that's other stuff that emission their communities algis their journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist and head teams effort to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. was. the tears of joy in venezuela as president maduro pardons more than $100.00 a political opponents his government calls it a move of reconciliation. dogs around the watchdogs there are lots more headquarters in doha also coming up hong kong launches a mass coronavirus testing program but say is that china may use it to crack down

on activists keep many away. israel and hamas reach an agreement to end weeks of violence along the israel gaza border that includes opening a main crossing. his life was the inspiration for a hollywood movie a critic of rwanda's president is arrested on terror charges. welcome to the program dozens of detained opposition politicians of walk free from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by president nicolas maduro some have been accused of attempting to overthrow the government they've been released ahead of elections in december latin america did turn lucy in newman possible. after months and in many cases years of imprisonment opponents of president need last mughal were reunited with loved ones after receiving an on expect. did pardon

lawyer in the reagan a deal who had had a stroke in jail thanked the government for letting him be reunited with his family while and bunya told by argued she'd been unjustly imprisoned. that i told him until i was blue in the face that i had nothing to do with the cues to me of that my only crime was being the neighbor of someone of interest pardons before elections aren't new but the magnitude of these work with the they included scores of prominent government foes like robert the marital opposition leader idles chief of staff. for any give out who's been in the chilean embassy for nearly 2 years was he going to be several he'd been battle all political prisoners or opposition deputies in hiding or in exile all of them accused of treason and more. as a warm up to the pardons venezuela's most emblematic political prisoner of one click

a sense was released late friday and put under house arrest still accused of plotting to kill president nicolas maduro which he denies that. the list of pardons is long but excludes opposition leader one by law and little by little opus both of whom a little has vowed to put behind bars for alleged crimes against the state the government strategy is obvious the school if you will middle. number one objective is to gain legitimacy for december's parliamentary elections it's essential even as russian and chinese yellows are demanding some sort of recognition of the poles so for that to happen there has to be participation in the elections from at least part of the internationally recognized opposition feliks a has says the pardons may be just a 1st major step. another concession could be to allow major parties and candidates barred from taking part in elections to run after all. all that could include twice

presidential candidate and a good capitalist who believes that boycotting the poll would be even worse the competing in an uneven playing field was won by the who's recognized by more than 50 countries as venezuela's interim president has given opposition parties until the end of the week to publicly join him in a united front to boycott an election that is widely considered uncompetitive not to be outdone the government has extended the period for registering candidates until friday is completely the news wayland's waiting to see what more concessions mughal may be willing to make to try to salvage an election that he may win at the polls but not in legitimacy unless his foes take part to see in human al-jazeera sonia shaw says a venezuelan political analyst in washington d.c. now she says the president mentor is trying to make the upcoming elections appear legitimate in the eyes of the international community. my daughter is trying to wean. not just only in minnesota but outside there in the soil but this is not

going to work most of the opposition leaders on there are the umbrella of one way though they are really not to participate in the election but we have some other leaders. in the company luke are the ones for west so maybe willing to participate or give my daughter the chance. and do but this is made in this elections by the way though among all that either so they can see out of these he's not going to go anywhere seen these elections are not going to be transferred in mother who were trying to gain legitimacy in the crown 3 in venice say that in outside and because you know they are almost 60 going to stay on backing or in a supporting one way dos and he's trying to do again lady theme and see because

venice well is having a difficult time on there the sanctions imposed by the us and actually us is calling all the quantities the international community to put more of pretty sure on their mode of reaching. out to u.s. presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence or protests across the country donald trump has accused left wing protesters for the enron stand claimed his democratic rival joe biden has given moral aid to vandals but biden says trump is poisoning the nation's values and creating an atmosphere of hate and division by kind of reports from washington d.c. . huge reaction to the nationwide protests has defined the massive gap between the policies of president trump and his democratic party opponent that the president has described elements among the protesters of the black lives matter movement as

looters and that has and has encouraged his supporters to hold counted demonstrations in a mob contrast joe biden tweeted a picture of himself taking a me with those protesting police brutality and racism and at a campaign meeting in pittsburgh by didn't painted a picture of an incumbent president seeking to foment violence for political game rather than exploring ways to end it because dollar trump adds fuel to every fire because he refuses to even acknowledge that there's a racial justice problem in america because he won't stand up to any form of violence he's got no problem with right wing militia white supremacist vigilantes with assault weapons often better armed with the police president trumps reaction was predictable claiming again that joe biden is weak on law and order. is given morally and in comfort to the variables repeating the munsters that these

were peaceful protests in a peaceful protest. this and joe biden has spoken to the mother of jacob blake the 29 year old african american who was shot and paralyzed by police in can osha wisconsin last week she said she was praying for sun that she says simply that it surprised she was prayed for all police officers. she was already been trained for america even before her son was shot president trump explained why he has not spoken to the family. with the pastor wonderful man the family's pastor and i thought it would be better not to do anything with their lawyers and. they wanted me to speak but they wanted to have lawyers involved and i thought that was inappropriate so i didn't do that the governor of wisconsin sent a letter to president trump asking him to cancel his proposed visit to commotion this week in the letter the governor says and i quote i am concerned your presence

will not only hinder our healing i am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together president trump has brushed aside these concerns and confirmed that he will be traveling to connote as planned mike hanna al-jazeera washington president trump has made another attempt to block the manhattan district attorney from getting his tax returns he filed a motion at a federal appeals court saying the 100 over it would cause an irreparable harm it will hear or arguments on choose state if the appeal court does reject the delay trump will take his fight to the supreme court which is already tonight immunity to criminal prosecution the district attorney is seeking 8 years of trump's financial records as part of a criminal investigation into his business practices. now hong kong has begun

a mass coronavirus testing campaign but activists and some health workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the initiative because of the involvement of mainland chinese firms and doctors but there's also concern that china will use it as a way to collect d.n.a. as it cracks down on the city's pro-democracy movement let's get more on this clock is full of events for sent home called good morning sarah it seems that the city really is getting messed testing underway but the pandemic is something that has obviously concerned the authorities for a number of months. if this is a mass testing program it's been underway now for a couple of hours where one of the $114.00 centers that have been set up across an 18 districts in hong kong where one child is a queens college testing center we do know that at least 100 of those centers are fully booked up on the 1st day of mass testing the government had hoped to get around 5000000 people registered 600000 people have signed up so far but the testing will continue for about 2 or so weeks this is it basically to deal with the

3rd wave of infections of the crowd a virus that we've had here in hong kong over recent months and the government's result is pushing ahead with this particular mass screening program now carol lam hong kong's chief executive she spoke on tuesday morning she's defended this program she says it's an attempt to identify the community transmissions and she's also said it will give people peace of mind that this is a one off program it's also voluntary and i should also state that this particular program it's a gift from china to hong kong at a price tag of around $20000000.00 u.s. dollars and of course that the issue itself is becoming politicized because of the issue of china and in this particular case by some health care workers what's going on. the concern has been right on a number of factors but the program is being led by a team of medical staff in milan china around 60 staff of come down from the guangdong province to drive this particular campaign of the specimen collection the . processing will be done but for the mainland based the birch trees and that's

where somethin cern's have been raised the critics of health care workers have suggested that the d.n.i. could be transferred to mainland china they've also said it could be used for other purposes not just for identifying aykroyd a virus cases in this also some criticism that there's concern that this increase fears of surveillance by beijing own hong kong as well as a bridge in your privacy now medical team some of question whether or not this is the most cost effective solution some of suggested contract tracing is much better and targeted testing look at those people the bondable element of the of the population as well as those people who've been affiliated or close to look closely linked to people who have the infection now again the government has defended this program it they've said it's voluntary it's a one off and carry them says it's people's civic duty to go and get tested while the best screening program is on the way up it's just that we do expect look at the registration numbers that will be an indication certainly a barometer of anti my that sentiment for the latest on that update so

a clock for 7 whole called thank you. opposition led delegation is in taiwan for a 6 day visit despite threats of retaliation from china it's headed by the senate leader who's also been addressing taiwan's parliament he isn't bound by government policy so to not send delegations to the island which china considers part of its territory and beijing says the politician will pay a high price for what it calls for provocation in return prague has summoned the chinese and voice. still ahead here on al-jazeera another 2 years of conflict so does the decided a peace deal with key rebel groups stay with us here but most of. the. head of the weather conditions across the west of the united states of

improved of the last few days that is helping with those firefighting efforts just beginning to push down and further to the sufis seeing quite a lot of shows and funnel soames in fact that also flash flood warnings across areas of our zone and more of that as we go through cheeze of atomic is much better $36.00 celsius in phoenix $28.00 across in los angeles this is where the weather is across the southern plains it will work its way east as you go on into wednesday and we could have some severe thunderstorms developing certainly late in the day on wednesday but no doubt across the southeast we've got one to scout achiles in florida and as i say out across the west there's no real healthful rain but temperatures are not as high as they were the winds also have come down that we had down to central america and the cowra been this month the cloud you can see here this possibly could develop into the next tropical storm but for now it's producing some very heavy amounts of rain it'll work its way west is through the caribbean says we go through tuesday say it already take quite a few heavy showers and thunderstorms across into cuba and into hispaniola meanwhile out across western mexico there is more rain in the 4 cars now it's

actually moving a bit further to the north but some very heavy downpours at all some warnings in place by wednesday it is an improving picture and elsewhere a case of scattered showers. a face can tell a story without uttering a single word. and knowing god. can guide us to. a simple time. inform us. unconventionality of life witnessed through the lens of the human mind. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera.

looking back i want you all just there with me as a whole rom the reminder of all top stories dozens of detained opposition politicians have been released from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by the president the government says it's a goodwill gesture but it's widely seen as an attempt to boost participation in upcoming elections. also the 2 u.s. presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence at protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls leftwing civil unrest by he says trump is poisoning the nation's values and hong kong has begun to amass crowed a virus testing time but activists and some health workers a calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the initiative because it involves chinese firms and doctors. china has warned india

over the disputed border saying it will inflict severe military losses both countries accuse each other's troops of crossing the line of actual control india says it's disrupted what it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the east and in the dark region overnight on sunday china counters that indian forces violated its territorial sovereignty during an operation on monday let's get the latest from katrina a you in beijing lots being said both from new delhi and beijing but what's china saying about india's statements. well both china's foreign ministry and military have flatly denied doing anything wrong along that border they've laid the blame solely at india's feet saying it was the

indian side that in fact cross this border and provoked the chinese side in and is starting tensions. according to china basically it has been maintaining what it says is the status quo that it's conducting negotiations with the chinese side this is at its urging india to withdraw its troops and to stop these provocative acts we have although had a more aggressive response from chinese state media but here the global times here that is really condemning the indian side for stoking tensions saying that china will not hesitate to protect its sovereignty if the indian side continues to agitate china and that china will repel the indian side and it says quite bluntly that the indian side is simply nor match for china and india should think twice before continuing down this path we also know that chinese state media just at the end of last week conducted a survey of all its readers and according to the global times it says the vast majority of chinese really is support

a strong response to india and indeed 90 percent according to this survey would receive support a strong military response to any agitation that happens in the in this border area from india and we do know though that china is saying that they've been continue negotiations chinese academics said that they have had been actually weakly talks between chinese and indian military leaders but these talks have been really limited in terms of how much progress they've been able to achieve of course that had been earlier spent back in june where the 2 countries were very close to yet another car injuries on both sides this is a hotly disputed region an area that hasn't really been resolved in decades why haven't they been able to meet and sort this. that's right for decades both sides haven't been able to agree on this and that's frankly because both sides have very different ideas in terms of the exact

delineation of this line of actual control that's partly to blame the partly the complicated topography of this area is partly to blame but simply both sides have different ideas about which territory is the and boys' lives have been quite active in building up their military military bases the military reinforcement of military troops and both sides have been sending in troops especially since that june 15 frak is that you mentioned which was the most deadly encounter that portside had had in in decades and indian side said they lost more than 20 troops we do know that chinese troops were also killed but the chinese side had never mentioned exactly how many troops were killed on that part. but since then we know both sides had been murdered forcing their troops now according to china quoting to the global times they've said that the indian side has sent in an additional $40000.00 troops and then china has not sent in that many troops it's denied sending that any big reinforcement he said they've only sent in what they've called emergency deployment

that china is really trying to keep a cool head in in this scenario and that they've really tried to paint india as the agitators but the truth is both sides have been staring each other down and what many have said as an eyeball to eyeball tense situation we do know that china has been a repeating military exercises along this border for the last few months as well and this these tensions on this border have trickled into other areas of this diplomatic relationship with india banning about 50 chinese apps from indian forums and also investigating chinese educational institutions or really relations between those 2 countries have hit an all time low or all the updates and so much katrina you there in beijing for us. well as its reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by qatar comes as garza's struggles under a ban on fuel deliveries which have led to power cuts how we force it has more from west jerusalem. well it's all coming from the hamas side which is typical in these

sorts of situations israel tends not to say anything about these announcements of the escalations or cease fires but according to israeli media there are israeli defense sources who are confirming what hamas is saying at least to the extent that there is an agreement what hamas says about this agreement is that it will stop its in century balloon launches an explosive balloon launches as well as that the what it calls its night time confusion operations where groups go along the border fence and throw explosives and cause disruption and in return it says that israel is undertaking to go back to the previous collation situation which means allowing fisherman out into the mediterranean again from gaza's ports easing the restrictions of goods coming in which had been closed down just to humanitarian goods and food and medicine and also presumably the recent restoration of fuel

supplies to gaza only power station which has been lying idle for some 10 days now since the fuel supplies were cut off meaning that gaza only has about 3 to 4 hours of electricity per day and as you say they are also battling this corona virus outbreak the 1st community coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic so these various things seem to have conspired to try to quell the situation as it stands with the mediation of the qatari envoy the question is whether the infrastructure projects that hamas also says have been agreed to with some qatari funding whether they will now get off the ground. french president manuel a call says a new government needs to be formed quickly in lebanon to tackle its political and economic crisis deborah was named prime minister just hours before he left for london in beirut but before he met the visited a fair to say one of the arab world's most famous singers in

a rare symbol of unity in level it's his 2nd trip to the city since an explosion killed almost $200.00 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. so dolls transitional government has signed a peace deal aimed at ending nearly 20 years of conflict the agreement was reached with various rebel groups neighboring south sudan mediated the deal ever morgan reports call to. a historic day for sadam as its transitional government and the opposition coalition the sudan revolutionary front find a peace deal the agreement was reached after nearly a year of negotiations and aims to end fighting across different regions a goal sudan's government says is its top priority. the deal we signed today is a commitment from us and the armed groups that signed it to the sudanese people who have suffered from the consequences of war such as destruction displacement and then looking for stability and better living it's also a commitment to get through the crucial times the country is currently going

through the country is facing times which need real commitment to the post revolution needs and we hope sudan and its people have reaped the benefits of real change that in this suffering. various groups that make up the sudan revolutionary front signed the deal each representing a different region the groups some armed had opposed the previous government of ahmed bashir who was overthrown in april last year they say their regions have long been marginalized the new deal will give the groups 3 seats in the sovereignty council and a quarter of the seats in the executive council of the transitional government it also grants more power to local governments and autonomy to the southern states of blue nile and south kordofan the resources of the states will be shared between the local and federal governments it also paves the way for the formation of a transitional legislative assembly with the sudan revolutionary front getting 25 percent of the seats. did we presume that rudy is today he people i just wish he had me that there is i don't this is the roots on the crisis and

conflict. and providing effective solutions and. how i shared it i was good sitting here i needed that he should be forms and this is. gonna. the war in the western region of darfur has been going on for 17 years it's got 300000 and displaced 2000000 from their homes amid reports of burning of villages and human rights atrocities the deal paves way for compensations to those affected mediated by south sudan it will also restart the 39 month transitional period and it will allow for the rebels to be integrated into the sudanese army during this period but some rebel groups have yet to sign a deal with the government we firmly believe. that military solution. to sudan internal conflict is going to be a viable option. as. the leader of

a country that made you. for i'm going for you. i must have them i was going to go to the country were local. rejection of do not use of force in resolving. it is all of it in dispute. the deal is not the 1st attempt at peace in sudan's conflict zones but the transitional government and the rebel groups say this time there's a political will to make it to work people morgan odd is there a heart i'm. getting is ruling party has confirmed the president also called a will wrong for a 3rd term despite months of violent protests against him pushed through constitutional change in march that critics say was designed to allow him to run against again next month previously presidents could only serve 2 terms in office protesters say the 82 year old's become increasingly authoritarian since he came to power in 2010. the man hailed as a hero for saving people during the 19941 genocide has been arrested on terror

charges poll. has been living in exile for more than 20 years welcome web reports. i think it was paraded in front of journalists one is investing. bureau in the capital kigali for years it's accused him of trying to attack rwanda through rebel groups something he's consistently denied wanted to answer charges of suggest crime including terrorism financing terrorism and directed offenses at song kidnap and murder. triggered against another innocent random civilian on the rundown territory. was hailed as a hero for saving more than a 1000 lives during rwanda's genocide in 1904 he was the manager of an international hotel where hundreds of people sheltered from massacring soldiers and

militia about 800000 people died in the killings the majority of them ethnic to seize it is very exciting his role was documented in the 2004 hollywood film hotel rwanda here he's seen attending a screening of the movie in berlin he won multiple humanitarian award but he became critical of the government of president paul kagame e he said it protects nearly minority have to seize it marginalizes the hutu majority and failed to bring justice for hutus who were also massacred. the hotel rwanda narrative was once accepted in kigali but loyalists of president paul kagame e began to criticize it after restart a beginner criticized his government others who have disputed the official account of the genocide have been killed or jailed. accuses me of impunity for crimes committed during the genocide this is the point

where they cannot agree gummi says he didn't commit any crime but everybody knows as well as reset the bag that elements of his forces were behind the atrocities that took place from 990 and after 994. beginning lived in exile for more than 20 years it's not clear exactly how he ended up back in kigali in handcuffs. the investigation bureau said that with international cooperation that gave no further explanation malcolm webb al-jazeera. your child is there with me so rommel in doha a reminder of all top news stories dozens of detained opposition politicians have been released from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by the president the government says it's a goodwill gesture but it's widely seen as an attempt to boost participation in upcoming elections the 2 u.s.

presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence or protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls a left wing civil unrest biden says trump is poisoning the nation's value is this is a writer's these are dangerous people these are killers they kill a lot of people and they don't even think about it they wake up the next morning they don't even think about it this is the extreme left agenda for america they want to appoint radical prosecutors judges and verrall of a shows who will sit criminals for a job the president has to tell it straight from the shoulder tell the truth to be candid to face facts to lead not to incite that's why i'm speaking to you today you come a president is incapable of telling us the truth capable of facing the facts and capable of healing he doesn't want to shed light he wants to generate heat and

violence in our cities hong kong has begun a mask rotavirus testing campaign but activists and some health workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the initiative because it involves chinese firms and doctors. they must says it's reached an agreement with israel to end the land the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by council comes as garza struggles and draw a ban on fuel deliveries which have led to power cuts french president manuel mark hold says a new government needs to be formed quickly in lebanon to tackle its political and economic crisis most of the day but was named prime minister just hours before back on landed in beirut but before he met visited favor one of the arab world's most famous singers and the rest symbol of unity in lebanon those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here or there next it's witness to stay with us

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