jews a secret agreement that will shape the middle east for the century to come world war one through our eye on al-jazeera. libya's un backed government announces a cease fire and its rival power in the east is also appealing for a stop to the fighting. welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up a loose opposition challenger spent lana to come off sky a declares the people will never accept the current leadership again after a disputed election. the postal service is fully capable committed to delivering the nation's election many securely in on time. the man in charge of the u.s.

postal service is grilled over controversial cost cutting measures. and draft dodgers or an inspiration for a nation by south korean pop stars are causing controversy over compulsory military service. libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli has announced a cease fire as its rival parliaments in the east also called for a stop to the fighting the potential breakthrough came as the warring sides were gearing up for a battle but city is controlled by the warlords after it's the gateway so that we as oil terminals both of ministrations want have to blockade to end and for agreement to be reached on how the revenue is distributed there are also proposals to demilitarize sirte and an airbase in al jawf for further to the south the tripoli government says it wants to. hold elections as soon as march of next year

the u.n. special representative for libya was quick to welcome the news she issued this statement saying it demonstrates the courage which libya is in urgent need of in these trying times well rival factions and allied fighters have been battling over libya since the overthrow of the longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago the u.n. recognize government controls the areas there in blue it's seat of power is in the capital tripoli after who form the self declared libyan national army controls the areas in red and the administration that sides with him is based into broke his forces had been trying to capture tripoli from g.n.a.t. forces for more than a year but they didn't succeed mahmoud has the latest from tripoli. government of national accord here in tripoli seems to be adhering to the fact that the oil located should be lifted as

a prerequisite to any political settlement and the country on the other hand the group based parliament this is the parliament affiliated with the warlord khalifa haftar says in this statement that the oil revenues at the oil should be brought back to normal production but with one condition that all oil revenues should be deposited in a special account in libya's for external bank and it should not be should not be. operated should not be run until a political settlement according to qaeda initiative be reached but on the other hand the government of national called here in tripoli sad that the oil revenues ok should be deposited in a neutral account but to be under control of the national oil corporation this is the state oil firm the government says that it's the only institution intitled to

deal with to handle the oil revenues concerning the military situation both bodies the government here in tripoli and the pro have to parliament and they have a common consensus that all military operations should be halted in the country due to the multiple crises that the government is suffering from. to discover a huge natural gas reserve in the black sea the president missed his screen has been made. i really am delighted to bring this good news to you 2 he has successfully found the largest gas field in the black sea this is the biggest exploration and the biggest discovery in turkey's history. so i'm concerned who has been across mr erdogan speech in stone ball she says the government is hoping that the find could bring a much needed boost for the economy the size of the gas reserves found by that

by turkey is of course very small compared to the energy giant countries like china or united states or russia but will it be a remedy for the ailing turkish economy that's the question and this is what the turkish government is very positive about turkey's and that energy importer country for instance in $2900.00 took imported 45000000000 cubic meters of natural gas and it costs around $15000000000.00 u.s. dollars for turkey and it constitutes at least half of turkey's current account deficit so for a country like turkey totally dependent on foreign energy supplies even though it's a short term gain it's of course the size the scale of the. resource is not enough to be a game changer but it's going to provide tricky a lever it in the black sea also a legitimate station of energy exploration in the eastern mediterranean this is how the government sees and of course this is good news for the ruling party to

consolidate its electorate given a fragile economic turbulence turkey is going through. there are some new developments surrounding the condition of the russian opposition politician alexina volumnia who's in a hospital recovering from suspected poisoning his wife has appealed to the russian president vladimir putin to allow her husband to be taken to germany for treatment now one doctor at the hospital in the city of all says he could be stable enough to travel in the next few hours of only went into a coma on thursday a police lab says it found traces of an industrial chemical on his body but russian doctors say there is no indication that he was actually poisoned chalons spent time covering russia for us extensively here on al-jazeera he joins us this from london so rory can you travel on alt. well it looks like we're getting a bit of a shift from the hospital in squee have. near lines coming from the chief doctor there alexander miracle ski and what he is saying now

is that it appears that the valley is stable enough to travel that he has been in a an artificially induced coma but the hospital can arrange for transportation for no valley to get to the airports in arms can i remember that at the airport in arms there is a small plane that had been sent from germany. that was has been waiting there to take. me out of russia to germany way he can get medical attention there are also german doctor is in homs q have been to the hospital and they have been in 2 to siena valley up until this the russian doxes had been saying that he was not stable enough to travel and they wouldn't really counts against this now that it's had received fierce criticism from the valley's wife union of ana and

from his spokesperson his spokeswoman kiriakou and other aid colleagues that he has people in it volkova is them his chief of staff all of them have been saying this was a stalling tactic saying that he couldn't leave the country that he couldn't leave the hospital was a storing attacked stalling tactic essentially designs to make sure that whatever toxins whatever poisons were it is system had time to flush outs and be less detectable that's their theory of course the doctors have been saying we haven't found any tops in this already poisons in his system we don't think that that is the cause. his illness they say that the cause of his illness metabo metabolic disturbance essentially down to a low blood sugar level given his former relationship is combative relationship

with vladimir putin and the kremlin if he leaves russia is there a chance once he's well and face an up and running that they won't let him back in again. very difficult to say at the moment i mean obviously he's a russian citizen so for him to be barred from entering the country is a fairly big step to take. his daughter is currently out of the country studying in the united states is wife and some still there they would presume go with him if he did go to germany to receive medical attention there they would have to think very hard about whether they wanted to come back to russia given the day to day housman that he receives he's followed all the time by trolls and he really shattered pieces out there on the street. being targeted numerous times by the police who raided his office is he's had chemicals thrown in his face

he says he's been poisoned before is a very tough man but that is a huge amount of pressure to live on a day to day and you have to ask the question of whether he wants to go back to russia or if he left rory understood thanks very much for a challenge the reporting from london the other russian opposition candidate is calling for more mass protests to keep up the pressure on the president alexander lukashenko to come off sky is leading the call for the president to resign there have been demonstrations for 12 straight days now including some of the biggest anti-government rallies in minsk since the fall of the soviet union took him off sky and fled to lithuania after the election which she says was rigged against her . people in bellerose today are being beaten just for expressing their opinion people in velour reuss are being thrown in prison for taking part in peaceful protests my husband is in prison in bella ruse just for daring to dream about a country for life our common goal is simple we don't want to live with fear and

lies anymore we want what everyone in the world is entitle to the right to live the right to be safe in the street the right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial and the right to fair free and transparent elections. following the news conference in the capital minsk she was asked if she is going to 6 run forward a presidency again if there would be a new fair elections but she was very invasive about this question she said it's a bit early days and it is indeed early days because the situation here in minsk and in belarus has significantly significantly changed in the last couple of days it's very clear that. tightening his grip on power he's still very much in control of the security forces protests have still been going on but they are smaller than they were before there is this opposition council which also has

been installed by sky and that's why i'm here at this theater because one of the leaders of this. council is now in hiding because he's fearing for his life members of the council have also been faced with charges criminal charges for an appeal to overthrow the government several members of this council have been questioned this morning there was fear that they would be detained but they have just. gone out of this investigative committee but there is also of course a lot of fear that this police crackdown that we saw just 2 weeks ago is going to happen again. the e.u. and the u.k. are once again blaming each other for another round of brics that talks the admits of gone nowhere it's the 7th time negotiators have met this disagreements remain on significant areas such as fisheries policy too often to speak he treated as if we were going backwards more than for us given to short time

left but i said you don't turn to dry it remains true today a different stage an agreement between u.k. and europe or union seems unlikely i simply do not understand why we are wasting valuable time. still to come here on al-jazeera the mosque can go that's the ruling from health officials in the chinese capital beijing but not everyone is ready to go bare faced. to victory celebration in mali after the president steps down the question is was it a coup or was it voluntary. hello the house the more very heavy rain across well central and northern areas of

china plenty of cloud again in the all see as generally kara across the central regions and of course very warm still in shanghai tonnages have been in the mid thirty's for a days now about 12 days now to the south of there watching this as a possible a tropical storm that could be developing even if it doesn't which is very heavy rain across much of taiwan will see more rain in the forecast across the korean peninsula and against and scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of japan they become quite widespread on sunday and that's when the rain again becomes quite heavy out across the west of the heavy rain on its way towards beijing $27.00 on sunday the high temperature and still warm and sunny in shanghai with a high of $34.00 that we had across into south asian of course here the rains have been particularly strong and very widespread as well in fact northern pakistan has seen some trench poles leaving scenes like this in the streets of karachi you can see just how deep the water is in many places there is some more rain in the forecast not as heavy as it has these that you know the pakistan we will they see

some very heavy rain work its way again across the southern pakistan but really it's going to be mad out towards ra just on and on across into drought and then through sunday the rain again very heavy through much of bangladesh and out across the west of myanmar. bottles in cameroons rivers. on england st. plastic is everywhere. but if bottles can be fishing boats. and bubble gum wellington boots what more can be done with this plague of paul innes. earthrise reimagining plastered. on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dobby your headlining stories a doctor at the hospital in the city of success the russian opposition politician alexina could be stable enough to travel in the next few hours he's in hospital there recovering from suspected poisoning his wife appealed to the russian president vladimir putin to allow her husband be taken to germany for treatment that. libya's warring sides of called a cease fire the move by the un recognized government in tripoli and the parliament and broke allied with the warlords from the front after is aimed at ending foreign interference the turkish president mr erdogan has announced a major natural gas reserves has been found off the coast in the black sea he says the find is the largest in the country's history. opposition supporters are holding

a celebration rallies in the modern capital bamako days after the military coup that ousted the president. announced his resignation on tuesday after soldiers detained him the west african bloc ecowas is sending a delegation there on saturday to discuss mali's political future overnight a un mission in mali paid a visit to keiter in detention the bottle clearly over 2 years old he's doing very well as are all the others they aren't under arrest they had a tank to keep in safety for their own security you'll agree with me that after this kind of situation this insecurity for example after he left his home some people attacked his house after he'd left some people even come to us on their own initiative for their own safety he is safe and can keep an eye on things. lebanon has now begun its 2 week locked which includes unlikely curfew an effort to contain a surge in corona virus cases the ministry of health is warning that hospitals are running out of space 6 major hospitals and 12 clinics were damaged after the beirut

port explosion 2 weeks ago about 70000 homes were also destroyed so in a hotter has more from beirut. a partial lockdown has been imposed authorities are hoping that they can flatten the curve there has been a dramatic rise in the number of corona virus cases a few weeks ago the daily average was between 10 to 20 and now the numbers are in the hundreds and for a country which health the health care system is already collapsing authorities fear that there is a need really to try to contain the spread in order to prevent and a total collapse hospitals. have been really suffering as a result of the port explosion just 2 weeks ago it really put a lot of pressure on the system because hundreds of people remain in intensive care units people who were wounded in that blast so even in wards dedicated to cover the patients covered 900 patients they are already full now what happened what what

brought about this rise well the airport was opened in july and many travelers who arrived in the country they were infected and you have a population really which was were not being responsible they were not wearing masks they were not present respect the social distancing they were going to beaches there were wedding parties now. gatherings have been banned but the situation but the authorities are also making sure that the repair and relief work that that has followed the beirut blast will not be disrupted and that's why if this is just a partial lockdown so the hope is in the next 2 weeks the number of coronavirus cases will be reduced because up to 400 doctors and nurses have been infected and like we mentioned hospitals damaged and destroyed in the paper port explosion. is removing this requirement for people to in mosques outdoors there the

chinese capital has been relaxing its finest restrictions often nearly 13 days with no new cases between a small. a few months ago here in beijing it was. well to find anybody on the street not wearing a lot but increasingly that's not the case china has helped more than any local jazz musicians of the corona virus in the past 5 days and health authorities are starting to relax restrictions starting on friday people will no longer have to wear a mask while they're outdoors walking or exercising and many residents here say they are but some say if they will choose to continue to wear my. even better most people are still wearing masks now so for safety i decided to keep wearing it for a while. i feel very safe especially this new regulations say you don't need to wear a mask outdoor anymore i follow the message from the government this is the 2nd time beijing health or you have a locked mosque wearing god like they were initially loosened in april or may change in june forming

a 2nd outbreak now china's leaders say outbreaks in beijing and the problems of the fishing junk and yelling on to control to fighting has been largely returning to normal in recent weeks cinemas and entertainment venues have reopened albeit with limited capacity and starting in september all schools and universities are set to reopen. 19 rights to soaring along the american border with mexico a combination of poverty and poor public health is putting communities at higher risk than other areas of the united states the story from rob reynolds. trying to stay one step ahead of death dr tim vo pays a visit to one of his covert 1000 patients cynthia reyes parked there for a part where. we are one to get over. the flu like the kind of thing reyes family has suffered greatly in the pandemic right there the one. parent. my mother her own number 3 its mother margarita says she hasn't even had time to

grieve for her husband everything that we've been through it's a nightmare for people need to take things like very serious. i think this is something we have dr vo is on the front lines in imperial county california a community on the us mexico border and one of the hardest hit in the entire state the covert 900 positivity rate here is 3 times as high as in the rest of california we feel really really. you know desperate. when it could be here we need help when you do need to get better far from the bigger and better equipped hospitals of major cities doctors and nurses at imperial county's main medical center struggle to cope with a stream of cova 1000 patients it is the perfect storm and it includes things outside of our control i don't people by the time you come to the i.c.u. with spinal age for you many people in this largely let tino border area have

underlying health problems the community already had higher rates of asthma and diabetes recently hundreds of people lined up at a local food bank to receive donations imperial county is the poorest place in california with a per capita income of $17500.00 in 2019 compared to the national per capita income of $45000.00 a year unemployment is nearly 30 percent and almost one in 4 people live below the poverty line. or county you know. to get. help that would be so great the state government has sent in extra medical teams and has transferred patients to other hospitals seem to race as a message for anyone who thinks the virus might disappear. we are only entrenched poverty chronic illness and

a neglected public health infrastructure make imperial county and other border communities from california to texas a coded killing zone rob reynolds al-jazeera. the u.s. postmaster general says mail in ballots will be delivered securely and on time for november's election the way to joy is testifying before a senate committee of accusations he's trying to sabotage the postal service ahead of the vote to joy an ally of president trump ordered financial cutbacks but he's now suspended all changes after a public outcry about the potential impact of mail in ballots mr trump has suggested that mail in voting could be susceptible to fraud as we head into the election season i want to assure this committee and the american public that the postal service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation's election manal securely and on time this sacred duty is my number one priority between now and election day. in venezuela the opposition leader is planning

a boycott of the forthcoming legislative elections he's appealing for political parties to unite and was being seen as a last ditch effort to maintain recognition at home and abroad is the senior. it's been nearly 8 months since government forces literally knocked out one by law from an israel is national assembly this even though he was the leader of parliament now president nicolas maduro is preparing to make good on his vow to regain control of parliament the country's only independent democratic institution in upcoming elections in response why door is issuing an urgent call to opposition parties for action. nick would be i propose a commitment to discuss and agree on a common strategy in the next 10 days i will expect a public and active answer from each of you showing a united commitment to freeing venezuela. why those plan calls for denouncing and

rejecting what he calls an electoral fraud i.p.y. we must activate an agenda of domestic and international action and mobilization to obtain the necessary responses from our armed forces the international community and all of our allies. why though is appealing to the fractured opposition to join forces and call for a total boycott of the elections arguing that fraud is a foregone conclusion participating we did to them as a dictatorship he says a new data analysis poll suggests that 75 percent of the news whalen's believe the elections won't be competitive and won't reflect the opinion of the voters wunderlich they will when you ask people about their disposition to vote in an election that evidently is not competitive only 11 percent say that they are very willing to do so and about 30 percent say that they may and that means around 40 percent might go to the polls but past experience shows most abstain if conditions are unfair. given that sentiment the opposition is clearly in

a lose lose position lidar has lost momentum leadership and the ability to mobilize large numbers of people as he once did his best is that by boycotting the poll the opposition can at least claim there was no election was that will likely draw out an ongoing political standoff in which more than 50 nations recognized by the all as venezuela's legitimate interim president but as he well knows even that can't last indefinitely see in human al-jazeera. the mexican resort city of los cabos has been hit by hurricane force winds and heavy rain from tropical storm genevieve at least 2 people died the system began as a hurricane in the pacific and was downgraded to a tropical storm on weapons day. there is growing controversy surrounding south korea's most famous boy band b.t.s. has achieved worldwide fame but the cape pop stars are also facing questions about

when they plan to do their military service as required by law his rope and bright . they are a global sensation as evidenced by this record breaking virtual concert reaching an estimated 750000 fans worldwide defying the pandemic as the most famous k. pop band b.t.s. has managed to connect to an audience far beyond south korea. it different from typical keep up with the band because. the identity of. the hip hop band make them tell about their own life history their only experience can be shared by a global youth who have had to bury similar experience in their younger age part of that life experience for young south korean men includes this compulsory military service it's regarded as

a jew to eat that all men over 18 should be proud to fulfill and that no one should skip. but there is a provision to delay your military service until you're 28 if you're studying and with the b.t.s. band members well into their twenty's all of them have now in role did online courses leading to suspicions their putting off their service for as long as they can. it's helped fuel the debate about whether k. pop stars should get an exemption often adored and hounded by fans wherever they go the stresses of k. pop stardom are well known and it's argued that they contribute to south korea's prestige abroad prominent sports stars like tottenham football players song men get an exemption if they win international tournament's sounded just a few weeks of basic training and b.t.s. fans have petitioned the presidential office for their idols to be granted the same

exemption still the controversy goes on but in my opinion that if actually the people accept. beauteous contribute the rays of the caribbean you know. i think. and then they wouldn't you know quote mr service whichever way it goes it's a controversial decision balancing the need for fairness with a recognition that b.t.s. are more than just another band of bullies robert bride al-jazeera so. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories a doctor at the hospital in the city a bomb success the russian opposition politician alexina barney could be stable enough to travel in the next few hours he's in hospital recovering from suspected poisoning his wife has appealed to vladimir putin to allow her husband to be taken to germany for treatment there libya's warring sides of called for

a cease fire the move by the u.n. recognize government in tripoli and the parliament and to brooke allied with the warlord after is aimed at ending foreign interference my head has more now from tripoli both the statements from both bodies from the international recognized here in tripoli and from the pro after parliament in the eastern city of 2 brooke they have a common consensus to hold the military operation but the government here says that parliamentary and presidential elections should be held by march next year in fact on the on the other hand after parliament says that this 26 city of senate should be their headquarter word their new to be. or to be a form of presidency council should be located the turkish president. has announced that major natural gas reserves have been found off the coast of the black sea he says the fine is the largest in the country's history. i really am delighted to bring this good news to you ticky has successfully found the largest

gas field in the black sea this is the biggest exploration and the biggest discovery into history but the russian opposition candidate is calling for more mass process to keep up the pressure on the president mr look at shanker sweat lana to come out schuyler is leading the call for the president to resign and have been demonstrations for now 12 straight days opposition supporters are holding rallies in the modern capital bamako offer a military coup that ousted the president mr keita and i asked his resignation on tuesday after soldiers detained him the u.s. postmaster general says mail in ballots will be delivered securely and on time for the election lou it's a joy is testifying before a senate committee over accusations he's trying to sabotage the postal service up next to earth rise i'll have more news in 30 minutes i'll see that.

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