when lightning bagging away more heavy showers for the western side of the caribbean, the the dozens of websites linked to iran seized by the justice department for violating us sanction. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is out of the or a lie from joe are also coming up the battle over the voter rights. republicans in the us senate block a new build that would have made it easier for americans to vote. warnings from the un envoy drop down it's down. the taliban is all but ready to take other areas of

the country. once the last foreign troops went out and pleading for help families and stuff in iraq, say gas glaring is to blame for, for help. and what the government to step in ah, the us government says it seems control of 33 websites linked to iran, citing violations of american sanctions. well, this is the message greeting. anyone trying to look at iran, english language press tv site, or the arabic alum channel. the u. s. accused media outlets connected to iran's revolutionary god of spreading misinformation aimed at the misleading american voters. well, my kind of join us live now from washington d. c. mike, for the us justice department has released a statement on seizing these websites. was this happening? and what more do they have to say?

well, the department of justice, as you say, has just released a statement explaining why this action was taken place some 33 have various entities control to all linked to iran and a number of its allies. now the justice department says that the iranian television and radio union had been designated a special entity back in october last year because of what it alleged was election interference. this requires all of its bodies to get special permission to operate in the united states, which the justice department said it did not do so. as a result, some 33 entities have been shut down. all the websites have been shut down by the department of justice. and now that is the situation there. but at the same time, what you have is these entities moving almost immediately within a matter of hours to radio controlled websites. so they are now continuing to

operate, but the timing as well. there are some questions about that. it's only a few days since iran elected a new president. and importantly to it's only a few days since the 7th round of negotiations about restoring the nuclear deal with iran concluded. now the us and iran are not taking as part to face to face in those negotiations that happening through intermediaries. but certainly this action now with these websites being shut down is going to have potentially a massive impact on any chance of recess, the teen resuscitating those negotiations. but as department of justice says, this is something that has been a long time in the coming. i must mention as well, very briefly, darren that the department of justice has confirmed that these websites were impact owned by american companies, although obviously being used by the iranian entities. all right, and my kind of life for staff, i'm washington dc. mike, thank you. iran's next president says he'll put the needs of his people 1st,

former chief justice abraham racy who's on the us sanctions secured victory over the weekend and an election with historic low turn out rise. he used his speech to the nation to set the tone for the next 4 years and indicated how he plans to interact with foreign powers to for jabari has more from terror on a warm welcome for iran, the 8th president elect in his home town of measured at the embers of shrine, crowds had gathered to hear what their newly elected leader abraham, right. you see have to say on the issues that affect them, not a race. he spoke for a little more than 30 minutes and most of it was religious in nature. but he did have a message for the people of her on that subject cottage, and you have a job big shuttle method in domestic politics, domestic policy, and foreign policy. the focus should be on the dignity of this nation. and the focus should be on the fact that in any negotiations, the dignity of this nation should not be hurt in our domestic policies in foreign

policies, in the kind of interactions that we're going to have with any countries in the world. the focus is the protection of the dignity and prestige of the iranian nation. carol, this was race his 1st address to the nation. although it was short on specifics he had made promises to address the problems facing iran. he said his administration will focus on justice, respect, and dignity to improve life for a rainy and he also promised to ensure a mass vaccinations against covert 19 as soon as he takes office earlier on tuesday, the current government of president has sandrani responded to comments made by us officials who called fried his presidential election, manufactured and neither free, no fare, as man's c o c minus on. as from a political point of view, we consider the statement as an example of interference in iran's internal affairs and again, be international law. we condemn at the u. s. government is not enough position to

comment on the electro process in iran or any other country. 48 percent of eligible voters participated in the presidential election. which officials consider a respectable turn out. despite that figure being the lowest ever for presidential vote, abraham racy managed to get nearly 18000000 votes. while president elect will take office in early august, cleared the challenges the faces will be many, is already made large, sweeping promises including fighting corruption, improving the country's economy and maintaining your own best interests in negotiations with wes. but it's not clear yet. if you're able to deliver on his promises dorsen safari, al jazeera, yes, republican senators blocked a sweeping voting rights bill put forward by the democrats. 3 fifths of the senators, duly chosen, and sworn not having voted in the affirmative. the motion is not agreed to.

democrats fell short of the 60 votes required to launch a debate on the legislation. they argued the election reform package contains measures to counteract laws, passed and republican lead states, which was strict voting accept. it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern. it is an american concern. this is about the american people's rights of both unfettered. it is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way because nobody is debating. i don't believe whether all americans have the right to vote. the issue here is their actual access to the voting process, or is that being impeded? and the, the bottom line is that the president and i are very clear to support f one. we support the john, the with the voting rights. and the fight is not over. there are new fears about growing instability in afghanistan after a string of recent military gains by the taliban fighters captured the main border

crossing with dizzy cust on earlier on tuesday. and the you an invoice for, i'm going to don says the groups taking control of more than 50 districts in the past month. it's kind of balance has increased significantly just the us announce plans to withdraw its troops by september 11 to 0 given might to get it had james base has this report. the security situation in afghanistan has been deteriorating for years. but what the security council heard in this virtual session was the most grim briefing, yet, i cannot over straight to the counsel my concern regarding the present situation in afghanistan. in recent weeks, taliban activity has been focused on a number of key provinces. these pictures from conduce in northern afghanistan, where the provincial capital can do city looks at risk of being surrounded. special representative lions said the un believes this may be a deliberate strategy. more than 50 about the dentist and $370.00 districts

have fallen since the beginning of may. most districts have been that have been taken surround provincial capitals suggesting that the taliban are positioning themselves to try and take this capital one force and i fully withdrawn the taliban. deny they were responsible for many of the recent attacks, but african astonished foreign minister. her niece at ma told the council they are behind them, and it's a clear breach of that deal with the u. s. under the international energy. our fire source, the signing especially by the open troops withdrawal to massacre school west cobb, raxon

h. as in the us address, on file is associates off the president biden announced to pull out of us troops in april. his secretary of state antony blinkin, came up with a plan to build on the talks and doha, with the peace conference in san bull. so the taliban and african government could work together. that plan now lies in tatters. and most analysts believe the african people who suffered for decades of war and are likely to face an intensified conflict. un experts preparing for a major humanitarian emergency. james bays al jazeera, ethiopia as prime minister has branded monday the election a success despite many voters in the countries conflict zones, being left out of the process of the army says the pole was ethiopia. the 1st attempted free and fair elections. but as voters a weight provisional result,

some opposition groups are crying foul. they say, but the boxes were tampered with and they stopped attacked. residence in ethiopia, trigger i region say fighting has flared up in recent days, north of the regional capital mckelly. they say fight as loyal to the former regional ruling party entered several towns including undergrad, where people celebrated until ethiopian and retrans soldiers arrived. ethiopian military has denied the claims reports of violence come a day after elections took place, most of the rest of the country. no dates been sent for the polls there. but kina, fafsa is government says at least 11 police officers have been killed in an ambush for others. a missing. it happened on monday in the time of year ago in the central north region. in the countries conflict hit north, an official says the officers were attacked while on relief mission. no one has claim sponsibility to come here and just hear, including a rise in corona, virus infections in some countries that you've, china's vaccine is causing concern among experts and dozens of fighters in

democratic republic of congo, surrender their weapons, leading to hopes that many more will fall at more than i i, it's time for the journey to with sponsored by capital airways. hello. there is no less up in the heavy right across the southern parts of china. the moment that my you fronts, the plum rains, bringing more big down pores in across a southern areas all the way down to hong kong, into taiwan. and you see how that just stretches this way out into the open waters . it's getting dragged over towards that north west side of the pacific, but it's still running across a similar area for those southern parts of china. so further, heavy down pulls in and around going down providence. for example, we will see further flooding here. sunshine layer around eastern china shanghaied

around $33.00 celsius. some of the temperature for basing. but here it is. sunshine and showers lashes, showers a see of the korean peninsula and also into japan. similar picture as we go one through thursday, sunshine and showers to across much of south east asia. some live the showers that just around the philippines. southern parts of india, china also sing some rather lively showers, if unusually went to into were parts of indonesia over the next day or so. i'm afraid we will see further heavy downpours coming in here. have you down post to me to the northeast of in the or up towards the top of the dash, pushing up into the pool still at the monastery res. of course, across the western side of india. more heavy down pools here, but it's hot, dry and sunny weather north sponsored cattle airways, challenging the way mainstream media report. the news stories like these should be easy pickings for political reporters out of all power to account how it is in

journalism is breaking the destruction of civilian property. this is all evidence for tribes and the re key. now, we've been getting stories of john taken from the houses in the middle of the night and tortured the listening covers the way the news is covered on his era. oh, the me. welcome back. okay, come on about top stories. this. the u. s. government says it sees control of 33 websites linked to iran, citing violations of us functions. this is a message reaching, anyone trying to look at iran, english language press tv side, or the arabic alarm channel. the us that use media outlets connect to iran,

revolutionary god of spreading misinformation and misleading american voters. iran president elect cobra, him raise. he says he worked the defend, it's interesting negotiations with foreign powers. the us, of course, when and fight is election manufacturing, which iraq denied. and us senate democrats have seen their key voting rights. bill blocked by republicans. democrats said the election reform package contained measures to counteract the oars, past and republican lead states, which restrict voting access in the criminal as warn the people who haven't been vaccinated are faced with limited options for work and could be discriminated against. russia reported another 546 deaths on tuesday. its highest daily arise and february, and its vaccine rolled out has been slow, only 18000000 of its population. of 144000000 have received at least one dose. a

government has offered lucky drawers to attract people to get the job and said, those who don't may get salary cuts or you can get fired. for white house has admitted it'll miss president biden's target to nakeila 70 percent of all adults by the 4th of july. us officials say they need a few extra weeks to reach that goal. due to vaccine hesitancy among young americans, nearly 2 thirds of us adults have had at least one dose. while more than half a fully vaccinated. there are demographic groups and sometimes populations where it's more difficult to reach. we've seen that, and we've talked about that as it related to early onto hesitancy. we were seeing and communities of color or some more conservative communities. and we've seen it's been a great deal more difficult to get to get young people between the ages of 18 and 26 vaccinated than adults who are older than that. hence, we're redoubling our efforts. white house correspondent kimberly hall kit has more from washington, dc. the pace of vaccinations has slowed significantly in the united states and we

already start to see signals of this. given the fact that the united states has a surplus of vaccine dosages and sharing them by the millions around the world. but the reason is, is that there is still existing in the united states. vaccine hesitancy. what we saw was back in april, there was a vaccination rate of about 3000000 people a day. now we're seeing about a 1000000 vaccines a week in the united states. so what the u. s. is doing is revamping at school. initially, the president had said that he wanted 70 percent of adults by july 4th, the independent stay holiday to receive at least one dose. but given the fact that young people especially are resistant to getting this, they have revamped that goal. now, it will be by age 27 and above by july, 4th 70 percent of adults will have received one dose. now some of the most

vaccinated countries which relied heavily on chinese made jobs are experiencing a resurgence in koby 19 outbreaks. a report by the new york times shows countries out pacing the u. s. and vaccination rates such as bahrain, chile, mongolia, rank among the world's top 10 in worst outbreaks. it's raised concerns over there effectiveness on cobra. 1900 various dr. marcus pressure is from the association of state and territorial health officials. he says, more information is needed on the true efficiency of chinese vaccines. we wouldn't expect to see that many cases, you know, some, some of the charges made back. they had slightly lower effectiveness than the ones we're using in western europe in the united states. but, but not, i don't think a lower enough effectiveness rating to, to see these kinds of numbers. so it does make us concerned that maybe they're not quite as effective in preventing cove it, as we had initially hoped. we have limited information about the chinese made vaccines, partly because we're not using them here in the united states and western europe. i

mean, we have a very diligent and transparent process of evaluating the vaccines that we're using . so we understand them a lot better. the, the back to that were made and sean are made differently as well. they're in activated vaccine, so they're much more like the traditional form of vaccine we have. whereas the ones that we're using in the united states and western europe are genetically modified vaccines. so that they are quite different in the way that they're made and produced. the big question i think is, is how effective the vaccines are in preventing people from becoming severely ill or dying. and we've not seen as much data about the chinese vaccines on, on that matter. and as long as the vaccine is, is effective and preventing people from getting severe disease, then i think the vaccines is adequate and then we'll do what needs to be done. so i think that's the piece of information we need next about the chinese manufactured vaccines. cuba, health ministry has release details of its 2nd self developed cobit $900.00 vaccine

and it says it's 92 percent effective. abdullah is a 3 shot vaccine and has proved tiny, effective, and it's late stage clinical trials. cuba is facing his worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic. the record number of daily infections at august in is in have an a. he says the dela vaccine can potentially help ease cubans, economic crisis. cuba medical regulator announced on monday that the data vaccine has been shown to have had over 92 percent efficiency against corona virus. now that result puts the dollar vaccine in the same category of vaccines such as russia . sputnik, 5 sizes, vaccine, and madonna's vaccine, all of which both, i've been 90 percent efficacy. this is an extraordinarily piece of good news for an island, but for the last 2 years hasn't been accustomed to good news. not only has upon demick, but things like a curfew on every living in havana that we still have to live with to this day. not only has it got rid of tourism and the negotiated revenues,

but also over the last 3 years, the trump administration put a great many sanctions on cuba. the cubans have to live with to this day because they haven't been eased by the, by ministration. here in havana right now. corona virus infection rates are going down there about half what they were a month ago because of the new dollar and sovereign to vaccines, which have no vaccinated, almost a 1000000 cubans here in the capital and on the economic front. that might also be good news. countries from mexico to watch and seeing that the vietnam has expressed interest in purchasing these cuban corona virus boxes. up until now they haven't had much data to go. so the cuban government will be hoping that this headline 92 percent of pick a c number will help them sell of oxygen export vaccines and with the extra cash they can help track that country out of the deep economic crisis. it found itself in now us media is reporting that for saudi's involved in the killing of a journalism. how shall g had years before receive personal training in the united

states. a shogi, a saudi citizen was murdered in the kingdoms consulate in istanbul, 3 years ago. and new york times claims the security company based in our console providing training in 2017 that the contract was approved by the us state department. let's bring in glenn coll, he's a former deputy national intelligence officer for trans national threats at the central intelligence agency. join just skype from boston. glen, good job you back with us. so how significant then is this report by the new york times on what more detail does it add to what we already know about jennifer sharp? she's murder. well i think it has important because to the average listener or viewer will associate by one step or remove that all the united states government with the thugs who assassinate shows. that's not a good thing. however, the training that occurred is the kind of training that,

that so the united states and other countries provide to allies to have closer relations to increase the standards in the skills of the other nations. and i know that the united states does not, does not condone or teach assassination techniques. so politically it's, it's unfortunate association, it's something that's happened for decades by many nations and to the u. s. good, not teach them to do a fergus estimation. yeah. so how embarrassing then, glenn, is this for the u. s. government? because presumably officials authorize the saudi agents to be trained in the us yet . they went on to carry out the gruesome murder of a u. s. resident. well, it is embarrassing to have to be associated, however, unintentionally, with an assassination by a group of stubbs and lawless illegal. terrible behavior is, is a problem of the,

the procedures that we are talking about at madison. she is the united states with this saudi heinous act. however, early in my career, 35 going on almost 40 years ago. now, this similar kind of issue dilemma arose the us military and intelligence services. we're training intelligence officers in central america. how to increase, improve their checking 7th period ation and trade craft and spy skills. and then they went out the people we trained and committed a horrible assassinations. and that was a huge vertical problem. so this is not a good thing, even if, as i know, i'm sure the u. s. didn't train and does not own and walks far away from me as possible. and he and the association of people do this or blend. just a final thoughts you, i mean, so what kind of security training then would these agents have received?

how normal is this private contract is to do this kind of training on us soil. why as the private contractor issue has become quite normal, since the administration of president reagan, which now goes back 40 years, republicans are an amorous of privatizing government as it were. and when the war on terror increase and funding that this kind of activity with private corporation says increase quite a bit, what they train can be good range widely, but it will be how do you protect someone establish a security perimeter for important person such as mal howard and sharman, what have what skills do you have in, in the martial arch and in the weapons control and in securing a, an area that the v i p will travel to things like that. all right, so then cargo is good to get your thoughts. thank you for talking about is there

any sign? thanks, but more than 100 fighters in democratic republic of congo have laid down their weapons and surrender to deal far. it is the 1st to do so, since president felix just a kitty announced martial law last month to stop escalating violence and to eastern provinces the tour again. the result on fighters in the democratic republic of congo is north key. the province take part in a ceremony, following their surrender to gotten the forces around 70 weapons, mostly rifles were also handed. it would have been your work in rebellion was to steal and destroy the peace among the people. this is why we, the leaders of the bush troops decided to leave the bush to bring our children out of the bush to embrace a better life of the provinces of north keyvi. and i tore in the east of d, o. c were placed under military rule last month to stop escalating violence between

armed groups, president felix cheese to katy put the army and police in charge of administrative court and policing affairs. and 2 generals were appointed as governors replacing those who were elected. they need to do my c m, i think the clean up operation is already effective with several religious recovered. we will continue to hunt dantes on the groups wherever they go. violence is played these eastern provinces for years with more than 100 armed grades operating in the dense forests and attacks on civilians as such recently killing thousands of congolese and displacing more than 5000000. so many support the president's actions as you go for sun, i feel very happy, really happy to see our cousins of brothers and uncles who once fighters surrender . since the military governor has been in office, we see that the activism of the group is on the decline. now. they're starting to surrender without gunfire. president,

she said katie says his decision to impose the so called state of siege was prompted by the suffering of those living in north keyvi. and i tore critics worn. the security forces could easily abuse their mandate. but supporters say military rule is already making a difference, victoria gay to be al jazeera. so people in a small town in southern iraq say pollution from oil production is killing them. blaming the process of gas flaring, the rocky government is investing billions in an attempt to use the gas for electricity. but as natasha good aim reports from bala village in basrah, many say it's already too late. people living in the village of butler take visitors here. they say gas flaring from oil production decimated their generations old palm trees leaving behind nothing but trunks. when we met the village elders, they said every one, know someone who is diagnosed with or who has died from cancer. so i know i already

have cancer and only god helps me. we continue to be worried about families and loved ones. the bus for health department in southern iraq says the pollution from oil production is making people and animals in the area sick. the rocky high commission for human rights says, due to the high rate of cancer in basra, it's demanding the government work with oil companies to combat pollution. that is happily for 6 or 7 years every 2 years. there is some challenge. political german security, german gas is long term investment. it need some stuff on it and it needs some cash . come with it. the world bank ranks iraq, number 2 behind russia when it comes to gas flaring instead of polluting the air, the gas could be recovered and sold or used to generate electricity for millions of people. the bus or gas company is investing $3000000000.00 to do just

that. at the romanella oil field, iraq's largest, anything that the iraqi government can do, or it's neighbors can do to create in a stable environment, is good for capturing more gas and for creating a better environment for the iraqi people. the people of butler say the land, their families have been tied to for 200 years is toxic, and they wonder how many more of them will get sick before the government can help them. natasha game l. jazeera bus route, iraq. ah, type a quick check of the headlines here on here. the us government says it sees control of dozens of.