to agree upon a solution. taking matters into their. actions because it's going to sound that it kills people and it kills people now it's ridiculous both fronts with. people. on al-jazeera. russian black tuckers are accused of trying to steal research on a coronavirus vaccine but the kremlin denies the allegations. the whole romany watching others are alive my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the growing debate over masking more u.s. states make face coverings compulsory as covert 19 infections continue to rise.

as a by johns foreign minister is sacked as fighting continues on the volatile border with armenia. and fighting to get her citizenship back a woman whose british nationality was stripped after she joined i still can return to the u.k. to challenge the decision. to program russian cyber spies have been accused of trying to steal research on a possible corona virus vaccine the u.k. u.s. and canada say hackers who are part of a russian intelligence services are targeting institutions that are developing a vaccine the british government says it also has evidence of interference in last year's election the kremlin has denied the allegations charlie rangel has more. it's a global race to find a vaccine for prove it 1001 country is accused of trying to cheat. the u.k.'s

national cybersecurity center says russian hackers known as a p t 29 the jukes or cozy have tried to infiltrate coronavirus facilities to steal their work britain the u.s. and canada whose research into possible vaccines is quickly advancing have all been targeted to be targeting with cyber attacks the international effort not just here in the u.k. but in kind of in the u.s. to try and find a vaccine which is for the greater good of the world as well as our people here at home and i think is actually right we called out in this measured way with our international partners the hackers are believed to operate as part of the russian intelligence service allegations that russia strongly denies the u.k. government says the hackers are using fishing and malware in their attacks and they've supplied coding instructions that were going to his asians can protect themselves this latest attack comes as the u.k. reveals russian hackers also interfered in the country's general election last year by trying to spread an amplifier leaks documents online video to go in there as

near the win yes that sure up or a criminal investigation is going on but i've this stage it would be inappropriate for us to say something britain has said this day many so vague and controversial that it's almost impossible to understand if it's inappropriate to say it then do not say if you do any of the straight the fact is. there's also evidence of meddling in the $26000.00 bricks it vote and the election that followed a year later the government says it will finally release a report with details next week for high level attacks in 4 years but security experts say they're not surprised but it's changed is that when you're putin starting about 2013. changed his policy and ordered the intelligence services to engage in a more systematic aggressive series of actions to destabilize elections and to.

disrupt russia's. rivals which is the european union nato united kingdom france united states they also say that vaccine development is a priority target intelligence agencies russia would be the only state involved charlie hunter. victor all of it true is the leading expert at the center for actual politics the moscow based think tank he says the countries haven't presented specific evidence of russian involvement of course those reports are not being verified by any there act solid evidence provided in the court of public opinion so the british. security services are making a statement about that but of the same time they're not providing current evidence that would boost their case both domestically in britain and internationally and that is quiet expected and logical that moscow denies any involvement then that

now in the past few years as you know russia has been accused of meddling in the number of elections both in the united states you know the 1016 presidential election and. elections in europe and other regions of the world russia has consistently denied taking a new partner meddling in those elections at the same time moscow has offered to hold the talks on cyber security here and talks on not meddling in each other's internal affairs now the united states the american government cares if used to making your public official pledges of not meddling into in russia's internal affairs and so at this point it's a it's at the standstill. as the number of crow virus infections in the u.s. grows more states are pushing to make face masks nandor tree in public but the

topic remains divisive the new york. mask of america. new york's governor has launched a national campaign to encourage people to wear masks in public despite the rising cases there's been no official ruling on the use of masks from the federal government. as more. several months into the pandemic am coded 19 testing is still beset by restrictions shortages and delays in several states for those eligible for a test long waits have to be endured and it may be a week or more before results are disclosed even with many unable to be tested the trends are all menace with coded 19 infections reported to be rising rapidly in 40 of the us is 50 states we were previously see about one inch and or even one in the arts tests that we were doing in the community they were coming back now we're

seeing one inch or so about 25 percent of all the tests that were doing which we've also ran. we're seeing more of those that are coming back which concerns us for increased transmission in the community cases spiking in states like california and washington but the thought of virus was contained following strict lockdown measures that were later relaxed but there are spikes too in states which initially it seemed to have escaped the worst of the pandemic and where combat in corona virus became explicitly political with restrictions on behavior of presented as un-american for example texas 2 weeks ago the state did finally mandate ma squaring in counties with 20 or more crude cases but the governor is still pleading with texans to follow the rules to prevent an economic shutdown all we need is for people to wear masks everyone wears a mask nothing will be locked down alabama to now mandate small squaring however in

neighboring georgia the governor signed a late night executive order on wednesday prohibiting cities from ordering mosque usage and in oklahoma where cases are also surging the governor who himself has tested code that in 1000 positive is standing firm not thinking about a mass mandate and all this will complicate the actions of may. retailers who now do mandate mask usage in their stores wal-mart one of the latest saying in a statement because the virus can be spread by people who don't have symptoms and don't know they're infected it's critically important for everyone to wear a face covering in public but more than a 3rd of wal-mart's rules are in areas with no mask mandate no i'm not going to i'm not going to do that retail workers feel they're being told to enforce the mask mandates with no extra support and i'm not doing it so i woke up in a free country fact liers is america's food retailer meat packing health care

workers should not be the ones that have to do the enforcement and it should be that companies that not government in addition even as major retailers mandate masks in their stores they still refuse to disclose how many of their workers have been infected are sick and have died both in stores and across their supply chains she have returned see al-jazeera france is making masks compulsory an indoor public spaces the policy goes into effect next week now this follows an uptick in cases in some regions last were already mandatory on public transport more than 30000 people have died in france as outbreak as a by johns foreign minister has been sacked over what the president calls meaningless negotiations with neighboring armenia that's a ceasefire between the 2 countries was broken just after one day so far the 16 soldiers and one civilian have died robin foreseeing walker has more homes damaged

daily life disrupted lives lost in azerbaijan's torvalds preachin this is the human cost of the fighting. didn't before. on suddenly shun goes out of his last phone call to her father she could hear artillery in the background so he went out after breakfast and was hit by shell no one was with him when he died she said. armenian civilians are also suffering a cease fire brokered by the o.s.c. on wednesday broke down on thursday morning this is the armenian defense ministry says his the village of a good party. later on thursday azerbaijan's president ilham aliyev sacked his chief peace negotiator his foreign minister there was little slinky unfortunately recently our diplomacy is not compatible with the successful

development of our country and some cases it isn't gauged to meaningless work meaningless negotiations they just voice not only. john of had been azerbaijan's top man in the goshi ations over the status of nagorno karabakh for 16 years armenians took control of the disputed territory in a regional war in the 1990 s. in which 30000 died as a by john wants it back foreign minister moment europe was never the source of policy he was always the man implementing decisions but if you want to prove that you are taking decisive action then getting rid of your long standing foreign minister and saying that we've had enough is a sign i guess to the public from the president that he is doing something. firing a chief peace negotiator failing to do his job could mean a fresh start with negotiations or it could mean more of what president aliyev

calls offensive diplomacy robin 1st year walka al-jazeera tbilisi. well still ahead here on al-jazeera calling out fire late as the european union to do more about those defying a u.n. arms embargo in libya. they come specifically for the fish and you know. feasting in capitals waters why it's the perfect home for these kids gentle giants . well it was mid summer in the us and the excesses are not really with us it's admittedly fire season this is one far not yet contained in utah is not a huge business sample of what happens in the 4 corners and desert southwest but there's also suggestion that the monsoon season they do get one in the southwest

the us is upon us as are some thunderstorms already happened and more will come you'd expect to see big thunderstorms in the plains states there aren't that many either a few a forecast missouri and places with and up in the dakotas moving east here is well over what are excessively warm waters of the great lakes at the moment temps of the whole are not too high where they want to place a sticker 38 in washington d.c. is excessively hot and it will be humid but here this is a good site the showers over the 4 corners to the south of this well we've got a pretty strong trade wind blowing to the caribbean so frequent but quick showers in the smaller islands of concentration where they slow down in places like the bahamas or florida or cuba i where we have the yucatan very wet it's not as well as it was the same is true of nicaragua and a concentration of showers here not so much but this is worth noting that could develop into something interesting the bahamas.

but. i'm allowing an orphan. raised in a chinese buddhist all phonies. faces a momentous life decision. a personal story of competing identities. the chad light growing cultural ties. down in africa a witness documentary on al-jazeera. world. world. i. thought about you watching al-jazeera needs

a whole room to remind of our top stories the u.k. u.s. and canada have accused a russian cyber spies of trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research they say the hackers are linked to russian intelligence services moscow denies the accusations and a growing number of states in the u.s. are pushing to make face masks mandatory as cases continue to rise new york's governor has the right to a national campaign to encourage the use of face coverings in. that azerbaijan's president has sacked his foreign minister over what he's calling meaningless negotiations with neighboring armenia that's as a ceasefire between the 2 countries was broken after just one day. a top official at the u.s. state department says the european union needs to be more critical of countries that violate a u.n. arms embargo in libya david schenker who is the assistant secretary for near east

affairs says the blog is biased and only criticizes turkish involvement in the conflict changes says the e.u. isn't doing enough to stop violations by countries like the united arab emirates or egypt chasing pack is the founder of the consultancy libya analysis he joins me now from in new jersey good have you with us back on the program jason it seems that there is a sort of u.s. blitzkrieg as it's being described on global issues why is the u.s. getting involved in libya now when it's walked away from this conflict made it militarily and politically for some time now. well you're right to notice an uptick in american engagement and there are 2 reasons for that this one is there general have lost his attempt to take tripoli and therefore you know trump wanted to back a winner and he called him in april 21000 when he thought that when and now that

after as last the u.s. feels that they need to help sort things out but her made another mistake which is that trump loves new york populist authoritarians but he really likes them if they're loyal and half her was caught buying gold from venezuela by dispatching his private plane there last week and that's a violation of u.s. sanctions and undercuts trump goals for the whole region and therefore they have called him on paper talked to half tar said he's got it under the oil blockade and they're putting pressure on him indeed so we have a serious noria now where the u.s. seems to have a valid point while talking about turkey being heavily criticized for supporting the u.n. back to being god but but no one is really talking about you might say the elephants in the room france egypt the united arab emirates saudi the e.u. faithful silent here why well quite. there are

structural reasons why it's easier to criticize turkey than the others and that's because the e.u. mission to enforce the arms embargo is done in the maritime space and only in turkey brings in their arms primarily through the maritime arena whereas the emirates uses planes and you just use the land border but that's not the real reason is that the e.u. is dysfunctional on libya france and greece are on one side and the germans italians and the brits are on the other and for whatever reason the french and the greeks have been more outspoken in monopolizing even policy in making it that they don't prevent and they don't criticize the egyptians amerada to russians for violating the blockade and i was thrilled to hear my old friend assistant secretary shanker actually point out there's a part where c n n try to nudge the e.u. to you know name and shame when that well actually happened in fact jason do you

think the e.u. really have a position to negotiate with because there is a train of thought we've spoken to several experts over the last few months really about what's going on in libya that you that russia really needs to you might say bring in the us to make any sort of permanent peace legitimate would you agree that on the international level it always takes russia and the united states together the superpowers to to resolve an issue like libya and then everybody else falls into place. i understand that but that's the old way of thinking about things that's a bi polar cold war world now we don't live in that world anymore we live in the global enduring disorder and we need collective action involving all players not just russia and the us because medium players like the u.a.e. turkey greece egypt are now major players in libya so the e.u. can play a convening role if it could just get its act together and yes the u.s. and russia are going to be big players and there's going to be horse trading the

problem is that it present the russians saudis that emirate is one of the oil off the market because there are or who is not getting the money that they want to get to the coronavirus in the global economic and production so they're happy for the libya comfort to continue and the oil to not be on the market it will require u.s. pressure any new pressure to convince them otherwise that it's good to have libyan oil back on the market and that solving this conflict is in everyone's best interest jason patric joining us from richard in new jersey thanks so much for your time again pleasure now a british court has ruled that a woman stripped of her citizenship for joining i still in syria could return to the u.k. show me her big and was a schoolgirl when she left london with 2 friends in 2015 she was found in a syrian refugee camp in february last year and wants to challenge the government's decision to take away her nationality so you're going to get reports from london. she was just 15 years old when she ran away from her home in london for life in the

so-called islamic state she lived under i saw rule for 3 years before she was found pregnant in a syrian refugee camp this was how she found out she had been stripped of her british citizenship from a letter sent to her mother please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the home secretary to deprive your daughter. in law. your daughter the notice of the home secretary's decision has been served on fog today. and the order removing her citizenship and subsequently been made. by. request to return home was always going to be a controversial one if the government's decision to revoke her british citizenship was also criticized their reason because her mother was born in bangladesh by go

automatically had citizenship of that country but that was refuted by the bangladeshi government itself the home office has called the ruling very disappointing the heart of this is not a question of shamima back citizenship itself rather have access to her right to appeal. the government it's become a problematic political issue the move by the british government had effectively left begum stateless going against international law but they maintained that she still poses a security threat so the idea that you know male fighters who are not humorous were allowed. to citizenship stripped only when she appeared in tabloid press is is the actual question at hand how is a. national security risk is higher than others and also only happens to be considered a national security risk so 4 years after she left ownership in the press the

government is set to appeal against the ruling citing national security concerns the court said by gum couldn't fight the case effectively from syria and had the right to return to britain that becomes right to return home has divided public opinion and raises questions over whether a 15 year old girl who left home of her own free will should remain stateless her decision to do so sunny diagonal al-jazeera iran's judiciary is reconsidering death sentences given to 3 protesters after a mass social media campaign the men were convicted in connection with last november's antigovernment protests more than 7000000 tweets using the hash tag a do not execute have been posted since they were sentenced the u.s. attorney general says americans have become overly reliant on chinese goods and services including coronavirus protective equipment william barr has joined the growing chorus of u.s. officials publicly criticizing the chinese government he says it's engaged in an

economic blitzkrieg to surpass the u.s. as the world's preeminent superpower a white house correspondent kelly how good has this update. there's no question this is an administration that is angry over the fact that it has had a decimated economy looking for someone to blame accusing china of not being more transparent about covert 19 that of course is obliterated the jobs market in the united states when the us president in an election year was hoping to rebound for a 2nd term as a result of what he saw as historic gains in the economy now that those have been wiped out we've seen that increasingly and number of measures and also tit for tat actions between the united states and china essentially their relations continuing the downward spiral the latest we understand as it is that reporting that has come out that the administration has under further consideration a plan to potentially band member band members of the chinese communist party how

we understand this would be done is through presidential order similar to what we saw in 2017 where the u.s. president put in place a travel ban for some muslim majority countries essentially the argument being that they're not compliant in terms of security measures until standards are met there would be a bam but this would apply to millions of chinese officials and their families and of course this in addition to being a very broad and sweeping order which would even have potential economic impacts there is also the concern for retaliation and some sort of tit for tat measure by china we could tell you already just on news of this the foreign ministry has called the plan pathetic. if european has denying that it started to fill the reservoir of africa's largest down the government has told sudan that the gates of the ground renee sounds dumb have not been closed the increase in water levels is instead being attributed to seasonal heavy rain and

a natural part of the construction process on the blue nile river sudan in egypt fear the dam will reduce their water supplies and don't want to start operating until a binding agreement is reached. now whale sharks are the biggest fish in the oceans and also one of our planet's most mysterious animals despite their size they can be notoriously difficult to find and no scientist has ever witnessed a whale shark giving birth for years they've been congregating in record numbers in qatar's waters stephanie decker got exclusive access to head out to sea and swim with these gentle sea giants. were scanning the water is but not for these playful visitors. this think. they're going to have it with the element of. we've travelled almost 2 hours off the qatari coast to find these majestic animals the whale shark the biggest fish in the

world and they gather here in huge numbers how middle jaida the head of the whale shark research project here explains the biggest emitter we recorded by a drone is 350 with one shot but in our database we have more than 600 record the. world record. a bucket list moment as they say. our 1st glimpse of these enormous gentle giants. it's hard to describe the feeling of swimming alongside them watching them feed feeling like tiny insignificant yet privileged guests in their world. ringback cameraman nick porter and i surface after swimming with them for the 1st time.

critical. of. the crew for. the scale of what we are witnessing only really becomes apparent once you take to the sky and why do they come here the main thing in this area is the temperature the war you see if you go 5 or 6 kilometers out of this the water temperature is about between 32 to 34 average 32 degrees centigrade in this area here. about $2728.00 it's the best or the ideal temperature for fish to breed so when they breed or spawn here the shark comes for the brought in you know they come specifically for the fish you know the caviar you know. part of the shark family they are filter feeders and they are categorized as endangered unsurprisingly mostly due to man's activities. research had been going on into this population since 2010 together with some of the major energy companies but has been put on

hold in the last few years the local teams are keen to get things moving again back on the boat so how was it just unbelievable to see how many will sharks. and this area here also eager to join us on our trip. a qatari world traveler he has never seen such a gathering before and the maldives we were to go in and spend 4 hours to spot one will show one will sharks and the more and then he and the it is like everywhere everywhere only miss will shock. the doctors as though there were the other one is coming that they're not going i mean saying it's not you know something you know you see it now in the hurt them but it's still 50 maybe bigger and here the water is below 30 feet i'm not and we're going to be you know we get back into the water it's hard to end such a unique and special experience for now there is no way for the public to come here

but we're told it's being looked into raising awareness could also be a way to ensure more protection and more research into this whale shark population . it is a privilege to host these graceful sea giants and we all have a g.g. to play our part in protecting them stephanie decker al-jazeera of the qatari coast . you want your visitor with me still run the reminder of our top news stories the u.k. u.s. and canada have accused russian cyber spies of trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research they say the hackers the link to russian intelligence services moscow denies the accusations we're not entirely sure but it feels in any event as if it's being done for their own purposes whether it's commercial or otherwise in any event as i said given the world is trying to come together to find

a vaccine for our in people's british people here in the u.k. but also for people around the world i'm afraid it's a pretty egregious behavior and it is and it should be called. a growing number of states in the u.s. are pushing to make facemasks mandatory as coronavirus cases continue to rise new york's governor has launched a national campaign to encourage the use of face coverings in public so far there's been no official ruling on the use of masks from the central government as about john's president has sent his foreign minister over what he's calling meaningless negotiations with neighboring armenia that says a ceasefire between the 2 countries was broken after just one day the latest fighting began on sunday a top official at the u.s. state department says the european union needs to be more critical of countries that violate a u.n. arms embargo in libya they would do is assistant secretary for near east affairs says the block is biased and only criticizes turkish involvement in the conflict he

says not enough is being done to stop violations by countries like the united arab emirates or egypt. iran's judiciary is reconsidering death sentences given to 3 protesters after a mass social media campaign the men were convicted in connection with last november's anti-government protests more than 7000000 tweets using the hash tag do not execute have been posted since they were sentance. the u.s. attorney general says americans have become overly reliant on chinese goods and services including coronavirus protective equipment william has joined the growing chorus of u.s. officials publicly criticizing the chinese government he says in gauge an economic blitzkrieg to surpass the u.s. as the world's preeminent superpower he's accused hackers linked to beijing of targeting american universities and businesses those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's really want to stay with us. frank assessments tourism income

stream is dead in the water what's been the result seen poaching go up significantly informed opinions there has been very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for diplomacy to say treat. grady. inside story on al-jazeera.

rewind back in 2006 we 1st launched al-jazeera english our mission documentaries that other channels sent.