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years on the turkish president says it remains open for all. and in the skies over syria passengers injured on a new rainy in plane as it's tailed by a u.s. fighter jet. 60 fears over the world's top selling passenger plane that's concerned about engine failure on boeing 737 surrounded by the coronavirus former and his former major league baseball is back in north america after a 4 month delay caused by coronavirus the leak starts with no fans in attendance. welcome to the news our relations between 2 of the world's superpowers are deteriorating even further chinese staff and are moving out of their consulate in the u.s. city of houston after washington told beijing to shut the office the u.s.

says it's to protect american intellectual property well china's foreign ministry called it an unjustified act and in retaliation beijing has ordered the american consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu to close the book with you for. china's measures a legitimate and necessary response to unjust acts of the u.s. . it conforms with international law basic norms and international relations and customary diplomatic practices the current situation in bilateral relations is not what china wants to see and the u.s. is responsible for all of this the u.s. secretary of state has doubled down on the allegations describing china's houston consular office as a hub of spying well china's most senior diplomat has blamed the u.s. for all of the current tensions or wine use commons and to the foreign ministry's condemnation katrina you has more from chengdu. we're here in downtown chengdu and

this is the new as consulate and there are a lot of policemen here that doesn't police officers also are monitoring the crowds this entire street has been blocked off the cars since the chinese foreign ministry made the announcement that the u.s. consulate here would have to close but the best rooms are allowed to walk behind are quite a few of them passing by taking photos taking selfies it's become quite a tourist destination now china hasn't said exactly why it's targeting this consulate all it said though is that there are some u.s. officials who work here with they say have been engaged in activities that are not consistent with their capacity we also know that it's quite a significant operation to the southwest of china deals with us this is nearby acts as an active listening post for events taking place in and tibet now the chinese foreign ministry has said that they do not want to do this they did not want to have to close the consulate here but they were false by the u.s. one you china's top diplomat has laid the blame for the worsening ties between time

and us completely at the foot of washington and he says that it's up to washington now to mend and rebuild those ties and china says if the u.s. does not pull back from decision to close the embassy in texas china will have no choice but to hit back measure for measure. joins us now she's a white house correspondent joins me from washington d.c. kimberly i mean this is quite a significant u.s. consulate that's been closed on the borders of beijing i mean what sort of response are we expecting from the white house. well the white house maintains that it's due to cope with 19 there haven't been a lot of activity so the impact will be minimal but there's no question that the broader concerns is this was a major commercial how where the united states was operating now the statement coming from the national security council in just the last hour or so with regard to all of this particularly also with regard to the decision to close the

consulate in houston texas where china was operating they say and accuse china of using that consulate in houston as a hub for illegal spying and influence operations and so they say that this closure was taken to protect american intellectual property and americans private information and then they're now calling on china to see some malign actions rather to then to engage in tit for tat retaliation pointing to the order of the closure of the american consulate general in chengdu now in the midst of all of this we should also tell you about some developing story that is coming out of california san francisco to be specific what we know is that there was a chinese scientists that the united states says was taking safe harbor inside the consulate general in that city now according to u.s. authorities in the last hour or so or at least according to reports from u.s.

authorities that scientist has now been arrested on visa fraud charges and will be appearing in court in california we understand friday morning now just to give you a quick background on that case and this all underscores the tensions between the 2 countries that are continuing to heighten the united states alleges that this scientist was here not to do research in biology at the university of california davis but instead was working for china's military so that is the developing story . out of california in just the last few moments can be do see that the endgame is very unclear here at the moment because these 2 countries still need to talk to each other on various levels on which they agree and sometimes disagree but they also need to talk to each of their own trade so there are huge issues ahead for both beijing and washington in the coming days and weeks. the united states feels that the endgame is very clear and they're making it clear after 40 years of

what they say has been a relationship of strategic competition you know the united states has held a conference call with reporters in just the last hour top of a security officials seeking to reporters making the argument that there comes a time when enough is enough what they're feeling is that they have repeatedly extended an arm to china they cite meetings in new york city at last month even in hawaii before that requesting that what they call criminal behavior on the part of china inside the united states whether it was intellectual property theft with there it was back to or espionage the repeated requests for mutual respect to add a cease of what they call the line activities and that these requests were not written were not acknowledged were not rescinded in any way and as a result the diplomatic niceties had to stop and so the issue coming from the

united states as they say there was not reciprocal respect when it came to diplomats in the united states that there were these other activities are being conducted and the united states decided that they had to take a stand and that's what they've done for the committee how could all white house correspondent thank you. the consular closures are the latest in a series of disputes they include donald trump blaming china for the worldwide coronavirus pandemic skimpily just mentioned china accuses the u.s. president of trying to deflect attention from his own mishandling of the crisis trump and china's president xi jinping impose steep tariffs in a series of reciprocal moves in their trade war that is managed to move ahead with a so-called phase one trade deal but further negotiations have stalled then there's one way china denies the telecoms company is a security threat but the u.s. has ban war way and convince allies such as the united kingdom to do the same and

it tangan advises the chinese government on political and economic affairs he says trump is manufacturing a crisis to boost his chances of re-election. at this point there is a scowl is going on in people's mind that donald trump has about 3 more months as an act president and then 3 months when hopefully he will step down from the presidency no one's really sure about that from the chinese perspective they understand that this is all about reelection and that donald trump is trying to push their buttons trying to manufacture an incident so that he can then claim that if you don't vote for him you're not patriotic this would require him to get some sort of you know if a boat rams into an american boat or something like that but it seems like he's really pushing that in addition to all of these things between what pompei i was saying between the actions which blindsided everybody i don't think anybody would accept that they were about to close the houston consulate there is this issue of

more boats sailing into disputed waters of the south china seas more navigation at the scene calculate in order to create an incident which donald trump thinks would be to key to his reelection it's clear that donald trump will continue with these types of actions he wants surprise he wants to get a reaction it's also a very good way of taking attention away from the coast that 19 deaths and infections and his heart in it the president all from polls called off the republican party convention in florida where a record number of credit or thefts are being reported infections are also soaring in dozens of other u.s. states had to cancer reports now from washington d.c. . the world's richest nation has now surpassed its 4000000 known case of coping 19 and it's feared the number will only soar what's important about that is

the steamroller that it is. the acceleration that this has the rate of new cases is trending upward in 39 states with a record number of deaths reported in florida that's where president trump had planned to speak before a massive crowd at the republican national convention in august an important moment for his reelection campaign but now those events are canceled i care deeply about the people of florida and everywhere else frankly in this country and even in the world who would be coming into the state and i don't want to do anything to upset it 143000 people have died of the corona virus in the united states and medical experts warn many more deaths are to come those numbers tend to rise about a month after an uptick in cases but president trump trying to downplay the threat saying that problems and hot spots will all work out your sissie

a lot of the country is has has no problem whatsoever trump also claims states have all the emergency supplies they could possibly need despite pleas from some doctors that life saving equipment is running out we have no. gods we are not anybody to do got a season of who should lead or who should die however when you have well he's called a mass casualty situation there are a guy that used to be fired all of that makes you war you know a more efficient manner and then mock not a bit of people meanwhile the u.s. economy nears another precipice with expanded unemployment benefits expiring at the end of the month and he vixens resuming at the end of the week congress will debate yet another rescue measure in coming days castro al-jazeera washington. plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including consistent process

against israel's prime minister will be asking if the young can support. the growing standoff over space rusher is accused of launching a until satellite and was once 4 former heavyweight champion my talents is returning to the boxing ring and it will be here with that story. it's a world famous landmark revered by both muslims and christians now turkey's haggis of fear has gone from museum to mosque. thousands gathered in istanbul for the 1st friday prayers in nearly 86 years turkey's president reza urban also attended he declared last week the structure of originally would once again be converted into a mosque after

a court ruling it was an orthodox christian cathedral. we go to please to make great people were eager to pray here thousands participate in the prison we came together to pray the government and the authorities concerned to do the necessary renovations the new 100 years of fear mosque will be something great that makes us very proud to always be open for our citizens visitors and the tourists as well the hagia sophia has changed several times as it was built 1500 years ago it was originally the largest church in the eastern roman empire in the christian city of constantinople which is now known as stumble in $1453.00 the city fell to the ottomans after a $55.00 day siege i.q. severe was converted into a mosque almost 500 years later in 1935 it became a secular museum reflecting the inclusive vision of istanbul after the fall of the ottoman empire turkey's highest court ordered the conversion of the u.s.

to world heritage site back to a mosque earlier this month as a supporter of the switch which angered christian religious leaders and politicians from around the world let's join our correspondents in pursuit of his life for us here in istanbul and of course a big day for the city an important political day for the president. exactly so her for the president especially who has been actually against to turn her years of fear from a museum to a mosque it was a very big day because 2 years ago again. transforming i guess sophia mosca again was on the agenda and at that time president don refuted the. idea by saying that even the blue mosque doesn't have enough. piers during the day so there is no need to. turn our gear sophia to a mosque but in the last couple of months in the last one year actually he has been very wachler about it and it's

a day he was very happy because he felt like he did what the history gave to turkey for conservative societies electorate of turkey and nationalist ones as well along with some pro islamist electorate in turkey keeping the hagia sophia as a museum was actually heartbreaking for them they felt like they were cut off their roots were cut off from their history however the reason why how your sophia was turned into a museum was more than related to the then a geo political realities of the country that was built in 1923 to keep it short it was a very big day for president darfur for the turks as well because what our john said after the prayer was 350000 joined prayers in istanbul today around i guess sophia and we know that thousands of people from across other cities in turkey and they

they came with buses just to be able to pray today in high gear sophia of course everything was under tight security measures and this big organization to place met with 900 crisis turkey has been controlling the core of it called it crisis carefully however the number of the. the cases are still pretty high according to health minister and the governor's office during the whole day was making announcements to maintain social this is to be a 2 way or medical mass on the faces and to use senate sizes during the day but it was a big day for everyone especially for those who were craving to be able to pray and i guess a fear for years. in istanbul thank you for all the foreign minister has warned that the interception of an iranian passenger jet by a u.s. warplane over syria risks disaster iranian state television says several passengers

were injured as the pilots took evasive action. is on the u.s. sanctions list for supporting iran's revolutionary guard and hezbollah fighters in lebanon cynical reports from the lebanese capital beirut. a state of panic among passengers on board flight 1152 the airbus was flying from iran's capital tehran to beirut in lebanon on thursday night when the iranians say it was harassed by fighter jets data recorded show the airliner climb from 34000 feet to 34600 feet in less than 2 minutes before descending to 34000 feet a minute later iran's state t.v. says several passengers were injured due to the sudden changes in altitude the jet landed safely in the lebanese capital. want to diminish when we reached the airspace of syria a fighter jet approached a monoplane in order to avoid colliding with that jet the pilot rapidly decreased

altitude and it caused injury for some passengers. hours later the u.s. central command confirmed a u.s. f. 15 was involved in the incident and not israeli warplanes as 1st suspected the u.s. said the f. 15 was on a routine air mission near the town of coalition base in syria the war plane conducted a standard visual inspection of the airliner at a safe distance says the u.s. and want identified the f. 15 opened distance from the aircraft in line with international standards a privately owned air has been under u.s. sanctions for years accused by washington of providing financial material and technological support to iran's couldst force which includes the lebanese group hezbollah. accusations that. graph from that airliner used to carry the juicy support for running back forces in the region so

that may well have been one of the reasons why the u.s. side are taking a close look at. u.s. troops are in the area near syria's borders with iraq in jordan the base was 1st established to fight eisel in 2016 it has since become an outpost to counter iran's expansion in the region as its on a supply route linking to beirut that passes through syria the message is a. basically a no go zone for the. weather also the weather any other persons. the incident could have been an unfortunate encounter but many believe it was a message the fact that it came at a time of heightened tensions between iran and the united states in the region cause concern there have been numerous occasions that risk an all out conflict. so

far to iran and washington have avoided all out confrontation this latest incident in the skies a reminder that the potential for an escalation is real. beirut israeli police have made dozens of us during the latest protests demanding the resignation of the prime minister binyamin netanyahu police fired water cannon the demonstrators outside his official residence in west jerusalem weeks of demonstrations have been held to complain about the worsening coronavirus crisis and netanyahu corruption trial. is a senior columnist monitor choice we now via skype from tel aviv good to have you with us on the program again mr eldrick we just begin with the protests continuing at quite an alarming regularity certainly for what over 2 weeks now dozens arrested no sign of them going away how serious is this situation becoming for the prime minister. i think. it your relates if you. go on a virus the 19 that help it's

a 0 to 4 with government using it to declare a situation a very special situation. or requires the blue and white on t.v. and they will all be to join forces and to forward government to fight the war and yes why don't we whenever we are in this terrible war for marriages seat you can see people uniting together so this is what happened when the heat for the government after the february elections and accusing the opposition that if they will actually strachan in them that if they will not join they will have to take the blame no it turns out that you know who was perceived as the solution of the problem because he's a good manager as he better just the complete was the palestinians he can also manage the pyros and it turns out that he fails doing this and now it seems that

netanyahu is a problem and the problem is not just the eco on the virus but it's corruption it's called who will decide that he will have to spend 3 days and week sitting in the hall which means that the attorney general may declare incapable oprah for me his is jewish it seems that the stylus also in the american play out to only get against him because his claim to train was his close relationship with president trump also looks no. liability rather then an asset for the east when he prime minister does any of that i can sure. define marriage of power this today. shows this is unprecedented you know i've been working sharks for 35. the last time i saw something like this was when

it was really really just in the 18th of july or it is. just going to miss the other so we could just jump in there does it it does seem that prime minister netanyahu wants his cake and eat it in the sense that he he wants to retain power despite the fact and you've touched on this a coalition government with benny gantz he's been talking big about an extension holding off because of all the international criticism and obviously the court case regarding corruption allegations is there nobody in the look party that can take over from him or is it that he's too frightened to hand over the reins dare he be ousted. because you can see you know what a great opportunity out there immediately who took hours in the bunker residence that for the 1st time people walk into the court speaking up against it and you

know obviously you can hear actually the 1st wave coming under an attorney out and. people who are knew that they are undermining their own future if they not only if they criticize that and you know if they don't support it publicly 100 percent including when it comes to corruption now i'll start changing people are taking steps and it reminds you actually if you look at the american elections you can see similarities that are republicans thinking a step back from trump indeed just very briefly that mr elder is another election out of the question or do you think it's a real possibility there were suggestions overnight that it was being considered in certain parts of the government. since then it is obvious from the older books he's not looking especially shas that. doesn't look very good and coals.

to your statement that they're not going to. actually ask and i think netanyahu knows that people are not that dumb that they will put the blame on guts now because god directs joining his because he could government and the us government and paying a price because he was going against ok he's going to teacher and c. so no it would be very hard to own it and yell to get the magic number of 61 so i'm not sure that this is exactly what he wants and we don't know how many people will show up in the ballot extensions once you know that it will still israel is number 2 in the world after the united states only the united states has their figures out worse than the israeli. people who were. analyzed.

carrying the right which well we shall see what happens up in tel aviv thanks very much for your insights. still ahead here on al-jazeera from delivering breaks it to being in intensive care the krona virus we look at the 1st 7 pumps for britain's prime minister plus taking matters into their own hands bolivians bring oxygen cylinders became a hit family members and hospitals right out. and supported individual award for the player who's led to the season outstanding premier league team. and a mostly house and dry throughout much of the middle east but knows the everywhere we've seen some shots something. across the southwest a soggy but also very persistent rain across the southwest portion of yemen so some

dramatic thunderstorms at the same time in. the evening skies and it doesn't like a lot of rain but. a fairly steady and persistent of the last few days on there is more in the 4 call so it could actually lead to some flooding in the strait. through saturday to the north of that it is mostly fine most to klia i should say kid there is some blowing sand and dust and the winds are changing direction so it's feeling very humid and in fact as we go through sunday the touch is noticeably low in g q 8 just 44 degrees celsius the winds coming in off the warm waters of the gulf still some blowing sand and not a particularly good day then down into southern africa now the joint typhoon warning center so watching this very closely say it could develop into a. it is very close to the. center going to bring some heavy rain and strong gusty winds as well but it is very close it is a look as if it's going to develop into a tropical cyclone and then across it to south africa just sliding by. go through

the weekend maybe going to 2 shows across into port elizabeth. who's to blame for the mishandling of the coronavirus condé making the united states i'll be putting the tough questions to trump's oregon i'm full of democratic party official just a couple in a special edition of how dad. not even through wave one as a result of the lack of leadership here i said to my people blow the testing down please criminally negligent and i thought it was hilarious head to head on. the discussion we are living at times when we are going to have to defend our democracy examining the headlines we. human explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform motivate

and inspire you. the world is watching on al-jazeera. i've. got to mark you're watching the al-jazeera news hour with me so he'll run the reminder of our top stories chinese staff are moving out of their consular office in the u.s. city of houston have to be ordered to close it washington described it as it is said necessary move to protect american intellectual property and china has retaliated by ordering the u.s. to shut down its consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu the chinese government says the u.s. is to blame for strained relations between the 2 countries. friday morning friday

prayers have been held in turkey's hagia sophia for the 1st time in nearly 86 years after turkey's president most of the early one declared that the structure originally built as an orthodox christian cathedral will once again be converted into a mosque following a court ruling. now the u.s. has ordered inspections of 2000 boeing planes grounded by the pandemic the emergency directive from the federal aviation administration applies to the u.s. registered 737 next generation and classic craft that has not flown for at least a week the regulator warned of the jets may have corrosion that could lead to engine failure after it received 4 reports of unexpected shutdowns terry tozer is an airline safety commentator and former pilot joins me now via skype from rye in sussex in england good to have you with us on the program i mean significant

statement and one that will concern all of the airlines that own and sly the 737 new generation. yes indeed i mean it's going to cause a bit of frantic activity i imagine i mean fortunately this road down the line aviation 'd will help a little bit in as much as it is only across the stores that are affected. and it's not as if it's a major structural erosion issue here with us lead arrow in the engine which should be possible to rectify fairly easily the u.s. authorities are sort of talking valves that of corroded but i presume that would apply to any aircraft that's generally been parked up for months old days and as a pilot what do you have to do when you conduct those safety checks before a plane takes off or what conversations do you have with ground stuff and engineers . but very often you don't talk to the engineers unless there's a known problem you would expect that any aircraft that was coming out of storage

'd would be carefully checked by the engineering department the pilot's preflight checks are really related to observing yeah outside of the aircraft to make sure that there's nothing or yes we have mace you know really. no damage no no contamination in the way of ice or anything like that. but engineering stuff right again jim bell says something that you wouldn't know about until you had a problem so of course you have the protocol of a valve malfunctioning how do you that as a pilot report that sort of down the line because one of the things about the next 737 the other line that's being grounded because of various crashes is the fact that sometimes nobody really knew what the problems were and how to report them. well i think the problem with the max was slightly different because the pilots

didn't know that this system existed only aircraft. which is frankly very shocking . but the valve issue was a corrosion of be a craft store. is something you would know nothing about each other problem. the problem you would like to get the i mean change your overthrust and you would have shut down. what the f.a.a. actors sound about. it is to just storage it would not and those engines been saying we didn't need this news right now considering what's happened to the boeing 737 max but better to catch this sooner rather than later and they able to. warn the global airline industry to check their aircraft if they have this version of the 737. yes i mean it basically seems to affect practically all chives that are the very very early seventy's it's $737200.00 which hardly anybody uses now. yeah i

mean the federal aviation administration. so probably got a little bit of a wake up call washing after the match. day bottle and i imagine they're being very careful indeed for the moment where it's good to get your insight terry tozer joining us from rye and sussex thanks very much for your wealth u.s. investment bank goldman sachs has agreed to pay malaysia $3900000000.00 over its role in a massive corruption scandal the payout will see all criminal charges against the bank dropped the scandal involve the theft of billions of dollars from malaysia's sovereign wealth fund prosecutors say the money went to the former prime minister najib razak and his in a circle of letters ousting him 20. australia is sending army officers to question some of the people who've tested positive for covert going to the southern states victoria soldiers have been ordered to go to the homes of affected

people who have answered phone calls from authorities a lack of contact tracing is slowing down efforts to contain the outbreak in the capital well than now the state government has imposed a partial lockdown and it's now mandatory to wear a mask brazil has the world's 2nd highest rate of covert 19 infections the president also nora who tested positive 3 times says there's no way to stop it spreading. anyone living in society exuma related will get infected by covert there's no way to avoid the death related to that in brazil from what i know nobody died from not having medical attention. the virus pandemic has dealt a new blow to bolivia's plans to restore political stability the general election has been perspiring for the 2nd time this year as hospitals are overwhelmed to receive i reports. one by one vehicle venter the central cemetery in.

the cars and vans are carrying victims of covert 19 relatives are not allowed inside the cemetery. in the sandia nation coronavirus cases have soared in recent days collapse in many hospitals and funeral services in bolivia's capital the most remote of the from in the last few weeks things have collapsed we don't have coffins and the only help we're getting is with cremations families don't want to deal with the fact this has exploded we're doing what we can . outside this hospital relatives of the victims have been forced to bring their own oxygen for family members or 40 say they have no oxygen or supplies sylvana brought her father in law to the hospital in a van the 56 year old man died in the vehicle while awaiting treatment. we were at another hospital and he turned blue and started throwing up we asked a nurse to check him out and pay attention to us then we came here with him in the

car nobody is allowing us inside he just died he died in the car he was a half human he was sporty and now he is dead. a similar situation is ongoing in other cities like bans and the girls will leave you was expected to hold presidential elections in september. last year the country's 1st indigenous president it will morales resigned from office after weeks of protests over an election that international observers said was marred by irregularities since then interim president any 9 years has been leading the country 2 weeks ago she tested positive took over 19 on thursday election officials postponed the election until oct 18th the pick of the pandemic is expected to happen later this month. this electoral tribunal is asking citizens state powers political forces

civil society and the media to accompany this decision to show their respect for institutions and their commitment to democracy and the sense of common good former president evo morales said on twitter postponing the elections is a mistake and an excuse by the interim administration to hold on to power elections are crucial in bolivia to bring down the political tension that exists in the country since moralist up down from office but the dramatic situation caused by the pandemic has changed priorities at least for now. i'll just. the united nations says it's concerned about the actions of u.s. police in recent protests the un human rights spokeswoman says a arrest by an identified officers could lead to human rights violations we also call them pleas to limit their use of force. more than 50 journalists have resigned us from hungary's a leading news website index dot h.-u. it follows the recent ousting of the editor in chief. he was fired after

warning of that the outlets independence was at risk of political pressure from the government a pro-government businessman the quite significant control over websites funding earlier this year prime minister viktor orban has built up a vast pro-government media and protestors in bulgaria have again called for the resignation of the prime minister book or bodies of which or who they accuse of turning a blind eye to corruption. be reshuffled his cabinet on birthday to try and hold 2 weeks of anticorruption protests present a rumor that rod a who's a vocal critic of what a source is encouraging protesters to continue their rallies. russia is denying american and british allegations that it fired an anti satellite weapon into space britain warned the launch posed a threat to satellites the world depends on russia's foreign ministry says the test

complied with international norms and is under sticking says a research fellow at the space policy and security at the royal united services institute she says it appears russia is ramping up its space program i think it's important 1st not necessarily to refer to as a weapon and they'd have characteristics that could potentially be a weapon and due to its relative velocity and satellite which. i don't i think what we see is. the recognition that space is becoming a much more important strategic environment or military operations and so it's no surprise that states are developing capabilities that could deny there are those series access to that space assets but it's also important to recognize that this isn't new. you know from the beginnings of the use of space states have looked at how to develop these capabilities so i think it's we need to not move too fast with

narratives about weaponization of space and of space race and just take a bit of caution with that so many different states are developing capabilities we know china has anti satellite capabilities india tested a missile last year and we certainly have seen i guess a resurgence of russia. in terms of these programs coming back and you know when you look at the rhetoric for example coming from the united states and with the creation of a space force talks of space being a war fighting domain any state that has significant space assets is going to be looking at how to protect its own assets and also how to ensure that it provides a certain level of deterrence against ak you know there are persons who write to target the. russian prosecutors or inspecting a facility that's supposed to be treating a toxic chemical leak for from abandoned mine even the ural mountains images of

large scale environmental damage went viral on social media last week so it has more the next more like the landscape of another planet those sticks you see in the ground who wants trees in a forest and rushes out of mountains and so now sadly crim accomplice sulfide mind destroyed everything in its path. the mind has been close to 16 years but the environmental threats from it has never stopped and last week there was an outrage across russia when a blow because images of the polluted waters nearby went viral forcing russian prosecutors to investigate. this lake is near the mine a mixture of water and acid flow from the old mine and right into here that's why it's this color and accident in 1997 caused the mind to floods and it hasn't stopped leaking a toxic mix ever since. a soft europe acid reaction is taking place here

the acid is continuing to burn everything in the area the soil the trees the grass and fish to all these heavy metals are soluble and shouldn't be in the water. 10 years ago the local prosecutor's office revealed a high concentration of pollutants in the water a special reservoir was built to contain and filter the water leaking from the mine but those living nearby say is has had little effect because he previously there was a variety of fish in this like but no this is all we have for. sure how can this not be poison all these acids going into the river there's no fish left there's nothing there. all the way to the reservoir the entire bosom is covered clearly not a single plant grew there. was a she said the anger over the mine comes after a major oil spill in the arctic circle forced russian president vladimir putin to declare a state of emergency so that really good company he accused local authorities of

not informing moscow the disaster in may when 20000 tonnes of diesel leaked from a power plant in order to escape. already one of the most polluted cities in the world it's mayor resigned on monday it is also has renewed public debate over the lack of government action against those responsible it says that goes on it's the environment that continues to suffer sort of. al-jazeera. a new wave of violence in south sudan has forced thousands of people to flee their homes in the eastern region of people armed groups attacked a village in jonglei region on wednesday night around 6000 down liza taken refuge at a nearby u.n. base the country is the merging from a 6 year civil war that killed 380000 people and displaced millions of others a mass grave with the bodies of 28 sudanese soldiers has been found in durham and

after a 3 week search prosecutors say the officers were involved in a failed coup against former president omar bashir in 1990 they were executed in mysterious circumstances after a quick military trial earlier this month another mass grave of trainees soldiers was uncovered it's believed they had been trying to flee a camp in 1998 officials have been looking into human rights violations under bush's rule. boris johnson has gone from fighting breaks that to fighting for his life in the past year he admits the united kingdom government has at times been slow to act on the pandemic in his 1st 12 months as prime minister wali expects the country to be over the worst of it by mid 2021 he was the threat of a 2nd wave remains high jonjo reagan reports. boris johnson always wanted to be prime minister and this mantra made it possible we can get bricks it done now his arrival in downing street came with ruthless

sackings all of the top jobs went to his probe rex's supporters and bricks it was done it had split the country and the conservative party. but then within a month came the biggest crisis facing any prime minister in post-war u.k. history coded 19 toweled did johnson handle it certainly has a lot of question marks around it there's a widespread acceptance and probably thinking government that the u.k. maybe locks down too late and he's been slow to come out of that before the virus struck johnson was absent from 5 crises briefings i'm shaking hands can decide that i was at a hospital the other night i think there are a few there are actually a few credible hours of patients and i sure can't deliver a body temperature yet the prime minister himself became a coded victim now really escaping death polls show how much of the public sympathy for his plight waned rapidly it was reaction to blunders costing thousands of lives

such as frontline health workers without protective gear and no attempts to protect the elderly in nursing homes. add to that johnson's refusal to sack chief advisor dominic cummings have broken lock down rules. talks over a trade deal with the you a stalled and johnson refuses to break his promise not to extend. talks into the new year is funny and very few breaths it alters if you like you believe in what they say is a clean break has been best for the british economy in the long term there's also the brics that referendum in 2016 taking center stage in another major issue facing johnson and his government johnson's government is accused of refusing to investigate what the report called successful russian interference in u.k. democracy like to watch out for this man here starmer i took

a pile on the pressure he's the new leader of the labor opposition party he's leading in the polls and many in his party see him as a serious threat john j. regan al-jazeera. but the goodman is a professor of politics of the university of kent he explains how johnson has retained popularity in the polls certainly been an eventful and somewhat chaotic 1st year for prime minister it's not only being dominated by bracks it but also the largest crisis to hit britain since the 2nd world war if you simply just look at the opinion polls however the conservatives have actually been leading consistently in the polls above 40 percent in every poll since december and boris johnson and the conservative party on that basis at least have tapped into. a reservoir of support from voters that firstly want to lead the european union but

also want to change this settlement in britain that they feel is unfair the reason that bars johnson has held all in the polls and has quite a considerable amount of support is because british politics has been realigned that the cop calculus of british politics has been shaken up and he's won over a lot of working class voters in those northern labor see which of course the conservative party didn't used to have. more than 130 people have died in flash floods and mudslides in western the pole days of heavy monsoon rains flooded streets swept away buildings and damaged roads dozens of people have been reported missing and thousands of displaced some to their homes were destroyed. villages and tourists have been moved to safety has emergency crews battled forest fires for a 3rd consecutive day helicopters and water bombers have been called in near the city of current 7 villages near the old were evacuated as at least 10 homes were damaged or destroyed. all sports next here on the al-jazeera news out

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rule. book about time to support his son to thank you so much so with a major league baseball season in north america has officially begun at last the stars delayed by 4 months changed the coronavirus pandemic with a familiar face in the u.s.

his fight against cardiff 19 getting reaction underway sal malik reports to give an allergy and infectious diseases to the crew of the serum only push the major league baseball season is finally underway after a 4 month delay caused by the global pandemic and fittingly it was one of the men at the forefront of the u.s. as he fight against covert 19 dr anthony found that was given the honor of throwing the ceremonial opening pitch. his effort however was indicative of a man that's had little time to practice with the u.s. recording over 4000000 cases of the disease so far. because of the pandemic all the games for now will have to be behind closed doors with his favorite team the washington nationals getting the action under way against the new york yankees . the nationals won't help by having one player test positive ahead of the game as they went down 41 with play ending early because of rain got great speed it here

will score without a way i had a lot of butterflies today you know the ball or for us our guys came out with an edge in. the impact of the black lives matter protest movement was also felt on opening day players or both the match in washington d.c. and the game between the dodgers and san francisco giants in l.a. so. players take the knee like the 1st match game 2 was a one sided affair with the dog just cruising to an 81 when. u.s. president don trump who's been widely criticized for how he's dealt with the pandemic and the b.l.m. protests also got a slice of opening day action for himself he hosted a group of little leaguers at the white house to mark the occasion. to agree about. the u.s. and its president have plenty of difficulties to deal with that present but at

least for now the sport known as america's favorite pastime is giving many a reason to smile so hello malik al jazeera l.a. lakers star le bron james has described the black lives matter movement as a walk of life le bron was talking after scoring 12 points in 15 minutes during the lakers practice game against the dallas mavericks is his 1st appearance for the lakers in 4 months the n.b.a. regular season restarts next thursday where you black it's not a movie it's a life so. we say there's there's a movement in the laws movement always don't stop movement this is the walk of life you wake up. that is what it should be a movement it should be a lifestyle this is who we are and we understand that we know that for for one step that someone else might have or for one your someone else may have to take it we know we've got to take 5. now switzerland's attorney general has offered to resign

as the fallout from a corruption investigation into football's world governing body fifa continues michael lauper is appealing answer ruling that he lied to investigators about an undisclosed meeting with fifa president john in fancy now no longer involved in any of the ongoing criminal proceedings against faith or. level caps in jordan henderson has picked up yet another trophy this time it's an individual ward henderson has been named the english football writers player of the year the 30 year old lead liverpool to their 1st premier league title and 3 decades of failures drama saving up on behalf of all the team and the players at liverpool football club because without them this will be possible and is anybody anyone and not dressing room would be thoroughly deserved to win this award so i'm sure when the voting went in there was another moment of it's about what this team has achieved over the past year yes to all the players who played on exceptions. but if you want to have. again

a guy who really. fought his way through to the point where it is now and became yeah just absolutely deserve. the best present league and this yet everybody everybody acknowledges that. no one has now canceled all 4 of its races in the americas this season due to the current 19 pandemic growing praise in brazil mexico canada and the united states have been scrapped but 3 more european races will be added to the calendar year of our schedule now house 13 confirmed dates for the final rounds to be held in mid december in bahrain an up and down. the former heavyweight boxing champion mike tyson is sort of coming out of retirements. the 54 year old has been in training for weeks in his taste films with various clips on social media he's agreed to find jones jr in an 8 drowned exhibition bounce in september the concert schedules take place in los angeles on september that's. ok that is how

u.s. forces won for now so thanks very much under that is the news of the moment i'll be back with more news on the other side of the break into a meeting of the news hour to see later. mexico's club in 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital with the deadly upsurge inevitable to take it off a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they can go through this and thank god with that for. all has the governments on all the drugs strategy lead

to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across. the world. center matter where you call. out is iraq bringing you the news and current affairs that matter to the. al-jazeera. raggy omar investigates the brick kiln slaves in pakistan some of the most shocking and appalling working conditions anywhere in south asia up to 1000000 trapped by the thousands not normal for this country when nodes virtually no one speaks for them they suffer but they suffer in silence with no hope of escape what do you say to those allegations and hurts working conditions in the industry is equivalent to modern slavery slavery a 21st century evil continues with bonded slaves announces there. for the 1st

time in recent history saudi arabia prohibits overseas visitors from performing the hajj government. has covered 19 continues to disrupt people's lives we look at this decision and big impact on the saudi economy hides 2020 on al-jazeera. just hours before a closure deadline china clears out its consular office in houston retaliating with a shutdown order to the u.s. . the robin the watching al-jazeera live one headquarters here in doha also coming up safety fears over the world's top selling passenger plane there's concern about engine failure on boeing 737 grounded by the coronavirus fallout. also friday

prayers are back inside the stumbles i guess fear after more than 85.