is iraq. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of on networks journalists on al-jazeera. if you begins filling the reservoirs of its controversial mega dam on the blue nile ignoring concerns raised by egypt and sudan. on our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up yemen's hooty rebels say dozens of civilians including children have been killed in saudi led airstrikes in the north of the country. u.s. intensifies its pressure on beijing announcing the visa restrictions on chinese technology companies including huawei. are on the streets but can returns to the

border where it begins to forge a truce between azerbaijan and armenia. egypt has demanded urgent clarification from ethiopia over whether it started filling a mega dam on the river nile if you can state media has reported that the reservoirs are finally being filled the controversial project will transform the lives of millions but control over its waters has led to nearly a decade of contentious negotiations and a final deal still hasn't been reached. if here is the source of the blue nile which flows through sudan and merges with the white nile up through egypt at full capacity the dam which is the size of london will be able to hold 74000000000 cubic meters of water the hydro power will turn on the lights for the 70 percent of

ethiopians who currently have no electricity and egypt relies on the nile for 90 percent of its water for a population of $100000000.00 trials stratford has more on how the dam divided the region before it was even completed its a continues to build and cost close to $5000000000.00 if you o.p.'s flagship infrastructure project is a great source of national pride. but the grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start be coping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to expulsion kristie 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 and egypt does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on our 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each direction territory and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amount of water they produce and the amount of water they consume. 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 highly balance calculations including internal political ones. you know if you go granny the other big you have i may add haven't

come into power in 2018 he wants to secure its position and you know be reelected in future elections in your area 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 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 v.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 you 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 i'll just. sit on the stands to benefit from the project through access to cheap electricity and reduced funding but it is also raised fears over the dams operation morgan has more from saddam's lake nubia. pulling of the dam is of great concern to both sudan and egypt because the dams capacity alone is twice the size or rather the capacity of the which contributes more than 80 percent of the water so dan 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 stem especially because if you is yet to provide any guarantees it's also worried about the impact it will have on water 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 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 water that flows into it and into the amount of water that is released by the egyptian dam so should egypt release a lot of water by the from behind dam and should there be a reduction in the amount of water that is flowing into the lake the size of the

lake is likely to significantly reduce and that would have an impact on the livelihoods of people who are living here in the health and fishing and farming on the on the shores of lake so lots of concerns by sudan of course and also concerns by egypt over how much water it would be receiving especially because more than 1000 percent of its population relies on the nile for fresh water to get any guarantees of from each feeling of the down will not will not affect the amount of water that is flowing downstream. strikes in northern yemen have killed at least 24 civilians including children that's according to who she medical sources a saudi in iraq. kurdish an aircraft reportedly hit several homes in the district one a wedding was taking place at least 7 others are believed to be injured. said advocate he is a yemen and to see affairs analyst he says the united nations must do more to hold the saudi led coalition accountable for civilian deaths from the beginning of the

war they have killed died if the airstrike more than 17000 yemeni civilians just hid in some media as they have always say that this attack came after us on our has targeted saudi arabia with ballastic missile and drone on monday and actually that the attack on saudi on monday it came as a retaliation attack 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 given that i would agree like to continue this type of attack against civilians is the un security. secretary removal of the name for all children. of 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 saudi responsible for this killing i believe that the saudi can continue.

tensions escalating between the world's 2 most powerful economies the u.s. says it will slap travel bans on employees of chinese technology giant while away and other companies that violate human rights and how the white house is doubling down over a contentious maritime dispute saying it will back countries who oppose china's territorial claims in the south china sea it's now china's maritime empire if beijing violates the international and free nations do nothing that history shows that the c.c.p. will simply take more territory that happened in the last administration. our 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 as close to

a white house correspondent kimberly how could committee why are they taking this stance now well what we've seen is the trumpet ministration for weeks stepping up pressure on china if this is an issue that has become personal for the u.s. president who is angry that his economy that had been historic in some regards is now decimated as a result of covert nighty and so the u.s. president as recently as the rose garden about 24 hours ago was once again calling covert 19 the chinese virus he is irate that more wasn't done to warn the united states and the world about the lethal facts of coronavirus so that's one aspect but when it comes to this issue the united states is now making the pronouncement that sort of builds upon the announcement that was made on monday that it rejects china's or as the secretary of state said there the c.c.p. the chinese communist party's territorial claims in the south china sea now going

a step further by siding with the south east nations the allies of the united states it's the view of the united states that this will help and dance their claims giving it more power if you will might if you will in one of 2 forms whether it be legal or whether it be in a multilateral body known as aussie on which is essentially a body made out of 10 southeast asian member nations they feel these are the venues where this can be resolved and they hope that with the united states support it can be resolved in those nations favor against china and then once again doubling down on their own action against. yeah i think this was an opportunity for the secretary of state to once again tout what they feel is a big victory and that is the announcement by the u.k. that it is joining the united states in a ban on wa where of course we heard from boris johnson that there was this decision to essentially eliminate walk away from the 5 networks by 2027 this is

a real victory for the trumpet ministration but i should point out that this is a issue that both democrats and republicans agree on we've heard as far back as that you know february even earlier than that that there have been concerns about wall way that is really just a platform for a back door espionage so this is now if it is significant as you point to the start of the show this means these are restrictions for chinese employees of wa way the united states is accusing the company of human rights abuses globally and again we should point out to our viewers that what is also being considered by this administration is even further action potentially eliminating or banning in the united states some applications such as tech talk and we chat to me how can i thank you very much indeed. still to come on al-jazeera celebrations for prisoners of war in libya more than a dozen return home in

a swap between the warring sides. hello there no also very inspiring picture across much of europe plenty of cloud it is cool there is rain as well as you can see here with all this cloud across the eastern regions it's not too bad it's clear now as well across into the southwest of russia however it wasn't really for 24 hours some torrential downpours have led to this study here right down there in the southwest of russia as you can see the under water but it is actually a caring picture as we go through thursday not so the across the central areas there's just a loss of cloud and release them very widely scattered showers in some of these showers could be quite heavy at times we'll see about across much of the northwest the u.k. a much of france it's cloudy but the term which is doing their best to actually come

a little bit higher but as we go through friday again plenty of rain further to the south and again we could have some heavy downpours a particular into the balkans and really is just a generally very unsettled picture now in terms of the weather and temperatures a moscow also has been saying quite a few showers and thunderstorms it will stay very unsettled for the next few days time which is really just whole ring close to the average for july is a similar scenario in london 10 inches actually cooling off a cloud and you had the weekend and then in paris it is warmer and we've got more as you can see in the west sunshine. i'm allowed when off and. raised in a chinese buddhist orphanage. faces a momentous life decision. a personal story of competing identities. the chad light on

a growing cultural types. in africa a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the earth. or most of the top stories here not just syria egypt has demanded urgent clarification from ethiopia over whether it started filling a mega dam on the river nile if european media has reported that the reservoirs are finally being filled. ass trucks on northern yemen have killed at least $24.00 civilians including children according to hoofy medical sources a saudi m.r.c. coalition aircraft reportedly hit several homes in the al hasn't district one of

wedding was taking place. the u.s. says it will impose travel bans on employees of chinese technology technology join our way as tensions between beijing and washington escalate the white house also says it will back countries who oppose china's territorial claims in the south china sea. and china is vowing to retaliate after the u.s. president donald trump or tries sanctions over the status of hong kong the u.s. will penalize banks that do business with chinese officials implement a controversial new security law betray you ports from beijing. hong kong 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 were going to up hold our legitimate interests china will make the necessary responses to sanction the. 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 strips hong kong of its freedoms and autonomy guaranteed to 50 years in the 1997 handover green 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. rival sides in libya's civil war have conducted a prisoner swap internationally recognized government of national accord and forces loyal to the old highly for have to each exchanged 8 prisoners in misrata one of the tripoli government's fighters has been celebrating at home with his family. would have to have has more from tripoli. 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 the 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 have to recite the exchange according to a tribal leaders in the city of misrata was initiated a month ago by half to the site. 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. 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 of exchange of corpses from both sides during their military campaign u.s. researchers said the 1st phase of testing an experimental code $900.00 vaccine has shown promising safety results and produced an immune response a human trial run by the biotech company modernity tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers those who received 2 doses had higher levels of virus fighting antibodies compared with others who recovered from carbon 19 no serious side effects were faulted. well a current of ours pandemic will push millions more into poverty as it rips through latin america the economic commission for that america and the caribbean which is a u.n. agency says more than $44000000.00 people will lose their jobs by the end of the year that's worse than the 20082009 financial crisis as knock down measures hammer economies the region's poor will swell to move in 230000000 that means more than a 3rd of latin america and the caribbean's population will be forced into poverty

and our upper low is in mexico city and many other economic warning as infections continue to rise across the region. absolutely these are warnings that are spanning from mexico all the way to go and there is this sense across latin america that this worsening health crisis is going to lead to a worsening economic crisis and with very few exceptions countries in latin america are struggling and failing to meet that critical balance between public health and the health of an economy now we are keeping a close eye on a certain number of hotspots across the region in the caribbean haiti and the dominican republic 2 nations that share an island have shown to be a new hotspot in the region of course mexico here in north america we include hunter s. and panama that are showing alarming contagion rates peru tce lay and bolivia as well showing alarming rates of contagion but of course no one has it quite as bad

in latin america as brazil brazil is nearing 2000000 cases according to the latest numbers from johns hopkins university the country has reported some 74133 covert related deaths again brazil is kind of a an outlier here a special case no other country is doing quite as bad as brazil in the region and this health crisis has led to a political crisis where president continues to downplay the severity of the ongoing outbreak in his country in fact only moments before this broadcast we received word that president bush so not a has once again after one week of being tested for corona virus has once again tested positive for a covert 19 the president remains in social isolation but again continues to downplay the severity of the crisis in in his country so despite these the worsening health crisis in brazil we're seeing an approximation to $2000000.00 confirmed cases there's also concerns over a massive impact on what is the region's largest economy in europe and thank you

very much indeed. defense officials in armenia and azerbaijan say fighting on their border has come down from days of deadly clashes at least 16 people on both sides have been killed in the latest flare up that began on sunday the 2 former soviet republics have been not for decades in a conflict or the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh for in farsi worker reports oh it's. a large crowds of protesters in barcoo demanding the government declares war on armenia some demonstrators managed to enter parliament early on wednesday and were dispersed the crowds are highly unusual in tightly controlled azerbaijan an indication of the national mood was. an army general was one of the 11 as ery servicemen killed in 3 days of fighting on

the border with armenia the armenian government reports the deaths of 4 personnel. 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 john has accused armenia's prime minister nicole passion of undermining longstanding peace talks chaired by the so-called o.s.c. e minsk group the armenian prime minister sitting with my world economy is armenian isn't an exact undermining of the negotiation process it's a reaffirmation of the goals of annexation all disoriented there is a azerbaijan on wednesday a lol in the fighting allowed monitors to observe damage to civilian homes. i mean

is poor and ministry told al-jazeera that deescalation was now the priority or is not an alternative there is no alternative to the peace and 2nd marry me committed to this and work towards the escalation and establishing an environment which helps an atmosphere which helps. us and we share favor stage. this is the biggest escalation since a 4 day conflict in april 26th seen that saw some 200 people killed 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 remains robin 1st year walker al jazeera. yes tech giant apple is celebrating a big win in ireland the european high court has ruled apple does not have to pay $15000000000.00 in irish back taxes as

a blow for the european union's promises to crack down on tax avoidance by multinationals judges ruled it hasn't been proven that apple had an illegal tax arrangement with islands government and used shell companies to grossly under declare profits. that shuttle has been released for the 2022 world cup and cutter it's been designed to reduce impact on the european football season and organizers hope the tournament will act as a global celebration of overcoming the coronavirus pandemic david stokely stokes report. we now know that this is where the cats are world cup will kick off at 1 pm on november 21st 2022 the al bates 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 show jewel 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 for much of the 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 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 days rather than the 32 used last time in russia which limits the disruption to the european domestic football season we all want the best players in the world the best teams in the world to perform at the highest level so with this match schedule they have 3 days rest between matches which is optimum for sporting performance. and of 16 there's 2

matches where the teams will have 2 days' rest and then the 3rd place playoff match there's one team will have 2 days and one will have 3 days which is not on common for that particular much this will be the middle. it's 1st world cup and organizers believe it has taken on extra significance given what's taking place across the world right now especially considering that we're coming out of over $1000.00 i think i genuinely believe will be the 1st global celebration 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 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 with 19 david stokes al-jazeera and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the stories we are reporting on by checking out our website but just what is al-jazeera dot com and i know many of you already do have if you haven't tried it you can click on the orange live icon to watch us live how does he or dot com. and one of the top stories on al-jazeera egypt has demanded urgent care for cation from ethiopia ever whether it started filling the reservoirs with a mega dam on the river nile if european media has reported that the reservoirs are finally being filled the controversial project will transform the lives of millions but control over its waters has led to nearly a decade of contentious negotiations and a final deal still hasn't been reached. 's strikes in northern yemen have killed at

least 24 civilians including children and that's according to hoofy medical sources a saudi m.r. articulation aircraft reportedly hit several homes in the husband district while a wedding was taking place at least 7 others are believed to be injured. the u.s. says it will impose travel bans on employees of the chinese technology giant huawei as tensions between beijing and washington escalate the white house also says it will back countries who oppose china's territorial claims in the south china sea it's not china's maritime empire if beijing violates the international and free nations do nothing that 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 the leaders who have declared that the south china sea this is 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 rival sides in libya's civil war have conducted a prisoner swap internationally recognized government of national court and forces loyal to warlord holly for have to each exchanged 8 prisoners in misrata one of the tripoli government's fighters has been celebrating at home with his family u.s. researchers say the 1st phase of testing an experimental code 19 vaccine has shown promising safety results and produced an immune response a human trial run by the pyre tech company modena tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers those who received 2 doses had higher levels of virus fighting antibodies compared with others who recovered from kevin 19 but the top stories do stay with us around is if you can the stream is up next a bit more news after. hey

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