then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threat good enough for your own part rewilding patagonia on al-jazeera the idiot with. turkey and greece hold a rival military drills in the eastern mediterranean over gas resources germany calls for a deescalation of tensions. watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back he will also ahead all of africa is declared polio free only afghanistan and pakistan are yet to eradicate the disease worldwide. thousands of protesters are back on the streets of bel-air ruthless capital despite the government stepping up pressure by jailing and questioning

activists across testing the limits of the world's largest hydroelectric dam some chinese fear it could collapse after weeks of to wrench away. a spark could lead to a disaster that's the warning from germany's foreign minister who's on a mission to help ease tensions between turkey and greece in the eastern mediterranean heiko mass is holding a news conference right now with this turkish counterpart marriage. after having out talks earlier in the greek capital athens masses appealing for direct talks to solve the growing dispute over gas exploration in disputed waters both the greeks and turks have announced viable military exercises in the mediterranean and the warships are guarding a ship survey the seabed for gas. oil reserves 3 says the area where the turkish

fleet is overlaps its continental shelf that's ringing in sin him who is in istanbul for is so sinema the german foreign minister has now arrived in ankara way is currently holding a news conference where this turkish counterpart what's been said so far and is there appetite in turkey to negotiate. well let me begin with your last question in turkey the turkish foreign minister said that turkey has a 5th of itself saying that turkey is ready for negotiations for may. all live based on equal shares equal rights in the eastern mediterranean because turkey has been claiming that the reason is acting alone in the region and trying to bypass the rights of the turkish cyprus and northern cyprus and turkey is committed to defend turkey its rights also foreign minister that's greece is trying

to define international law according to its own interests totally out of the international norms and he repeated some of the accusations but i have to underline that fully german foreign minister hartzell must speech was harsher against circular when he spoke when he have this press presser with the come to a part in athens earlier today he was softer to turkey and turkey repudiated turkish foreign minister a repeat of that turkey welcomes the mediation efforts initiated by german chancellor get america and foreign minister c'mon send german foreign minister also repeated that they are afraid of any kind of any kind of potential escalation which could end up in a different way in a military. or military conflict in the region but turkey repeat that its

its claims that turkey believes that greece is acting like a spoiled child of the european union because it's received unconditional support from the e.u. countries a plus turkish foreign minister warned greece again made a call saying that we shouldn't trust on the u.a.e. and other plays mainly anting to france who are trying to push you into the room. the sun will not there or there will not be an accident we will be retaliating so took his condition is very clear if it how it cools shares if we have fair share in this the mediterranean in terms of natural resources continental cells exclusive economic zones whatever you may call it we are open to come around the table for meditation and thank you very much for that who lie for us said in a sample in other news a u.s.

attempt to bring back sanctions on iran has failed at the u.n. the u.n. security council the security council president says certain members are against very imposing sanctions and it will take no further action the u.s. had been pushing for the reimposition of sanctions for alleged violations of the nuclear deal which washington left to years ago the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. told the council that iran continues to be a threat to peace in the middle east direct military cooperation will benefit the entire region by countering the threat posed by iran's destabilize that activities in the middle east and beyond for years and up to today iran has defied international law by breaking the un's own weapons ban and providing militias and terror groups with the firepower to kill and maim men women and children across the middle east while members of the council are so far unwilling to confront this daily threat to peace and security the united states stands by the arab world and

israel as we work to maintain an arms embargo on the murderous iranian regime meanwhile any iran the head of its atomic agency says talks with the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog have been constructive grossi is in tehran pushing to visit 2 sides suspected of storing undeclared nuclear material. the world health organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio the continent's last case was reported in northern nigeria 4 years ago the announcement is a major step in the 30 year long campaign to eradicate the disease worldwide we must continue to protect africa's children against all forms of polio and other childhood diseases and shoring they're protected by even a season and we must take the lessons learned and best practices from eradicating

one polio virus to achieve africa's other public health goals and improve health care for all africans. has this report now from nigeria. the announcement has come too late for tens of thousands of polio victims here with paralyzed limbs life gets harder in a country where little attention is paid to the needs of the disabled. but for parents of future generations a major source of worry is lifted completeness a success was delayed because of vaccination or stopped for years in many parts of northern nigeria. some parents said they ordered polio approx and was a birth control. attacks are another major obstacle to the immunization campaign the challenges was in accessibility the challenges where how you deliver vaccine in hard to reach areas the challenges that how you gain the trust those who need the

vaccine. global intervention especially by unicef and the bill and melinda gates foundation was critical in achieving success what immunizations are started. a clear indication that no matter what the challenge is when all of humanity comes together with one dedicated purpose for caused in all our resources to really confront whatever challenges we fade we face there we can be triumphant this is an example of crayons i guess a disease that is ancient however experts one of the threat of an outbreak remains some parents still resist immunizing their children and there is a danger of a false sense of security. officials want to take their experience in fighting poorly or further by using similar resources defeating the fall of either 6 years ago the same lessons the same resources the same front line technology is what

we're using to address could be $1000.00 in nigeria world health organization praised nigeria success as a victory for africa but one that regular vaccinations and increased vigilance are required to defeat polio once and for all comedy grease al-jazeera reporter. arrows now in protests have resumed in the capital minsk despite a government crackdown on the opposition and activists demonstrators accuse president alexander lukashenko of rigging his reelection campaign his reaction either earlier this month and are demanding an end to his 26 years in power 2 members of the opposition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail and others have been summoned for questioning the senate going to very shortly i don't want to live for us to be able to you know are. lying to have a dialogue between the society and the government to sort this so the series

demotivation you know opposition leaders atlanta taken off scale has addressed the european parliament's foreign affairs committee and says that what she calls a peaceful revolution is under way to remove. the demand of bluestone is simple and free and fair election. this is the demand of the protesters on the streets this is this log on all the people on strike in your respect truce across the country bill rose has woken up rionda a lot of open position and you. are the majority now let's bring in alex son dressed janowicz got from jose moscow based journalist joining us live from the russian capital alexandra taken off sky are talking about a peaceful revolution certainly there again huge crowds again today on the streets

of men's and this is despite the arrests and the intimidation by the government what is message what message is this sending you think to the outside world. well polly it is a message of that we are not afraid to we are going to keep on coming to the streets protesting and contesting any attempts of local schenkel and the government to stop us from getting our rights this is i think the message that they're trying to send not only to the world to but to the other belorussian people and that the russian people they're leaving them there they gather despite the rain that they're again there despite the fact that 2 of the. coalition council members were in jail for 10 days 3 others called for questioning there is a group of strikers in the western town of god not that it's been picked up by

police today or no one knows what the reason so they're still there on the streets thinking and saying we want. to go because what they're saying he lost the election and they want their luck electoral rights of 2 to be respected at the same time in minsk there is another rally after all of the shank already some couple of kilometers away where people are that are gathered there are saying go well you know this oppositional gatherings are bringing chaos to the country and there was one woman saying that was all burning how this was translated by the. far as i understood state television today there were other attempts and moved the to scare the opposition to intimidate broadcasters like the constitutional court to the constitutional council unconstitutional supreme court and this missed the appeal of . the contest of the 9th ward results then the chief of.

general staff said the army eases would look ashamed coal and they're going to fight this internal internal threats also message. came from a moscow today from russia minister of foreign affairs saying that that the court nation will console he doesn't know or he says that it's not not clear how it was formed and hinting that they are not the ones that should be involved in the in the dialogue to solve the situation but it should be a more wide national dialogue and that the opposition should actually accept this proposal will push and pull for a constitutional reform which actually except it will buy more time for the question call and i don't think that the best serves in minsk another tal's of belarus are ready to give a more time but he had 26 years of power and a say and now it is time for him to go they say thank you so much for that exam

dresser janowicz country bringing us on the situation in benefits and still ahead on the program we'll hear what saddam's prime minister has been telling america's top diplomat about israel. and drug administration's head apologizes for overstating the benefits of plasma treatment took over 1008. 100 does have me quite as high as usual over the last few days and that's really the trend as we continue on was now the winds a little bit stronger on wednesday through iraq so that will kick us in sand and dust but these winds do not travel very far south of the time which is not as high as we've seen but certainly the winds like a winds i should say make you feel quite human so 42 in doha on

a wednesday 46 still quite a bit of cloud in showers across to the fall south and west of yemen nothing particularly have a similar scenario a little bit heavier later in the day but then we will see some strong winds but really just to get the sun. i know really make if i fall south $36.00 hall very light winds and if there are any sort of breezes about attending to coming off those very well water so it's a feeling very humid that we had down into africa and central regions we've got these thunderstorms on quite of the cloud continuing just to pass by for the most for the fall south of south africa those winds a fairly strong they will bring want to show us where the through eastern areas and that is not a bad day wednesday we have also scattered showers across into tanzania they become a little bit more widespread as we go into thursday further inland but also spreading up into kenya somalia but conditions continuing to improve across a lot about importance with that 80.

jumped into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on hand will online be part of the debate i mean could you keep coming steve you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic problems that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way we could see which way to do business if we're going to adapt to climate break out of this stream on out is they are. rude. the end. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for people at reminder of our

main stories this hour to he says it's ready for talks with greece over a dispute about gas exploration in contested waters in the eastern mediterranean but without preconditions germany's foreign minister has been meeting both sides in an effort to defuse tension such protests have resumed in better was this capital men's could despite a government crackdown on all the tissues and activists 2 members of the opposition coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail. and the world health organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio the continent's last case was reported in northern nigeria 4 years ago. and let's discuss this further now with past com countdown who's the polio eradication program coordinator for the africa region at w h o the world health organization is via skype from brazzaville in congo thank you very much mr macomber for being with us on al-jazeera so africa declared free of wild polio how were you able to reach this milestone and what are your

recommendations for countries like pakistan and afghanistan which is still struggling with this disease. so a thank you very much. to reach this milestone by having or the political readership behind this cause and or so mobilizing the communities traditionally there's a religious leaders to really be behind this cause so we're also doing a lot of innovations this amount the challenges will having along the way including a lot of innovations using that real time. to really know that we are reaching the children supposed to reach so there was a lot of a commitment or levels we had a lot of chairing this has been a long way but this was the main things which which we did and the as you said 4

packs out of danced and they have similar kind of a challenge is over in security locks in refusal they are also very good traditional systems but we can use to mobilize everyone so that every child gets it works knitted so that is top transmission of this virus will winning the trust of communities is extremely important i imagine a millions of health workers have been mobilized across the african continent i know to radically the disease going from village to village to hand deliver vaccines tell us a bit more about some of the challenges you face around the way. so leave men challenges which we faced along the way 1st of all as vaccine refusers. if a you may remember in 20304 in nigeria there were some rumors misinformation that these privoxy this would cause a j.v. or that cause infectivity so we had a period when people not accepting these vaccines we've had some out of that

mobilizing religious leaders community leaders and government and everyone to explicitly children the 2nd military inge was in security so just when you thought we had despite the rumors then this is a security came up and that meant that we could not do surveillance as well as a vaccinations in the areas where we have inaccessibility because of this insurgency so we had to come up with ways of trying to vaccinate very quickly in those particular areas before vaccinators could be attacked and in areas where we could not risk the vaccinators we had to use their work together with the military either to escort the vaccinators or train so they could do the vaccination themselves and the other issue which we had as a charity was the mass movement of people in africa people move a lot from one country to the other from one village to the other and so we had to sure that we have systems are tracking these movements and ensuring that would

evoke the same at every transit point where would find these people so that some of the challenges and the like you were able to overcome now only the vaccine derives polio virus remains in africa with and a staggering $77.00 cases being identified this year what needs to happen for this type of polio to also be eliminated. so the good thing about the port a program is that we have a very big footprint around africa and also have a lot of expertise also have a lot of analysis of that which is and parrot by any other. public health program in the african region we have a vaccine which you know we can use to vaccinate against these secretive acts in the airport of viruses and i like to mention that the security vaccine for polio virus is not not as vigilant or it transmissible as quickly as what part of ours so

with all the knowledge the lessons will intellects parties which we have well very confident that we will stop these secret effects and there are poor viruses i like to add that we're going to start doing these activities already at the beginning of the we were reducing the number of these if these but we had to stop sometime in march because of the cause of it we didn't want to use that quote we'd use it is vaccination to spread but we have started these activities already 2 countries already doing this coverage when they make their booking a fossil as well as angola have implemented these very successful so now we're going to really go really full throttle on these remaining secret in the box in europe or viruses and call virus of the that or stop this equating that cleaver is a very very soon thank you so much for talking to us about this pascal can that polio eradication program coordinator for the africa region at the world health organization in vassar the other thank you so much for your time your work and thank you. now the u.s.

food and drug administration has apologized for overstating the benefits of using passive natural from recovered patients to treat cold 19 commissioner steven hahn says his only a statements about the treatment were not entirely accurate present donald trump had hailed the f.d.a. announcement as a historic breakthrough and that caused alarm for scientists who disputed the effectiveness of the treatment alan fisher has more from washington on saturday donald trump tweeted out saying that the people at the f.d.a. deep state or whoever were holding back some treatments that could help covered and then on sunday here at the white house with the f.d.a. commissioner by his side he announced that he was giving emergency authorization to use convalescent plasma saying that it had a 35 percent success rate that was backed up in that news conference by stephen had no a number of scientists came up with the figures and said look there have been no big tests of this you can't stand by that 35 percent figure there is something very

wrong here stephen has no admitted that perhaps he overstated the benefits of convalescent plasma because there have been new big tests carried don't nor big surveys so donald trump probably isn't terribly pleased because there is the feeling that he pushed through this announcement to give him a political win coming on sunday the day before the republican national convention and we know that the president has invested a lot of time and a lot of money in trying to find not just therapeutics but also a vaccine for covert ninety-nine has talked often about how he believes will be a vaccine before the election although the scientists still say that they're working to the original timeline which would mean much later this year or perhaps early next year. the deal between israel and the united arab emirates to normalize relations maybe saing after less than 2 weeks a u.s. news website says the u.a.e.

called off a meeting with american and israeli officials after prime minister benjamin netanyahu opposed the sale of f. 35 warplanes the u.s. wants a south jets but u.s. policy dictates israel must maintain its regional military superiority and in a further setback sudan has told michael bailey the us secretary of state that it's in no position to normalize relations with israel during talks in cancun prime minister abdullah said the transitional government isn't mandated to make such decisions in israel pale promised to promote closer ties between israel and other arab states he morgan has more from khartoum where she says the u.s. is using sudan status as a state sponsor of terrorism as leverage. following the meeting between the sudanese prime minister and the u.s. secretary of state's microamp a new prime minister tweeted that it was a great meeting and that they discussed number of issues including bilateral relations. off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism that is something this

government has been working on since it came to power exactly a year ago we've seen the prime minister bringing it up with so whenever he meets with several foreign officials trying to lobby them to back him up to get the u.s. to move them off the list of states sponsoring terrorism now it looks like to get removed of that list there are certain conditions initially it was paying for the victims of the bombings in kenya and tanzania more than 20 years ago but right now sudan is quite concerned that the other condition the new condition that has popped up right now is normalizing time normalizing ties with israel now the prime minister has stated clearly and we've also spoken to the government to the spokesperson of the government and they both stated that this government is not mandated to normalize relations with israel this government has a certain mandate and that it is a coalition of political parties that with different ideologies their main goal is to achieve peace in the country and to lead this country towards elections in 2 and

2 years and a half so that is right now the goal of his government so right now there are questions about now that sudan has made it clear that it is in no position to normalize ties with israel as per the you request of the u.s. what will happen to sudan being on the list of countries concerning terrorism. china has complained to the united states about one of his reconnaissance planes straying into a no fly zone the chinese foreign ministry called the alleged incursion during military drills and make it provocation the pentagon's mean to prevent a repeat. the pressure from on the 3 gorges dam in china has eased but fears of a collapse remain following weeks after renshaw rain record high water levels and devastating flooding in southern china has reignited debate about the world's largest hydroelectric project train a yuri force from beijing. located in china's central 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. if you scared i've never seen the water level so high the noises the my door rattles weeks of torrential rain have flooded the n.c. and several tributaries forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes the 3 gorges dam is 181 metres 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 body reached 167 meters that's about the same height as this building's 47. water is allowed to accumulate to 175 meters for 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 means to be a flooding is certain to reoccur the 3 were just i am with the partial justification for flood control and we have a row of sorrow at least try to increase what works for each and we have treatment and vegetative reestablishment of those eyes are used to try to slow. the chrysler rock and even though all these things are done. and i did i gave 5 we still this year have the highest for a recorded history the flooding has destroyed crucial farmland and cost an estimated $26000000000.00 in damage some say the down has made matters worse financial goal for 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 the 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 is unusually heavy rains have laid bare its limited ability to protect millions from losing their land and livelihood katrina 0 beijing. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey says it's ready for talks with greece over a dispute about gas exploration in contested waters in the eastern mediterranean but without preconditions germany's foreign minister has been meeting both sides and in an effort to diffuse tension. no is any sample with the basis.

turkey's condition is very clear if we haue it cool shares if we have fair share in the eastern mediterranean in terms of natural resources continental sells exclusive economic zones whatever you may call it we are open to come around the table for medication and. a u.s. attempt to bring back sanctions on iran has failed at the united nations the security council president says certain members are against reimposing sanctions and it will take no further action the us had been pushing for the reimposition of sanctions for alleged violations of the nuclear deal which washington left sue years ago the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. told the council that iran continues to be a threat to peace in the middle east protests have resumed envelop who says capital remains despite a government crackdown on politicians and activists 2 members of the opposition

council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail the world health organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio the consciousness last case was reported in northern nigeria 4 years ago the deal between israel and the united arab emirates to normalize relations may be souring after less than 2 weeks a u.s. news website says the u.a.e. called off a meeting with american and israeli officials after prime minister benjamin netanyahu opposed the sale of f. $35.00 warplanes the u.s. wants to wants a south jets but u.s. policy dictates israel must maintain his regional military superiority the u.s. secretary of state is expected to discuss weapon sales during his trip to abu dhabi later this week those are the headlines coming up next inside story.

well polio be eradicated worldwide the world health organization declares a major victory against the virus in africa but it's still crippling children in afghanistan and pakistan all the lessons to be learned in the battle to control the coronavirus pandemic this isn't so story. hello welcome to the program on the wrong podio used to paralyze and disfigured tens of thousands of children every year and some didn't survive but major strides have been made in erotic.