Expected in sudan where floods have already caused problems and now food prices are rising too. In that prison they were to ensure. Hairiest and trade for the reasons main Opposition Leader delivers a shocking presentation but it fails to get a human instance to agree on sanctions. And a critic of chinas president gets an 18 year jail term for corruption but the latest from beijing. The United States is set the stage for a showdown at the u. N. General assembly this week by slapping additional sanctions on iran in front of the trumpet ministrations disputed weekend declaration that all u. N. Penalties these were the ones eased under the 2050 nuclear deal had now been restored thing is nearly all u. N. Members including u. S. Allies in europe reject this the new us sanctions mainly target those involved in irans defense sectors just imagine what iran would do that for able to freely purchase more advanced weapons we have no intention of letting that happen the president s executive order announced today gives us a new and powerful tool to enforce the u. N. Arms or burgo and hold those who seek to evade u. N. Sanctions accountable. Today i will take the 1st action under this new executive order by sanctioning the are a ministry of defense an Armed Forces Logistics and irans Defense Industries organization and its director the u. N. Secretary general was delivering a message of unity though is the world body marks its 75th anniversary the General Assembly is happening mostly by video link you to the pandemic and turner terrorists was one of few to address it from inside the uns new york headquarters in which countries to support the uns work alignment calamity looms biodiversity is collapsing poverty is again rising hatred is spreading geopolitical tensions are escalating and Nuclear Weapons remain on hair trigger alert and Informative Technologies ever opened up new opportunities but also exposed new science and the covered 19 pandemic as laid bare the worlds for the g. T. S. We can only address them together and those were sentiments echoed by the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in his precourt address that is easily lead the world is tired of dividing lines dividing states into them and us the world requires increasing multilateral multilateral assistance and cooperation in other words the aims that were laid down 75 years ago when the u. N. Was founded a more timely than ever we also must restate our commitment to the u. N. Charter and the norms of International Law thats more on all of this with our diplomatic editor james bates. This was a major set piece of 75 years of the United Nations a glitzy video speeches by the secretary general and for leaders around the world now the pride of place as the host nation the 1st speech was reserved for President Donald Trump he didnt submit a speech and because his secretary of state mike pompei o and his ambassador to the un kelly craft were in washington for that event on iran sanctions instead it was left to a state Department Official relatively low level the acting deputy ambassador to the u. N. To give the u. S. Address the 75th anniversary of the u. N. Is the right time to ask questions about the institution strengths and weaknesses review and learn from its failures and celebrate its accomplishments it seems pretty certain that on choose day President Donald Trump will be making an address to take to address to the u. N. General assembly and people will be focusing on his comments on iran and on snapback. Coronavirus news now in the u. K. Is alert levels been increased from 3 to 4 that means transmission is high or rising exponentially the government scientific advisor says they could be 50000 new cases a day by mid october if no further action is taken elsewhere in europe governments are trying to get a handle on a spike in the number of cases in barca covers all of this from london. The british governments been accused of sleep walking into a 2nd search of coronavirus if so this was the alarm call dispassionate data delivered by the you case chief medical and scientific officers showing a doubling of infections every week lets say there were 5000 today would be 10000 next week 20000 a week after 40000 that week of them and you can see that by mid october if that continued you would end up with Something Like 50000. 00 cases in the middle of october per day. Or more infections mean the likelihood of more deaths urgent action is needed elsewhere in Europe Spains ruled out a 2nd National Lockdown favoring partial restrictions where contagion levels are highest in the capital Madrid Police checkpoints are back the citys poorest areas are suffering the most a blow for businesses already on the breadline in the Czech Republic a surge in cases has cost the countrys Health Minister his job restrictions lifted months ago and now likely to return France Greece and denmark have also imposed measures in virus hotspots while Health Authorities in italy say the average age of patients is creeping up risking more deaths governments across europe are wrestling with a worsening Health Emergency an ongoing economic crisis leaders are having to walk a very challenging fine line between controlling covert 19 and inadvertently fueling unemployment and poverty. Britain is now at the same Tipping Point more than 13000000. 00 people are already facing restrictions and curfews in the north of england and the midlands the capital could be next in the absence of a vaccine and while testing remains inadequate because of a shortage of Laboratory Capacity there are very few options and little time to lose. London were more than 150 countries making up nearly 2 thirds of the worlds population have now agreed to participate in the covert 19 global Vaccine Allocation planets known as kovacs the World Health Organization says it hopes to develop and distribute excuse me 2000000000. 00 doses of vaccine by the end of next year the plan would help rich and poor countries to buy and distribute vaccinations more fairly but the u. S. Is among those who arent participating having signed its own deals with that same make is more heavy rain is forecast in sudan where flooding is now killed 120 people land damaged or destroyed 100000 homes on top of that there is an economic state of emergency rising inflation has put food and other basics out of reach for many more families mohamad has this report from khartoum. Have hard hopes things would get better for them after the remove all of saddams longtime leader a middle bush years. But a year and a half later prices of basic goods are still sorting an officer who is disabled and makes falafel or big cake to support a family is finding it hard to make ends meet. Of course this life is very hard prices are increasing by the day and some days we eat some days we dont. A week ago the Sudanese Government declared a state of economy can watch and see the move for a sharp decline by the sudanese pound against the dollar since then inflation has risen to a record 167 percent with prices of essential commodities like bread and sugar rising to more than double long queues for bread visible almost everywhere. If we are forced to wait in queues for more than 3 hours at a time to buy bread just 10 pieces of bread the elderly who cant stand for long are really suffering were all suffering the inflation has also affected the provision of aid to tens of thousands of people displaced by the weeks long flooding in 17 of sudans 18 states aid agencies say theyre forced to deal with a huge shortfall in funding actually it has been quite catastrophic if i may. When we receive lets say a dollar only 0. 25 of that maximum is what we are able to use because of the inflation last july inflation was at 144 percent in august was almost 167 percent so that means our ability to buy things is only 25 percent sudans Transitional Government blames the decline of the currency on what it calls a systematic operation to vandalize the economy by those opposing it where limit to how one evidently has been we will crack down heavily on those trying to manipulate the markets we wont be united in doing this as a government we will also introduce regulations for import and export of god and yet some people are blaming the government itself for the crisis. Probably raise the minimum wage from 5. 00 to 60. 00 just in the countrys history a broken with no resources over its own the government opted to fund the increment by printing more money something done on a path to follow economic decline u. S. Secretary of state mike pump recently raised hopes of but the economic prospects here when he announced the possible remove all of saddam from its role of state sponsors of terrorism perhaps even before the us elections in november that would allow saddam to shed its pariah status attract Foreign Investors and once again access credit from institutions like the i. M. F. And world bank but diplomats say thats hinged on sudan 1st normalizing relations with israel a bitter pill it may be forced to swallow to ease its own domestic problems without the well just hold saddam a critic of the chinese president xi jinping has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for corruption chang was once the chairman of a state owned state group katrine you has the details from beijing. Well according to the beijing court was found guilty of investment of public funds about 9000000. 00 in accepting bribes to the amount of about 200000. 00 he was also said to have caused heavy losses to a state owned company which is a big Real Estate Company of which he was the chairman for 21 years now for these crimes hes been given 18 years and the court also said that he has voluntarily confessed to these crimes and he will not be appealing this verdict now this is quite a headline here in china because china is known to be quite an outspoken critic of the Chinese Government so much slower that he earned the nickname the big candid and in a country where many of quite afraid or too afraid to be outspoken he wasnt and he was a social media pages to voice these criticisms and in 2016 his web page which is the equivalent of a facebook or twitter was actually taken down by the communist party in the one is warned but he still went on being quite critical he ran this quite popular elite book club where you invited a Business Owners and other popular celebrities in china to discuss independent ideas many democratic or western ideas and he promoted this idea of a being outspoken and criticizing the government and this year in march he actually penned an article criticizing the Chinese Governments efforts to contain the coronavirus and in that article he referred to xi jinping as an embryo and a clown and this seemed to really have been the last straw for the communist party he was quickly detained and in july he was expelled from the communist party and also charged with these corruption charges. In the news ahead replacing Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg will find out what donald trump had to say about a possible nominee. Im just a washington in islam from indonesia when locals are coming together to protect this coastal area by replanting 1009. However the weathers looking bright and breezy across much of the middle east i think the best way to sum it up not too much cloud showing up not too many showers a few showers between the black sea in the caspian sea just around the caucasus but nothing much to speak of it is about the breeze coming out of iraq wind blowing down across q. H. Into that eastern side of saudi arabia to us towards us here in the cars how we might well see a little bit lifted dust and sand to watch out for but otherwise it is generally try with lots of hazy sunshine and sunshine and showers meanwhile the seasonal showers dont quite nicely now across Central Africa pushing through the heart of africa over towards cameroon democratic republic of the congo and theyre sinking further south which northern parts of angola also seeing some heavy showers you can see how they extend all the way up into a good part of nigeria then in tokyo goddesses and heavy showers as well if you shout as to just hugging the coastal frame just becoming a little more widespread in eastern kenya as we go on through where to stay you might catch a shero to around the eastern coast of somalia as well well if you want to try meanwhile across a good part of Southern Africa all of this area cloud will be some on the shell showers into central parts of mozambique and eastern zimbabwe. On counting the cost an aging population soaring debts and recession and japans new Prime Minister fix the economy famine hoppity an uprising as the pandemic wipes out a decade of Economic Growth plus pakistanis asias best performing stock markets counting the cost on aljazeera. Be the hero the world needs right. Washing. This is al jazeera these are the top stories the u. S. Has announced new sanctions on iran weeks before an arms embargo is due to expire over the weekend the trumpet ministration declared all u. N. Penalties these are the ones east under the nuclear deal had been restored however nearly all u. N. Members reject. Governments around the world are being forced to rethink their pandemic strategies as the global death toll nears 1000000. 00 the us is on the verge of recording 2000021000 deaths alone and more heavy rains forecast in sudan where flooding has killed at least 120 people and damaged or destroyed 100000 homes on top of that is an economic crisis with rising inflation putting food and other basics out of reach for many. And to government protesters have been back out on the streets for a 2nd night in several egyptian cities these pictures from just north of cairo demonstrators are calling for president at the thought theyll sisi to step down and for an end to what they describe as his military rule over a 1000 people been arrested since saturday over the exiled opposition figure mohamed alley is urging protesters not to back down. Will mark lippman you know this is the beginning of the revolution whats asked of us to do exactly what we did yesterday go down to the streets gather outside your homes who are raising awareness being heard at the same time we are uniting every little while we see another neighborhood rise up now the poor need to rise up and will continue like this every day. European Union Foreign ministers have been confronted with images of what is said to be the crimes of the government of belarus an Opposition Leader spent on a take on a skier made another play for sanctions against president Alexander Lukashenko is accused of rigging elections and then violently suppressing the protests often. In their prisons they were tortured. Harris and trade better received Opposition Leader paying tribute to prodemocracy protesters in her country which she fled after last months president ial election widely seen as rigged in favor of Alexander Lukashenko so atlanta taken off sky i was speaking at the European Parliament in brussels once again calling for sanctions on senior officials so i proceed to your friends to tell us the basic things to look at nice mr look at illegitimate to release Political Prisoners to introduce individual sanctions against all individuals involved in their election possibly cations and political credit down earlier she held talks with several e. U. Foreign ministers ahead of their meeting telling them applying sanctions quickly could force the belorussian government to enter dialogue with the Opposition Coordination Council of influence of argument of progress we will have to discuss the question of whether they shouldnt because those who participated in election making and those who participated in abuse directly who face European Union sanctions we must also ask ourselves the question of whether mr lucas schrenker who bears the main responsibility should also be sanctioned by the European Union its not just sanctions also we have to report to support Civil Society we have to support the media and we have to not just express important of the people which are suffering their suffering still as we speak being called in quest of the daughter of rape and definitely in the serves our at the. Possibly independent international investigation. On sunday once again crowds demonstrated in the belorussian capital minsk and other cities activists put the number in minsk it around 100000 similar to previous weekend rallies. Police say they arrested more than 400 protesters with more than 300 still in custody but the e. U. Cant impose sanctions like travel bans and asset freezes unless all 27 Member States agree. Cyprus is been accused of blocking sanctions on belarus until similar measures are applied to turkey over its Energy Exploration efforts in