one how many reveals china's underwater and how does iraq. violence in west jerusalem as thousands of protesters call on the israeli prime minister to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the pandemic. i'm about to send in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i don't like saying things but that's the way it is a reluctant a reassessment of the outbreak in the u.s. as president donald trump holds his 1st covert 19 briefing in months. ethiopia says

heavy rain has begun filling its controversial blue nile dam as the government continues to negotiate with its neighbors egypt and sudan. the movie earthlings 2005 everyone should watch and the bizarre endorsement from ukraine's president that helped and the hostage situation. thousands of israelis have taken to the streets of west jerusalem calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down 34 people were arrested outside parliament in the latest of several nasty administrations in recent weeks and yahoo has come under growing criticism for staying in office while facing trial on corruption charges is also being accused of mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic and a deepening economic crisis i mean fawcett has more in tel aviv. benjamin

netanyahu has weathered protests before so called black flag activists have waged a years long campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the government's failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and journalist roden bergman has investigated that decision making he says the health ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is not you need to test that person immediately after he is they didn't fight is suspicion so it's just so if if you do not been sharing of infection it goes on and on and you are not able to cut it the government itself said it needed

a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test results even now it's taking $6.00 to $8.00 days the concern now is that it's simply too late in terms of testing to catch up with the sheer scale of this 2nd wave israel's missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the pandemic under pressure the prime minister has been announcing measures only to announce them from a $1750000000.00 package of cash handouts 1st universal now means tested too in order to close restaurants postponed within hours to weekend closures of beaches and pools reversed within days the one constant is insistence on avoiding a 2nd full lockdown because. i've requested each ministries plan for a safe exit from the current virus restrictions meaning that if we straighten the coven reach the goals that we see it for the determined number of cases per day that we can work with over time in the coronavirus. routine. but the head spinning

policy shifts have undermined belief in a prime minister also on trial in 3 separate corruption cases one survey this month put public trust in him at just 29 percent and the problem that. there's really this back and forth of that it's not creating trust and trust is groucho. in order to move ahead because it's a long term situation where they're talking about trustees both thrust of the public and trust of experts just weeks ago netanyahu had squashed the 1st wave of coded 19 and neutralized his most serious political rival benny gantz inside an emergency coalition now he's fighting to beat down a resurgent virus and restore his diminishing political capital are a force at al-jazeera television probably sables a professor of international law at hebrew university joining us live from west who saw them by skype thank you very much indeed for joining us on all jazeera as harry mentioned there of course benjamin netanyahu no stranger to protests but what's

different about this one the difference is that it's affected his base in other words it could members a boater's are disappointed it is handling of the economic crisis and a looming collapse in cloud of course so it is a well i well i must bear in mind he has at the moment there is no alternative leader and he knows this now because there's deep dissatisfaction with the thought you know hold but nobody wants to go to elections and within his party there is no . leader who could take over. so though he's highly unpopular the moment we're likely to see nothing you know do you know this point one thing that i was reading was that the nature of the protests of change in terms of the people who are taking part in them that way and that it's actually representing a far greater cross-section of israeli society is that a fair reflection do you think. yes definitely members of the likud who

traditionally vote you're going to you know been badly hit by the economic license and that's bill clinton's earns its name calling me stupid know the words big bad to hit. unemployment and it's affecting his popularity but again the question is will he resign and this is something to take over at the moment that doesn't seem to get anybody on the liason who is capable or can in fact take over. as we know he's in this slightly uneasy coalition at the moment with benny gantz how do you think benny gantz and his supporters are viewing this situation and possibly thinking about how they can make it work to that advantage they have a problem they don't want to go to elections by the way neither does not and you know it's a narrow advantage to let the 1st term of even a hot button and then automatically 'd any guns becomes a minister so they also don't want to vote but what about that because there's no love or trust between you. and nothing but they both have an interest in keeping

present coalition going so i feel like he was going there again in his role in the middle east one never knows on cause or is there anything that from his illness and yahoo can do to try to come back from the situation or is this is how it's going to be for the at least for the forseeable future until we get to those elections i was going to the only thing we could do is get a vaccine i know people are working on it but unless there's some sort of vaccine that can stop you have been dead make sure it is a big problem and i would say you can't open up the economy and not have a resurgence of the virus and by subversive therefore he's in deep trouble but again he's likely to stay in his position although he's become deeply unpopular even among his own electricity you know. we really appreciate your giving us that context robbie sable thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you for having

that u.s. president on and tom has warned that the corona virus outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better that's a mark departure from the optimistic picture he's projected so far even as cases continue to rise in many states mike hanna has more from washington d.c. in the past president himself as america's cheerleader making rosy predictions about the course of the pandemic that we're often at odds with the facts but this was a more subdued president than on previous occasions it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i don't like saying about things but that's the way it is and a complete reversal on the use of mosques something that in the 1st few months of the pandemic the president often derided at one stage even expressing support for anti mosque protests in a number of states this to it seems a thing of the past i have no problem with the masks i view it this way anything

that potentially can help and that certainly can potentially help is a good thing i have no problem i carry it i wear it you saw me wearing it a number of times and i'll continue there were some familiar claims that the u.s. is leading the world in testing and that it's mortality rate is lower than anywhere both assertions declared false by most health experts and little comment about a startling report from the centers for disease control it says the official figure of some 3 point $6000000.00 cases of coronavirus in the u.s. is dramatically less than what it now is to mates could be as many as $38000000.00 cases. it's not clear whether the president's new embrace of reality rests in recognition not because such as these or whether he's seeking to reverse what are politically damaging polling figures about the public's view of the way he's handled the crisis my kind of al-jazeera washington protesters in portland oregon

are demanding that u.s. federal agents be banned from the city. for 55 nights black lives matter supporters have been marching there for the protests of picked up momentum after federal agents sent to stop the rallies forced people into unmarked vans and drove them away a group of women has been forming what they call a wall of moms to protect the demonstrators ethiopia says it's reached its yearly filling target for the grand renesas dam after weeks of heavy rain that says the government held virtual meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to continue talks to find a solution to the dispute over the mega project john stratford reports on the complex regional politics surrounding the don. it's taken 10 years to build and cost close to $5000000000.00 ethiopia's flagship infrastructure project is

a great source of national pride. but a grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start be coping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to 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 it does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on our 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each direction territory and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amount they produce and the motherboard they consume

. and with a rapidly growing population of iran 100000000. to this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because it's the source of the blue nile the largest of the river gnarls tributaries ethiopia was never included in a colonial era agreement between egypt and sudan the gives the lion's share of water to egypt there are many finally balance calculations including internal political ones. you know if you don't really need the other big you have i be outmanned haven't come into power in 2018 he wants to secure its position and you know be reelected in future elections and. 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 which of course has an important role in the. economy. in late june ethiopia rejected a u.n.

security council meeting requested by egypt saying the council should not be involved at all ethiopia's un on bassa said the dispute should be solved at a regional level african union talks hosted by science africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he 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 has potential huge security implications for the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt have repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one

day charles profit. still ahead on al-jazeera livelihoods on the line in indian administered kashmir while locals say they're no longer getting their fair share of mineral resources plus. researchers at mit looked at dozens of countries around the world that have grown of virus concluded that the actual number of people infected might be much higher than what's reported by gabriel's are doing new york that story coming up. hello the siller all the catty picture across northern areas of europe and not discount of course there is a some rain in the makes the mickelson clear skies out across the southwest where we've also seen is in fairly strong thunderstorms and this of course is the result

off the thunderstorm festival in hungary a beautiful rainbows you can see there across the skies darkest skies in moscow but again some thunderstorms have been in the mix and some particularly strong thunderstorms in lisbon in portugal this of course is where the heat has really been in place temperatures actually coming down a little bit across into portugal and spain and in fact the same time the cloud is increasing want to shout to the north and you can see there very widespread throughout france across the line of the alps and on towards romania that sunday through wednesday there's also more rain across northern sections of the u.k. and a scattering of showers and for you cloudy conditions really across much of the north then as we go on into thursday those rain showers becoming rather more widespread across the u.k. a temperature wise london coming down a little bit as you might expect but mostly sunny and warm in paris with a high of 27 and again discussion of showers across areas of the south more of that rain across northern europe as well meanwhile down into northern africa it is fine and dry there is the chance i want to show is just developing across areas of morocco but for the most part for the next couple days it is fine dry and warm.

frank assessments tourism income stream is dead in the water what's been the result seen poaching go up quite significantly informed opinions there has been a 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 new policy gives us a country not only seem to grady but it's great to meet the lady of the ball continues inside story on al-jazeera.

you want to go to syria a reminder of our top stories this hour there'll be more protests calling on israel's prime minister to step down benjamin netanyahu is facing criticism for staying in office while facing trial for corruption charges. u.s. president donald trump has warned the corona virus outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better it is now urging the public to wear masks and promise to deliver the vaccine as soon as possible. if your peers says it's reached its nearly filling target for the ground running songs down after weeks of heavy rain that says the government held virtual meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to continue talks. well the u.s. president abu dhabi's crown prince have discussed the situation in libya and stressed the need for deescalation through the removal of foreign forces there comes a day after egypt's parliament approved military deployments to libya that reports from the city of misrata where people say cairo's intervention will only make the

conflict worse. and i have a lot of hype egypt's president of the c.c. has long been a supporter of leaving warlord khalifa haftar who has failed to take control of the capital tripoli after a 14 month military campaign with egyptian support his forces have had to retreat back towards their eastern stronghold shortly after that happen in june sisi announced a so-called cairo declaration of political initiative for talks between libya's warring sides but it filled to get international traction he is now reportedly considering military intervention. on monday egypt's parliament unanimously approved sending military forces on combat missions abroad. but people in the northwestern libyan city of misrata say they don't want more foreign fighters in libya. we refused to libya to become a stage for regional and international proxy wars the libyan fight was internal in

the end we are brothers and brothers can fight and then make up but if egypt is intervene they will eventually regret adding to the fire and egypt cousins what did we do to them we love the people but they don't have a decision in this the egyptian government is wrong with this decision city officials say with more than 700 men killed in the conflict with hussar their fight for libya to become a democratic country. whether. mr articles for peace but we will not be relied on and faced in bani invading force we sacrificed so much to get rid of the dictator khadafi and now with the new take to have to the people of misrata will continue until libya becomes a civilian and democratic state. many here in misrata libya's 3rd largest city support the u.n. recognize government in tripoli which is backed by turkey they say they have to use

a dictator attempting to take the country back to military rule regional and international leaders are calling for negotiations and peace talks while the german foreign minister on tuesday criticize egypt's plan to do so broad it's not clear yet if president c.c. will intervene in libya by sending troops but many here say if he does the only escalate the conflict and further destabilize the country now it's right now al-jazeera misrata saudi arabia's king solomon has held a cabinet meeting to video call from a hospital in riyadh the 84 year old man it was admitted on monday prompting concerns about his health and the future of the kingdom is reportedly in stable condition while being treated for an inflammation of the gallbladder. mining has a long being a way of life for many people in indian administered kashmir but after new delhi struck the region's autonomy last year it's led to changes in the way contracts are

allocated and dots left some locals fearing for their livelihoods and as before on him as more. the jaylen river and the himalayas have been to constance an indian administered kashmir for as long as people here can remember as well as being a vital source of water and its tributaries have also provided a livelihood for many who mine the river for sand and minerals but for the 1st time people living in the region say outsiders have been awarded most of the mining contracts and locals who have worked in mining all their lives have missed out. the indian government began optioning the 1st of $200.00 mining areas online in february but fast speed 4 g. internet hasn't been restored to the region since its autonomy was revoked in all this last year and the internet was cut off more than 50 times in the 1st half of this year locals say that left them at a disadvantage but the image alarming. and we didn't get any information because

the media was shut down the internet was shut that's why we couldn't participate. that's left many feeling the government has acted maliciously i think people ought or. that this is being done deliberately with. that the norm or have the right on their resources on their contracts or or any other such things in the state of america. until now local push midis paid the government to feed to mind the riverbeds but that will no longer be allowed the government says it's acted properly and local people have been awarded up to 40 percent of the contracts and it denies that the online process was unfair. if there is one fire breeder and the 2nd one is that if he has gotten a lot that is not what. experts are also worried about the impact of

expanding the sector on the environment and people's lives to all these things you know are going to be detrimental to the ecology and the critical quality of the it and not only vertical quality it can also have social economic. impacts because there are many people who live on the banks and the of erosion takes place when their house is gone all that was long months iraq maalik says his livelihood and that of his 100 laborers have only ready been washed away that's added to economic problems in the region since a violent uprising began against the indian government in line 990 already how big do you just know there was already a lot of unemployment here which is why you've seen what's happening here since 9090 and how people are dying here now when the government does this is this ok. now with the threat of their livelihoods being taken away completely many say they've been forced to mine illegally elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi south

korean company neighbor has become the 1st large foreign tech group to retreat from hong kong it's moving its back up service containing users personal data to singapore the firm says it deleted all of its information stored in hong kong shortly after china imposed a new national security law several u.s. tech giants including facebook and google said they won't process hong kong government requests for user data. they were drilling filipino journalist maria ressa has pleaded not guilty in a tax evasion case she's described as politically motivated as one of several charges brought against her and her online news site rappler inc she's already facing up to 6 years in prison after the manila court last month found her guilty of libel in a case against a wealthy businessman media watchdog say the charges are an attempt to silence critical coverage of president regio to tap to the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow around the world more than 15000000 people have now been infected

globally but u.s. researchers say the true toll might be 12 times larger. reports from new york. the spread of corona virus around the world over 600000 lives lost to the pandemic but researchers at the massachusetts institute of technology often cited as the world's best research university examined $84.00 countries and concluded the numbers are likely much higher we found that the estimate of the true actual number of covert 1000 cases proximately 12 larger than the number of confirmed reported cases and we found that the number of people who have died of coke at night is approximately 50 percent higher than the number of reported deaths to reach their conclusions researchers used a variation of

a standard model of epidemiology and over 4 months calibrated it with country level data on testing reported cases deaths and overall mortality and various other data points the model was able to estimate the percentage of the population of any given country already infected with covert 19 at the top of the list ecuador with 18 percent of its population already infected followed by other latin american countries peru chile and mexico then iran and qatar are the most infected per capita in the middle east followed by spain the u.s. the u.k. and the netherlands in early march the world health organization declared cofa 19 a global pandemic mit researchers concluded from their modeling that if all the countries in the world back then ramped up testing there would be 200000 fewer

deaths today once you lose control just is. a very serious problem and it's still relevant because although we can't go back and change what happened before we're now facing exactly the same choices with the new outbreak waves that are taking place in many countries around the world while the study conducted by the researchers is highly complex and very technical their advice on how to help stop the spread of coronaviruses not they say it simply comes down to social distancing and wearing a mask gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york president his support to a woman accused of helping trafficked underage girls to the late convicted sex offender geoffrey epstein trumper said he masculine maxwell multiple times in the past and that he wished her well she is currently in try to jail awaiting trial

prosecutors allege she helped epstein recruit and eventually abuse good girls as young as 14 in the 1990 s. the u.k.'s prince andrew a friend of mike's wells has been under pressure to cooperate with the investigation i haven't really been following it too much i just wish oh well frankly i've met her numerous times over the years especially since i lived in palm beach and i guess they lived in palm beach but i wish her well whatever it is i don't know the situation with prince andrew i just don't know not aware of it. 13 hostages held on a bus in ukraine have been freed on harmed after a personal intervention by the president a blood meal is alinsky agreed to endorse an animal rights documentary to end the standoff and the suit reports. that the freed unharmed after a 12 hour long siege these travellers turned hostages were on the bus in the western city of lutes when it was seized by a russian gunman. police sealed off the area where the suspect began throwing

explosives and firing shots at a drone nobody was injured the hostage taker was identified as 44 year old maxime creevy wash officials say he wanted to speak with ukrainian president florida mare's lenski his demand that the president and doors an animal rights documentary released 15 years ago selenski obliged posting this video to show the movie earthlings 2005 months everyone should watch. earthlings is an award winning documentary about the mistreatment of animals for profit now rated by hollywood actor joaquin phoenix selenski said he convinced the suspect to release 3 of the hostages when they spoke on the phone and the rest after he posted the video. we did schultz it was obvious for me these were obvious steps for me as if we can do anything without launching assault we can avoid putting at least one person's life at risk these are principles i live with lived with and will live with. some local

media reports say the suspect is an animal rights activist who helped protect stray dogs the standoff ended when he released all the hostages and surrendered police are now determining why he planned such an extreme act at least to al-jazeera. this is our jazeera these are the top stories there's been another mass demonstration calling for israel's prime minister to step down and human netanyahu has come under growing criticism facing trial on corruption charges his handling of the coronavirus and the country's economic crisis u.s. president donald trump has warned the corona virus outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better is no urging the public to wear masks and his promise to deliver the vaccine as soon as possible mike hanna has more from washington d.c. it was a somewhat measured president compared to many previous performances at these briefings

the 1st one in a number of months but once again the president book believing the role for the most part that he describes himself as america's cheerleader something to pay both the picture of a pandemic that continues to rip through the majority of us states still climbing cases of coronavirus recorded and certainly the death rate as well protesters in portland oregon and demanding that the u.s. federal agents be banned from the city. for 55 nights a black lives matter supporters have been marching there the protests have picked up momentum after federal agents sent to stop the rallies force people into unmarked vans and drove them away. if the o.p.'s says it's reached its yearly filling target for the ground when a souls down after weeks of heavy rain that says the government held virtual

meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to continue talks to find a solution to the dispute saudi arabia's king solomon has held a cabinet meeting through a video call from a hospital in riyadh 84 year old mana was admitted on monday prompting concerns about his health and the future of the kingdom is reportedly in a stable condition of being treated for an inflammation of the gall bladder the award winning filipino journalist maria ressa has pleaded not guilty in a tax evasion case she's described as politically motivated it's one of several charges brought against her and her online news site rappler inc media watchdog say the charges are an attempt to silence critical coverage of president of the road to terror. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story. the error. how close are we to a curve with 19 vaccine research teams in the u.k.

have released promising results from the trials but once a back seat is developed how do we make sure that everyone gets it this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura kyle the race for a coven 1000 vaccine is gathering pace scientists around the world are competing to develop a safe and effective treatment that may help and the pandemic years of research has been completed in just a few months a team at oxford university in the u.k. has released promising results from early trials but whilst there is excitement doctors will know still a long way to go before a vaccine is widely available we bring in our guests in just a moment but 1st this report from paul brennan.