into someone else's one. inspiring document with. al-jazeera. tens of thousands of in if you know the us is a saving american lives during the clinton 19. he came to the us for a better life but it won't cost. 11 least investigate it's just. the way. al-jazeera. hello i'm fully back to go this is the news hour live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes if you'll be as water minister says the failing of the controversial grand renaissance dam megaprojects on the blue nile has begun. manias foreign minister says international mediators are attempting to find

a truce softer 3 days of fighting with troops from azerbaijan celebrations for some prisoners of war in libya 16 of them go home in a swap between the warring sides and a european court sides with our poll in a setback to efforts to crack down on tax deals favoring multinationals i'm joining us roscoe with the sports world cup organizes release the schedule for the 20 twentieth's here cats all tournament for the 1st time there will be 4 matches a day in the group stages all have all the details coming up this hour. thank you for joining us we begin with breaking news this hour after months of negotiations and failed talks with egypt and sudan ethiopia's government says it started to fill the reservoir of africa's largest down on the blue nile the $5000000000.00 mega project is the centerpiece of ethiopia's. bed to become

africa's biggest power exporter egypt and sudan fear reduce water supplies downstream and didn't want the river dammed until they reach an agreement with ethiopia last month egypt's told the u.n. that it faces an existential threat from the projects so don stands to benefit from the project still through access to cheap electricity and reduce flooding but it also has raised fears over the dams operation if you o.p.'s says more than 60 percent of the country's dry land with no sustaining water resources and that is best for needs says that stratford lays out the politics behind the dam. it's taken 10 years to build and cost close to $5000000000.00 if you hope is flagship infrastructure project is a great source of national pride. but a grand ethiopian renaissance on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start beekeeping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country

which has a population of around 108000000 the country plans to expose christie across the region and says the dam will stop seasonal flooding in neighboring sudan. but egypt says there are a number of outstanding legal issues that lead resolving filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat it does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on the nile for 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each region barratry and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amount of what they produce and the amount of water they can shoot. and with a rapidly growing population of over 100000000. to this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because it's the source of the blue nile the

largest of the river gnarls tributaries if you appeal was never included in a colonial era agreement between egypt and sudan the gives the lion's share of water to egypt there are many finely balanced calculations including internal political ones that reply you know if you don't really need the other big you have i'll be outmanned haven't come into power in 2018 he wants to secure his position and you know be reelected in future elections in europe yeah in egypt you have president sisi with you know an economy that has had been struggling but also he needs to ensure that he has the continued backing of the military establishment country which of course has an important role in the. economy. in late june ethiopia rejected a u.n. security council meeting requested by egypt saying the council should not be involved at all ethiopia's u.n. ambassador said the dispute should be solved at

a regional level african union talks hosted by science africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he g.o.p. did not sign of the final document ethiopia always said that it would have preferred agreement before it begins to fill the reservoir but if that wasn't possible it would go ahead anyway it just potential huge security implications for the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt of repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day charles trafford. or let's bring in our correspondent in sudan he morgan who joins us from northern states have any confirmation or reaction from so denny's officials to this news that ethiopia has indeed started filling the ground

renaissance down. one for we are all now on the dam in egypt to see their reactions now that it's official and that is your has started feeling its grandam so there is yet to react but yesterday we've seen a true statement saying that after a 2 week meeting between 2 weeks of virtual meeting between today and if you're here in egypt it has submitted its report to the prime minister just like egypt has submitted its reports the prime minister in ethiopia as well and they have taken that forward to the head of the african union the president of south africa real ramaphosa hoping that he would bring the 3 countries together in a mini summit so that they would be able to discuss the outstanding issues now those outstanding issues for egypt of course is the amount of water that will be flowing downstream once if you start feeling that some are bad this is not now that this is happening there is still no deal about how much water will be released from the dam and how much will be stored in the dam annually there's also the issue of

what will happen during the growth in sudan on the other hand is concerned about them if those that want to bring them into the boat 100 kilometers away and it's worried about the safety of the operation of the ground if you can when it's on them and if you've been has failed to provide any guarantees that there will be no failures in terms of operations but sudan also stands to benefit from this project as it not here but. yes it does indeed stand to benefit for you now sudan faces an issue of power outages that's happening regularly almost daily in most parts of the capital hard to him and other states says is that with if you can fill in filling the dam it will be able to export power to sudan so that it will be able to reach areas of the country that has yet to be part of the power grid now it also stands to face some columns in terms of filling of the dam let's not forget that a lot of the agricultural lands that sudan has is lies on the banks of the blue and

the white nile both run through sudan before the meet up and then go forward towards north to egypt and along those banks there are a lot of agricultural projects now most of them suffer from seasonal flooding if european has said that would stop with the feeling of the dam however farmers they they need that flooding in that flooding that makes the story more fertile therefore helps them produce more says they're concerned that once the dam spilling starts regulating the nile they will not be able to get that fill that they say they get from the river to have more fertile lands and therefore their crops will be producing less all right here thank you very much for the moment of course we'll go back to you once it's reaction from the sudanese government morgan is our correspondent in sudan let's not turn to al-jazeera as mohammed via has covered this story for a sick sense of unease here in doha earlier this week there were ethiopian media reports of course that ethiopia had started filling the grand renaissance dam which the ethiopian government denied but today we have the water minister confirming that the operation has indeed began this is happening at

a particularly sensitive time at a particular context in ethiopia isn't it. i've been a trooper a few months ago and i can tell you that this issue of the day is the most important subject for discussion within each open every household remember that for many years since the launching of the construction of the day the choppiness were made to be involved on an individual level in the construction of the p. he meant of the cost of so-called bonds which were purchased by individuals even household mothers single mothers every kind of people people who are not even who didn't have jobs so every child can was made to look at this his own particularly personal interest personal issue i can tell you from my readings and from the discussions with each o.p.'s when i was there that you know since the

independence since the war of independence against italy this is perhaps the most unifying subject in terms of nationalist orientations and it is in crucial need of this at the moment remember that it is a country of nations and nations who are disunited around religion around politics around regional regional interests and this is a historic moment for the prime minister the summit europeans consider him more courageous than the now we who launched the idea in the 1st place because the the decision to filter down to start filling the dam needs more courage in their view than the decision to start building in the 1st place because now the reality of the day is seen by egyptians and by people who are opposed to it and the momentum of the of the egyptian opposition is also at its peak so this is the moment. as they say to finish the job that has been started by the military several years ago so

a unifying project then as far as ethiopia is concerned a way to unify the country for the government egypt as we know has been famously opposed to this project to the grand renaissance dam going as far as the united nations asking for the u.n. to intervene how will the egyptians reacting now you think that the ethiopians have actually started filling the dam without having reached an agreement with egypt and sudan. well it's it's very clear now that the egyptians are facing a situation of you know a fait accompli they have been in denial they were in denial at the beginning of the 1st few years of the construction saying that it couldn't be done the your pose the they did not recognize it and then they came to the negotiation table at a certain stage they signed on some framework agreements so that means they agreed in principle of the dam could be constructed but they wanted conditions they wanted

to. to be given some guy on t.v. so you know as the years went by we have seen egyptians giving more and more concessions right now we can see nothing practical on the ground that they can see they can't stop i don't think they can stop the filling of the dam of the moment so it is a fait accompli as i said now the they're going to try to go ahead with the negotiations are going to try to put more pressure on the each opens through the united nations or through the united states or the world bank and that's the only approach they have the we have seen. egyptians being more busy with libya recently and that's a criticism that has been leveled against the politics of president argued for cissie that he shouldn't divide his attention at a moment when egypt needed to focus all its attention on the problem of the dam and the negotiation with each opiah so i mean egyptians are sad but they have see the

seeing the government having this divided attention and many of them think that you know it's going to be very difficult to reverse the right course of events at the moment right thank you for that. live here in doha well you know ethiopia is largest hydroelectric project has been controversial as you heard there since its beginning in 2011 he now is alex topless with more on where the concerns lie for egypt tends to die. ethiopia's largest hydroelectric project has been controversial since its beginning in 2011 but what is it about the grand ethiopian money songs down that has egypt and sudan so concerned let's start with what it can do for ethiopia itself a country of more than $109000000.00 people its economy is one of the fastest growing in the world or roughly 10 percent a year for the last 15 years if you piers energy demands of kept pace but only 27 percent of the country is currently connected to the national grid this dam the

largest in africa spans the blue nile and will produce a whopping $6450.00 gigawatts when it's fully operational 3 times as much as he chips as one high dam giving ethiopia the ability to connect every single citizen to the electricity grid drive its economy and still have energy left over to export to its neighbors sudan djibouti somalia and kenya so far so good then what is the issue a big dam needs a big reservoir and this one will be huge 1840 square kilometers it will hold more than 2 and a half times the amount of water in lake tana ethiopia's largest lake and the source of the blue nile the dam will take years to fill and the fear is it will reduce the water flowing downstream to sudan and egypt currently 86 percent of the blue nile flows from ethiopia the river provide 77 percent of fresh water for sea done and 93 percent of egypt's if there is

a reduction in the water flowing through these desert countries it could have a serious impact on agriculture and livelihoods other hydroelectric projects like egypt as one high dam currently producing 6 percent of egypt's electricity would also be greatly affected. egypt and sudan's populations are rapidly growing and with them the resource needs but for the few pia the $4000000000.00 is a way out of poverty and an end to decades of rolling blackouts with global warming and changing weather patterns managing scarce resources is becoming increasingly volatile. topless al jazeera. let's now bring in our will is a senior lecturer at key university and is anonymous on the horn of africa his via skype from here in the u.k. thank you very much for being with us i know we've talked to you about this issue a lot in recent weeks and recent months why do you think for a c. theo pia would start filling the ground when a stance dam without having reached an agreement with egypt and sudan why now.

well i think if your husband knew we should include a considerable period of time. if it is hoping to the region you have a disagreement on this issue but the divisions insisted on this idea of historic rights and current were to be used will be given 1st to the 95th 92 didn't it it. didn't include it should be and gave the lion's share of what are. you sure this wanted to be the starting point of the british invasion that all these undermines european scholarly right to exploit it's a note for shortest to get to negotiated it seems to be the decision of the kids that i think that middle ground between the 2 countries is diminishing time to tie us divisions continue to insist all the points so i think. the european

point of view the only way to forcing you to negotiating table and genuinely negotiating what if it is to start. but is this not going to further heighten tensions a few weeks ago warned of a possible conflict even asking the u.n. to get involved will it go as far as that or is negotiating still possible. well the divisions are already asking the security council a security council is huge because the mother shows wanted the council to look at these. 2 international peace and security most culturally in the next weeks they want security council to be a chapter 7 mandate which basically treats the situation as its way to international peace and security and therefore puts you appear. under international scrutiny but frankly you know i simply don't see how that situation constitutes

a traitor to international peace and security in his mind who wants or may continue to use powerful actors lou treasure it is so that you as an international financial institutions to put pressure on you tube and you tube in government but if you're a big government doesn't seem to have a lot of room for maneuver because it is surely public support and it is stroke only prayer all the government to get on a task. so i don't see how that works for you let's talk about ethiopia or a bit more you talk about the strong public support that this project has and this is coming at a particularly significant time in ethiopia and sensitive time the current context if you will tell us a bit more about what is happening inside the country right now and why the prime minister would decide to go ahead with this at this particular time. so my anyway the situation is that feeling the hot and be projected to start

this. bus months in advance and it is very. cold for all the losses i've been assassinated or that assassination was perceived to be political not just to. tell you what it was but also by the government the prime minister looks at and forces wounded and states to be working with external forces i understand it refers to external forces to be idiots in the past when governments encourage external forces that was. the cause or the prime minister so the problem is that he's referring to it in the situation meanwhile egypt's does have the motivation and the capacity to destabilize ethiopia but the government how to really provide evidence to link such an issue of the artists to egypt so it would be equally as will be a difficult period in the prime minister is not as popular as he used to be with he

came to power in the 1st for you know how. one year of him come into power but as far as the dumb is concerned it was all the difficulties and start to try to do so and so this is because financing some of the done is concerned it the majority of europeans are on this in the east if you're going to be right to freedom and it's that. thank you very much for talking to us alan annele and giving us your insight on this story they appreciate your time thank you. by now the world news who theme medical sources in yemen say 24 civilians including women and children have been killed in a saudi in iraq t.s. strike 7 others were reportedly injured as coalition aircraft attacked homes in some it's being reported that a wedding was taking place in the area at the time we'll have more on the story when more information becomes available and we've got lots more ahead on this news

hour including an al-jazeera investigation uncovers shocking new revelations about the number of infants who died in the so-called mother and baby homes in ireland china threatens to retaliate after president trump imposes new american sanctions and hong kong special status and as tiger woods prepares to return to competitive golf for the 1st time in 5 months or get his you on the black flies matter movements. 11 soldiers from azerbaijan into from armenia have been killed in the latest fighting at the border that began on sunday the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s. over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh and tensions have simmered have a sense robin foresee walker reports. large crowds

of protesters in demanding the usery government declares war on media. demonstrators managed to enter parliament early on wednesday and were dispersed. the crowds are highly unusual tightly controlled as if i join an indication of the national mood the. an army general was one of 11 as there is servicemen killed in 3 days of fighting on the border with armenia the armenian government reports the deaths of 4 personnel. both sides accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities as ery missile strikes on armenian positions. armenians shooting down as airy drone. c program. civilian areas are also being shelled what i think many many with whole story of them going precious is where it was the very area that sleeper created by

significant religious are like it it's right next to a train or between that and was extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer from that korean. military activity. the latest fighting is north of the disputed territory of the going to occur internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan it's controlled by armenian forces some 30000 people died in the regional war between the former soviet republics in the 1990 s. as a by chance president ilham aliyev says international peace talks have led nowhere how to get to go to think in armenia as prime minister nichol passion yan hughes's as a by john of in danger in regional stability. this is the biggest escalation since a 4 day conflict in april 26th seen russia and iran have offered to mediate but

turkey says it stands with azerbaijan unless the renewed fighting can be resolved the risk of a wider conflict grows robin 1st steelworker al-jazeera in an interview with al-jazeera armenia's foreign minister said the priority now is to find a peaceful solution so rob men swat kyin county i say is the conflicts can be allowed to escalate any further. it's a very dangerous development over the past days since 12 july when there was an alternative infantry until tradition by there was ever going to force of this through the armenian geraghty to the north east for media and the use of chemical artillery. and to fire the dangers of escalation which we have now and. the. attempts to deescalate are a priority now this is what we're working for and this is what we're working with

the corps chairs of the o.e.c.d. needs group which comprises france russia and the united states this is the priority now we need to deescalate because while a media spoke about us to defend i mean yet remains very little to they're going to care about but war is not an alternative there is no alternative to the peaceful settlement mary made committed to us and will work towards the escalation and establishing an environment which helps an atmosphere which helps. peace and we share favor stayed negotiating process meanwhile as a by johnny officials blame on media for the escalation. is assistant to the president john and head of the foreign policy department at the presidential administration he told on jazeera that top p.c.c. priority but all media needs to answer for its actions. doesn't win is committed was a peaceful resolution of the council of baseball's international law and dozens of

dream of course emus group which aired but has armenia but on the minds of those in negotiation and substance of the negotiations and also the armenian prime minister sitting with mubarak or what is armenia isn't an exact undermining of the negotiation process it's a reaffirmation of the poles of annexation or the solitary there is of azerbaijan and it's also the serious threat to the mediation process and the. group or 2 countries as a widget is always going to interest that is a peaceful resolution of all matters but your response a little eyes on her minions are is an armenia has started with attention and escalation is a border area and therefore as a wedge and is also in concert was a voice emus group which are countries and also regional countries and we have an extensive diplomatic counter was a russia and. member countries and also some of the original cancers in general as i went on supports in a peaceful resolution of the council it and it was in that existing framework and

poor much of the negotiations but of course an armenian has started an armenian be as a responsible of the army should also. explain the reasons why it was probably question have been acquired from this site prisoners of war in libya have been swapped the internationally recognized government of national accord and forces loyal to warlord highly faffed are each exchange 8 prisoners in misrata they describe as one of the triplet catherine fighters celebrating at home with his family after being released as for game mom or dad dad will hide in tripoli for us so mom would how significant is this latest present exchange. will fully it seems that it is only significant for the prisoners theran release their colleagues their friends neighbors maybe because it does not have any impact on their negotiations it does not have any consequences on both warring factions the

d.n.a. or how often as you know that this exchange of prisoners happened due to efforts made by tribal leaders or social media it was from both sides without any rule from the rival factions for neither from the jenae or the have to cite the exchange according to a tribal leaders in the city of misrata was initiated a month ago by have to the site. to exchange aide prisoners for 8 from their side as you know that these prisoners were taken captives during the military campaign the fighting in southern tripoli that lasted over the past year but remember this is not the 1st time tribal leaders tell us that they have been engaged in. exchanging up operations during the 14 month battle that failed to take control of their capital of tripoli in fact the red

crescent. in libya was a mediator to exchange of corpses from both sides during their military campaign. we have of course on the ground right now the forces making significant great gains against have times forces have been accusations are foreign interference the us government we have now today accusing russian mercenaries of planting landmines in maybe year what more can you tell us about this. well this has been also stressed by this statement to me by the u.s. africa command which is. accusing get russian mercenaries the russian sponsored wagner's mysteries of planting landmines in residential areas in and around tripoli and down to the strategic city of sirte in fact at the u.s. africa command says that this is not only

a violation of the embargo imposed on libya but also indeed drink the lives of innocent civilians as you know that dozens of innocent civilians families children women were killed by these learned my is in southern tripoli after there was the will of the russian most rees along side have those forces from southern tripoli in it last june but on the other hand the. the russian mercenaries are not only accused of planting landmines but also all the accused of fermenting and intensifying the conflict by deploying 14 meg aircrafts according to the africa command the u.s. africa command which says that it has imagery and intelligence assessment proved that russia has been intervening in the libyan affair thank you ma'am word for that is our correspondent in tripoli. let me 7 ships have caught fire at

a port in southern iran no casualties are being reported by local media in greece share how the fire started isn't known yet and the latest in a series of explosions that iranian military nuclear and industrial facilities within the past month. still ahead on this news hour he is utterly incapable. of leading this country. harsh criticism from donald trump's niece who says the president should resign. and lesson learned the trumpet ministration tronson plans to force him out if classes are taught online. and where there's a will there's a way palin builds his own pool to train during the corn a virus that's coming up since horse with joe.

al of the harvey fizz definitely disallow and i write on the edge of the southwest monsoon there is cloud elsewhere and you might well see a shower to generate in western saudi yemen otherwise it's hot and dry of course this orange sheen here is an estimate of how much dust has been picked up in a fairly weak blowing through iraq draw security down the eastern side of saudi towards doha doha's temperatures around the low forty's has been quite human recently there's no reason why that should particularly change temperatures dropped back a bit. but they were run the 50 mark e.q.'s are about 4647 most iraq and kuwait and western iran is cooler actually throughout the sahara as lot more cloud of violence a hell clumps of showers been moving through with in particular wet recently in cameron cameron in nigeria the forecast show is all there and they've come a long way north you've noticed so for example in guinea and in the kenya. pretty

big showers next day it was a that is consistent with this time of the year the rough weather has blown through cape town that's this frontal system which has become very weak weak however it will introduce cloud and rain to parts of zimbabwe mozambique and even sudden tanzania nothing too severe that. in the conclusion of the 2 part series people in paris vesta gates allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic with babies the church realized the babies that are the could be sold to america a scouting quite they use and reveals shocking new evidence of how and when have religious orders disposed of those who died thank you torn in the system like this fund church and state are committed to keep the church from coming helps islands mother and baby scandal on al-jazeera what is the price of luxury.

an undercover team travels deep into the illegal cocoa plantations of the ivory coast simple solutions are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor culture chocolates hearts of darkness and count as unpatrolled labor is working in a 100000000000 dollar industry well overhaul of the country's cocoa produces live below the poverty line coming soon. forget. this. welcome back our top stories on this al-jazeera news hour some breaking news out of yemen where hoofy medical sources say 27 civilians including women and children

have been killed in a saudi and iraqi airstrike 7 others were reportedly injured as coalition aircraft attacked homes in a high in northwest yemen it's being reported that a wedding was taking place in the area at the time fighting between armenia and azerbaijan has killed a total of 13 soldiers from both sides and at least one civilian the 2 former soviet republics have been in conflict over an enclave inside azerbaijan controlled by ethnic armenians and in libya a prisoner exchange has taken place between the government of national order and forces loyal to warlord jaime for hopped on the side swapped 8 prisoners each on wednesday morning in misrata these images are of a tripoli government fighter after he was released. but china is vowing to retaliate after the u.s. president announced new measures to hold beijing accountable donald trump has revealed sanctions against chinese officials over the recent national security law

imposed in hong kong announcement came after the u.k. banned chinese tech giant while way from its new high speed broadband network citing concerns about security katrina you has our report from beijing. hong kong is known as asia world city but the u.s. government says that nickname no longer applies washington has revoked the territories special economic status as punishment for the newly imposed national security law. from now on says the u.s. it will treat hong kong like mainland china the chinese government has condemned the move saying it will respond with sanctions we're not going to up hold our legitimate interests china will make the necessary respond. to sanction the relevant personnel and entities of the us side we are the us to correct mistakes and to not implement this act and stop interfering in china's internal affairs critics say the new security stripped of its freedoms and autonomy guaranteed to 50

years in the 1997 handover agreement with the u.k. . the chinese government says law abiding residents and business people won't be affected but several companies are moving forward with plans to relocate including the new york times which is shifting some of its operations to south korea china has also hit back at the u.k. government for banning chinese telecom company hallway from its 5 g. networks warning that chinese investors should reconsider doing business there. so . this is about the u.k. at all costs politicizing commercial and technology issues this is about china facing major threats in its investment security in the u.k. and it's about our confidence in whether the u.k. markets can remain open fair and nondiscriminatory. us president donald trump has taken credit for britain freezing out. we confronted untrustworthy chinese

technology and telecom providers we convinced many countries many countries and i did this myself for the most part not to use while away britain's government says its decision has nothing to do with donald trump but that hasn't convinced china officials here in beijing say the u.k. is co-leading with the u.s. to oppress chinese businesses and warns that china will do whatever it takes to protect its companies and core interests chinese state media says any retaliation against the u.k. should be painful and a public a warning to other countries the china won't be bullied however china moves forward it faces an uphill diplomatic battle in a world filled with increasing tension and fewer friends catrina you al-jazeera beijing. in the past hour the u.s. secretary of state my pompei who has spoken again about the situation in the south

china sea saying it's a situation that has shifted dramatically the u.s. says most of china's actions in the disputed area are completely false for more on this let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hockett kimberly pompei of reiterating u.s. support to countries that believe china has violated territorial rights in the south china sea. but stepping up the pressure folly once again the secretary of state building on the actions of region recent days towards china a by the trumpet ministration the latest coming from the u.s. secretary of state saying that the united states stands firmly with its southeast asian allies against china with regard to those claims it has made in the south china sea as well we should point out that the secretary of state is saying that the mechanism for resolving these claims needs to happen one of 2 ways either in a legal form or in a multilateral form here's what the secretary of state had to say. it's not

china's maritime empire if beijing violates international law and free nations do nothing then history shows that the c.c.p. will simply take more territory that happened in the last administration. our statement gives significant support to us in leaders who have declared that the south china sea disputes must be resolved through international law not might makes right what the c.c.p. does to the chinese people is bad enough but the free world shouldn't tolerate beijing's abuses as well and can be more pressure on the chinese tech giant while away with the trumpet ministration threatening to impose visa restrictions on its executives. yeah that's the headline that the united states says that it's going a step further once again it has accused huawei of backdoor espionage that is why it's not allowed in the united states the secretary of state applauding the decision by the u.k. to isolate walk away from its 5 g.

network by 2027 the accusation coming from the secretary of state is that while way is supportive of the chinese communist party that it accuses of engaging in human rights abuses not just in the region but globally and so that is why these visa restrictions against huawei employees have been announced by the united states and as we've been reporting this comes just one day after the u.s. president signing a bill over concerns about hong kong's national security law and also stripping hong kong of its preferential trading status so as we've reported katrina you in her report noting that beijing is promising a response it is just the latest in the tit for tat curative measures coming from both sides in a very increasingly acrimonious relationship thank you very much for that kimberly how good life or is the white house. and the trump administration has dropped its plans to deport international students courses more fully on line because of the coronavirus pandemic the decision follows

a federal lawsuit or send opposition from hundreds of universities victoria gates and b. of reports. to the hundreds of thousands of foreign students in the united states the trumpet ministrations u. turn is a huge relief and a victory they say for common sense that when it's a big win it's a quick win but i would say that there is a lot to be done and i am going to take this stage a celebrated and well i might break out what else difference earlier this month the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency or ice announced visas would be withdrawn from foreign students and they be forced to leave the country in the autumn if the studies were moved entirely online harvard university and the massachusetts institute of technology opposed the policy and filed a series of lawsuits backed by 17 states the district of columbia and some of america's leading firms including google facebook and microsoft democratic senator

elizabeth warren called the policy in a phobic in the face of widespread opposition the trumpet ministration backed down on cheese day but not soon enough for many foreign students. and humane and unfair because most of us have question we're any sign at least we're. late to do anything at this point the timing of that memo was really center and humane. international students are a major source of revenue for u.s. colleges but analysts say trump's now abandoned policy risk more than just money if you look at the foreign students you have more than 2 100000 of them coming from india more 250000 coming from south korea and we're going to 30000 coming from saudi arabia these are students from countries that are very close to the united states in training the featured eaters of this country also means a lot for american super soft power and its social linkages with this countries.

the coronavirus pandemic is closing up people worldwide trumps critics accuse his administration of using it to fast track his immigration policies the students caught in the middle the future now looks a little most the victoria gates and the. tech giant apple is celebrating a big win in iowa and the european high court has ruled apple doesn't have to pay $15000000000.00 in taxes as a bill for the european union's pharmacist a crackdown on tots avoidance judges rule that it hasn't been proven that apple had an illegal tax arrangement with islands government and use shell companies to post the under decay of profits that has the latest on the ruling from london. multinationals could often choose to pay tax on their revenues around the european union in $1.00 country where they have a regional headquarters in apple's case like other big companies that was in ireland so the commission back then ordered apple to pay back for

a gross underpayment of tax on profits from 2003 to 2014 it said that basically the company had created 2 shell companies to hire eat their profits now this is a big win for apple as it stands the company had really who the idea that they'd sort to avoid tax the irish or forty's have welcomed this decision they said ireland has always been clear there was no special treatment provided the opposition in ireland the main opposition should fain have said it's a bad day for the taxpayer there as well as morally a terrible day and the european ringback commission itself hasn't necessarily given up the fight they're saying it they don't know how long it will take for them to make a decision on whether to continue this case but it could impact on others there are people looking into the tax affairs of companies like nike and ikea around the

european union right now it's a very very important for the european commission to be seen to be taking a stand to make big companies pay their fair share of tax particularly given the huge numbers involved in this covered 19 recovery fund which they're trying to create right now. al-jazeera has uncovered shocking new revelations about the number of infants who died at the hands of catholic religious orders in ireland they're part of a 3 month investigation into the so-called mother and baby homes it's estimated as many as 6 hours and children could be buried in unmarked graves in ireland it found that in the grounds of one home the nuns appear to have put a sewage tank on top of the remains of children who died in their care and in another home the nuns may have misled a commission of inquiry as to where the bodies of children are buried. has this exclusive report. 6 years old from the discovery of 800 babies bodies in sewage tanks under a form a mother and baby home in the arse town of chim and the state commission to

investigate what really happened still has yet to report but choose seems to be the tip of the iceberg. this is like all such homes women who become pregnant out of marriage were ordered to come here. because huge this is your 1st impression when you walk in it's like a state and surrender their babies to the nuns for adoption while they were made to work in the laundry as a punishment for their sins. this is the 1st time a film crew has entered the. going to just start the waves rock briars of the flea in the 1980 s. michael was a groundsman he was asked by the nuns to clear a patch of land for what is now a so-called angels plots a place to commemorate the children who died of things like malnutrition in the home turned over to god and i just know it's life and was born of the nuns claim 269 babies died here the last in 1904 yet official records say the actual figure is over a 1000 so where are they we've established the existence of

a burial pits for unbaptized children whose deaths are recorded anywhere and it's believed a sewage tank has been laid in the angel's plot as well it's an echo of what happened to you. are we prepared to allow this level of just the question baby died do we really we. are. we are not even going to. let another home best confidential irish health service document show just how many infants died in the care of the nuns in one year the death rate was 82 percent 900 babies died here yet only 64 recorded the nuns say they can't remember where the rest of but this official maps suggest the existence of a children's burial plots right here you can see the indentations from the air i don't believe for one second they don't know where the burial grounds are and i don't believe for one second that they don't how far records of everything that happened

in the process we came across a workman who'd been asked to dig up the site right next to where the graves appear to be are you worried about think it where he had no way of knowing but for the relatives of those who died here it amounts to tampering with a potential crime scene for you know very on the question. for the relatives the idea that the remains of thousands of children scattered around orland shouldn't really be a matter for a civil commission of inquiry and so it should be something for these people the police. there were 14 mother and baby homes in ireland our investigation has raised concerns about a number of them but by no means all the irish state commission has an opportunity to reveal the truth about what happened throughout the 20th century with all the implicit criticism of the role of the catholic church in society whether it will remains an open question and to decide to release its own findings. only al-jazeera in and and you can watch more of lawrence investigation into islands mother and

baby scandal on people in power made to this wednesday at 2230 g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera. and still ahead on the program we know now know which stadium will open the 2022 world cup in qatar will have the details of the new schedule that's just been mini scumming up next.

tempest horse has joe thank you well that's a much schedule has been released for the 20 times to well and cats it's been designed to reduce impact on the european football season and organizers hope the

total act as a global celebration of overcoming the current virus pandemic david stokes reports . we now know that this is where the cattle world cup will kick off at 1 pm on november 21st 2022 the elbe 8 stadium which in arabic translates as the house will be home to $60000.00 friends for the start of the world's biggest sports event the tournament shuttle is different this time as there will be 4 games every day during the group stage the 1st in world cup history being a compact country scheduling 4 matches a day is going to be quite unique it's going to give people the opportunity to attend more than one much ado people who aren't attending the world cup get to watch the world cup a very convenient times just by the fact of qatar as a location in the region or in the world means that about 3500000000 people get to watch the world cup but very convenient times. games will kick off at 1 pm doha

time 4 pm 7 pm and 10 pm meaning that some will still either past midnight with extra time or delays it's the 1st world cup to be played in november and december but this condensed format allows the whole thing to be completed in $28.00 days rather than the $32.00 used last time in russia which limits the disruption to the european domestic football season most teams will get 3 days off between games but in the knockout stage some will only get 2 days of recovery this will be the middle east's 1st world cup and organizers for leave it has taken on extra significance given what's taking place across the world right now especially considering it we're coming out of cover now. 1000 i think i genuinely believe in the 1st global celebration we will collectively have overcome covert i will collectively be able to celebrate this tournament. and create a lasting bond and that's why i think it's it's when i was tired it was previously

significant i believe the significance has become even more the format is now in place but there's plenty of work left to do before the tournament gets underway in 858 days time both in terms of construction and getting teams qualified in a world struggling to cope with 19 david stokes al-jazeera. tiger woods will make his long awaited return to competitive golf this week for the 1st time in 5 months the 15 time major champion has been practicing in ohio ahead of the memorial tournament which he's won 5 times what's is one of the world's most famous sportsman is often reluctant to talk about politics or societal issues but this will be his 1st appearance since the death of george floyd and he's supportive of the black tribes matzoh campaign. movement and change is fantastic that's how society develops is how we grow to move forward so we are fairness and unfortunate we've we've lost innocent lives along the way hopefully it will be more in the

future as we move to a much better place socially woods' long break from golf was partly because of injury but mostly because the current virus pandemic he chose to stay away from the 1st 6 tournament since the p.g.a. tour restarts and knows it will be a very different atmosphere out there to what he used to. i just thought it was better stay home and be safe and you know i'm used to playing with lots of people in iran me or lots of people have a direct line to me and that puts now in myself in danger but you know my friends and family it was more of watching golf to see how it is down to see what our near future our reality is and this is the energy is different there's nothing to feed off of you make a big pile you make a big part make a big ship or hit a hell of a shot there's no one there i think this is going to set up for not just in

a short term but for for the forseeable future i'm sure tony when hosting 18 time major champion jack nicklaus is vowing that current virus won't get in the way of one of the tournament traditions of walk run out there just drip they don't want to shake my hand that's 5 or give a fist bump or elbow but you know. you know i'm not going to give a covert 19. and a star genesis combo says players have nothing to complain about inside the disney bubble in florida the greek says conditions a much better than he experienced growing up despite some plays complaining about the quality of food and their brooms in the walk a buck star is happy to return to the course and mit's his form needs to improve. i sucked. so i was there but. now you know thereby they try to get in shape. so if i marry them is obviously deep it's shaped that's what she thinks she's the mystical bless my partner increase

for my 4 brothers weighs more than the street that house holds those back playing bass or some there are a lot of doors so this is not in the region. now keeping mentally positive and physically in shape has been difficult for many athletes whose facilities have been shut down in the pandemic but one paralympics from a in argentina took matters into his own hands 18 year old's best in show has built his own makeshift pool in his backyard with the help of his dad using plastic sheets lokes an old tank and around 400 liters of water guy here who is part of his team of deaf swimmers is training to participate in next year's deaf lympics in brazil. all right that is all the sport for now with les later but it's back to play for now thank you very much joe for that that's it for this news hour on

al-jazeera do stay with us so i've got plenty more world news coming out for you after this very short break we'll be live from washington on the latest tensions between the u.s. and china to stay with us. as countries begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days thanks in front of the neighborhood and many feel the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall of it will probably get a little busy and there are few of us i can put in $1000.00 race if we bring you

the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus fund then a special coverage on a. al-jazeera meets for remarkable. survivalists after those closest to them were taken away never to return. some of the 8000 muslim men and boys killed in the stripper needs a massacre 25 years ago heartfelt accounts from those left behind trying to move on from the pain of the past women who refused to die on al-jazeera. the u.s. is a tipping point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 near us the world's leaders fail to agree upon a solution people are taking matters into their own.

which is significant because it's one of the songs that it kills people and it kills people now it's critically both fronts return to the people's doors on a jazeera because context is in the food in dead storytelling around the biggest issues but had to do you should do it again. it's just the u.s. secretary of state heads out of china again warning the world shouldn't tolerate what he calls beijing's abuses. i'm fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up if the o.p.'s says a failing of the controversial grand renaissance dam megaproject on the blue nile.