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presence in his country. and the kidnapping of a prominent pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the government feels concerns over freedom of the press in the country. and i'm lee wellings with the sports news is the premier league faces more scrutiny over saudi arabia's takeover bid at newcastle human rights watch is now calling on the league to take the kingdom schuman watch what called into account when considering whether to allow the deal to go through. good to have you with us welcome to the new intelligence reporters found the british government actively avoided looking into evidence of russian interference in u.k. politics it says the government failed to take action even after evidence of merge to moscow trying to influence the 2014 scottish independence referendum. the

authors say it's hard to prove the kremlin meddled in the later breaks that referendum but the u.k. was slow to recognize the threat and the report warns that russia's cyber capability poses what it calls an immediate threat to britain's national security members of the parliamentary committee also accuse the government of being complacent about the flow of illegal russian money into the country what we do know about russian influence in the u.k. is that it is the new normal successive governments of welcome russian oligarchs and their money with open arms and there is a lot of russians with very close links to. putin who are now very well integrated into but a business political and social scene which we refer to as lending london grad yet few if any questions of the national guard the province of considerable wealth this open door approach is provided an ideal mechanism by which illicit finance

could be recycled through the london laundromat. u.k. foreign secretary dominic rob says the government categorically rejects any allegations it underestimated russia. i think if you look. we've got a long period recognising the enduring significant threat by russia to the u.k. including in relation to cyber russia's top national security priority we call our russia when it's necessary sharing information to the cyber attacks on research and development of cities in the u.s. and u.k. and kind of ever come back together with our partners and we are not for a 2nd. complacent about russia purchases when it comes to cyber so nick was more from london. it is really quite damning and very critical over lax and complacent the way that the government's excessive government's going going

back a few years now have dealt with this issue of russian influence through social means as well as economic means as well and the cottage industry of lawyers and estate agents and and accountants that welcomed high profile russians into the country and dedicated themselves to their services as was put there as a kind of functioning as a kind of laundromat as well and also there's a very serious question mark being put over certain members of the house of lords the upper house in the palace of westminster in parliament over their ties to russian businesses or the russian financial institutions as well the british government has already said that retrospective assessment of the of the vote is not necessary as there was no attempt of any successful interference well that we

cannot know at all considering that there was all the micro-targeting and the focus that was put on social media platforms to provide misinformation which is really a stall. of of what a russian interference has been able to do. russian interference in elections has been raised again at the white house news conference a short time ago let's get the details with our correspondent kimberly how it could be you challenge the white house press secretary only impact old malls all of these revelations coming from the u.k. what did she have to say. yeah i wanted to give the press secretary an opportunity to respond to this report that once again shows russian meddling given it has been concluded by myriad of u.s. intelligence agencies that there was meddling by russia in the 2016 u.s. election of course with the 2020 u.s. election looming the question really is what has been done what has been doing what

is being done right now here's what the press secretary had to say. you were teaming gauges with congress on election security on part particularly just for one of the 6 elections security specific hearings he signed legislation 71000000 dollars and so on and so forth and that's quite a contrast to the obeid in the obama biden administration who when told of meddling in 2016 did nothing and in fact susan rice told the white house cyber team to stand down and quote knock it off when they floated when they floated options to combat russian cyber attacks and even obama's cyber chief michael daniel has confirmed the stand down order for that office some more than 3 years i'm asking what's been done now and here with these fresh concerns what are we going to hear from the president and what's been done now is listed off 3 or 4 things 3 and i'm happy to go through more i we can talk about the 71 letter back in legislation on election security we

can talk about the 15000000 for election reform activities we can talk about legislation making more than 805000000 available to states. so there will be a press briefing again at $21.00 g.m.t. we understand that the u.s. president will be there as part of resuming the corner virus task force briefings the question becomes whether or not the president will put the kremlin on notice as we have heard the his opponent in the upcoming u.s. election joe biden do that is something that many are wondering and waiting for will be watching that white house press briefing at 21 very carefully thanks very much can we help our white house correspondent in washington d.c. . now issues surrounding china have topped the agenda during a meeting between the u.s. secretary of state might pompei on the u.k. prime minister boris johnson in london now the talks commerce both countries increase pressure on beijing about allegations of human rights violations and national security issues the u.k. has banned arms sales to hong kong and suspended its extradition treaty with the

territory while the u.s. has imposed visa restrictions on employees of the chinese tech giant weiwei. we think that the entire world needs to work together to assure that every country including china behaves in the international system in ways that are appropriate consistent with the international order but you can't go make claims for maritime which is that you have no lawful claim to you can't threaten countries and bully them in the layers you can't engage in cover ups in international institutions like the world health organization we hope we can build out a coalition that understands this growth will work collectively to convey to the chinese communist party it's not in their best interest to engage in this kind of behavior. it's being held as a pivotal moment for europe they rescue deal worth nearly 860000000000 dollars to help economies ravaged by coronavirus the agreement between the leaders who was

reached after days of tough negotiations. in the netherlands. it was a test of an durant for e.u. leaders in their longest gox summit in decades 4 days of tough negotiations with tempers often freight finally under 50 a deal $859000000000.00 in non repayable grants and loans to countries worst affected by the coronavirus can then make cuts. in we we spent 4 long days and nights of negotiation more than 90 hours but it was worth it this agreement is a signal that europe is able to act after all people often accused europe of being too little too late for us here we're demonstrating that the opposite is the case dawned in masks it was the leaders 1st face to face meeting since government imposed lockdown restrictions in march lockdowns that also meant the biggest economic downturn since the great depression german chancellor angela merkel was

among leaders from france spain and italy who led the way in convincing the block to consider the amount evenly into loans and grants. we've laid the financial foundations for the e.u. for the next 7 years and at the same time came up with a response to the biggest crisis in the history of the european union with the recovery fund. the self-proclaimed frugal for sweden denmark austria and the netherlands initially stood opposed to the deal. the group led by the dutch prime minister mark hurd worried about that but in the end they were also convinced. this is of course difficult decisions in very difficult times for all your appearance and martin. for all 27 member states with especially for the people this is a good deal this is. and most importantly this is the right deal for europe

writes no it's an unprecedented aid package and unprecedented times with so many european countries suffering from the covert $900.00 crisis the european union did not have much choice but to show solidarity and unity otherwise its relevance would have been seriously questioned now it's up to the individual leaders to sell this expensive deal at home while the e.u. bloc has been faced with rising unemployment as large industries including airlines and car manufacturers lay off workers inside these walls in brussels many are hailing this as a historic deal and a big step forward in soft economic blow the liver. step al-jazeera amsterdam. new cases coronavirus in the u.s. state of florida have sold past 10000 for 6 days in a row california and texas are also experiencing surges with expanded employment

benefits set to expire next week president trump has met republican leaders to discuss another relief bill explains. as the u.s. heads towards 4000000 covert cases the president has been discussing a new package for states being overwhelmed he plans to bring back the daily briefing he abandoned weeks ago frankly a lot of the country is doing well a lot of people don't say as you understand but we have had this big flare up in florida texas couple of other places. and so i think what we're going to do is get involved in was shuttling briefings florida has no recorded more than 10000 new infections for the 6th day in a row the state because slowly and reopen quickly protesters disrupted a briefing by the governor in orlando. in los angeles there are lines at the famous dodger stadium but no one's watching baseball these are for covert tests the site is handling your own 6500 tests

a day but still people have to wait for hours in washington congress is back after a summer break 6 months to the day after the 1st positive us test the democrat controlled house has already passed a raft of new measures including a 3 trillion dollar relief plan economy will only get worst worse if we do not if we do not continue to support working families in our country as we have done but the senate ignored the measure the republicans there say they're working on their own package it would neither be another multi trillion dollar bridge loan to make up for a totally shut down economy. noren ordinarily an ordinary scramble for an ocean ready to get back and all the needed now of some more and between the president who'd been reluctant to cover up has now sent out a picture of him wearing a mask on an issue which has become politicized he tweeted we are united in our

effort to defeat the invisible china virus and many people see that it is peachy or take to win a face mask when you can't socially distance there is nobody more pitchy or take than me your favorite president it was just over a week ago the president was seen in public for the 1st time wearing a mask and he continues to reject the idea of issuing a national mask monday alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the potential crude a virus vaccine which has been developed by chinese and brazilian scientists has been flown from beijing to san paolo to phase 3 trials some 100 volunteer doctors and paramedics will be the 1st of the country to receive the drug the study is being conducted by a chinese company as soon as a biotech and brazilian vaccine producer due to turn institute trees about a correspondent is in the argentine capital board as a result with the very latest there's lots of expectation about the results of the

sort of late stage trials of these vaccines that are being developed trees that mean what's going on certainly on the brazilian side of the border. where there's front of corvet like 19 not only in brazil but also in latin america has many countries here in the region that are willing to participate in this large scale glass trials that are happening here and we know that on monday 20000 vaccines arrived from china the city of atlanta seen the governor of so paula said that this was a historic moment for brazil what we know right now is that at least 12 research center in 6 different states involving at least $9000.00 people will be participating in this trial the governor said that he's hoping it will last for about 90 days 3 months but this is not just the only vaccine that is being tested in brazil also the oxford vaccine has started to be tested in brazil last june it's expected to involve around $5000.00 people and if it proves to be successful it has

signed in a way a letter of intention with the brazilian state to produce around 100000000 doses and brazil brazil is an important center to be testing this vaccine is not only because it has a very high transmission rate in the country because also it has a rino new research centers and also a very very strong public health care system what we know right now is that 3 other vaccines are expected to be tried in the country in the next weeks. trees are always the with brazil participating in the trials then one wonders whether if you participate in the trials do you get any sort of successful vaccine a lot earlier than other countries that didn't pass or participate in trials. what we're hearing is a vast if proven to be successful this test the vaccine should be available by the end of the year or early 2021 the government is saying that they're ready that

they're ready to put in place a vaccination campaign to cover the whole country but consumer groups are concerned that we've been speaking to some of them on what they were saying is that for example when brazil participated in the h one n one test that seemed trials they did not receive the vaccine for at least 8 more months so they're not sure that something like this well could be proven fast and effectively in brazil what they're also saying is that there's a law in congress that is known for compulsory licensing they're saying that result needs to have the capacity to copy certain medicines or vaccines in order to move fast and protect its population let's not forget about what's been happening in the country over 2000000 people have been infected 80000 people have lost their life it's not clear yet whether government of the it was and i don't know what would have proved something like compulsory licensing he has downplayed the coronavirus in the past but what's certain is that a vaccine in brazil would certainly help save lives for the latest research but as

always thank you. critical as folks in developers are reporting promising results but they must focus the nation program covering the globe so looks to be somewhere else until the doctors are testing the existing drugs to see what works now so to hope was given access to scottish hospitals taking part in a huge experiment the could so use saddles and survives in the 1st of a 3 part series he traveled to east kilbride to hear one man's story of survival. a simple household ritual tea with his daughters that eddie hughes will never take for granted. 7 points and long piped in but i was packing in that shoes with $200.00 necessary fatal eaters they alice's shop machines whether was to what it was a functioning service machines what basically for faster seem to keep me alive aged 56 eddie contracted coded 19 after 2 previous pouts of sepsis had weakened his

immune system and flashbacks to call it. flashbacks you don't know if of you were not at the very computer. the various delirium. was a jake. feeling of being abducted trapped daughter stacey fills in some of the blanks soft you take it you were told what don't overbuy ever know him keep your feelings on him and we may have to thank you both when pearson but it will come up to secret by only one person below it in fact in the next year you can do with 14 caesar salad a little bit like it's starting to need lasik surgeons only have one point if 100 percent oxygen requirement which means basically the machines do nothing for them and then the next they are members of these we lose people but we were 1st master drives. and then we're not really used to you high dependency you

among that was probably water if it had been an ice you because i was a weak. you could move troops everywhere. could control no strength at all you know a lot of dough to call my own was probably new on trucks and stuff a lot of stuff really very ugly to. shoot or not could we see the parking lot. at the hospital in scotland where eddie was treated i spoke to critical care nurse laura ferguson he was quite slow to wake up but when he did he was very pleasant and him and he was a pleasure to look after him and i very clearly remember taking pictures to see him to his family and he has a big snail and thumbs up but his family and to us that is my lasting memory of him . approvals as every finally left intensive care after a week's long ventilation in an induced coma a long road to full recovery lies ahead but says he'll make every day count

by god to do with what. sports people do from something else happens. to understand which of the important new life. you just learned who has joined a whole al-jazeera east kilbride scotland join me john to help for the next part in our coded 900 series as we go beyond eddie he was survival to look at the experimental drug that he believes saved his life a major us and european airlines have asked the e.u. and the white house to launch a joint coronavirus testing program to allow travel to resume american airlines united airlines list tenser and the international airlines group say they want the safe and swift restoration of air travel between the u.s. and europe the legal europeans are currently barred from traveling to the u.s. and similar restrictions are in place for americans in most of the e.u.

. the zimbabwean president. announced an overnight curfew to begin on wednesday evening when i got the measure is part of the country's lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus he added that the security forces will enforce the dusk to dawn curfew zimbabwe has reported just over 700 cases of the virus and 26 deaths. a record 229 people have died in iran covert 19 in a single day it's been the hardest hit country in the middle east but started relaxing its lockdown back in april an official who is part of an anti coronavirus task force says hospitals are facing acute shortages of medical staff and beds that these 22 provinces are considered high risk sones. know iran's supreme leader told iraq's prime minister the turnaround won't interfere in relations between iraq and the us was there for me is in iran where he met with president hassan rouhani on

the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei in the meeting with had any family warned that the u.s. is an enemy and doesn't want an independent iraq this is kind of his 1st foreign trip since taking office in may his visit was meant to come after a trip to saudi arabia but that was canceled after the saudi king salmon the bin abdulaziz was hospitalized thank you. to our brothers in iran i see our people hold positive sentiments to yours and the iraqi people always ask prior to exceptional bilateral cooperation based on mutual respect and without any intervention in domestic affairs we fought against isis and other terrorist groups and iran was the 1st to stand by our side and this cannot be forgotten. so small from tehran. we have to remember that the new prime minister took over the

role in iraq just around 2 months ago when he began by cracking down on pro iranian militias and if that was the stick on this 1st diplomatic visit his 1st time out of the country's prime minister's 1st time visiting iran as prime minister he brought a carrot in a speech made in front of his his delegation as well as some of the most important leaders some of the most powerful people in iran the prime minister of iraq really gave a speech that was a kind of a love letter to iran he emphasized the importance of iran's relationship with iraq he emphasized the important role that iran plays as a regional actor in terms of stabilizing the region in terms of bringing peace and stability and prosperity to the to the region and i'll read to you some of what he said he said iraq attaches importance to defending iran and will not allow any threat to be imposed against iran from iraqi soil certainly a significant thing to say is especially as iran is continuing to investigate

a series of explosions and industrial accidents that people say are of a mysterious nature that have happened throughout the country in recent weeks. ethiopia's said that the 1st stage of filling the relays on stone has been completed the country's prime minister stated that a major understanding between his country egypt and sudan could pave the way for a future agreement that comes amid a virtual summit that brought together the leaders of the 3 countries this is africa's largest hydroelectric dam and the 3 countries say that they'll be further technical discussions the 1st round of talks on the ground relations demanded a week ago with very little progress major sticking points include how any future disputes will be resolved and how ethiopia will respond to droughts in the region the $4600000000.00 project has caused nearly a decade of tension between all 3 countries ethiopia denies egypt and sudan's claim that it's down will control the flow of africa's longest river the nile the aims are to provide electricity for 70 percent of its population but both cairo and katu

fear this will restrict the only source of water they rely on for nearly 150000000 people the main disagreement is the time it'll take to fill the dunns reservoirs which will affect the flow of water downstream ethiopia's says it will take 5 to 7 years to complete but egypt has proposed 12 years instead while egypt and sudan want a final agreement to be legally binding and to refer future disputes to 3rd party arbitration ethiopia prefers to settle through negotiations amongst the 3 let's be told correspondent who's been covering the story for us extensively be monitoring this is virtual meeting that's been happening on tuesday how did today end. well so it's very clear that we are in front of 2 processes that are completely different and contradictory half negotiation process that has been going on for the better part of a decade and every single meeting ended with the same statement but we have not

been able to agree or to resolve the dispute but we will continue talking the same the very same words are being spoken today after the end of this meeting the other process that has never stopped and has never been stalled is the construction of the dam and then the filling of the lakes reservoir we have seen those statements contradictory statements by each opiah over the last few days when they announced that they were feeling the result of war and then later on just a few hours later they also said something different they said they were not feeling the lakers are now an official statement by the prime minister today that came at the same time as the summit concluded without without an agreement and confirm that one year worth of feeling has been achieved in the damn result anyone who has adopt or 100 out in egypt or in sudan about the nature of things and

how things are progressing with regards to this problem they are now sure that it is. dealing with the situation in completely different. from a completely different perspective and that there is no level ground between its opiah and sudan and egypt with regards to any type of negotiations so how was the realm of the cases of filling the dam and you might say the 1st stage was the consequences of that well technically the sudanese have said just a few days ago that they noticed. noticeable drop in the level of water in the blue nile just to willy. did from from each other from the to open borders last the technical impact you know that's the impact on the ground which is the more dangerous which is which is the thing that is feel most by egypt and so that the a considerable drop in the amount of water coming to the 2 countries in countries

politically speaking now they are all eyes are on egypt so that has spoken and it has shown its opposition to what's going on today after this meeting and after the statement by the prime minister we joke here that that is being filled all eyes are on egypt to see what the egyptians are going to do which is really interesting to know you know how after all of these things have become very clear indeed and what we have seen is basically as you talked about in the 1st part of our little chat that the discussions of calm really full circle we start with regional discussions over a decade then the u.s. got involved recently then even more recently it went to the u.n. security council to see if they could find a resolution to this it's now going back to the african union has come back to the region itself to see where the regional leaders can help in any way in trying to find. a way forward but that might have changed with tonight statements.

that's why it's so because you know remember that the african union this is not the 1st time the african union has been involved in this in these negotiations but you know there was a time when egyptians thought that they are close friends with the americans particularly american president donald trump they thought that donald trump could have some pressure on each opiate so they approached the u.s. but after long discussions and long talks. several rounds of talks it became clear that there was only as much that you know it that the u.s. must press or that they were could put on a chopper so no they. resorted to the u.n. and after that the african union african union is in. because 10 countries 10 african countries are bordering the the nile so they are primarily because egypt knows that this problem is an african problem and probably the people who will be most seriously interested in seeing a solution achieved are the africans but it's going to be difficult because egypt

has not been successfully approaching africans in the past now it is desperate to do that there were some criticisms against egypt's dealing with african countries particularly kenyan when its european built a dam that reduced the amount of water going into kenya to lake turkana egypt was criticized for not having to do with the with kenya but now it needs africa to deal with this situation and there is there are lots of you no doubt still the it's going to it's going to happen indeed usually what does happen for the moment mohamed well thank you. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. protests are expected in mali calling on the president to step down while regional mediators trying to ease tensions. i'm going hey reporting from thailand which used to be the largest exporter of rice in the world we'll tell you why the numbers are

continuing to fall. but it's for little ready to lift the premier league trophy the sounds of warned to stay away from stories after the break. hello there mostly horse and drive course throughout much of the middle east we have had wanted to showers in the last few days across areas of yemen also these coastal areas of oman we could see a few more those as well in the next few days but to the north is the in clear and dry and it has been warm so you can see why people are cooling down in this fountain in it to be seen now and actual fact that all some showers all the way across into georgia as you go through wednesday heavier downpours as well particularly towards azerbaijan maybe going to 2 showers on the way to to run as well but a warm day a high there of 38 degrees celsius and you can see the blowing sand and dust

through iraq and further south across into saudi temperatures of course here typically in the mid to high forty's but the winds a sunny kicking up a son just for the next couple of days and as i say be prepared for the 2 showers in and around santa and also across towards a solid then down into southern africa plenty of rain through those central tropical regions but we're also watching this this mass of cloud here it's a possible tropical cyclone developing in the next couple of days it doesn't make a great deal of headway tools madagascar but even so through these eastern areas and of course the usual say across the central tropical regions them by thursday the rain becoming a little bit closer to nor the madagascar but staying fine and dry across south africa very nice in cape town. the u.s. is a tipping point. telling us right now that we have just 12 near this us the world's leaders failed to agree upon a solution people are taking the truth into their own. which

by its actions to get people to understand that it kills people and that it kills people now it's ridiculous both sides return to people's doors on no jazeera coveted beyond wells. taken without hesitation. and died from. power defines our we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we live here we make the rules people in power investigates exposes and questions the use and abuse of power around the globe on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching all deserve me celeron a reminder of our top stories during this news and intelligence reporters found the british government actively avoided looking into russian interference in u.k. politics it says the government failed to take action even after evidence emerged to moscow trying to influence the 2014 scottish independence referendum. china has topped the agenda during a meeting between the u.s. secretary of state and the u.k. prime minister in london the talks come as both countries increase pressure on beijing over allegations of human rights violations and national security issues. and iran's supreme leader has told iraq's prime minister that iran won't interfere in relations between iraq and the u.s. most of them me met with ayatollah ali khamenei president hassan rouhani into iran

during his 1st foreign trip since taking office in may. germany's foreign minister has called on turkey to stop drilling in the eastern mediterranean if it hopes for any progress in talks with the e.u. high court mass also says egypt's decision to send troops abroad for potential military intervention in libya could escalate the conflict egyptian president of the sisi has previously pledged support for forces loyal to ward cleaver hafter that's if tripoli's government and its turkish allies attack the city of sirte the area is controlled by have to us forces and as a gateway to libya's oil rich region johnson says in athens he says the german foreign minister has delivered a very clear message. it was really all of the same mindsets the 2 statements on on what turkey is doing in the eastern mediterranean in wars as opposed to be a g. and what it's doing in libya of course and germany wants to avoid escalation in

libya the statement of the foreign minister was the decisions on military operations are not to be welcomed but always run the risk of contributing to an escalation rather than having turkey in egypt face off over libya the german minister said he would like to see a demilitarized zone around it and the base city of algeria for a further south and to deescalate the tension surrounding those 2 areas that seems highly unlikely because the libyan parliament a week ago invited egyptian assistance apparently the libyan national army is unable to face the onslaught of the government of national called based in tripoli on its own especially given that the g.n.a.t. now has to backing so all the events of the past few days and weeks have been leading to rebuild our presence in the deescalation. mollies opposition has called

for a pause in protests ahead of the upcoming need to 1st of all they've been demanding that president. steps down international mediators are heading back to bamako later this week to try to find a solution the opposition has already rejected a proposal from the regional bloc echo us calling for a unity government. and then guinea protesters have returned to the streets of the capital after 3 months of relative calm because of coronavirus restrictions they fought with police in conakry on monday they're angry about a potential reelection bid by the 82 year old president alpha condé his 2nd 5 year term ends in october and he made changes to the constitution this year and opposition groups are concerned that he'll run for a 3rd term. busted i think that we achieve the goal to show that in guinea they are people who suffer injustice and that the people of guinea do not support this 3rd mandate of president alpha condé. is a consulting fellow a chance and houses africa program joins be on skype from london good to have you

with us i mean on the surface it might just seem like it's another yet another demonstration across africa but are these demonstrations in west africa more unique than we give them credit for. well there is a very very long tradition in west africa of mass public demonstrations people power if you like in favor of political change or in order to exert real pressure on the governments it's important to remember that although there are flaws in the democratic systems of most west african countries almost all of the countries in the region are functioning democracies so people have a culture of believing that it's in their right to make changes to. the political system to choose their leaders through the ballot box and when they feel of that process is being frustrated or alternatively when they feel that the leaders that they have elected and not up to the mark sometimes they will get out into the

streets and this is a region where a back at the beginning of the 1990 s. democracy was achieved through people power but there are also differences the situation in guinea and situation in mali are quite different in the issues at play a different. cultures there the national differences play in and of course it would seem that. certainly the public at large are not talking themselves about calls to to tional change as you pointed out they just want incompetent or power power hungry politicians to actually step down and allow the ballot box to to really speak for them. yes i think that's particularly the case in guinea because it's important to remember that guinea was a bit unusual in the region democracy there didn't really arrive in in the full

sense of the word till 2010 so quite recently an outfit called the is the 1st really democratic president and people assumed when he was 1st elected then that he would see do for 15 year term then seek a 2nd term and then automatically would retire because he would be in his eighty's and when there was a constitutional referendum earlier this year which was clearly manipulated was not conducted very well and was not very credible to syria the possibility for him to seek a 3rd term there was ripped huge public anger particularly in conakry the capital the situation in mali is different president is actually in the middle of his 2nd term he's given no in no hint that he would want to run for a 3rd but people are really frustrated there because he's offered rather weak leadership in pushing forward the peace process in the struggle to try and resolve

the crisis in northern mali and the country's also seen an upsurge in into communal violence in the center in central regions and there's a there's been a spate of corruption scandals and those factors have all come together so that people are out on the streets demanding that he should go even though in his case he isn't actually challenging the democratic model all the all the basic political rules and that's what makes it so difficult for the west african mediators because they don't really want to establish a principle what just because people go as of out into the streets the genuinely elected president should quit. but on the other hand they won't solve the political crisis at the moment government. mollies effectively paralyzed when the country is already in a crisis and it needs a clear political direction and a credible government there or a proper leadership so that there's a there's

a striking contrast if you like between the 2 there's boiling frustration in both countries and beginning it's because guinea in particular in can actually fear that president called they will overturn or manipulate if you like establish democratic rules whereas in mali or frustration with just the way the country is being run it will keep an eye home both of those countries very closely in the coming weeks for the moment thanks for joining us from london thank you. let's head to south asia now where a prominent pakistani journalist critical of the country's military has been kidnapped in the capital islamabad police say there were large aren't was last seen outside a school in the capital and choose day morning that footage from surveillance camera shows men dragging a driver out of his car and into another vehicle rights groups are demanding more information on his whereabouts has more from the pakistani capital. john should be remembered. for several.

and recently one of. the to move. working. again. on going by however had wife. missing. was discovered. and their clothes. from their school which would of course poured in place after that tended to get cool in august on record. to be secured. from the police. uniform taking him away however the government had not yet commented on a nation on the other hand. coming out with criticism against the government. against the freedom of the press the opposition is now getting together to try to

move against the government. about john kerry and. also as the cause joins me now live via skype from sterling in virginia he's a human rights lawyer and jonas could do this again on the program if the call scuffles bundled into a car whereabouts unknown seems like the normal modus operandi of soul the secret service of pakistan. yes so here are the what we've seen here kidnapping that many journalists and it's something. we've seen. i think it's important to keep in mind you know might come suppress freedom freedom of speech freedom of the press in pakistan you know this is not exclusive to the current government of iraq and with no loss for you or him and the government of benazir bhutto. and so sadly you know because of sort of.

you know separation of powers and checks and balances the military. service. which is the fighting. really has been cracking down on journalists so much so that you know reporters without borders has ranked 145th of 180 countries in the world in terms of press freedom and a committee to protect journalists has rank them as that worst country in the world when it comes to press so in terms of the practicality of being a journalist in pakistan just for international audience i mean i would say that to be a journalist and to talk about politics the military india and the like in pakistan requires a journalist with credibility and to have that credibility you have to have contacts within the armed services the military and the secret service the challenge is how impartial and how fine a line you can balance as a journalist by getting the information you want without showing your favor to

those that are giving you that information and they are of course from those agencies. absolutely you know and that's an issue that journalists around the world as you know have to deal with when it comes to x. ray so if you're trying to get access to. a local government who essentially have immunity we're going to say when it comes to disappearing journalists and the committee to protect journalists and that 62 journalists have been murdered in. the early ninety's and 34 of them are still missing today and so just like america needs to deal with systemic racism but you know this is. a part of that is due to the basically the institutions i.e. the military and its secret service is a country predominantly controlled by the military since independence in 1947 there entrenched in all areas of everyday life in pakistan have reported from there extensively that they are

a hard act to you might say to have their tentacles cut and i keep saying tentacles because you have to actually experience it in pakistan to understand how how they influence every part of normal life and successive democratic elected governments have found it very difficult to. instigate their own power in that country because of what's already there. you're absolutely right you know and that's why it rests on the shoulder of prime minister imran khan you know the end of the day with such a strong military and so strong intelligence apparatus and has a strong executive. and so if you decide you know part of his campaign you know push was that he was going to stamp out corruption right everybody knows he's a muslim and lives so the financial corruption is something that he may not feel any sort of draw from but when it comes to power again you know he's really trying

to help build on that only for his own tenure but for decades and centuries you know as a country i'm not think it's going to be his response very. early . on but also to you know press freedom in a country in order to become. more from and we leave it there but we just got word to the journalists. john has been released that's good news i'm sure we'll get more on that in our later news bulletins for the moment though arsalan iftikhar thanks for joining us from the u.s. thank you so thailand has been relatively successful at handling the current owners pandemic so far but its economy is struggling and is expected to be the most affected in asia now the agriculture sector mainly rice is facing a particularly tough time when he explains from bangkok. farming has never been an easy way to make a living but in thailand these are particularly tough times this year growers of

rice and other crops have been hit hard on multiple fronts all beyond their control but. there's not enough water to grow rice probably the rainy season arrived late this year and the water in the canal is true salty the farmer be in trouble if there's not enough rain soon because the drought was really bad this year. thailand is the world's 2nd largest exporter of rice but is likely to drop down the list this year the coronavirus pandemic slow demand to thai rice as other produces such as vietnam stockpiled their own product to protect domestic food stocks in case of a shortage now they are freeing up supply flooding the international market which is pushing prices down but not the thai exporters who can't compete on price even though thailand's rice farmers have had a difficult year with drought which affected production warehouses and mills like this are expected the fill up in the months ahead as exports continue to decline

they'll have the product to sell but the strong thai currency makes it the most expensive rice in southeast asia exports may fall by 30 percent this year and industry leaders worry about the long term future of the sick. we are less competitive now you know why because our labor costs is increasing our land prices increasing and our farmers. you know it's more than 55 years old most of them. next generation they don't want to go into farming sending more growers who've been working the fields their whole lives are also concerned they say a government subsidy in the form of a price guarantee won't be enough but walking away from farming isn't an option for the incumbent in the. uk continue to grow rice i don't know what else i can do i'm getting old and i can't work in the factory and know that i'm not going to make a lot of money but i have to carry on with around a 3rd of thailand 70000000 people working in agriculture that's

a sentiment that will be echoed around the country wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. well still ahead in sports a socially distance faceoff the box is taking your chances when it comes to cave at 19.

all. while the mock time was bought by his. thank you the english premier league is facing further calls to consider saudi arabia's human rights record when assessing the country's takeover bid for newcastle united the non governmental organizations

human rights watch says the league needs to adopt a comprehensive human rights policy as it mulls over its decision saudi's bid for newcastle has been stalled for months the fiance of murdered saudi journalist has called for the deal to be blocked and also one of the league's main broadcast partners be in sports want it rejected because of the theft of their content by the saudi backed pirate channel speak out here. one of newcastle's former managers world cup winner jack charlton has been laid to rest in the city before the private ceremony thousands of people lined the streets to pay their respects in his hometown of washington little fumble and charlton died earlier this month at the age of $85.00 as a player he won the 1966 world cup with england in the same taking as his brother bobby made $762.00 appearances for leeds united and managed the republic of ireland back to fight world cups in the 90s. police are calling on liverpool fans not to

gather in large numbers when the team lifts the premier league trophy on wednesday because of the threat of the coronavirus pandemic officials are understandably came to avoid a repeat of things like this from last month when liverpool clinch the title you're going cops to receive the trophy after the hunger games against chelsea. yes we collectively understand the desire to celebrate and to show the team our appreciation and our master now is not a liberation we've waited 30 years so a few more months isn't too much to ask i agree 100 percent thank you very much. as you are not through this and we have to we have to we have to make sure that we don't hold anybody in risk. liverpool get ready to lift the trophy over in portugal it's porto celebrating yet another title this was the lift in the premier league trophy for the 29th time of this one. idea. benfica finish 2nd to

porto but will play in the portuguese cup final and with a new coach there welcome back. george he won the league 3 times before joining flamengo in brazil where he won 5 truncates staying with the greatest ever footballer christiane i don't know that it has broken another record he's the 1st man to score 50 goals in the premier league and now it's a nice area but i got both goals for you ventus in their victory over lots you know as they close in on their 9th consecutive league title you fire now 8 points clear with just 4 games to go on finding greece sunday's cup final in spain perspire over fears of violence police found petrol bombs and wooden bats near the stadium in athens. kathryn's and who plays in the greek super lagos sunday were meant to meet in the final. paralympic of motorsport hero alexander the has been transferred to a special recovery sense a month after suffering serious head injuries in

a bike crash the 53 year old italian has had 3 operations in c. collided with a truck during a road race in sienna but he's now been taken out of a medically induced coma which means he can now be moved from hospital to another facility for neuro rehabilitation the hospital has not said if so now is a wipe on nazi. like sonority is not just an athlete he's an example for all of us so-called normal humans who take care of our body living through thousands of difficulties so nobody tells us in every moment that life is indeed something worth living finally only in 2020 would you get a boxing pre-fight face-off like this place fighters in london are separated by a plastic screen to reduce the risk of coronavirus or that i will get closer when i meet in the rain the fights taking place in a t.v. studio with no funds from this t.v. studio or from a lighter thanks very much of course so that's kind of the news i hear laura will

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