sanctions but resisted or stand on the sidelines and allow this embargo on iranian. arms shipment shipments to iran to agree to it i think is outrageous that means that this regime will get tanks and aircraft and missiles and anti-aircraft defenses to continue its its campaign of aggression throughout the region in the world it's just absurd so i want to congratulate you for standing there we stand with you i have to say that quite a few years ago i had to stand sometimes alone in publicly. rejecting the j c p a way and alerting the world on iran's aggression that obviously changed with. the inauguration of president trump and everything that you've done since but i think it's important to point out that today we heard gulf countries countries in the gulf speak out as forcefully as i'm doing now and i think that i would

suggest to our friends especially our european friends this point that when arabs and israelis agree on something it makes sense to pay attention so congratulations understand under snapback and your overall opposition to iran's aggression and its quest for nuclear weapons the 2nd thing that has happened. is equally as stark and that is the achievement of the israeli. peace agreement the creation of full normalization between israel and the united arab emirates this is been brokered by president trump with your assistance and it has been a boon to peace and to regional stability i think it holds a new era where we could have other nations joint we discuss this and i hope we'll

have good news in the future maybe in the near future. i think it makes sense we have 2 of the most advanced economies in the world. brimming with innovation israel in the u.a.e. it's a natural fit and the support of the united states makes this. i think something with international ramifications this is the alliance of the moderates against the radicals against those who use. violence and aggression to further their aims against those who believe that we can offer a better people a better future for our people through cooperation it's. i think it's it spells a change in the middle east it's the 1st time in a quarter of a century that we have a peace agreement and i want to thank again the president and you and your administration for helping bring it about i have to. say simply that this deal did

not include israel's. acceptance of any arms deal and i don't know of any arms deal that has been agreed upon may be contemplated our position hasn't changed but i also learned from. secretary pompano. heard again a very very strong commitment that under all circumstances the united states will ensure israel's qualitative edge that has been proved to be true over 4 decades of peace with egypt to have their kids of peace with jordan united states stood by that commitment and i know i have no doubt that it will continue to do so so mike i want to thank you for your friendship and for your support in the quest for peace and security which were actually achievement thank you and welcome and thank you i thank you mr prime minister thanks for the warm welcome it is it's

great to be back again as you said that i'm a frequent visitor here and each time we build on the relationship about our military relationship that gets focused on our security relationship but also our economic. listen ship to building out opportunities we talked about chances for countries to work together as the whole world tries to push back against this virus that came from we'll hunt china and i'm confident there are places which are our medical systems and pharmaceutical companies will build out a good solution to keep by israelis americans and people all across the world a safer and healthier in the weeks and months ahead. i appreciate your support present trumps make clear iran will never have a nuclear weapon and we are determined to use every tool that we have to ensure that they can't get access to high end weapons systems air defense systems the ones that the prime minister spoke of we think it's in the best interest of the whole world many of these leaders tell me so privately it's time to stand up time to

publicly account for the fact that iran is on the cusp on october 18th of having access to those weapons and the money that will come from their sale of those weapons that will be used to inflict real harm not only in the middle east but in europe as well and so i'm confident that will achieve that and i welcome israeli and gulf states support for our effort the people most impacted by iran having weapons systems are all in favor of this arms embargo being extended the rest of the world should join us. we had a chance to i want to come here today in part to congratulate the prime minister will travel to the emirates to meet with them and congratulate them to what's taken place here is deeply consistent with what president trump set out to do create a more stable more prosperous middle east this is a really good step in that direction economic relationship between the emirates opportunities for innovation and science travel between these 2 places will now be open and that's important that's important to create between israel and this arab

state this opportunity. the prime minister spoke to the security commitments that were made. the united states has a legal requirement was back to qualitative military edge we will continue to honor that but we have a 20 plus year security relationship with the united arab emirates as well where we have provided them with technical assistance and military assistance we will now continue to review that process to continue to make sure that we're delivering them with the quick meant that they need to secure and defend their own people from this same threat from this islamic republic of iran as well we are deeply committed to doing that to achieving that and will do in a way that preserves our commitment to israel as well i'm confident the both of these objectives can be achieved and i've watched and watched over these last days as they were the 1st inklings of the benefits you were telling a story about a young person playing piano i think we'll see stories like this as i traveled through the rest of this trip i'm very hopeful that we will see other arab nations

join in this the opportunity for them to work alongside to recognize the state of israel and to work alongside them will not only increase middle east ability but improve the lives and each of them for the people of their own countries as well. we talked a little bit about the challenge that the chinese communist party presents to the entire world i think the world is now seeing this and then lastly president trump told me i would be remiss if i didn't once again say thank you for all that you have done to work alongside us to keep the security to keep this relationship built . we've done our part in moving the embassy here by recognizing the reality of what the golan heights is by acknowledging. that the settlements are not per se unlawful these are the kinds of things that nations can do together to work to increase the security and stability for our 2 countries and for the region as well it has been a great relationship it will continue to be a great relationship and it was an honor for me to be with you here again today mr

prime minister thank you you came on a day when the mask on theodore. as it's right behind you there has been removed but the. secretary spoke about cooperation covert we just had an interesting discussion about the united states obviously is leading the world in this effort is rose making its own network we are exploring now the possibility of combining on everett's joining. in ways to find both a vaccine and other ways to alleviate this horrible disease and this isn't any other field we have no friends in the united states of america thank you mr thank you tess from high street. even watching a press conference by the u.s.

secretary of state might pump a 0 and the israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu might come peo is in jerusalem at the start of a 5 day middle eastern 2 of which is focused on israel's normalizing of ties with the united arab emirates and these are attempts to push other arab states to follow suit these are pictures just from now lou of the 2 men walking into the podium before the start of this press conference we heard benjamin not to and that's in yahoo commiserating essentially with my pump a 0 on the fact that the u.s. administration last week had attempted to take a controversial step at the u.n. security council triggering the restoration of international sanctions on iran but that was rejected by 13 of the 15 council members but also talked about there are a wide variety of different things including the apartment perceived threat from iran from china the reaction to covert 19 i want to bring in harry fawcett who's live for us in west jerusalem just give us some of the background as to why this

particular trip is being managed. well yeah i mean that there are several reasons i think for the u.s. administration that one as you heard from from both men then was to emphasize the common interests in the region both on combating iran as they see it trying to buttress more support for the u.s. position and the israeli position to extend arms embargoes and get the snap back of the j c.p.o. a deal in place despite the fact of course the united states pulled out of the j c p o e p o a iran deal also to talk up what has just been done between israel and the united arab emirates in terms of the normalization deal and as you heard from pump a 0 to try to to persuade more such countries to follow through to follow suit he will be traveling to sudan to buff rein and to the u.a.e.

on this trip potentially other countries as well and for the u.s. administration it's also an opportunity to talk about what has been done so far in terms of moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital the recognition of the golan heights the recognition he just talked about as far as the united states is concerned that settlements aren't per se illegal despite the fact that as far as international law is concerned there's a broad consensus that they are it's worth noting that this is the 1st day of the republican national convention in the united states later on on monday and controversially pompei will be making a speech from here with a backdrop of jerusalem into that convention remotely that isn't something that's been done in the past by u.s. secretaries of state went on official government business abroad so that's potentially why he was emphasizing those points at the end of his remarks just now perry thanks very much indeed that's how the foresaid live for us in west jerusalem

. well power is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity firefighters have now put out the blaze on the arab line north east of the capital damascus and this was the scene a few hours ago that are no details yet on what may have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror well let's take a closer look at where the blast happened the 1200 kilometer out of gas pipeline delivers natural gas to syria from egypt it fuels power stations in southern syria the explosion hit a section of the pipeline between the tons of. around 30 kilometers from damascus that caused a drastic drop in gas pressure to nearby power stations causing some shut down. was in a halt is joining us live now from beirut she's been following the story understands in the u.s. syria envoy james jeffrey has said it was almost certainly

a strike by i saw of course that's one of the other names for i so that seems to be tallying up with what the minute that the government is saying in syria but do we have any evidence yet to support those claims. well syrian authorities the syrian minister oil suggesting that this in fact was a terrorist attack he did not provide any further information he didn't point the finger at any particular group and so far there has been no claim of responsibility you mentioned that the fire has since been put out and the electricity being restored but in the early hours of the morning an explosion on that main gaz a pipeline the area is under the control of the syrian government in fact there is no rebel presence for miles the closest rebel position or it's further

south and in the province of that but even there there's a low. level insurgency and it is the government which has the upper hand now of course there is i so i so is the president further east closer to the border with iraq in central syria or an area known as the bad so james jeffrey said just think that this is the work of beisel the syrian government saying this is a terrorist attack but without providing further information. this is all happening with the backdrop of a meeting of the syrian constitutional committee which is happening in geneva now just talk us through what's happening there. well that's where geoffrey made his statements that u.s. special envoy to syria is in geneva he's not taking part in the u.n. constitutional committee meetings but holding meetings on the sideline in his words we are attaching a lot of importance to the u.s. political process the u.s. led political process has made little progress really over the years and the u. n.

special envoy peterson made it clear that they're not expecting any breakthroughs this time around but jeffrey statements a few days ago he was pointing to the fact that the syrian regime is under a lot of pressure this time around the u.s. impose further sanctions more strict sanctions not just on the regime but anyone who works with the regime anyone who enriches the regime it includes its allies so what the u.s. has done really is preventing any country from engaging with the regime or helping in the reconstruction efforts so right now there is a belief on the part of the u.s. administration that. the syrian president is in a corner and so are his allies so some concessions will have to be made the meetings will last until the end of the week we're going to have to wait to see whether or not anything tangible will come out this time around zain thanks very

much that's in a whole a lot for us and. the gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand last year has faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom day one of brenton tongue sentencing hearing has begun with hotaling accounts from survivors and families of some of the victims talent has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges it could be had a new zealand's 1st life sentence without parole when he reports. under heavy security brenton terence was flown by the new zealand air force back to christchurch the city where he inflicted so much pain on so many since the attack the australian has been held in a maximum security prison in oakland where once the sentences handed down he's likely to spend the rest of his life there was also tight security at the court where terence will sit for the next few days facing and listening to the victims and their family members i did go on but. he will

always be in the lives of our lives. and we will. use his son was one of 44 people killed during friday prayers at the el nor mosque where terence began his assault with 6 high powered guns he then drove across town to the lynwood mosque and killed 7 more before he was arrested he streamed the attacks on the internet and did earlier uploaded a manifesto detailing his obsession with white supremacy and his hatred of muslims the court heard he wanted to inflict as many fatalities as possible and burn down the mosques afterwards he'd studied the floor plans in advance and targeted the mosques when he knew they would be busy the planes time to ensure it was to ensure the mix of the number of wishes would be present if it analyze the mosque layouts to the tune likely exit routes fleeing wish it was lost. survivors spoke of his

failure to achieve his goal of spreading hate and selling divisions. more. after a surprise guilty plea in march terence sentencing was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions despite the lack of a trial the judge said he wanted those affected to have their say in court to help bring finale and closure that painful process is underway and dissent and is likely to be handed down on thursday when hey al jazeera to opposition politicians have been detained in belo loose women comes a day after one of the biggest anti-government protests in modern history and these are live pictures of an opposition press conference which is being held in the city of many square at the moment while we're waiting for more details of those opposition politicians those opposition leaders i should say who have been

detained and we understand that they may have happened in a factory close to the city of minsk but details are somewhat sketchy there has been this very large opposition rally which was held yesterday in the center of which there was a significant security presence nevertheless tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets particularly in independence square in minsk to oppose the presidency. of president alexander lukashenko whom they are demanding should stand down after 26 years in power and we can now go to our correspondent who is live for us in minsk step what more do we know about these 2 opposition leaders who've been arrested. well this morning they were arrested when they were at this truck the factory in minsk on this factory has played quite a big role ledger in the photo as there were a lot just strikes they are going to be basically been leading the strikes also in

this in the last couple of weeks they were just picked up a bar you know riot police when they were standing outside a lot of them is the leader of this strike us who has become the leader of the national strike i would say and he is working at this track factory on the autobahn is a campaign manager for that man at the time of sky so both members of this consulate which consists of 7 people who are basically. saying the transitional government. they say has lost the elections them out preparing some kind of sensation for new elections that can be fair and free and being observed by the national observers look at shanghai has already. we appear to have lost our signal from them in school instead of us and we will try and get step back for future programs for now let's move on to the russian doctors who 1st treated opposition leader and i see no vonnie say they're responsible for saving his life

is being treated in germany after being flown from a civilian hospital in an induced coma on saturday doctors there say they gave an avanti the correct treatment and no poison was found in his system apart and points things have killed or severely 2nd to many kremlin critics. an inquiry by al-jazeera as investigative unit has found the government of cyprus sold passports to senior officials and politicians who are classed as high risk for money laundering and corruption by the european union the findings are in the cyprus papers a large scale leak of documents obtained by al-jazeera and our 2nd report endeavor debuts reveals the country made millions of dollars selling citizenship against corruption rules. fighting in the afghan parliament that began after the narrow election victory of may rahman romani the speaker of the lower house he's a former general who became a businessman. what's not been public until now is that 2 years earlier romani paid

2 and a half $1000000.00 to buy himself and his family so-called golden passports from cyprus that among 2 enough 1000 names we've seen in confidential government papers many new cypriot citizens hold official positions in countries where the original citizenship makes it difficult for them and their money to move freely around the world mohammed jimmy ill c.e.o. of his family's business empire is a member of saudi arabia's general investment authority. heads his family company and sits on the saudi arabian monetary authority as an elected or appointed state representative they defined as politically exposed persons or peps on the international financial regulations definition includes relatives. so tom

mccarthy is a pap as brother of the former lebanese prime minister najib mikati even if an individual is honest being a pet is considered a legal liability risk of being corrupt or corrupting others you have access to public resources sitting on a government contract and be no inclination to make decisions in that sense. and. we've identified more than 2 dozen high level political figures from russia ukraine kazakhstan china and vietnam as well as the middle east who've already paid for citizenship hussein el new ways represented the united arab emirates in foreign trade deals and moved in influential circles as a pep he now be banned from buying a cypriot passport under tighter rules on who is fit to be a citizen nicholas norris the interior minister said cyprus was functioning in

absolute transparency but he didn't explain why pepsi of already bought passports would be allowed to keep them deborah davis al-jazeera london more findings from the cyprus papers will be revealed through the week here and on al-jazeera dot com in part 3 we're going to be looking at how more than a 1000 russians have bought cypriot pos boards in the last 3 years and includes business leaders close to putin and those wanted for corruption fraud on money laundering that's on tuesday from 10 g.m.t. here on al-jazeera. 2 explosions in the southern philippines have killed at least 10 people several of those injured in the town of jolo in sulu province initial reports say a homemade bomb on a motorbike exploded close to military vehicles there's been no claim of responsibility jamila onondagas live for us in manila obviously there is this is an area which is under ongoing tension why are these these attacks happening.

well that is actually the question you know rob this area is a highly militarized area if not the most militarized area in the philippines this is home to at least 5 armed groups and these particular explosions today happened just as cheap away from whole look at the age old which was also attacked early last year by armed groups which left at least 20 people dead now that attack last year was claimed by a group linked to i still which pledged allegiance to i so though this particular attack there's been no claim of responsibility or any group only up to this attack but local militia officers say that the 2nd bomb was actually detonated by a female suicide bomber this happens at a very difficult time at a time when just a few months ago for intel officers who were reportedly going after suspected bombers were killed as point blank range by local police officers there as many

hearing last week where in fact police accuse one of the members of the in the officers killed to have been involved with drugs but there is a question as to whether the killing of in the officers has actually left a vacuum of critical intel operation or information needed to prevent these particular attacks today in this area of the law has a very high level of insurgency and at this week as well many are questioning the timing because this week there are also several change of command of the local military officers on the ground here. she melon dorgan bringing us up to data from manila jamila thank you very much indeed like lives matter protesters in the united states are enraged by a video of another police shooting. officers a scene shooting

a black man 7 times in the back jacob lake is seriously hurt in hospital an overnight curfew was imposed in connection in wisconsin state governor says he stands against the use of excessive force on black americans talks are due to continue aimed at solving mollies ku crisis after months of anti-government protests the soldiers seized power on tuesday and arrested president evil him hoover car after 2 days of meetings between coup leaders and west african mediators military commanders are reported to be considering allowing him to return home the army also wants a transitional role in ruling money for 3 years ahmed address is following developments from the nigerian capital abuja he's joining us live is there any indication that this is actually some sort of breakthrough or is it bit too soon to make those assumptions. well since the 2nd start of the 2nd day of talks between the 2 sides it's clear that some progress

has been med between the 2 sides 1st of all like you said the fate of your private cater a lot of people. it's told the forecast now is not to get but we could get about to power but to get him out of prison and even him he himself may be thinking that because of the growing protest against his rule especially in the last few months it will be hard for him to go back to the presidential palace and govern money the way it is now the 2nd question is the transition program which is rumored to be 3 years as the military has put it before eco us. it's a very complex situation. i don't know how long will be a course will be willing to allow them to to rule in a transition a role but the biggest challenge could come from the m 5 movement which is eager to

return to democracy as quickly as possible and this is a group that has campaigned vigorously to push. to out of power and also to welcome the military with open arms they would be some form of reactions when the military's tries to state beyond a reasonable timeframe that the opposition think it's possible for them to set up elections and conduct a free and fair elections in mali so these are the ground rules that have been treated and then the question of whether or not a course will lift sanctions has also been on the table since yesterday. then you move into the rulers wanted a course to leave those sanctions although of course shown some flexibility by exempting medicines and food not affected by the ban placed on on mali because of the cool now what happening today is the continuation of talks

between the 2 sides to sort out those critical issues that could lead to a final agreement before the delegation moves back and grieve their course it's a state about the progress men but the most important thing all important thing to notice is that it. may not be returning to the presidential palace the editor is bringing us up to date from the nigerian capital abuja on the aftermath negotiations of the mali who on it thanks. it's time for the weather he's robert macneil we know a couple days ago you were telling us that we were going to be following these 2 storms that are heading to the gulf where are we with those we still for our fall in the be several hours overlap with something we haven't seen for 60 years and they're both in the gulf of mexico at the moment they just look like masses of cloud and they are curiously their effect is the opposite way round to the one you may think lower is normal concentrate on 1st a tropical storm which will probably slowly grow will come to market which was the

hurrican is slowly dying now so this is the one probably 2 to watch and in the last few hours it's crossed from haiti to was eastern side of cuba tropical storm winds are what define a snail's tropical storm the $100.00 his is generating waves of 4 meters and it's got this rain potential for jamaica and cuba 3 to beaches the turks and caicos and the cayman islands further out all the less rain but that amount of rainfall and quickly does does this sort of damage this wasn't dominican republic as it went through down the southwestern side of course the other side of the audi's haiti and we had similar sort of problems with fast flowing water and landslides and that's usually what causes trouble i think 8 deaths from this so far is going to spend the rest of today doing a similar sort of thing as it goes up the coast of cuba possibly slowly growing but that laura still too into the gulf of mexico markers but it for a while i was a hurricane been downgraded to

a tropical storm and later on today local time evening probably will make landfall somewhere west of new orleans in louisiana this thing again fairly windy but it's the storm surge and the rain i think will be the biggest problem and as it does this and goes on to the texas coast rain will continue to be the big problem. that's not it we're talk about laura a few hours time rob rob thanks very much indeed. still ahead on our visit our bosses at mining giant rio tinto lose their bonuses over the destruction of sacred original sites in this trailer but critics say it's an empty gesture. and in sport back on top of the world it's golfer dustin johnson wins by 11 shots in boston. meet maria driven by poverty into prostitution and drugs an early age now as a mother she's turning her life around with the help of

a theater group of colombia women fighting the challenges they face. was compelling series which showcases fresh filmmaking talent from around the globe if you find a lot in america presents acting lessons on al-jazeera. more than 7 decades ago a country was split into we begin with dick cheney and now the time. being all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood.

i want to know it is either a reminder of our top stories this the gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand last year as face survivors of his attacks in a courtroom families recounted how doing experiences a brenton town sentencing hearing. was gradually being restored in syria after a gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without any tricity firefighters managed to put out the blaze in the arab gas line northeast of the capital damascus. u.s. secretary of state might bump aoa has met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel he's promoting the u.s. brokered deal between israel and the u.a.e. to normalize ties compares says the u.s. will and i would view arms sales to the u.a.e. . the chief executive of mining company rio tinto will lose his $3500000.00

bonus over the destruction of an ancient rock formation in western australia the yukon gorge caves were blown up in may to expand an iron ore mine rio tinto released an internal review saying they had authority to blast the caves but neglected its own guidelines and standards the company's chairman described the destruction as failure to respect the heritage of local communities where the caves are of ancestral significance to the pinnacle or and code a modern indigenous community the 46000 year old site is one of the earliest known to have been occupied by aborigines the cultural importance of your congo it was confirmed by an archaeological dig carried out just before the blast the dig uncovered the oldest known example of bone tools in australia including a sharpened kangaroo bone 28000 years old and planted here with d.n.a.

linked to people still living in the area. well james fitzgerald is legal counsel of the australian center for corporate responsibility is joining us live from sydney by skype thank you very much indeed for being with us so these bosses are living leaving millions of dollars in bonuses behind is that going to be enough to satisfy the people. look i don't think it's a question of. punishing the executives a question of ensuring this sort of thing doesn't happen again and the view of many including those who designed rio tinto is very good systems in operation plus 20 bodies would say that. the company is lacking the essential top down leadership on these issues and so that you can go tragedy is likely to be why not it's more likely to be a harbinger of the future while the current senior management is in place the management of the company has put statements out on those websites basically saying that it got it wrong and it will to do its very best to make sure this doesn't

happen again but how can one monitor something like this because one would assume that there were guidelines in place to begin with that was were designed specifically to prevent this kind of thing. yes stratus suffers from substandard cultural heritage protection laws that's not my opinion it's being acknowledged by most governments. and. therefore it is up to large and reputable companies to commit to international normative standards like the united nations god of principles like the united nations declaration the rights of indigenous people and to what he had to those stain that's what we have in a stroller at the moment is a situation where miners are enjoying and taking advantage of the substandard protection laws while trumpeting their performance under these various international standards and you know really that they've got to stop walking on

both sides of the street they can either have the good standards or they can get away with what the law. i decided as a parliamentary committee that's looking into this demolition what would you like to see come of that. the parliamentary committee is doing a very good job it will meet again on friday. the chair warren entsch has indicated that 1st of all i think he's language was. that it beggars belief. that rio tinto. management system mainz that there is nobody responsible. no single person responsible and the chair has said he's going to seat as long as it takes to get to the bottom of this issue that what we've seen in rio tinto is board led reviewed it's a great opportunity for the company to look deeply transparently at all of the issues but in fact really they've given in to the temptation to present

a public relations exercise a continuation of the submissions to the parliamentary inquiry where they're simply saying look you know a lot of bad things happened over 10 years it's nobody in particular is fault now that's just not good enough and the parliamentary committees indicated that they going to go further and by organization i say see i would really agree with the committee's chair in that regard james fitzgerald is from the australian center for corporate responsibility thank you very much for being with us on our visit. you're very welcome thanks for having me the us president is handing the authorization of an emergency plasma treatment for covert 19 as a breakthrough and uses the plaza of recovered patients to treat virus patients but there's no conclusive evidence of any 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 if you'll be hearing about very soon very shortly to deliver treatments and vaccine to save lives we're moving unnecessary barriers and delays. not by cutting corners but by marshalling the full power of the federal government hong kong is joining the global race for a coronavirus vaccine and voluntary mass testing is being launched next month to combat what's seen as a 3rd wave of infections medical experts from mainland china are arriving to help but they're not welcomed by everyone so if you go reports. hong kong's latest outbreak was the worst and most widespread prompting the government to impose its sick to social distancing measures here it's proved effective for now but according to the medical community here this will not be the last week for the city overnight hours is a very smart virus so is behaving more and more like influenza so

it's 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 it's working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully our own vaccine will be able to go into phase one in the coming november and the vaccine will be inhaling connel 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 over in the past month we've been not only hong kong profitable or tried to be part of idaho government or mass community testing on 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 in about 2 weeks a team of about 60 experts from mainland china will be leading the process that along with the fact that the majority of the companies conducting the tests have links across the border it's raising concern and suspicion among some on sunday activists and local politicians how the news conference calling on people here to be wary of the free government testing offered the mass testing of hong kong government is trying to get the data from hong kong people and they passed to

chinese companies and so we have read that they. wanted money or even sent to the fun chinese top 40 the government has dismissed the claims saying that no samples will be sent to the mainland and the laboratories will not receive any personal information if you go pollen hong kong. china says it supports the company owning tech talks decision to sue the us government president on trump has banned the chinese tech from bug dances popular video up from operating beijing accuses washington of bullying successful tech companies that aren't american. notchy china supports relevant companies in taking up legal weapons to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests some u.s. politicians are working to kill chinese companies like take talk with jess and walk away that's because they are down with an empty china syndrome the misconduct of

susan u.s. politicians against talk and other enterprises is actually economic bullying against a north american companies that have gotten an age in susan areas. one of dawn chong's main advisors is leaving the white house on conway was his campaign manager in 2016 and stayed on as a senior counselor in the statement she praised the president and said the decision to quit 3 months before his reelection bid is entirely her own and donald trump is hoping the republican national convention will give a boost to his reelection chances the republicans will officially nominate the president as candidate for election day in november as he trails democratic challenger joe biden in opinion polls can be holcombe to ports from the white house . for president march political rallies the 2020 republican national convention was supposed to be donald trump's campaign crescendo helping him cruise toward reelection in november. but covert 19 and

social distancing. plan to accept his party nomination for the thousands of bag a hat wearing supporters. trucks claim of creating jobs has also disappeared as thousands of businesses have 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 and now i have to do it again. you know that is. that's right that's good testing me truck blames china for not halting the virus but a majority of americans blame him for a mismanaged coronavirus response that's 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 than 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 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. lightning is forecast in california increasing fears of sparking more wildfires 6

people have been killed nearly 700 buildings damaged a large areas of land have been scorched in the past week president obama signed a major disaster declaration to give more help to around $14000.00 firefighters battling the blazes sabotage is being blamed for an explosion at an iranian nuclear facility last month but iran's atomic energy organization isn't saying who was responsible for the blast at natanz the head of the un's atomic watchdog agency is due in iran hoping to visit sites suspected to be storing undeclared nuclear material. israel's army has launched more strikes into the gaza strip for the 11th day in a row it's in retaliation for what israel says are makeshift fire bombs being launched across the border by hamas that the palestinian group that governs gaza there's really army says it targeted hamas infrastructure in the southern town of all quote out of the health of japan's prime minister is again causing concern after

a 2nd medical checkup within a week they didn't give details about the 7 and a half hour exam but he says he's taking care of himself the 65 year old cut short his 1st time in office 2 to a bone disease. this issue not today i want to enquire in detail about the results from last week's examinations and additional tests were conducted i will do my absolute best to maintain my physical condition and i will continue to do my best work. i just had an inspection and a reexamination today so regarding this i would like to speak about it at another time. archaeologists are excited to discovering one of the largest ever batches of ancient coins in israel 425 gold coins date back to the early islamic opposite period more than a 1000 years ago the empire was the 3rd islamic caliphate to succeed the prophet muhammad on controlled north africa and western asia. just ahead on al-jazeera in sports basketball likes of the n.b.a.

playoffs including a dramatic victory for the dallas mavericks. it's

time for the sport and here's joe rob thank you by munich have clinched their 6th european title after beating paris sunshine in the champions league final the german champions secured a one mil victory through former p.s.g. player kingsley homans header in the 59 minutes in lisbon the win also gives buying a new critic's treble having already clinched the german cup and bundesliga titles

. mr. i have to say that you don't just win 3 titles overnight it was hard work i remember in november the papers wrote that no one fears this bind team anymore that no one respects it and how bad they are i think the growth they underwent is sensational there's a nice saying which goes success is and we rented and the rent has to be paid every day this is something the team shows every day with the attitude on the pitch. was. fired stand celebrated on the streets and in cafes in munich they thanked fancy flicks for leading the team to the treble this was also the 1st time in the competitions history the final took place without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. the mood was very different in paris where riot police made 148 arrests as p.s.g. fans clashed with offices here police raided

a bar to remove sons who were watching the game without wearing masks also short distance saying it was the 1st time paris such a man had played in the final and the head coach felt terrible about the loss. we should treat if you use i'm very proud i've already told the team that it's always the worst feeling in the world to lose a final like that but i lost the final with 2 teams that really deserved to be in the final. well barcelona lost out on a place in that final to buy in munich and there's been more bad news for the spanish club the new signing their olympian it has tested positive for corona virus the boston moved to boston from the eventis as part of a deal agreed in june bos to say he's isolating at home and feels well but he won't be able to join them for another 15 days. to the n.b.a. playoffs now and the l.a. clippers thought they'd done enough to beat the dallas mavericks they were leading by a point with seconds remaining but then this happened and i

think i stated yeah an incredible finish by luca dunn church who scored $43.00 points and crucially tied up the 7 game series at 2 each we had confidence in the beginning you know obviously it's confidence even more now but we have processed as an error from the beginning like i said a warning to you if you don't believe you shouldn't be here we believe this is the beginning to me here try to do. that offending champion toronto raptors stormed into the eastern conference semifinals norman powell scored 29 points as i thrashed the brooklyn nets to complete the 1st 4 games we can a history it was one bit about news though with kyle lowry limping off with an ankle injury in the 1st quarter the raptors are on track to defend their title post there and they'll be up against the boston celtics in the semi's the celtics completed a sweep of their own against the philadelphia 76 is kemba walker scored 32 points

in game 4 and jason tatum added 28 points and 1500 pounds. dustin johnson is back on top of the world goal franking is off for a huge victory on the p.g.a. tour the american dominated northern trust just outside boston to win by 11 shots finishing off the tournament with an 8 under par round of 63 he was 30 under overall the largest margin of victory on the p.g.a. tour since 2006 when phil mickelson won the tournament by 13 shots. it's something you know i'm very proud to be number one of the world and you know i'd like to stay there for a little while obviously it's been jumping around a bunch here the last last few months but you know last time i think i was number one i stayed there for quite some time and you know that's another goal of mine is just you know see how long i can said number one over in scotland saffir pop of became the 1st german to win a women's go through major 27 year old finish to start it's clear the british open

a couple of has battled lyme disease 6 years she's never want to talk about before and as the world number 304 she's the lowest ranked player to ever capture a major title i knew i was capable i just had a lot of obstacles thrown in my way and i just i'm glad i stuck with it you know i mean i almost quit playing last year so thank god i did. japanese ex formula one driver to saso has won the indy 500 for 2nd time. i don't know fans for the 1st time in 104 runnings because the pandemic there was plenty of incidents out on the track with cars setting on fire and several big crashes including one with just 4 laps left there were lots of lots of debris on to clear up which meant that there wasn't enough time for a proper restart so the race finished on the ocean and started taking the checkered

flag head of scott dixon fernando alonso finished 21st such as celebrated by the customary drink of milk a tradition that goes back to 1956. he's still been able to thank you so much i can find it hard. well as some of the world's best tennis players continue their preparations for next month's u.s. open the 2 top seeds at the western and southern open have been knocked out while number 3 carolina pisk of a crashed out to russia's veronica could have won tova whose giant 41st in the world 7564 in a 2nd round match australian open champion safina kennon was left shocked by frenchwoman and the score may not stop her 1st win over top 5 in 2 years 61756 meanwhile the men's tournament reigning a.t.p. finals champions to final since a past 3 to the round of 16 with a 6163 win over kevin anderson another force eagle facing the john isner john millman next right that is useful for now it is back to rob joe thanks very much

indeed i'm convinced he's going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all the stories on the back to some good bye for now. said she and her disease accounts for 50 percent of the deaths of children. but try. to sleep and child.

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