on al-jazeera we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the playfield to others and all the fires are still ongoing i believe if you tell the story is what can make a difference the in. egypt asks for clarification after ethiopia announces it started filling a controversial dam on the blue nile. you're watching al-jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha i'm fully back to go also coming up with the rebels say a saudi in iraq yes strike has killed at least 24 people including women and children in northwest yemen ramping up the rhetoric secretary of state my comparison is the u.s. will impose visa restrictions on chinese technology firms including weiwei and

world cup womanizers release a schedule for the qatar 2022 tournaments for the 1st time before matches a day in the group stages. thank you for joining us our top story egypt says it's seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to feel the reservoir of africa's largest dam on the blue nile if european state television reported early on wednesday at the filling of the grand renaissance dam had begun the $5000000000.00 project is a centerpiece of ethiopia's bid to become africa's biggest power exporter age of 10 so don fear reduced water supplies downstream and didn't want the river downed until they reach an agreement with the last month egypt's told the u.n. that it faces an existential threat from the da cha stratford reports on the complex regional politics surrounding the project. it's taken 10 years to build and

cost close to $5000000000.00 ethiopia's flagship infrastructure project is a great source of national pride. but a grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start the 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 export electricity 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 egypt does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on the nile for $0.90 of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through $83.00 different

territory 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 finally balance calculations including internal political ones that reply you know we don't really need the other big you have i be outmanned haven't come in 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 u.s. 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. i 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 has potential huge security implications for the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt's of repeatedly dragging its feet over the

issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day charles trafford i'll just. let's bring in algiers mom of valor who's covered this story for us extensively there's been some reaction mahmoud from egypt. that's rightfully egypt has demanded the urgent classifications from the shopian government about the starting of the filling of the dam and it's understandable that egypt should do something like this of the for tacitly the egyptian president is in front of a crucial moment in his in his room because he has many times promised even sworn but nobody could be nobody would touch egypt's share of the water but this is the moment it's very urgent it's very dangerous because it has not apparently coordinated with egypt it has not waited for reaching an agreement with the

egyptians and the sudanese so the very things that president sisi didn't want to see happening during his his rule are now reality in front of his eyes it's a fait accompli for for him and for the egyptians who have also been you know united around the position that it up or should not unilaterally begin to fill the dam so we are in front of this position and also egyptians today a little earlier today said they will approach the u.n. again they have done that in the past but no clear results came out from the meetings there and the united nations security council now the egyptians are approaching the u.n. and that's the thing that the joke is we're advising against they said this matter should be should be discussed by africans it should be negotiated within the african union and not the u.n. so we move diverse more diversion in the positions each open acting unilaterally egypt also doing the things that each or president want to see the

internationalization of the issue and putting it on the table at the u.n. the context is highly significant mohamed this is coming at a particularly sensitive. time in ethiopia why would the government start filling this dam why would the government go ahead with selling this dam now before having reached an agreement with egypt answer that. well let's remember that the government has promised to start filling the dam in july or at least when the rainy season starts so this is not. this is not the like a. decision that has been taken overnight they have promised to do this. for 2 years now i've been saying that this is the date when the will start filling the dam on the one hand on the other hand the the government has reacted apparently according to the the the desire of its people the each opens are united

around this situation and they look at it as a matter of life and death for them for the country i have been there a few months ago though if you listen to the discussions within each open itself for them this is like the 2nd war or the completion of the war of independence for a chopper is very crucial it opens you know tens of millions of them have contributed to this dam through the so-called dam bonds that's something that you know even. those of those don't have an income or a job they have bought some of those bonds so they look at it as something that can't be reversed and the top and prime minister himself he has been facing tremendous difficulties politically and in every respect in a country that is disunited around political issues around internal issues around ethnic issues and this is the one act that will make make him the hero of the historical hero of the country at a time when he was facing very very difficult issues or opposition for his economic

reforms for his political reforms so it's good for a chopper is good for us and and the. that it can't be reversed according to according to him thank you for that moment in a door here with a song from on the situation between egypt sudan and ethiopia over the grand renaissance dam well so don sands to benefit from the project through access to cheap electricity and reduce flooding but it's also raise fears over the dams operation our correspondent here in morgan is that sudan's lake no be a with more on the consensus there. pulling of the dam is of grave concern to both sudan and egypt because the dams capacity alone is twice the size or rather the capacity of the blue nile which contributes more than 80 percent of the nile's losses sudan has repeatedly expressed concern over the impact of the dam and its safety on sudanese dams and water resources it says that it's worried about the

safety of the operations of the ground if you bring in his own family especially because if you have yet to provide any guarantees it's also worried about the impact it will have on what the bodies downstream now one of those places where we will see an impact of the feeling is right here on lake newbie or as it's much more commonly known lake nasir and this is a lake that is created by the reservoir of the aswan high dam in egypt and most of the body of this lake is on the egyptian territory but this park which is about 20 percent lies on sudanese territory lots of fishermen and lots of farmers rely on this water body to be able to make a living and they're saying that they're concerned because this leak is largely reliant on the amount of nile water that flows into it and into the amount of water that is released by the egyptian high dam so should egypt julies a lot of water by being from behind dam and should there be a reduction in the amount of nile water that is flowing into the lake the size of the lake is likely to significantly reduce and thus that would have an impact on

the livelihoods of people who are living here and why the hell swamps and fishing and farming on the on the shores of lake new bia so a lot of concern by sudan of course and also concerns by egypt over how much water it would be receiving especially because more than 90 percent of its population relies on the nile for fresh water is yet to get any guarantees from the opiate that the filling of the down will not will not affect the amount of water that is slowing downstream. to yemen now where who the medical sources say 24 civilians including women and children have been killed in a saudi and iraqi ass strike 7 others were reportedly injured as coalition aircraft attacked homes. in the northwest of yemen it's being reported that a wedding was taking place in the area at the time to speak to hussein who's a yemen and hoofy affairs his life from the capital sanaa what more can you tell us about the 2nd chances of this attack why would the saudi coalition target this area

. is not clear i mean this it is not near any frontline. i didn't think that this is the should be an excuse for the saudi why they thought of this because from the beginning of the war they have killed. that ike more than 17000 yemeni civilians unadjusted in some 'd media as they have always say that this attack came after. a hostile to get it so the idea would ballastic missile and drone on monday and actually that attack on so you on monday it came. because on sunday the day before a saudi has killed 910 civilians including 5 children. but i believe that one main point that that actually giving us all the green light to continue this type of attack against civilians is the u.n. security. secretary removal of so d.n.a. from children. the killers of children about 2 weeks ago they did this

many times before that so i think if the united nation will not help so deal sponsible for this killing i believe that that's all we can continue you say they've been attacks and retaliatory attacks it seems to be never ending what is it going to take you start to talk about the united nations there but what is it going to take from the whole thesis side to you know the saudis will say stop attacking their interests. i mean we should look to who the 1st 2 of and i was disloyal was so we got a b. on 26 of march 2015 and it was announced by the. united states that's why here in sanaa they have offered many of those they are ready if it today if that's all they will say we will stop the war lift the blue crate and then there will be no any attack against saudi arabia but to be honest i think that here in sanaa the government is an eye on the military that is and are they have come to

a conclusion in the last weeks that the only thing that comes to the. attack in yemen is to continue hitting hard. infrastructure but there's always a continuing hitting the sanctions also means that yet many civilians as we've seen today in this attack women and children are being targeted but look i mean it has been many children has been killed there just as an example of the signature of stockholm agreement in december 20182018 someone has announced a truce and they have. they didn't attack so did 455 to 6 months and that's only in those 6 months has killed an engaged hundreds of civilians and after all that yemeni army has targeted the oil pipeline of saudi arabia that's why i think. i believe this believe could reach us and our government is fatah to get hard saudi infrastructure. station power station that station if you thought of

even though they are civilians investors. i believe they can bring saudi to the knee but they have not actually taken this decision because it's a hard decision to get someone in midday but by saudi continue over the world i believe that that we will come to this day soon thank you for speaking to us and sharing your views with us who say now because of the affairs analyst. the u.s. secretary of state michael bell has again spoken about the situation in the south china sea he says it's shifted dramatically the u.s. says most of china's actions in the disputed area are completely and awful well let's bring in kimberly how to get our white house correspondent kimberly we we've heard the u.s. position on the south china sea change of course i mean they've made it official now and pump a 0 doubling down on the criticism of china. yet rejecting china's claims territorial and maritime in the south china sea now the u.s.

secretary of state saying that it is siding specifically with this southeast asian allies in their territorial claims now suggesting that this needs to be resolved in one of 2 forms either legal or multilateral there's 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 are 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 kimberly the term producer nation keeping up the pressure on chinese companies including fall way. absolutely the united

states has long have it in its sights kucing washed away of conducting domestic surveillance using it as a technology but really it's a backdoor espionage that has been urging u.s. allies for some time to get rid of it from discourages we've seen happen in the united kingdom just one day ago saying that it will battle walk away from its 5 g. network by 2027 a move applauded by the united states and now the secretary of state saying that it's going a step further putting in place visa restrictions for employees of huawei saying that this is a company huawei that supports and really encourages 2 globally human rights abuses so the united states once again building on a string of measures that's put in place in increasingly acrimonious relationship kimberly thank you very much for that kimberly hocket reporting live from the white house still ahead on al-jazeera armenia's foreign minister says international mediators are attempting to find

a truce after 3 days of fighting with troops from gaza by john. alan the how beef is definitely disallow and i wrote 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 hard drive course this orange sheen here is an estimate of how much dust has been picked up in what is a fairly weak blowing through iraq draw security down the eastern side of saudi towards doha the house temp she's 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 from us iraq and kuwait and western iraq it's actually throughout the sahara as lot more cloud runs

a hell clumps of showers been moving through with in particular wet recently in cameroon cameroon and nigeria the full cost shells all there and they've come a long way north you've noticed so for example in guinea and in the kenya fast and pretty big showers next day or so 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. the politics of division have pushed india into the grip of a historical reckoning i'm afraid because the minority interest rate where do these ideas come from the tragedy of more lives and how much you try to sanitize. it was

the world a happy time when all along the border join me audition here on the final part of my journey when i jus become a target of the hindu flast policy in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. the in the. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera egypt says it seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to feel the arrest of one of africa's largest dam on the blue nile ethiopian state television reports on wednesday that the filling of the grand renaissance dam had begun the age of 10 saddam had requested it not be filled until an agreement was reached

a fear inducing water downstream humans with the rebels say 24 civilians including women and children have been killed in a saudi iraqi airstrike it's being reported that a wedding was taking place in the al as an area in the northwest at the time. and u.s. secretary of state michael bell says the u.s. will impose visa restorations on chinese technology companies including while way is also reiterated support for countries that believe china is violating territorial rights in the south china sea. to libya now as prisoners of war have been swaps the internationally recognized government of national court and forces loyal to warlord i need to have tar each exchange 8 prisoners in misrata at least latest video showed one of the tripoli government fighters celebrating at home with his family. has more from libya's capital. it seems that it is only significant for the prisoners thermally is that a colleague's their friends neighbors maybe because it does not have any impact on

their negotiations it does not have any consequences on both warring factions that 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 half to the site the exchange according to a tribal leaders in the city of misrata was initiated a month a goal by have to the site offered to exchange aide prisoners for 8 from their side as you know that these prisoners were taken captive 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 other exchanging up operations during the 14 months of

battle that failed to take control of their capital of tripoli in fact the red crescent. in libya was a mediator of exchange of corpses from both sides during their military campaign. well the war in libya has created a human rights situation that could potentially be irreversible that's this talk warning from the new yorks and death of foreign policy if as the report goes on to say that the conflict has been exacerbated by want to 25 tough and his forces after launch an offensive to catch a tipping 2019 the un recognized government in the capital with the backing of techie has made significant gains in recent weeks just in russell is the principle director of the new york center for foreign policy if as he says the humanitarian situation is also very time there is a dangerous game being played in libya at the expense of the libyan people of we

feel that the players involved such as russia such as turkey. are barn not looking at the red 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 sweep heard the calls by. the u.n. general secretary by the general secretary the arab way who have said that violence and armed conflict is not going to being bring peace and stability to the region. we've seen it general have cars 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 we're still skeptical is far as that's concerned. 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and 2 from mania have been killed in the netas 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 tension has cemented have simmered and since robin force a walker reports was 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 ery missile strikes on armenian positions. armenians shooting down as airy drone. program. civilian areas are also being shelled what i think many mean with the whole story of them going creches in red whereas the very area than sleeper created by significant religious are like it it's right next to the military trains or between that and this is extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer from that korean. military action that is. the latest fighting is north of the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh 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 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. tech giant apple is celebrating a big win in ireland the european high court has ruled apple doesn't have to pay $15000000000.00 in irish back taxes that's a blow for the european union's promises to crack down on tax avoidance judges rule

that it hasn't been proven that apple had an illegal tax arrangement with islands government. the match schedule has been released for the 2022 world cup in qatar it's been designed to reduce impact on the european football season and organizers hope the tournament as a global celebration of all coming the coronavirus pandemic david. we now know that this is where the cats are 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 of the 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 about 3500000000 people get to watch the world cup a very convenient times. games will kick off at 1 pm doha time 4 pm 7 pm and 10 pm meaning that someone will spill over past midnight with extra time for 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 the $1000.00 i think i genuinely believe will be the 1st global celebration

where we will collectively have overcome covered i will collectively be able to celebrate this tournament. and create a lasting bond and that's why i think it it's when i was taught 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 cope at 19 david stokes al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera egypt says it's seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it has started to fail the reservoir of africa's largest dam on the blue nile if he'll be in state television reported on wednesday at the feeling of the grand renaissance dam has began egypt and sudan had

requested it not be filled until an agreement is reached a fear reduced water supplies downstream correspond mom advice has more it's understandable that egypt should do something like this of the fatah sisi the egyptian president is in front of a crucial moment in his in his rule because he has many times promised even sworn but nobody could be nobody would touch egypt's share of the nile water but this is the moment it's very urgent it's very dangerous because it will be has not a pilot lee coordinated with egypt it has not we to for reaching an agreement with the egyptians and the sudanese. in yemen healthy medical sources say 24 civilians including women and children have been killed in a saudi iraqi air strike 7 others were reportedly injured as coalition aircraft attacked homes in now has them in the northwest has been reported that a wedding was taking place in the area at the time. secretary of state michael bell

says the u.s. will impose visa restorations on chinese technology companies including huawei he's also reiterated support for countries that believe china is violating territorial rights in the south china sea 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 in libya prisoners of war have been swapped the internationally recognized government of national accord and forces loyal to war latifa have to exchange prisoners in misrata its latest video shows one of the tripoli government fighters celebrating his home it with his family after being released that's in use for now coming up next inside story stay with us.

and. good guitar a line is be allowed to restart flight so you go for a blockade in countries feelin's talk court rejected appeal by saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt to keep their airspace closed while the verdict changed the course of the diplomatic dispute in the gulf this is it's a story. hello and welcome to the program on iran call on 1000000.