another religion this is the politics. an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. egypt asks the clarification after ethiopia announces it started to sell a controversial dam on the blue nile. clubs a harami watching officer life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a family celebration shattered by an air strike in yemen who the rebels say at least 25 civilians killed in an attack by the saudi led coalition. a major hack of twitter messages appear on some of the most followed accounts including bill gates

brokered bomber an illum us. and the shuttle for the 2022 world cup in qatar is out of the 1st time before matches a day in the group stages. welcome to the program egypt is seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africa's largest dam on the blue nile ethiopians state television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renee's on stand had begun the $5000000000.00 project is the centerpiece of ethiopia's bid to become africa's biggest power exporter but egypt and sudan fear reduced water supplies downstream and didn't want the river dammed until they've reached an agreement with ethiopia last month egypt told the un it faces the next the stench will spread from the down fall stratford reports now on the complex regional

politics surrounding the project. it's taken 10 years to build and cost close to $5000000000.00 u g 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 exporter 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 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each

region 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 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 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 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 ambassador said the dispute should be solved at a regional level african union talks hosted by south africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he g.o.p. did not sign of the final document ethiopia always said that it would have preferred agreement before it begins to fill the reservoir but if that wasn't possible it would go ahead anyway it just potential huge security implications for

the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt of repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day charles strafford al-jazeera. strikes on yemen's northern province have killed at least $25.00 civilians including children and that's according to a who the rebel controlled ministry it says a saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft hit several homes in the al has in district while a family celebration was taking place at least 7 other people reported injured are saying other behati is a yemeni and here's the affairs analyst he says the u.n. let's do more to hold the saudi u.a.e. coalition accountable for civilian deaths. this is it is not near any frontline. i didn't think that this is this would be any excuse for the saudi why they target this is because from the beginning of the war they have killed by that if the airstrike more than 17000 yemeni civilians and i just heard in some media

as they have always say that this attack came after. has targeted saudi arabia with ballastic missile and drone on monday and actually that attack on so you on monday it came as a retaliation i thought 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 be a green light to continue this type of attack against civilians is that you insecurity generality could 30 remove all of the name for all children. and 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 i would be responsible for this killing i believe that that's all we can continue the troops are scrambling to fix a major hacking of its systems seemed fake messages posted to some of the most followed accounts in the world they began appearing

a few hours ago asking followers to donate to a bit coin account with the promise that the about would be merged amongst those heights where the former u.s. president barack obama where the message says donations would go to those affected by coverage during team presidential nominee joe biden i was on boss jeff bezos microsoft founder bill gates and paul and tesla have also been hit in a free to chief technology correspondent for access she explains why some twitter users could fall in for the herrick. well i think you know this was an account all about opportunity and what you're seeing is you know very high profile people reach a lot of people very quickly bitcoin is something that can be turned into cash very quickly anonymously so i think somebody found a very clever way to extract a lot of money from people in a very quick amount of time i mean certainly more people don't fall for it than do but i think when it comes from twitter and twitter caused

a little bit of this problem they verify certain high profile users and say this is who you think it is and so that added to the problem is these were for the most part verified account so you look at it you say oh this really is this person and is it a little unusual that barack obama is asking for money yes but in the context of cold relief maybe not so much now with bill gates and some of the others it seemed a little more out of character but you know you think of your typical e-mail scam and this is actually more plausible than that now again it does say you know you should be where you should think twice and you should never donate money indirectly you should always go to the charity you think you're going to the u.s. to suffered its biggest one day jump in current virus cases with 67000 new infections more than a quarter of those infected following 3 republican states florida texas and our his own which were quick to lift restrictions little brunell's reports florida has become the latest holt's fault. florida saw

a record number of corona virus deaths among its citizens this week the state has surpassed 300000 cases of covered 19 in total with more than 10000 new cases reported on wednesday hospitals are scrambling to make room for the sick emergency rooms that are backing up and it is quite a feat now for the administrators to find an appropriate bed for an emergency room patient to go to one that fits their covert needs florida was one of the earliest states to reopen for business now that is looking like a terrible mistake it's a complete failure of the public health system and we didn't prepare the population enough so that we were able to convince them once we opened up things could not be back to normal florida governor ronda santas a republican closely allied to president donald trump pushed for an early opening

and he has not mandated mask wearing or issued any stay at home orders despite the surge part of the reason we have more positive tests is because we're doing so much testing at a recent event the governor was heckled shame on you you are an embarrassment doctor say the message to the public about mask wearing and hygiene has been inadequate if everyone's nose and mouth were covered we wouldn't be facing this this researches the problem of course is that it's been politicized and there are parts of the country and pockets with then even even parts of the country except masts that that believe that it's somehow a political statement or a sign of weakness or a disbelief in god to wear masks and that's simply not true florida schools are reopening causing some parents concern but the anti mask movement is still loudly proclaiming its distrust of public health advice yeah right this.

all right well. disease experts say changes in public policy from the top down must happen fast we need to dig deep dive into ourselves look at what we're doing and why we have been. in this outbreak and realize that it's time for this introspection and it's time for change and we've got to. we're just hearing from you and more success some public health experts say florida's coded 1000 surge may not reach its peak until september rob reynolds al-jazeera the top u.s. infectious disease expert is urging the white house to stop trying to discredit him and focus on tackling the coronavirus and an interview with the atlantic dr anthony thought she described the criticism as donaldson's and said it must stop he also called for the end to divisiveness over the national response to the outbreak the

trumpet ministration has recently tried to discredit found by highlighting statements that he made early on in the pandemic that turned out to be wrong. well brazil has the world's 2nd highest caseload after the us with nearly 2000000 infections more than 75000 brazilians have died due to the virus despite the escalating death toll major cities are reopening businesses present viable scenario who was referred to the virus as a little flu has tested positive for a 2nd time domestic policy was partially resumed in peru as the government tries to jumpstart the economy there were long queues as a lemurs main airport reopened learned the river transport is being allowed in 18 regions 7 of the regions for corona virus cases are rising remain under lockdown. well still ahead here on al-jazeera celebrations some prisoners of war in libya 16 of them home in a swap between the warring story. but why u.s.

policy on the south china sea is giving hope to fishermen in the philippines to stay with us here officer. and still plenty of rain across central and eastern areas of china the cloud streaming across japan as we go through thursday that they had arranged to stay to the side of the key issue and really stay to the east of honshu but trading back into central china by friday some very heavy amounts of rain as you can see we could pick up another 200 millimeters of rain that will just add to the flooding and also heavy rain further to the north on its way towards beijing meanwhile down into indonesia's sulawesi has been particularly hard hit at least 16 people have died in this village there's a flash flood and all this mud just literally engulfed the village as you can see dozens of people are also missing but the weather will contain continue very

unsettled 3 thursday as we go into friday we should finally have some dry weather a break in those trenches but heavy rain out towards the west side across much of the mill a peninsula very heavy rains throughout much of india bangladesh as well of course we've seen flooding here very widespread as much of a 3rd of the country is actually underwater people having to get it out by boats as you can imagine and there is more rain in the fall called snow so as heavy the very heavy rain through thursday and friday in particular is going to be down across the west and really throughout much of maharashtra so what it does mean is mumbai is going see some very heavy rain of course we've had recent flooding there on this could again flood the city. during a moment in time. snapshots of all the lives. of the stories that one people are desperate to cock the track again and provided

a glimpse into someone else is well out in the uk pursuing in the dream of all your life inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. but i'm actually watching others there with me said the reminder of our top stories egypt says it's seeking clarification from ethiopian about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africa's largest down on the blue nile ethiopian state television reported on wednesday that the thinning of the ground relates on standard because egypt and sudan have pressed it not be filled until an agreement

is reached that strikes on the evidence of northern province of killed at least $25.00 civilians including children and that's according to a rebel controlled ministry it says a saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft hit several homes and it hasn't district where a family celebration was taking place. twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its systems take messages have been posted to some of the most followed accounts in a crypto currency scam former u.s. president barack obama and amazon boss jeff bezos amongst those targeted. libya's warring sides are conducted a prisoner swap the un recognized government of national accord and forces loyal to ward cleaver have to each exchanged 8 prisoners in misrata with the hope of more to follow malik trainer as. well wishers welcomed home for rows on the right he's one of the prisoners from misrata released by warlords for the for have to his

forces in eastern libya the men loyal to the internationally recognized government of national accord or ginnie in tripoli were exchanged for aid of have to prisoners . swap have been near el surely and his dad south of the front lines with the help of tribal leaders. held the route was taken prisoner in southern tripoli last december during have to his field campaign to capture the capital. he was then transported to a jail in benghazi in the eastern libya. after nearly 7 months in captivity he's among his family and friends again back home in misrata where. i'm so happy it feels like i'm reborn i can't explain how happy i am i wasn't expecting to make it back home i hope all the families of prisoners from both sides can feel this kind of happiness his uncle mohammed is a prominent jian

a military leader also from misrata he says the exchange may be followed by more. than. this was the 1st exchange between misrata and the east since the fighting almost every family in eastern libya has a prisoner here in western libya and we have prisoners there these occasions bring us closer to each other and are signs of a possible reconciliation process officials in libya's 3rd largest city say of 2750 men from misrata have been killed in the fighting would have to forces so for. the city of misrata suffered so much from death occasions like this fill our hearts with joy and happiness may god help all those who helped bring these people home but for family and friends of the 8 prisoners who have been able to make it back home here in misrata it's a joyous occasion it remains to be seen whether prisoner releases such as this one can help fuel a serious reconsideration process and bring about a peaceful solution to the libyan conflict traynor al jazeera misrata. tensions

are escalating between the world's 2 most powerful economies the u.s. says it will slap travel bans on employees of chinese technology giant weiwei and other companies that violate human rights another white house is doubling down over a contentious maritime industry 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 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 in 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 well support from the us is being cautiously welcomed by

fishermen in the philippines who say they're being pushed out by the chinese navy. reports from the province of them. saw me and remembers a time when the sketch was far more abundant that was many years ago when he says he was still free to fish inside the lagoon of scarborough shoal just a little over 120 nautical miles from his hometown of look in somebody's list province that was until chinese navy warships seized control in 2012. no you can disappoint the bigger chain the specials we know we are no much against them we stay far from them government leaders in beijing claimed the south china sea as theirs saying it's been part of chinese territory for thousands of years and china's military continues to build installations such as on the spratly group of islands the trump administration u.s. secretary of state michael b.

is says the chinese claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful. and washington supports 5 asian countries indonesia malaysia the philippines and vietnam to what's been described as their inherent right to exclusive economic zones there. the philippine secretary of defense the finland's on the supports pompey is message to china and there in the says china should abide by the 2016 ruling when the philippine government one its case against china at the international tribunal in the hague but philippines president really good to tear to has repeatedly said the china is a far more powerful country and doesn't want to risk going to war the u.s. china dispute is seen by many countries as a conflict between 2 competing superpowers but geopolitics isn't the issue here in the philippines for millions of filipinos living in coastal communities like this

one food security is at the heart of the south china sea this. many of the fishermen who sail to scarborough shoal sell their catch in local markets like this one in a box box in the unit the fish used to be delivered to us in crates now fisherman just come and bring supplies in bales it takes about 5 fishermen now for us to have this much to sell and the price of fish has tripled filipinos here tell us they find it ironic that they live in a country rich in maritime resources and yet the majority of them can't to regularly afford even just a kilo of fish they welcome the u.s. is backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st jim duggan al-jazeera zambales province northern philippines. at least 70 people have been detained in moscow after protesting against reforms

that are a lot of blood a mere putin to remain president for another 16 years about 500 demonstrators demanded that putin step down the president won a referendum earlier this month that amended russia's constitution allowing him to serve 2 more terms after his current one expires opposition activists say the vote was rigged. well the pro european social democrats have declared victory in north macedonia's parliamentary elections with 95 percent of the votes counted the party was on course for a narrow win over its nationalist rivals but it fell short of gaining an outright majority raising the prospect of a tough coalition conversation the result has exposed deep divisions over the country's future as it prepares to start e.u. membership negotiations and daal troops nice wants him to resign from the presidency very trump says it's dangerous for americans to let her uncle lead the u.s. she sat down for an exclusive interview with a.b.c. news after releasing a book heavily critical of trump what's the single most important thing you think

the country needs to now about your uncle he is utterly incapable of leading this country and it's dangerous to allow him to do so. based on what you see now or what you saw and then. based on what i've seen in my entire adult life. barbara perry is the director of presidential studies at the university of virginia's miller center she says it's unlikely the book will impact trump's public image. she claims that he's as sociopath and that of course would be someone who's not only anti social but very manipulative and uses people for his own hands and i don't think that that comes as a shock to anyone who's been following donald trump's career and certainly his presidency but the fact that someone in the family again was some expertise in the mental health field would come forward and say that it is very important for

certainly the american people and all of the world to know what she has said she has seen from her entire adult life i think as they say these charges are already baked in to people's decision making so it doesn't come as a shock to the opponents of donald trump that he has sociopathic tendencies and is not capable of leaving the united states and we see that now because of the coronavirus but for those who support him and continue to support them and that's about 30 to 35 percent of the american people they don't only either don't care about his propensities medically but they actually admire his i'm useful persona so i don't think this is the either this book or the bolton book is going to have much of the impact i think that was having the impact is the coronavirus the collapse of the economy and racial unrest in the united states the u.s. took drugs pull little you have to pay $15000000000.00 and texas to win the appeal of europe's high court though the firm had been accused of benefiting from the

legal arrangement with the island's government to keep its tax bill especially low but just annoyed the case had not been proven but the boba has more on the ruling. multinationals could often choose to pay tax on their revenues around the european union in $1.00 country where they have a regional headquarters in apple's case like other big companies that was in ireland so the commission back then ordered apple to pay back for a gross underpayment of tax on profits from 2003 to 2014 it said that basically the company had created 2 shell companies to hire eat their profits now this is a big win for apple as it stands the company had really who the idea that they'd sort to avoid tax the i was short for it is have welcomed this decision they

said ireland has always been clear there was no special treatment provided the opposition in ireland the main opposition shin fein has said it's a bad day for the taxpayer there as well as morally a terrible day and the european ringback commission itself hasn't necessarily given up the fight they're saying it they don't know how long it will take for them to make a decision on whether to continue this case but it could impact on others there are people looking into the tax affairs of companies like nike and ikea around the european union right now it's a very very important for the european commission to be seen to be taking a stand to make big companies pay their fair share of tax particularly given the huge numbers involved in this covered 19 recovery fund which they're trying to create right now. the match should jewel for the 2022 world cup in qatar has been released it's designed to reduce the impact on the european football season as david stokes reports. 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 showed you will this 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 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 go 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 some 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. 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 uncommon 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 it we're coming out of over $1000.00 i think i genuinely believe to be the 1st global celebration where we will collectively have overcome covered and will collectively be able to celebrate this tournament. and create

a lasting bond and that's why i think it needs to 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. is there with me so whole robin in doha a reminder of our top news stories egypt says it seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia or whether it started to fill the reservoir of africa's largest dam on the blue nile ethiopian state television reported on wednesday but the filling of the ground had begun egypt and sudan had requested it not be filled until an agreement is reached strikes on the owens northern province that killed at least 25 civilians

including children and that's according to a rebel controlled ministry it says a saudi year you coalition aircraft hit several homes and the other has an district where a family celebration was taking place. twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its systems fake messages have been posted to some of its most followed accounts in a crypto currency scam former american president barack obama and amazon boss jeff bezos well amongst those targeted in a fried is a chief technology correspondent correspondent for access she explains why some twitter users may have fallen for the hack i mean certainly more people don't fall for it than do but i think when it comes from twitter and twitter caused a little bit of this problem they verify certain high profile users and say this is who you think it is and so that added to the problem is these were for the most part verified account so you look at it you say oh this really is this person and

is it a little unusual that barack obama is asking for money yes but in the context of goal bit relieved maybe not so much now with bill gates and some of the others it seemed a little more out of character but you know you think of the your typical email scam and this is actually more plausible than that the u.s. has suffered its biggest one day jump in coronavirus cases with 67000 new infections more than a quarter of those infected are in 3 republican states of florida texas and arizona which were quick to lift restrictions the pro european social democrats have declared victory in north macedonia as parliamentary elections the closer and contest has exposed deep divisions over the country's future as it prepares to start e.u. membership talks those are the headlines dick clarke will be here with more news in half an hour after their next 21st century evil to stay with us. break's everybody on this planet matters everybody has power when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told here human development has moved right to the

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