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 korean neighbors partition borders of blood. this is al jazeera. everyone i'm kamal santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera iran has reached an agreement with the u.n. nuclear watchdog on new inspections at suspected former atomic sites. also in the news greece says all extend its territorial waters amid an escalating

standoff with turkey in the eastern mediterranean. 2 people are shot dead in the u.s. city of can i'm sure in violence that has followed the police shooting of a black man. i also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice while at the same time u.s. 1st lady melania trump calls for the calm and unity during her address to the republican party convention. and in sport barcelona say they have now won tangshan allowing leon messi to leave the club methinks starting the footballing world by handing in rounds for request on shoes day. we'll start with breaking news out of iran where an agreement has been reached to give the u.n. nuclear watchdog access to 2 suspected former tomic sites leaders in iran announced

it in a joint statement in tehran there with the international atomic energy agency the i.a.e.a. a president hassan rouhani there also promising to continue cooperation. is in teheran for us now just take us through this announcement 1st of all how and why . well the i.a.e.a. chief grossi has been here for 2 days now he met the head of iran's atomic agency has met with the head of the foreign ministry of odds revalue also met with president hassan rouhani and that the contentious issue were these 2 sites where it was alleged and decayed nuclear material that was used or stored from the early 2000 that one of these sites that i said had been partially demolished and the other location they said the activities that taken place efforts to sanitize that location from july 2019 onwards now iran hadn't granted access to these sites iran

had issued this that these 2 sites were a part of the 2015 nuclear deal and then there was that resolution passed by the i.a.e.a. that was put forward by germany you can france demanding access to these sites so thought that's what's been taking place the talks around where the access will be granted and there were several statements made by iran calling on the i.a.e.a. to act in pasha the independently and professionally which led to grow see you saying that he didn't have a political orientation or a judgment and the organization wasn't politically influence but was under pressure but they were working hard not to allow that pressure to affect their work and it looked like a few days ago that iran stance was changing now iran's atomic agency had said that they were willing to grant access to those 2 sites if there were any questions once and for all and that was very vague but it seems like there is an agreement now iran will grant access to these sites and the i.a.e.a.

in return has said that they have no further questions based on the information that they already have or. asking for any more access that's what iran wanted was to end questions once and for all and for no more access because already iran's nuclear facilities of. the vacation but also the i.a.e.a. has said in this joint statement that they will add. professionally and will uphold the confidentiality regime standards and procedure and then confidentiality line is very important because iran is also concerned about its security and doesn't want its nuclear information shared with the united states ok so everything you've described on this side it's sounding core deal and corporative the flip side of course was the united states trying to push sanctions back onto iran through the united nations security council where where is that situation at the moment. well the united states tried she's tried to initiate that mechanism that would have

seen the united nations sanctions we posed now so far they haven't been successful because the security council has rejected that bid it doesn't mean that's the end of the story because because they could change that again when the u.n. security council presidency changes in september but so far the international community those 1514 or 13 members of the council in fact 13 members of council haven't supported the united states and it's prompted iran to see this as a victory. that the united states' position a position he said has isolated them yet again and have president has done rouhani has said that the world should know that iran is committed to the. 2015 nuclear deal and the i.a.e.a. should let the world know that iran is committed to the 2015 nuclear deal so iran very much is treating this as a victory but also this is a sense of iran showing the world that they are open and nothing to hide by

granting access to these 2 sites and also still saying that they are very much invested very much still committed to that 2015 nuclear deal which the united states seems to be from the iranian perspective set on destroying not only the 2015 nuclear deal but also that u.n. resolution that ratified that deal ok that's also keeping an eye on developments in tehran the. on to other news in the greek prime minister kim. says his country will extend its territorial water claims westward in the ionian sea now this expansion it is legal it is in an area between greece and italy so it doesn't directly affect the territorial claims at the center of that growing to speak with turkey but it's a talk as did add that greece may increase its claims in other maritime areas in the future. and i do know. greece will extend the coastal zone to the west from 12

to 6 miles greece's growing others have said this building where the ones who are putting this into practice. were for that announcement was made reject. warned greece not to test turkey's patients turkish president added to turkey will quote never compromise on what is ours the 2 countries are in a standoff over maritime borders in the eastern mediterranean and the potential natural gas wealth which lies beneath it so you see we are determined to do what every region is here in the military political and economic sense we invite her counterparts to get it together and avoid mistakes that would bring the destruction . ok so we've got this covered from 3 different angles this news hour cynical so you is in istanbul we've got dominic cain in berlin as well there's a meeting of e.u. defense ministers there with the 2 of you shortly i want to start though with john psaropoulos on skype from athens. metaphors i can give you are pushing the boat out

pushing the envelope basically greece seeing how far it can go and turkey well not happy with it. no indeed and in fact he since $976.00 has warned greece that extension of its territorial war so that's where it exercises absolute sovereignty to the full 12 nautical miles allowed under international law in the aegean would be a cause for war and that is a threat that greece has taken very ill and considers over these many years that turkey has been cornering it into not exercising its international law rights so i think what the greek prime minister is trying to demonstrate to days is that turkey's actions do not lead to fetch accompli they're not going to the greeks are not going to heat the threats of turkey in the east in asia or in the in the

eastern mediterranean excuse me or in the aegean and it's a warning to turkey that greece is now going to set aside that stress of course and begin to exercise its international law rights unilaterally as the law allows it. it is also a subject of negotiation or has been between the 2 sides these many maritime zones that international law discussing the 2 sides have been in a discussion about how far territorial waters should extend in the aegean but as this situation in the eastern mediterranean becomes more and more inflamed and as proceeds to do more and more unilateral explorations that the greeks object to the greek side feels and. to also demonstrate that it has rights and that it will exercise them and that. in some not doing. the legal things that greece has secured

and now 31 is this extension of 12 nautical miles in the west rest actually greece can do the same in the achaean tomorrow. and secondly its maritime zone agreements with egypt and italy which were expected to be ratified by parliament some or so greece has 3 tangible legal results that this wrangle with to teach turkey has not succeeded. in the stablish its legal right to waters in the submitter indian claims by greece ok john psaropoulos in athens thank you cynical cod let's bring you in from istanbul now when turkey when president talks about not wanting turkey's patience to be tested i mean does he give anything more about what that might actually mean. welcome allah according to the turkish officials it's not only for the current government but i have to say that it is the state of mind set in turkey. greece efforts and the

ija and it's an mediterranean sea are seen as provocative steps and if for instance if for today's announcement by the greek prime minister we haven't heard from the turkish officials yet as the decision covers only the sea between italy and greece but of course when it comes to the agency as also john pointed out any unilateral step from from greece in order to extend its territorial waters from 6 to 12 miles is seen as a spell as a as a means as a reason for war this is this was stated back in 1995 turkey in the turkish territory turkey believes that everybody is trying to exclude turkey from its rights in the seas surrounding the countries turkey is surrounded by seas both north west and south and especially when it comes to eastern mediterranean with

turkey if it believes that there are so many players even players who doesn't have who don't have course in this the mediterranean but turkey is excluded in the game that's why turkey says it's after its fries and the main dispute between the 2 neighbor countries and nature allies are actually because of the islands because according to greece each island has individual exclusive economic zone this is what turkey is against as greece is not an island country but a continental country but apparently the tension seems to be rising but what we have understood from yesterday's was that german foreign minister was kind of. harsh during his statement in athens but. many as one of the leading countries of the e.u. trying to make the between the 2 nato allies is pursued by turkey that the e.u. is not totally for them going. to seize greece as the oil child of

the e.u. with unconditional support but of course some will show whether dissension is really going to become a military tension into waters ok thank you cynical city there in istanbul finally dominant kain over in their berlin so we heard the outline dominate from our of the 2 correspondents the the war of words the tension that's right joining up what's the e.u. actually trying to do about us. the problem the e.u. has is that its relationship with turkey is very important remember the deal that exists between ankara and brussels regarding refugees which is of prime importance to both countries and yet at the same time the european union has 2 key members in southeastern europe greece and cyprus who obviously its interests must also be protected and into that you must then throw the fact that the e.u.

on its own has no military role it's nato which is the guarantor of security in europe or at least has been since the late 1940 s. so you have what's going on here in berlin now at this informal meeting of defense ministers lots of expressions of the desire to find some sort of modus vivendi a way of diffusing the tensions interesting lee the nato secretary general u.n. shortened back is here in berlin today and will be also tomorrow and the day after that because there is the meeting of foreign ministers taking place in early and on thursday which might even be more important what's happening today but mr shorten bag has called on both countries who are nato countries to try to diffuse the tension and he said that what the germans are trying to do to mediate is appreciated and in all of this you have that sense of they are trying to negotiate but the e.u. does not include turkey and so while they are clearly hoping to be honest brokers

there isn't a turkish presence at that table here in berlin today or tomorrow other than the words that are coming from ankara and those words clearly are riling for the government in greece which of course is represented at this meeting here in berlin that's john mccain rounding out our coverage of that story out of these to mediterranean thank you dominic. let's have a look at what we've got coming up few on this news hour al-jazeera defends an investigation into a citizenship scheme inside prison after its government dismisses all reports also storm season well underway the u.s. gulf coast prepares for the impact of hurricane laura and in sport we will find out why the reigning n.b.a. champions are threatening to boycott their next playoff games.

well gun fire has killed at least 2 people in the u.s. city of kono showed during a 3rd night of black lives matter protests video on social media reportedly shows a gunman shooting at protesters and then people running away from the line of fire police haven't revealed the details of either the victims or the attack. so this happened the attack happened at least during the latest demonstration against the shooting of jacob blake a black american as power lies after police shot him in the back 7 times on sunday a state of emergency is being enforced on the national guard is on patrol in wisconsin several buildings were set on fire and tear gas fired to prevent the storming of a courthouse john hendren has a report now from kind of she was going. to know she was smolders the city corrections building burned to the ground one of 3 dozen buildings left in ruins in

a single night firefighters and residents sweep up the wreckage. i am with black live matter moving on you know i've been protesting that i'm not what this is not immediate. philip mary arrived to find the windows of his 92 year old office smashed but it was largely spared his neighbor wasn't so lucky. senseless it is. dandelion is someone's property the mother of jacob blake the black man whose shooting by police set off the demonstrations says he would not approve if. you knew what was going on as far as that goes the violence and the destruction. he would be very pleased blake's family spoke of the latest incident of alleged police brutality captured in this viral video of an officer shooting in the back his 3 sons watching from inside the car.

7 pines. something. like he didn't matter. but my son matters blake's attorneys say he underwent surgery on tuesday and remains paralyzed from the waist down i'm not sad i'm not sorry i'm angry and i'm tired. i haven't cried one time i stopped crying years ago i am numb. i have been watching police murder people that look like me for years as her family struggles with what happened so does a battered city police were protecting government buildings the looters came here to be uptown neighborhood and they fire bombed and looted each of the stores for a couple of blocks until they got here to kingdom word ministries that's where

david my gomery is pastor actually we had somebody actually take a. big large rock in through the window and we started yelling hey this is a church and marriage several people say hey you don't touch a church you know. a pastor it looks like your building is going to be the only thing to say you know it's just a miracle from one building salvaged amid dozens of burnt out holes and more broken hearts. told this was going on as the u.s. 1st lady melania trump made a play for racial harmony during her speech to the republican national convention i urge people to come together in a civil manner so we can work and leave up to our standard american ideals. i also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of

justice and never make assumptions based on the color of thurston's skee. instead of tearing some things down during things down let's reflect on our mistakes be proud of our evolution and look to. a. republican strategist joe watkins is with us now from philadelphia former white house aide actually to president george h. w. bush nice to have you with us what just said there isn't that what the president should be say. well i think that the milan the trump took advantage of the state of course these protests have been happening in just in the last couple of days at some point that shooting took place and malani that from took advantage of the fact that she was the keynote speaker at the convention and that she had a massive american audience listening and she took time to say what needed to be said about the need. for americans to to love each other.

and not consider the color of a person's skin but to love each other because we're all human beings with respect to that doesn't answer the question isn't that the type of thing the president should be saying the president's going to appear every night at this national convention not just on his acceptance night do you think he should be addressing it directly. i think that the american public would expect the president to address this directly except that you have a scripted convention right now because ritual and all the speakers have been put into place and a lot of what you see during the convention has been pretty recorded i wouldn't be surprised if the president addressed them thursday night when he accepted the party's nomination for president that would be an appropriate time to talk about that so we'll have to see if the president chooses to a resident there is that even when he's got his twitter in the meantime of course 15 hours ago he tweeted the governor should call in the national guard in wisconsin it's ready willing and more than able and the problem fast that's

a very different tone to that which is wife was taking that he is basically saying bring in the forces an end to this. well you got a lot of different voices on the republican side on monday night you heard from temp scott a republican united states senator also ever going to marry again and he talked about the importance of having police reform legislation that he's sponsoring it as a member of the united states senate but support of a lot of republican senators and he was saying that the only challenge is getting democrats that to work with him to get this present a law so that we don't have any more of these these tragedies because obviously if you have police reform or leave some kind of national standards were police conduct that will keep these country pretty from happening again so you have him talk about it on monday night you have a lot of your trip on tuesday night dressing it again as the wife of the president of united states so it's certainly something that's important to republicans and it is only the key issue is going to use this content in their marches and their

protests and even some buy into the protest this will be something that republicans will have to address can i just ask you this is a wider question and not a political one actually for your thoughts on what has had only happened the event that the shooting in can off to everything we saw with george flint can you believe that this sort of thing is still happening that a policeman is unloading 7 bullets into someone in front of other people in front of the children and in front of cameras. it's very hard to believe and i speak not only as a republican as a former aide to the united states president because the african-american is a black man and i'm concerned about this because this could happen to people that i love it could happen to me god forbid and the whole idea is if you have national standards for police conduct especially as it relates to the use of excessive force you can stop this kind of thing from happening you can you can have the kind of kind of legislation in place that tells police that they can't use

a chokehold they can't use excessive force and in these kinds of situations that cause these terrible tragedies so this is a very sad thing for me to see it sad for every american to see but certainly for people of color in the united states it's a real tragedy and and we all want it whether we're black or white or anything else we want to stop and i think the way to get at the stop is to have legislation maybe even into our courts names legislation this is just trying to be the. call for national police standards in the use of excessive force republican strategist joe watkins with us from philadelphia thank you for your time thanks. there are serious investigative unit is standing by its exclusive report which the government of cyprus is calling quote propaganda investigation focuses on a case of confidential documents listing 2 and a half 1000 people who have purchased citizenship in cyprus some of those obtained

cypriot passports are criminals while others are seeking a safe haven away from their own governments or davey's as a report. a meeting of presidents to discuss greater links between cyprus and china but away from the public glare hundreds of chinese have quietly paid for a personal connection aboard cypriot citizenship a few likely are criminals he sanctioned by the us for laundering stolen cryptocurrency others like tang yong are politically connected he's boss of a state owned energy company the chinese presence is increasingly visible in cyprus 2 and a half $1000000.00 for citizenship and a passport which can be invested in a luxury home is a modest price for china's super rich young man and spend both have separate passports through her family real estate company country garden she's worth an

estimated 27000000000 dollars and is often called asia's richest woman. but paying for the passport and moving assets to the island isn't straightforward because china has strong currency controls strictly speaking it's all illegal but often they use hong kong as a way for getting their money out of china and there are many who egypt ways for doing so and they sometimes also used in macau as another way all getting money out of china another category in the cyprus papers includes those we are not naming for their own safety that applies to a woman whose relative was secretly abducted from long kong by chinese security agents and several names from saudi arabia applications for cypriot passports from the kingdom have increased since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin cell man

like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide turn deborah davis al-jazeera london. right so that's our story here is what the cypriot interior minister had to say about the report do you think you're going to win reduce the media have now or the interior ministry has investigated all the information al-jazeera has given to the public and all the names brought up on the investigation have been looked into when

they applied for the visas there were 100 percent in title 2 it was no criminal record in their home countries and with there were living we investigated and there were no complaints against them from any other sources or interpol this is deliberate distortion and deception of the elements biol dizzier on thursday we will have the 5th and final report on the cyprus papers after a week of revelations about the serious flaws in the cyprus investment scheme for possible if we will also have an exclusive interview with the european union's commissioner for justice to. who will react to our findings that will be starting on the news hour tomorrow 10100 hours g.m.t. not in 10100 hours g.m.t. thursday. still in this news out that the flash floods in parts of afghanistan in pakistan kill more than $200.00 people and dozens are missing as a coronavirus reinfection while the world health organization says we shouldn't panic and sports arena williams suffers a setback ahead of the u.s.

open far out we'll have that list sport a little later. but . how do i think we'll see a few more thunderstorms build in the mountains in this part of amman because the whole not just it's edge of a trough that's brought thunderstorms up through pakistan to afghanistan and is slow to retreat beyond that is still hot and drugs an increase in the breeze coming out of iraq through kuwait and down towards the gulf picking up a little bit just not a huge amount it's not a particularly strong breeze but it's enough i think to temporarily take the humidity down in for example deborah which is going to be breezy on friday than there's a breeze does away sunday in particular will feel pretty close that most north africa is dry heat is still quite hot in morocco and algeria in love even on the

coast we've got ribot at $31.00 degrees inland where in the forty's of course big sun storms and masses of them which is starting more or less around nigeria moving westwards are going offshore just about to run the gambia maybe a bit further north and back in the next mass is already forming in the kenai faster as you can see the slow moving they produce local flooding as they move slowly west sas of all this it's still winter and winter storm should go trust the far side of south africa they're doing so but in slow process so it's fine in the moment. dreams john's and entertainments away the people to rise above the violence around them so it's my role to give these girls a different idea that they can leave the wards of this community 3 short films show how performance creates

a home and family and gives hope and opportunity. a.j. selects on al-jazeera. this is one of the more sounding for the largest revolutions in all of may. we have to meet the c o 2 emission targets electric cars there to diminish and they need to be minor people are just talking about when the sellers if that's going to solve the problem at heart the world of business and commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy and illusion the dark side of green energy coming soon on al-jazeera. order .

from the news here at al-jazeera these are the top stories iran has agreed to give the u.n. nuclear watchdog access to 2 of its suspected former atomic sides leaders in teheran announced it in a joint statement with the international atomic energy agency the i.a.e.a. president hassan rouhani also promised to continue cooperation. says it plans to extend its territorial waters west to it in the ionian c. the expansion doesn't directly affect the area in dispute with turkey in the eastern mediterranean and governments killed at least 2 people in the city u.s. city of kosher wisconsin it happened during the 3rd night of protests over the police shooting and wounding of an unarmed black. earlier we heard some of what was said on the 2nd night of the us republican party's national convention well our white house correspondent kimberly halkett now rounds out the

rest of the evening much of which broke with decades of priest. explore together. america it was a night billed as a tribute to the great american story and the people empowered to succeed by president trump's policies many of those stories appeared to be produced by the former reality t.v. star himself breaking with precedent that presidential candidates lay low until the final night at the convention trump appeared 3 times greater john i'm not sure you know those a full pardon he issued a presidential pardon restoring the rights of a bank robber who has made it his mission to improve the lives of convicts and repeat after me in another made for t.v. moment trauma corporative as citizenship ceremony into the program to reach out to voters of color touting his push for legal immigration breaking with tradition

secretary of state mike pompei appeared from west jerusalem well on official government business despite telling his own diplomatic corps weeks earlier that overt partisan politics violated u.s. law he told voters only president trump will keep american freedoms intact because president trump has put his america 1st vision into action it may not have made him popular in every foreign capital but it's worked the 2nd night of the republican national convention remained a family affair as it had the night earlier to more of trump's children spoke his son eric and daughter tiffany railed against the media coverage of their father people must recognize that our thoughts are pinions and even the choice of who we are voting for may and are being manipulated and visibly coerced by the media and tech giants. but it was 1st lady malani a trump who delivered tuesday evenings marquee address making an appeal to women

voters to. port her husband she outlined the challenges he needs to overcome from racial unrest to tens of thousands of americans dead from cope with 19 i know many people anxious and sound feel helpless i want you to know you're not alone. my husband's administration will not stop fighting until there is an effective treatment or vaccine available to everyone indeed the 1st lady was one of the few speakers at the republican national convention to acknowledge the personal devastation and heartbreak that americans have faced during the pandemic it's a pandemic many blame president trump for not doing more to stop it's a narrative he may not be able to overcome with just 10 weeks until the election kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house hundreds of thousands of people have

been told to leave their homes on the u.s. gulf coast as hurricane laura bears down on both texas and louisiana it strengthened now to a category 3 system and is likely to get stronger before it hits later on wed and state laws already killed at least 11 people in parts of the caribbean there was another storm as well marco which had been heading towards new orleans but has weakened and again like it in miami i guess small mercies there that one or 2 hurricanes has weakened but laura is looking very strong. yeah all eyes on hurricane laura now the national hurricane center here in miami say overnight it had to a remarkable intensification making this now for medical storm a category 3 hurricane that still has some way to go before it's those coastlines at the moment all the models are converging on the state line between texas and louisiana with the potential for this storm to become a category 4 potentially the most powerful storm to hit this region in

a decade that means winds of at least 175 kilometers an hour storm surges of up to 4 meters not including the waves that will be on top of that now what is vital to all this is when this storm will hit it predicted to hit late on wednesday into the early hours of thursday morning if it hits in the early hours of thursday morning that will coincide with the high tide in that region making things even worse the authorities that now on full alert harf a 1000000 people have already been evacuated and 20000000 people and target to deal with this major potentially devastating hurricane now these are very low lying areas that are used to this kind of weather but of course we're dealing with a pandemic as well so they authorities are dealing with how to shelter people telling people to go and stay with friends and relatives rather than gather in a vacuum ration centers so this is a very serious situation a tropical storm marco is no threat anymore but hurricane laura if it hits as

a category 4 could knock out power for days it could threaten lives with those huge storm surges and it certainly is being taken seriously all along both of those coastlines you said potentially biggest in a decade to hit the region my memories going back further than vats obviously 2005 and hurrican katrina. you sort of get shades of that here. yeah i mean absolutely remember hurricane katrina killed over 800 people it took everyone by surprise the reaction of the u.s. government was pretty slow it stands as a testament to what these hurricanes can do in places like new orleans since then new orleans is vastly improved its barriers and it's on the very outer edge of the code but the important thing is where this storm now tracks because if it tracks east towards new orleans they're in trouble if it tracks west towards houston they are of course also potentially in trouble when hurricane harvey hit houston in 2017

it killed $68.00 people in there was major flooding across an already low lying city so this is a very serious situation a large and powerful storm that even in the words of the national hurricane center has seems to be taking people by surprise by how quickly it's intensifying and just how powerful it could be when it impacts later on on wednesday into the early hours of thursday morning and he callicles on hurricane watch for us from miami thank you randi russia is being urged to help bring the better roosts president alexander lukashenko to the negotiating table noble prize winning writer svetlana alexa vich made the appeal before being questioned about her involvement in the opposition's coordination council that was formed last week to help broker a peaceful transition of power however it's accused of actually trying to seize power illegally as protesters accuse the president of rigging his reelection to

need to demand his resignation. that some of the many of us. now look to speak so i need to put him we need him to speak to that he may be different can help us so that lukashenko me in go shit with somebody the more we stay together the stronger we will be and the greater the chance we would have of me tory to stoke to us. well look at because opponents are keeping up the pressure on him to resign after 2 prominent opposition leaders were jailed and to government demonstrators are expected to again rally in the capital but so too are the president's supporters so also has our report from minsk the. soul of their a t for those punished protesting against the. musicians have gathered at the theater in minsk every day so it's our rector was sacked for supporting the protests from a culture minister powerful up to scratch faces

a criminal investigation insists this missile he's become one of the key members of the opposition council. performances are cancelled and actors of all resigned in support of him including all of garbos who has been a popular performer for decades but you. there are a lot of resignation letters at the moment we are lucky we are united in stick together your parties don't know what to do with us we don't know what will happen to us next. and if i and the actors openly displayed the opposition flag after police took it down to the rulers and you want to see where it's impossible to work under such a regime we are heavily censored in our salary is miserable and we cannot express our opinion as a person of culture under this regime our profession makes no sense the actors joined a rally at the ministry of education with teachers also gathered to protest against this beautiful reelection earlier this month he's announced that all teachers who

don't share his ideology will be sacked. i've been working at the school for 35 years i've come here to declare that teaches don't agree they are very brave people because it is scary for dismissed teachers there are plans to establish private schools so they can take children and still earn money thanks while hundreds of teachers stage a peaceful rally police vehicles arrive some protesters carry in children shout we're not here. i was going to be inside this again and still to this broadcast to say thank you thank you thank you for the story in spite of crisscrossed the constructor with. me teachers taking to the streets it seems the president is increasingly alienating professionals who are the pillars of his government for fashion also have become more and more united in

their fight against him and his 26 years in power start fasten al-jazeera mints. but ryan has sidestepped the u.s. push to normalize relations with israel king hamad bin is told a visiting us on player that they want to see the creation of a palestinian state 1st on pay as been in manama as part of the middle east trip aimed at forging more links between israel and the arab world remember they've already brokered the israeli u.a.e. deal told him though they stand by the arab peace initiative which calls for israel to withdraw from palestinian territories it occupied after $967.00 lebanon's supreme defense counsels denounced what it calls an israeli assault on the border israeli commander said warplanes 5 at several has will observation points apparently in response to shots fired from southern lebanon earlier israeli residents were ordered to stay home because of a security threat. campaigns begun in chile for

a referendum to decide the future of the constitution chileans are due to vote on october 25th deciding whether or not to rewrite the constitution which was written back during the military dictatorship which actually ended 30 years ago a latin america editor is the senior and she's in santiago for us honestly accusations of political tampering coronavirus locked delays as well as is not a vote that will go down easily. no absolutely bad constitution the chimney currently as may have been written 30 years ago but it is still very much in force and where i'm standing now is to italy bronze which was nicknamed dignity plaza as many of you may require during months and months of social uprisings of people protest clashes with riot police very very intense and all that suddenly came to an end because of the pandemic but now in this very same

place which is incredibly symbolic for those who want to a new constitution and who fought for the constitution or the right for people to choose whether or not they want a new one. they've come here they're only allowed to be 50 people gathered in one place at the same time i'll just get out of the way and you may see there are more soldiers and more police here than there are actually people with with flags showing their support for a constitutional reform and a constitutional assembly when this referendum takes place finally when it takes place that will decide whether chileans agree on writing one or not but in the meantime as you say there is a huge pandemic underway and that is means that a lot of people won't even be allowed to go and vote so that's becoming a controversy in and of itself what is more important the constitutional right to vote or the right you know the you know obligation to stay home to protect other people's health. in chile you have to vote physically it pretty you cannot vote

online so that's becoming a big controversy right now but right now we have a few people at least while most of the campaigning is done online out here showing their support for a new card in this country to see i'm actually interested to know how a constitution as we've pointed out written during a military dictatorship has lost it so long off to the full of that to take issue. well incredibly different although there have been some changes some amendments to it it's lasted because there hasn't been enough there haven't been in a vote the way the whole constitution was set up you have to have something like 3 fifth's or or more than 2 thirds rather of the votes in congress to amend or to change it and there isn't a at least a 3rd of the congress is made up of conservatives that want to keep things just as they are what that means is to protect the current especially the current economic

system it's a very very narrow liberal free market system that millions of chileans have been protesting against for months and months and in fact even years but there are there is a small but powerful group here that wants to keep things as they are and there are others who are afraid that if there's a new constitution it might be too left wing so most of the arguments there will going to be hearing now intensely over the next 6 weeks before the actual referendum takes place soon human to latin america editor in sunday i think you the world health organization says it still believes there's only a small risk of being infected with copd 19 a 2nd time this was in response to reports a man in hong kong contract to do it again 4 months after he 1st fill. so we've had anecdotal reports every now and then of people who have tested negative then tested positive and it hasn't been clear up until this case whether that was simply a problem with testing or whether people well getting infected

a 2nd time but it's very important to understand what this means in terms of the mukasey and this is why we have got a lot of research groups actually tracking people measuring antibodies trying to understand how long the immune protection lasts the natural of new protection and that should be understood as it is not the same as the immune protection that a vaccine provides the malaysian low cost airline air asia x. says it will need help from creditors to ride out the pandemic the company posted as $73000000.00 loss for the april to june quarter revenues tumbled more than 90 percent now it's also in suppliers and lenders for payment deferrals and concessions as it makes further cuts itself managers say the future of the business depends on flights being able to resume properly by early next year. now flash floods in parts of afghanistan and pakistan have killed more than $200.00 people

over just the past few days thereafter and president ordered a deliverance for the worst affected areas and troops have been sent to flooded regions in pakistan priyanka gupta has our report was like that one on a lot of afghans in power one province rescue their loved ones any way they can. remain flash floods so impoverished through the northern region that dozens killed mostly women and children. others remain missing feared trapped under the rubble of their destroyed homes local leaders say the scale of the disaster is overwhelming and they need help doing to move forward on the remove there was barbed wire on the roof of my neighbor's house i cut that and wanted to take my family to the rooftop of the flood water was coming towards us just to save their lives suddenly the flood water flushed out everything and my family 7 members of my family are missing . all over neighboring pakistan

it's a similar scene of devastation after days of torrential rains in the largest city karachi polluted water from greece flood streets spilling into homes. i promise to run conses troops are being sent to help pump water from flooded neighborhoods of the family needed to be alone to china you can see there is chaos people are annoyed no vehicles can pass through the streets as all the roads are inundated we appeal to the government they must do something to clean the storm water drains. the monsoon floods in both afghanistan and pakistan are common at this time of the year and so is a threat to life and property with outdated drainage systems and poorly constructed homes adding to the danger. al-jazeera. honk police have raided the homes of 2 pro-democracy polity. missions connected to last year's anti-government protests today and acting are among more than

a dozen suspects arrested accused of damaging property and rioting on the same day pro-government supporters attacked him and others in a subway station your sports news is next with a far a taking a look at which clubs could maybe afford to have lino messi wearing their shirt next season.

as far as here now with all the latest on this what is going. very complicated it's not that easy for him to leave barcelona say they have no intention of allowing

lionel messi to leave the club messy stuff on the footballing world by handing in a transfer request on choose day the player and the club looks set for a legal standoff messi believes his contract will allow him to leave on a free transfer barsa and says he is still bound by an $800000000.00 cause the 6 time world player of the year has been at bar suffer his entire career winning 4 european cups and 10 spanish league titles there's no no. we don't contemplate any kind of exit by leo from his contracts because we want him to stay because i think that leo knows he has enormous respect because we're talking about the best player in the world maybe the best player in history and absolutely convinced the immediate future he can be positive we have to be optimistic and sulk about blending new young place into the team along some of the experience old leo together we have to build the boss wants with

a basic salary of around $19000000.00 a year not many clubs are in the running to sign the 33 year old english premier league side manchester city offers a chance of a reunion with former barcelona player and manager pat cordella he has she might see massey as a player who could help them win their 1st european champions league is former bar so a team mate to neymar is already at the club in turmoil and are backed by ambitious chinese owners desperate to an event says dominance in the italian league the other option for massey is to stay where it is but many in barcelona fear that relationship is broken beyond repair. thank you all they are fed up of him right now i see 0 possibility of messi staying abbas alona there is an unlikely option which is that bought to meet the president make sure that messi stays by resigning it would be a nice gesture but we're talking about a president who stayed in his post following the greatest debacle in the club's

history so i think you'd be very unlikely for him to take that step right now so as much as i regret it i see messi leaving the club l.a. clippers coach doc rivers gave an emotional press conference after his team's when in the n.b.a. playoffs rivers had been asked for his take on the police shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin a black lives matter slogan has been highly visible at games since the n.b.a. restart and many players have spoken out in support of the fight against racial injustice is just really so sad. i should just coach. so. mind my color you know it's just really just. serato raptors players saying they've discussing boycotting their opening fly off match in protest at the shooting at the police shooting of like the reigning n.b.a.

champions are due to face the boston celtics on friday ok i'm going to hear more going towards the player. you know supposed to not be a game but it's a start of everything we're doing is just going through the motions and not this really turned into who we are again with another you know unfortunately. they're going to be for the have that's not been the job you know that it is starting to get washed out after white black lives matter is just another thing a conversation now you know so much that every word you know now is just. in a daily conversation you know it is kind of getting. to the point where you're not really noticing it. serena williams as preparations for the u.s. open has suffered a setback the 23 time grand slam champion was stunned in the last 16 of the western and southern open in new york well you know what a one set lead subway against 13th seed. the american who's struggled with fitness

issues during the match went down in 3 sets the u.s. open is due to start on monday with no fans presence. and the men's draw world number one novak djokovic cruised into the quarterfinals the serbian has struggled with neck pain in his opening match to see bothered by the injury against tennessee i sang grand jock which overcame his opponent in straight sets 626 he lost to clinch his 20th straight win of the season he. had a 6 month holding the calendar but season has restarted as well in the circumstances that we just have to accept it as as they are. you know we can't change that at the moment but i think in terms of the quality of that is. in terms of opponents that i get to face it's pretty much the same. ok and that is all your sport for now back to you kemal so far thank you for

that well so far again lighter for some sports 1800 hours g.m.t. in the next news hour but we're also back after the break the latest on that a deal struck between iran and the international atomic energy agency so you might . investigative journalism i've got my day look this is my day on from the press club down area but then let the noble x.-box and discussion should reparations be a good conversation on people losing their support the freedom of your people if you leave giving voice to the voiceless it's like you're going to do why don't

every time you want programs that open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on al-jazeera. a unique here endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of those tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about the animals that we have here and now. are coming by so there are some conservation their communities algis there are journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist and had teams out to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegal drugs south and some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally it's a big business smuggling illegal take to sit there in the sand is there to save this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so tragedy is that

people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound at this time on al jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world matter where you. can news and current affairs that matter to you. iraq and the un's nuclear watchdog agree on new inspections of suspected former atomic sites. i'm kemal santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera 2 people shot dead in the u.s. city of can assure in violence that's followed the police shooting of a black man also the government of cyprus responds to an al jazeera investigation

into a cash for passport scheme where convicted criminals and fugitives are among those buying up citizenship.