latin america a giant in turmoil on al-jazeera. be the hero of the world news. washington. the a. russian opposition leader alexina bonnie's airlifted to germany where he's being treated for suspected poisoning. clo this is al jazeera live from doha i'm fully back he will also a heads. these guys who were in a meeting of the during the year of the told of the v. of a an order of a b.

they can do whatever you want evidence of torture and abuse by bela lugosi and police in the days following the disputed election. west african leaders arrive in mali seeking the reinstatement of president cater who was ousted in a military coup. and the u.s. house of representatives is to vote on emergency funds for the postal service democrats say mail operations are being slowed down to favor the president trump in november's election. thank you very much for joining us russian opposition leader alexina vali has been transferred to a hospital in berlin to receive emergency treatment for suspected poisoning russian doctors had initially said he was too sick to be moved from a hospital in the siberian city of homs but they changed their position late on friday dominic kane reports from berlin. this is where alex in our van his journey

has brought him world renowned shiny to a hospital and the start of treatment his supporters hope will save the life of one of the most prominent critics of the russian government he'd been brought here on board a special flight through the night from siberia after russian doctors finally agreed he was fit to travel. the patient's family are fully of didn't have all the dice are about the diagnosis and condition of the patient and they're ready to take the risk to transfer we've decided that we don't oppose transferring the patients to another clinic but valley's friends and family are asking why it took so long for these doctors to agree with those who'd flown from germany to collect me now found his wife believes the delay was specifically to allow whatever is in his system to degrade and to make identifying it therefore harder she thinks he drank tea that had been poisoned just before he boarded a flight to moscow from tomsk the or thora teas at the russian hospital where he

was treated deny this. 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 blood sugar levels to be specific due to a rapid change of pressure everyone thinks it was during takeoff. staff here have immediate relevant recent experience of treating patients with the sorts of symptoms that alexy now danny has come here with now they get the chance to find out what exactly is in his system and how they go about removing it but how it got there in the 1st place remains unclear dominic kane al-jazeera a bull in charity hospital. yacoub visit is the founder of the german organization the cinema for peace which helped bring alexei navalny to germany for medical treatment he says a russian opposition leader is now where he needs to be. visitors and. i think

will incredibly relieved after 2 days of inless if it's to get him here that the patient has landed in is in a stable condition he was in a coma and they said he's not able to travel but he's landed now in a stable and the doctors at the hospital taking care of incorporation with the family will come up with statements regarding his health condition. the bella who see an opposition leader has told on jazeera that the people of our country will never forgive the police for their violent crackdown human rights groups say last week's police violence was planned systematic and ordered by the top leadership they've compiled 500 cases of torture during the protests that followed the disputed election 2 weeks ago we'll hear more from the set manotick and ask ai in a moment but 1st step boss and has more from minsk on the victim's demands for justice. worse than a horror movie that's how to fit family described their ordeal inside a detention center the entire family was detained on august then the evening after

protests started against a disputed presidential election police responded with violence and detained nearly 7000 people across belarus. and these are guys who are. and. they have. have. they can do whatever they want so they have the permission. of a 16 year old me almost the 1st family member to be detained he was walking with his mother when police grabbed him there was no protest at a time when christina a marketing analyst and her husband and a doctor went to a police station to look for him and they too were lead taint they were taken to a christina detention center in minsk where many detainees have said they were tortured. as a stud as devotes a paulist to all the women were forced to completely undress and they were filming us on their phones then we moved to the floor where naked men when the hands behind

their backs i could only think about my son's friend who saw her father naked in this position when she turned her head away she was beaten christina who is a diabetic says she lost consciousness after being refused medication she was kept with 34 women for 3 nights in a cell meant to hold 4 people we should look at china mama men were screaming for their mothers there with the sounds of electroshocks sons of horus sounds of beatings and there were women in our cell who knew their children were among them and their husbands too it was horrifying it was more horrible than being beaten ourselves we were afraid that they had captured the whole city and they would kill everybody they were shouting at us that they would do that. models outside little attention santa kept shouting their children's names mitterrand was released after 6 hours i have no illusions about. the state just experienced and faced with the worst experience was actually looking for my

parents and where they were it was terrible and i just found the. salary this people being in power after looking around the country for his parent miron found them after 3 anxious days the discover family and others who have been detained here at this detention center in minsk of us their lawyers to file cases for on lawful detention but human rights groups don't believe their cases will ever go to court because bellows has not signed the rome statute there's no international court to turn to either human rights groups are now preparing hundreds of testimonies to be sent to the un committee against torture so they are not protect people from the state the state can do everything with the people we will have more and more political motivated cases and more and more political prisoners but. you know people not like him anymore. that's

a reality like many others who were detained and abused after the election defeat to scar family sas that fear has now been replaced by anger and this anger they say has now united to balad russian people like never before stop france and al-jazeera minsk well earlier i spoke to that line a 2nd off scare the bellows to an opposition leader who is in exile in lithuania i started by asking when she was expecting to return to bella. you know i'm going back to paris i want to go back to there is a door a country and i will go there and when i feel safe. do you not feel safe where you are today. no i am safe here in the green here but i don't feel safe in their wrists now do you fear for your husband who is back in balad rules. for sure i do

here for my husband the same as i i'm wondering about all the bill russian people who are struggling for their rights you're urging your supporters now to step up strike despite intimidation i mean you yourself led by the rules because you didn't feel safe as you've said president look at shankar right now shows no sign of backing down nearly 2 weeks after this election was held he's even vata quassia unrest in the coming days are you not concerned that they could be more violence and more bloodshed if the movement continues. you know. that violence that our authorities showed the russian people i consider to be their greatest mistake and i call for.

authorities not to repeat this mistake because our people the real never never forget and will give this to our president but what about your movement what's your message to the people who are still taking to the streets even if in smaller numbers if the protests turned violent again will you order them to stop you know i can't order anything to the russian people it's honestly the wrong decision while the protests and strikes have somewhat stalled in the last few days as we've seen president is digging in and showing no sign of going anywhere are you worried that the movement could fail. you know bill russian people changed and they will now are and accept old authorities and they will never. they will never accept an

old president anymore and so not only time he real have tools to the way and. it's better for everybody it's better for country if it will help better and in their shortest time the european union has announced further sanctions against. what further actions if any would you like them to take and has the e.u. offered you any help you know or. really i would go russian people perceived every kind of help that other countries and it can show during these tough period for the russian people and. it's up to every country award it does do in. in this situation but the only thing i can ask other concerts is to respect

this or into the us to the u.s. now where the house of representatives has convened to decide whether to send 25000000000 dollars to the u.s. postal service and to block changes to the system before the november election representatives cut their holidays short over concerns the postal service boss a trump donor has been tampering with operations to slow down the delivery of ballots. the postmaster general is saying we're going to have not do any of this until after the election our legislation is not just about the election it's about surprise surprise mr postmaster general the coronavirus coded 19 which has a big impact on the election as well as 1st and foremost on the health of the american people so this isn't just about until after the election if that can be

trusted it's about the length as we say in the bill the end of january or the end of a coronavirus which other takes a longer political hand has more now from capitol hill. we expect that it will pass the house because it's controlled by democrats and democrats across the board support this measure the bottom line is there's been a considerable slowdown in mail delivered through the united states postal service and democrats blame that on the new postmaster general he says it's because of staff shortages because of the corona virus but at the same time he did take steps that could easily slow down the mail has removed hundreds of high speed mail sorters he's cut back on overtime for some inch wholly changed the procedure for how the these meth carriers operate now there was a huge outcry because people were complaining to their representative saying look i'm not getting my checks that i need to pay bills my bills check the checks i need to pay my bills aren't going out some getting late fees medicine probably the most

important part of the story a lot of people this country get their medicine through the mail and that is in fact been delayed and it's caused some serious health concerns so what he did after this became public and there was an outcry the postmaster general said ok all of these initiatives that i was going to put in place i'm going to basically stop until after the november election because remember we're the middle of a pandemic and for the 1st time we expect more than 3 quarters of the american public will try to cast their ballots through the mail the postal service came out and told the states the way you have it set up means most of those ballots are going to be thrown out because all right after election day the democrats said great he said we'll stop these changes now but he's not necessarily going to put those daughters back in place or let overtime back into the into the dynamic here or change to put the process back of how they deliver the mail so the democratic bill is not just about the money it's about mandating that this postmaster general reversed all of the changes he's made to the post office would be operated exactly as it did this past january phin ahead on al jazeera the salsa look down if you

will so annoying when she would show you she can't do not move. we look at the impact of months of isolation on people living with dementia. hello there the usual weather for the most fossil cross much of the middle east but to the north we have seen a fair amount of cloud developing and that has been producing some or all the heavy showers across as a turkey and on a towards the caspian sea they will extend across into the fall northwest of iran as we go through sunday and again the rain is back in the 4 calls and western areas of yemen this could be quiet heavy at times throughout sunday and monday it could again lead to some localized flooding but look at the temperatures a typically of course in the forces this time of year but doha the temperature

coming down on monday $36.00 degrees celsius that's actually about 5 degrees below the average for this so no a near assholes but probably feeling a little bit humid as that temperature is low central africa plenty of showers and rains in fact the becoming rather more extensive across the democratic republic of congo extending further to the south of the last few days since stories ago through sunday and very widespread showers all the way from mozambique tanzania up through kenya and on into somalia knows a bad day sunday across much of south africa but there is another system just flirting with the coast on monday that could produce a few showers and the winds a fairly light say this is what it does over the next few days mostly fine in cape town temperatures not too bad but we could see a few showers imported. the slums of manila. into an extraordinary community of men

who risk their lives telling garbage into cash so that their families can survive even in the face of ongoing obstacles ricky cheetos and freddy never give up. al-jazeera follows the remarkable eco work love and fryer in the slum. on al-jazeera. the end. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the russian opposition leader next in a volley is being treated at a hospital in germany for suspected poisoning after being flown there from siberia he was initially considered too sick by russian doctors to be moved by the change

of position made on friday. the u.s. house of representatives is meeting to decide whether to give billions of dollars in emergency funds to the postal service before november's election the head of the service is being accused of favoring president trump by tampering with operations to slow the delivery of ballots and the better will see an opposition leader has told al jazeera and the people are for a country will never forgive the police for their violent crackdown following the disputed election 2 weeks ago that manotick on oscar ayoub was in exile in lithuania says the protests will continue until alexander steps down. our delegation of west african leaders has arrived in mali to push for a swift return to civilian rule following in military cool former nigerian president goodluck jonathan is part of the group representing the regional bloc echo os president. was ousted on tuesday rebel soldiers say they plan to appoint

a transitional leader but haven't given a timeframe. well. we see what is happening in the world that we're going to get. the worse for you stick with it live it in the. come up with. that with the way. al-jazeera is following developments in nigeria he says a. delegation may struggle to get the former president to re-instate since realistically to achieve in what they will achieve in bamako it's hard to say however one key thing is the indication that a course is somehow softening its initial stance and rhetoric about the coup in

mali 1st a 2nd day after the coup was executed at course and on to rough tough measures thing to land and blockade of mali. sort of restricting trade and money in flow from member countries into mali as well as other measures that include suspending the country from membership of the organization decision making bodies so right now mile they of course also said it wants a swift return of cater to power which of course is becoming more and more difficult to achieve so when goodluck jonathan arrived this morning this afternoon his statement points to the fact that course realize the situation they're in and both sides has what the other ones 1st of all of course is key to get it and members of his cabinet out of out of the military detention and the military want some form of recognition and easing of tough sanctions against them by of course

and the international community. i huge fire has broken out at a government building in jakarta at least $100.00 firefighters are at the attorney general's building in indonesia's capital the office block houses the headquarters of the indonesian prosecution service jesco washington has more from jakarta this is still a developing situation and it is still not clear what the cause of this fire is now for the facts that we understand the fire broke out around 3 hours ago that's around 7 pm local time we have around 40 fire trucks on the location and around 200 personnel involved in trying to take out this fire we understand that the fire started on the 6th floor of this building and it quickly tore through the rest of the building as you can see the fire is now on all levels of the attorney general's office to put this in context this is one of the most important government offices

in tunisia now we have been told by government spokespeople that all the important documents relating to intelligence relating to on going legal cases went back to but of course this is a hugely important building firefighters will try to get this fire out as quickly as possible but crowd the building here this is it turning into a bit of a scene but crews are working to. sort out the situation as quickly as possible. in the u.s. california's governor has appealed to australia and canada for help to fight hundreds of wildfires nearly 565 as a burning across 2 states after the number doubled in a single day at least 6 people have been killed with dozens of others injured laura birdman really has to me just. stunning pictures of what was like a terrifying drive through the hana c.r.e.o.

of northern california although. these flames. part of a series of wildfires sweeping across the region the largest state seen in nearly 2 decades. there too long to 4000 square kilometers torching homes structures and trees a series nearly 12000 lightning strikes this week sparked the fires california's governor says all firefighters those of the being new to mines and asking for help we now are gage formally with mutual aid from 10 different states we've been on the phone with governors all throughout the united states not just the western states trying to reach out as far as the east coast to see if we can get resources here into the state of california address the stress that we placed on the 12000 plus firefighters that are on the lines as we speak trying to suppress these wildfires all up and down the state of california firefighters are battling day and night

from the air and land in an attempt to limit the destruction as the fire spreads reduces the becoming death california has struggled with the largest number of covered 19 cases in the u.s. and the state is known still often deploying to tackle the fires and its residents on the suffering. tens of thousands of been forced to leave the home many are afraid of what they'll find when they come back by tomorrow maybe you know no more but pretty much arms i'm thinking we're going to lose the house. i'm really worried . over burns down there she gave. pollution monitor showed this week the san francisco bay area is have no worse equity in the world people here say choking i can't get enough air oxygen especially with this mask you have to keep an eye on the lightning strikes the coolth the fires along with the high winds have created the perfect conditions for

these flames and with similar weather predicted in the coming days they'll likely continue to. lure about a man the al jazeera i saw says it's behind an ambush at a scaled 3 russian soldiers including a major general in syria their convoy was attacked while on the road to damascus for a surprise the soldiers were inspecting the damage when a 2nd explosive device went off killing them and injuring several others i just laugh glad it is the 1st russian general with 48 killed in syria since 27000. and in libya the un recognized government has rejected any kind of talks with warlords highly for half time that's despite a ceasefire announced on friday backed by both sides in the country's long running conflict a tripoli based government repeated calls for negotiations with the rival parliament in the east but it's refusing to sit down with have to lose has his power base in

the region the government has already called for early elections in a referendum on the constitution the high council of state a body which advises both rival governments has made forced the need for immediate elections. to know what we also demand the transitional period come to us with in through the referendum on the constitution is a step towards early presidential and parliamentary elections fair and transparent and expressive of all the libyan people the president who counsels invited to solve people's economic problems starting with electricity roads ports and fuel and above all in the corruption that is the kind the state institutionalized we also call for immediate rebuilding of libya's military establishment in advance fashion in random manifestations and disband all militias outside the regular. doctors in kenya's public hospitals are on strike over delayed salaries and poor quality protective gear to treat coronavirus patients police fired tear gas at more than

300 medics demonstrating in nairobi on friday anger is growing all rata geishas that government officials stole millions of dollars in funds for protective equipment at least $700.00 health workers have been infected with the $19.10 have died all the chief of the world health organization has said it would be criminal if funds meant for protective gear 'd are being stolen any level of corruption is unacceptable or any type of court action is unacceptable however good option related to p.p.p. lifesaving for me. it's actually murder because if those workers work without p.p. we are risking their lives and that also risks the lives of the people they said. now for people suffering from dementia restrictions during the pandemic have

deprived them of much needed social contact and routine stimulation and as a may woods reports from southern england as brought new challenges for their keris . out simas has robbed linda a former artist of her ability to communicate and walk on a date and of the future she and her husband john had planned he now does everything for her well and so looking after the couple's daughter who has down syndrome lockdown meant linda's routine had to change and she's been unable to access the specialist daycare center she used to she doesn't recognize people anymore she doesn't. talk as much as she used to talk she but she does talk you can probably hear in the background it's more mumbling. words that don't my kidney since the start a lot down if you want to and i will she would tell you she can't do that now. it's just a general to cheerio ration through lack of mixing with people it's hard to know

whether linda's cognitive decline is due to a natural progression from out simas or months of social isolation or both but dementia charities say her situation is far from unique and people with dementia have been disproportionately affected by cope at 19 with official figures showing the disease was the most common main preexisting health condition and deaths involving kobolds between march and june this year in england and wales at the same time visits to relatives living with dementia inside care homes was stopped to try to hope the spread of the virus around 850000 people in the u.k. are living with dementia locked down and social distancing has been particularly challenging for supper as and i carers and few feelings of isolation and loneliness gather up and given a walk dementia u.k. says. calls to its help line rose sharply during the town lesley is

a specialist to mention helping families like joins in why all that the invisible army all they could care is i think quite often if you know the call often sorry even pretend been i pray looked around. at it and kind of. it can be quite lonely existence and i think look down at that. i think some of the you know areas that have struggled with he's not their needs not being recognised in terms of the level of care that they provide and some of the rest by needs that they have that they've not been able to access linda and her family have faced constant trials since her diagnosis the coronavirus pandemic has led to tens of thousands of deaths the number of those whose lives have been changed and challenged by it though is harder to comprehend and i would. share.

again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera russian opposition leader alexei now bonnie is being treated at a hospital in germany for suspected poisoning after being flown there from siberia he was initially considered too sick by russian doctors to be moved by they change their position late on friday the belo rules he an opposition leader has told al jazeera that the people of her country will never forgive the police for their violent crackdown following the disputed election 2 weeks ago said manotick and ask hey i was in exile in lithuania says the protests will continue until president look i shan't go steps down. that violence that our authorities showed to the russian people i consider to be their greatest mistake and i cool for. authorities not to repeat this mistake because our people the real near are in iraq for good and will give this to our own

president the u.s. house of representatives is meeting to decide whether to give billions of dollars in emergency funds to the postal service before november's election the head of the service is being accused of favoring president trump by tampering with operations to slow the delivery of ballots a delegation of west african leaders has arrived in mali to meet military leaders so ceasefire this week they're expected to push for ousted president ybor a move a cock ated to be freed and reinstated a huge fire has broken out at a government building in jakarta at least 100 firefighters attacking the blaze at the attorney general's building in indonesia's capital the office block houses the headquarters of the indonesian prosecution sevis. those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll be back with the al-jazeera news hour in under 30 minutes inside story starts now.

libya's rival powers call for a new cease fire in the civil war but it's unclear whether the would have to support it so will the truce hold long enough to give peace a chance this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong many ceasefires have tried and failed to and years of conflict in libya but the 2 rival pals appear so if i.