the human spirit against the odds. al-jazeera selects changemaker. egypt asks for clarification after ethiopia announces it started filling a controversial dam on the blue nile. aren't telling us is our jazeera live from london also coming up yemen's hoofy rebels say dozens of civilians including children have been killed in saudi led airstrikes in the north of the country. the u.s. intensifies its pressure on beijing and outsing reason restrictions on chinese

technology companies including huawei. and the us trial that's pushed it confidence that a coronavirus vaccine could be developed by the end of the year. egypt has demanded urgent tariff occasion from ethiopia over whether it started filling a mega dam on the river nile if european state media has reported that the reservoirs are finally being filled a 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 he appears 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. 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 trafford has more on how the dam divided the region before it was even completed. 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 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 tricity 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 our 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each. tree 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 ethiopia 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 his 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 on tree 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 on bassa 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 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 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 profit. sudan stands to benefit from the project through access to cheap electricity and accused of flooding but it has also raised fears over the dams operation to morgan has more than saddam's like 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 blue line 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 ethiopia that feeling of the down will not will not affect the amount of water that is flowing downstream. airstrikes in northern yemen have killed at least 24 civilians including children and that's according to who see medical sources a saudi emirati coalition aircraft reportedly hit several homes in the at hasn't district while a wedding was taking place at least 7 others who are believed to be injured it is the 3rd such incident since june as violence as resurges in the war damaged country last month an airstrike killed at least 12 people including 4 children inside our

province. hussein katie is a yemen and hooty affairs analyst he says the united nations must do more to hold the saudi dead kurdish an accountable for civilian deaths. from the beginning of the war they have killed by died if the air strike more than 17000 yemeni civilians and it just hit in some media as they have always say that this attack came after santa has targeted saudi arabia with ballastic missile and drone on monday and actually that the attack on so you 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 actually given that i would agree like to continue this type of attack against civilians is the un security. secretary removal of so d.n.a. 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 so deal sponsible for this killing i believe that that's all we 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 huawei and other companies that violate human rights and now 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 not china's maritime empire if beijing violates 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 or statement give significant support to us in leaders who have declared that the

south china sea this truce 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. a leading us expert on infectious diseases says he's confident the country will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year and the fatties comments follow promising results from the 1st phase of testing on an experimental curve of 19 vaccine human trial run by the biotech company madonna 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 coated 19 mike hanna is live from washington d.c. so it sounds promising that this fight vaccine. well one must be treated with caution given that this is only in the 1st stages of testing the vaccine it will go to

a 2nd stage trial in july and then finally into the 3rd stage of the actual testing of the vaccine so it can be the results produced to appear promising at this particular point the company had a head start on many of its competitors because it was working on another coronavirus mers back in january so it was easy for it to switch its research over to the 19 treatment however there are some who point out that this company has never brought a vaccine to market in fact it hasn't even brought a vaccine to a 3rd stage yet and the federal government's taken a massive gamble in the eyes of many by giving it some $418000000.00 in terms of pursuing the research nonetheless the initial results are promising according to dr found and certainly will be very close on the next few stages of the experimentation of this particular vaccine but dr protium self has been at the

center of another squabble a squall the white house has for a number of weeks been criticizing dr apology and this all culminated in article written in a newspaper by president trump's economics advisor peter navarro who lacerated dr power to you saying that he was wrong about everything well after weeks of silence on the matter president trump broke his silence he repudiation his trade adviser and this is what he had to say. we're all in the same day including dr felt you have a very good relationship with dr g. and we're all in the same team we want to get rid of this mess that china sent us so everybody's working at the same line it would doing very well we're doing well in a lot of ways our countries cover it back very strong. well president trump might be overly optimistic there because latest figures show that the coronavirus is continuing to spike in at least 11 u.s.

states many states just unable to cope with the increasing flow of patients the president there saying that we are doing very well but many health officials say that things like testing are still lagging far behind as his contact tracing so certainly the situation remains one of crisis in a large number of american states mike hanna thank you very much indeed. still to come on al-jazeera anger on the street spit calm returns to the border work begins to forge a truce between azerbaijan and armenia. and mexico rolls out a royal welcome for tourists to boost its economy by the u.n. warns millions across that america could be forced into committing.

some pretty stormy conditions off the coast of new south wales it's all coming from this system here which really has been sitting in the tasman sea and it won't make much progress over the next couple days so it has been producing some amazing waves just look at the size of these just off the coast of course. these are just so new borders you can see here but there were some magnificent waves all because a say over the system it'll continue to produce some ways along that coast maybe also wanted to show as it should be mostly dry across into adelaide in melbourne and quite windy with a few showers into the north island of new zealand not quite so settled out across western australia this is the day the rain pushes into how much is actually lowering by friday it really is quite a cloudy picture but the bulk of the rain should clear through leaving you with a mostly dry day with some sunshine and again quite a bit of cloud and some strong waves and maybe some showers down the coast of new south wales then up in say the northeast of asia now finally a bit of

a break across into japan the korean peninsula there is some rain on the way but it tends to stay just to the south a key issue and then really to the east of much of home shoot of course it does trail back into central eastern china and again the next couple days some very heavy amounts of rain could easily pick up another 15200 millimeters of rain and also heavy rain on its way to beijing. in the conclusion of a 2 part series people in power in vesta gates' allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic of babies the courts realized that babies of all it could be sold to america a scouting quite they use and reveals shocking new evidence of how and where religious orders disposed of those who died frankly torn in the system like this one church and state are colluding keep the truth from coming else island's mother and baby scandal on al-jazeera.

and one of the top stories here now to syria egypt has demanded urgent clarification from ethiopia over whether it started filling a mega dam on the river nile media has reported the reservoirs are finally being filled. airstrikes in northern yemen have killed at least 24 civilians including children according to who he medical sources a saudi erotic coalition aircraft reportedly hit several homes in the al hasnt district while a wedding was taking place. and the u.s. says it will impose travel bans on employees of chinese technology giant while away

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. defense officials in armenia and azerbaijan say fighting on their border has calmed down for an 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 locked for decades in a conflict over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh weapons 1st you're welcome reports. oh it's. large crowds of protesters in baku demanding these airy 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 saying right now i want to cry what is i mean you know isn't an exact we're undermining of the negotiation process it's a reaffirmation of the goals of annexation all disorientated there is a azerbaijan on wednesday a lol in the fighting allowed monitors to observe damage to civilian homes. i mean

is foreign ministry told al-jazeera that deescalation was now the priority or is not an alternative if there is no alternative to a peaceful settlement marry me. and we will work towards the escalation and establishing an environment which helps an atmosphere which helps. east and we share favor state negotiating process. 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 the turkey says it stands with azerbaijan unless the renewed fighting can be resolved the risk of a wider conflict remains robin 1st year walk al-jazeera. a coronavirus pandemic will push millions more into poverty as it rips through latin america quoting to u.n. agency the economic commission for latin america and the caribbean says will be 44000000

people will lose their jobs by the end of the year in mexico tourist destinations are starting to reopen but there are concerns it could take years for the industry to recover and europe and of course. this is how some hotels along mexico's caribbean coast have welcomed their 1st guests in months was the slow trickle of foreigners is a most welcome sign for the 4500000 workers who make a living from mexico's tourism industry where north america it's good to know that right now a very restarting jobs in that tourists will come and they see everything here and the hotel sit through of cancun is reopening and we send a general invitation to all the national and international tourists that they welcome. pinku was one of the 1st mexican cities to reopen to tourists while national and international flights to this idyllic destination are operating at

reduced capacity the city has already welcomed some 70000 visitors since reopening its doors on june 8th. still a far cry from the packed beaches and busy arrival terminals of the days before cope at 19 as part of. the recovery will not be fast the travel industry has been one of the warsaw hotel sector restaurants the whole change related to travel we don't expect there will be e.c. will we have to reinvent many things become more efficient more up to mistakes and creative and above everything always always place public safety as a top priority. mexico's travel industry is undergoing a safety overhaul efforts like the adoption of this thermal imaging system that can koons international airport our response to the demand for higher sanitation stay. while many of mexico's top destinations like a coup in acapulco and mexico city have reopened mexico continues to struggle to

mitigate contagion of coronavirus. he says of coronavirus are still on the rise such that mexico's government recently extended restrictions on travel across mexico's land borders through july 21st to resume officials however tell al-jazeera the health crisis is improving but expect it will be years before the industry begins to bounce back so leave all of us we've met the expectations set by the health secretary to control this pandemic based on europe's experience with their contagion curves we expect to see a recovery near the end of 2022 to reach the tourist numbers we had before the pandemic. every year more than $45000000.00 tourists visit mexico's beaches historic cities and world famous oracular logical sites ranking the country among the top 10 most visited on the planet moved up a low al-jazeera mexico city. and he 70 people have been detained in moscow after protesting against reforms that allow that to me

a putin to remain president for not a 16 year is about 500 demonstrators demanded putin step down the president won a referendum and investment demanded russia's constitution allowing him to serve 2 more terms after his current one expires as opposition activists say the vote was rigged. hundreds of people have been arrested in belarus after protests against the exclusion of 2 main opposition candidates from next month's election the president alexander lukashenko is seeking a 6th term in office with most of his rivals in jail or under investigation and brian report. this summer of discontent and balor roofs as he said now. with hundreds on the streets of the capital minsk and several other cities clapping chanting demanding to be heard i am saying yes because i just honestly say that in my country i don't have a name word or voice so i feel like i'm just not here so i decided to come out and

show everyone that i exist i have a voice that these are all my people my neighbors brothers sisters and we exist. soon though there were more police than protesters and many were arrested. it's been a similar scene for months with anger against the government's response to the coronavirus the economy and the growing crackdown on dissent before next month's presidential election what are shooting at us just we couldn't just stay at home i think the more people who come out to these marches in solidarity the better it is for everyone. on tuesday the electoral commission 2 of the main opposition candidates from standing while ms valery to carlow a former ambassador who was rejected after signatures supporting him were deemed invalid. the other is victim baba rico seen as the biggest rival to a sick turn by president alexander lukashenko the banker was detained last month

accused of money laundering election administrators say then it's why he was excluded so what you're seeing now today we were spat in the face and they tried to take away our future and our hope they're waiting for the end of the struggle but they don't understand that it's now that everything begins many of president lukashenko rivals are either in jail or under investigation but some have been allowed to run one is the wife of another at the time the opposition candidate who used to call a cockroach despite the insults the president's victory is almost certain he's already spent 26 years in power the u.s. once down term the last dictator in europe. got frightened and he wanted to prevent any single slightest change or. that's why you hear it so harshly did not register candidates and believe just words 'd the crowd. has

dismissed the protesters as criminal gangs but critics say he's never faced an race like this and many here argue they are makes a fraid of detention in another 5 years of lucas shane kowloon alexia bryant al jazeera. the twitter accounts of several high profile people and companies including barack obama joe biden bill gates apple and have been hacked the hackers posted tweets trying to do people into sending bitcoin promising that they will double their money bitcoin is a form of digital currency that's traded over the internet or so known as crypto currency comments and posts on twitter suggest thousands of dollars in bitcoin may have been sent to the scammers digital account twitter says it's investigating. u.s. tech giant apple is celebrating a big win in arland european high court has ruled apple does not have to pay $15000000000.00 in arash back taxes judges ruled it hasn't been proven that apple

had an illegal tax arrangement with islands government and used shell companies to under declare profits grossly. a sculpture of a black lives matter protester has been erected in the u.k. city of bristol in the same spot where statue of a slave trader was pulled down by members of the public last month a temporary installation was put up by artist mark quinn he says he was inspired by gen reed an anti-racism demonstrator but a graft standing on top of the empty plinths during a march in june just as toppled the previous statues slave trade to edward colson and dumped it in the harbor during global rallies against racial inequality. the match showed us being released for the 2022 world cup in qatar it's been designed to reduce impact on the european football season and organizers hope it will act as a global celebration of overcoming the coronavirus pandemic they've extracts reports. we now know that this is where the cats are world cup will kick off at 1

pm on nov 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 showed you will 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 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 east'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 where 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 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. top stories are now to syria egypt has demanded urgent clarification from ethiopia over whether it started filling the reservoirs of a mega dam on the river nile if european media has reported that the reservoirs are finally being filled a 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 and strikes in northern yemen have killed at least 24 civilians including children and that's according to who he medical sources a saudi immorality coalition aircraft reportedly hit several homes in the district while a wedding was taking place. 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 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 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 the leading u.s. experts on infectious diseases says he's confident the country will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year and a fact his comments follow promising results from the 1st phase of testing on an experimental coated 19 vaccine human trial run by the biotech company madonna tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers the twitter accounts of several high profile people and companies including joe biden bill gates apple and have been hacked the hackers posted tweets trying to do people into sending bitcoin promising that they would double their money there's a top stories olens mother and baby scandal on people in power is up next life and after. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic

recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. 6 years ago an island secret mass grave for babies was discovered near a home for unmarried pregnant women an institution run by roman catholic nuns to find set off a scandal that has raised deeply disturbing questions about the relationship between the irish state in the catholic church and the distressing sight of thousands of children who died in their care in this 2nd part of our investigation correspondent lawrence lee reveals shocking new evidence about how and where some of those babies with every.