on al-jazeera. is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers the stories that matter there are. raising their voices against racial injustice thousands march in washington d.c. on the anniversary of martin luther king's civil rights rally 57 years ago. follow on down in jordan this is out of there alive from the also coming up donald trump gets into campaign mode hours after accepting the republican nomination for

a 2nd president. tension in the turkey says it's repelled greek fighter jets as their maritime dispute over the mediterranean escalates. taking its sovereignty over parts of the antarctic chill it joins argentina and the u.k. in the race for territorial claims. tens of thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. in a renewed drive for criminal justice reform and racial equality they have called it another march on washington on the 57th anniversary of martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech the us has been gripped by racial protests and the rest since george floyd was killed by police in may it's drawn comparisons to the anger and violence that flared after king's assassination in 1968. no person no

people are more keenly aware of the risk of disenfranchisement than those who suffer from it there is a need upon the neck of democracy and our nation can only live so alone without the oxygen of freedom the streets must be exercised by more than rhetoric and more than marching the simple challenge before us is that everyone can cast a ballot and everyone who can must cast a ballot but what george floyd system bridget supports has to continue the fight for a better future how would the history books remember you. what will be your legacy will your future generations remember you for your comfort complacency your in action or what they remember you for your empathy your leadership your passion for weed and now the injustices and evil in our world for what is a castro has more now from washington d.c.

. we saw people turning up by the 10s of thousands there's no exact estimate at this point but some 50000 works packed as of this morning and certainly they filled all the space of the national mall between the lincoln memorial and the washington monument the people here telling me they wanted to relive a chapter of history that brings so much pride to them when martin luther king jr led the civil rights movement 57 years ago he ascended those very steps behind me and delivered those famous words i have a dream a dream of racial equality for black americans today it was his son who followed in his father's footsteps addressing the crowd with a message that while hopeful a bit of knowledge of the progress that has been made it was also a challenge because his father's dream according to his son has not been yet fulfilled we know that the march today was the idea during the funeral of

george ford who of course is the black american who died under the knee of a wash. in minneapolis the on the arrests that followed that killing with protesting in many cities across the country really made the country stare this issue in its eyes but after that and even during this pandemic we've seen get more names added to the list of people black people who have been shot or killed by police officers and the latest one plate in wisconsin who was shot 7 times in the back by an officer in front of his own children we heard from his family and the family of so many others in fact there were so many families of victims of police brutality that there wasn't even time to hear from them all delivering a somber message of the grief that they still live with and will always live with so let's bring in derrick johnson he's the president and c.e.o.

of the national association of the advancement of colored people and. johnson good to have you on the program this was a march to commemorate the 57th anniversary of martin luther king's famous speech but given the social injustice and huge racial divide that many say has ripped apart the social fabric of america does that speech still resonate today and is the dream still alive do you think. oh absolutely the speech resonate in that speech with some more than that much more than a dream it was a call to action the reality that our constitution guarantee that everyone was created equal that it doubtless certain it in a local rights when it came to african-americans we could not take that commitment to the bank of justice and so we are seeing that same reality today 65 years ago we had a young man who was lynched in money mississippi many people who gathered in 1953

recognize the beautiful murder of emmett till it was one of the sparks that started the civil rights movement as we know it and here we are 65 years later still calling on the same level of equity to ensure equal protection under the law is afforded to all citizens citizens but particularly african-americans in this mob and we had that speech from president trump last night at the republican national convention not once did he mention the name of jacob blanco george floyd or any of the african-american shot and killed by white police that's a huge problem isn't it when the president himself doesn't even acknowledge that a problem exists. well much what we use today is the result of what's coming out of the white house a level of can only suppress behavior that racial hate. campaign. $60.00 to $26.00 we. are very.

fortunate. and a little over the last 3 and a half years for african-americans we understand and we've seen this before in our history and that's why you see so many people taking to the streets and protesting in louisville kentucky now it condones us consulate in d.c. today because we recognize that this moment we must fight. to ensure democracy work and turnout and tell them for because our lives depend on yeah i mean most people would agree as you say derek that november's presidential election is the most important in modern american history so how then do you translate these racial divisions into votes that bring about meaningful change to people's lives their communities and to the police. well in many ways we are to begin to see that being translated in that way across racial lines if you look at protests across the

country and look like america's demographics black white male female that's the positive side of this by the way the president is currently trying to create a level of tribalism has not been official to anyone in this nation and so as we could see in you to energize and move choice in november it is our goal. it is our goal it's a black community to make sure we use the lever of the vote to change the seat of those who are curly's i could find some of those needs that's not in our interests and derek just a final thought from you know we've seen a number of marches and protests right across the country following the deaths of african-americans at the hands of the police and and today we also have this martin luther king march is there a sense that people can be overcome by protests to the team that so many much as so many protests could actually be counterproductive. that could be the case but right

now we are working on how do we take this energy and move to know that many of us are organized in looking at november there was a level of enthusiasm with the announcement of common hairs being. nominated as vice president for the democratic ticket so our goal is to move from protests to the ballot box and i think you've got to see more activity movement at directions across communities black white all across the country there are johnson great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to al jazeera thank you. now u.s. president donald trump is stepping up his reelection campaign addressing crowds in a state he lost narrowly 4 years ago he's arrived in new hampshire for his 1st event since formally accepting the republican party nomination on thursday in 2016 from lost the state to hillary clinton by a margin of just 0.4 percent of the time campaign says it providing face coverings

to people who attend the rally in accordance with new hampshire rules are mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike so president trump has wasted no time in getting back on the campaign trail why is new hampshire so important this time around. well in the u 2016 election president last of that election to hillary clinton by just 2700 votes so he is making this an absolute priority come november he wants to take new hampshire and it would be a very strong indication because results normally come out early there what the rest of his night would go so new hampshire as well a blue state that is a democratic run state is one that president would need to look if he's got any chance at all in terms of winning the election so new hampshire and absolutely critical to him the timing well if he wants to build on the momentum that he believes he established with the last night of the republican convention here in

d.c. he made a fiery 17 minute speech at that particular convention he's speaking now to the crowd in an airport hangar in manchester new hampshire exploring the common themes lashing out at joe biden describing those who protested outside the white house in the course of the end of that convention as thugs it protecting he says that police who eat believes are being unfairly treated by the public at large so certainly these are common themes that we've heard from president tram and that we're likely to hear in the days and weeks leading into that november election daryn mike at the moment the polls for joe biden are looking pretty good especially in most of the key battleground states but we still have a long way to go and some of them but own weight. indeed here cities a long way to go and remembering as well that back in 2016 president trump was largely dismissed by many of servers and it was only right at the peak of his

campaign just before the election that he started to get real traction and obviously as the vote showed that traction continued but remembering to bet in 2016 president trump did not win the popular vote now this is significant because what we're looking at the moment is every poll has joe biden ahead by a fairly substantial margin at one stage it went into 2 digit figures so joe biden already it would appear has that inbuilt lead which would put him well ahead in terms of winning the popular vote and of course the vote as a whole but as you say there's a long time to go president is going to turn this into a highly bruising campaign he already has he's made very clear that is tactics is going to be to attack joe biden at every opportunity to portray the democratic party as socialist and leftist to insists that joe biden is against police all these are themes which have been discounted by independent analysts but

president tran carries on. what are sensually false words in terms of his absolute insistence that he is going to go on the attack against joe biden and it would appear that he sees that as the best way to rouse up his base to get them to go to the polls and vote for him come november my time of their life for us in washington d.c. mike thank you. now turkey claims it's repelled an attempt by 6 great fighter jets to enter its airspace video from the cockpit of a turkish f. 16 appears to show a turkish jet chasing unlocking its guns on to a great fighter jet turkey's defense ministry says the great pilots were entering the airspace of an area where turkish ships are conducting gas exploration activities earlier the e.u. policy chief so the bloc could sanction turkey if there's no progress in resolving the maritime dispute 1st you know there now we are listing

personalities we can pass to least assets ships we can do. sanctions the participation of the activities that we will shoot the illegal in mange everything related with you're working in this kind of a. man the prohibiting the use of would be on board to be incapacities technology. was and i'm concerned is in a stumble with the turkish reaction to the threat of sanctions by the e.u. . i have spoken to some turkish diplomats from the foreign ministry today basically as one of the turkish diplomats puts it through. regarding the 4 hour statement this is a legal issue between turkey and greece based on the legal rights of 2 countries on the waters of the ija in c. but the e.u. is putting a political stance towards this legal issue which is basically understandable

because they are part of a union european union this is why in a reaction statement from the turkish foreign ministry in a white the e.u. and e.u. member states not to support greece's maximalist amounts against international law under the pretext of union solidarity greece is not an archipelago state it's against international law for greek islands especially because the leaders are to have a continental shelf so basically there is no problem about the territorial waters but turkey and greece are at odds with regard to the continental shelf an exclusive economic zone jones or a prince has more now on the greek reactions and. the sanctions according to certain leaks that have been made would include would begin from the energy sector from sanctioning individuals and ships and companies supplying those ships that are involved in the exploration but they could extent massively they could extend to

e.u. states to turkey to bank loans being given by e.u. bank to turkish companies and individuals and they could extend to travel restrictions to individuals so the climate at today's informal meeting shows that europe has finally rallied behind greece and cyprus it has largely adopted preconcerted positions to put pressure on turkey to come to the table greece wants negotiations to begin on the basis of international maritime law and should they fail it wants turkey to commit or hand to arbitration at the international court at the hague while a spokesman for the un secretary general says antonio guterres has called on both sides to resolve the dispute as soon as possible it's critical that these differences the use be resolved peacefully our understanding is greece and turkey

have been engaged in biological discussions until recently and he urges them to continue with that dialogue and he's also aware of diplomatic efforts being undertaken and supports these efforts that could contribute to a lowering of tensions in the region time for a short break here how does iraq when we come back balances president threatens retaliation after you increases the pressure on the embattled leader. and al jazeera i speak to the top infectious disease expert in the u.s. about the crisis which has killed more than 190000 people or more in that state. hello their eyes of course still across the south of the united states where they picking up the pieces of the off some off the wall walls hurrican laura this mass

you can see here that is still of course the remnants of the store work its way steadily up into the southeast and eventually pushing towards the middle and it would just have a look at this this is you can see is a southern louisiana now this is actually right on the shoals of the gulf of mexico so the storm surge and the rain is really what has led to scenes like this and of course you had across further inland into texas and it really was about the wind damage to go through saturday this massive rain this is still laura what is what east was now a tropical depression and then eventually it's going to push off shore and actually strengthen once again the winds certainly very strong it'll work its way very quickly up to the funnel thiis just pushing across nova scotia and eventually on the tools newfoundland but really in the wake of that again we've got more heavy rain just developing across areas of the southeast as across into the west it is fine dr coles the files continuing to across in california that the time which is have improved and we had a call so mexico these scenes here coming from central mexico this of course in the

office of all the what was tropical storm hanna and that is moving out of the way but sunday through saturday there's more rain in the 4 calls heavy late in the day . more than 7 decades ago a country was split into really begun but didn't do anything and not the kind. they only took was a plan a mom and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled 7 to the never been to before i'll just see right examines the violence of india and pakistan on the docks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors politician does a blood. welcome

back a quick amount of the top stories here at this hour tens of thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. in a renewed drive for criminal justice reform and racial equality that happened on the 57th anniversary of martin luther king jr as i have a dream speech. the us president donald trump is stepping up his reelection campaign addressing crowds in a state he now in the last 4 years ago the event in new hampshire is his 1st since former setting the republican party nomination on thursday. and turkey claims it's repelled an attempt by 6 greek fighter jets to enter its airspace there's been increasing tension over disputed maritime boundaries in the eastern mediterranean. well the e.u. is pushing forward with sanctions against 20 senior bello's officials of the voter fraud and the crackdown on protesters follows a meeting of the blocs foreign ministers in germany president alexander lukashenko

has ordered the army to be on alert and to retaliate to any sanctions donna came reports from. for weeks protesters have been on the streets of belarus demonstrating day and night against a government they believe is illegitimate and a president who they believe stole the general election these people hope the outside world is listening in berlin on friday the e.u. aren't singling out for new sanctions the leaders of the government in minsk there was a political agreement among ministers to designate selected individuals responsible for different elections. and for this subsequent crack down under the existing go to sanction regime this is the nation showing individuals. by political level but the belarusian president who hasn't been

sanctioned himself is unmoved alexander lukashenko says if more sanctions come he will cut off transit routes through his country for e.u. goods destined for russia and the baltic states he says he will listen to farmers workers and students collectives but not those on the streets of the violent thugs who roam the streets and shout that they want a dialogue they don't want dialogue and nobody from the authorities will hold any negotiations on the street if there are sane people from the opposition which see its country as free and independent welcome. but while he wants to be seen as ready to listen you can put his armed forces in combat ready mode and appeal to russia for help president vladimir putin has said he is prepared to send a police reserve if necessary some people in the west have likened the opposition movement in belarus to those that toppled communism in eastern europe in the late

1980 s. the german chancellor angela merkel lived through those times in east berlin which is why she feels an empathy with the protesters in jail or us and believes their grievances should be heard. of the i hope the group that have now courageously taken to the streets the people who have denounced abuses that they will have that degree of freedom which we can take for granted freedom of demonstration freedom of opinion. by bringing in targeted sanctions the e.u. is trying to deliver a clear message to alexander you can but in return his message is equally clear he is not going anywhere anytime soon dominant cane al-jazeera berlin belarus opposition candidates kind of sky as opposed to foreign intervention into the crisis it's a problem that people have to solve by themselves we just call for respect of our serenity and we understand that political crisis

that we have in their us it's only our internal affair and let people. choose they way by themselves and to solve this problem by themselves. several u.s. states will not be following new advice from the country's top health institute to reduce coronavirus testing states including california texas new york say they'll continue testing asymptomatic people who come into contact with coded 900 patients the centers for disease control and prevention changed its testing guidance this week but it denies it was pressured into doing so by the trumpet ministration well one virus expert whose voice concerns over the guidelines is dr anthony fauci he's also a leading member of the white house coronavirus task force in an interview with my colleague in the mozzie he says he's concerned some regions opening up in a careful and considered way but if you take a look at what's going on right now even at

a steady state we're having between 35 and 45000 infections per day so even if things don't get worse you know you have more infections and when you have more infections you have more deaths so hopefully we'll be much better prepared to do 2 things to diminish the number of actual infections and by doing that to diminish the number of deaths because as you know we've been hanging around a 1000 deaths per day for quite a period of time right now we've got to get that number down and if we do then we would have many more deaths but if we don't do something about it we can continue to have that steady you know rather high number of deaths every day that we've seen over the last several weeks to several months actually and of course there is this clash isn't there between the medical advice and the economic imperatives you must be concerned about the prime the chair lifting of lockdowns leading to new

outbreaks of the pandemic and resulting in more infections and sadly more deaths. well that's really the problem that we faced in the united states you know we got hit very badly in the northeastern part of a country dominated by the new york metropolitan area which at one time during the outbreak accounted for close to 50 percent of all the infections hospitalizations and deaths as the northeastern part of the country got on the much better control as we try to open up the country for economic reasons southern states such as florida texas arizona and california began to have the surges that lifted our backgrounds from 20000 cases a day up to as high as 70000 now as i mentioned we're back down to somewhere

between 35 and 45000 cases our concern right now is that there are other regions of the country particularly the midwest in which this inklings of the same problem namely as you try to open up the country if you don't do it in a careful measured way japan's longest serving prime minister shinzo has resigned due to health reasons he was in charge since 2012 and is regarded as one of the most influential leaders in japan's history 65 year old has long been suffering from an intestinal illness his 1st stint as prime minister was cut short for the same condition after a year in office back in 2007 has reportedly said the disease has returned and could get worse. china's government is claiming sovereignty of the parts of antarctica and the effort is being disputed by argentina and the u.k. the frozen continents rich natural resources have long been protected under

international deals the sea and human explains from santiago. this is antarctica according to the antarctic treaty signed in 1961 by 54 countries it's a continent to be used only for scientific purposes and that it belongs to no one. nevertheless this week chile's president of us stamping it went to the southernmost tip of the country to announce that he was in acting in the antarctic statute recently approved by congress. today we are taking an important step to strengthen better protect and defend the vocation and destiny that chile has had since its inception we reaffirm our rights our sovereignty and our presence over the white continent. speaking from the magellan street city of the city of poland that in us which is described as the gateway to antartica yet it was seen to be responding to argentina's desire to expand its antarctic platform beyond 200 miles

this would conflict with the interests of both chile and great britain all 3 countries claim sovereignty on overlapping parts of antarctica how is this possible if no one is supposed to own it but. to put it simply chile hodge and tina straley in new zealand the u.k. and france excepted to put their claims on ice as it were but they have never renounced their claims of sovereignty when they signed the antarctic treaty and so far there's been no problem. chile has 9 antarctic bases for of which have a permanent presence including families at church and a post office nearby there are russian and chinese scientific basis in practice sovereignty isn't really an issue as long as. san target city is respected but many countries not just chile want to demonstrate that they were there 1st as a kind of color ization just in case things should change there is this notion that

. it is a fool continent of resources that could eventually be explored it and so. one day finally the treaty is broken you would have you were going to actually you know that you're part print now conflicting claims are limited to diplomatic spats paradoxically chile and argentina a cooperating to convince signatories to form a marine protected area around the antarctic peninsula only russia and china are opposed to the idea of declaring the seas around the antarctic off limits to human exploitation you see in human al-jazeera santiago. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera tens of thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. in a renewed drive for criminal justice reform and racial equality it happened on the

57th anniversary of martin luther king jr as i have a dream speech. how would the history books remember you. what would be your legacy will your future generations remember you or your company like yours and what or where they were member you or your empathy your leadership your pass. or we are now they just assist in evil in our world. u.s. president donald trump is stepping up his reelection campaign addressing crowds in a state he lost narrowly 4 years ago the event in new hampshire is his 1st since formally accepting the republican nomination on thursday president trump was quick to describe opponent joe biden as a puppet and criticized his approach to law and order. and

a weak guy named joe biden he's weak he's weak as hell a weak guy like joe biden didn't even bring law and order up as a subject for discussion in the entire democrat national convention now they're all of a sudden. now they realize because they've gone down like a rock in water they've gone down in the polls are now all of a sudden the talk at all when we have to talk about crime took a census repel an attempt by 6 greek fighter jets to enter it's a space video from the cockpit of a turkish f. 16 appears to show a turkish jet chasing unlocking its guns on to a great jet turkey's defense ministry says the great planes were entering the airspace of an area where turkish ships are conducting gas exploration activities and the e.u. is pushing forward in sanctions against 20 seen it but it was officials a vote fraud and a crackdown on protesters those are the headlines of news continues on al-jazeera off the witness stations and so much but the deadline it's drawing near how ivory

coast's his rival parties to nominate that presidential candidates. oktober this election is likely to be a major test for the country's security who will face the people in a run for the highest office in ivory coast presidential candidates on al-jazeera. 'd right on top of. the out differently than. you and i you know. our. strong. do you know.