it took the found me months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it get demolished. this is al-jazeera. 11 doha everyone on come all sons of maria this is the news hour from al-jazeera tensions rise further in the mediterranean as turkey snaps back it will conduct live naval drills as the standoff with greece escalates also in the news hurricane laura rolls across the southern u.s. coast bringing a storm surge described as on the survivable mollies who leaders say they have now released the alst of president abraham book from detention. not only

a. terrorist and locked up with no chance of being freed a white supremacist who killed 51 muslim worship is in new zealand is sentenced. in u.s. courts takes an unprecedented stand against racial injustice basketball leads a boycott of games following the police shooting of a wisconsin resident complained. 24 hours ago turkey warned greece not to test its patients now it is revealed what that actually meant so he will hold live firing exercises in these to make the east mediterranean next week the latest escalation in a maritime dispute with greece over control of potential oil and gas reserves both countries have been holding military drills already near a patch of sea which they both claim the turkish. and is also extending the work of

its vessel conducting seismic surveys of the area and greece is expected to ratify a maritime agreement with egypt which turkey opposes so there's a lot going on there also germany's top diplomat has been calling for an end to the exercises as the e.u. tries to pull greece and turkey back from the risk of confrontation spoke at a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers in berlin. we will see how things develop at the end of this month where the ships will move to and we will also work here to create the conditions for turkey and greece to solve their problems directly with each other and to do everything possible to avoid military confrontation so we'll have more on that position with dominic cain in berlin in just a moment but we're starting in istanbul on the news hour with new sim. as i said it was that that word don't test our patience which is what he said and now quite an escalation in. well yes come on there has been

explanation for a while but we're also hearing constructive messages from both greece and turkey side the spite threats also take place for instance today turkey's defense minister was host of live on a t.v. show and he said that turkey is open to dialogue turkey is open to find a solution but 1st all the problems must be a rest and sold before coming to a solution wouldn't come so turkey's systemic operations. in the. mediterranean the defense minister who sarkar said that we are doing all our facilities in the in the area that is over the defined turkey has submitted its coordinates to the u n 20 years ago and the latest one was back in 2900 according to the un says the law of the convention the un doesn't assign you any border it's not like continental

territory or land territory the water territory case is different so it gives you some it defined to. some definitions but it is up to the 2 countries to decide and come to a solution so actually this is a by later problem between turkey and greece that they have to agree on a fair share of rights and resources this is what the turkish foreign minister defense minister has been saying that but he sat everybody must know that if there is a threat coming from those territories against turkey we will be defending defending ourselves and we are a capital maybe what turkey has been but there it is actually in its 3rd parties being involved like france and the u.a.e. because turkey says that military exercises and maritime training exercises even the words if i live life fires are conducted within turkey's territorial waters. not in

a way that is actually. violating greek waters that's why they say why those 3rd parties are involved and this is seen like as a threat then provocation by the turks but turkish defense minister said that the older they have 3 meetings with greek counterparts in both athens and the turkish capital ankara a 4th was scheduled it was supposed to happen now we are waiting for our greek counterparts to decide whether to conduct a day or not if they decide to we are happy to host them in the turkish capital ankara but of course we have to preserve our rights and we have to find a fair solution for food distribution of waters and the resources under the waters this is what the turkish say ok. in istanbul thank you for that dominic. making the point there that the turks and the greeks have been talking bilaterally at least but europe has very much involved itself and will be clinging on to that idea that these 2 sides will still want to talk in the light of this escalation.

the ministerial mantra here has been to emphasize the virtues of dialogue and deescalation we heard it from haiku mass we've heard it also from an interested observer in this. meeting that's. the secretary general of nato who said specifically that precisely that that dialogue and deescalation all the ways out of this particular dial emma but the problem in so far as the e.u. is concerned is that turkey is not part of the e.u. and yet it is very important to the e.u. remember that the deal between the turkish government and the e.u. regarding refugees is a central plank of policy something that matters particularly here in this capital city in berlin and so clearly where possible the e.u. wants to remain on very good terms with the turkish government but then equally it

has to remember that 2 member states of the e.u. greece and cyprus also have a vested interest in what's going on in the eastern mediterranean which again is why what they've been really urging here is dialogue and deescalation specifically that came from angle americal who said she's particularly concerned about how things are unfolding in the eastern mediterranean. that's dominant cain updating us on the european side of things there from berlin thank you dominic were on to other news on the president of belarus is accusing western countries of waging a diplomatic war to exploit instability there russia has also said that alexander lukashenko has asked for help to create a reserve police force but in a putin said russian police would only be sent to belarus if the situation quote spins out of control protesters and a growing number of striking workers demanding political change of course accused

of rigging his reelection earlier this month. in moscow for us now xandra one of a good word to take us through this what do you think are the shots is really here of russian police or russian presence being deployed in belarus. well there is actually very hard to tell at this point we heard a confirmation from the top of russia which is like the russian president vladimir putin that said that on the request or a question called he did form the reserve a task force of law enforcement that are going to act only if the situation spirals out of control only if as he said extremist elements try to create chaos started burning cars banks try to takeover by violence or official buildings and saying that this is not happening so far now he was actually quoting 2 treaties one

is the collective security treaty and the other is states union state between russia and belarus are saying that they ease. their death would allow this the thing with the security the collective security treaty is it actually refers to external threats so some 3rd party threatening one of the member states as for union states there is there a point which says that protecting libyan democracy public order but it is very way because this state actually union state has not been fully formulated and fully created and that is actually due to the look of shame cause resisting that before his election and before he ended up with so many people on the street now putin also said that. these protests cannot be ignored these people wanting good changes cannot be ignored and they should be talked to but at the same time he said the coalition of opposition is sort of not the ones to talk to he didn't say that

directly but he said the constitutional court court in about us said no not constitutional. so whether he will deploy troops depends on how the situation develops for a look at shanghai himself and how much russia is willing to go into this adventure which potentially can if it really comes to russian troops being deployed to their strange population which generally is not against cooperation with russia for them this is not about east in the west this is about them one thing to go away then one thing fair elections alexander leave that story there for a moment if you could just stay there for a 2nd i want to address something else here coming out of moscow that is russia's top prosecutor saying there is no indication of a crime involving the opposition leader alexei novell mature remember this one he's been in a coma for a week after collapsing on a flight in russia doctors at the berlin hospital where he's being treated say his medical examination suggests he was poisoned but moscow is demanding to see those

medical files insisting the diagnosis is in conclusive so alexander does rupture or for any other explanation or is just saying no it wasn't poisoning. well on the official level russia is actually saying that no one knows what happened to alexina valley there is no proof going either way it could be anything basically and no one should claim it's poisoning they say until we have solid proof and moreover no one should claim it was deliberate poisoning so we from official line this is the official line from up from officials like we don't know and we should wait and see and we wanted to see the proof and that's no criminal investigation is possible because there is no proof of foul play and officially we have threw up all sorts of analysts and all sorts of a lower officials all sorts of theories being placed to the public like he could have eaten something or there was some medicine he took or maybe he was on

a diet these is a sort of a creating a cloud of dust to obscure and that is not the 1st time such a tactic has been employed from a repeat official level they insist that no one knows and that also what the german doctors said that he it's what it was an intoxication it here because of cholera nester eyes they're saying they did not find a toxin they did not find poisoning and they jump to the conclusion of intoxication and since these same state lower ends him was also found the by the russian doctors but no analysis show no traces of poison so at this level it stays at the 3 investigation level of sort of fact checking but no criminal case opened whatsoever at the same time russia is official requesting from germany to send the proofs of the claims of the german doctors as well as all the medical files and analysis done from the point he and 30 he was placed in the plane and further on in the hospital

example of a church good for keeping us up to date with events in russia today thank you. we're almost a quarter past the hour here's what's coming up we're looking at the foreign policy legacy of president donald trump's 1st term in office so why smoke from fires in the amazon rain forest could worsen the coronavirus death toll and in sport 2 time grand slam champion says it's time for tennis to take a backseat. the latest on hurricane laura now which is battering the southern united states with forecasters have warned of survivable storm surges. laura has been downgraded from a category 4 to a category 2 storm but that still means top wind speeds of almost 180 kilometers

per hour winds of thousands of people are without power and the governor of louisiana is worried that some coastal residents who were issued with evacuation orders have actually ignored them. which is in lake charles louisiana which is taking the full force of the storm here's his report. thankfully we are getting a bit of a break the wind has died down the rain has stopped for now we'll continue to see a bit of that spinning rain and some wind gusts for the next hour or so as the storm finally clears all the way out of this area but lake whole think of the wreck that last night burst the storm makes landfall about all 3035 miles to the south and cameron in the move in and a process that didn't and as it did it wreaked havoc here we know that flooding is an issue and will continue to be the water is still building hundreds of thousands are without power not only in this area but that power is going to be lost as the storm continues to push to the north in an eventual leak off to the east it's still

going to be a powerful storm at that time as well look we know there's significant damages to buildings here we don't have a good handle on all of that because when still some strong for teams to really get out at this point power lines are down flooding and pockets of this city are just too intense but again if things are really up in the next hour still we'll get a much better idea of the then of the damage. so that's the story from louisiana we'll go wider now with andy gallica following things from miami you know the storm came ashore pretty much actually on the border wasn't it louisiana and texas where else has it gone and what other reports are coming in. well the big headline yesterday was that the storm surge would be in the words of the national hurricane center unsurvivable that didn't come to pass we didn't get those 6 meters storm surges that were predicted so there is somewhat of good news coming out of that

area but it seems the storm track slightly to the east so it impacted louisiana more than it did texas and we've already got governor john ballard woods of louisiana reporting the 1st death of 14 year old girl died in a home when a tree fell on it but as jay said the true extent of the damage here will not be known until search and rescue crews can get out into those low lying communities south of his location because that's the real concern at the moment certainly when this storm hit those 2 coastlines the winds were in excess of 200 kilometers per hour we expect catastrophic damage more than half a 1000000 people now in both of those states without power you were talking about people that didn't have people often misunderstand that mandatory evacuations can be ignored but a lot of people were simply afraid of the pandemic as well they didn't want to go to evacuees in shelters so that has a real concern i think for the emergency services and officials as they head southwards down into those very fragile delicate low lying communities to see what

they will find at the moment it's too dangerous for those crews to get out on the ground because the winds are still so strong but certainly the tidal surge coming in wasn't nearly as high as forecast is as predicted so we're at the end of august now and how long just more widely for viewers who don't know does this storm season go on because i mean there was another storm wasn't there mark which was supposed to hit at the same time. yeah i mean it's 6 months of the year the hurricane season the atlantic hurricane season lasts 6 months they get it but in in my experience covering hurricanes for the last 20 years it's normally september that's the busy year remember in 2017 when we had about 3 major hurricanes come into the united states so they do seem to be happening a little earlier that climate change is also playing a role according to scientists they are now lingering for longer they all whites are in potentially stronger but i think the thing that might have saved these 2 states from absolutely catastrophic and unsurvivable damage is that this storm sped

up so quickly as it approached the coastline if you look at katrina back in 2005 that had become a category 5 for a good deal of time before it but coastline therefore had more power to push that surge in line so that maybe a small mercy for the state of louisiana in particular but as daylight comes as the search crews go out into these low lying communities we will get a better picture of just how about hurricane laura has been for those 2 states ok thank you for that update andy gallacher in miami right staying in the u.s. donald trump says federal troops are being sent to assist the national guard following a 4th night of black lives matter protests in connection with the constant around 500 guards and now in the city where police shot and paralyzed like american jacob blake on sunday during protests on tuesday 2 people were shot dead and a 17 year old suspect has been arrested and charged more now from john hendren

reporting from connection. hundreds of law enforcement agents at all levels are descending on the small city of can osha where local police have struggled to quell escalating violence. the ramping up of law enforcement follows a fatal fight between protesters and a teenager who fired an assault weapon on demonstrators killing 2 and wounding one . using video from the scene sheriff's deputies arrested 17 year old kyle rittenhouse emanuel and then we are going to blame it on everybody else it was not clear whether rittenhouse was among the armed militia members who verbal e clashed with protesters after days of looting arson in violent clashes the city has responded with a new curfew we're not going to put up with what we saw monday night we're not going to is that mean we're going to stop it all. it comes on numbers that come

we're not to be able to stop it all but we're going to be assertive in helping to protect the city at the notion that. the governor has called in a broad array of law enforcement from across the state of wisconsin the region and the federal government governor tony even has called in $500.00 more military troops from the national guard to join hundreds of local police and sheriff's deputies in riot gear president trump offered up federal troops saying today i will be sending federal law enforcement and the national guard to canoe she was constant to restore law and order that federal contribution could be sizable a law enforcement source tells me that 60 f.b.i. officers and an untold number of federal swat officers are coming from chicago alone adding to a force that has increased dramatically in recent days. the demonstrations began on sunday after police fired several shots into the back of jacob blake. a black

man left paralyzed from a shooting his 3 sons witnessed from inside the car where he was struck wisconsin attorney general josh call says the investigation into that shooting shows police were trying to arrest jacob blake following a complaint from his girlfriend that he had trespassed in her home and call name the officer involved. mr blake walked around his vehicle open the driver's side door and lean forward while holding on to mr blake sure officer ruston she fired his service weapon 7 times. says blake emitted to officers that he had a knife later found on the driver's side floorboard of his car new video did not show him threatening officers. as protests continued past the new curfew demonstrators seemed undeterred then a massive influx of police plan to shut them down john hendren al-jazeera wisconsin . for us sports stars have joined the protests as well the n.b.a.

postponed all of wednesday's playoffs out to the wisconsin based milwaukee bucks boycotted their game against orlando magic sam alec reports walking fox did not come out the stars of the n.b.a. said they'd use their platforms to promote the fight against racial injustice and they've delivered on that promise back into the law on wednesday teams boycotted scrunch postseason matches in protest following the police shooting of wisconsin resident jacob blake and it was wisconsin's very own team the milwaukee bucks that led the way by not taking to the court for their game against orlando we're expected to play higher humax in the code other count we hold ourselves to their standing in this moment we are demanding the same from lawmakers in both force and . we are calling for justice for you to believe. there are also reports that both the lakers and the clippers have voted to boycott the rest of the season the

biggest on the game making his views very clear on twitter. n.b.a. franchises we're joined by teams in the u.s. is top women's basketball division who also refused to play one matches in major league soccer were postponed due to play boycotts 3 major league baseball games are also called off from the center but some players on teams that did play made their feelings very clear. it was a lonely. kind of their milk lead. to the black lives not just slogan has been highly visible across the u.s. but in recent months and it's clear that some are willing to walk away from a shot at glory to help win the fight against racial injustice to hell malik al jazeera. and of course we'll come back for more support later with andy but right

now i want to bring in benjamin crump from washington d.c. the attorney for jack and blake also benjamin you've represented the families of george floyd and briana taylor the other black americans who were shot dead by place i'll talk to you about that in a moment 1st of all of if you got an update on jacob for us on his on his condition are you as. in stable condition. or intensive care he had not concern us are very. concerned drew's multiple surgeries we're going to the. point. you know. are you able to speak to him understanding of his actually had anything to say or if he knows about what's happened in the in the 4 days since he was shot. he's a really medicated.

baaba maal so warm terms but again he's really. been so let's talk about what's happened in can assure in the last 4 days it is absolutely no surprise to see this reaction we've seen it in other parts of the country after similar incidents what do you think of the reaction to it though from both. officials and can osha and then as it's widened out further the national guard and right up to the president. what are think that the reaction is very emotional because it's very difficult as does a brutal. and necessary. use of excessive force to a young black man who'll through it as he tries to walk away from you know. burbling and then it was he was shot 7 times in the back

everyone of his 3 little boys who are age you know it's no 5 years or 3 years old for the more you hear the police trying 5 to justify the unjustifiable actions that they have taken and so that's one of scholars of outrage. civil rights community. activists even the national basketball association or it may do. everybody out worry about this send a note because a lot of been the reaction. within the white house that ministry should. concentrate him out oh we have that law and i want to and we can't have violence. the only by words has taken place and it could no should with. had been why me who shot. jacob jr 7 times in the

back and a young white christmas who shouted to black. no black people. i want. you to not do anything you know so well so when he had done about that then if you say the story turns out to you 1st remember you rightly point out with it. benjamin you rightly point out that the focus certainly from officials has been about the protests and the violence since then watch is being taken what official moves are being taken against as you say the police who shot jacob in the 1st place . put on administrative leave that's the only they have to all visitors and. that's not what they do so they what are you doing though as as as as jacobs legal representation

what avenues are you pursuing. obviously our office and our legal team is doored our own events to engage should all be have jacob blake his family we've talked to witnesses who have no. problem their perspective there was no light. they. made by. all of them to the police and the only thing that jacob was trying to do was get in his car and get his little boys out of obama to a situation we've now communicated with the department of justice we've had. 5 to examine the beauty you know and we're going to continue to push back on the narrative that this was just a little to none of us what you are trying to speculate about is about what we see on the video based on what we believe you know these was who did this it since it

you supports should be terminated immediately and then she would be at risk of a channel where the murder and. the efforts. of. think about the she was somebody would not have wanted. it is deliberate indifference to women to have personal lives. and that is the problem that exists when it comes to police of america especially as it relates to black benjamin crump is the lawyer for jacob blake thank you very much for your time sir . thank you. the politics goes on meanwhile u.s. president donald trump is preparing to rally the party faithful for the final night of the republican national convention. the 2nd last night wednesday session service vice president mike pence praise trump's record on the economy and on law and order

white house correspond to the how that was all from washington. it was a night heavy with symbolism as the vice president delivered his keynote speech at historic fort mchenry in baltimore the inspiration for the u.s. national anthem or. by mike pence stood with veterans in a display of patriotism the imagery a condemnation of athletes to kneel during the song the star-spangled banner pets and president donald trump have denounced athletes many of them black who kneel in protest over police brutality the american people know we don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with her african-american neighbors trunk joined his vice president standing in support of law enforcement as protests and riots continue following the latest police shooting of a black man in the u.s.

state of wisconsin pence denounced calls by some democrats to define the police you won't be safe from joe biden's in there as the head of the coronavirus task force has defended the u.s. response to cope with 19 even as more than 180000 americans are now dead joe biden said no miracle is coming well with joe doesn't seem to understand. is that america is a nation of miracles. just like the 1st 2 nights of the republican national convention wednesdays lined up again included members of the trump family advocating for his reelection this time daughter in law laura trump spoke directly to women who could help decide the 2020 vote defund the police is the rallying cry for the new radical democrat party joe biden will not do what it takes to maintain

order to keep our children safe in our neighborhoods and in their schools the appeal to female voters was also reflected on the white house lit purple and gold to mark the 100th anniversary of a woman's right to vote. but the convention didn't focus solely on domestic safety but also trumps foreign policy as well his former acting director of national intelligence defended trump's america 1st approach the d.c. crowd thinks when they call donald trump a nationalist and they're insulting him. as if the american president isn't supposed to base foreign policy on america's national interests thursday will be the final night of the convention would president trample officially accept his party's nomination right here at the white house democrats plan to counter his message democratic vice presidential nominee color harris will speak prior to its

rob what she says are his failures to contain code that night. kimberly helped get al jazeera the white house let's chat to an official now i was at the white house for us and i'm not done if you heard the conversation i had with benjamin crump. just a moment ago but we were discussing the fact that the president and his administration have not addressed the actual shooting in connecticut have they they are completely focused on the issue of law and order is there any indication they might address that in this final night. but we're told that donald trump speech will be one of optimism it's interesting though that they are continuing to go very much on a law and order theme of the republican party donald trump believes that this is a winning card for them if you're talking about law and order you're not talking about almost 180000 dead of coronavirus or an unemployment rate of over 10 percent what is interesting is that my parents in his speech when he said there has to be

peace on the streets did not mention george floyd and the protests that that provoked of course nor did he mention blake he did mention a california police officer called dave underwood who was killed at the same time as the protests in california what the vice president didn't see was that the officer was nowhere near the protests at the time as he described them and the alleged killer is a member of the so-called group the boogaloo boys who are a right wing group so that was completely omitted from my prince's speech so you can see that the idea is that if the appeal on law and order people who may be scared to be frightened particularly if they continue to hammer the idea that the unrest this happening in democratic areas you will be more see under donald trump and certainly there is a report in one national newspaper today were people who said that they were floating voters and there's no way of checking that have been concerned about

what's happened in can or show and don't know almost certainly going to vote for donald trump because of his stance on law and order. focus allen later we'll go on actually where you are the white house unconventionally donald trump will give his acceptance speech from there and i know there's all sorts of controversy about that give us a preview of what's expected in that speech. what we're told it will be an optimistic view but many people would see that that was what the republicans said before the convention and what we've had is a lot of attacks a lot of. complaints about what the country would look like under a joe biden presidency just to go back one second to the last and so i gave you've also got to know that my pen said that joe biden said he would do fund the police he never said that so we're told that this will be a much more optimistic painting by donald trump you'll remember 4 years ago he painted this very dark view of america coming out of the obama years he said he

alone could fix it we're told no that this will be a much brighter idea much more optimistic than donald trump is under pressure really to lay out his view for the next 4 years when asked about it in a couple of very softball interviews he said particularly the weekend we're going to do more of the same and some new things well it has to be a bit more detail than that i think before people will give him the benefit of the doubt and give them the benefit of the vote but while he's speaking there are protests planned washington d.c. is famous for google music there is going to be a big google party not far from here on. plaza and a number of people have said that they are going to make as much noise as they possibly can the area around the white house has been sealed off but they still hope they will make so much of a noise that they will be able to disrupt the speech which are new usually as you see is going to be delivered from the rose garden here at the white house ok we'll

see what happens later than donald trump not a man who generally sticks to the script so it'll be an interesting one thank you allan and as the president prepares to accept his party's nomination foreign policy experts have been looking at just how his performance is stacked up on the world stage and state department correspondent rosalind jordan has more. donald trump entered the fight house promising he would be a different kind of president when it comes to foreign policy his critics say trump has been that to the u.s. is detriment nato. you know their relationships with our core western european allies but you also look at east asia south korea japan where there are significant questions about the dirty tests the relationships that have with many of these countries to to look more closely towards

trying. to relationship trungpa said the u.s. should not bow to what he calls bureaucrats at the united nations or pay for the security of other members of nato the u.s. has been pressuring other nato countries to spend at least 2 percent of their g.d.p. on defense even as it continues to station troops in europe to protect them from any potential russian threat way to do it and as trump has tried to build closer ties with russia's vladimir putin ties his political rivals have called inexcusable in light of russia's document meddling in the 2016 u.s. allotment. trump has also spent his term focused on isolating iran 1st by quitting the 2015 nuclear deal and then by launching what the administration calls its maximum pressure campaign it's meant to stop terror han from sponsoring

terrorism and building nuclear weapons china is also an administration target drop is trying to ban companies such as walk away and tic toc from the u.s. market has closed the chinese consulate in houston and is pulling student and worker visas to ferret out spies by contrast the white house has nurtured the u.s. israeli relationship by moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and by unveiling its palestinian israeli peace plan which trump says provides for 2 independent states guarantees israel security and supports the economic aspirations of the palestinian people palestinian officials have rejected the plan because they say it would give israel control of security in palestine legalized settlement in the occupied west bank and prevent the formation of a single palestinian geographic body obviously the plan that the tribal

ministration launched on israel and the palestinians didn't succeed at all but i think that was just a tactical lure really to try to move toward arab states making peace with israel so far only the united arab emirates has agreed to normalize ties with israel trump says his foreign policy focus is clear america 1st and experts say that won't hurt him at the polls come november voters have other things on their minds. with the impact of the google. in the united states specifically as well as the economic consequences of the. people who are going to be voting on whether to go to the polls in this election year as in every other election year the public's top concern remains the same rosalyn jordan al-jazeera lossing to. an

update on one of our top stories now that as hurricane laura which is battering the southern united states forecasters were warning of uncivil storm surges it has weakened but still top wind speeds of almost 180 kilometers per hour. chris phone with us now from n.b.c. news in the united states he's in lafayette louisiana chris thanks for joining us. not to downplay things but it looks like the landfall of hurricane laura wasn't as bad as it could have been. i think that's fair come all other that's a good assessment so far now you have to understand that in some areas there's still high winds right now in lafayette which is a significant way inland we're still experiencing. wind speeds approaching tropical storm force i'm seeing some rain there's also some flooding going on but i think that right now the cost this assessment is that yes that's right that maybe

the storm surge wasn't quite as bad as originally predicted the wind certainly was bad and all along the gulf coast there are lots of trees and power lines down damaged homes we know that there are at least $600000.00 customers without power in east texas and louisiana the vast majority of them here in louisiana and we have learned of at least one face halliday a 14 year old girl north of here who apparently died when a tree limb fell on her home so that's the early assessment can things change as folks go out and kind of take a look around absolutely but. cautiously right now it sounds like people are optimistic that. we're not worst case scenario ok and this is christiane isn't lafayette louisiana thank you for that update. now wildfires played opposite we're talking about here this is in the brazilian amazon are threatening

coronavirus hit health services if you go back to last year there were more than 2000 people hospitalized because of these fires because of the smoke as well but this year's fires are expected to be even worse in july there was a 28 percent increase in amazon fires compared to the same period in $29.00 team brazil's institute for health policy studies describes amazon regions as we'll talk more about this in a 2nd clinic deserts because health care is so spotless already now we've got the chief executive of that institute joining us from rio de janeiro thank you for joining us clinic does it can you tell us a little more on what that actually means is there or is there a definition by numbers on what that means. hello thank you good morning yes so essentially one we do see who has but the health system that is universal is different from the united states for instance however we have a lot of inequalities and regional inequalities in the country and. the region

where the system is more fragile is the north part of brazil so the amazon vision of brazil so if you look for instance at the amazonian region around my mouse that is the capital of the biggest state in brazil we can see that we have like a little bit more than 8 beds per $100000.00 inhabitants which means it's not enough for the already existing demand at man hours this city but those beds are serving the whole state of the atoms so this is a very it's a dead problem and. what the 1st fishing is bringing is basically. a getting this demand higher which could be completely avoidable so how but ok i'll come back to that in a 2nd how bad is corona virus actually in these parts already we're not suggesting obviously that. the fires are linked to anyone getting coronavirus but what you're

saying is that if people have to come into the hospitals because of the fires they are presumably already under a lot of stress. exactly so this isn't has already collapsed because of the remember so we're already dealing with the collapse in the health system in the amazon region at every state in the amazon region the health system has collapsed because of the $1000.00 so what we're will be seeing now is. dozens of people that will need to prick your and travel because since. the health supply is limited and concentrated in the bigger cities it will need to fly they will ensue to travel to get those cities and of course exposing themselves and much more to the virus and so what we can see that this any kind of extra demand on the health system in already collapsed health system will certainly help to spread even more the virus and so this is

a double trouble and you talked about the fires and saying they are avoidable. how is it that these fires are forecast to be worse than last year remember last year was terrible. yes yes so brazil has for over 10 years been able to manage deforestation indianness but for the last 3 years and specially since last year when a trend that is that is where upscaling again the deforestation in a very heavy weight so i think the main responsible for that the fact that the federal government is not enforcing its environmental agents which used to be inforced and and were able to fight the. fires and of course not all that many many of the facts of what we're seeing now is that the environmental agencies are completely did not have the same autonomy do not have the same strain i'm not as in force and they don't have the back of the

federal government so this is a pretty serious. thing and 2nd the speech that our present tables are not of does is and is absolutely let's say encouraging of people that want to destroy the rain forests of this is also a problem. a crisis upon crisis isn't it from rio de janeiro thank you for joining us thank you so much. the kool-aid is in mali so they have released ousted president abraham different attention let him go home he resigned after soldiers seems to last week that followed months of mass protests against corruption and attacks by armed groups the west african bloc eco arse's urged the immediate return to civilian rule but leaders want the next election to be held in 3 years time. is following this one from a budget for us he explains now why the coup leaders decided to release the former

president's. well bramber what was released and he's in his home in savannah cotto now and what a lot of people are talking about is that probably this is more like an act of goodwill on the part of the military leadership in mali to appease the economic community of west african states to be flexible and of course leave most importantly the sanctions imposed on money in the aftermath of the cool on 18 people just 2020 remember cause wanted. needed restoration of democratic rule in mali specifically asking the kitchen be returned to power well when you told a delegation of course that he's not willing to go back to the presidency then it was open for discussions between their course delegation and the military

leadership initially a cause wanted a minimum of 6 to 9 months as a transition period. of 12 months transition the military leadership in in mali said this is not a question to be decided by them but the whole of manly now tomorrow friday and leadership of the economic community of west african states will meet. video conferencing and that is when they will take a decision as to what to go or what to do with mali and when so we're waiting to see what will be the reaction of the course leaders tomorrow. demonstrators demanding the removal of a new state governor in sudan have set fire to the main markets in the regional capital. police fired tear gas at protesters other demonstrators blocked the main road linking the city to port sudan which is the country's main gateway on the red sea protesters want the transitional government to reverse its appointment of the

governor who is a former military officer. the gunman who killed 51 muslim worshippers during a rampage in christchurch new zealand last year has been jailed for life with no possibility of parole self white supremacist brenton tyrant showed no remorse for his crimes when he has our report. after a harrowing emotional 4 days in the high court in christchurch just as cameramen delivered brenton terence sentence on a ship that. was sent to life in prison. just inches from. terror and showed little emotion even when being told he would spend the rest of his life in prison outside the court there was relief and gratitude that the convicted murderer and terrorist had been given a sentence never before handed down a new zealand but it was mixed with the realisation that the pain will go on. no

punishment. will bring our loved ones back. we respect our justice system. and then using the muslim community. known most of them as well we're still together against the court was told terrence actions after he entered the 2 mosques on march the 15th last year were premeditated and calculated he had studied the layout of the buildings and when they would be busy and in interviews with police expressed disappointment that he hadn't killed more worshipers because you have been in court she extreme arms it was brutal. your actions were human. but your weak the sentence brought an end to 4 days of statements by survivors and family members of those killed at least 90 statements were given some of them expressing anger some offering forgiveness all of them emotional the prime minister

spoke soon after and expressed his support for them and the sentence the trauma of much 15 is not easily healed but today i hope is the last we we have any cause to hear or the name of the terrorist behind it has deserves to be a lifetime of complete and utter silence. the sentencing of brinton tyrant closes a chapter in one of new zealand's darkest days and means no one has to relive the events in a parole hearing but for the relatives of the 51 people whose lives he took away and those he injured trying to recover will be a long difficult process wayne hey al jazeera. the c.e.o. of social media optic talk has resigned over the most departure comes as the company faces growing pressure of particular from the trumpet ministration to sell

its u.s. assets to short video platforms owned by by dance which is a phone based in china the white house says the app poses security risks which the company denies. we look to the n.b.a. a little bit earlier time for the rest of the sport now with andy thank you so much tomorrow thursday morning in the united states has begun with n.b.a. referees showing their solidarity with players who boycotted games to protest against racial injustice the referees have been living in a bio secure environment alongside the players in florida for the last couple of months where all the games are being played at the moment many they're wearing black t. shirts issued by the n.b.a. referees association saying everybody versus racism. all the tipping points in all this came on wednesday when the milwaukee bucks for a no show for the playoff game against the orlando magic the team were making a protest against systemic racism and the police shooting of wisconsin residents jacob blake the bucs players released a statement that said despite the overwhelming plea for change there's been no action so all focus today cannot be on basketball all of the day's games with them

postponed and it's still unclear if games scheduled for later this thursday will actually go ahead well david aldridge is the editor in chief of the athletic the c. he says basketball is now in uncharted territory. it's never happened in the 30 years i've been covering the n.b.a. you have to go back to 964 really when the league players' union 1st was formed by the star players at that time which included the likes of bill russell and jerry west and asked robertson who threaten to not play in an all star game that they had arrived at until their union was recognized by the owners of the lakes teams at the time which they did and but really that's the last time i can think of something where the players specifically threatened not to play and nobody has ever actually carried it out and not played so it is a it is a game changer in the sense that it will get the attention of the league and the

team owners symbolism matters in this country and around the world i think and those and sports often not always but often can lead the way towards making people kind of stop and think and i think that's what these players are trying to get people to do as the protests over george floyd's death have kind of receded in abdin slow down somewhat in the last few weeks people have started to forget where they started to revert back to their previous positions and i think the players are saying no can't do that you have to continue the energy that you had before. well thursday's play at the western and southern tennis tournament has been called off in america soccer had already announced she'd be boycotting a match anyway the former world number one is building up to next week's u.s. open she did play earlier on wednesday but later tweeted as a black woman i feel as though there are much more important matters at hand that need immediate attention rather than watching me play tennis. elementary on

wednesday will number one of a joke of it she extended his winning run to 21 matches he dropped just 4 games in a straight sets win over germany's young lennon strophes to reach the last fall which is one win away now from equalling rafael nadal's record haul of 35 masters titles. he'll be joined in the last 4 bottomless ryan it is the canadian coming back from a set down he said the match points to defeat for crying of it take 846-7675 the world in the 30 aiming to win his 1st masters title game. manchester united star paul pogba has been left out of francisco after testing positive for corona virus the world cup winner of the now self isolate for 14 days will miss france's nations league game in sweden on saturday in a home game against croatia 3 days later english premier league team chelsea reporting that 4 of their players have carded 19 a further 4 in quarantine that same with tested at the end of last week on returning to pre-season training chelsea kick off their new season gets bronson on

september the 14th and when jason roy is pulled out of england's t 20 squad for the series against pakistan he'll miss the 3 matches against the former world champions due to a side string the series which starts in friday meant to be a warm up for this year's t 20 world cup but that's been postponed due to the global pandemic given the circumstances surrounding. the moment and the selection winds and are already young players well. i think this is another opportunity for causing the tension he would sit outside at 60 to try and present their best case moving forward for winter tourism the world cup next year. ok plenty more for me throughout the day we'll find out if there's going to be some n.b.a. games a little lights are all ok thanks andy 800 hours g.m.t. we will see andy for his next sports update that's in a couple bounce. maybe a little bit that we're back after the break there with the latest news right here

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