hi i'm steve clemons question asked these days it's hard to filter out the newly seen keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue in the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the well the bottom line only. critically ill but now cleared to be flown to germany russian doctors will allow opposition figures alexina valley to be evacuated for medical treatment. from doha and i'm kemal sun summary of this is the world news from al-jazeera a breakthrough in libya the un backed government announces a cease fire while the rival parliament in the east also appeals for

a halt in the fighting. this sacred duty is my number one priority between now and election day a pledge to deliver election ballots on time as the controversial head of the u.s. postal service is questioned over a mail in vote. mexico's president goes on the defensive after new footage shows his own brother receiving money from an official. so the russian doctors treating one of the kremlin's biggest critics for suspected poisoning have now agreed to him being fined to germany for medical treatment the doctors in siberia backed down after initially insisting alexina valmy was too ill to be moved he's in a coma in hospital after collapsing on a plane on thursday this report from roy hallums. what's going on inside this regional russian hospital is army slightly clearer than what's going on inside the

body of its most famous patient with a plane waiting in to take it on conscious elects a no need to germany doctors spent most of the day saying he was too sick to move then late on friday a change of position also just to show my. relatives the wife and the brother of the patient who are fully immersed and have all the doctor about the diagnosis and condition of the patient a ready to take the risks we've decided not to oppose transferring the patient to another clinic. it's expected in the valley will be taken to the airport and flying to belin nobody would be a little bit earlier the opposition leaders spokeswoman and another great struggle to speak to the german doctors who just been to scene about only to. look at a moment ago with lisa force you know wasn't allowed to meet with german doctors as you saw they pushed me away just like they pushed her when she is the wife and has a full right to know everything about alexis condition which is the full right to

speak to talk shows you should transport him from this to a normal hospital soon as possible now valley's wife yulia suspects the delay in releasing him is so any poisons in his system will be harder to detect if it does this situation is outrageous authorities want to give alexei to us we think it's obvious that something is hidden from us but the allegation that never drank poison tea in the cafe at tomsk airport before boarding a flight to moscow is being denied by the cost little medics if you will for. we have come to the conclusion that judging by the fact that there were no poisons found in his blood or other biological materials he has a metabolic disorder lowering of the blood sugar levels to be specific due to a rapid change of pressure everyone thinks it was during takeoff. when he arrives in germany tests and treatment given to me will confirm whether doctors outside russia share this opinion but in moscow st petersburg and other cities supporters

of being gathering and getting detained beaten stop poisoning people says this blackout never live says another like the opposition leader's closest aides they're convinced this was an attempt on a nice life and they flatter me putin has to play. now to 0 jacobins that is from the charity which is organizing the valley's flight to berlin but he's concerned about the safety of our mission is a human giant mission bringing a plane making sure that he can come safely to billin and get his treatment all the speculations about poisoning a pretty good background is not read our business obviously to share it yes it's famous for doing a very good job in trying to save such people and obviously also to find out what kind of substances and waltzed so we will see what the charity will actually define

and find out personally on my side was very important to have good german men medics with us who actually checked she's able to fly nevertheless that she's unconscious on dental ation and they came to the conclusion a difference in the russian doctors the can fly and we will fly. on to other news in libya's un recognized government in tripoli has announced a cease fire as its rival parliament in the east that's the one aligned with khalifa haftar the warlord has also called for a halt to the fighting the potential breakthrough came as the warring sides were gearing up for a battle of assert but the tripoli government says it will respond to any violence from have to force. someone who can enter will have to respect to cease fire where they will to guarantee he would respect to cease fire after the burning talks or previous agreements he threw spec's this is fire we will welcome that because we do not want to bloodshed we call for peace however if you violates the peace agreement

we're ready to fight and we will force him to leave like we forced him to leave western libya it's always worth going back and having a quick look at how libya is divided these days we've got the map showing the tripoli based government which controls that area sort of in a gray ward khalifa haftar who's allied with that eastern parliament into brooke controls the area in red as we mentioned earlier both sides were gearing up for that battle of sirte pretty much in the middle that is they get right to libya's prized oil fields but there are now proposals to jointly demilitarize that area along with the for air base in the south currently so it is controlled by forces loyal to have to have imposed an oil blockade since january that has caused around a 1000000000 dollars in losses the cease fire calls for oil production to resume also once elections to take place in march as long as libyans agree on a constitutional basis stratfor now looking back at the recent conflict in libya. libya has been in turmoil for nearly

a decade. with a rich longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2000 level. often described as this rich country's civil war started after the disputed elections in 2014. disagreement between the then house of representatives and the general national congress made worse over a so-called road map for libya's future the country split into 2 rival administrations the house of representatives led by the warlord relief i have to move to the eastern city of 2 broke and what became the un backed government of national accord led by prime minister fayyad as raj remained in the capital tripoli in the west. thousands of people have been killed and many forced to flee their homes 6 and a half years of fighting. the un accuses regional powers of repeatedly breaking

a 2011 arms embargo on libya by supplying weapons to both sides egypt the u.a.e. and russia have supported hafta while turkey and qatar have backed the government of national accord. in april last year hoft old an offensive to take control of tripoli aiming at what he described as cleansing the western zone of terrorist groups. his forces have shut down or taking control of major oil facilities in eastern libya depriving the country of billions of dollars in revenue tripoli's only international airport has been repeatedly bombed using heavy artillery many civilians have been killed and wounded. areas of southern and western tripoli have been almost completely destroyed in the fighting repeated attempts at un bank cease fire talks of failed. a cease fire is a decision made by the power brokers by the circumstances and it is not necessarily a libyan decision this spike the fact that it's the d.n.a.

and who announced his decision this time to decision is not libya the decision is uniquely turkish russia with some input from some of the international powers and as long as it stays that way it's unlikely the cease fire will break. friday's cease fire announcement comes amid fears of an escalation by both sides mobilizing for a battle over the town suit the gateway to the major all terminals which are under the control of pro have 2 forces for now at least there's hope that agreement between powerful countries that many say have contributed to libya's suffering a backing a cease fire that could and its civil war chance transferred. up the exiled belorussian opposition leader has called for more mass protests against president alexander lukashenko svetlana could take on a sky as leading the call for his resignation they have been demonstrations for 12 consecutive days now including some of the biggest anti-government rallies in the capital minsk since the fall of the soviet union the kind of sky fled to lithuania

after the election which she says was right. people in belarus today are being beaten just for expressing their opinion people in bella reuss are being thrown in prison for taking part in peaceful protests my husband is in prison and 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 that. the head of the u.s. postal service has told a senate committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time ahead of the

november election postmaster general louis de joy has faced criticism for making changes to the service that have caused mail delays the democrats accuse him of being president donald trump's accomplice in trying to suppress the vote. the support of some has recounts. calling the accusations against him outrageous lewiston joyce says the cuts he's made to the u.s. postal service were long planned and aimed at making the agency financially solvent not to complicate mail in voting in november 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 mail securely and on time that's a reversal from what the postal service said last month in a warning to $46.00 states the agency had cautioned that millions of ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted and with the public fallout the joy announced further cuts for the postal service will be postponed until after the

election as well but the liberty ballot process every ballot in that it sees president trump claims without evidence that voting by mail can lead to massive election fraud that's despite voting by mail himself we're not prepared for this 51000000 ballots. it will be a tremendous embarrassment to our country it will go on forever and you'll never know who won so i say that for you i say it for the cameras because i assume that goes but i will tell you that this is a very serious. problem for a great democracy democrats accused of trying to sow doubt in an election that polls show him currently losing without a budget and doesn't want to go by mail without a president who loves you best of 0 without a president who would like you to post those options or not do well to join was a trump mega donor before becoming postmaster general in june

a postal service board member resigned in protest accusing the trumpet ministration of interfering with the independent agency now an internal watchdog is investigating and 6 states are suing the postal service for harming their ability to hold free and fair elections the house of representatives will hold a rare saturday session to take up legislation against the postal service changes and the joy will face a nother day of grilling before a house panel on monday. castro al-jazeera washington. in the news ahead turkey announces its biggest natural gas discovery will look at how it could transform our current strategic relations for decades to come. the thai government takes unprecedented steps to deal with a surging student protest movement. however

we have something of an east west split in the weather across the us at the moment because some rain over towards the east where we don't really need it but a spot in dry over towards west lots of sunshine where those wildfires continue to rage have to still get up in the forty's in fein excepts extensive hate across much of that western side of the u.s. even further north into the western side of canada we are looking at a dry warm weather coming through here somewhere so whether those you make the way across the rockies sliding down through the prairie's we'll see some wetter weather over towards the lakes and there we go with that showers anywhere from the appalachians pushing up towards the eastern seaboard for sas take going on into sunday sunday does look a little quieter but showers popping up in the heat of the day they will be big and bloody if you do get one or 2 of those and they are said to be the case to the eastern side of kind of the still no sign of any rain further west no meaningful

rainy might catch one or 2 light showers if anything those are the kind of showers that will spark off yet more wildfires squatting down there meanwhile across a good part of mexico or can genevieve's making its way out of the way but things looking live in the caribbean we've got this system here running up towards the yucatan peninsula could become a storm and another hispaniola. the 21st century began with extraordinary economic growth across much of latin america . but since this whole tour in 2008 has been a political shift to the right on a continent where socialism once strived to. achieve land politician goes on a journey to meet leading leftwing ficus to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. in latin america a giant in time oil on al-jazeera. the

top stories this hour on doctors in russia so the opposition politician alexina family can be taken to germany for treatment critic of president putin has been an induced coma after he collapsed on a plane his supporters believe he was poisoned. back to government announced a cease fire and fighting the leader of the rival parliament in the east has also healed for forces from both sides had been mobilizing around search the gateway to libya's oil fields and the head of the u.s. postal service has told a senate committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time for november's

election postmaster general lewis joyous faced criticism of the changes that have caused delays. now mexico's president under s. manuel lopez obrador who swept to power in 2018 after promising to wipe out corruption well now his own brother has been implicated in a scandal out of footage appeared to show him accepting cash the president insists his brother's innocent but he still called for an investigation on home and reports from mexico city. a perfect clip because this is the brother of mexico's president receiving an envelope stuffed with cash in a restaurant money put of lead donated to underage money. political movement before he was elected people that's a good $26000.00 here. it's cause controversy president will. run the promise to wipe out corruption. just to be clear this video doesn't prove that anything illegal happened but it does raise serious questions for example was

this money declared 'd for mexico's electoral dorothy's and most importantly where did it come from if this was public money from any area of government and this is illegal. silat i'ma latinos the media outlets that published the videos claims that ivied lay on the man handing over the envelope mentions the government of chapel although that audio is not included the idea is to support that's the goal with. president lopez obrador said he didn't know about the money but that it could have been lots of small donations that lay on had collected though. i can tell you that the people supported me i had a bank account where they deposit money to keep the party going and that's where i got my salary that happened 4 years in the. context is important here the videos come out just as lopez obrador as attorney general is investigating a corruption case that could implicate 3 of the president's pretty disservices.

videos been leaked of alleged bribes there too and the president's critics say he's using the case for political gain not just this in turn he claims this new video is there retaliation it proposes game is this could damage the government it does seem like a war of corruption videos a marker for nand this part of a government watchdog says is only going to be one in past or fortunately the sick change of medias i mean is very likely that is going to reflect in a lower trust of citizens to work institutions their ocean of these institutions lower confidence in the market and greater satisfaction and now citizens want to go to jail and that loss of public trust is only likely to deepen as the politicians fight it out on social media john homan how does it or mexico city and also in mexico city for us now roll beneath his melt he is

a political analyst and a professor at the national university of mexico. thank you for your time professor john made the very important point in that report that the video by itself doesn't prove anything yet but i guess for breath manuel lopez obrador he has to not only do the right thing he has to be seen to be doing the right thing yeah yeah well you have to take into account that mexico the 2nd to where the corrupt were not tried the biggest corruption is can only in america they are the black scandal and they will say that the relationship between the business companies the big weakness companies and the ormont he's very close. 15 pretty prescient in latin america are in jail early they have tried that in mexico all these not happened while the president is living in

a big correction is kind of against the tree for a president who helped problems with corruption inside the mexican old company premix and because of this he is trying to show that he's a harness people really prosecuting these parents they. are a nice big. investigation on that but right now she she's suffering the same think who would be the benefit if it does turn into something if wrongdoing is proved here how much of a problem is it for the president in the eyes of the mexican people. yes in the eyes of the mexican people all the politicians are very corrupt. or is trying to show that he is not corrupt but with these. people are confused on that.

the journalistic common people etc are trying to do want the truth on that on that kind of scandals really their mounties a few armont compared with the biggest amount in millions of us dollars compared with all his company what is important to say that this is an electoral this country the use of money it gets the law with electoral purposes by looks over or 5 years ago he's made this promise he says i he ran on the idea of wiping out corruption he says i'm going to wipe out corruption i mean judging by everything you've just said that's not something that can just be done in mexico or yeah world. since you seen all the government mechanisms to to fight the corruption against through the 3 former presidents colonel salinas philip because you're on. the last one and dipping and you don't go to the big macro scandal what we did is

nobody knows what would have been a lot of relief he want to negotiate with me or their political party certainly there's if they we believe this cannot or we will follow it with a mistake asians against the others but at the same time in his own party he has many problems on the same think. robin is not in mexico city a real pleasure talking to you thank you for your time today yeah thank you very much mike. well protesters in southern iraq have set fire to the local parliament there after demanding justice over the killing of 2 activists. security forces fired live rounds into the air as demonstrators marched on the buildings in the city of basra protesters want the provincial governor sacked after

a series of attacks on activists by unidentified gunmen. turkey has announced its biggest natural gas discovery a 320000000000 cubic meter field beneath the black sea turkey currently depends on imports for most of its energy needs president said he hopes to find more reserves in turkey's controversial explorations in the mediterranean as well well. we've been making concerted efforts of the past years both the exploration of this is we doing the same in the middle to arabian sea both bases of jewelled 9 wells in both the black sea in the mediterranean and by the grace of god we found this big discovery and i'm certain that we will have similar good news from the mediterranean. but analysts of warned the gas discovery is not a game changer they say it could take up to a decade to extract exploration happened in the black sea about 100 nautical miles north of the coast of turkey simcoe soon to do is in istanbul with more she says

the government is hoping the find could be a much needed boost to 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 imports are country for instance in 2900 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's going through the world health organization chief says he hopes the world can end the coronavirus crossness in less than 2 years that is faster than it took the spanish flu pandemic to date nearly 800000 people and infected close to 23000000 worldwide of course with more good news the word us has better chance of spreading can move fast because we have more connected mount. but at the same time we have also the technology to stop it and the knowledge to stop it so we have the disadvantage of globalization close in its connectedness burton advantage of bit of technology so we hope to finish

this pandemic before. less than 2 years meanwhile virus experts are concerned the rollout of a russian vaccine may actually encourage the corona virus to mutate russian authorities say it's safe and effective although full scale trials have not been completed some scientists though are worried that deploying such a vaccine which is partially effective could cause the virus to evolve more quickly or such mutations are rare stronger vaccines give a virus less opportunity to learn as it were how to evade antibody defenses thousands of people have been celebrating in mali's capital after the president was overthrown in a military coup opposition parties of back to the military's plan to eventually hand power to a civilian transitional government kater announced his resignation on tuesday after soldiers had detained him there are fears that the move will destabilize regional

security the u.s. has suspended cooperation with mali's military in the west african bloc us is sending a delegation there on saturday to discuss mali's political future thai police have begun arresting student anti-government protest organizers orthe already is a concern the movement is growing and for the 1st time a minister actually sat down with some of the students in bangkok asked him how it went the month old anti-government protest was founded fronted and organized by thai students from high schools to university. i want to mark racine a quality where there is no difference whether one person has a higher social status than the other. earlier in the week just after high school class dismissal 100 showed up in front of the ministry of education asking for the minister to resign and for reform of the education system. more democratic this after students said they were prevented from showing their support for the movement

on campuses like using the 3 finger salute a symbol of the protest or wearing ribbons a sign of solidarity thailand's education minister not upon that suan came out to speak to the protesters the 1st direct engagement from a top government official is this something that you think the top levels of government will continue to do kind of maybe follow your lead it's a follow my lead i think it's that dialogue that i've had with the prime minister and i think that by listening to them you. will minimize mood damage that that will be done if there were. they would be escalating you know the level protests the minister says that he and others in the government are willing to continue and expand discussions with the protestors but there's a mixed message because more protesters are being arrested and it's clear that the call by some of the protesters for an overhaul of the monarchy is a no go subject for youth is one of the 1st and largest groups to start protesting

what it all i thought if i. had no impact and had we have goals demands and a dream and a dream is to have a country that is ruled by a true constitutional monarchy like england japan didn't mark or norway when the monarchy is under the constitution and the highest power belongs to the people i think. although the movement is being driven by the students of this country others are joining the gatherings especially on weekends and the main organizing groups have already started to plan for the next round of weekend protests in september got harder al jazeera bangkok. the headlines this hour on al-jazeera doctors in russia say the office mission politician alexina valmy can be taken to germany for treatment the critic of president putin has been in an induced coma after he collapsed on

a plane his supporters believe he was poisoned and are concerned about his safety in russia our mission is a human chair in mission bringing a plane making sure that he can come safely to dylan and get his treatment all the speculations about poisoning a pretty good background is not read our business obviously the sheriff. is famous for doing a very good job in trying to save such people and obviously also to find out what kind of substances and waltzed so we will see what the charity will actually decide and find out. now headlines libya's u.n. backed government has announced a cease fire in fighting the leader of the rival parliament in the east is also appealed for old forces from both sides had been mobilizing around sirte the gateway to libya's oil fields ahead of the u.s. postal service has told a senate committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time from november's election postmaster general lewis to joyce faced criticism for changes that have

caused postal delays turkey's announced its biggest natural gas discovery a 320000000000 cubic meter field beneath the black sea if it can be extracted it will reduce turkey's dependence on energy imports separate exploration there underway in the eastern mediterranean increasing tension with greece and cyprus there better russian opposition leader has called for more mass protests against president alexander lukashenko svetlana to go to leading the call for his resignation there have now been demonstrations for 12 straight days over the disputed election results. and virus experts are concerned the rollout of a russian vaccine may encourage the corona virus to mutate russian or forties say it is safe and effective but some scientists are worried that deploying a vaccine that's partially effective could cause the virus to evolve more quickly up to date with the headlines on al jazeera witnesses next. frank assessments.

we look at this informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many. region are actually under a state of emergency critical debate that is the people who have to research the interest of the libyan people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. do be. just up for solo sessions like that yes you know they do so yes it was last month

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