damage caused to the precious grasslands of chile is being reversed with one of the world's biggest ever conservation projects. they're pretty emblematic of the bad economy and if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threat works and that's why you're on your rewilding patagonia on al-jazeera. the world health organization says the african continent is now free of the wild polio virus l.-a final battle against the disease was fought and won in nigeria. oh i merriam eyes in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the calls for justice a grow stronger and it was and policing is once again in the spotlight after an

unarmed black man is shot 7 times by police. and he government protests resume in the better russian capital as an exiled opposition leader appeals for help to support what she calls a peaceful revolution. south korea's battle to contain the coronavirus is complicated by religious leaders preaching news. it's a disease that once paralyze $75000.00 children a year across africa now after decades of efforts world health organization has declared the continent free of the naturally occurring polio virus the final push focused on northern nigeria where health workers often have to put their lives at risk to vaccinate children in a region filled with in sick. 30 the water borne virus is highly infectious and

mainly affects children under the age of 5 fever pain and vomiting are the initial symptoms one in $200.00 infections leads to irreversible paralysis has been a 99 percent fall in the number of infections since 1988 only 2 countries are yet to eradicate the disease afghanistan and pakistan on 175 people were diagnosed with the virus last year but the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted an international vaccination program so there are now fears of a resurgence and 16 african countries are currently experiencing an outbreak of the vaccine derived virus that's a rare mutated form of the virus which is contained in the polio vaccine we must continue to protect africa's children against all forms of polio and other childhood diseases and shoring they're protected by even aziz. and we must take the

lessons learned and best practices from either indicates we want polio virus to achieve africa's other public health goals and improve health care for all africans or is there is adamant address has more on the story now from nigeria's capital abuja the announcement has come too late for tens of thousands of poor victims here with paralyzed lives 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 vaccination last of 4 years in many parts of northern nigeria. some parents said they ordered poorly approx and was a birth control scheme. bookworm attacks are another major obstacle to the immunization campaign the challenges was in accessibility the challenges were

how you deliver back 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 even a session was restarted. a clear indication that no matter what the challenge is when all of humanity comes together with one dedicated propose for caused in all our resources to really confront whatever challenges we feed we face there we can be triumphant this is an example of triumph i guess a disease that is ancient however experts wonder 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 able 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 comedy greece al jazeera reporter meanwhile pakistan is urgent resuming a polio vaccination drive and whole test since march because of the pandemic well that destruction raised fears of a spike in cases medical staff say they're trying to vaccinate at least 800000 children health experts say 32000000 children under the age of 5 have already been vaccinated. now in our stories we're following turkey says that greece missed give up its preconditions before the 2 country can start

a dialogue over the disputed offshore mediterranean resources and current athens had agreed that they don't want to settle a spat by military means with calling on the e.u. to act as an honest and objective mediator in their words tensions in the eastern mediterranean have been rising with both countries announcing rival naval exercises near the greek island of crete turkey and greece are at loggerheads over the rights to oil and gas deposits in disputed waters and yet cyprus and crete or here's a closer look at the exclusive economic zones of greece turkey in cyprus which is this is as it's defined by the united nations now it accords greece 71 percent of the asian sea and turkey 8.8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same map claiming much of greece's waters as its own and this is the area where a turkey has started looking for oil within itself defined waters that infringes on greece's maritime territory according to e.u. and the u.n.

of turkey's foreign minister has been meeting with his german counterpart in ankara medlock says that the turkey is ready to negotiate the distribution of the disputed waters. we're ready to talk with all countries to negotiate with his hearing but nobody who to precondition for turkey this cannot happen with the preconditions that by greece. united's that greece mean through crandon it's maximalist approach when they abandon the mental approach everything i've said about let's stipulate it will happen because she says. well germany's foreign minister has been working to bring both countries to the negotiating table as well he's described any military escalation as madness for we cannot squander this chance and we expect all those who signed up to that but in process to stick to their word otherwise there is the real threats of a new round of military escalation was on foreseeable humanitarian consequences and

this should be avoided at all costs the u.s. attempt to reimpose sanctions on iran is facing major push back at the united nations security council president says 13 members are against reimposing sanctions and it will take no further action united states have been pushing for the reimposition of sanctions for alleged violations of the nuclear deal the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. told the council that iran continues to be a threat to peace in the middle east light comes as the head of iran's atomic agency says that talks with the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog have been constructive rafael grossi is in the iranian capital tehran pushing to visit 2 sites suspected of storing undeclared nuclear material while iran's president has an rouhani has responded to u.s. pressure saying that if the trouble ministration wants a deal it should return to the 2015 agreement.

antigovernment protests have been held in the better russian capital minsk despite a crackdown on critics and activists 2 members of the opposition coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail and several others summoned for questioning the exiled opposition in this vote on a ticking off skya told the european parliament a resolution was on the way in a country that in bob reports. addressing the world via a video link to the european parliament in brussels the unexpected figurehead of the better russian opposition who fled to lithuania says she represents the majority and believes a peaceful revolution is on the way it is needed and until european union no truly european union. e.t.s. and democratic revolution it is this driving of the nation to decide for itself the parliament's foreign affairs committee echoed her call for the belarus government to release protesters and political activists detained since

this month's presidential election won fraudulently they say by alexander lukashenko during the election campaign the people of belarus have demonstrated their desire for democratic change. the authorities responded with repression and arrests of potential candidates and political activists many of whom remain in prison but that's not keeping people off the streets the latest gathering on tuesday came in response to a call to mark the anniversary of belarus declaring full independence from the soviet union in 1901 the same time the crackdown continues against the national coordination council set up by the opposition to negotiate a transitional period with the government as 2 prominent members were jailed for 10 days another who's the only former senior official sitting on the council right the questioning is there standing going to beijing to go on one for us to be active you know or. 2. between society as

a government or sora do so he says demotivation a day after meetings for diana taken off sky u.s. deputy secretary of state stephen bagan was in moscow for talks with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov afterwards lavrov told russian television the us was eager for external players to enable dialogue between the or thora teams and opposition in belarus. but we answered that we support such an approach but we don't believe it's possible to impose mediators on the bell or also storage fees and belarus people from outside so there's no sign the all thought is in minsk a feeling pressured from outside to reach out to the opposition but neither is there any sign the ante lucas shanker movement is ready to capitulate on its demands nadine barber al-jazeera. as the wisconsin city of conversion has been set alight during a 2nd night of violence over the police shooting of an unarmed black man riot

police clash with hundreds of protesters who defied a dusk to dawn curfew austin a set fire to buildings and torch much of the business district has become the latest flashpoint in ongoing racial unrest in the country after police were filmed shooting jacob blake several times in the back on sunday his father says the 29 year old has been paralyzed from the waist down. john hendren has been following the story from joins us now john is that do we have any information about whether the people behind the the looting and the fires were connected with all possible of the initial demonstration. well that's a question we never really have had the answer to throughout all the protests and looting that we've had in the last several months and certainly since the death of george floyd. what we do see is a lot hundreds and hundreds of people during peaceful protests and then

a smaller much smaller group of people who've been going through some of these neighborhoods and this is a great example and causing havoc these firefighters have been cleaning up even as they prepare for 93 of demonstrations looters came into this part of town while police were guarding government buildings in the center of town they simply don't have enough officers to cover the entire city and so looters came in here they fire bombed all of these places and they looted them you can see some of them just have absolutely nothing left the streets have been cleaned up since last night but there was one place they didn't hit and that's kinda mord ministries here and that's where pastor dave montgomery was standing outside a single through rock cruise window i believe it's right there we can see a little patch and he came out and said hey this is a church and the looters he says told him right we're not supposed to hit churches we're sorry and they moved on but they torched the rest of the street and that is

continuing to happen night after night as we saw in minneapolis and as we've seen in so many cities across the united states and the news gets worse the crowd keeps up on the news and now that they know that jacob lake is paralyzed and his family is about to speak in the next hour or so along with their lawyer benjamin. i think that has an effect on people out here and the lack of the arrests and that sort of thing so we are expecting people to violate the curfew for a 3rd night in a row perhaps in the hundreds as we've seen in the past few nights but exactly what the coordination is between those who have peacefully been demonstrating and those who have been wreaking this kind of havoc we don't know and what about the accountability in the case because the office and officers involved and been put on leave caney dots and it just does not doesn't go far enough for people that have become accustomed to seeing this sort of police brutality against young black man

one of people that calling full. nothing is happening fast enough for the protesters the mayor of toronto if you came out yesterday and demonstrators pretty much shouted him down. what they want is charges against the police officers they don't want them on leave they want them fired and they want them prosecuted that generally is something that takes weeks if not months but we learned in the case of george floyd in minneapolis that they can sometimes when they have that video evidence do it very quickly in that case the incident happened on a monday on a friday you had charges against one officer and within a couple of days you had charges against all 4 of the officers involved that might affect the demonstrators here is another thing that might affect how they go about their demonstrations is whether more police come in here so that they can really control the city that happened in the case of minneapolis where they brought in national guard and state police troops but here they simply don't have the numbers

so far couple 100 police officers about 125 national guardsmen and some sheriff's deputies in riot gear but so far they just have not been able to control the city thank you very much john handwringing cannot show us constant. you know watching al jazeera live from london while still telling about us is accused. of leveraging saddam status as a sponsor of terror to try to get it to normalize ties with israel. and record breaking wildfires devastate homes in northern california more than 200000 people remain under evacuation orders. hello this is not the 1st storm of the summer but this is probably the boast well

the most intense the most damage is going goes across in the british isles then the low countries denmark and southern sweden and this is cheering wednesday now it's to say looks more like a winter storm as temperatures below that was in the twenty's on this is just a wet and windy weather that's completely different on its way across northern europe more or less repeating the pattern if you're 3rd assess even the northern france is still relatively warm but the next one want to get up but if you're in the south in the mediterranean it's reliable sunshine are gone all the thunderstorms that were around in turkey in greece and also the balkans is just warm sunshine book reston 34 degrees in romania and much of north africa is quite hot even on the coast in revote in morocco we're 33 now that rain is on the high side the big showers that fall into clumps and moves slowly west's through central or north africa are still doing that the most active world on its way are now into the east lanty gives fanjul a full cost of thunderstorms for wednesday and thursday if not on friday and the

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back headlines the world health organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio announcement is a major step in the 30 year long campaign to eradicate the disease while lying. turkey saying greece must give up its preconditions before the 2 countries can start dialogue over a disputed of the disputed offshore mediterranean resources ankara and afghans have a good agreed that they're both against that both against settling it by military means with turkey calling on the e.u. to act as an honest and objective mediator. and antigovernment protests of resume in the better russian capital minsk despite a crackdown on opposition politicians and activists 2 members of the opposition coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail.

russia says the german doctors treating the opposition leader lex in a valley must identify the substance that caused his illness before it can investigate the e.u. has urged the kremlin to launch a transparent independent probe after german doctors found indications of a toxic substance in his body but moscow insists the but in hospitals diagnosis of poisoning is not conclusive but longtime opponents of president let him of preaching collapsed on a plane on thursday is supporters say his cup of tea served at tomsk airport was laced with poison. now sudan's prime minister is saying that he has had a direct and transparent discussion with the u.s. secretary of state about removing sudan from the u.s. terror and asked my pompei is the most senior american official to visit the african country since his former leader omar al bashir was ousted last year he's on a tour of the region to promote stronger arab israeli ties but abdullah pompei a not to link the removal of sudan's name from that state sponsor of terrorism list

to the normalization of relations says the transitional government doesn't have any authority to change hard position towards israel we'll have a morgan has more on the story now from hart tim. 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 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 state sponsored 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 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 this 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 asked for the you request of the u.s. what will happen to sudan being on the list of countries concerning terrorism. of upgraded storm laura to a hurricane and predict it will make landfall on the u.s. gulf coast on wednesday night though has already wrought havoc in the medical republic haiti and cuba killing at least 11 people and knocking out power supplies

mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of texas and louisiana now officials have warned of a 3 meters storm surge storm which was barreling towards new orleans weakened into a tropical depression. well california fire officials have warned more residents that they need to evacuate their homes as they continue to battle 3 wildfires surrounding the city of san francisco 7 people have been killed and of a 1400 homes and other structures destroyed smoke has impacted air quality over a large swathe of northern california and drifted as far away as kansas the blazes was started by lightning strikes. joins us live now from los angeles and so tell us about these new evacuation orders that have been issued and how many people have been affected by this. well that's more than 220000 people who have either been told to evacuate or who have actually left their

homes where i am right now is the site of the lake fire in that burned through this area north and west of los angeles itself a little over a week ago and if you can follow me here i'll show you what has happened here this fire consumed several houses here you see this chimney in the distance and a burned out car that's pretty much all that's left the homeowner or one of the homeowners relatives has come back to look over the destruction that person did not want to speak with us understandably given the emotion of the moment but you see here again another completely wrecked building the fire here was so hot that it melted aluminum and that's 660 degrees celcius and we look over here

a little bit we can see on the road there's a fire vehicles coming by and then just look at this valley here completely incinerated trees burned the grass is burned ashes everywhere this fire is now almost completely contained but it's a different story in northern california where 2 enormous fires are burning basically california san francisco that is is surrounded by a burning ring of fire and the 8000000 people who live there are suffering from smoke as well as many of them being asked to leave several huge blazes have charred more than 485000 hectors in northern california 1200 homes in that area destroyed 240000 people as i mentioned evacuated there are more than 14000 firefighters. on the front lines working 12 hour shifts in the extreme lee hot and

dangerous conditions and we've been speaking with some of them they say this is a very very challenging environment indeed all right thank you very much rob runnels reporting to us that from los angeles now the head of the u.s. food and drug administration has apologized for overstating the benefits of using convalescent plasma to treat the coronavirus commissioner steven hon says his earliest statements about the method were not entirely accurate claim that more than $35.00 out of $100.00 people would survive that 19 if they were treated with the antibody which plasma of a recovered patient donald trump had also called it a historic breakthrough and it should fast tracked approval for the treatment that course an outcry from scientists who disputed its effectiveness where young people have been fueling the spread of hiv in 1000 in the americas according to the pan american health organizations director chorus says cases are highest among those

under the age of 60 but 70 percent of the people who die are 70 years of age or older she also said the number of deaths in the region has doubled in the past week and cases of reached at least 12000000 the organization says the recent spread of the disease has been especially bad in the bahamas caribbean country only saw a handful of cases before july well south korea has reported 280 new coronavirus cases on tuesday as it continues to tackle a surge in infections government's efforts to contain the virus have become entangled in a conflict with some religious groups rob reynolds i should say right has the story 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 continued 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. 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 resulted in clusters of new cases including police officers 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 who are 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. it is 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. saw 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 saddest thing is the friction between the government and some churches which has led to all churches being criticized this should be message 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 rabbit bride

al-jazeera so well spain's prime minister is making the country's army available to help with jinns overcomer sergeants of coronavirus cases if it happens petra sanchez says the troops will carry out contact tracing last week's all spain suffer its highest number of new infections since the country's 1st peak which was a launch more than 7000 cases all registered for 4 days in a row. on main story this hour while the health organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio the disease once paralyzed $75000.00 children a year across the continent its 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 only

afghanistan and pakistan are yet to eradicate the disease we must continue to protect africa's children against all forms of polio and other childhood diseases and shoring they're protected by even aziz and we must take the lessons learned and best practices from either indicates we want polio virus to achieve africa's other public health goals and improve health care for all africans. in our headlines turkey is saying greece needs to give up its preconditions before the 2 countries can start negotiations of disputed offshore mediterranean resources and current affan say they want to find a peaceful solution to the dispute with turkey calling on the e.u. to act as an honest and objective mediator both countries have announced rival naval exercises near the greek island of crete greece are at loggerheads over the rights to oil and gas deposits in the eastern mediterranean antigovernment

protests have resumed in the belorussian capital minsk despite a crackdown on opposition politicians and activists 2 members of the opposition coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail and several others have been summoned for questioning the exiled opposition leaders fell on a ticket of skya told the european parliament a revolution was underway in a country. on the wisconsin city of can osha has been set alight in a 2nd night of violence over the police shooting of an unarmed black man riot police clashed with hundreds of protesters who defied a dusk to dawn curfew has become the latest flashpoint in ongoing racial unrest after police were filmed shooting jacob blake several times in the back on sunday his father says the 29 year old has been paralyzed from the waist down. the stream is coming up next on al-jazeera looking at what might lie ahead for better or worse.

i am from you ok if you want to change the story about a race president alexander loosing co is facing the most intense opposition since he came to power it sweetie 6 years ago is what demonstrators had to say about him . i came out here because of the injustice and those lies lies from the media lies from the president lies from all the government organizations leading us i want change i want freedom and to live in

a free country i don't want my children to leave they live here and raise their children and help the economy of our country of. the people.