protests continue in portland as president donald trump says he's going to send federal security forces to several u.s. cities. some others and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up cemeteries overflowing and hospitals running out of space desperation in bolivia as the government wants covert 19 cases still haven't picked. as africa's largest hydroelectric dam begins to fill with look at the impact it may have on blue nile state in sudan. and on

a mission to mars china sends its 1st unmanned spacecraft to explore the red planet . tension once again in cities of the united states in portland oregon security forces have launched tear gas and protesters have lit fires on the streets they're angry because federal offices have been sent to control demonstrations which have been going on for $56.00 nights but president donald trump has promised to deploy more officers this time to the cities of chicago and albuquerque he says is to control rising crime others say it's an election stunt mike hanna reports. the concern about federal involvement was spotted by scenes like this from portland oregon up to weeks of anti racism protests federal troops in unmarked uniforms moved in confronting demonstrate. is entertaining them in unmarked vehicles much to

the anger of the state's governor this is a democracy not a dictatorship and we cannot have secret police abducting people into and putting them in unmarked vehicles. i cannot believe i have to say that to the president of the united states now the president has announced his intention of sending federal offices to several other cities today i'm announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into american communities plagued by violent crime will work every single day to restore public safety protect our nation's children and bring violent perpetrators to justice for months president trump has regularly tweeted law and order in capitals and this decision is regarded by many as a campaign ploy in an election year the mayors of several major cities have sent

this letter to the attorney general blasting the proposed deployment the letter reads in part these are tactics we expect from authoritarian regimes not our democracy that has been an especially violent summer atlanta has seen a 300 percent spike in shooting victims compared to the same week in july last year in new york city over the past week shooting victims are up more than 200 percent. mounting frustration during this pandemic and widespread anger at police has led to what many view as a perfect storm of increased violence one that federal involvement could intensify rather than fickle mike hanna al-jazeera washington philadelphia top prosecutors warn that federal agents will face criminal charges if they unlawfully assault or arrest anyone in the city. if they choose to follow the law then we'll all get along famously and if they choose not to follow the law then they will discover

that there are laws in the commonwealth of pennsylvania that can be used to prosecute. it is certainly my hope that their behavior will be entirely legal but based on what i saw in portland it is my opinion that some of that behavior looks like criminal conduct 45 people have been killed in airstrikes in western afghanistan according to local officials a district governor in the province of hubbard says at least 8 civilians have died and he's blaming afghan forces members of the taliban have also been killed afghanistan's defense minister has launched an investigation the u.s. says it's not involved hobby while back as a political analyst he is joining us live from kabul good to have you on the program any idea of why this attack took place here. so we have conflicting information coming in and the taliban are saying that you had people who had gathered around to welcome the prisoners sure that least by the african

government these kidman that has come from the african government is contrary to this statement of the taliban and they have said it was a gathering of taliban commandos who wanted to basically plan for often several petitions to collapse 3 districts of province so you have conflict information out of what was the primary motive behind this. strike this notwithstanding there is no denial about the civilian casualties in collateral damage let's talk about the civilian casualties because what does damage if any does this do to the credibility of the afghan military forces. so you know every now and then when you have hired at a strike it had collateral damage so this is not the 1st instance and perhaps this will not be the last instance when we talk about the african war but the number of

civilian casualties is also contested by various sides you have the afghan government saying it did not have collateral damage to taliban claiming that it had collateral damage and you had testament you have testimonies coming in from the civilians talking about the damages. in casualties is one sided offered you have groups coming in from. saying that the united states condemn these strikes and what it basically support and back and best occasions into it which basically means that the united states of america was not involved in india is it was basically done by the african government when the help of the u.s. military support it would have repercussions on 2 things one is the doha agreement signed between the taliban in the united states of america and the other important claim to taliban that the taliban are making is that you have had these prisoners

who would it is and you had people coming in to welcome them because they're spending a lot of time and the african government in u.s. prisons in kabul and other parts of the country now if you have as strikes coming in this might affect the u.s. taliban bill in a way where you might have prisoners who are at least might go and take up arms again which the door agreement. where you are prisoners are not allowed to take up arms again after a deal released so dot dot clause of the. of the agreement might be affected at least the taliban are claiming god may be rightly so always good to get your thoughts on this hobby of broadway appreciate your time thank you very much indeed . the total number of reported coronavirus infections across latin america has reached more than 4000000 and bolivia police say they've recovered hundreds of bodies from streets and homes by old apollo reports. in

bolivia a special police unit is tasked with recovering bodies from people's homes in the cities of la paz and santa cruz authorities say they've recovered $420.00 bodies from homes streets and automobiles over a span of only 5 days. the vast majority are believed to be deaths from coated 19 it's a sign the health crisis in the country is accelerating more to the idea that 2 of my relatives have died we went to the hospital and they didn't take care of them they told us the hospitals were crowded we went to several hospitals and now my 2 closest relatives have died from medical negligence the government does nothing that. coronavirus cases in bolivia have surpassed 60000 and there are predictions the number of cases could double in the next 2 weeks this exponential rise in corona virus cases is also playing out in several other countries in the americas with alarming rates of contagion in ecuador columbia and others join the last week

there were on was 900000 new cases a nearly 22000 deaths reported in our region most of there is within brazil mexico and the united states of america. on tuesday evening mexico surpassed 40000 coronavirus deaths it's the 2nd highest death toll in latin america just behind brazil its. people need to know the epidemic is still active that we have to stay home engage in social distancing etc or guarantee some moral commitment from health officials but everyone needs to do their part. despite a reopening of mexico's economy the still worsening outbreak is expected to lead. to new lockdowns as cases search. latin america remains one of the worst affected regions of the world the pan american health organization so the crisis in the region shows no signs of slowing down world health experts are also expressing

concern over contagion rates in central america where countries are reporting the highest weekly death tolls since the story of the pandemic. al-jazeera. cuba has sent thousands of doctors and nurses abroad to help other countries fight covert 19 of the island has also had success containing the virus domestically since the pandemic began the country has recorded just over 2400 cases and fewer than 100 deaths and augustine reports from havana. every morning optometry student as the dumb era walks through soviet style apartment blocks knocking on doors. and fair and i got out i was in connecticut i'm going to. at 1st it's annoying waking up early every day going up and down stairs but we have to do it. do you do this voluntarily. one of the assigned it to you at school and you do it. keep is 28000 medical students have

been told they must knock on doors every day if they want to graduate but the country also has the highest doctor to patient ratio in the world and across the island family doctors nurses and students are working to track down that the virus health expert khana gori is preparing to reopen the café she found it said the island's preventative approach has been a success. cuba is doing door to door every single place whether it's a home a state enterprise a ministry everyone is getting checked down so it's very block by block and it's organized and it allows the health system to take kind of a snapshot of what's happening and their holes of course you know maybe your active screener sick one day or something but in my personal experience every single day i think and you know for months that we've had active screening there have been

a few days where they haven't come by wearing face masks in public is not a tree those that don't wear them can be fined and those suspected of carrying the virus according to and also receiving from the u.s. and journalist monetary vajra was put in an isolation center for 2 weeks had i was a comment on. it was like a boarding school they tested asked to see whether we had the virus we had a temperature is checked 3 times a day and a mosque change daily to. note that in. the ministry of health detected no domestic transmission of corona virus over the weekend but during the week 16 people have already tested positive students like us that are lucky to get a break and the times at augusta al-jazeera. still had an al-jazeera the store is under the stairs why an essential part of hong kong is retail landscape is

in danger of disappearing. this is a member of tahrir square because we could not prepare olympic games as we are used to taking the plunge with one year to go on to the delayed tokyo games. hello finally the weather of europe settle down to what you might expect to see during a normal summer it's often cloudy and wet over the british isles not as to scandinavia for most places is reason besides a scattering of showers all thunderstorms and temperatures in the middle to high twenty's or even the low thirty's they are the blue represent showers and thunderstorms and unsurprised in there in the south of france there of the alps and in living through the balkans to hungary in plain be something a construction i think of these things during seeing more especially friday but as

sunshine comes out for london showers spread through southern scandinavia and the baltic states to say this is a normal summer that is represents a rather thundery day on friday and then it's fairly quiet is the thunderstorms disappear eastwards after that for the weekend. through north africa well it's already bred one hurricane which is out in the atlantic as we look for clumps of thunderstorms which can develop into the next one as numbers going on motive in a bit of these if you hundreds more especially we've got these big showers in the western side of africa they've been around for a while as far north as you know southern border 10 year more recently there are iran and syria for example the full cost for moreover there is a wet $1.00 for the next 3 days. for. the latest news information government says it's working with local authorities and community volunteers to meet the needs of bringing

a refugee with detailed coverage not only measures of the president many countries have the job losses for my kids and consequently i reduction in remittances from around the wilds it isn't the 1st time that the network was forced off the air in 1972 it was also shut down. to move. we were going to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour fires on the streets of portland oregon protesters are angry about federal officers who've been sent in to control demonstrations president donald trump has promised to deploy more officers to the

cities of chicago and albuquerque to combat what he calls lies in crime. 45 people have been killed in air strikes in western afghanistan according to local officials a district governor in the province of says at least 8 civilians died in the attacks he's blaming afghan forces members of the taliban who are also killed. water has started to fill africa's largest hydroelectric dam even though ethiopia sudan and egypt haven't reached a deal on it yet about morgan reports and concerns about the impact of the giant dam on blue nile state and sudan on the border with ethiopia. planting banana trees is nothing new to has an infidel now his family has owned this farm in sudan's blue nile state for generations has been managing some of the lands for years and has noticed changes in the landscape and not. our

friends are gifted by the bloom in about a decade ago the river was 500 metres away but since the increased highs of the dam the flow of the nile river has changed and some parts the water levels have gone down and others there's an increase so production some parts increased and decreased in others it all relies on the dam and its operation. hassam ames farm is on the banks of the blue nile river the water is controlled by there was a was down built more than half a century ago to irrigate farmland it's also one of the main sources of hydro electricity the dam was extended into 13 with the aim of increasing water levels for farmers to irrigate their crops farmers say the river which used to cause seasonal floods is more controlled now but there are concerns about the dams future . this reservoir called is the 1st point where water from the territory is reserved . and experts and government officials say the feeling of the ground if you can renaissance them will have an impact on the risk there is down so down has tried to

bring together. it too is a stakeholder on the mile the 3 sides say the technical issues have been resolved but the legal aspects remain sudan's government is also concerned about the safety of the dam and says it has failed to provide any safety guarantees it's true say was that just 100 kilometers away from the if you can renaissance them or gerd as it's known. sudans to be signing an agreement prior to the start of the filming of the good safety is entirely dependent on the operations of the good disagreements are currently concentrated on legal matters the degree to which the agreement is binding separation agreement to water sharing agreements and conflict resolution mechanisms as well as various other limited technical issues. analysts agree that mismanagement of ethiopia's grandam will affect the irrigation of farmland in sudan . the capacity of result is

a 6 to 7000000000 cubic metres but the goods is 47000000000 if the water released by the good as above or is it is capacity that would lead to its destruction another issue is that the irrigation of land along the nile will reduce by an estimated 50 percent farmer and need a mix of the wit and dry seasons so the agricultural patterns will be affected has a name expects any changes to the floor will further change the landscape of his home but he hopes to continue growing crops just like his ancestors have done for generations people morgan al-jazeera. any security minister has defended officers accused of wrongdoing during protests in colloquy 2 people were killed when police fought with demonstrators on tuesday mr alba down a tank says some protesters in stolen uniforms may have used illegal weapons against police and now more. than one we did not receive a single complaint about the behavior of our officers who i say again were

exemplary regarding other allegations or accusations we ask for the evidence to conduct a proper internal inquiry i believe that the forces acted in an exemplary way during the band protests china's embassy in london says britain's new policy allowing hong kong residents to claim british citizenship violates international law and interferes with chinese affairs $3000000.00 residents of britain's former colony already have but haitian national overseas passports they can apply for citizenship starting in january a new policy follows china's imposition of a national security law in hong kong which critics say curbs freedoms. well away from the pro-democracy protests in hong kong and china's growing influence they are a more traditional part of the territories history is coming under threat for decades small family run businesses set up shops at the bottom of old residential buildings these tiny stores help make up the city's distinct urban landscape a border most of them are now being forced to close at clark reports. mr or mrs

chao have been running the shop for almost 60. it's a tiny sit up around 30 square feet selling basic household items to the local community bank and i still remember on the 1st day we only earn around 2 u.s. dollars after our neighbors became our regular customers and this is getting better i race for 3rd and the further to graduate thanks to this business. he's still a shop is common across hong kong they were promised in the fifty's and supported families who are unable to pay the high rents for the larger retail spaces but the channels have been forced to close their doors after the government announced plans to redevelop the area we feel sad whenever there are all shops closing and it seems that we can do nothing to stop it an increasing number of stores like this are being forced to my wife urban redevelopment community groups are doing their best

to record a chapter of hong kong's with history they say is fast disappearing their community is going to be smashed by party by the planning and want me trying to do is the friend waiting to come sorry to preserve the memory of history here this is one of the oldest districts in hong kong but rapid development has seen the street landscape change at one end we have these newly built presidential blocks and trendy cafes but there are still a few of these understand stories which should be i think for decades and i run by the same plan. so my home is one of the last star tom cruise in hong kong. she learned the techniques of hand calving from his father who once ran 3 stools now only one remains in business she's worried that traditional skills like his also being lost as local still struggle to stay opens saying i told them where you know again i think there are many cultural heritage is in china worth preserving

however people nowadays easily forget the beauty of these cultural treasures but now some i hope plans to continue her work as long as the orders keep coming in sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. china has launched its 1st independent mission to mars or rocket carrying the $1011.00 unmanned spacecraft blasted off from the southern province of hi none it's going to take 7 months to reach a planet before attempting to land a rover to conduct experiments china previously made an unsuccessful joint bid with russia 9 years ago but china's part of a growing list of nations with mars in their sights the united arab emirates 1st launched by the arab world blasted off from japan on monday not aims to launch its most sophisticated mars rover yet next week the u.s. is the only country to land on martian soil with 8 successful missions so far 6 other spacecraft are exploring mars from orbit so american 2 european and one from

india apart but he is managing director for asia pacific at eva aviation week network he's joining us live by skype from singapore thank you very much indeed for being with us mars is getting a little bit crowded why is it so popular. well i think it's part of the overall continuum of man wanting to explore beyond our own boundaries and indeed beyond their own planet consider the nature of space exploration in the fifty's and sixty's all of this is down to earth with a sense of national pride of country such as china looking to conceive of another way in which you can demonstrate the well if technological sophistication and growing sense of it being a 1st world power. are we still right to call this if a sense of the space race or our country is now going it independently for their own ends. well i think if you consider the chinese example what we're

currently seeing in terms of its desire to explore mars is part of an overall strategy for china to be very dominant within space by the end of the $24.00 states so recently we've had the baidu satellite communication network up and running which is giving china its own independent sets of communication capabilities within space so there is still some appropriation going on of course of the year in states and russia but that's obviously under scrutiny now so yes i think there is an increasing a sense that there the desire to do more exploration around space and into mars. imbued with a sense of national pride and you know what we're seeing with china now is simply taking on what it's looking to achieve in other areas into. looking around the

world right now though we're looking at a situation where they world economies essentially in crisis we have famines we have wars how surprising is it that countries are still determined to be able to find the financing to be able to go into space. yes of course i mean there's always been competing economic priorities it's a national level but i think continued for example you eads recent. mission to mars all of that is around trying to develop a more sophisticated and in-depth engineering capability among. kind of a merchant workforce and i think there's a lot of kind of national priorities that we all always compete here but the sense that exploration into you know new planets and beyond our own front is amazing has always been

a key element of mankind's desire to look beyond its own national boundaries and i think the strategies that are in place with nasa have been in place in india and china. kind of. very tightly with their senses national trying to determine it's him and the economic realities really don't impact upon those wide kind of priorities so i think what we'll see these these missions continue and we hope that they can bring back meaningful results that mankind can benefit from really interesting to get your thoughts in the public and we appreciate your time thank you very much keep. there's officially one year to go until the delayed lympics tokyo 2020 was postponed because of the corona virus pandemic but with the virus far from contained the games are still very much in doubt they've been stocks reports. back in the pool for the 1st time in months like so many olympic

athletes brazilian swimmer anna marcelo has been unable to train properly because of the pandemic but with the reopening of facilities in rio she can now refocus on getting ready for the perspiring games in tokyo a year from now. it's a good time for us to go back looking forward to the 2021 and then picks the field and starting over to fill it dreams. brazil is the world's 2nd most infected country with more than 80000 deaths so athletes at the olympic training center must follow strict biosecurity rules but it beats training at home. i came back from denmark with a knee problem in june and was in quarantine training at home is not the same as training here i'm very motivated to recover quickly and return 100 percent in preparation for tokyo

a year to go but doubts and uncertainty remain about what the olympics will look like or if they'll even go ahead it's all with a worldwide containment of the coronavirus seemingly some way off it will be a huge challenge to stage qualifying events and then bring 11000 athletes to tokyo not to mention spectators and broadcasters this is a member of the task because we cannot prepare or be games as we are used to in fact there we have to prepare for multiple scenarios of the games we have to take all these seem to work out what could happen what may happen the international olympic committee estimates the delay will set them back 800 $1000000.00 but what's less clear is the size of the bill facing jump. needs taxpayers before the perspire at the games were already set to cost more than $12000000000.00 all $42.00 venues have been secured for next year but if it is stage without fans the loss of ticket revenue will hit hard despite the grim economic landscape though organizers remain

hopeful they can keep hold of existing sponsors and maybe even attract new ones to think he said if businesses are in dire circumstances because of coronavirus but still there are companies who are coming forward to say they want to sponsor the games which we appreciate very much it's a bright piece of news. tokyo last hosted the games in 964 if they do return in 2021 unlikely to be such a grand affair with organizers already scaling back their original plan but given the global situation with 365 days to go getting the frame later told would be a victory in itself providing some light at the end of a very dark tunnel david stokes al-jazeera and. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories fires in the streets of portland oregon protesters are angry about federal officers who've been sent in to control

demonstrations but protest president donald trump has promised to deploy more officers to the cities of chicago and albuquerque to combat what he calls rising crime we'll work every single day to restore public safety protect our nation's children and bring violent perpetrators to justice we've been doing it and you've been seeing what's happening all around the country we've just started this process and frankly we have no choice but to get involved. 45 people have been killed in airstrikes in western afghanistan according to local officials a district governor in the province of herat says at least 8 civilians have died in the attacks and he's blaming afghan forces members of the taliban are also said to have been killed afghanistan's defense ministry has launched an investigation the u.s. says it's not involved getting security minister has defended officers accused of

wrongdoing during protests in conakry 2 people were killed when police force with demonstrators on tuesday. china's embassy in london says britain's new policy allowing hong kong residents to claim british citizenship violates international law and interferes with chinese affairs $3000000.00 residents of britain's former colony already have british national overseas passports they can apply for citizenship starting in january china has launched its 1st independent mission to mars a rocket carrying the jan 11 unmanned spacecraft last set off from the southern province of china and it will take 7 months to reach the red planet before attempting to land and release a rover to conduct experiments on those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera in about half an hour after the stream good buy. from top to own or is there a. is the government will call the necessary optional to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel

and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter 0. they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for me ok and you are joining me from my home in fairfax virginia while we're still under quarantine here today we're talking about you know it's been a huge story duchess and u.s. but across the world black lives matter and minute countries e.u. countries offer support for that and so that they stood in solidarity with it but were asking about what about the black life that their southern border the ones that are risking their lives to try to get across the bed to enter the e.u. and are being blocked and often pushed back to places like war torn libya now we're joined by.