And order imposing new sanctions on iran and its Supreme Leader. Hello, i am barbara. Live froml jazeera london. As palestinians protest, Jared Kushner tells al jazeera says he is confident that his confidence will be a success. Two boys who nearly lost their threeyearold brother. And we go to the philippines where they are turning their Plastic Waste into a new facility. U. S. President donald trump has imposed what he has described as hardhitting new sanctions on iran as tensions continue to simmer in the gulf. The white house has said it will lock up millions of dollars of iranian assets. The sanctions go right to the top targeting the Supreme Leader. And irans foreign minister will be added to the list later this week. Iran plans to counter the sanctions. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo has been to saudi arabia and abu dhabi trying to assemble a Global Coalition against iran. Promised, another round of sanctions against iran, in addition to a number already put in place and directed at the countrys most senior leaders. President trump did not elaborate on the precise nature of the sanctions apart from saying they would are the leaders from access to financial instruments. Our militarythank and those that have worked with me for the last few months on this. Hasink a lot of restraint been shown by us. It does not mean we are going to show it in the future. Reporter no complete details provided by the treasury secretary either but Steven Mnuchin did confirm some of the sanctions are in direct response to the attack on the drum. That the drone had penetrated its airspace. I have said that some of this was in the works. Some of this is a result of recent activities. Expresseddeep concern once again by the uns secretary. Sure thats to make they take steps to avoid any further sorts of provocation, one way or the other. Reporter the u. S. Is ramping up actions against iran. The secretary of state shuttling between several gulf states including saudi arabia. At the same time, a carrot of extended by a stick. The president says he is open to the possibility of future talks with iran. Anchor let us get more now from john who has been following developments in washington. What more do we know about the sanctions . Reporter hello, barbara. The sanctions do not just target the Supreme Leader. They go broader. They target his office and eight military commanders including the one believed to be responsible for shooting down the american drone. These are financial sanctions intended to bar these people from using the International Banking system. A little more difficult on senior officials. It comes on the tale of sanctions designed to stop iran from profiting off its Lucrative Oil reserves. More financial sanctions but President Trump says he wants to keep this in the realm of diplomacy. Talking to reporters, he says we do not seek conflict with iran or any other country. I can tell you that we cannot let iran have a nuclear weapon. Anchor economic pressure. And also, the u. S. Trying to form what they are calling a Global Coalition against iran. , amongrabia and uae others. How effective is that likely to be going hand in hand with the economic pressure we are seeing . The u. S. Has officials all through the middle east right now and they plan to expand further. Mike pompeo, the secretary of state is in the uae and saudi arabia. Bolton is traveling. Americanf these officials are trying to drum up a coalition to intensify pressure on iran. They plan to expand that. Week, able head to osaka where President Trump will also be. The u. S. Hopes to persuade asian nations because 60 of the oil that goes through the strait of hormuz this is a global problem with iran and they will try to convince the asian nations that they need to get on board with the Pressure Campaign because they have a serious stake. Anchor john with the latest from washington. Thank you. We have heard how the u. S. Is trying to ramp up the pressure on iran. We have more from iran. Reporter the announcement that the Iranian Foreign minister sanctioned by the u. S. Government comes as a surprise. This person is a career diplomat who has lived in the united worked at the United Nations for many years. And he is known as the face of the islamic republic. On the international stage. He has traveled all around the world and met with many diplomats. This decision is very much a surprise. The foreign minister himself has not commented on this decision. Is many analysts say this one of the most surprising decisions by the trump administration. The sanctions on the Supreme Leader will likely not have much of an effect. The leader has not left iran in more than 30 years. The last time was on a state of 1989. China in april the sanctions on the official leaders will not be much affected. How believe this shows desperate the United States is in trying to get iran to the negotiating table. Many believe this will have the opposite effect and create further divisions and tensions between the u. S. And iran. Abbasid or iranian to the u. N. Says the u. S. Must stop Economic Warfare on the iranian people. I think this should be addressed to the United States which has initiated an economic war and economic terrorism against the iranian people. The united time, states has a broad, large number of leads into our region. Armada is in our region. The u. S. Should take steps to put aside the armada from our region and also move away from Economic Warfare against the iranian people. Anchor protests have been taking place across the palestinian territories as anger grows. And the socalled deal of the century it is part of protesters in the occupied west bank. One angry gaza resident dressed as Yasser Arafat brandished a gun at several burning images of donald trump. A series of more formal protests are also being held in connection with the bahrain summit. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give the peace plan fair consideration. Palestinian leaders are boycotting the meeting. Was at theibrahim protest. Miriam the summit is get reporter the protesters are scheduled to be there tomorrow. In a recent poll, 80 of palestinians say they do not believe the u. S. Plan will lead them to statehood or that the u. S. Is serious about its efforts. The palestinian president says while the economy is important, the most important story here is political. The Palestinian Authority has stopped engaging with the u. S. Ever since the u. S. Administration has moved its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem announcing jerusalem as israels capital. This is one of many protests that plo thanks plo factions have called for in the west bank. This is the second and final day of the workshop. Anchor senior white house adviser Jared Kushner spearheaded the socalled deal of the century. Just before flying to bahrain, he spoke to al jazeera and said he is confident the conference will be a success. I think it is already a success. We have many of the countries coming from the region. This is a big first step. We have to recognize that if there is going to be a deal, it will be between the Peace Initiative and the israeli initiative. Number one, security is a most important. The israeli and palestinian population and the broader middle east care about security. The more security, you can have a freer flow of goods and people. The palestinians want to move through the border. Syria, nearly 500 civilians have been killed in the russian backed defensive in idlib province. The campaign started nine weeks ago in northwestern syria. We report from beirut where one young boy he was lucky to survive after his house was hit by an airstrike. Miriam it will be a long recovery but his family is happy he survived. The threeyearold was injured in an airstrike last week. Will never forget how they almost lost their younger brother. They desperately tried to pull him from the rubble before rescuers arrived. Missile leaved to have been dropped by Syrian Government planes destroyed their home in an opposition controlled town. In the south. Hit whilest missile he was playing outside. The second missile hit next to our house. Our house was destroyed and we could not see anything in front of us. We removed some blocks from an from next to his head. That is when the ambulance arrived. Reporter the russian backed Syrian Government offensive is entering its ninth week. Nearly 500 civilians have been killed. In an error bombardment. Syrians have fled the area and moved closer to the turkish border. People have fled this area due to intense bombardments. Here00 people used to live excluding the displaced syrians. Reporter the World Food Program says it is helping to hundred thousand displaced syrians but its operations have been interrupted in some areas because of the violence. People home to 3 million and half of them are already refugees from other parts of syria. They are racing against the clock to support all people with readytoeat food that does not have to be cooked in the camps or wherever they are. Regular continue our operations and scaling it up to some 800,000 people every month. Reporter the demands on eight are expected to grow. Thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed. Many blamed the Syrian Government for deliberately targeting the fields to punish those living in rebel areas and force a surrender. The opposition has not surrendered to. Rebels are holding ground. Hundreds of fighters on both sides have been killed on the front lines. Eight weeks of intense bombardment. And little territory has been taken. United nations is warning the offensive is creating a humanitarian disaster. It has been calling on turkey and russia to help revive the agreement but for now, their proxies engage in battle to gain political leverage. Anchor still to come in this half hour, police shoot the army general accused of leading the failed to that killed five senior officials. Jongun or our reporter. We take you to the world of fakery. It is good to have you back. We did see a frontal boundary coming through from adelaide. Plenty of rain towards perth. In the next few days, we will see cloudy conditions moving towards south wales and even down towards tasmania. For you onloudy day tuesday. Going towards it wednesday, another frontal boundary coming out of the indian ocean. Her wednesday night and thursday near perth you will have a second wave of showers. Conditions across the north and south island are not looking too bad. One system pulling away leaving us a slot of dry air. Partly cloudy conditions in the next few days. Along the south part of the south island, we could see some clouds. For auckland, things are looking quite nice. Loosely sunny day. 13 for wednesday. In japan, things are looking much better than they have been. Things are drying up quite nicely here in tokyo. A temperature of 25 degrees. Osaka, 29. Sapporo, 23. Anchor welcome back. Here is a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. President donald trump has imposed hardhitting sanctions on iran targeting the Supreme Leader. The secretary of state mike pompeo has been in saudi arabia and the uae trying to assemble a Global Coalition against iran. Iran has dismissed the idea thing it will not work. Protests have been taking place across the palestinian territories as anger grows regarding the economic conference in bahrain and the socalled deal of the century. Region has declared three days of mourning after the killing of five senior officials on saturdayted coup evening. Flags have been order to fly at half mast. We are following the events from the capital. Reporter the man responsible to over the attempt weekend is dead. We just spoke to the Prime Ministers press secretary. She said the government was trying to capture him and in that process he was shot and killed on monday. Attempt happened on saturday. The Prime Minister is still very much in control of the government according to the secretary. Within the military, we know that the division between ethnic lines was a concern and something that the intelligence chief of the military said was the purpose of the coup. The press secretary has confirmed that was not the case and that the government and military are united. We asked her also about the Prime Ministers interest and ongoing negotiations with trying to find a solution in neighboring sudan. She said despite the domestic turbulence of the weekend, that the International Negotiations to find a solution for sudans government are ongoing. The Prime Minister is committed to National Security as he is also committed to Regional Peace and security. The efforts to bring peace and ofurity to sudan are part finding the same for ethiopia. Reporter we also asked her about the internet and when it would come back on. It has been shut down since saturday in the wake of the weekends attacks by the government. She said it is part of the investigation and it needs to stay down until the investigation is complete because it is very much an active situation. She did not give a timeline as to when that will be restored. She did acknowledge that the government had shut it down for security reasons. She wanted to drive home the point of unity. That the Prime Minister is in control of the government and safety and the Security Forces are united even though ethiopia went through a very divisive weekend. Anchor some 44,000 people have been ordered to leave a town in after a series of explosions. One person was killed and Dozens Injured in the blast. The government bowed to demands for a fairer electoral system. The move was hailed as a victory by antigovernment demonstrators but they said they will continue protesting until other demands have been met. Hundreds rallied in the capital and other cities for the last four days. A Greek Cypriot army officer has been handed seven life sentences for the murder of five women and their children. He pleaded guilty to 12 charges relating to objection and murder over three years. Hehreejudge panel said appears to have mounted a campaign of murder in choosing foreign women most of home came to cyprus looking for work. In mexico, thousands of women are being imprisoned for minor drug related crimes. The countrys top drug laws are being designed to target powerful drug cartels. But it is a poor who are being disproportionately punished. Than 3000 women are in prison or being processed in mexico for lowlevel drug offenses. Gabby was arrested for selling and transporting marijuana and is now serving a 10 year sentence. She said she had no other way of making a living and was not expecting such a harsh punishment. I did it out of necessity because of poverty. Where i am from, there is no other income. Where i am from, selling marijuana is like selling bread. Reporter human rights advocates say they are also having a disproportionate impact on poor women. About the drug war, many people think of el chapo. They dont realize that normally those who are punished are at the bottom of the pyramid. Women that have been discriminated against or been victims of violence. Reporter in mexico city, a former inmate is getting used to her new life out of prison. She served a fiveyear prison sentence for selling narcotics on the street. A crime she said she had no choice but to commit. My housemen came to and pointed a gun at my threeyearold granddaughter. They said my husband owed them a lot of money. More than i could afford my life. That is when i agreed to sell their drugs. To save my childrens lives. Reporter she says many of her fellow Prison Inmates were there for similar reasons. Victims of circumstances. The president has promised that these policies will be rewritten but that change has yet to happen. In fact, the trend of women ending up behind bars for lowlevel drug charges is actually on the rise. And 2018, the female prison population in mexico increased by a large amount. The u. S. Government has moved more than 300 children being held at a were more Border Patrol center in texas. This follows reports that the children had inadequate food, water, and sanitation. Lawyers visited the station said older children tried to take care of infants and toddlers. Detained forn three weeks and many were sick with the flu. It is unknown where the children have been moved to. Imagine a day when anyone with a basic knowledge of software could create a convincing but fake video of another individual. Imagine if that video showed a world leader committing a crime or saying something they did not say. That day is already here and ai researchers said the technology is still being worked on. Master ofshe is a technological shape shifting. He just transformed me into the north korean leader. With the click of a one button, we can change you into any person. Reporter readily Available Technology can be used to create deep fakes. This looks like democratic president ial candidate senator Elizabeth Warren making a speech. Is not. It is an actress on a Popular American comedy show who has been transformed using deepfake technology. Only an expert can tell the difference. The implications regarding politics is are disturbing. You can create be realistic videos of someone saying things they did not say. In times of elections, this comes this becomes very dangerous. Reporter recently, a video of nancy pelosi doctored to make her look drunk was shared more than two mayan times on facebook even though it was quickly identified as fake. And believee this it. And the damage is done even when it is proven to be fake. Reporter groups with nefarious motives could create International Chaos with deepfake videos. It could be this person has been assassinated. They could change they could put anything into political leaders mouth. And that is the scary thing about this. Reporter it only took a couple of clicks on the keyboard to change my image into that of vladimir putin. As the technology develops thinky, lawmakers better seriously about regulating it. A congressional hearing recently this. Meeting about at the very least, platforms like facebook should be required to attach a warning label. Label could put a warning on it as we do with cigarettes. We know they are harmful but if people want to use them, they can. Reporter the technology will soon reach a point when even experts will be unable to spot doctored vehicles. Deepfake raises questions about truths and reality. Plastic pollution is one of the worlds most serious environmental issues. It is estimated 8 million tons of plastic and her the oceans every year. Researchers in the philippines are putting this to good use. Reporter for the past two years, these students have been collecting rubbish every day. It has helped to clean up their campus. For every two kilos of plastic they collect, the School Receives construction materials. The schools watch tower was built with the same bricks. For theis a solution environmental problem. Because, we are diverting waste away from the landfill. We are in effect an alternative to that landfill. Reporter some of the brakes are designed to allow rainwater to seep through which helps stop the flooding in the streets. For some activists, this may not be the most ecological way to eliminate the waste problems of plastic but this is seen as an immediate solution to the growing problems of landfills across the country. Waste can now be used to manufacture building materials. Needseenpeace says more to be done and Multinational Companies need to be made responsible for pushing the economy. Sachet these consumer products, in cheap, single use packages. It is very important that they have the purchasing power and can put pressure on these companies and influence. I love your products. But, you need to deliver it in a more ecological manner. Manilar