cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose's australia. there with al-jazeera had. ns this hour the u.s. has imposed additional sanctions on iran after the missile attack and that u.s. forces in iraq so her on was already crippled by economic sanctions and the new measures impose restrictions on senior officials as well as a number of industrial sectors a senior iranian officials that are responsible for the regime violence both at home and abroad were striking at the heart of the islamic republic's inner security apparatus these sanctions are gets include the secretary of the supreme national council and the commander of the besieged forces that's their regimes brute squad which is in the last few months killed proximately $1500.00 arabians who were simply demanding freedom or action also target other senior leaders close to the ayatollah they've carried out his terrorist plots and destabilizing campaigns across the middle east and around the world on the u.s. state department says it will not discuss troop withdrawal with the iraqi gove

cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose australia. the money can catch up at a time when the website address that is al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live up to clicking on the our in july michel. from one of the top stories around his era washington has outs to a new wave of economic sanctions on iran initiation for its missile attack on bases housing u.s. troops in iraq the sanctions target iran's manufacturing and mining industries as well as 8 senior officials washington says the officials were involved in missile strikes on monday u.s. treasury secretary stephen you can vowed to keep pressure on iran's economy today sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the iranian regime's global terrorist activities the president has been very clear we will continue to apply economic sanctions it tell iran stops its terrorist activities and commit that it would never have nuclear weapons aviation officials in tehran and rejected accusations that in a rainy and misao mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner killing all 176 p

cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose australia has hours or more to comment clearing iran hits back at claims a missile brought down a ukrainian jet and says it will analyze the black box recorders. 3 is a political. breakthrough and it's political deadlock. hello they have had a good cool down recently across the southeast. areas and of course some very welcome rain has all been coming in with this frontal system so temperatures a slightly come down into melbourne but of a change though on the cause the winds are still gusty billie's for the time being through saturday there's a bit of an onshore flow some marine influence in the so some more to add generally and also through new south wales pushing up into queensland very warm you'll see across into the south and warm air ahead of that front comes through might just see want to showers into the south but nothing more than a kennel sunday 29 degrees and you see trying to celsius the high the m.l. but meanwhile want to shout out into a and we keeping an eye on this disturbance up

cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose australia. the u.n. security council will shortly be voting on whether to extend cross border humanitarian aid to syria it follows russia announcing a cease fire and province the country's last rebel held stronghold will have 1300 civilians have been killed this since the government launched its offensive to retake the area in 2018 the violence have been escalating in recent months only 300000 people have been displaced by russian backed government as strikes since december children and women of the most affected at least 175000 children have been forced to flee thousands of families urgently need humanitarian assistance aid agencies are provided food and money to more than 180000 people to try out is in ankara he says there's been no. collision but the russian ship continued to move closer before eventually changing course after another warning of the north arabian sea is close to the entrance to the gulf. still to come on the program and outbreak of measles in the democratic republic of congo

cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose australia. top story in europe northern ireland's main political parties have agreed to a power sharing deal after 3 years of deadlock the announcement means northern ireland will once again have a government devolved from the rest of the u.k. the last deviation frayne coalition government collapsed in a disagreement about a green energy scheme that led to widen the over the long standing differences paul brown has more on what this means for the province. it's been a long and difficult 3 a is in northern ireland with the 2 main parties the unionist d u p party and shin fein who are on the republican side of the political divide essentially not agreeing on anything and the assembly itself the northern ireland parliament building as a result being unable to sit and make any political decisions the impact on the people of northern ireland has been profound public services essentially have been limping along with civil servants enabling budgets to be paid out but big political decisions have not b

cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose australia. india's supreme court has ordered a review of the internet shut down inside indian administered kashmir the ruling says the indefinite suspension is a violation of the country's telecom rules the territory has not had internet now for more than 150 days and trial for her reports. the lockdown in indian administered kashmir amounts to an abuse of power. that's the ruling from india supreme court 5 months since the government removed the territories autonomy restricted people's movements and blocked the internet. those who challenge the shutdown say it's a significant were ticked. by the state was that these are national security issues please leave it to the state the court has struck that down and said no this will be subject to judicial review. the indian government argued it needed to block the internet to stop what it called separatists and terror groups from communicating with each other. but the court found the government had breached telecom rules and gave authorities in the te

cause of the fires including the role of climate change once the crisis is over jessica washington al-jazeera penrose australia and taiwan opinion polls suggest the incumbent president sighing while as ahead of her challenger in saturday's elections the taiwanese have been closely watching the crackdown on anti-government protesters and nearby hong kong scott either has more from taipei early last year taiwan's president saw in whens political future was on shaky ground her popularity had slumped after a party performed poorly in regional elections she resigned as party chair with some advising her not to seek reelection but then came a lifeline from an unexpected source china giving her and her democratic progressive party a new hope. to crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters at hong kong shifted the political rhetoric in taiwan. many grew concerned about china's growing influence he says beijing ramped up pressure on the island and president sadat. the younger generation born into an autonomy and democratic taiwan see this election as about something much more than selecting leaders education a stand agai