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britain and sweden seek a u.n. meeting on the range of prices a day after a human rights chief denounced me and. assessing the damage in florida where officials fear a humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of hurricane. and on sea air on land al-jazeera goes on a clandestine mission with one of the most elite units of the philippines military . the united nations security council has agreed to impose new sanctions on north korea they severely restrict fuel supplies and blocked textile exports the sanctions also ban foreign countries from hiring north korean workers our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations. this was the result the u.s. ambassador nikki haley wanted even though she had to weaken her resolution to get it a unanimous vote by the security council to punish north korea for its latest nuclear

test today the security council has acted in a different way today we're attempting to take the future of the north korean nuclear program out of the hands of its outlaw regime china and russia may have voted for the resolution but both said it was only part of the solution the u.s. and south korea they said should stop military exercises and remove the missile defense system and there should be new talks new that so it's a big mistake to underestimate this russia china initiative it remains on the table at the security council and we will insist on it the inconsiderate. it's pretty clear that the u.s. had wanted to push through a much tougher resolution this is the text that was voted on by the security council but out zeros obtained. earlier version that was circulated last week by comparing the two you can see the items that the u.s. had to drop to get russian and chinese support the original draft included

a total ban of sale of oil petroleum and gas to north korea that was changed to some restrictions on sales it also had included a total ban on hiring and paying workers for north korea the original version also called for a travel ban and assets freeze on the north korean leader and freezing the finances of north korea's national airline one of the us is closest allies says despite the changes this was a strong resolution ambassador you say it's a robust resolution yes it's watered down from the earlier draft and key elements be taken out of what's called negotiation and that's what we do here in the security council there is a significant prize in keeping the whole of the security council united and that is without doubt why the u.s. decided to withdraw items from its original draft the trumpet ministration has very

few good options when it comes to north korea but a veto by russia and or china would have divided the international community making things even more difficult james pays out his era at the united nations well the burden of enforcing some of those sanctions will fall on customs officials on the border with north korea adrian brown reports from dandong in china hours before the u.n. vote it was business as usual in dandong a steady flow of empty lorries to north korea cross the single lane friendship bridge a vital economic conduit for the north. nearby other trucks enter a customs yard before heading the other way there covered cargoes offering few clues of what might be inside. but some trucks appeared to be carrying building materials. experts say because north korea's government is now so hard up china is selling on credit. so the north needs hard

cash from wherever it can get it the stirring patrie audix songs are a feature of one of dandong most popular north korean restaurants in theory you sanctions mean these performers can't be replaced by new musicians from the north the wages of the performers waitresses and cooks are collected directly by the regime a very lucrative source of hard currency what happens as well these restaurant is the people work there basically all the money is going back on only a pittance is going to the people who are actually doing the business these are i would i don't say france because they offer real services analysts say that kim jong un knows that china's leaders will not allow his regime to collapse because of what could follow hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring across the border into china swimming across this very river and the prospect of a united and democratic south korea with the possibility of u.s.

military bases right on china's doorstep in spite of that risk some chinese people think their government needs to be tougher with their neighbor and should all united together and punish them otherwise they would just do more damage to us not out of course north korea should be punished it has a great impact on china north korea is right next door if there is radiation cost by a nuclear test or even a war breaks out you will have tremendous impact on china cutting off the oil that china pumps underground to north korea from this refinery would have had a big impact but that was a step too far for china's leaders for now they'll continue their push for a diplomatic solution to rein in their old ally. adrian brown al-jazeera don't want to talk to b.j. kim is a political commentator a junk professor at hancock university of foreign studies he joins us live now from

seoul the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says these are the toughest sanctions ever imposed on north korea over its nuclear program but many people say look they're not going to work what do you think i guess is that in my opinion there are lots of realists here in town and they seem to believe that actually this is not the strongest measure ever let's take a look at what's inside twenty seven thirty five you want to see our u.n. security council resolution here i mean keeping the crude oil at four hundred four million gallons per year that's no change there and then textile ban textile exports then what does that mean actually rather syria don't really see much meat in the resolution of course united states and inside the allies that work very hard for it but realists here believe that china and russia have made it very clear that they do not want north korea's denuclearization north korea with the nuclear weapons that's what they like to be in place so that there will act against their

will act as a power checking against the united states presence here yeah and let's just remind our viewers this was a watered down version of an original proposal by the americans so what's different this time around and how did they get the russians and chinese not to veto it. well of course as reported just mentioned china and russia especially china does not want north korea to collapse so realists here have long argued that economic sanctions and un sanctions will not work because china does not want north korea to collapse which means we will never see a sanction that's crippling that's having crippling effect on north korea and this is same thing again the origin of virgine that united states and its allies have worked very hard on had some very serious clauses but they were all kind of shut down and this came as a compromise because united states and allies could now afford to have russia and china stay out of it so this was a definite compromise but as

a result of it the real this here is see u.n. sanctions again making almost close to no difference yeah north korea said it will respond to any further u.n. sanctions what's likely to happen next that i mean presumably we'll see more missile launches a nuclear tests you know this is a great opportunity for north korea because they can take this as an operative excuse to carry on more of their nuclear and missile tests here they're saying there will do this in protest through the sanctions imposed upon them additionally even though we don't see much of the sanctions educationally being imposed on north korea will take advantage of this opportunity to carry on for the necessary test they will need you know at the for the accomplish what they have in mind which is afford the full nuclear ization of their forces having i.c.b.m.'s having the capability of flying all the way to the united states cities therefore making the u.s. presence here kind of meaningless in the sense professor thank you for talking to

al-jazeera. now britain and sweden are requesting a un security council meeting on violence against a range of muslims in me among the un's describing their treatment in rakhine state as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing more than three hundred thirteen thousand reinjure have escaped a military crackdown to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh the government there says three thousand have been killed by me and security forces meanwhile the bangladeshi prime minister sheikh hasina is expected to visit one of the refugee camps difficult problem reports from cox is bizarre. the bangladeshi parliament has been discussing the situation and the decided to send a statement to me and more urging me and mark to take back the refugees and create a safe zone for them the bangladeshi prime minister is due to arrive here at this camp which has grown since hundreds of thousands of refugees have a right here in bangladesh and recent weeks she's expected to announce relief efforts for them now at the moment the only kind of relief efforts we're seeing are

mostly local charities and international n.g.o.s and the relief it is not being distributed evenly according to the refugees here they say it's mostly packages thrown out of trucks and whoever can get them gets them but most people do not have access to any kind of assistance or any kind of supplies the bangladeshi government is also trying to document them not trying to register into the database not just the new arrivals but also the ones that arrived about a year ago the prime minister has also said that your mark two thousand acres of land to set up more camps for those that are arriving but they're also discussing a controversial plan to move them to an island that many aid agencies are saying it's on in habits of oh there's nothing there but sand also to come here not just here including britain's parliament now any votes in favor of key legislation to stop just exit from the european union and hundreds of thousands of council and celebrate their national day just weeks before

a crucial referendum or stay with us. oh we've got a chance of some showers across parts of the middle east over the next couple of days chiefly just around the southern sections of the caspian sea well as the clear skies as you can see more hazy sunshine coming through warm sunshine at that thirty one celsius in beirut thirty three degrees and still getting up to forty six in baghdad here's the showers though you might just see a few showers into northern parts of iran tehran and around thirty three celsius over the next possibility of want to showers too into central and northern parts of pakistan but essentially he looks largely dry yet again across much of the middle east as that is the case across the arabian peninsula. around forty one celsius hopefully not fitting to here but i think the humidity might just not up

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in numbers i don't feel comfortable without the. voices of misfortune but this time when i'll just zero world. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the united nations security council has agreed to impose new sanctions on north korea they severely restrict fuel supplies and block north korean textile exports and also banned foreign countries from hiring north korean workers britain and sweden are oppressing the un security council meeting on violence against range of muslims in. the united nations is describing their treatment of state as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. has weakened to

a tropical depression as it made landfall in the u.s. mainland at least nine people have died in the u.s. and dozens more in the caribbean along its destructive path. reports from tampa. the search for survivors begins in the florida keys where fishes fear a humanitarian crisis in untold number of people who defied evacuation orders ahead of him as a rival despite warnings and staying would be suicide. as well to by the storm surge and carried across the highway. and posited about. one hundred meters from where the ridge line came from as the florida death toll rises other parts of the state have begun to clean up the storm a category four hurricane at its first u.s. landfall left a trail of destruction from miami to naples further to the north the city of tampa is breathing

a huge sigh of relief the extent of irma's damage here some downed walls some trees and power lines now this was the best case scenario for this vulnerable region of days and for drainage that had originally been forecast to be in the bull's eye of the storm but instead of the east but the sheer mass of the storm meant no florida city was safe police in orlando had to quickly evacuated some neighborhoods and life threatening flooding continues in jacksonville a disaster declaration covers the entire state of florida i use tell you that everybody is going to work hard to work think about it is we got to keep everybody safe we've got to get we've got to get our hospitals back open we got to get our fuel back here we've got to get our roads open we've got you know where the electricity back and i can't tell you it's not working with the majority of the state still without power life in florida may not return to normal for days or weeks meanwhile erma still

a powerful tropical storm continues to churn north causing flooding in south carolina and beyond i do castro al-jazeera tampa florida. al jazeera alan fischer has more on the aftermath from miami. this is the heart of miami's financial district if you take a look around you can see that there are cars moving on this road maybe not in the volume you normally expect but they are still coming down the road they're still deborah and there would still localized flooding a number of stores and buildings have the shutters up but we're told come tuesday morning that is likely to change as the cleanup here continues know it twenty four hours ago i was standing in this sport behind me there was a tree blocking the road that has no been cleared but more importantly the storm surge from the ocean which is probably about a third of a kilometer half a kilometer away had come all the way up here it was up to my knees flooding the financial district so you see just how quickly that has receded and that will

certainly help with the cleanup as i say there's still a lot of debris around many houses have been impacted we're told there are around three million floridians still without power for some they will get back on the grid very soon the one nine hundred thousand workers from the floor of the power company working on that other power company workers from other states arriving to help them but are my damage the infrastructure so badly it could be three or four weeks before others find that their power is fully restored and there are others who are in the shelters that were set up for the hurricane you know they've been home on monday to check their property for some of them they may have suffered water damage some may still be underwater many may not have power and so they'll be staying in those shelters for a number of days yet no florida governor rick scott says that the building regulations here in miami undoubtedly helped twenty five years ago after andrew swept through here they made them the strictest building regulations in the united states and it appears that the buildings seem to have held up pretty well but you

have to remember that a week ago the forecasters were seeing that was headed straight for miami it was a force five hurricane it was perhaps going to be the strongest hurricane ever to hit the united states in the end it was about forty four when it hit here and of course it. veered off to the west coast moved away from miami so although there is a great deal of damage here it's going to cost billions of dollars to clean up miami is grateful that it wasn't as bad as it could have been security forces fighting groups in the southern philippines are focusing their efforts on a strategic link last month navy seals intercepted several boats carrying weapons ammunition and material to make bombs al-jazeera is jim duggan was given exclusive access to see the seals in action now on mindanao island. we've been given a rare access to join what is the elite forces of good looking military. the navy seals they specialize in counterterrorism operations and guerrilla combat they've

been fighting armed groups in the southern philippines like the door yes i would say yeah an armed group known for its criminal activities the philippines the military has been warning for some time that the security threat to the philippines will only get worse if you have ground which is a departure from the hit and takes of the past ten or fifteen years it is an application of a new teaching that the caliphate must have very thoroughly and they must be prepared to defend at the diapering. months later that did happen then burst of the merged with another local armed group called them out they took control of several parts of mirali city in the southern philippines the group raised its black flag in several key government buildings. over the work of the philippine bessel warfare group is. here since the crisis began they were

able to secure. the most critical part of the week they had managed to intercept the reinforcements and this in a reprimand they have also captured as key please call them out a group. from the target over i. joined them on one of the reconnaissance but. we navigate through the dark waters of lake la know one of the most perilous areas in the mid the now region. we are now in the enemy's line of fire just five hundred meters from the main battle area. and then suddenly the mouth to set several houses on fire we are now visible from the port controlled by the multi-group the commander says we have to turn back. and i wonder. on the other night the seals take us to

a different location the mouth they are under heavy bombardment from the philippine military. but they are fighting back and even the seals position is targeting. the seals are rarely seen and heard and they prefer it that way a small specialized unit that also admits that the fight against them out is already one of the hardest battles it has ever faced but they remain determined despite no sign that the fighting will and anytime soon. are we see the southern philippines. british m.p.'s have given their fast approval to a bill that would give ministers powers to bypass parliament and create new nourse the government says it's essential to allow the u.k. to lead the european union smoothly but critics warn it will undermine democracy reports from london. there are still those who demand

the u.k. remains in the european union but judging by this tiny protests outside parliament increasingly few believe it's actually possible. for the basin votes were just one stage of an enormous process albeit an extremely important one the government wants to hand power to ministers to be able to change e.u. laws into british ones without consulting parliaments many opposition politicians say that is a threat to democracy but a notable number who support breck's it voted not with their party but with the governments they said must be made to happen i knew it would become precocious and i knew it would be difficult and i knew we would see something of what we're seeing now which is a real reaction from those people who prefer the european union to make our laws rather than the people of the united kingdom there will be i find i'm sure turn of this bill into the ruling conservatives ordered every single m.p.

to toe the line even the most passionate pro europeans for me there's no two more fundamental british values than democracy and the rule of law and this bill strikes at the heart of both democracy and the rule of law because it prevents parliament from scrutinizing laws and it prevents the courts from ensuring that ministers only abuse their powers. when the question is that the government lost the vote it probably would have collapsed it didn't so the process moves on it's all enormously difficult. for supporters of bret's in the whole point is to make the country more democratic to increase parliamentary sovereignty and yet the complaints is they're doing some. profoundly democratic to get that and that's very uncomfortable for many m.p.'s it's also procedural as of yet there is nobody in there offering any vision to what britain is supposed to look like after bricks it in twenty nine seen . in london more than

a million people have taken to the streets across catalonia to celebrate its national day its a commemoration of the fall of barcelona in the war of spanish succession and seven hundred fourteen but this year demonstrators were looking to the future not the past the event comes less than three weeks before a controversial referendum on independence panel reports from barcelona. from the sky you see. on the ground you feel the pulse. drumbeat of independence to catalonia. where. we want independence for catalonia so we can separate from the spanish government. did not agree. that this is a coup d'etat this is a rebellion in catalonia as national day began here the general government leaders paid tribute to the defenders of barcelona in a battle over three hundred years ago they've called

a referendum for october the first to vote on breaking away from spain that set the stage where a new battle perhaps the biggest political crisis since the end of general franco's dictatorship. central government says the referendum is undemocratic and illegal and has even threatened to fine and jailed regional authorities. that let's enjoy the freedom to express ourselves for the hope of a better future. on a podium a few streets away. a former guerrilla fighter is firing up support for independence in the seventy's and eighty's he staged armed attacks in the name of a separatist catalonian state. there will be a clash between the central and regional governments over the referendum but this will be democratic or perhaps there will be mass street protests down to barcelona port one of the political parties opposed to independence prepared its own rally

volunteers laid out catalan spanish and european flags a call for more integration not a split in the balance for what you want to manage. i honestly don't see you worried me i just think. it's more of an emotional. movement. just a feeling. the war for independence is hard to. tell over is the wealthiest region of spain it's a little bit bigger than belgium its economy is larger than the likes of portugal resort in. the region as someone with its own culture. these demonstrators know they'll have to struggle hard for independence but even the smallest seem ready to play their part. hall al-jazeera spain. the world's biggest carmaker has announced a plan to take electric cars mainstream news came at the frankfurt motor show got

underway exactly two years after the company admitted cheating on us in the mission's test reports. faults wagon media nine thousand francs ahead of the world's biggest annual. two years after the company's emissions. chief executive is showing the product of some commercial soul searching. this is our commitment by two thousand and thirty we will have electrified our entire range of vehicles i think we're on a road and progressive truck. the company paid out four point three billion dollars in criminal and civil fines after it admitted cheating on us diesel emissions tastes no votes wagon which includes brian's audi bentley lamborghini and poor double its investment in zero emission vehicles to twenty four billion dollars eighty electric cars across the great by twenty twenty five.

the emotional debate about driving bans in inner cities about the future of the diesel car and about electric mobility shows that the times when our industry here in frankfurt celebrated itself in part of itself on the shoulder or rover business as usual is no longer enough. critics say german manufacturers are way behind in the electric. but the emissions scandal has raised public pressure to speed up the transition daimler announced on monday it would make an electric model of almost sadie's beans vehicles by twenty twenty two three years later b.m.w. which includes many and rolls royce brands well off a twenty five a late trick vehicles in its ranks by twenty thirty votes wagon says all of its three hundred models will have an electric option there's a very popular and it's gotten very popular in the last you know four to six weeks . predictions of twelve to twenty years out clean.

this country won't have any. internal combustion engines and or this car company or have any internal combustion engines how countable all these countries and companies will be to it that's a long time out so it's hard to predict france and the united kingdom say they would ban the sale of fully gas or diesel cars from twenty forty china the world's largest come market just announced it is planning a similar. balance al jazeera. recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the united nations security council has agreed to impose new sanctions on north korea they severely restrict fuel supplies from blocked textile exports they also ban foreign countries from hiring north korean workers. previous efforts to bring north korea to the negotiating table have failed they have repeatedly walked back every commitment they have made today the

security council has acted in a different way today we are attempting to take the future of the north korean nuclear program out of the hands of its outlaw regime we are done trying to prod the regime to do the right thing we are now acting to stop that from having the ability to continue doing the wrong thing. britain and sweden are requesting a united nations security council meeting on violence against for him to muslims in me and. the united nations is describing their treatment in rakhine state as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing more than three hundred thirteen thousand rangers have escaped a military crackdown to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh. at least nine people have been killed after hurricane ivan made landfall in the u.s. mainland it's now been downgraded to a tropical depression. cuba has confirmed that ten people have been killed there by hurrican over the weekend it takes the death toll in the caribbean to thirty eight

rescuers say some of died after ignoring evacuation orders british m.p.'s have given their first approval to a bill that would give ministers powers to bypass parliament and create new rules the government says it's essential to allow the u.k. to leave the european union smoothly but critics will undermine democracy. what tomorrow's congress has protected president jimmy morale is from facing trial for irregular finances during his election campaign and voted to keep his immunity from prosecution despite a congressional committee arguing against it the committee found evidence that at least eight hundred thousand dollars he received wasn't registered last month guatemala began a corruption trial against his brother and son but more oil services have been held in the u.s. to mark sixteen years since the september eleventh attacks. victims' relatives survivors and rescuers gathered at the world trade center.