to the voiceless it's like you're going to do what you don't have the same programs that open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on al-jazeera. a show of force in the eastern mediterranean greece and turkey hold while hold naval exercises as germany pushes for talks to help resolve their maritime disputes and. some are about this and this is all just a lie from doha also coming up my compare becomes the 1st high level u.s. official to visit khartoum in 15 years but there's little progress on his efforts to promote sudan israel ties. we are not oprah's zeeshan anymore.

give me generative no. better roussel physician leader calls for more rallies as the government steps up pressure by jailing activists and summoning others for questioning. government workers protesting iraq's kurdish region angry over pay cuts and payment delays. a spark could lead to a disaster that's the warning from germany's foreign minister who is on a mission to help ease tensions between turkey and greece in the eastern mediterranean masses jews who arrive in turkey within the hour having held talks in athens is appealing to the sides to hold direct talks over a growing dispute over gas exploration in contested waters 2 countries are holding rival military exercises in the mediterranean on tuesday turkey has been operating a research vessel accompanied by warships to survey the seabed for gas and oil

deposits greece claims the area with the ship is overlaps its own continental shelf athens says it's ready for a dialogue but it will defend its sovereign rights. this shows the exclusive economic zones of greece turkey and cyprus as defined by the un it accords greece 71 percent of the aegean sea and turkey 8.8 percent but this is how turkey really draws the same map claiming much of greece's waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within itself defined waters but that infringes on greece's maritime territory according to the e.u. and the u.n. let's cross over to sin and cos you who's live for us in istanbul greece is saying that it is prepared to come to the table to have talks but it will look after its own sovereignty what's the situation with turkey is it likely to come to negotiations. apparently it's the same for turkey as well are up because

turkish officials defense minister and others also stated similar things before also ira recalled prisms are drawn saying that there should be a solution in this mediterranean that all parties should benefit from this is what he said almost 2 weeks ago apparently turkey ham in the turkish capital is accusing greece for provoking the tension in distant mediterranean because truth came believes that greece and the greek side are trying to exclude turkey from energy energy research facilities and this and mediterranean while it has a very considerable long coastline in the eastern mediterranean and for turkey when you ask when you speak to the officers they tell you that turkey's also exerts sizing gets rise in its national sovereignty sovereignty rights a couple of almost 2 weeks ago turkish this week vessel or trace was attacked by

a russian by the greek vessels while it was doing it since mcu research despite the now thanks that has been declared by the. navy after that turkish warships have been accompanying the aura trace the systemic. and to the turkish. turkish press of performed maritime training exercises in the eastern mediterranean months military exercises this is what i would like to underline however. despite that 4 weeks or a trace has been in the is the mediterranean doing suspect research greece announced another no tax which is announcing your boundaries for your maritime facilities either it's fishing or oil research or drilling at the spike the turkish vessel has all that the b. in there that's why churches sees that as provoking another thing why turkey sees

greece as for vulcan detention in this mediterranean is that. greece has been siding with france and the u.a.e. frost and you fronts u.a.e. and turkey have been on the loggerheads especially after turkey signed a maritime zone agreement with libya a couple of months ago which is very recently and turkey is conducting its very sad facilities in this the mediterranean based on this maritime so in agreement which has been over the subject at that the you and know rejection from do you and has been received by just turkish authorities now we are expecting german a foreign minister heikal modest to every 5 in the corral and. he will have a joint press or with the turkish counterpart. in a few always and move will be seeing whether dismiss this tension is really going to turn out as a military tension or not senator thanks very much the same costello live for us in istanbul the u.s. brokered deal between israel and the united arab emirates may be souring less than

2 weeks after it was another u.s. news website is reporting the u.a.e. has called off a meeting with israeli and american officials after prime minister benjamin netanyahu opposed the sale of f. 35 jets to abu dhabi the deal is to normalize relations and has been hailed as a story by the u.s. government secretary of state my pump aoe is expected to discuss the jet sales during his trip to abu dhabi later this week. and in a further set back sudan has told my pump a.o. on a rare visit that it is in no position to normalize relations with israel during talks and called to him prime minister abdullah said the transitional government isn't mandated to make such decisions earlier in israel pompeo have vowed to promote closer ties between israel and other arab states well morgan's live for us in sudan's capital khartoum obviously very keen to make this deal happen and get support for it but that doesn't seem to be working out at the moment.

well yes indeed rob now let's remember that this government it's been 8 in power for one year now is not exactly an elected government yes they may be called. it is known here as the government of the people because it was brought to power by popular protests that toppled former longtime president are going to be here but it is a coalition of various parties with different ideologies and different believes so the prime minister at the last when he met with the secretary of states my phone following that meeting he tweeted out and said that the meeting was great and that they discussed a number of issues including removing the name of sudan from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism that is something that the prime minister has been working on has been hoping that the u.s. would a chief since he came to power last august but apparently him in return for that what needed to be done by sudan was as a normalize ties with israel now the prime minister said that that is not part of

the delegation of the current government there has to be an election held and asked for the transitional government schedule that is set for another 2 years and a half so it doesn't look like this thing if they're waiting for an elected government would happen soon and there's also other political parties we've seen other political parties or several political parties some of them from the coalition of the forces of freedom and change which is right now the political party the coalition of political parties leading this transitional government saying that this government should not go ahead with those types of normalization with israel. and we've also heard from people on the streets we've seen people protesting in front of the embassy of the united arab emirates this morning we've seen people online condemning any moves by this transitional government to try to normalize relations with israel and we've also seen some people putting posters in front of the ministry of foreign affairs here in the capital hard so all condemning any attempt by this transitional government to try to normalize ties of course sudan is very eager to get its name off the list of countries sponsoring to terrorism because it has affected the country's economy and its status amongst

countries in the world and it says that it is very crucial to get off that list to be able to stabilize its economy and its position in the world but right now it doesn't look like they were are willing to normalize ties with israel in return for that they say that those 2 things should not be tied to each other and that the u.s. should consider both things separately here but thanks very much indeed those who are morgan live for us in khartoum about the russian court has jailed a member of the opposition coalition council who organized a strike at a factory despite the government's crackdown on activists and politicians protests are taking place once again in minsk opposition leaders had learned to kind of skier who's in exile in lithuania is calling for more mass rallies authorities have detained several other opposition figures this week. earlier to kind of sky address the european parliament's foreign affairs committee she told politicians are peaceful revolution is underway to remove longtime leader xander. the demands of.

simple and free and. election this is the demand of the distance on the streets this is this log all the people on strike in universe factories cross the contrie been there and has woken. a lot oprah zation and you. are the majority now. well joining me live is alexandra steele one of those core former journalist based in the russian capital so there is pressure for more mass protests but we have seen a crackdown by the belorussian authorities on the opposition. yes yes indeed yesterday 2 were detained one of them was today sentenced to 10 days jail sentence for organizing and participating in unlawful are rarely if he is

a factory worker and exactly factory workers used to be the core of the electorate of that look a shame when we see now strikes in the belarusian factories so he apparently lost part of that electorate also other members of the oppositional coronation council were called for questioning in a different case and that is a criminal case on creating the coordination or counsel today the constitutional court said that this organizational organ ease unconstitutional and that everybody in belarus has to act according to to the constitution so i'm all of these 3 members is also with the not the literal cries when there are several are not exactly sure she is called to appear tomorrow as witness but this process seem not not stopping to day just some some minutes ago in the province of teachers in front of the ministry of education finished and in an hour there should be

a big rally on the which said line a theater not called for by a video message she actually congratulated the citizens of our us there in the bender's they and said that they're on they specifically they would meet the deputies there to ina $9091.00 voted for the independence of belarus making this sort of a symbolic gathering up part from one thing to citizens wanting new and one thing actually right to choose. to come back to that and look at. the authorities of belarus are organizing their own that is and one will happen today in some 2 hours time at these rallies that are presented as about us for peace and stability so they're not mentioning his name they are a diverting attention and basically the dead to the others or people protesting that are not for peace or stability of belarus also in the meantime people being detained in these their administer thievery and traditional way to try to stop

people from but that's not protesting but as we see that in the actually having little effect on xander a style of his squad for we appreciate it joining us from moscow thank you very much indeed russia says the german clinic is treating opposition leader alexina volumnia must find the substance that caused his illness before it can investigate the e.u. has urged the kremlin to launch a transparent and independent probe after german doctors found indications of a toxic substance in his body but moscow insists the balun clinic does not conclusively diagnose poisoning the long time opponent of president vladimir putin collapsed on the plane on thursday after he drank a cup of tea at tomsk airport the father of a black man who was shot 7 times by police in the u.s. says his son has been left paralyzed from the waist down.

police fired tear gas as people were defying overnight curfew orders to protest in wisconsin where the shooting happened demonstrators have also set fire to cars 29 year old jacob black was shot in the back near his car for 3 of his children were inside the incident also got protesters back onto the streets of new york and minneapolis. major although justs of upgraded tropical storm laura into a hurricane is heading for the u.s. gulf coast that's after drenching the dominican republic haiti and cuba where power supplies were downed lower is expected to make landfall in the state of louisiana which has just been hit by tropical storm marco. still ahead on al-jazeera we'll hear how the coronaviruses caused a conflict between the government and some churches in south korea. facebook vows legal action after being forced by the thai government to remove a group critical of the moment.

hello there preparations are well underway across much of the korean peninsula in particular and this is why this is. the ice showing up as well very clearly and this is a very powerful typhoon as we continue through wednesday this will actually continue to strengthen we're looking at wins at around 200 kilometers an hour sustained winds that would make it a category 3 hurricane if this was in the atlantic so of course as it heads north conditions continuing to deteriorate across much of south korea and then through wednesday on into thursday continue his journey north was as you can see expected to make landfall late wednesday into thursday really across this area of north korea it is moving quickly so that will help but even so this is a very powerful storm this is going to produce dangerous storm surge very high waves and some torrential amounts of rain and of course the winds will be strong

and they will cause damage elsewhere across asia fake a picture heaviest spells of rain across this eastern side of china then we head across into south asia has very heavy rain of course is continuing these monsoon rains but as we go through wednesday clearing away from raja stan but all the while these heavy rains continuing throughout much of pakistan so that will just add to the flooding that is in place that wednesday very heavy rains across west bengal as we go through thursday that extend west across into a tisha. jumped into the stream and global community this generation will have to create its own democracy between us. social media. online be part of the debate to me personally you keep coming when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic islands that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way we could see when it maybe business if we're

going to adapt to climate break down this street on out is the if. you want your notice here a reminder of our top stories this hour germany's foreign ministers are urging greece and turkey to hold direct talks to defuse tensions in the eastern mediterranean carrying out rival military exercises there escalating the dispute over gas exploration in contested waters. sudan's prime minister says the transitional government is in no position to normalize relations with israel. is said to have made the comments to u.s. secretary of state might pay or was on a rare visit to khartoum. teachers in davos have gone on strike to demand that

president alexander lukashenko steps down that as a belorussian court jails a member of the opposition coalition council opposition leaders for atlanta to kind of sky is calling for more mass rallies. civil servants in iraq's kurdish region have demonstrated against the regional government over salary arrears they're angry they haven't been paid in 6 months and they're demanding an urgent cash transfer from baghdad to settle their back pay human rights workers say at least 50 journalists and activists have been arrested as the kurdish administration tries to prevent further protests those about it has the latest. when this is say protesters stormed the municipality building and callar and set fire to it on sunday the town's 100 kilometers east of solomon ia in the kurdistan region of iraq. security forces responded by firing bullets. more than

a 1000000 people work for the government here they haven't been paid for 6 months you have this cut that being the market is going to go down that will affect the private sector all of the other sectors in the wind and that government salaries that they get so when it's not paid on time other sectors will fail as well as well so that. combined with the widespread protests followed the prime minister's announcement of a temporary deal to ease the back pay dispute iraqi leaders in baghdad agreed to send $270000000.00 to the regional governments in air below a month to help the local government pay civil servants kurdish officials say they need federal government cash to pay the employees but baghdad stopped sending funds in april the kurdish region says it is entitle to 13 percent of federal funds stipulated in the country's budget laws but leaders in baghdad say that the kurdish

government hasn't lived up to its end of the bargain which includes supplying 250000 barrels of oil per day to iraq's state owned oil company while the dispute continues demonstrations and strikes demanding the resignation of kurdistan's governments are growing and the kurdistan region becomes yet another part of iraq that's battling unrest because of the deepening economic crisis which is hurting everyone door such a pari al-jazeera baghdad. the former bosnian serb commander known as the butcher of bosnia is appealing against his conviction for war crimes including genocide a cold blooded she was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for his role in the conflicts in the balkans in the 1990 s. his forces killed more than 8000 mostly muslim men and boys in bosnia is shredded and said it was the worst bloodshed in europe since world war 2 not it insists he was defending his country and his people to european patients are now confirmed to

have been really infected with corona virus the 1st documented case of reinfection had been reported earlier in hong kong researchers say a 33 year old man fell sick again 4 months after his 1st bout in march but scientists say he's suffering from a different strain of the virus and unlike his 1st infection the 2nd time he didn't have any symptoms researchers have suggested patients who recover from corona virus are immune to ring infection but antibody levels can fall after a few months julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at the georgetown university medical center she says this latest development suggests re infection in patients can happen without any symptoms being present. it's so it's not so much a mutation as the virus is error prone when it replicates mistakes get introduced into its genome and over time to virus so it drifts away so that there are distinct

families and that's what appears to have happened in this case it appears that he was previously infected with with a variant a strain that was circulating in the u.s. in march and that the most recent. re infection was with a newer strain that's circulating in europe currently and what it means is that it confirms that even though people do make antibodies while they are infected which is a sign of immunity that waning immunity may allow them to be infected again the interesting thing news here is that this was actually caught by a screening a mandatory screening at an airport and the single case did not have any symptoms at all so it's very difficult to extrapolate that to the whole population but it tells us that it's possible that that for just infection does confer protection against severe disease but it clearly does not mean that the that once a person has recovered that they are protected from ever becoming infected again

and it's clear that they may be able to transmit virus to others even though they themselves are not showing any symptoms. south korea has reported 218 new coronavirus cases and tuesday it continues to tackle a recent surge in infections and the government's efforts to contain the virus and become entangled in a conflict with some religious groups or macbride has more from seoul. hundreds of new cases in this surge are being linked to the controversial right wing siding jail church in seoul deeply opposed to the liberal government it continue to pack in worshippers promoting the conspiracy theory that the virus is a terror attack by north korea against its members. a member of our church said some hand sanitizer was delivered that smelled more like chemicals than alcohol now i see so many infections among. floating social distancing rules church members led

by their pastor jones who has since tested positive for the virus took part in this anti-government protest in mid august it resulted in clusters of new cases including police offices sent to the rally prompting this strong rebuke. no religious freedom or freedom of assembly can be claimed if he means a great deal of harm to people leaders of us out of jail church have been accused of obstructing public health workers making the job of testing and tracing new cases of infection among church members that much harder that echoes the 1st major outbreak of the virus back in february centered on another church also involved in controversy. that was in the southeastern city of daegu at the shin changi church of jesus whose leader has since been charged with obstruction the outbreak led to church services being suspended yeah it's said that we can't hold

a church service but we don't want any further spread of the disease. 6 months on churches like the one run by pastor j. so are still holding online services and it's hard because it's important for churches to have congregations and having a meal together afterwards financially it's also difficult given the reduction in individual donations but they are hardships that the majority of churches accept the time money and the saddest thing is the friction between the government and some churches which is led to all churches being criticized this should be misses of hope it's wrong to fight like this. but some highly politicized churches seem happy to mix religion with anti government rhetoric to fire up their followers rob mcbride al jazeera sold. authorities in gaza have announced the 1st few cases of community transmission of the virus hamas has declared

a 48 hour lockdown on the territory long lines formed as people rush to buy food in preparation until now all covered 1000 cases have been lent to residents returning from abroad that are fears gaza's health care system will not be able to cope if the disease becomes widespread and. china's foreign ministry says a u.s. reconnaissance plane flew into a no fly zone during chinese military drills beijing says is lodged a stern representation calling the action a naked provocation it's urge the u.s. to immediately stop such actions. infos to china's 3 gorges dam the largest hydroelectric project in the world is to follow weeks of torrential rain but fears of a possible collapse remain record high water levels and devastating floods in the south have reignited debate over the efficiency return to you has this report. located in china's central hoop a province the 3 gorges dam was designed in part to protect the 10s of millions

living close to the n.c. asia's longest river from devastating flooding but this year record downpours are testing the limits of the world's largest hydroelectric project water levels are at their highest since the dam was constructed 14 years ago and locals are worried. about how i feel scared i've never seen the water level so high the noise is so loud the my door rattles weeks of tarantula rain have flooded the n.c. and several tributaries forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes the 3 gorges dam is 181 meters high that's about the same height as this 52 story like building behind me extreme weather has seen water levels inch closer to the down capacity on saturday the volume reached 167 meters that's about the same height as this building's 47 world. water is allowed to accumulate to 175 meters from

maximum efficiency engineers have discharged water several times to prevent it from overflowing a potentially catastrophic event. analysts say it's unlikely the dam will collapse but inadequate flood plains mean severe flooding is certain to reoccur the 3 gorges dam and with the partial justification for flight control and we have a removal of some levees try to increase what works for each and we have treatment and vegetative reestablishment other sides are at risk to try to slow. to try to run off and even though all these things are done. and i did i gave but we still this year have the highest water in the court history the flooding has destroyed crucial farmland and cost an estimated $26000000000.00 in damage some say the dam has made matters worse financial hole so what if with the mito and

downstream young's the river area is supposed to be the richest and the most urbanized yet the people there feel so weak and helpless this raises concerns for china's future and questions about the governance model taking 2 decades to build the 3 gorges dam is one of the few manmade structures visible from space but this year's unusually heavy rains have laid bare its limited ability to protect millions from losing their land and livelihood katrina al-jazeera beijing for prominent activists in thailand have been summoned by police on sedition charges as the government cracks down on a growing student led opposition movement the police questioned human rights lawyer on one part and student organizer part it's to what are more than 30 opposition figures have been arrested since the anti-government protests began last month demonstrators are demanding a new election constitution and reforms to the monarchy. criticism of the monarchy

in is illegal in thailand now facebook says it's followed a government order to take down a popular group that allows discussions about the war of family the page royalist marketplace was blocked on monday evening you can still be accessed from outside thailand facebook says it's compelled to restrict content deemed illegal by the government but it's preparing its own legal action the group has more than a 1000000 members. this is all just here at these other top stories germany's foreign minister who's aiming to ease tensions between turkey and greece is warning that a spark could lead to a disaster in the eastern mediterranean heikal musses jew in turkey shortly having held talks in athens is appealing for direct talks to solve the growing dispute over gas exploration in disputed waters in greece it says it's ready for dialogue

but it will defend its sovereign rights and of course a little reports on took its reaction in istanbul. turkey ham in the turkish capital is accusing greece for provoking the tension in the eastern mediterranean because. believe that greece and the greeks are trying to exclude turkey from energy energy research facilities in the eastern mediterranean while it has a very. long coastline in the eastern mediterranean and for turkey when you ask speak to the officials they tell you that turkey's also. national sovereignty over into right. so don has told us secretary of state much print peo on a rare visit that it's in no position to normalize relations with israel during talks in khartoum prime minister abdullah han doc said the transitional government isn't mandated to make such decisions and upon people had voted to promote closer

ties between israel and other arab states. about the russian court has jailed 2 members of the opposition coalition council for 10 days despite the government's crackdown on activists and politicians protests are taking place again in minsk opposition leaders for land attack on a skier who's in exile in lithuania is calling for more mass rallies. the father of the black americans shot several times by police says he's power lies from the waist down. 29 year old jacob blake was repeatedly shot in the back as he leaned into his car with 3 of his children inside. those are the headlines the news continues here on odyssey or after the stream. late august sees donald trump and joe biden finally accepting their party's nomination to be my selection and they will now begin 2

months apart campaigning and try to find a way to reach out to voters still affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic follow us elections on al-jazeera. was. it was. domestic workers protesting outside of the kenyan consulate in beirut in lebanon shouting we want to go holland after the beirut explosion with and she 100 people were left thousands homeless and amongst those thousands domestic work us some of them were abandoned by their employers and so now we're in a situation where they're living onus on the streets have no money and i'll try it out as a story today.