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deficit on course to hit a record $3.00 trillion dollars this year condemnation from the i.c.c. is washington says it's sanctioning the chief prosecutor over her investigation into american forces in afghanistan. and heavy rain and strong winds at last island as the korean peninsula is hit by its 2nd typhoon in a week. not have all the sport. forward name on to other players test positive for corona virus as the french champions begin their title defense next week. international pressure is growing on russia after germany said it has unequivocal proof that russian opposition politician alexei navalny was poisoned with another

chuck nerve agent there berlin hospital that's treating him says his condition is gradually improving but it's too soon to predict the long term effects novacek is a group of chemical weapons which was developed by the soviet military in the 19 seventy's and eighty's the word of a chalk is russian for a new comer like other nerve agents it blocks messages from nerves to muscles shutting down bodily functions but not chunks are designed to be more toxic and some can take a few. back in 30 seconds russia was accused of using of a child to poison a former spy said and his daughter 2 years ago in the brochure city of salzburg or german chancellor angela merkel says that ali is the victim of a murder attempt and russia must answer difficult questions the white house has called the use of novacek completely reprehensible while the european union says those responsible must be brought to justice that has more rather what sort of

should be done such as not the girls of which you alexina valmy in a video filmed in the siberian city of novosibirsk days before he collapsed on a flight to moscow now the german government says tests carried out in a military laboratory have produced unequivocal proof the russian opposition leader was poisoned with a nerve agent joke and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder alexina by any thoughtful and supplications annexing of all me is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the shop as possible manner in the name of the entire german government. germany's foreign minister heiko mass has summoned the russian ambassador saying it's urgent that those responsible in russia be identified and brought to justice novell ne who's $44.00 was airlifted to germany late last month 2 days after being taken to a hospital in the siberian city of on sc the charity hospital in berlin says he's still on a respirator in intensive care and although the symptoms of his poisoning are declining it can't rule out long term consequences nobby chalk is

a group of soviet era nerve agent such as the substance used to poison the former russian spy sergei script powell and his daughter in england in 2018 they survived but a member of the public dawn sturgis died after handling a discarded bottle containing novacek on wednesday the kremlin said russia was ready to cooperate fully with germany over novell nice case but his long time strategy is learned volkoff says it was clearly an action carried out on behalf of president vladimir putin he tweeted in 2020 poisoning of valmy with novacek is exactly the same as leaving an autograph at the crime scene like this chancellor merkel says germany will update its european union and nato partners about the results of its investigation how the west reacts could depend on whether russia office any cooperation something that's not been forthcoming in the past nadine barber al jazeera. alexandrescu one of each got forward in moscow has more now on the russian reaction to germany's revelation. even though they said they're ready

to fully cooperate with the inst instigation meaning that they also want exchange of information so that it goes both ways to have access to the german findings the same time they are saying that these statements are not supported with proofs we heard that from minister of foreign affairs of russia saying abed the german the russian ambassador in germany asked for the some proofs or to be shown something and didn't get any now the press secretary of russian president vladimir putin made up a score of said that he cannot edit this moment give response with competence pointing out that russia did not receive the official rate to reply to their request and the request was actually to german prosecutor general's office to supply them with all the analysis all the findings concerning alexina riley and his health from the moment he left the hospital in siberia and town of homs furthermore what we are

seeing now is something that we did see in the sleep by the case and that is with the ministry of foreign affairs of russia saying that they allow for the possibility that this whole situation is in order to give reasons for response measures of some sort that are already prepared though so that this is a political and politicized question whilst it should be purely medical. 3 they called it a bullhorn diplomacy a kind of visit regarding the official channels that exist for handling such such situation pointing that it should be the doctors saying this and not the chancellor of germany or politicians so they are expressing about that this all might not be true. well natalie arnaud is the president of the free russian foundation an organization that represents the russian diaspora and informs us policymakers on the situation in russia she joins us now via skype from washington d.c.

madam thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we've been hearing at the germans a saying they have unequivocal proof that election of on the was indeed poisoned with another chalk nor avenge agent 1st of all your reaction to this and also what is the significance do you think that was used what do you read into it. well have course of action is what i would reach. just very upset about everything on what was today who are going to new off for some time because again. there's there was initial reaction that it's might be alone in terms of it just today as you said special minute that it. was a german army are certified as organization for provision of chemical weapons come from to this poison is blown into a tsunami talk family and. what also re understand that it's not.

it's a very typical and one more favorite tool of the up which is that you seem to use it against its critics and because of merely long least of it if people are poisoned to do it in the produce regime and even looks in a rally himself it's not like the 1st attack on him and for example our vice president what democrat and what is our he was poisoned twice in 201520178 was a miracle that he survived and he seemed to some of it very similar to what it was experience and there's been a bit of an international outcry over they say the european union says those responsible responsible must be brought to justice even the white house and we know president trump has often seemed quite close to the mayor putin even they've said the use of novacek is completely reprehensible angela merkel says russia must answer difficult questions but it doesn't seem like russia is going to engage on any level if we judge it on the reaction we've had from the government so where do

you see this leading when it comes to any kind of international action against this . again it's not a red line that it can't be crossed there and 21st century it's like absolutely unacceptable to behave like that but at the same time we know or hologram and react to the fact that if you sell some bunch make them very very brazen and make them behave like that. so again it's up to the international community right now to stand up and to do something to sanction all those who are imposed in the mix in iran is poisoning again it's not the 1st time are there are many critics so far which is. where. the murder and again and so cannot be tolerated and the russian violates all possible international treaties and agreements for so many years now and one of them do so on the chemical weapons and maybe chocolate was a least it will go at least at. least last year or so again its allies are growing

lucian and i mean eventually these red lines and of course you know the number chalky use makes people think of the. poisoning of the script was that happened on british soil this of course happened in russia i mean presumably the russians that the sara lee have to send the valley a to germany so what do you make of all of those events the fact that the valley certainly was poisoned whether of by in russia but then was sent to germany from a kremlin point of view how do you interpret those actions. i doesn't matter for the grammar and whereas if opponents do it inside rushes or do it outside again as i said at least it's very long we all remember on the political off go who was murdered with gunshots yes cry at least a murderer she was poisoned on the flight. which was covering up.

again as a poison polonium but was it was used again on but it just oil in 2006. $120.00 and off. as i said letting the can was the vice president he was poison for i saw that it was the love member of pussy riot he was poison to 2 years ago and he was treated in the german clinic the same clinic whenever one is now at least a few of them it's not on the boy's an ng of course it's a gunshot just like we saw who was murdered as a crammed in 2015 there are many as. a murderous and that thems to murder all over the world just the international community should name things as they always do kremlin putin himself he's a criminal and. jim's rational shouldn't be mean though if it violates all this international agreements it shouldn't be in the g 20 it shouldn't be it should be

an outcast basically and that early on a president of the free russian a foundation that i'm think you for sharing your views with us much. now coming up on this news hour from london the murder of a lawyer and sends angry students into the streets accusing the haiti government of complicity to silence cutting their cloth to survive small businesses feel the pain as australia enters its 1st recession in 20 years and could this new arrival in barcelona decide the footballing future of their own and best details coming up in sports. the u.s. federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.00 trillion dollars due to the covert $1000.00 outbreak and the recession triggered by the pandemic that's more than triple the 200-1000 shortfall and doubled the worst level during the 2008 economic crisis now according to the

new estimates us that levels will surpass the size of the american economy next year well despite those numbers president trump has been celebrating the valley jones industrial closing just above 29000 points he added you're so lucky to have me as your president with joe biden 8 would crash course all of that in a tweet well peder that cost a senior reporter at market news international joins us now via skype from washington d.c. thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera so what do you make of those numbers. well just as we should the president should not be celebrating the stock market highs as anything broad based because stock ownership is so concentrated at the very wealthiest part of the economy we should also not be begrudging a large budget deficit at a time when we're basically at war if not at war you know in a real war or with

a virus and so it's no surprise that we're talking about spending levels that are going back to the spending budget comparisons that are going back to world war 2 because it really is a war like effort in terms of the amount of spending that's required to deal with the repercussions of this endemic both in terms of the public health aspect as well as the economic downturn everybody is saying that actually the projections in april had been even worse for about $3.00 trillion dollars so i guess this in a sense isn't really a surprise that's right it's not a surprise in in a way the improvement is not an improvement because you know a budget deficit improvement might sound good but where you're talking about in in the current situation is spending on very basic essential things like you know from loans to small businesses to extended unemployment benefits for people who really need them and so you know the flip side of that smaller number is the fact that

congressional inaction has led to an absence of really a 2nd fiscal package that we've seen thus far and ok so i mean it's obviously an enormous number of how does the country get out of that kind of. budget deficit and crucially how long would it take. well then the interesting thing about budget deficits is that people tend to compare them to the household and it tends to it's very confusing because households need to pay their bills on a merge sure shorter term horizon than countries especially the united states which has a reserve currency we can afford to run a budget deficit for a long time and so the way you get out of the budget deficit is actually by growing you know by expanding economic growth in the way you expand economic growth in a recession is by spending more money than quote unquote you have in the bank and so it really makes a whole lot of sense for the u.s. government to be expanding the budget deficit at this time the issue becomes of course how you spend that money because the deficit is just an allocation of money

to be spent and of course there's a huge difference on whether you spend it on tax cuts for the wealthy or extended you know unemployment benefits for those who really need it so how the money spent is what really matters in the app political decisions there and of course you know the u.s. is 2 months away from an election that what impact do you think that these numbers will have politically on either side the interesting part is that while the numbers might play badly a large budget deficit might play badly for the sitting president in normal times it would also be political. suicide for democrats to begrudge donald trump for his deficits given that if he comes into power joe biden is going to have to extend those deficits so i think that neutralizes the potential that the budget deficit itself will become an issue i think the bigger issue will become who is best positioned to turn the economy around americans are truly hurting millions of people tens of millions really are out of

a job businesses are closing every day and so it's really going to be about you know who's best position to turn that around that are the cost the senior reporter and markets news international always good to talk to you thank you thank you so much. well staying in the u.s. midwest the states are experiencing a surge in covert $1000.00 cases going against the general down war of the trend across the country the states include south dakota where the city of sturgis drew criticism last month for hosting its annual motorcycle rally drawing tens of thousands of bikers from across the u.s. 263 cases and 12 states have been linked to that event alone health professionals say the outbreak hot spots are moving from the big cities to the less densely populated heart of the country. democratic presidential challenger joe biden is trying to focus attention on donald trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak he's attended a campaign event in his home town on how to safely reopen the country's schools

millions of students are now starting a new school year in the same way they finished the last one at home at home parents are doing their best but more and more were were finding themselves at wit's end struggling to balance work and child care and education duties educational duties mr president were you were are you why aren't you working on these we need emergency support funding for schools and we need it now. so president that's your job that's your job. well meanwhile donald trump has been in the battleground state of north carolina. where he has declared the port city of wilmington a war old war 2 heritage city it comes a day after he visited cannot share in wisconsin to show his support for police

after the shooting of jacob blake ignoring pleas from local officials to stay away . and the u.s. state department says it's suspending summing to ethiopia because of the lack of progress in its talks over the run a sense dam project this is friendship it was described as a temporary pause and it hasn't been revealed how much money will actually be held the decision was based on guidance from president trump because of ethiopia's decision to begin filling the dam before reaching an agreement with egypt and so that. and the u.s. is imposing sanctions on the international criminal court's chief prosecutor and other officials over the investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan the i.c.c. says the sanctions and now by secretary of state might pump aoe are an attack on the rule of law united states will designate i.c.c. prosecutor for 2 bensouda and the i.c.c. as head of jurisdiction complementarity in cooperation division the key so much to

go for having material assisted prosecutor bensouda individuals and entities that continue to materially support those individuals risks budget to sanctions as well addition the state department has restricted the issuance of this is for certain individuals involved in the i.c.c. its efforts to investigate u.s. personnel. let's talk more about this with like how the who joins us from washington d.c. so mike how unexpected were these sanctions on i.c.c. officials. well not unexpected at all because back in june the secretary of state said that sanctions would be introduced the trump administration absolutely outraged by the fact that the i.c.c. was investigating war crimes allegedly carried out by u.s. troops in afghanistan in particular and certainly this was something that the trumpet ministration got absolutely furious about so back in june the threat was made now it has become real the secretary of state confirming that the chief

prosecutor and his main assistant are now subject to sanctions pompei as well arguing that the u.s. has never signed the rome statute in terms of which the i.c.c. was created so it cannot be subject to its jurisdiction but interestingly as well he has also said that sanctions would be attached to any individuals or entities that work with the chief prosecutor and his assistant so this applies to obviously the entire investigative capability of the i.c.c. also adding my compote did a restriction on visas on those working for the i.c.c. in its ongoing investigation about potential u.s. war crimes in theaters of war and like let's focus on another story that also involves the u.s. state department suspending some aid to ethiopia and that is because of the sort of lack of progress on the ongoing talks between the o.p.'s than egypt about that are in a sense than the project and they are beginning to fill it it's quite rare is it

a correct me if i'm wrong that that the u.s. i guess you know especially that the state department would interfere in this kind of way suspending aid what more do we know about this. well a spokesman for the state department makes very clear that the instruction to suspend aid came from the white house from president trump that self now the backstory to this of course is that president trump attempted to broker an agreement between egypt sudan and ethiopia with regard to the great renaissance dan earlier this year he even had some of the water ministers visiting at the white house he made quite a great play of that another deal that he was going to broker so certainly there's an element a personal element to this president absolutely furious it would appear that no agreement has been reached at this particular point now the state department says that the this is a temporary suspension of aid to ethiopia because it says

a punitive action because it claims that ethiopia is starting to fill the dam before negotiations with sudan and egypt have concluded now if i must mention too that ethiopia walked away from those trying to broker talks because they believe that he was favoring egypt in the negotiations so the 3 countries are now looking to the african union to direct these negotiations but obviously president wanting to do the reminder that he's still keeping an eye on this despite his lack of interest in anything africa it would appear throughout his years in the white house but this obviously of major concern to ethiopia the sum we're talking about is potentially as much as $130000000.00 in terms of aid from the united states and i can with the latest on all those stories from washington thank you. kids go to mexico now where at least 9 people were killed and 13 injured when gunmen opened

fire on mourners at a wake the attack in the city of came hours after president and the rest went away in that lopez obrador a knowledge that murders and the expulsion by organized crime members have actually increased since he came to power in 2018 in a 2nd state of the nation address over those said that he was focusing on providing people at risk with opportunities to stop them from turning to crime that number of people murdered in mexico hit a new high in the 1st half of this year police in haiti have fired tear gas at crowds protesting against the murder of a prominent local lawyer students from a law school in port au prince attempted to blockade the capital streets with burning tires the head of the bar association. was shot dead at his home on friday but no arrests have been made the students accuse the government of complicity silence during a rise in violence and insecurity in haiti earlier this year

a united nations report accused the haitian police of corruption and not protecting the population. today we are demanding the haitian population to stand up to the forces of the nation to stand up against injustice security we needed a bar association of school and we are calling for justice. a senior scientists that brazil's fire monitoring agency says the fires in the amazon have been underestimated in august cigars and may have reached their highest levels in 10 years brazilian media has widely reported a 5 percent for all in fires in the brazilian amazon rain forest that's compared to the same months last year but scientists are better now says the numbers have to be have to be corrected after errors from a nasa satellite and there's more likely to be a one or 2 percent increase. the 2nd typhoon to hit the korean peninsula in

a week has made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers per hour south korea's weather agency says typhoon myself will affect most of the country which is on its highest alert level it's traveling north through young son province along the country's eastern area and it is expected to exit via the ocean was in 2100 homes on the island of jews who have already lost electricity and the typhoon has flooded highways and brought down trees. ok let's go to iraq but bridles live in south korea is a 2nd the biggest. so 1st of all rob what are the conditions like there now. well that's right this came barreling ashore here in the early hours of thursday morning my sack is now expected to tea party again out to sea from the east coast but then make a 2nd landfall way up the north korean peninsula actually in north korea so north

korea now on full alert but they take came ashore with winds well over 100 kilometers gusting up to 150 kilometers it does make it one of the more powerful typhoon in recent years i mean just stand back and give you a quick look at the scene here we're just after 1st light so a lot of people are coming out and checking firsthand the damage that it's done overnight we have a a boy that's been ripped off its moorings here on the beach this is the main beach in blue sand we know that there have been certain amount of damage around the city it's home to several 1000000 people it seems to be mostly superficial damage we also know that this did coincide with the with very high usually high tide so we've had storm surges along the south coast and different cases of flooding which has to be now were dealt with then there is a concern about the amount of rain that this will bring especially further up the peninsula around the east coast in the central parts of the country because of course but much of the interior of the korean peninsula is very hilly very

mountainous you have communities on slopes which are prone to land slips and landslides and of course with all the storm activity we've been having over these summer weeks a lot of the ground is very very soaked and prone to having more slippage is and therefore forcing some people walk behind you there on the beach was what advice has been given to people there in the country. they have a. alert system here a 4 stage alert system it was raised to the highest level that people should but batten down the hatches basically be prepared for this but of course the with seeing unusually number of storms this season it's been a very active typhoon season so south korea the korean peninsula does get typhoons but this is the 2nd in 2 weeks the same time last week we were talking about typhoon barbie coming through there so we've had this typhoon this week and then

the bad news for people here on the korean peninsula is that there is another extremely powerful typhoon forming in the western pacific which is going to be heading in this direction it might be downgraded to a severe storm but it will be the 3rd severe storm in as many weeks. bride with the latest there from in south korea south korea of course being hit by the 2nd typhoon in a week for the moment rob thank you. lots more still to come on this news hour including as a pub where opposition politician and journalist arrested in july for calling for protests protests are granted bail at their 4th attempt. and this home favorite has got himself into a spot of bother at the tour de france details coming up and spoil it.

hello the relentless march of the seasons continue all this weather that's come in from the atlantic is now reached the far east of europe and that's because the biggest change in type ahead of it is still quite warm behind it it's not bad but it's not really what you'd like it's wet and windy here in the british isles the low countries or increasingly scandinavia there is was the south and france is one of again spain portugal in particular in the western side on the hot side but bucharest is going to see a change of type the average temperatures 27 we just dipped below that as that front goes through on friday in the sun comes out it starts to warm up again but i don't think we're going to see a huge change to be honest in the rest of europe is going to be a bit like september is normally expected to be about ankara for the whole of turkey and cyprus is hoss of the moment the average is around about $28.00 so well above that in fact it could even break a record on friday a washout for that otherwise so that's where the real warmth is and extends through

levant actually to some parts of north africa certainly has been true now jerry but that's no longer the case in out here in tunisia it's quite sundry in the next day or so that'll go away but the big thunderstorms further south well they're with us for quite a long time. but. china's new national security law has tightened beijing's grip on hong kong and stifled protests that rocked the city a year ago. with pro-democracy candidates now disqualified from running elections and activists fearing imprisonment or worse does this spell the end for one country 2 systems people in power investigates hong kong and the game on a visitor. frank assessments saying that in yemen the 6

percent of the relation like it means to fish it's an informed opinion it is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in many parts of the old will meet region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the use of proxy because not every sunday enters the bill of your people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. to. welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera international pressure on russia is growing after germany said it has unequivocal proof that russian opposition

politician alexei navalny was poisoned with a novacek nerve agent chancellor angela merkel as the squire of the poisoning as a murder the u.s. is imposing sanctions on the international criminal court's chief prosecutor over her investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan the i.c.c. says the sanctions are an attack on the ball before and the us federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.00 trillion dollars this year due to the covert $1000.00 outbreak and the recession triggered by the pandemic that's more than triple the 2019 shortfall . australia's economy has sunk into recession for the 1st time in 20 years the cove in 1000 slowdown has caused its worst downturn on record with cuts in household spending large and playing more than a 1000000 australians have lost their jobs since march and as they collect gauge reports from sydney

a small business owners are fearing for their future. making clothes is a labor of love. but this year he's just trying to keep the doors open when the pandemic heat and hundreds of thousands of city workers stay to toy sales that his business sank he's been forced to adapt to creating more casual attire for his customers as well as face masks. it's very scary just uncertainty what's going to happen in the future so we just hope our customers could come in. recession makes a very scary. new figures have confirmed the devastating impact that 19 is having on a strongly as economy gross domestic product between i pull in june shrunk by 7 percent the biggest drop since records began our record run of 28 consecutive years of economic growth has now officially come to an end more than

a 1000000 people are now out of work and the nation's 2nd largest city mill been reminds in lockdown for some patience is wearing thin several and he lockdown protests have been held with police making arrests businesses in other parts of the country are open but spending is down the government says it's focused on the road out many businesses a still relying on government support to stay open with wide subsidies extended another 6 months but they can't continue forever and with rising unemployment the focus is on how to create jobs pressure is building on state governments to ease tight border restrictions within the country with people unable to travel for work internationally there are tough rules around who can enter even full citizens thousands of australians are stranded overseas because only a certain number are allowed in each day one of them is claire burls in canada

since her husband lost his job i haven't been able to get. laid is a having to balance the health risks of opening borders with paypal facing economic ruin shane rush for is just hoping his business doesn't become another casualty of the pandemic gauge al-jazeera sydney. former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is an isolation at home after testing positive for covert 19 the 83 year old has no symptoms according to his doctor but took a test as a precautionary measure after returning from holiday inserted india where there had to be an outbreak berlusconi is a 4 time italian prime minister and says you continue to work from home before local elections later this month. and despite numbers that rising slightly in its lead the venice film festival has begun to shed jeweled strict measures are in

place moving temperature checks for everyone attending the screenings over the next 10 days the cinemas will be at half capacity with no public red carpet events it also helps that the event is held on an island in the venice lagoon the 77th running of the world's oldest film festival is the 1st event of its type since the start of the pandemic greece's quarantine the huge refugee and migrant camp on the island of lesbos for 2 weeks after its 1st recorded case of coke at 19 the 40 year old somali national who tested positive had left the camp in july after being granted refugee status but returned and was living in a tent just outside the fence it or his are not trying to trace the people that he's been in contact with moria camp was built for 3000 people but currently houses more than 20000 caroline willman is the project coordinator for covert 19 lesbos

for doctors without borders she disagrees with the decision to place the migrant camp under quarantine. right now priorities now that this 1st he says been found is to make sure. you can be done the conflict receive them you know that isolation can be done for people who were and who have been in contact with the person and of course the treatments is available for people what has happened at the same time is that the greek authorities that were in full quarantine at the time which is actually absolutely not what we recommend because it was sort of people's access to essential services and they're actually not helping need curve and then it's are you. people who are not you distance people who not wash their hands on a regular basis and you're. over $230.00 people who are especially at risk because i would be to thieves who are still these dates and those are the people

who should also be evacuated urgently italian aid workers say more than 350 migrants have been transferred onto a quarantine vessel vessel off sicily those on board the sea watch for include people who were picked up last week by a rescue boat funded by the british street artist banksy many have been on their severely cramped conditions on board for the past 12 days see watch says they are due to land then i'm off to quarantine checks according to the u.n. 500 people have drowned in the mediterranean this year. 14 people accused of helping gunmen attack of the french satirical weekly magazine charlie of the bill and the jewish supermarket have called the trial in paris 17 people were killed in the attacks that took place in the city 5 years ago that has more now from the french capital. victims and their families were school today into a paris courtroom at the start of the trial into the jan return to 15 paris attacks

14 people are accused of helping 3 gunman who carried out the assaults that killed 17 people 11 were in court 3 are being tried in absentia some could face life in jail. saeeda sherry shot dead staff at the offices of the satirical newspaper. and a policeman outside they claimed the attack in the name of al qaida france's former antiterrorism prosecutor described arriving at the scene. there was a very powerful silence the smell of blood and gunpowder overwhelmed the building the editorial room was carnage it was no longer a crime scene it was a war zone with bodies piled up one on top of the other it was frightening if. in the 2 days that followed the challis abdo attack ality coulibaly who had pledged allegiance to eisele shot dead a policewoman and 4 jewish people in

a kosher supermarket police killed coulibaly just hours off the officers tracked down and killed the co-op brothers who'd been on the run. prosecuting lawyers said the violence would not have been possible without help from the accused a lawyer for one of the defendants though said france's intelligence services had to bear some responsibility as she said this would not have happened if the intelligence services had not stopped watching the brothers and i made equally badly and also the real accomplices are not prosecuted those who supplied the weapons are not being prosecuted in this trial the attackers targeted surely a day because the newspaper had repeatedly published cartoons of the prophet mohammed drawings that is designed to repopulation on his front page to mark the start of the trial some say that's a provocation but lawyers for sure all you have to say. it's an expression of freedom of speech. this is the spirit of charlie refused to give up our freedom to

give up our laughter or freedom to criticize him because if we give those we face a very bleak future for our children hundreds of witnesses will be called to testify over the next 2 months including survivors 5 years on and emotions are. memories painful but their hope is that justice will be served natasha butler al-jazeera parents both kerry as president has called on the government to step down after thousands of people protested in the capital demanding the prime minister resigned hundreds of police officers cornered on the cordoned off the parliament building trying to protect it from demonstrators who were throwing stones and plastic bottles it was one of the biggest protests so far in 2 months of demonstrations at least $45.00 people including police officers and journalists were injured there is anger of a prime minister a boy failure to fight corruption he's pledged to resign of parliament approves his

call for a new bulgarian constitution the president of guinea alpha condit has confirmed he'll run for a controversial surrogate term as president at the age of $82.00 he's led guinea since 2010 but has been heavily criticized for his candidacy which violates the constitution 2 term limit on the argues that a new constitution approved in a referendum last year resets that limit in the last year at least 30 people were killed in protests against him running again. zimbabwe's high court has granted bail to an opposition politician and a freelance journalist who'd been detained for 6 weeks police arrested them for inciting violence ahead of a planned anti-government protest against corruption and mismanagement of the economy how to reports from. hope watching gotos relative show up at the high court hoping for good news the freelance journalist was arrested in

july along with opposition leader jacob got over me both were charged with inciting public violence and had been in jail for more than 40 days they deny the allegations after several failed to build applications finally some good news for them of course we are happy that that our client has has now been granted bail that is the main that is the main purpose for us was to ensure that he gets out of course the fact that he has been incarcerated all this time is a huge injustice both conditions are extremely strict we feel that they are overly stringent they do even restrict his constitutional rights. the high court judge banned both men from posting on social media until they case is finalized on his 1st few private consultations and they also have to surrender their possible it's and to report to the police 3 times a week but they say they will not be silenced no trial date has been set for

a new zimbabwe renewed indeed liberated. with the matter of free of corruption is in the streets and then right indians but it's probably that respects the rule of law and who never learned that. as a routine appearance in a lower court and choose day the journalist complained about overcrowding and poor treatment in prison your average poster trying to reason with doctors finishing the terms of the phone or virus just vanished through to the prison service of course this is from a village has broken into 200 feet. above where fever. human rights lawyers say dozens of people have been arrested since july accused of planning or participating in protest against corruption and the state of the economy representatives from so that because ruling a.n.c. party expected in a rally with in a few days to assess the situation here the mob is government says there is no crisis and that allegations of human rights abuses

a false. but activist and opposition leaders insist government leaders are opposed to anyone who speaks out against them president emma samina goggles administration says opposition groups are being sponsored by the united states and some countries in the e.u. to cause chaos. al-jazeera. meanwhile environmentalists in zimbabwe are trying to work out the cause of a spate of mysterious elephant deaths in the west of the country 22 dead elephants have now been discovered most of them young animals poaching has been ruled out as the cause as their tusks are still intact it's believed the current a drought could be responsible the elephants may have died of exhaustion after walking long distances to find water or being forced to eat poisonous plants by a lack of vegetation. a video of an israeli soldier kneeling on a 64 year old palestinian activist has provoked anger online and drawn comparisons

to the killing of george foiled by police in the us soldiers say they were provoked but palestinians say it's part of a wider pattern of aggression need abraham reports now from the occupied west bank mormons like to be the odd rarely caught on camera 'd that's why this video of $6040.00 it all went viral he was protesting against another israeli landgrab and told him in the north of the occupied west bank on tuesday he's a long time activist against israeli policies against past unions and says the thing is really violence to create fear among them. or one soldier threw me to the ground and handcuffed me he started putting his knee on my neck when i felt i remembered the u.s. officer kneeling on the head of the black american man i couldn't resist any more because the more i resisted the harder you press. the israeli army says it's

commanded had jaundice thing but had no one's actions provoked him to act it says had noone was resisting arrest i did hamad fears losing his land to the industrial park israel plans on building here 2 weeks ago israeli bulldozers started making way for a bypass dollars there in the neighborhood of la i have been farming the stand for the past 20 years my 90 year old father has been taking care of it before me it's our land which logic says that now they want us out of it because it's a straight line not only do illegal israeli settlements and that infrastructure isolate palestinian communities palestinians say that the israeli government is ensuring that settlements in the occupied territory are fully connected with one another and israel the u.n. says the toddler attacks against palestinians are increasing and palestinian officials say that the israeli government has been speeding up settlement

construction since the beginning of the year and you know you really think that the israeli occupation is building settlements in lands that weren't included in the u.s. mideast peace plan that israel wants more than 50 percent of the occupied west bank instead of the 33 percent proposed in the trunk not to mention with jerusalem is off the table. haider hanlon says he will keep pushing against israeli settlement plans that are inching closer and closer into every palestinian village he tells us that images spreading on social media are stronger than and you happen. to him al-jazeera the occupied west bank. india is banning more than 100 to chinese mobile apps as tensions between the 2 countries soar over a disputed border india's technology ministry says the apps are a threat to india's security claiming they were used to secretly collect and share data tensions over the border in the last region have been high for months with

both countries accusing the of the stroop of crossing into their territory. still ahead in this news hour this former u.s. open champion is looking good at flushing meadows tennis action in just a moment in sports and with david blaine floats away in arizona with the help of some helium balloon.

and now here santa for the sport thank you very much barbara world number one of

each has booked his spot in the 3rd round of the u.s. open a serbian star coming from behind to be a call adman's in 4 sets to see the alexander is very also had to work hard in his maj against american wild called brandon and a question i have was stretched to 4 sets by his teenage opponent but the german eventually took the matter 275676361. 6 in the women's draw 2016 u.s. open champion angelica has booked her place in the drama 73 dominated this encounter against a german compact and early enough it's mom the 3 time grand slam winner took the match 6376. 0 she will be joined in the next round by 2 time grand slam champion pit track of it of us the 6th seed was a straight sets win against ukraine this. cause a lot of

a grand slam is played without fans in attendance due to the pandemic. so i have the 3rd person myself kind of to be more bundler focused and so but it's you know and out the hand it's a little bit like a practice rebel defiance and so so it's really like i really have to be still reminding myself to be there for every point that's what counts. by sounds almost star nam aa has tested positive for corona virus is one of the 3 p.s. she plays the positive results it's a blow to the club's league perforations they're set to kick off their campaign on september the 10th name on his team mates were most recently in action in last month's champ is the final defeat by munich. in a mess is father says it will be difficult for the argentinian star to stay a barcelona jorge messi is in spain for talks with the club's president about the players' future the striker hasn't trained with the team since handed in

a transfer request last week barcelona are still hoping the 6 time a world player of the year will sign a new contract or messi has received some support from one of his rivals we are madrid sergio ramos to police the argentinian has earned the right to decide his future ramos is currently with the spain squad for their nations league match away to germany. repertory as you're going to go with regards to messi i think it's not an issue that concerns me he has the right to decide his future i don't know if he's doing it in the best way having said that for the spanish game and for boss of them and for the rest of us we'd like him to stay as we always want the best around most of the manchester united have completed the 1st major some assigning ahead of the new english premier league season to an event to be joined to the bed devils from i.x.

for nearly $47000000.00 matilda arrives after impressing in the if it is a last season that with 8 goals and 5 assists and 23 games in i to begin their e.p.l. campaign on september 19th against crystal palace. and if it has lost the overall lead at the tour de france after receiving a 22nd penalty for breaching the rules frenchmen the snatch a bottle of from a team staff member 17 kilometers from stage of 5 finish line why does however are not allowed to take on food or drink in the final 20 kilometers it means britain at the mates now has the overall lead i mean now an eastern conference top sees milwaukee faced in miami heat shortly in the eastern conference semifinals the bucs trail that series won nothing on tuesday reigning champions the toronto raptors went 2 games down in the 2nd round a series they lost to the boston celtics marcus smart's 53 points is in the final

quarter to help the celtics 201299. and the denver nuggets fill this spot in the 2nd round of the playoffs stay as positive utah jazz in game 7 of this series you call are you ok chip put the nuggets 2 points clear and with the time running out might conley's still had the chance to win it for the jazz but his miss means it's damned hole now face 2nd see the l.a. clippers in the western conference semifinals. and that's all as well from and about to barbara in london. now if you've ever dreamed of owning a flying car who has and that dream could be a step closer after one japanese manufacturer carried out a successful test flight sky drive launched its manned vehicle equipped with 8

propellers in a netted area for 4 minutes the head of a company hopes the car will be on the market by 2023 but says ensuring the vehicle is safe is critical if you have a sky drive born to be chief however costing our boards of $300000.00. speaking of flying remember the children's animated film all poor an old man floats away in his house attached to hundreds of balloons while the magician and the extreme performer david blaine has just made it all real over the arizona desert in the united states in an event called ascension blaine held on tight to $52.00 giant size helium balloons he floated to more than 1000 meters in the space of half an hour before parachuting safely back down to earth you can find out more on that and everything else that we've been covering on our website outages era dot com that's it for the news hour we're going to be back

in just a few minutes though with more of all of the news. that thanks for watching but i. in the global fight against financial crime banks rely on databases for customer checks and it requires you to sure that you know who that person is and you understand the risk of that person brings to the bank in terms of financial crime algis or well it investigates big financial data and what can happen if you find

yourself on a list where. terrorists the database on al-jazeera. on the deserted streets of bogota they become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go in with some mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus and i receive messages on the top saying that me either you know so i was a nurse back who what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others this is one of the both astounding technological revolutions in all of this make our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emission targets electric cars are made mitchum in motion they need to be

mindful where people are just talking about the stores and that's going to solve. the world of business and commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy an illusion side of green energy. on al-jazeera. the end. cost to hold russia accountable after germany says it has an equivocal proof that our lake center valley was poisoned with the chalk. blown barbara said are you watching al-jazeera life from london also coming out condemnation from the i.c.c. as washington says it's sanctioning the chief prosecutor over her investigate.