a violent crackdown on election protestors. and expressing deep remorse japan pledges never to repeat the tragedy of conflict as it marks 75 years since 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 backed it in a vote at the u.n. security council iran says the u.s. has quote never been so isolated but the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back sanctions from new york is kristen salumi. 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 duck that every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o called it an inexcusable failure saying quote the security council paved the way for the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell conventional weapons without specific u.n. restrictions in place for the 1st time in over a decade under an agreement negotiated by the 5 permanent members of the security council and germany aimed at stopping iran from developing nuclear weapons the 13 year old ban on conventional weapons sales is due to expire in october russia and china accusing the us of undermining the deal had threatened to veto the resolution but didn't have to the dominican republic was the only other country to vote for it well it's a diplomatic task of the it just demonstrates that. president trump and his team are not only bad at the strategy of approaching iran they are bad at just the day to day tactics of diplomacy it is unconscionable that they couldn't round up more than one vote for a resolution like this the u.s. has threatened to trigger the return of all international sanctions on iran through a snapback provision written into the nuclear deal but other members of the security council say the u.s. lost the right to do that when it withdrew from the deal 2 years ago europeans are warning of adverse consequences for the security council if a legal dispute over snapback ensues for them preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon remains paramount kristen salumi al-jazeera the united nations now said big is following that story from tehran he reports iran will be treating the failed bid as a win over the u.s. . even going into this vote at the united nations to extend the arms embargo we had had some strong rhetoric and language coming out from the iran president hassan rouhani had warned of a crushing response if the arms embargo had been extended from mr divides the reef had said that the u.s. approach was feckless and unpredictable and now we've had rain in the back of the to the united nations call it a day back so the rains were very much see this particular back to that the united nations as a victory for themselves and use it to show how little support the united states has in its approach to iran but also it would be used domestically by the iranians because this 2015 nuclear deal did have total support across the political spectrum here and president hassan rouhani and his government did take their political reputations to take a hit when donald trump pulled the united states out of that deal so this will be seen as iran as a diplomatic victory over the united states. and the u.s. department of justice seized iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed to them as whaler both iran and venezuela are under u.s. sanctions here's laura burton manley with more. the u.s. is calling it the largest seizure of fuel from iran its incepted for tank is carrying more than a 1000000 barrels of oil to venezuela after winning a federal court order last month where for tankers they're going to use them and they're there. they're not supposed to be doing that or was that supposed to be doing that and so we did we see the tankers and we're moving them and moved to euston but iran says the liberian flag ships have nothing to do with them it accuses the us of lies and psychological warfare 0.09 with a level of no right now there's nothing planned because we haven't had a request from our venezuelan friends as they are reactivating their own refineries u.s. officials are experts in fabricating lies and carrying out shows in the media the details of the capture. when the seizure or do is produce more than a month ago all of the ships turned off the tracking devices seemingly not wanting to be found but what's certain is that trump is running up his campaign against iran in venezuela at sea the public documents suggest that the united states negotiated with the owners operators of those 4 tankers and a range peaceably and agreeably for the transfer of the iranian oil refined oil headed to venezuela to other ships those ships are the ones that the president indicated have arrived in u.s. waters or about to arrive in u.s. waters that its way into has become increasingly more aligned to an oil from iran at a previously received shipments in may and june although venezuela sits a one the world's largest crude oil reserves it unable to refine its u.s. sanctions corruption and a lack of investment is blamed for the decline of its oil industry the united states hasn't done a set too much to date actually sees the oil but the united states has a policy of. of trying to drive iranian oil exports to 0 they've frozen iranian revenues from from previous oil sales so in effect that was confiscating it and yes this does ratcheted up another step venezuela and iran act isn't defiance of u.s. sanctions for now this season at sea appears to stop much easy trade between the allies. the e.u. is preparing to sanction officials umbrella roussel for this week's crackdown on protesters tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital minsk for a 6 months of the last sunday's disputed elections the president alexander lukashenko has refused to talk to the opposition stop boston reports from mints. slowly but surely protesters in minsk are taking over the city's main streets after days of police violence as demonstrators were beaten detained and chased away protests came out in large numbers friday they were joined by workers from a state owned tractor factory throughout the country thousands of workers are on strike to protest against a looker shankara. didn't even touch it. we can't stand the situation anymore people a friend but they will have my vehicle and now factory has many most locals who are was. when. they have come out of their factory and are now heading to the city center the protests and not only against the police crackdown but also against what they call our rigged elections these are very unusual. arriving at independence square the protesters are met by soldiers protecting the government house pension starts to build but suddenly one soldier drops his shield and then this happens the. peace remember you have a mother to my baby you cannot do this why are you standing him. that it was a right it was meanwhile look at shankar is warning of more violence as he accuses foreigners of provoking the protests new suit is we should just know what is stay clear of the streets now you have to understand that you and your children are being used like. people have already arrived from poland the netherlands ukraine and russia from open russia and the valley and this old. the aggression against our country has already started do you see in the july sproat detainees who were released talked about torture plans had to be taken to hospital immediately after their release others were treated by foreign ts who came to did it dench and santa still held it in a moment we're going to. look at the. fractures bruises dislocations brain injuries nose fractures abrasions hema toma hemorrhage to brain and even to eyes is a nightmare fascist don't even do these things the government works those of mozart . while the government has tried to appease protesters by releasing detainees the wounds on their bodies had the opposite effect throughout the evening crowds at the independence square started swelling their festive and fiery mood in sharp contrast with the threatening words of look and his soldiers standing nearby steps al-jazeera. russia says 32 of its people arrested last month in belarus of been released and sent home president lukashenko accused them of being mercenaries sent by moscow to incite riots ahead of the presidential election but russia dismissed that accusation saying they were employees of a private security firm traveling through the country japan's emperor has expressed deep remorse for the country's wartime past its marking 75 years since it surrendered to allied forces in effect ending world war 2. he took hopes the tragedy will never be repeated but there was no apology from the prime minister shinzo avi who think the war dead for their sacrifice he avoided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which is cause division between japan china and south korea . lauren richardson is an expert on the region she says prime minister shinzo abi has in effect changed japan's security policy. japan has made a lot of the pole of use of both of reparations and normalize their relations with many of the countries that they have conflicts with there are still some ongoing issues some of the victims especially in china and south korea the countries that well the brunt of japanese imperialism still pursuing their own forms of justice took quite a long time the conservative party and the ruling liberal democratic party has been pursuing mullally way in it's the friends in security policy a lot of officials believe that that peace constitution is like out they did it because it was signed in the context it was kind of imposed upon japan by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was done sort of in acted in the context of the immediate post-war when the u.s. was to demille it tries to plan but now that will almost immediately now that the cold war broke out and the u.s. and japan signed an alliance so almost even by that stage the peace constitution was sort of keeping at it kind of expire a day and certainly prime minister abbott has made that the new. primary objective is to change that peace constitution then you haven't managed to change it it's very difficult process that i think he's political legacy will be that he has changed the status quo of japan security policy by finding ways to work around . lots more still to come here on al-jazeera including. violent demonstrations in ivory coast after the president and i'm susie will seek a 3rd term. also had close to good businesses in colombia forced to shut the doors of the country suffers its deepest recession because of the pandemic. we've got hot and humid weather now spilling across northwestern you're just not seeing through the low countries heading towards germany in the form of thundery downpours breaking that extreme heat that we have seen recently so areas of light pressure areas to fundraise showers will continue across the southern half of the u.k. down across the low countries because they have a spreading their way towards austria towards the balkans as we go through the next couple days it's trying to freshen up behind it'll tell you some time that 24 celsius in london with those storms in place behind another system just making its way into the by of biscay 31 celsius the 4 border for the south lawrence of the the mid to high twenty's across by and so too bad here it's all some of the temperatures there it's scandinavia a little colder over to that eastern side of you have the fat mouth of cat into western russia with one or 2 showers here but not as heavy as the showers that we have down swards the black sea towards the balkan plain just pushing up across central parts up towards the northwest 25 celsius there in london for much of the med here it is fine and dry lots of sunshine in play over the next few days family showers continue just around the sun a little further north may should be heavy downpours there for nigeria that making the way for the west. but. frank assessments seeing that. there is. like being superficial informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in any calls or the only a region are actually under a de facto state of knowledge and see critical debate of that is a proxy he does not going to send the interest of the if you people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. war. world. again you're watching al-jazeera live from doha your top stories this half hour iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.n. security council overwhelmingly rejected washington's between definitely extend an arms embargo on tehran. the european union is preparing to hit the russian officials with sanctions after a crackdown on protesters tens of thousands of people rallied for a 6th day of last sunday's disputed presidential elections. and the japanese emperor has expressed deep remorse over his country's wartime past on the 75th anniversary of japan's world war 2 surrender there was no apology from the prime minister shinzo abi who thanked the dead for their sacrifice. the opposition in ivory coast is warning of more protests to denounce the president's decision to seek a 3rd term another day of demonstrations on friday turned violent protesters accuse allison ouattara of breaking a 2 term limits but he insists a new constitution does allow him to run again as i made a dress. this is what remains of a police station in the southeastern town of water as opposition supporters clash with security forces. is the latest in a series of demonstrations taking place across ivory coast for the 3rd consecutive day the protests threatened to price the country once an island of stability into its biggest political crisis since the civil war of 2010. the contention is a declaration by president and i said what to run again. we are protesting for the president what to go because the constitution has been violated and we don't want to accept a 3rd term we call on the entire population of course to join us in making what time i leave. in a broadcast last week the president announced his candidacy after a student successor. suddenly died of a heart attack risk. the fear of the country sinking into political and economic crisis has forced me to reconsider my earlier position not to run again i accept the call by citizens who asked me to stand for president the opposition has warned that ivory coast cannot afford another bloody crisis. we invite the president of the republic to ensure that he can safeguard social peace and stability to do otherwise would be to open up a pandora's box that will give rise to uncontrollable. former 1st lady. whose husband is still stuck in the netherlands after his acquittal by the international criminal court of crimes against humanity says providing a level playing field for all is the all a thing that can stop the country sliding into anarchy. i call him president of had a to make let on by eligible to run and to free all held for the 2010 post-election violence he should also facilitate the return of exile of those ins everybody ends . with tension building some residents of the financial capital has started stocking up hearing for the worse. still remember the events of 2010 i'm stocking up on supplies now look at the chicken we buy for 2000 c.f.a. it's now $3000.00 c.f.e. even snail transport fares have gone up by 30 percent. the president's supporters say a change to the constitution in pretty 16 which also drew violent demonstrations clears the way for. him to run the game. until 2010 ivory coast was considered one of africa's most politically stable countries since then it has seen violent demonstrations and even. presidential elections set forth in the book that i feel that these protests could grow and place the country deeper into political tomboy. the u.s. watch dog is investigating the nation's postal service which has warned it might not be able to deal with the large number of mail in ballots in november presidential election the postmaster general lose to joy denies allegations of intentionally slowing down the postal service is expected to be a huge rise in 1000000 votes seen as a result of the pandemic president trump is trying to restrict the message because he claims that susceptible to fraud mike hanna has more now from washington. last week democrats in congress wrote a letter to the inspector general asking came to take a look at the situation within the postal service now that has been dire indeed in recent months there have been all sorts of problems in the postal service there's been a 10 percent reduction in letter sorting machines there's been delays of up to a week in postage and this all follows the appointment of louise to joy a close friend and confidante of president trump as postmaster general so it's likely that this investigation by the inspector general is going to look at the new postmaster general who has fired a number of people in key positions he's reassigned others so certainly it will focus on what he has done to reduce the level of the services of the post office now looking ahead as well of course it's going to play a key role in terms of mail in votes for the november election given the ongoing pandemic but in july the postal service sent a letter to 46 states including d.c. saying that it could not guarantee being able to turn around the postal votes to get them in time for the deadline in voting so this is a key issue and obviously the any problem within the postal service particularly one that may be allegedly manufactured is of grave concern to all within this country. protesters in lebanon have been calling for an independent international investigation into the beirut port blast that killed more than 200 people 2 weeks ago but the leader of hezbollah hassan nasrallah says he wouldn't trust the findings of such an inquiry but he missed and i'm meant. to have meant hizbollah will not be conducting an investigation or making accusations we will wait for the official lebanese investigation but if the f.b.i. is participating in israel is related to the attack you will not be able to reach anything if lebanon accepts an international investigation the 1st objective of such investigation will be to absolve israel from any responsibility for the explosion if it is responsible. british tourists have been scrambling to get home after the u.k. imposed a 14 day quarantine for travelers coming in from the netherlands malta and france the measures were introduced after a surge in corona virus infections in those countries around 160000 u.k. tourists were in france in the quarantine was announced. for the 1st time in 6 months passengers from mainland china are being allowed to transit through hong kong's international airports the city is gradually relaxing its coronavirus travel restrictions it is a much needed boost to its flagship carry a cafe pacific on weapons day the airline reported a loss of more than $1000000000.00 it remember and has more from hong kong airport . i'm in hong kong international airport there have been plenty of picture metaphors during this crisis over the past 6 months and this is another one of them as you can see it's like a vast empty mostly and right now i remember this is one of the world's busiest international airports well things have eased a little bit on saturday as you rightly point out passengers arriving from mainland china are now able to transit in hong kong for up to 24 hours although they can't leave the airport terminal now why is hong kong doing that well it seems that there are so many university students in china who have to get back to europe or north america for the start of the university year there simply aren't enough flights in china because of the restrictions on sched jewels to to help them so the mainland authorities have turned to hong kong where from here of course you can still fly to most places in the world or be it with a greatly restricted shuttle so that's that's one reason now it's going to help airlines like cathay pacific that's no doubt and this week c. x. posted a half year loss of more than $1300000000.00 in fact you know traffic passenger traffic on cathay pacific has dropped by more than 99 percent compared to this time a year ago cathay of course not the only airline in trouble airlines around the world are also suffering a similar fate right now colombia's economy has suffered its worst slump on record as businesses struggle during the coronavirus pandemic listened around p.s.e. has more now from bogota. it's the end of the line for the hair salon until recently a successful endeavor of hairdressers and race and his partner but almost 5 months of coronavirus restrictions and a lack of promise government assistance left them with no other option but to close its doors. we were doing very well. cycling to further invest in the shop we built it with much in the specially love it's very sad to see your dreams come to an end like many other countries the pandemic a stake in the heavy toll in colombia but it's hitting particularly hard in a country that has seen a steady economic growth for 2 decades and where more than 5000000 people had risen from poverty to enter into the middle class we are facing the most. strongest recession that we have in the history of. data we are getting basically an economy. and. one employed in terms of just a closing down. this is something that has never happened in the country. many shops that have reopened are struggling to get back into gear and normal times this would be teeming with people at this time but as you can see there's barely anybody here and more than 10 percent of its i've already closed for good. others are striving to keep the doors open. raised in a low income family through hard work he was able to open a successful restaurant in an up and coming neighborhood. with the pandemic he has reduced the staff from 16 to 4 people and has been operating at a loss hoping things will turn around soon but he's pessimistic. i fear the country will go back to the 8. and we're seeing it already with the streets emptied out and colonized by the poor that's it showing us how fragile our new middle class really is. and it's destroying it a lot of people are falling through the cracks. the government has announced a series of measures to deal with the crisis pumping billions into the country's central bank and promising debt relief and economic assistance but for many it has already been too little too late to keep the lights on at least in the room. to china biggest wholesale food market has reopened 2 months after it was closed. coronavirus cases in beijing since june more than 330 cases have been linked to a cluster of infections traced back to the market the last patients connected to the outbreak were discharged from hospital this month. mozambique's president has promised to create jobs to stop people joining groups linked to leap in u.c. was visiting the northern province of cupboard el gato days after fighters seized the port mozambique's army is still trying to regain control of this gas rich area has been captured by armed groups 3 times this year. as more from harare in neighboring zimbabwe. in may meet. to discuss the crisis and. there was no concrete with one can to assist mozambique he does not meet again on monday and say this time there be increasing pressure to actually do some one of the expectations that one would be of. sin from our leadership. i live or fact finding mission that we have been sent to mozambique and this is a mix of intelligence military intelligence political economy and. humanitarian experts trying to establish the extent and the gravity of the situation in. another muslim because mozambique's president felipe visited the area affected by the violence and he promised to do more to assist people there this speculation some other countries in southern africa could send in troops to assist mozambique's army it's happened before in the democratic republic of congo in the city and in mozambique back when our fighters were causing problems there most governments this fight is affiliated to i saw are responsible for the violence the area in northern it is rich in natural gas and some projects are worth more than $60000000000.00 is a concern of the fighting could spill over into other countries in the region similar to what's being seen currently on the continent in the sahara region and the horn of africa. the u.s. president on from paris ordered the owner of social media to talk to sell off its u.s. operation within the next 90 days the us president is used a new executive order last week in effect banning the video sharing platform trump believes to talk and other chinese spying tools which threaten u.s. national security. india is marking its 74th independence day the prime minister narendra modi has addressed the nation at the historic red force in new delhi celebrations this year have been scaled back because of the pandemic the partition of india resulted in the killing of at least half a 1000000 people and course around 14000000 to be displaced when the british redrew borders. this is al jazeera these are your top stories iran will be able to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.n. security council overwhelmingly rejected washington's bid to indefinitely extend an arms embargo against tehran kristen salumi has more now from the united nations headquarters building in new york catch here is that the united states withdrew from the nuclear deal 2 years ago and so members of the council are arguing particularly russia and china that the united states doesn't have standing to make such a claim because it withdrew from the deal unilaterally it can't now come back and claim to invoke part of that so there is no clear legal mechanism to settle this dispute in the council if the united states decides to go forward in that way and this could be really. time also was time for the security council and there is no clear mechanism for resolving the dispute. the european union is preparing to hit sabella russian officials with sanctions after the crackdown on protesters recently tens of thousands of people rallied for a 6th day of last sunday's disputed presidential election result the japanese emperor has expressed deep remorse over his country's wartime past on the 75th anniversary of japan's world war 2 surrender but there was no apology from the japanese prime minister shinzo abi he thanked the dead for their sacrifice for the 1st time in 6 months passengers from mainland china are being allowed to transit through hong kong as airport the city is gradually relaxing as virus travel restrictions this is a much required boost to cathay pacific on wednesday the carrier reports at a loss of more than $1000000000.00 beijing's biggest wholesale food market has reopened 2 months after it was shut down after the break of the virus and cases in beijing you could tourists have been scrambling to get home after london government imposed a 14 day quarantine for travelers coming in from multiple fronts in the netherlands the measures were introduced after a surge in virus infections in those countries last more news whenever you want it on the website al jazeera dot com tweet me at peter dolby one at up next inside story i will see you very soon. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the playfield that others cannot i was just thrown. back to put the phone for the fires and then i'm going to move. the weaving in calgary story isn't what can make a difference. about will for northern mozambique i solidify to say they're in control of course post a major gas projects thousands have been killed and displaced in years of instability so is this the start of a new wave of this is it. a little more come to the program on them or on current government forces in mozambique fighting to regain control of an area in the north soldiers are trying to push back i saw linked fighters in cowboy delgado province the region is rich in natural resources but his face you.

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