trying to keep economies afloat on the other hand trying to protect people's well being and their health and more is saying in spain a country that was so badly affected in march and april at the height of the pandemic

then we're seeing cases rise again rapidly in the madrid region local authorities there putting in a partial lockdown people are being urged to stay at home in many districts but they can still go out to work so again trying to keep the economy afloat trying to keep people in jobs but nevertheless these restrictions will affect more than 800000 people. the u.k. is chief medical advisors have warned the country could see up to 50000 coronavirus cases per day if urgent action is not taken the country is battling a rapidly growing number of new infections. let's say that there were 5000 today would be 10000 next week 20000 a week after 40000 the week of them and you can see that by mid october if that continued you would end up with something like $50000.00 cases in the middle of october per day $50000.00 cases per day would be expected

to lead a month later so the middle of november say to $200.00 plus deaths per day. and india's taj mahal has reopened its gates to visit is after 6 months despite a rise in corona virus cases across the country a maximum of $5000.00 visitors will be allowed in each day india has the 2nd highest number of covered 19 cases worldwide it's been reporting there are 100000 new infections and more their 1000 deaths daily. 5 cameroonians soldiers have been sentenced for the execution style killings of 2 women and their children 2018 amnesty international was behind the push to have the case investigated properly the government initially denied the army's involvement about interests has the details from a bridge in nigeria. activists say they expected stiffer penalties from the judges saying that would discourage soldiers from torture extrajudicial killing an arbitrary arrest things that we allegations been leveled against soldiers not only

income at all but other like child regions or looked at countries like nigeria chide and the republic of nigeria we've also heard and saw stories like that coming from the king of fossil and mali government soldiers are fighting from islamic state to al-qaeda now this is a case that the cameroonian government initially denied has taken place calling it fake news but after pressure from civil society groups and rights activists the government decided to investigate the case farther now the military charged 7 people initially to wipe clear and then the 5 were sentenced 4 of them got 10 years in jail and the other got a 2 year sentence a lot of people are worried about the increasing cases of rights abuses by soldiers in the lake chad and the rest of the say hell by soldiers who are fighting either book or the islamic state and many people believe that taking such measures would

discourage cooperation from the civilian population right now the civilian population in those countries between iraq and a hard place facing threats from the armed groups in the region as well as retaliatory measures from soldiers who believe they're not getting enough cooperation from the civilian population hard to see donna bracing for more heavy rains as the cleanup from earlier floods continues well then 120 people died and at least 100000 homes have been damaged to add to the difficulty sudan's currency is declining against the u.s. dollar and that's leading to inflation and an increase in food prices have a morgan has this update from shut out of a town along the river nile. the river nile is starting to recede here in sudan after causing devastating floods which has affected more than 770000 people countrywide and destroyed more than 140000 homes now most of the damage has been

along the areas that lie on the banks of the nile river one of them being this area of chicago and river in our state now people here say more than 100 homes have been completely damaged you can see some of the damages here they say that last rains have completely collapsed resulting in sewage water coming out and this is the what's the level for the past 12 days now they say they have not seen the water receding yet and they're concerned about water borne diseases they said that they wanted the government to come and spray pesticide insecticide so that they can kill the moscow lover now that all hasn't happened and they're saying that they don't know what will come next because there has been no plan given to them by the government in terms of compensation the government says that the effects of the damage will be felt for months and it's very hard to conclude how much was lost financially and how many people will be affected long term by the floods but people here say they know what their needs are they know that they need shelters they know that they need medications and they know that they need pesticides so many demands

that they say the government needs to respond to in time so that the effects of the floods are not felt for a long time to come wildlife officials in botswana think they know what's behind the mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants they're blaming something called cyanobacteria it's a type of bacteria found in water based 330 elephants have died of the past year in botswana all in the same area destinations are still ongoing. results is there and these are the top stories the un general assembly is celebrating its 75th anniversary in new york secretary general antonio guterres has called for global solidarity to tackle the many challenges facing the world but the leader of the host nation u.s. president donald trump skips monday's event the acting deputy ambassador to the u.n. spoken to his place. and while that was happening at the u.n. senior u.s.

officials gathered in washington to announce new sanctions on iran 27 and cities and individuals have been hit with new measures including the iranian defense ministry just imagine what iran would be therefore able to freely purchase more advanced weapons we have no intention of letting that happen the president's executive order announced today gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u.n. arms embargo and hold those who seek to evade u.n. sanctions accountable today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the already ministry of defense and armed forces logistics and iran's defense industries organization and its director persian opposition they despaired lama to come of cairo says the e.u. must impose sanctions on president alexander lukashenko she spent monday meeting with top european union officials in brussels the government about a is accusing the e.u. of interfering in its domestic affairs there'd be weeks of mass protests of the

disputed reelection of president alexander lukashenko. mali's military join to have named an interim president quddus have named former defense minister as the new leader a group of 15 nations known as eko us has been putting pressure on coolly this to move forward with plans for a transitional government the military now has 18 months to hand over power completely to a civilian government. a new 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 i think that only about to leave their areas for work school health care social gatherings and limited to 6 people. and shops must close by 10 pm spain has the highest number of corona virus infections in iraq with more than 640000 confirmed cases. the news continues here on al jazeera right after counting the cost which is coming up next.

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