tori's under the oceans 21 geologists are secretly plotting new orders. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin on a jazeera. our actions today are warning that should be heard worldwide. the u.s. goes it alone in imposing new sanctions on iran despite objections from u.n. security council members. in an instant was made as the u.n. called on countries to work together while marking its 75th anniversary.

again i am peter w. watching out to see a line from headquarters here in doha also coming up oil production and exports is set to restart in libya some areas are declared safe for. more rain expected in sudan when floods have already affected hundreds of thousands of people. and protests in sri lanka's parliament as the president seeks to push through a bill that would remove limits on his powers. the u.s. is at the stage for a show to the u.n. general assembly this week slapping additional sanctions on iran tehran's representative to the u.n. dismissed the move as an act of desperation president donald trump is expected to use his speech later on tuesday to send a strong message to iran is that ministration declared on its own that sanctions eased under the 2050 nuclear deal have now been reimposed but in the old u.n.

security council members rejected that the new sanctions mainly target those involved in iran's defense sectors just imagine what iran would do that for 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 well as tensions increase between iran and the united states there are calls for unity at the united nations the annual general debate gets underway in a few hours' time but the special ceremony on monday marked 75 years since the organization was formed in his address the french president emmanuel macro said global rivalries are undermining the un's purpose.

our shared home is in disarray this is a reflection of the state of the world the foundations are crumbling the wars are being chipped away at us and it time zone by those who built them to booze that were viewed as being unassailable of being breached wars of any chemical weapons use mr tensions are currently being used with impunity rights hard one being trampled upon and international system as a hostage of rivalries and is being weakened in its ability to prosecute for these abuses and meanwhile those sentiments were echoed by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov middle stole it was easily lead the world is tired of dividing lines dividing states into them and us the world requires increasing multilateral assistance and cooperation in other words the aims that were laid down 75 years ago in the un was founded a more timely than ever we also must restate our commitment to the un charter and

the norms of international law and here's our diplomatic editor james bays. this was a major set piece of vent 75 years of the united nations a glitzy video speeches by the secretary general and for leaders around the world now the pride of place as the host nation the 1st speech was reserved for president donald trump he didn't submit a speech and because his secretary of state might prompt peo and his ambassador to the un kelly craft were in washington for that event on iran sanctions instead it was left to a state department official relatively low level the acting deputy ambassador to the u.n. to give the u.s. address the 75th anniversary of the u.n. is the right time to ask questions about the institutions strengths and weaknesses review and learn from its failures and celebrate its accomplishments it seems

pretty certain that on choose day president donald trump will be making an address to take to address to the u.n. general assembly and people will be focusing on his comments on iran and on snapback libya's national oil corporation says it's restarting some production and exports the libyan warlord holly for after had imposed a blockade on oil facilities in january but announced an end to that on friday the state oil company says there are no longer any fighters or foreign mercenaries in heaven weaker in the east and brega in the center of the country so production can resume its waiting for safety decisions on the remaining oil ports. joins us from tripoli sir when does this officially start again. well according to the national oil corporation that's the state oil firm here in tripoli stated that production is going to gradually come back to normal by next

week by. as to 160 battlers predicted as you know that the benchmark for this is 1600000 barrels a day this is the normal production of libya's oil ports but the national oil corporation says that it's resuming production from only 2 ports in the east which it calls them safe ports to have a go which is close to the egyptian border those in the far east of the libyan coast and medicine liberal get in the oil crescent area in central libya but the question now is whether or not there have been use of this oil production how it's going to be distributed as you know that their rival factions here have not yet come to a common consensus on a unified mechanism to distribute oil of unease in fact their national oil

corporation rejected the latest deal it made as it says buy in compete and be built people by have to and the deep deep prime minister ahmed in the last week now the national corporation says that after discussing all the. negative sides of the blockade of the oil facilities on the libyan people which the losses mounted to $10000000000.00 in revenues losses intervene years so the national corporation says that it's what it calls local and foreign entities that blockade remember that in the past few. in the past few months the national oil corp named the united arab emirates it says that it has given orders to have to his forces to the oil to the oil facilities now

the question now is whether or not the major oil ports like. and. these are the major oil ports in that area whether or not there will be opened because their national that lists the foreign mercenaries fighting for half that in that area namely their russian medicine rees along with other african listeners unless they withdraw from that area the national oil corporation will not allow opening the production there to guarantee the safety of its staff there. thank you very much. reporting from tripoli. more rain is in the forecast for sudan where weeks of flooding has killed 120 people and damaged or destroyed 100000 homes on top of that there's an economic state of emergency to rising inflation has put food and other basic goods out of the reach for many people there

. has been meeting those people most affected this report from. the 1st 100 them have family hard hopes things would get better for them after that move all of sudan's longtime leader a middle bush youth. but a year and a half later prices of basic goods are still sorting an officer who is disabled and makes falafel or being quick to support a family is finding it hard to make ends meet. she added of course this life is very hard prices are increasing by the day and some days we eat some days we don't. a week ago the sudanese government declared a state of economy convergence the move followed a sharp decline by the sudanese pound against the dollar since then inflation has risen to a record 167 percent with prices of essential commodities like bread and sugar rising to more than double long queues for bread are visible almost everywhere. if

we are forced to wait in queues for more than 3 hours at a time to buy bread just 10 pieces of bread the elderly who can't stand for long are really suffering we're all separate the inflation has also affected the provision of aid to tens of thousands of people displaced by the week's long flooding in 17 of sudan's 18 states aid agencies say they're forced to deal with a huge shortfall in funding actually it has been quite catastrophic if i may. when we receive let's say a dollar only $0.25 of that maximum is what we are able to use because of the inflation last july inflation was at 144 percent in august was almost 167 percent so that means our ability to buy things is only 25 percent sudan's transitional government blames the decline of the currency on what it calls a systematic operation to vandalize the economy by those opposing it well i'm the

guy one have again for has been we will crack down heavily on those trying to manipulate the markets we won't be united in doing this as a government we will also introduce regulations for import and export of coal and yet some people are blaming the government itself for the crisis. probably raise the minimum wage from $5.00 to $60.00 that is the largest pay rise in the country's history but broken with no resources of its own the government opted to fund the increment by printing more money so i think that done on a perth before the economic decline u.s. secretary of state might pump recently have raised hopes of better economic prospects here when he announced the possible removal of saddam from its role of state sponsors of terrorism perhaps even before the us elections in november that would allow said done to shed its pariah status attract foreign investors and once again access credit from institutions like the i.m.f. and world bank but diplomats say that's hinged on sudan 1st normalizing relations

with israel a bitter pill it may be forced to swallow to ease its own domestic problems without the world is eating hot tom saddam a critic of the chinese president xi jinping has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for corruption ran jersey is an influential former property executive he was the chairman of a state and real estate company runs being critical of the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak katrina you is following developments for us from beijing . according to a beijing court a rendered child has been found guilty of taking bribes and embezzling public funds to the tune of $2900000.00 now they say that he did this while he worked as the chairman of a state owned company inquiry on which is a rather large real estate company which he headed for 21 years and according to the beijing court wron has voluntarily confessed to all these crimes and he warned be appealing this verdict so he will be spending the next 18 years in prison for

this many believe that despite this charge inside the main thing that did get him into hot water with the chinese communist body was his outspoken comments so much so that he was north here in china as the big candidate and unlike other dissidents he criticized the party from the inside he was always a chinese communist member a very widely respected businessman and his supporters say criticize a policy because he wanted it to improve its governance and he was known as a very popular commentator on way well which is like time his facebook he had more than 35000000 followers but in 2016 his account was actually suspended because he criticized president xi jinping has called for the chinese media to be more aligned with the communist party and he received a sort of rap on the knuckles and a warning but he continued to be outspoken and he ran a very popular elite book club where he promoted independent thinking still to come for you here on al-jazeera the u.k.

is set to announce today for coronavirus restrictions off one of the places could reach 50000 a day action is taken. after early successes argentina's losing its coronavirus battles covert 19 spreads from cities to rural areas. hello there lots of widespread rain showers and thunderstorms across much of indonesia the last year as the has been plenty of cloud now as we go through wednesday there shies back across much of the philippines and some heavy downpours as well in through myanmar and across into thailand borneo again seeing some heavy downpours particularly in central areas it'll spread south and east across into pseudo se but radio all the while well too bad across into java and central and

southern areas of sumatra still the chance of but really nothing more than that now there are some if you more showers in the forecast across into the southeast overstrain a sunny kong along the coastal areas of victoria down across into tiles mania about across into sydney and a warm couple of days across into western australia that front doesn't quite make it by throws it how much is well above the average we might just see want to choose showers along the queensland but really apart from that it will be the rain in the south as we head through thursday south australia and again fairly widespread across much of it tory and eventually across into tasmania so the path enjoy the warm weather by friday the temperatures come back down we'll see those shows and even cooler by the time we get to south of a about 21 degrees with those showers meanwhile both islands of new zealand it's a case of breezy conditions and showers. but. this is a story about

a small village the society that inhabits it and 2 of its most important are. the villages by telephone and it's a mix of. governing new filmmaking talent from around the globe you find in latin america delves into this cuban michael. along the lines of the song world. al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of your top stories the u.s. has placed additional sanctions on iran targeting its defense industries it follows

a declaration from washington that was rejected by most nations iran's u.n. representative called it a desperate move. libya's national oil corporation says it's restarting some production and exports the war $24.00 have to it imposed a blockade on oil facilities as of january but announced an end to that on friday. more rain is forecast in sudan where flooding has killed at least 120 people and damaged or destroyed 100000 homes rising inflation has put food and other basics out of the reach for many people. now a draft a bill that would amend the sri lankan constitution to give the president extra powers has been put to the parliament if passed it will allow the president go to buy rajapaksa to dissolve parliament and give him full immunity against prosecution it's set to replace a bill from 2015 that strengthened the role of parliament mel fernandez has more for us from colombo. in the building behind me the sri lankan parliament is where it's all happening at

a when the justice minister. table that draft with the 1st reading he did it to howls of protest by the opposition obviously the amendment seeks to kind of close back all the sweeping powers the executive president lost in the last amendment of the constitution brought by the previous government now this is once again creates an all powerful presidency and that is an issue that many quarters have expressed concern with talks about the removal of any monitoring in the checks and balances against the executive president he's able to sack the parliament after a year he's able to me to hire a officers very sensitive officers the chief justice the heads of armed forces the heads of independent commission which was the fruit of sort of the previous government and the constitutional amendment these are things that are concerning

a lot of people particularly the fact that these changes the president essentially can run the whole show himself the prime minister and the cabinet become sort of bystanders he does not need to seek their approval or sanction he can go on with the business of government and this is what is creating concern palestine is ending its presidency of the arab league's current session in protest of countries that have normalized their relationship with israel the us. recently signed u.s. mediated deals for full diplomatic ties new joins us from ramallah what's the logic behind this move. foreign minister maliki said that was some arab states used their silver and dried as what he called an excuse to normalize relations with israel he said that the arab league has a shared responsibility in these normalization deals with israel nor namely

because these arab states did not discuss that decision with the arab league nor did the arab league adopt a resolution that was submitted by the palestinians to condemn normalization he said that palestinians do not want to be presiding over a session of the arab states are rushing to normalize relations with israel he was asked if that is a prelude or introduction for palestinians to be leaving the arab league he stressed that this is not what palestinians are looking for but they want the arab league to be. to really be true to its previous resolutions let's not forget that the arab league is the place where the arab peace initiative was born it was it did he did time and time again and it says that denormalization between arab states and israel will only happen after israel and its occupation of

palestinian and arab lands and that should have been the reason or really that the incentive for israel to end its it to end its occupation because at the end of the day it would be normalizing relations between with more than $52.00 at an islamic states and now palestinians feel that they were left alone that some arab states are going ahead with their normalization plans regardless of the arab peace initiative it's worth noting that he said that some arab states had taken a noble decision of not normalizing relations with israel name the area and kuwait and he said that he hoped that add up nations will not follow suit what their govern. ments have done in the past nigger thank you very much senator abraham reporting from ramallah. now with corona virus infections nuclear rising sharply the government is advising people to work from home but schools will remain open prime minister boris johnson is holding an emergency cabinet meeting he will

address the house of commons later the leader of the main opposition labor party as a new law or sign of government failure it would take at events toll on people's physical and mental health and on the economy we need a national effort to prevent a national lockdown the prime minister has had months to prepare for this but instead of getting a grip the government must control our testing system collapsed just when we needed it most severe storm of the talking to a virtual party conference in the u.k. it is party conference season let's bring in our correspondent need barkha so the house of commons there for us in london soni what do we think we'll get from boris johnson later in the chamber. well we already have an idea of some of the wide ranging restrictions or additions to the

rules and regulations as they've been described by some politicians doing the rounds this morning we know that bars restaurants pubs have to close a 10 pm we know that they'll be legally obliged to only offer table service let's not forget that the hospitality sector was on its knees during lockdown was starting to get picked up again and now news of this. new raft of restrictions could be incredibly damaging to them going forward because the numbers are all going in the wrong direction the rate of infection is increasing the threat level the emergency threat level has been increased from 3 to 4 meaning that the infection rate is high and it is growing exponentially the government seems to be in agreement on one thing though that they don't want a nationwide lockdown but there is an awful lot of disagreements over how detailed these restrictions should be largely over concerns about the impacts on the economy

going forward we know after the chief scientific and medical officer on monday gave their briefing that the rate of infection is doubling every week and by the middle of next month they expect if it continues at this rate for there to be around $50000.00 infections a day a month later that translates to $200.00 deaths a day so when the announcement comes a little bit later on it will be very interesting interesting to see whether it will be this continued circuit breaker approach which is more localized or whether we will see something a little bit broader that implies more of a nationwide approach to dealing with this crisis and when we talk about the nationwide approach need i guess the government has to be seen to be super flexible here because not doing a scene is not an option and a full. at the other end of the scale not an option either. that you're absolutely right i mean it's not just governments not just the

government here is governments across the whole of europe are walking this really really difficult tightrope on the one hand they want to bring the rates of infection under control but on the other hand they know that if they step too far forward for restrictions returning for instance it could well play into terrible situations pretty close sectors of the economy it could contribute to unemployment it could lead to a worsening worsening poverty in certain parts of the country so it's choosing its next steps very very carefully indeed and what we're likely to see is an incremental return to a tightening of restrictions but given the fact that already 13 and a half 1000000 people in the northeast the northwest the middle and so already subject to restrictions we know that for more regions in wales a subject of restrictions there meaning that people can't enter and leave without good reason such as just work you know you wonder to what extent you know the map

is already adjusting to the point in which we're seeing so much of the country under restriction that we might as well see more of a nationwide approach to dealing with things but of course how the government words this is going to be very important indeed it does not want to terrify sectors of the economy that have been deeply impacted by a complete lockdown so a softly softly approach i think is how boris johnson will play this ok naval talks later i suspect in the meantime thanks very much need barker in london. argentina initially did well containing the coronavirus but things have worsened over recent months recorded cases of past 630000 as qubit 900 spreads from the capital when osiris into the provinces has to raise about. the intensive care unit in this one aside his hospital has been on the front lines of the fight against 19 . as patients who struggled to. doctors and nurses have become their main sources

for comfort and support. your kind of a nurse tested positive for the virus after recovering he returned to the job he loves. the reality is what we see here is this fight against death we are making an effort so a person can recover but sometimes it's difficult because their bodies are in a very bad shape and many believe this is a joke an underestimate the virus but this virus kills. a few months ago the hospital was forced to close this unit because of the number of infections among health care workers given argentina was one of the 1st countries in latin america to impose a lockdown the virus has continued to spread but the quarantine was crucial to allow the health ministry to get ready for the workers who are here in the intensive care unit never public hospital in what sights and what we're being told is that they build this wall for example in the past month among other things to

protect the health care workers. this is the hospital in when a site is named after the wife of former president juan put on since march the hospital has increased its i.c.u. beds from 4 to 24. might only runs the hospital and says the pandemic shows the importance of the public health care system when it comes to saving lives. ok so. we have a profound sense of what public health means we have policies that promotes the right to health and that makes us proud there are more vaccines there are more supplies with hard more people there is a pandemic that is killing health workers destroying families we have the time to prepare and that's crucial i argentina has been a lock down for 6 months but the government has been slowly opening up some sectors of the economy in an effort to save jobs despite an infection rate that remains high in greater want to. the situation is different in other parts of the country

reports indicate that covert $900.00 prating 2 provinces that a few months ago had 0 cases in the city of old and in northern argentina hospitals are also under strain. as you see them and then run all tell you the truth this is held stay at home get bored to tie yourself out enjoy your children paint do whatever you can stay at home than 10 seconds out on the street it's like having a loaded gun to your chest it's preferable to bore yourself out of holland then to come here and cry out god don't take me or to cry out for oxygen. early on argentina successfully managed to contain the spread of covert $1000.00 now authorities are hoping the health care system will be stable enough to cope with the uncertainty in the months ahead. tropical storm rita has become the 9th named storm to make landfall in the u.s.

this year tying a record that was set way back in 1916 it's the coast of texas just a few hours ago but there are increasing concerns as it moves inland that's because several neighboring states are still recovering from hurricane sally which has caused catastrophic flooding. recapping our top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. has placed additional sanctions on iran targeting its defense industries it follows a declaration from washington that was rejected by most nations iran's u.n. representative called it a desperate move. 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 libya's national oil corporation senses restarting some production and exports the libyan warlord holly for after imposed a blockade on oil facilities as of january but announced an end to that on friday the state oil company says there are no longer any fighters or foreign mercenaries in honeycomb in the east and brega in the center of the country so production can resume its waiting for safety decisions on the remaining oil ports more rains forecast in sudan where flooding has killed at least 120 people and damaged or destroyed 100000 homes rising inflation has put food and other basics out of the reach of many people there the draft bill that would amend the constitution to give the president more powers has been put to the parliament today

if passed it will our president go to buy a rajapaksa to dissolve parliament and to give him full immunity against prosecution palestine is ending its presidency of the arab league's current session in protest of countries that have normalized relations with israel it was announced by the foreign minister maliki the u.a.e. and bahrain have recently signed u.s. mediated deals for full diplomatic ties the u.k. government set to announce further coronavirus restrictions advising people to work from home again but says schools will stay open the prime minister boris johnson is holding an emergency cabinet meeting will address the house of commons later. officials in brazil are debating whether the. february because of the event is hugely important to the economy brazil is one of the worst affected countries anywhere in the world with more than 4 and a half 1000000. america

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