which is significant because when the sun that it kills people and it kills people now it's critically both fronts were to the people. only just 0 creature the. storytelling the biggest issues. to do with it. i am. sure the u.s. secretary of state of china again warning the world shouldn't tolerate what he calls of usis. i'm fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up ethiopia says a failing of the controversial grand renaissance dam megaproject on the blue nile

has begun i mean his foreign minister says international mediators are attempting to find a truce softer 3 days of fighting with troops from azerbaijan. and celebrations for some prisoners of war in libya 16 of them go home in a swap between the warning sign. we begin with the growing tensions between china and the united states beijing is vowing to retaliate after the u.s. president announced new measures to hold china accountable donald trump has revealed sanctions against chinese officials over the recent national security law and polls in hong kong trumps announcement came after the u.k. beyond chinese tech giant while way from its new high speed more bang network citing concerns about security katrina you begins our coverage with this report from beijing. hong called is known as asia's world city. but the u.s.

government says that nickname no longer applies washington has revoked the territory 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 would see in the end to up hold our legitimate interests china will make the necessary responses to sanction the relevant personnel and entities of the us side we are the u.s. to correct mistakes and to not implement this act and stop interfering in china's internal affairs critics say the new security law strips hong kong 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 that. 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. u.s. 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 cool looting with the u.s. to oppress chinese businesses and warns that china will do whatever it takes to protect its companies and interests chinese state media says any retaliation against the u.k. should be painful and a public warning to other countries the china would be bullied however china moves forward it faces an uphill diplomatic battle in a world filled with increasing tension and few friends katrina you al-jazeera beating on a spring in our white house correspondent kimberly hauck at my forest in washington can believe u.s. secretary of state has again been speaking about china and doubling down on the criticism and sanctions now in china. the number of announcements made by the u.s. secretary of state with respect to the territorial disputes of the south china sea mike pompei o building on his announcement on monday that the united states rejects china's

claims in the south china sea now saying that the united states stands with its southeast asian allies in their territorial claims saying that the disputes with regard to territory or maritime issues needs to be resolved one of 2 ways either in a legal forum or in a multilateral forum such as the aussie on organize a ship that is an amalgamation of 10 different southeast asian nations the reason the united states says it is taking this stance is order to throw its weight behind those nations and assist with those claves 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 or

statement give significant support to us and 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 the pressure continues also kimberly on chinese companies know to be while way the chinese tech giant what way has been in the sights of u.s. politicians for years they accuse it of domestic surveillance and backdoor espionage that is why is banned in the united states now the secretary of state applauding a similar decision by the united kingdom boris johnson say that they will work to isolate wall way by 2027 from the 5 g. network the u.s. secretary of state applauding that announcement but also making announcements of his own with respect to wall way saying that they are now putting in place these are restrictions against some huawei employees accusing the company of providing

material support and encouraging human rights abuses globally now this of course comes as the united states just one day earlier the u.s. president signing a bill that not only protested the concerns over hong kong's national security law but also again here now saying now that there would be an end to the preferential trading status for hong kong what we can see from all of these measures in recent days and weeks is that the united states is continuing this tit for tat relationship in terms of punitive measures against china only adding to the acrimonious relationship thank you very much for that company how good life for us at the white house. in other world news 11 soldiers from azerbaijan into from armenia have been killed in the latest fighting at the border which began on sunday the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s.

over the disputed region of the garden all kind of back and tension a cement edison's all been foreseen walker has our report was no was large crowds of protesters in demanding the government declares war on armenia 7 demonstrators managed to enter parliament early on wednesday and were dispersed the crowds are highly unusual in tightly controlled as it by john an indication of the national mood of the. an army general was one of 11 as ery 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 every missile strikes on armenian positions. armenians shooting down as airy drones.

'd civilian areas are also being shelled what i think many many with whole story of them going question is whether it was the very area that's fully printed by significant religious are like it it's right next to the military train or between that and this is extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer a problem that all glory in our military activities. 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 accuses as a by john of in danger in regional stability. this is the biggest escalation

since a 4 day conflict in april 26th the 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 and an interview with al-jazeera arminius foreign ministers try to set the priority now is to find a peaceful solution as a mensa county and says the conflicts can't be allowed to escalate any farther. so a very dangerous development over the past days since 12th joy when there was an alternative infant to be until tracing by there's ever been a force of this through the armenian territory to the north east of where media and the use of ranch come about artillery. and to fight 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 chair so they always see a means to 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 the us and will work towards the escalation and establishing an environment which helps an atmosphere which helps. peace and we share favor stay go say to brussels. as a by johnny officials blame armenia for the escalation he met taji of his assistant to the president of azerbaijan and head of the foreign policy department at the presidential administration he told johnson he told on to syria that peace is the

priority but amin yet needs to answer for its actions. doesn't when is committed was a peaceful resolution of the council based on international law and dozens of dream of course emus group which aired but as armenia on the minds of those in negotiation and substance of the negotiations and also the armenian prime minister sitting with mubarak era is armenia isn't an exact undermining of the negotiation process it's a reaffirmation of the poles of annexation of the solitary there is of azerbaijan and it's also this respect to the mediation process. where as a group or 2 countries are within it's always been our interests it is a peaceful resolution of all matters but here is pulls a little eyes on her minions are is an armenian has started with attention and escalation is a border area and therefore azerbaijan is also in concert was a voice emus group which are countries and also regional countries and we have an

extensive diplomatic counter was that russia was always seen member countries and also some of the original cancers in general as a way john supports a peaceful resolution of the council and was in that existing framework and poor much of the negotiations but of course an armenian has started an armenian be as responsible of the army official also. explain the reasons why it was probably cation i have been a kurd from their side who the medical sources in yemen say 24 civilians including women and children have been killed in a saudi iraqi ass strike 7 others were reportedly injured as coalition aircraft attacked homes in our in the northwest of the country it's being reported that a wedding was taking place in the area at the time i say the head on al-jazeera plenty more well you know as we're back after this break.

hello it's going to rain again in japan and probably in q shoot but you got a few hours off at least the next pulse in this seasonal rain is developing in central and western china more or less following along the yangtze but there's the always going across the south of cuba and then heading up towards tokyo where it might just affect you or friday was no certainty that it may well just go off shore and leave cues you draw as well so the place to watch the next heavy rain in the most likely central china we've seen some nasty weather in sort of a series in the flooding and unfortunately deaths there are more showers to come on thursday but they are drifting slowly westwood's towards bony about how to get to friday it should be at least a dryer picture that the whole area looks rather dry the plenty of showers the west of that to the pick of course the monsoon weather up in india which seems to take

on the pattern which you might expect in the southwest the wind comes up against the west and gets a lot of high ground mountains if you are always on this side of the in this but the concentration and we saw this a few days ago might want to be a tropical depression certainly it suggests rather more heavy rain for the western side of good europe more flooding. capturing a moment in time. shots about a lot. of the stories why people are pretty calm when there is anyone chatting and providing a glimpse into someone else is what you are pursuing in the dream of off your life inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witnesses on al-jazeera. the i

am. there watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the u.s. secretary of state mike impale says the situation in the south china sea has shifted dramatically the u.s. has most of china's actions in the disputed area completely unlawful aging is vowing to retaliate after the u.s. president announced new measures to hold it accountable fighting between armenia and azerbaijan has killed a total of 13 soldiers from both sides and at least one civilians the 2 former soviet republics have been in conflict over an enclave inside azerbaijan controlled by ethnic armenian. now after months of negotiations and failed talks

with the age of 10 so don ethiopia's government says it's started to fail the reservoir of africa's largest them on the blue nile the $5000000000.00 mega project is a centerpiece of ethiopia's bid to become africa's biggest power exporter asia tends to don fear reduce water supplies downstream and didn't want the river downed until they reach an agreement with ethiopia last month age of still the un that it faces an existential threat from the dam it's a ban stands to benefit from the project though through access to cheap electricity and reduce flooding but it has also raised fears over the dams operation if the o.p.'s is more than 60 percent of the country's dry land with no sustaining water resources and that it therefore needs system. for days out the politics behind the project. it's taken 10 years to build and cost close to $5000000000.00 if you o.p.'s flagship infrastructure project is

a great source of national pride. for the grand ethiopian renaissance time of 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 need resolving and filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat agent does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on for $0.90 of its fresh water needs and a larger share of the river runs through direction. and what we have had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amount they produce and humid. 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 hope it 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 finally balance calculations including internal political ones. you know if you don't really need the other big you have i 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 are 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. 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 un 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 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 just potential huge security implications for the entire region if you accuse egypt of repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day

charles stratford officer. don correspondent even morgan who's alive from a northern state in sudan. has there been any reaction or any confirmation from sudanese authorities to this news that ethiopia has indeed started filling the dam . yes indeed fully now we heard we we had a statement from sudan's ministry of irrigation and water is there are sources just hours just an hour after if you're to give the 1st confirmation that is indeed has started pulling its reservoir now sudan's minister were released a statement saying that it has been measuring the what's a level at the border at the sudan if you be a border and has realized that the. of 19000000 cubic meters which means that for its interpretation that the dams that the gates of the ground if you can run is on them as indeed have indeed been closed and that there is a war is now being filled so it has accused of taking unilateral moves let's not

forget that for the past 2 weeks the 3 countries have been holding virtual talks to try to reach a deal and it's ended on monday with the 3 countries and over reports to the african union into what i think for a summit think that it didn't see the purpose of the summit at the moment is wondering if there is worth if it is worth having one in the 1st place if you're starting to fill them so right now sudan is saying that it's going to look into what should come next because it's trying to make sure that it secures its water shares and secures its population ok bye thank you very much for that he morgan live for us from the northern states in sudan. to libya now where prisoners of war have been swapped to the internationally recognized government of national accord and also loyal to all of them have to exchange prisoners in misrata this latest video shows one of the tripoli government fighters celebrating at his home with his family. now the war in libya has created

a human rights situation that could potentially be reversible that's the song warning from the new york center for foreign policy affairs their new report goes on to say that the conflict has been exacerbated by warlords talk and its forces launch an offensive to take tripoli to capture tripoli in 2019 the un recognized government in tripoli with the backing of turkey has made significant gains in recent weeks but the center says foreign interference is playing out at the expense of the libyan people or let's speak to justin russell who's the principle director of the new york center for foreign policy affairs he's via skype from washington d.c. your report paints a very dire situation in libya of course as we've known i want to ask you 1st how the events of recent weeks and the gains made by government forces against a war tiny for have to have affected civilians and the human rights situation in libya. well our feeling is that there is

a dangerous game being played in libya at the expense of the libyan people we feel that the players involved such as russia such as turkey. are not looking at the right of the residents and citizens of libya as humans more so than as collateral. we've seen and the united nations mission in libya and we've seen we've heard the calls by. the u.n. general secretary by the general secretary the arab league who have said that violence and armed conflict is not going to being bringing peace and stability to the region. we've seen that general hop tars actions and his violations allegedly of human rights in the mass graves that we've seen in recent months. we

are still hopeful that there can be a peaceful solution we think the recent actions in the recent dialogue between the 2 parties are or are hopeful but writer still skeptical is far as that's concerned we had the u.s. today accusing russian mess mary's of planting land mines in libya you talked about foreign involvement to what extent has it made the conflict worse we've had turkey of course backing internationally recognized government and helping it in fact make the recent gains that it's made against have task force has have tossed a 40 by russians and so on how much has the foreign interference made the conflict worse. it's mainly because it's made extremely almost untenable as far as bringing libya to the point of it reversible human rights crisis. the the reality is that whether it is the turkish libyan joint maritime agreement or the of restive use of mercenaries by russia in the

conflict. either way any outside interference is not helping the situation right now however that being the case we do believe that the united nations we do believe that the arab league we do believe that other international organizations should be involved 'd must get involved and must bring in to the armed conflict and bring as peaceful and stabilize the solution to the region thank you very much for talking to us about this justin russell from the new york center for foreign policy affairs thank you for your time thank you for having me. us researchers say the 1st phase of testing an experimental coronavirus vaccine has shown promising safety results and produce an immune response a human trial run by the biotech company would test said the vaccine on $45.00

healthy volunteers there was always sea of 2 toes as had higher levels of virus fighting untie bodies compared with others hodes recovered from the corona virus no serious side effects were reported. and japan is calling on the united states to increase virus protection at its military bases there the governor of okinawa says his shocked by the infection of more than 130 american personnel based there japan's defense minister says many problems have been discovered within the u.s. military's coronavirus policy. in india corona virus infections are heading towards 1000000 other record day of new cases more than 21000 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours and at least 500 people have died local authorities in 12 states reimposing lockdowns in high risk areas include the tech hub of bengal which is shutting down for a week. u.s. president donald trump's administration has dropped its plans to deport

international students whose course is more fully on line because of the coronavirus funday make the decision follows 8 federal lawsuits in opposition from hundreds of universities victoria gate and be. 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 big win but i would say that there is a lot to be done and i am going to take this graded and tomorrow i might break out what else to. 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 on mine. 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 isn't a phobic in the face of widespread opposition the trumpet ministration backed down on cheese day but not soon enough for many foreign students it was any and humane and unfair because most of us have question we're a sign or at least says we're ready for classes to do anything at this point the timing of that memo is really and setter and humane international students are a major source of revenue for u.s. colleges but analysts say trump's now abandoned policy risked more than just money if you look at the foreign students you have more than 2 100000 of them coming from india more than 50000 coming from south korea more than 30000 coming from saudi arabia these are students from countries that are very close to the united states and training before he should either serve this country also means a lot for american super soft power and its social linkages with this country's.

the coronavirus pandemic is causing 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 more than the tory gates and the al-jazeera. as always more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on then i'll just read on. the again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera china says it will retaliate after the us president announced new sanctions over the national security law beijing has imposed on hong kong donald trump also signed an executive order ending hong kong's preferential economic treatment the u.s. secretary of state michael impale has again spoken about the situation in the south

china sea says it's shifted dramatically it's not china's maritime empire if beijing violates international law and free nations do nothing that history shows that the c.c.p. will simply take more territory that happened in the last administration or statement give significant support to us the 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 fighting between armenia and azerbaijan has killed a total of 13 soldiers from both sides and at least one civilians a civilian rather the 2 former soviet republics have been conflict over an enclave inside by john controlled by ethnic armenians ethiopia has begun filling the reservoir of a controversial mega dam on the blue nile according to the country's water minister egypt and sudan had requested the grand renaissance dam not be filled until an

agreement is reached if the o.p.'s have a dam is crucial for its growth and would begin filling it during its rainy season . prisoners of war in libya have been swapped the internationally recognized government of national accord in forces loyal to warlord holly for have talked exchange 8 prisoners in misrata u.s. researchers say the 1st phase of testing an experimental covert 1000 vaccine has shown promising safety results and produce an immune response a human trial run by the biotech company medan i tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers those who received 2 doses had higher levels of violence fighting untied bodies compared with others who recovered from corona virus and corona virus an infection is in india heading towards 1000000 after another record day of new cases more than 29000 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours and 500 have died coming up next a witness.