is saying it sees more than a 1000000 barrels of iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed to venezuela washington says it's the biggest ever such seizure president donald trump says the fuel is been taken to houston a major oil shipping hobb america has imposed sanctions on both venezuela and iran to choke off oil exports and deprive them of their main source of revenue while iran's foreign minister has criticized western countries for demanding political change in lebanon as a condition for financial assistance of odds are if is visiting beirut after last week's deadly explosion iran backed the powerful has boller group which is part of the coalition government. palestinians have protested against the u.s. brokered agreement between israel and the united arab emirates hundreds gathered at the mosque in occupied east jerusalem after friday prayers demonstrators trampled on pictures of crown prince mohammed bin zeid and the m.r. ati flag iraq has recorded 4000 new corona virus infections its highest increase in a single day nearly 70 deaths have also been reported a curfew has been extended in a n

says it seized iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed to venezuela washington says it's the biggest ever uch seizure to have taken place president donald trump says the fuel is being taken to houston a major oil shipping america's impose sanctions on both venezuela and iran to choke oil exports and deprive them of their main source of revenue meanwhile iran's foreign minister has lashed out at western countries saying that they shouldn't demand political change in lebanon as a condition for providing aid jet mama jobs or if is visiting beirut after last week's deadly explosion in iran backs the powerful hezbollah group which is part of lebanon's government. and palestinians have protested against the u.s. brokered agreement between israel and the united arab emirates to normalize relations hundreds gathered at the mosque in occupied east jerusalem after friday prayers demonstrators say israel's promise to suspend plans to an explicit in territory is a betrayal of that of course. those are the headlines this hour a.j. select is coming up next looking at the gang wars and global hotspots an

venezuela follows a u.s. district court order stating the cargo was shipped by the islamic revolutionary guard which washingtonreclassified as a terrorist group last year as part of its maximum pressure policy on iran but professor marandi from to run university is a different idea about it he says maybe the seizure of a radio fuel is more closely related to the u.s. president elections coming up. i think it has more to do with the election in the united states the presidential election and the elections in general in the united states and that trump wants to show himself as strong but again i think what it really does it sure is that it shows the lawlessness of the regime in washington and how petty they've become in their behavior they just simply behave like pirate bay teams and 17th century on the high seas they declare whoever they want to be terrorists or outlaws and they steal just like. you know the gold used to be stolen from ships in previous centuries and and this sort of behavior is going to have consequences because ultimately the iranian government does not own the oil . and will have to punish t

al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about the. protesters in belarus gathered to remember a demonstrator killed during a rally against disputed presidential election. and expressing deep remorse japan pledges never to repeat the tragedy of conflict as it marks 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war. iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.s. failed to get a 13 year ban extended just one of the nation back to a vote at the u.n. security council iran says the u.s. has never been so isolates is now over the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back sanctions from new york kristen salumi reports. it was a quick an unceremonious and to the united states' efforts to extend the iranian arms embargo that is part of the war being if that follows you want to favor who was against 11 f. abstentions the draft resolution has not been a doctor every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u.s. secretary of state mike pomp

exactly clear what the function of these institutions are though in venezuela it's hard to tell what has even gained from washington steer leading so apart from a little chain rattling and protest organizing what is quite those political maneuvering actually achieved as well people never supported in any numbers whatsoever you had rallies were very few people showed up you could leave military going as well and it was totally loyal to nicolas maduro had no interest in following this guy was a pretender and the whole thing was just of course ask of the united states to back someone who had no support really to begin with and then to try to calm this off to the rest of the world that he was rude to them and president have him travel to washington to be said we are going with donald trump in speech he was there in the public gallery of the u.s. capitol i mean it just didn't fly because there was no support for him so as far as belize goes we don't know what the real support is for the opposition because the election results were probably tainted don't really know how many how much support he has but we know the guy di

washington d.c. these days and that is the removal of socialist president nicolas maduro in venezuela will you follow the story since the party beginning where of those efforts to ban are democrat republican leaders in washington still getting so googly eyed over u.s. backed regime change in that country. well that's another great example of of a topic an issue that you can't see of bit of daylight between the republicans and the democrats if you actually joe biden had an ad of one of his earliest a campaign ads a few months ago said it would listed like majority chavez castro and then trump as if trump is some sort of socialist leaders something it's bizarre but basically they were trying to say that oh my door as a dictator trumps a dictator blah blah blah but the 2 parties completely agree on just destroying any country that even remotely has some form of socialism nationalizes oil fields things like that and as you mentioned this attempted coup just continues to collapse now they kind of don't really want to talk about in your mainstream media because they don't want you to notice how thoroughly

al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about the.

mike hanna al jazeera washington just ahead on al-jazeera food for thought we'll look at why iran has opened a huge supermarket in venezuela. plus disposable protective gear saves lives but it's also polluting our environment. hello dry hot and dusty used to that forecast in this part of the world with the exception of the coast of amman in the mountains in southwestern saudi in yemen where we get showers it is hot dry and dusty and the latest breezes show malcolm out of all of iraq shows the orange tinge of dust is not particularly heavy start sandstorm territory except maybe in the empty quarter and the breeze itself will bring something down to doha given that it's coming from dry area it's not humid until the breeze drops out by wednesday is a frequent occurrence around the gulf states is time these are the dusty and dry or it's humid with no into too and that's a picture as you can see for tuesday let's move away from the middle east coast and north africa are we watching bunches of showers they really are like that because these tend to develop into proper circulations one they're forming in central for a protocol ma

to venezuela they want countries like iran venezuela and cuba to suffer from the sanctions all they want is that people to suffer until they are by washington'sorders. the ambassador denied us reports that the mccaskey supermarket chain is run by iran's revolutionary guard iran is also providing technical support to venezuela's crippled oil industry it's unclear what it's getting in return except perhaps in israel and gold which is also subject to u.s. sanctions but there's another explanation solidarity another way of demonstrating the ancient proverb that the enemy of my enemy is my friend you see in human al-jazeera. the u.s. food and drug administration has given emergency approval to a new saliva test for covert 19 it follows a successful trial by the yale school of public health on professional basketball players in the n.b.a. researchers have found that the so-called saliva direct test is nearly as accurate as a nose swab using saliva may also detect the illness earlier than other methods and it is significantly cheaper. so if africa is easing coronavirus restrictions because a few who are new infections is getting rid of nearly all li

to venezuela they want countries like iran venezuela and cuba to suffer from the sanctions all they want is that people to suffer until they are by washington'srders. the ambassador denied us reports that the mccaskey supermarket chain is run by iran's revolutionary guard iran is also providing technical support to venezuela's crippled oil industry it's unclear what it's getting in return except perhaps in israel and gold which is also subject to u.s. sanctions but there's another explanation solidarity another way of demonstrating the ancient proverb that the enemy of my enemy is my friend you see in human al-jazeera or we've been seeing some clara skies and cleena waters in places since the pandemic started but environmentalists a warning that it's too soon for optimism a new study found that the country produced 10 percent less rubbish since the lockdown started but the rising use of disposable protective gear it will wipe out gains made curbing single use plastics. explains. it's a scene we've all become familiar with no matter where in the world wearing a mask is our new normal. but all single use protective gear might be saving lives th

venezuela they want countries like iran venezuela and cuba to suffer from their sanctions all they want is that people to suffer until they are bay washington'sorders. the ambassador denied us reports that then the gas the supermarket chain is run by iran's revolutionary guard iran is also providing technical support to venezuela's crippled oil industry it's unclear what it's getting in return except perhaps in israel and gold which is also subject to u.s. sanctions but there's another explanation solidarity another way of demonstrating the ancient proverb that the enemy of my enemy is my friend you see in human al-jazeera. your child is there with me the whole rama reminder of our top news stories bellerose has seen the largest protests yet against alexander lukashenko 7 days after an election in which he declared an overwhelming victory which the opposition says was rigged but the long term leader told supporters he won't be calling a new election and accuse nato of mobilizing forces at the border. well the krona virus pandemic is a huge impact on the world's 3rd largest economy japan's gross domestic product shrunk by a record 7.8 percent

4 time because it says were heading to venezuela it claims it's the biggest ever such seizure well let's go straight to alan fischer who's live for us in washington d.c. what's the deal jay saying about this incident ali. well it seems that the americans were tracking a convoy of iranian vessels heading towards venezuela on the 2nd of july they went to the courts and asked for confiscation order that was granted by the courts and then they say in what was not an operation that involved 'd naval or military force they managed to take control of 4 vessels there the bell or the bearing the panday and the luna these are apparently operated by independent contractors they were really in state ships and apparently the whole transaction of sending oil to venezuela was organized by someone who had links to the revolutionary guard which of course the u.s. is designated as a terrorist organization so that would give them the reason to go to the court they say they've seized $1160000.00 barrels of oil those ships are currently heading towards houston in the united states but they're saying that this is a successful operation because it means that venezuela

our headquarters here in doha also ahead this half hour washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about the.

al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about them. holding bella roofs accountable the e.u. is preparing sanctions against.

venezuela. all right thank you very much mike hanna live for us there in washington and just one other perhaps related note to that story that we now know that the u.n. security council has rejected a resolution to extend the iran's. was part of a u.s. push to try and push that through the u.n. security council it was widely expected that it would fail despite the fact that the draft had been watered down by the united states there was opposition to that so we'll bring you more news on that but of course the concern is that could lead to more tensions between the u.s. and iran particularly if the u.s. tries to trigger the return of all u.s. sanctions over that's not clear yet but for now the u.n. security council has rejected that resolution to extend the iran arms embargo well in all the stories of following palestinians have protested against the u.s. brokered agreement between israel and the united arab emirates hundreds gathered in occupied east jerusalem at the last after friday prayers palestinian leaders condemned the move describing it as a betrayal demonstrators trampled on pictures of i woul

venezuela are under u.s. sanctions let's go straight to alan fischer who's live for us in washington d.c. what more is the department of justice saying about this incident allan. well we've been trying to patch together exactly what the story is here it appears that the u.s. was aware of a convoy of 7 ships 3 of them state ships 4 that had been hired for the occasion they were on their way to venezuela according to the u.s. they were carrying oil in breach of international sanctions they then approached a judge here in washington d.c. on the 2nd of july with a seizure order saying that they wanted to seize 4 of the vessels the judge gave permission of that and so the belle of the bearing the pandy and the luna where seized their country on their way to houston and texas we are told by the justice department that there was not a military action or a naval offensive in any way the ships to say on their way to texas they were carrying 1160000 barrels of oil according to the u.s. justice department interestingly enough donald trump has talked about this just in the last few moments he has bee

our headquarters here in doha also ahead this half hour washington says it's confiscated for shipments of iranian fuel on their way to venezuela but tehran says it knows nothing about the. holding belo groups accountable the e.u. is preparing sanctions against officials responsible for a violent crackdown on election protestors. violent demonstrations in ivory coast after the president announces he will seek a 3rd term. iran will be able to stop buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.s. failed to get a 13 year ban extended to just one of the nation backed it in a vote at the u.n. security council iran says the u.s. quote has never been so isolated but the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back the sanctions from new york kristen salumi explains. it was a quick an unceremonious and to the united states' efforts to extend the iranian arms embargo that is part of the war being if that follows who would you favor who works against 11 f. abstentions that draft resolution has not been a doctor every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o call

food and medicine to venezuela they want countries like iran from as well or in cuba to suffer from the sanctions all they want is that people to suffer until they are by washington's orders. the ambassador denied us reports that the mccaskey supermarket chain is run by iran's revolutionary guard iran is also providing technical support to venezuela's crippled oil industry it's unclear what it's getting in return except perhaps in israel and gold which is also subject to u.s. sanctions but there's another explanation solidarity another way of demonstrating the ancient proverb that the enemy of my enemy is my friend you see in human al-jazeera. after the head hair on al-jazeera a shortage of funds well here how much more money that been needs to risk their bit torrent head explosion damage. and the $150.00 days iraq down and counting on in times question of the fact of us as the infection rate backlog. how there's more rain to come for the korean peninsula but probably for north korea wrong than south korea which is enjoying at least in the south a bit of a warm and sunny still a moment in fact the rains more likely to be showing itself in beijing where you had to b