award winning documentary is from around the world. 0. violence in west jerusalem as thousands of protesters call in the israeli prime minister to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the pandemic. are not matheson 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 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 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 to end the hostage situation. dozens of israelis have been protesting in west jerusalem calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to step down 34 people have been arrested outside parliament netanyahu has come under growing criticism for staying in office while facing trial on corruption charges is also being accused of mismanaging the pandemic and a deepening economic crisis and a force that has more from tel aviv. benjamin netanyahu is where the protest be.

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 ill or not you need this that person immediately after he is a good fight is so is the suspect so if if you do not been sharing of infection he goes on and on if you are not they were 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 have 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 routing. but the heads. binning

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 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 harry force at al-jazeera television or he said as a professor of international law and hebrew university he says netanyahu is likely to remain the prime minister even though he's unpopular. it's affected his base and i was the quote. members and voters are disappointed in its handling of the

economic crisis and looming corruption 12 courses is a fact. one must bear in mind he has at the moment there is no alternative leader and he knows this now about this deep sixed dissatisfaction with the plan you know hold but nobody wants to go to elections and within his party those know is up to the toad who could take over. so although he's highly unpopular the moment we like you to suit up and you how do you know this but sometimes it's a never volunteer to let the 1st term of you in a hot one and then that be when he comes becomes a prime minister so they also don't want to vote but there. is no log or trust between them. and you know but they both have an interest in keeping present coalition going so i think we're likely to see it going there again in the middle east are never knows on cause or us president donald trump has warned the corona

virus outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better and some on departure from the optimistic picture his paint project and so far even his case has continued 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 were 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 if 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 $3600000.00 cases of corona virus in the us 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 a 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 mike hanna al-jazeera washington. zimbabwe's president has

announced a dusk till dawn curfew and effort to contain the spread of covert 19. says it'll begin on wednesday and it will be enforced by security forces critics say the measures aimed at stopping anti-government protests planned for next week somebody has reported just over 1700 infections and 26 deaths out of a tussle has more from zimbabwe's capital in harare to get to the. point to point a man by the police and soldiers when you get to the checkpoint if you're walking. you stop the police. where are you going. whether you're. not then you are back home and this is happening to many other parts of the country. means that businesses have to open from 8 am until 3

pm in the close people must make sure they are home. because. anyone who is not formally employed is not allowed to be out of their home only if they need to. go and get medical. care. by the. pain that may be the good move but critics and up with supporters then i think by the government. on the earth. has reached its yearly filling target for the ground running after weeks of heavy rain and the government's been holding virtual meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to find a solution to the dispute over them the project reports on the complex regional politics surrounding the dam. continues to build and cost close to $5000000000.00. infrastructure project is

a great source of national pride. but the grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start be coping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to exporter like tricity across the region and says the dam will stop seasonal flooding in neighboring sudan. but egypt says there are a number of outstanding legal issues that need resolving and filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat egypt does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on the nile for 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each direction or tree and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amount of what they produce and the amount of water

they can shoot. and with a rapidly growing population of over 100000000. to this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because it's the source of the blue nile the largest of the river gnarls tributaries ethiopia was never included in a colonial era agreement between egypt and sudan the gives the lion's share of water to egypt there are many highly balance calculations including internal political ones that reply you know if you go granny the other big you have i be outmanned haven't come in power in 2018 he wants to secure his position and you know be reelected in future elections in europe yeah in egypt you are president sisi with you know an economy that has had been struggling but also he needs to ensure that he has the continued backing of the military establishment country which of course has an important role in the. economy. in late june ethiopia

rejected a u.n. security council meeting requested by egypt saying the council should not be involved at all ethiopia's un on bassa said the dispute should be solved at a regional level african union talks hosted by science africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he did not sign of the final document ethiopia always said that it would have preferred agreement before it begins to fill the reservoir but if that wasn't possible it would go ahead anyway 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 i'll just.

still ahead on al-jazeera fears that egypt's plans to deploy troops abroad could escalate and conflict in neighboring libya. and livelihoods on the line in indian and most of kashmir why locals say they're no longer getting their fair share of mineral resources. hello widespread showers again rather than the concentration to be the story for most of southeast asia as you can see something of a hint of a circulation has just gone through the philippines but it's no more than a hint it might provide weather for southern vietnam on the weekend and certainly for some on satellite this part of the on the border is looking fairly wet now british out so if you were the exception might still be java which is what you

might like to think is well it's a little drier than of late in sumatra peninsula malaysia but certainly of course not bone dry interesting usually useful grain has come out of this cloud here which has been rather more concentrated long tropical queens and over the coast from brisbane northwards it's still there on thursday but if anything it probably dies down by the time we get to friday south of that fairly quiet weather most especially will of course melbourne at 13 degrees purchasing the tail end of that next frontal system which is most active in the bytes it will be to rain maybe in the fast southwest of west australia and then bridgeman is in the area which my well see showers all rain having had a wet couple of days in the south on the new zealand we still got that rather cold wind so it's maybe best certainly in wellington this coast here has been the wet one was flooding it's still looking wet but not house with it. but. the us is

a tipping point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 weirdness as the world's leaders failed to agree upon a solution people are taking the tools into their own facts. which copy a document how to. which scientists actually get it it's one of the sounds that it kills people and it kills people now it's ridiculous both rose returned to the people's doors for no jazeera. watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour more than 30 people have been arrested following protests in west jerusalem calling on israel's prime minister to step

down benjamin netanyahu is being criticized for how he's handled the coronavirus outbreak as well as staying in office what is facing corruption charges. u.s. president donald trump has warned the corona virus outbreak there is likely to get worse before it gets better is that watching the public to wear masks and his promise to deliver the vaccine as soon as possible. ethiopia says it's reached its yearly filling targets for the grand renaissance dam after weeks of heavy rain the government's been holding virtual meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to continue talks. the u.s. president and abu dhabi's crown prince have discussed the situation in libya and stressed the need for deescalation through the removal of foreign forces it comes a day after egypt's parliament approved military deployments to libya but i'm saying that reports from the city of misrata where people say cairo's intervention will only make the conflict worse. egypt's president does that the has

sisi has long been a supporter of leaving warlord khalifa haftar who has failed to take control of the couple tripoli after a 14 month military campaign with the egyptian support his forces have had to retreat back towards their eastern stronghold shortly after that happen in june sisi announced the so-called cairo declaration of political initiative for talks between libya's warring sides will it feel to get international truxton 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 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 had a cabinet meeting to video call from the 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 a stable condition while being treated for an inflammation of the gallbladder. mining has long been a way of life for many people in indian administered kashmir but after new delhi stripped the region's autonomy last year it's led to changes in the way contracts are allocated and that's left some locals fearing for their livelihoods elizabeth

put out 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 auctioning 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. 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 pay 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. just. one fire breather and the 2nd one is that if he has not a lot that is not what. experts are also worried about the impact of expanding the sector on the environment and people's lives through all these things

you know are going to be detrimental to equality and equal to quality of the it and not only can also have social economic. impacts because there are many people who live on the banks and the of erosion picks a place when their houses can all get washed long. months in iraq but malik says his livelihood and that of his 100 laborers have already been washed away that's added to economic problems in the region since a violent uprising began against the indian government in 1990 already how do you think. there is 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 you daddy. a prominent pakistani journalist who was abducted in tuesday has been freed

particular john was reportedly taken from outside a school in the capital islamabad is known for his criticism of the authorities including the country's military and still not known who's abducted him they're warning 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 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 or a 0 to $30.00. the united states says it's ordered the closure of the chinese consulate in houston texas in order to protect american intellectual property a chinese foreign ministry spokesman denied media reports the consulate had begun burning documents and accuses the us of violating international law.

surely on july 21st the us abruptly demanded we close our consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u.s. side we demand the u.s. withdrawal this decision or we will respond in another dispute china's foreign ministry's urged the u.s. to stop making slanderous accusations about cyber crimes to chinese men have been charged in the u.s. for hacking hundreds of companies including firms developing coronavirus vaccines prosecutors say the pair acted on behalf of chinese intelligence as part of a long espionage campaign targeting global defense an energy industry whose hackers are also accused of trade secret theft and wire fraud conspiracy allegations come a week after the u.s. the u.k. and canada accused russia of trying to steal covert 19 data 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 al-jazeera has gave his owner 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 comit 90 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 19 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 and mighty 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 this 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 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 this thread of coronaviruses not they say it simply comes down to social distancing and wearing a mask gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york. president tom poe's offered his support to a woman accused of helping traffic under-age girls to the late convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein trungpa said he met killing maxwell multiple times in the past and that he wished her well she's currently in jail awaiting trial prosecutors allege she helped eppstein recruit and eventually abuse girls as young as 14 in the

1990 s. u.k.'s prince andrew a friend of maxwell's 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 in a bus in ukraine have been freed unharmed after a personal intervention by the president lied to me as alinsky agreed to endorse an animal rights documentary to end the standoff only soup 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 maxine creevy wash officials say he wanted to speak with ukrainian president flawed amir's lenski his demand that the president and doors an animal rights documentary released 15 years ago selenski obliged posting this video to show media in 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 shots it was obvious for me these were obvious steps for me as if we can do anything without watching 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. and you can find much more on our web site address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories more than 30 people have been arrested following protests in west jerusalem calling on israel's prime minister to step down benjamin netanyahu is being criticized for staying in office while he faces corruption charges his handling of the coronavirus and the country's economic crisis. u.s. president donald trump has warned the coronavirus corona virus outbreak there is likely to get worse before it gets better he is now urging the public to wear masks

and has promised 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 meetings 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 tempting to pay both the picture of a pandemic that continues to rip through the majority of us states still climbing cases coronavirus be recorded and certainly the gift rate as well zimbabwe's president has announced a dusk till dawn curfew in an effort to contain the spread of covert 19 am a synagogue was says it will begin on biden's team and it will be enforced by security forces critics say the measures aimed at stopping anti-government protests planned for next week zimbabwe has reported just over 700 infections and 26 deaths . ethiopia says it's reached his yearly filling target for the ground wrestles down

after weeks of heavy rain the government's been holding virtual meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to continue talks saudi arabia's king solomon has held a cabinet meeting through video call from a hospital in riyadh the 84 year old model was admitted on monday prompting concerns about his health and the future of the kingdom is reportedly in a stable condition while being treated for an inflammation of the gall bladder. their water running filipino journalist 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. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after. her up like rewind continues i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries. from.

revisiting alfred's free press. i'm. told we know from the public of course how can you address your side. over the years rewind on al-jazeera. climate change is an existential threat to life on. the world health organization predicts that in fact it will be directly responsible for the deaths of $250000.00 people each year. many governments the face.