onal jersey we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so much of what we use in college or for that matter. explosion on a gas pipeline plunges syria's capital into darkness the electricity minister says much of the country is affected. i know there are more kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the bella ruse president's flights of defiance as hundreds of thousands protest when the biggest rally yet against his rule. iran blames sabotage for an explosion of one of its nuclear facilities but stopped short of saying who is responsible and

. i'm pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the journey of errors that will save countless lives yes president donald trump touts a major advance in the fight against covert 19 the use of blood plasma from recovered patients. to begin with breaking news out of syria there's been a power blackouts in the capital and across large parts of the country after a major gas pipeline explosion these 1st pictures we're seeing of a huge fireball emerging in the past hour or so and seeing these from states t.v. and on social media now the oil minister says the blast happened on the arab gas pipeline that's east of the capital damascus no detail yet a what could have caused the explosion but the minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror we'll be bringing you more on this story as soon as we get.

now there are being warned not to gather and the military was ready but one of the biggest protests crowds yet has packed into the center of his capital the estimates were of around 200000 people as they called for president alexander lukashenko to step down he was flying above in a helicopter clad in body armor and armed with a semiautomatic rifle a correspondent stepped vasant as inmates went. after a week of threats coming from this is a reply from the people of ballarat. tens of thousands took to the streets of minsk in defiance their fear replaced by anger well armed soldiers and police were standing by families with small children shouted the president should step down mrs lowder can use some abrasion yes we have passed police several times and we're not afraid anymore and our children are not afraid to do you think now

will get the message i don't think she's if he's able to get the masses but i i hope people around here will still be getting these messages more and more and believe in his team and stealing our city why are you not scared of the i don't know i just are scared because you know the good people we all always it could be earlier could beleaguered but they will always. put look at shanker 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 all your houses kids are bringing down the looters where these people are not going anywhere with the military on standby this is the biggest acts of violence received and salaries 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 you. rule ahead of sunday's rally the ballad army rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching that any under arrest me a monument and statues would not be tolerated but the fear violent crackdown did not happen. when tens of thousands marched towards local schank us residents on police blocked a road in what looked like a scene from a war movie was filmed flying over the city in a helicopter wearing an armed fast together with his 15 year old son in combat gear than the president emerged from the helicopter carrying a rifle. many thanks police who guarded him at the palace they told him they will stay with him until the bitter and. an end that might just have come a little closer step passon al-jazeera minutes.

consulting fellow for the russia and eurasia program chatham house he says sunday's protests have reinvigorated the opposition. there have been tortures there have been a permit it was all intended to dissuade people from taking up the opposition's cause and in some cases from not agreeing to sign the full selection protocols confirming the book look at sugar so put it all together and yes it is impressive that this many people have come out once again today for all of this time russia has been watching and waiting to see which way the situation would develop but there's another angle to this which is disturbing as well which is in the the stories that president bush into his friend were together about external aggression against bill that was you saw him earlier getting off a helicopter with body armor a little rifle and in a ridiculous pantomime trying to suggest that the country is under attack all of this is exactly what russia does not want to hear and it provides

a pretext for russia to step in should wish to look at is been pointing to the western region of grodno near the borders with poland and lithuania is what he says the the center of where nato and the west is trying to stir up unrest to unseat president and in fact to attack from outside now it just so happens that's exactly the scenario of a huge exercise military exercise with russia and belarus working together took place a few years ago calls up in 2017 where precisely that region was the site of these nato shenanigans and the response was for russia to send in troops to work with belarus to suppress that and then that escalated into a broader conflict is that that kind of playing with blistering up this war rhetoric by look at that we need to be watching out for now. and explains an ethno run in a care facility last month was an act of sabotage that's taken place you know of iran's atomic energy organization but it would not reveal who was responsible as

for its own for the government agency says they will reveal the reason behind the blast at than a tense presidency in juneau course announcement comes a day before the head of the un's atomic watchdog agency arrives in tehran they're hoping to get access to sites believed to be storing undeclared nuclear material tomorrow abdi as the president of the national iranian american council he says there are several reasons why iran has chosen to release this information now. i think the timing is what's most notable as this comes with the i.a.e.a. director headed to iran looking to result some of these outstanding issues with iran and you have the sequence of events. at the u.n. security council last week the united states being shut down in its efforts to snap back sentients on iran and some very tough statements from europe and others and you how do you ron actually say ok we're ready to result some of these difficulties with the i.a.e.a. result some of these questions and now as i hence to iran they're saying our

facilities are being sabotaged by to me it sounds like perhaps a form of leverage or a negotiating point as they try to work with the i.a.e.a. to sort out some of these lingering issues so i think the iranians are are trying to show that look they are paranoid there are legitimate concerns that they have about the security of these facilities and so as they're granting access to that i for other facilities there is this paranoia need to deal with the fact that there are actors out there who do want to sabotage these facilities this also does give the iranians further incentive to bury their or enrichment facilities underground which is one of the main can point of contention during the nuclear talks where iran agreed not to put its facilities in the in the underground the fordo facility and so for iran this is actually an sent an incentive to further hide and bury its facilities that they're not expose these acts of sabotage. here as president donald

trump is hailing the all through as a sign of an election say plasma treatment for cave at 19 as a break during the treatment he says plasma recovered to patients to treat those still sick with the virus but there's no conclusive evidence of its benefits trump announced the famed drug administration had given it the go ahead after accusing it of delaying drugs and vaccines for the virus. that is everybody working together we're years ahead of approvals that we would be if we went by. the speed levels of past administration would be 2 years 3 years behind where we are today and that includes and vaccines of you'll be hearing about very soon very shortly to deliver a true prince and vaccine to save lives were moving unnecessary barriers and delays not by cutting corners but by marshalling the full power of the federal government that's the amish add ons are as a senior scholar at johns hopkins center for health security he says the

president's actions will hurt the response to the coronavirus treatment when people recover from the coronavirus they develop antibodies and what convalescent classman does is takes their blood the portion of their blood that contains those antibodies in transfused that into someone who has corona virus and those antibodies help to neutralize the virus help them recover quicker and this is something that has a lot of biological possibility but we do not yet know whether this works because we don't have randomized control data to show that it is definitively beneficial i believe the president's move will hurt the medical community we were able to get convalescent plasma i've given it to every patient that i needed to give it to i've had no problems giving it to them under expanded use with the f.d.a. what the president's move does is makes it very unlikely that we'll get a randomized controlled trial result so we may end up in the end not knowing whether or not this worked or not now it's not how we want to do medicine we don't want politics to be injected into the f.d.a. it's decisions we every time the president has intervened in this pandemic it isn't

it is actually hurt the response of the pandemic so we saw this with hydroxy clark and we don't want to repeat of this this is actually something that there is a promising signal here and we want to know exactly when to give it and who to give it and the only way we're going to know that is through rigorous randomized control trials and this is going to discourage people from enrolling in the trials because the president has now want to put his finger on the scale so-to speak. the gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand last year is now in court for sentencing as high security for the parents of a stray and brendan tarrant prosecutors say he planned the attacks carefully and intended to burn the buildings down tarrant has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges over the shootings at 2 christchurch mosques faces life in prison. still has hair on al-jazeera out of this week's republican national convention we take a look at what could help or hurt president trump as he tried to woo undecided voters

. and the winners of the european football's champions league all crowned for a 2nd time. hello there it's a fairly quiet weather picture across much of the united states showers and thunderstorms across the east but really is out across the west that we are really focusing on but to kill it is foster california of which there thousands and already over a 1000000 acres have been burned that's 406000 hectares 12000 firefighters fighting these blazes hundreds of homes have been destroyed and about 120000 people have been evacuated from their homes because of the danger you'll notice 3 monday some areas of blue pop up and in fact they spread across areas across the west as well however the danger here is that actually could just cause dry lightning that has

sparked many of these fires so really no change very extreme fire conditions very strong gusty winds but as we go through monday into tuesday this is when her is expected to make landfall into that southern section of louisiana and as you can see no fall behind is laura working its way into those warm waters of the gulf of mexico both of them a bit more detail laura through monday working its way across cuba torrential amounts of rain up to $300.00 millimeters and then through monday marco really pushing across the gulf of mexico and this is expected to make landfall in louisiana late monday on into choose to at which point lower than pushes into these warm waters and it is expected to become a hurricane so 2 storms we'll watch very closely. rewind returns with a new series and brand new updates on the past around to see this documentary take it. easy and cheap easy. to rewind

continues with saving silhouetted seeing the light 10 years later the part of your average person to do so there is no better this is a great motivator for us to keep giving back to these communities on al-jazeera. and again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour a large gas pipeline explosion has caused a major power blackout in syria the oil minister says the blast happened on the arab gas pipeline east of the capital damascus he says it could be an act of terror

. more than 2000 people rallied in the belorussian capital to demand president alexander lukashenko steps down after his contested we election but he's refusing to resign and has deployed the army to respond to any unrest. in the u.s. food and drug administration has authorized the use of plasma therapy to treat covert 19 patients but as no conclusive evidence of its benefits. his present donald trump is hoping to revive his reelection campaign at the republican convention national convention which kicks off on monday during the 4 day events the party will officially nominate him as its cans that for the november poll they hope to energize the base and woo undecided. voters for an election the polls suggest trump could lose complete reports from the white house. for president phone large political rallies the 2020 republican national convention was supposed

to be donald trump's campaign crescendo helping him cruise toward reelection in november. but kovac 19 and social distancing his dash trump's plan to accept his party nomination of thousands of bag a hat wearing supporters. trucks claim of creating jobs has also disappeared as thousands of businesses of closed permanently millions of people are out of work and the stock market has seen historic gains wiped out we did it we built the greatest economy of this to the world the now i have to do it again. you know that is. that's right that's gone testing me truck blames china for not halting the virus but a majority of americans blame him for a mismanaged coronavirus response that hurt trump in the polls with weeks until the

election he trails his democratic rival joe biden. problem is after 4 years in office people now know what to expect from a donald trump administration and it's really tough for people to not think about a reelection campaign or as anything other than incision about the incumbent and so i'm not sure that the playbook that works for trump and 2016 is going to work this year in 2020 with few new ideas some people are accusing the president of employing scare tactics to round up votes and campaign stops trump says if biden is elected taxes and crime will go up the stock market will go down but when it comes to his own campaign promises his vision isn't clear what are your top priority items for a 2nd term but one of the things that will be really great you know the word experience is still good i always say talent is more important experience i've

always said that due to the pandemic most states will allow voters to mail in ballots instead of in person voting trumps arguing with little evidence that mail in ballots are open to fraud democrats say trumps insistence people vote in person during the pandemic is an attempt to suppress the vote with both sides accusing each other of breaking the election results of the 2020 vote are uncertain will tropics upset if he loses as he has always said a whole see what happens on and make a determination aftermath donald trump is counting on the republican convention to inject new life into his lagging reelection bid he's planning multiple appearances before pared down crowds of supporters at a week long event that kicks off in charlotte north carolina and culminates here at the white house on thursday when trump will officially accept the republican

party's presidential nomination kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house. visor kellyanne conway has announced she will be leaving the white house conway was the president's campaign manager in 2016 and stayed on as a senior counselor in a statement she praised trump and said the decision to quit was entirely her own conway was due to speak at the republican national convention this week and it's unclear if she still will. and i lie of election of all he says he believes the russian dissident will survive a suspected poison attack but will be incapacitated for months jacka helps organize the air ambulance which brought novell need to germany is currently being treated in berlin the valley is the latest in a long line of kremlin critics to become seriously ill or die in apparent poisonings. after 2 days of meetings between mali's coup leaders and west african mediators there are reports that the army has agreed to allow

ousted president abraham cater to return to his home in order once a transitional role in leading the country for 3 years soldiers seize power on tuesday and arrested case or after months of anti-government protests talks will continue on monday. all the eco us team and the military officers want the country to move on we have reached a number of agreements but we have not reached agreement on all the issues and we don't want to give you half hearted information we want to make sure we include all the points so that we can give you the information covering everything. i mean address has this update. from all indications they have been some sort of convergence of ideas and agreements on what to discuss and what to achieve i think the direction was gotten after the meeting with president. and with some reports suggesting that their cause was. pushing for the idea of him coming back to power

and probably maybe the president. spoke his mind that prompted the 2nd meeting today that's the feeling right now in bamako as the meeting continue but remember the course meeting there of course delegation was supposed to have met the united nations and the african union by michael then suddenly this meeting came that meeting with the united nations and african union had to be pushed back because of the urgency of the situation speaking with the opposition the m 5 r f b i you come to understand that whatever the case is they don't want to brag but we're going to create a back in power so that is the problem number one in as much as they don't want sanctions and other punitive measures against mali they say they're not going to compromise that they fought for bamboo cater to me for months now it's time for him to go so that a new beginning for mali will start other millions are watching and closely to see

how this affects the generality of money and. southern iraq is facing the prospect of more rest is after a deadline set by protesters for the resignation of the local governor expired they have been demanding justice for the killing of prominent activists prime minister was done to me as in a bid to find a solution and to give a warning those are the reports. a deadline has come and gone but these protesters 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 mostafa 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 to suddenly call in which i mean

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 and prevent crime i'd like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the government's law they would ski punishment on the killers will be brought to justice very soon i'd like to tell the criminals who us an 87 hashimi cutscene and the young female doctor that your blog will be a fight through for justice that 33 year old is the young female dr prime minister called to me refer to she was a prominent activist in basra 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 gutman had shot dead activists seen osama their deaths sparked days of protests and on rest 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 resignation of the provincial. gov donny 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. 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 on august 14th quickly went up in taxpayer 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 dorsets of al-jazeera baghdad libyan warlord haifa have to has rejected the un recognized government's calls for a cease fire his spokesman described as a publicity stunt and has accused the trip administration of planning a turkish back to fence of illicit he assert after us allies including egypt and the rival parliament in eastern libya supported the ceasefire she promised a strain they are hoping the price of wool rises before they go bankrupt given $1000.00 restrictions or just the latest disaster for the multi-billion dollar wool industry to add to problems as a shortage of sharers for 68000000 sheep gage has the story from rural new south

wales. lambing season isn't far all form is sheep and cattle farm on the plains bringing a small sense of normality to an anything but normal few years for david gergen he's been tested by prolonged drought then bushfires in january soon followed by coated 19 that's certainly having an impact on on everything especially the the wall market. that is is collapsing as well and i wonder where we're heading border and trade route closures during a pandemic have devastated prices here with the market's down about 40 percent on this time last year it's also leading to a workforce shortage when millions of sheep need to be she adds hundreds of seasonal shears normally fly in mainly from new zealand respond outside goban is

using local but in other parts of the country there aren't enough the government is trying to find solutions with rising unemployment here rightly adjudicated nonpaying the logical thing to do would be to write more paperwork away for working say that he's happy but it's not that simple of course training takes time to a job that requires skill and if the process is delayed well then it becomes an animal welfare problem. and a financial problem to the process have led to a growing stockpile of wool in storage but this shearing contract says for many whiting for high a process isn't an option then i'd have money coming in i cheated by the bill. and that's one of the river on the low i don't have any that's i'm either one of the right or incomes as trade tensions between australia and china increase with the restrictions imposed on australian beef imports as well as high tariffs on bali

about 90 percent of the strike rule is currently exported to china for food. stage process see everything from the carpets rebuts made each other have very strong and constructive relationship and also not rosen that chimes in the new year or the distant future but the industry's offload looking at diversifying with some experts concerned it relies too heavily on chinese by david gergen he spoke to says on producing world quiets will to keep his farm in business nicola gage al-jazeera regional new south wales more lightning is forecast in california causing concern it could spark more wildfires more than 400000 hectares have already been burned in the past week at least 6 people have been killed with nearly 700 buildings damaged president trump has now signed a major disaster declaration which means more resources can be allocated to help the nearly 14000 firefighters battling the blazes. thousands of

people are bracing as to say dorms sweep through the caribbean and up towards the gulf of mexico hurrican marco which has been downgraded to a tropical storm is expected to make landfall in the u.s. state of louisiana sometime on monday people living in low lying coastal areas have been ordered to evacuate and tropical storm laura is making its way through the region leaving behind a trail of destruction at least 3 people were killed in the dominican republic power has been knocked out for thousands of people their principal season has finally come to an end with buy a new nick winning europe's biggest club trophy for a 6th time. fans in germany celebrated the one nil victory over paris and your man which supplies in the portuguese city of lisbon without supporters by enjoy in liverpool as 6 time champions league winners only real madrid and ac milan have won the title more

times. well there weren't many celebrations to be had in paris please his take us to break up a crowd of disappointed fans they'd been letting off fireworks probably spend some even a car was set on fire by people angered by the team's defeat. without zira these are our top stories a large gas pipeline explosion has caused a major power blackout in syria the oil minister says the blast happened on the arab gas pipeline east of the capital damascus he says it could be an act of terror more than 200000 people have rallied and the better russian capsule to demand president alexander lukashenko stepped down after his contested reelection but he's refusing to resign and has deployed the army to respond to any on rest iran's

atomic energy organization says last month's fire at the natanz nuclear facility was an act of sabotage but didn't say who is responsible the government agency says authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast and to course announcement comes a day before the head of the un's atomic watchdog agency arrives in tehran. the u.s. food and drug administration has authorized the use of plasma therapy to treat cave in 1000 patients but has no conclusive evidence of its benefits that is everybody working together we're years ahead of approvals we would be if we went by . the speed levels of past administration would be 2 years 3 years behind where we are today and that includes in vaccines that you'll be hearing about very very shortly to deliver true bechstein to save lives were moving the necessary barriers in delays. not by cutting corners but by marshalling the full power of the federal

government. key trump advisor kellyanne conway has announced he'll be leaving the white house she was the president's campaign manager and 2016 stayed on as a senior counselor in a statement she praised trump and said the decision to quit was entirely her own. after 2 days of meetings between mali's q. leaders and west african mediators there are reports the army has agreed to allow ousted president abraham cater to return to his home was a once a transitional role in leading the country for 3 years. by munich has won europe's biggest club trophy for a 6th time the game to base in lisbon without any supporters in the stands. there's a headline some people back with more news here on al-jazeera that's after rewind. jordan has one of the blades higher starbase you know maybe a taking up the fox against bats for military style white not too bright and

surgery one o one a steam best against as the chinese battle to get in shape on al jazeera. hello and welcome again to rewind i'm elizabeth purana here on the wall and we're drawing on a decade of award winning documentaries and finding out how the story has moved on sentence today be revisiting a moving series which followed doctor's work against the odds in the south african township of soweto and once home to nelson mandela so what he was at the forefront of the country's anti-apartheid struggle back in the 1970 s. hundreds died.