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the program all awfully fast dismisses a cease fire announcement by the un recognized government in libya as a marketing stunt. u.s. president donald trump announces emergency approval for a coronavirus treatment as the country's death toll approaches 180000. and fraudsters fugitives convicted criminals and al jazeera investigation identify some of the foreigners by citizenship in cyprus. or welcome to the program our top story over $100000.00 protesters have taken to the streets of men sq in the biggest act of defiance to demand once again the president alexander lukashenko steps down it marks over 2 weeks of anti-government demonstrations now initially triggered by his declaration of victory in an election the opposition says was rigged the crowd defied warnings of the army being deployed

against them and marched towards the presidential residence status and reports. after a week of threats coming from the shank out this is a reply from the people that live. tens of thousands took to the streets of minsk in defiance the a fear replaced by anger well armed soldiers and police were standing by families with small children shouted the president should step down mrs lowder not then yes some appraisal yes we have passed police several times and we're not afraid anymore and our children are not afraid to using look at shanker now will get the message i don't think she's if he's able to get them answers but i i hope people around here will still be getting these messages more and more and believe in his team and stealing our team why are you not scared. i don't know i just know scared because

you know the good people we all always it could be earlier good villager but they will always i'm. put in a detention vehicle these people are chanting meanwhile also viewed music is coming from the government's loudspeakers along with orders to stop the unofficial gathering of all the us has escaped ordering them to leave the square these people are not going anywhere with the military on standby this is the biggest acts of violence we've seen and balance so far since the disputed presidential vote on august 9th protesters have been in frying the authorities by gathering every day calling for an end to president took a shank us 26 year rule ahead of sunday's rally the ballot rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching that any unless the a monument and statues would not be tolerated at the feet file and crackdown did not happen. on tons of thousands march towards look at shank us

residents on police blocked the road in a what. looked like a scene from a war movie because shango was filmed flying over the city in a helicopter wearing an armed fast together with his 15 year old son in combat gear and the president emerged from the helicopter carrying a rifle. when he thanked police who guarded him at the palace they told him they will stay with him until the bitter and. an end it might just have come a little closer step flatten out as iraq minutes. armed men are fired in the air to disperse protesters in libya's capital.

hundreds of people have been demonstrating against the u.n. recognize government based in tripoli they're angry about collapsing public services corruption and a weak economy protests came 2 days after prime minister pfizer's the raj announced a cease fire in libya's civil war and a spokesperson for libyan war $35.00 to has dismissed that announcement as a marketing stunt on adonis mari's says the truce is actually part of a covert plan to attack us does fight is uncertain i'll just we made no mention of a parallel truce that was announced by the eastern based parliament which is to have to sirte is the gateway to libya's prized oil fields maalik china has more on the story now from misrata. this isn't the 1st time that have to has refused to sign a cease fire agreement back in january the talks sponsored by ancora and moscow brought the warring sides together the g.n.a.s. internationally recognized government tripoli signed the ceasefire agreement after left moscow without signing so and this was when have there was on the outskirts of

tripoli since then have to his forces have been forced to retreat there now in syria g.n.a.t. forces are about 7 our position about 70 kilometers west of sirte it's been it's been quite peaceful for the time being but both sides have sort of been reinforcing their positions in recent weeks now we saw officials from the high state council yesterday in a press conference say that they will not negotiate with have to they consider him to be a war criminal when he was his failed camp is filled can't military campaign to take control of tripoli has caused thousands of lives thousands were killed hundreds of thousands have been displaced their homes destroyed so they don't see him as a partner in peace now what's significant is that this is the 1st time that i get a solid has signed this agreement so whether or not it's also gain traction with have to have to his foreign backers are welcoming the cease fire agreement the

international organization for migration is saying the corpses of $22.00 drowned migrants have been found in libya the bodies were trained by the libyan red crescent off the coastal town of the water and island spokeswoman says the victims might be from a sinking that took place on monday more than 300 refugees and migrants have died while attempting the dangerous sea crossing this yeah. well the governor of sicily has ordered that all migrants and refugees leave the italian island by monday because of fears either coronavirus the order also ban bans migrants from arriving on sicily dozens of migrants in sicily have tested positive and recent weeks for the virus but the vast majority of infections have been among people returning from holiday interior ministry here in rome essentially has said that the regional governments don't have the authority to do that because migration falls under the

purview of the central government and so they say he can't actually carry out this action but the sicilian governessing is saying that he feels that it's necessary to do this because he's not getting enough help from central government or from europe and that he can't exactly guarantee the safety of people on the island and prevent further contagion president donald trump has backed at the session by the u.s. medicines regulator to allow blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients to be used to treat people with covert 19 he said it's proved very effective but no studies of yet confirm that today i'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the joan of errors that will save countless lives the f.d.a. has issued an emergency use of authorization and that such a powerful term emergency use order is a shoe in for

a treatment known as convalescent plasma. this is a. powerful therapy transfuse is very very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection. well let's go to see who's in washington now and as i shall what is the significance of it is that the breakthrough that trump is describing as it suddenly expands access to a treatment that's being tested around the world the theory is you take convalescent plasma that is the liquid that's left behind when you take out the white red blood cells and platelets from bloods and what you're left with is a soup of ingredients including a great deal of antibodies the theory is you then inject the plasma from recovered covert 900 patients into into current covered by 900 patients and the 3 the

preliminary research suggests that if you do that an early stage the figures that were being mention of the press conference are mortality can be reduced by 30 percent 35 percent because the theory is that those that ploughs about them fires up the immune system of if the patient suffering from from covert 1000 gets gets their antibody production up that's interesting because the f.d.a. we understand was supposed to have made a decision like this i don't announce but i guess a couple of weeks ago but then the national institutes of health and dr treat who is the most trusted advisor on covert 19 in the u.s. stepped in and said wait a 2nd we don't have the data yet to do this. within that time though the f.d.a. has decided ok we're going to do this anyway from what we've seen there is no new data what has happened in the interim there is donald trump and members of his administration stepped up attacks on the f.d.a. so that there is a couple of deep states operatives in the f.d.a. who approve venting testing and approval of treatments and vaccines for kovan one

in order to scupper doldrums election charges but the problem is though that going to muddies what is actually a genuine scientific debate should we be expanding access to convalesce and plasma because it has been proven to be effective in the polls with other respect to treat diseases. mers it's shown to be to be not harmful to human beings on the other hand as others have said we don't have the clinical data yet and the problem is that i mean it's true we're seeing promising signs in people but there's no randomized clinical testing so if people get better having had plasma we don't know whether that's because of the possible because they're in a situation where they were getting better health care in the 1st place where they were given being given plasma or they're in a better demographic so without that we won't know whether it's the positive that's that that's being efficacious and now if access is increased enormously we may never know because people don't want to be part of clinical trials where they may get a placebo or. all right thanks very much. in washington. also

the common 2nd part of our program protest as a back on the streets in southern iraq on today's deadline for the local governments resignation expires and at least 13 people are killed in a stampede in korea's capital after nice right in nightclubs for violating coronavirus restrictions. hello the cold and all the when she weather is still across the southeast of australia some cold air coming in behind the system they can see where the most of the clouds with that rain is on its way towards the new zealand but just look at this because people have really been enjoying the snow not just people of course as well you can see it quite a light dusting in clarence in new south wales that fairly unusual there for this time of year meanwhile as we go through monday more clouds around but it should be

mostly dry temperatures a little bit low 12 in melbourne could you see want to scout a child out across the west which is all on the high side and it's also mostly dry as well 21 degrees in perth on tuesday that should come with some nice sunshine how much is that fairing too badly across the southeast still feeling a little bit cool but the winds beginning to ease that you'll see where that rain is it's heading across both islands of new zealand that we had up towards asia now of course heavy rain across northern sections of china but we're watching this in particular this is now typhoon it is moving very slowly indeed so throughout monday it is going to barely move produce torrential amounts of rain across into the ricoh islands it's on its way northward as you can see pushing through the east china sea eventually pushing into more western areas of japan that's where the rain will be meanwhile more rain and thunderstorms across much of the korean peninsula.

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a march through the capital about a ruse demanding president alexander lukashenko step down as the largest gathering the country has seen in recent days despite threats of a government crackdown. our other top stories a spokesperson for the libyan war told me 5 to as dismissed a cease fire announcement by the un recognized government as a marketing stunt. president donald trump is an alice in emergency approval for that covert 1000 victims to be treated with god last month from recall the patients he says it's proved very effective but no studies of that yet. now iran's atomic energy organization is saying last month's fire at the unit towns nuclear facility was an act of sabotage a spokesman for the agency is saying security authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast in jew time much of the natanz facility is underground fire officials said the damage was significant enough to slow nuclear development in ousmane comes a day before the head of the un's atomic watchdog arrives in tehran in an attempt to get access to sites believed to be storing undeclared nuclear material baig is

in town on. well this is the 1st time they were officially admitted that this was an act of sabotage when this incident took place in early july we were 1st told that it was an accident f.-i had taken place then it was revealed that actually there was more damage than previously thought and then we were told that there was considerable damage and it could cause medium term delays for the production of advanced machines by iran so that they would compensate for any delays but creating more capacity now we don't know the exact details of this act of sabotage retold that that will be released by security officials at the appropriate time now this incident did take place over a month ago but was preceded by an explosion east of the near a military base and then there were several incidents fire power plants and also factories which raise suspicions in the country now this isn't the 1st time iran's facilities have been targeted in 2010 the stuxnet virus was discovered at the very

same nuclear facility than the tons nuclear facility which is thought to have caused considerable damage to iran's nuclear program now no one admitted who was behind that but it's largely thought that the united states and israel were behind the virus but the specific details of the how it was carried out we still don't know. southern iraq is facing the prospect of more unrest it's after a deadline set by protests as for the resignation of the local governor expired they have been demanding justice for the killing of prominent activists prime minister must of academy has visited bastra and a bit to find a solution and to give a warning dosage of r e reports. a deadline has come and gone but these protests are still don't have what they want. they had demanded the resignation of governor over the killing of prominent activists for now they say they'll continue to protest.

on saturday prime minister must suffer arrived in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d.c. he met local politicians with the hopes of calming the anger on the streets but he had a warning for those looking to cause trouble either decided he couldn't would you believe this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that is working to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish security employer gun crime i'd like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the government's law they would escape punishment the killers would be brought to justice very soon i would like to tell the criminals who us an aid to the chevron has got seen and the young female dr lloyd will be fighting for justice john 33 year old is the young female doctor prime minister called to me refer to she was a prominent activist investor and let several woman's marches she was killed on wednesday when gunmen with assault rifles riding

a motorcycle opened fire on her car. days earlier godman had shot dead activists seen osama their deaths sparked days of protests and unrest fueled by anger protesters set fire to local government buildings in the southern iraqi city demanding those responsible be brought to justice and calling for the resit. nation of the provincial governor. the recent rise in targeted killings poses a challenge for the new prime minister there have been nearly a dozen attempts on the lives of well known activists this month and 4 have been killed 3 of them in basra the prime minister dismissed the local police chief last week after osama's death in response a number of senior tribal leaders issued a statement saying the armed themselves if the government fails to protect the people this is the worst andress the city has seen since last year's protests which led to the resignation of prime minister the law. is known as the wealthiest

province in iraq it's home to most of the country's oil reserves yet it has some of the worst facilities of public services years of mismanagement and corruption have led to protests on a regular basis this mural of the scene osama the father of 4 who was killed in basra in august 14th quickly went up in tact we're square in the capital shortly after his death and that death is a constant reminder of the risks that activists and protesters face in iraq on a regular basis as the new government tries to bring some stability to an increasingly volatile region dorsetshire bari al jazeera baghdad. at least 13 people have died in a stampede in peru after police there raided a discuss that was holding an illegal party or the 120 people try to flee the club in the capital lima after the officers arrived on scene violation restrictions imposed of the spread curb the spread of the coronavirus daniel shaima reports.

peru has been one of the countries in latin america worst hit by the corona virus pandemic and there are all this. dead and injured grieving relatives and confusion. i felt like i was there thank god i was saved if not i would have ended up like my sister dead their food to guess where everyone was older women who where there were completely scared desperate to get out as everyone has seen the police should have tried to get them out one by one and not move such a large group. neighbors had called police to report a party organized via social media and in contravention of peru's emergency curfew to try to limit the spread of the corona virus was one of them we entered and we were taken by surprise that it was not for. more than $100.00 the police version is that when they arrived at the thomas. neighborhood to break up the illegal gathering the crowd rush for the only exit trapped in

a narrow stairwell they were crushed fixated on. in this police operation or fire in which a gas was used as an information circulating on social media that unfortunately misinformed society police acted in strict compliance with the law we acted professionally. police detained 23 people 6 including 3 police officers were injured family members meanwhile gathered outside the nightclub pleading for explanations thorough it is a working to ensure this latest tragedy does not escalate and. we have been commissioned by the health minister p.l.l. mazetti to carry out rapid tests on all detainees 1st to identify those who are positive and those who are not 2nd we're going to carry out tests on all police because the police were exposed 30 we're going to carry out rapid tests on those who helped or who think they have had contact through has suffered more than 27000 deaths from covered 19585000 infected the authorities began to ease

restrictions in june to help in the qana me that shrunk by 30 percent only to see infections double in the last few weeks that are to 0. well scientists in hong kong are joining the global race for a coronavirus vaccine city is also launching voluntary mass testing next month to combat concerns that a 3rd wave could be starting the government has enlisted the help of medical experts from mainland china but is difficult pollen reports not everyone supports that move. hong kong's latest outbreak was the worst and most widespread prompting the government to impose its trick to social distancing measures here it's proved effective for now but according to the medical community here this will not be the last way for the city. to very smart for ours so is behaving more and more like influence so is likely to be staying with us for

a long story and the way to combat this virus will be by vaccination dr ivan hung is a very religious treating current virus patients at one of the city's main hospitals and is working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully all of vaccine will be able to go into phase one in the coming november the vaccine will be inhaling vaccine it's still in the early stages of development but at least 5 chinese companies are already in phase 3 clinical trials that's the last stage of testing required for approval which means they could introduce a vaccine for public use by early next year for now hong kong's government believes mass testing is the best way to control the spread of the virus or in the past month we've been the only hong kong profitable or trade to be appointed by the whole government for mass community testing so in the past month we've already done 200000 tests and we will continue that with the high cluster areas danny and is the

c.e.o. and co-founder of primitives it's one of 5 companies unlisted to help with mass testing set to begin next month kinetics will continue to focus on high risk clusters all the other 4 companies all subsidiaries of mainland chinese firms who spearheaded the voluntary testing dr hong kong government wants to test at least 5000000 people and about 2 weeks a team of about 60 experts from mainland china that will be leading the process that along with the fact that the majority of the companies. conducting the tests of length across the border is raising concern and suspicion among some groups on sunday activists and local politicians how the news conference calling on people here to be wary of the free government testing offered the moscow testing of the hong kong government is trying to get the data from hong kong people am a prostitute toggles company. that they. want to

target or even stand to be fun china's top 40 the government has dismissed the claims saying that new samples will be sent to the mainland and the globe or trees will not receive any personal information if you go pollen hong kong now to mali where talks of resume between leaders in west african mediators a delegation from the economic community of west african states led by nigeria's fall president goodluck jonathan is pushing for a return to civilian rule soldiers seize power on tuesday and say a transition will happen talks have been held for several hours but the military says it will not return ousted president and the cater to power when out of political developments in israel the prime minister is saying that he won't be calling new elections in a nationally televised address benjamin netanyahu said he had accepted a compromise proposal to extend budget negotiations by 100 days that's in yahoo and

his coalition partner benny gantz had faced a monday night deadline to complete the talks if they'd failed country would have been plunged into its 4th round of elections in less than 2 years. al-jazeera investigation can reveal cyprus has been selling european passports to convicted criminals fugitives and fraudsters largely of possible danger to our investigative unit reveals serious flaws in the island so-called golden possible scheme has generated more than 8000000000 dollars for the government the 1st of our exclusive reports on the cyprus has that birthday this. to become a citizen of the mediterranean island nation of cyprus cost more than $2.00 and a half $1000000.00 among those who've paid that russian businessman of he'd already served a prison sentence for extortion and the chinese investment tycoon junk who had been

jailed for fraud the cyprus papers a large data leak obtained by al-jazeera revealed it to an all 1000 people from 74 countries who bought a cypriot passport. cyprus says it checks applicants have a clean criminal record but we found multiple cases of applicants who wanted by police at the time they was sold cypriot citizenship. was already wanted in ukraine for large scale theft of public funds in june prosecutors displayed the $6000000.00 they said was offered in bribes to end years of investigation into his energy company poor his mum. denies any involvement his cypriot passport allows him to live out of ukraine and he didn't return for questioning. vietnamese businessmen pham that blue won't be using his cypriot passport any time soon he was already facing trial for bribery when he bought it see her.

we found 30 people linked to criminal activity who've bought so-called golden passports allowing them in their wealth to move freely around the e.u. . the passport scheme of cyprus is a risk to security in europe these passports are for high value in particular for people from countries which have a record of economic and political criminality passports and citizenship should not be for sale they are not a commodity the cypriot interior minister told us no citizenship was granted in violation of regulations and the independent committee now studies and evaluates previous applications and a new law can strip citizenship from suspected criminals that shooting clude father and son malek sabet and mehdi ebrahimi they wanted in iran for money laundering and

fraud and facing similar charges in canada but many deny all charges the cyprus papers suggest they're among dozens who may have used their golden passports to evade justice deborah davis al-jazeera london. well you can get more information about the cyprus papers that's an al-jazeera investigation on our website al jazeera dot com. our top story this hour well the 100000 protesters of march through the capital of better roofs demanding again that president alexander lukashenko steps down the largest gathering the country's seen in recent days despite threats of a government crackdown demonstrators saying that because electoral victory earlier this month was fraudulent meanwhile the president himself was seen carrying

a rifle or wearing a bulletproof vest after his helicopter landed at the presidential palace while protesters were outside step mawson has more. there was quite some concern that the protest movement could not survive under this pressure but today is the opposite period and the is proven that the threat. has been in the making and also this scare tactics that he has been using for for over 2 decades they simply don't work anymore people are beyond this kind of fear and those sword so determined to get rid of him that they want to risk everything i was really surprised to be honest to see families with small children showing up at the independence square while military trucks with soldiers armed soldiers so we're standing by but that sort of throw summed up the mood today. a spokesman for libyan warlord relief after has dismissed a cease fire announcement by the un recognized government as

a marketing stunt he says the truce is actually part of a ploy to attack after fighters in certain i'll just press you made no mention of a parallel truce announced by the eastern based parliament ally to have to iran's atomic energy organization says that last month's fire at the natanz nuclear facility was an act of sabotage now much of that enrichment site is under ground in the damage caused by the fire slowed nuclear development in housman comes a day before the head of the un's atomic watchdog arrives in ron. and u.s. president donald trump has announced an emergency approval for that covert 1000 victims be treated with blood plasma from recovered patients he says it has proved very effective but no studies have confirmed that yet the treatment involves transferring antibodies from recovered patients to those who are still suffering from the disease agree. when this is next with a look at sierra leone's 1st and only surf club.

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