holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. role in the war on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is that he is live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes dialing down the tension in the mediterranean turkey and greece agreed to hold talks after weeks of posturing over a maritime dispute. donald trump backtracks after suggesting that americans should try to vote twice in the event up to now says that voters must check if the postal ballots have been counted and. he called on russia to investigate this

in a transparent and total manner the e.u. steps up the pressure on russia as the kremlin rejects german allegations that opposition figure alexina valmy was poisoned. and days of heavy rain and flooding bring pakistan's financial capital to a standstill and anger towards the government. and i'm santa how must not have all the sport one of the candidates looking at to become the new barcelona president it says the club that must find a way to make sure lendl messi doesn't leave. we begin with breaking news nato has announced that greece and turkey will attend talks to try to defuse tension in the eastern mediterranean they've been locked in an escalating dispute over gas exploration rights secretary-general again

stoltenberg says that both nations aim to reduce the risk of accidents that could lead to a military confrontation. we have correspondents in greece added turkey in a few moments we'll speak with. friends but 1st let's join stephanie deca in istanbul stuff what is turkey saying about this. but we haven't haven't had any official word from the government here but the news came out shortly after. the president aired on held a video cold with the german chancellor angela merkel germany of course being key in trying to negotiate between the 2 sides together with his foreign minister together with senior security officials so certainly it seemed to be a serious conversation and now that news that the 2 sides have agreed to sit together at nato they are of course to nato allies and to establish some kind of de confliction mechanism when it comes to avoiding incidents in the eastern mediterranean because of course it's at the moment heavily militarized with both

countries and others having their military feats turkey's continuing life fire exercise until september the 12th it is also continuing its exploratory ship. also until september the 12th so this is a welcome move at a time when things have been very tense agent but i think we do still have to remind people that the underlying issues have still not been resolved which is of course that a lot of rhetoric coming out here with present at the un speaking multiple times today over the last couple of days saying that turkey was going to fight and not back down for what is their legal rights that it wasn't going to be caged in this is of course referring to the amount of waters maritime rights that turkey has of course at all it's with greece with cyprus when it comes to who does what and of course those gas reserves that are under the water so that is still something that remains unresolved turkey keeps saying it is open to talks but without preconditions as far as turkey is concerned these talks are about avoiding a military escalation and not solving the wider issues.

yes we had an incident remember in the palace when you have the collision of 2 naval vessels turkey and greece so it is tense it is a welcome move and i think you know this is something because it's been so tense you can see the warships off the coast particular when it comes to areas like cash you can see the greek island of kos a lot it's just a route 2 kilometers away there's been video coming out in the last couple of days what seems to be greece reinforcing its military presence there it's always had soldiers on the island but it is in this sort of tense atmosphere age and it because you have so much military hard power accidents can happen and that can of course need to an escalation a very serious escalation the rhetoric also has certainly not been could use of coming to the table so yes this is a positive move when it comes to perhaps de conflicting the tensions but i think the bigger picture and the most serious and complicated one housing but address and for sure turkey does not see this these talks at nato as any form of result what it

says is an unfair treatment when it comes to who owns what waters in the eastern mediterranean i was there stephanie decker reporting live from istanbul many thanks steph let's bring in that is just outside of athens john any reaction from the greek. well agent diplomatic sources here are denying that any deal has been reached between the greek and turkish representatives at nato to begin these de confliction talks the diplomatic sources that i spoke to told me that we note the nato secretary general good intentions to work towards the confliction mechanisms within mater but de confliction consists only in turkey withdrawing all of its ships from the greek continental shelf this is a very hard and fast greek condition that's been reiterated many times during the month of august adrian that the talks to begin ships have to be withdrawn greece

absolutely does not want to enter into even a preparatory discussion over how to just snick o.c.a. should future negotiations. over continental shelves and exclusive economic zones with what they see as the turkish boot at their neck so. they're very clear about is that all that's happened is that during a 6 minute long meeting at nato headquarters today greek and turkish representatives simply heard a list of ideas and suggestions. furnished by nato secretary general again stoltenberg nothing further was discussed that was obviously a very brief meeting not the length of the meeting that where anything serious could have been discussed and that information will be relayed to the 2 capitals

for an actual agreement on de confliction mechanisms you need approval at the highest level of government and that means turkish president edwin and greek prime minister me to takis i think also the greeks are very wary of nato as a forum. through which to approach their differences. military de confliction is one thing it is a limited area of limited goal but nato is also a forum in which turkey has a much larger military a much larger ground army cherries in that sense greater weight than many of them including greece and nato has also shown a sort of impartiality to both greece and turkey whenever conflicts have arisen over the last few decades which greece has furled fails to address serious legal problems in what turkey was doing to other allies within the alliance and over the years greece's trust in nato has

a road so it's treating this discussion. as being very much an arm's length welcome in principle but something that hasn't been agreed upon at the moment out of the restaurants or opulence reporting live there from just outside of athens many thanks indeed john take a look at this the dispute which dates back over 5 decades this map shows the exclusive economic zones of greece turkey and cyprus as defined by the u.n. it accords greece 71 percent of the aegean turkey 8.8 percent but this is how turkey redraws that same map claiming much of greece's waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has begun to look for oil within itself to find waters that infringes on greece's maritime territory according to both the e.u. and the u.n. let's bring in yes could some who's on the greek island of crete he's a euro from european affairs analysis analyst could tell you with us what do you

make of this development this is more about military d confliction that it is about solving the maritime dispute the territory of the future isn't it. exactly but mrs merkel mentioned nato as a possible mediator some days ago the previous week when she made a statement regarding the greek turkish to stand off i think greece is very weary in agreeing in principle in going into very detailed docs with the turkey regarding this issue because turkey wants to have a package deal that would include all of the aegean and also claims that it has 'd on doesn't solve islands that direct greek territory and turkey says there are grays arms there disputable ownership so greek government is ready i think it's ready to negotiate through the eastern mediterranean maritime zones but it's not

ready to put other issues on the table at the same time to what extent is turkey's agreement with libya in the southern mediterranean muddying the waters in all of this absolutely it's a big obstacle because president of turkey mr ok said yesterday that this agreement is a red line put turkey but greece struck an agreement with egypt some weeks ago that is just a ball of this agreement and it cancels disagreement so. it's definitely an issue that will be brought up but i think if 2 parties want to constructively negotiate they could have an initial agreement on the area that is now in dispute which is where the don't get specialists got back in the search right now and leave the rest of the area out for a bit and agreement that would involve also libya or the final libyan supplement

and how high the stakes here for nato to have its members squaring up to each other in the mediterranean like this. absolutely it's a serious security issue because in the last weeks couple of weeks we've come close to a very very dangerous situation where that either side could fire a shot or any other side could very well escalate so all of that needs to be conflicts of mechanism be used to be one in previous years but after 2016 m.b. attempted coup in turkey this line of communication between the 2 starts in don't get enough and we're broken up so there needs to be now a mechanism would have put the 2 armies in conduct. of the of the fleets from the area and have the diplomats and the technical teams start negotiated in good faith really good start to get as many thanks indeed the n.s.a. could see me to step in create. this is that he was from out 0 still

to come on the program. what's behind the bear hug the russian prime minister meets the leader of the roofs. capitalizing on confidence to make the jamaicans go to the polls 6 months early as the ruling party that seeks to take advantage of a strong approval rating. at its political tell you which team set up a semi final clash with the top seeds in the n.b.a. playoffs. democratic presidential nominee joe biden is on his way so the city of commotion in wisconsin which has become the new focus of the national debate on systemic racism he stopped in milwaukee to meet with the family of jacob blake the black man shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer last month let's go live now to kosha and to also us john

hendren john what more do we know about that meeting the blake family. well we know that biden has completed that meeting he is now back in his motorcade on his way up here to grace lutheran church behind me where at the community meeting what we expect out of this is that he came with a message of compassion for the family of jacob the 29 year old man who is now paralyzed after being shot 7 times by police in the back. we also expect him to come with a message of law and order but one saying that he approves of what the protesters and demonstrators have been demonstrating against however. say that he's against the violence that has happened we've heard him say this in his 1st campaign stop since the democratic national convention just a couple of days ago and he'll be meeting here with community leaders business

leaders. also with law enforcement and that's a message that we expect them to welcome president trump has been portraying biden is someone who is really just a tool of a radical left wing any wants to differentiate himself from the message that trump is putting out saying that his message is really centrist he is both in favor of social justice for black americans who confront police but also for nonviolent protest. somebody thanks jon heder of the commotion in wisconsin. u.s. president donald trump has backtracked on his suggestion the votes it should try to cost the ballots twice in the them as election he had people to send ballots by mail and tries of those again in posts to test the mail in voting system democrats accuse the president of encouraging voters to break the law he's not changed his position saying those voting by post should go to the polling stations to make sure

it's counted let's go live now to the white house correspondent kimberly it's kimberly this clarification by the president what are we to make of it. well yes not just the president's also the attorney general and just in the last hour or so the white house press secretary kaley machinating what this is is a 5 cleanup up our operation after the president's comments were deemed by the top lections official in the u.s. state of north carolina to be essentially illegal the suggestion that you can vote by mail and in person is in fact a felony in the united states but the white house press secretary saying the president never suggested that what he was suggesting in his comments was that a person should check and see if their mail in ballot has been counted in the if not then cast in in person vote kind of consistent with his series of tweets on

this essentially saying that if it's not been tabulated well then you can go and vote so this is clearly an effort by the white house to kind of steer in the right direction after it was widely condemned by both democrats and republicans the suggestion and the concern here in all of this is that the election result is not going to be accepted by either side the u.s. president has repeatedly suggested that there could be the potential for mail in voter fraud which there is some evidence of on the part of democrats they are accusing republicans of suggesting. they are trying to suppress the vote by insisting that during covert 19 when many people don't want to stand in line that there needs to be an in person ballot where voter id can be verified so what this means is the credibility of the elections is at stake and this is a problem given the fact we know there was outside interference in 2016 it's expected again and also concerns about interference from the domestic side as well

now the president's also been making controversial remarks about the live experience. with people protesting against police brutality racism. yeah to be clear the white house press secretary also trying to clarify these points as well saying that the issue is not with peaceful protesting it's with the violence that is often conducted by white people not the black lives matter protesters or communities of color but the violence of those that they see is. as you fascist movements even marxist organizations so what they've done is they've put together a memo released on wednesday that suggests that the president withhold federal funding from cities where this is occurring now portland oregon is one of the biggest examples it's been going on for about 3 months there we've also seen it sporadically in washington d.c.

chicago new york but what democrats are contending is that what the president's really doing is going after political adversaries given the fact that these are controlled by in terms of local officials democratic mayors for the most part so this is really once again pitted the president against his political rivals their argument is the president's trying to project law and order and detract from negative headlines like his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the millions of americans that remain out of work a white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks let's bring in. unit kelly who is the dean of the sanford school of public policy at duke university good to have you with us unit what do you make of this white house cleanup operation then having to clarify the president's previous controversial remarks well thank you for having me i think that it's an example of trying to comfort accomplishing exactly what he wants to accomplish with cleaning up what would have been and what was an illegal you

know effort to encourage double voting but make no mistake about the fact that at the same time he has succeeded in sowing misinformation about the credibility of the whole mail and ballot process why is he saying you need to check up on it make sure that sows confusion and so those it's a lack of confidence in the process as a whole and that is exactly what he wants to accomplish why why would the president want to deliberately try to undermine public confidence in the electoral process this mail in voting favor one party over the other. that's a really a myth actually that a mailing part of voting would favor one party over the other has nothing to suggest that the turnout sometimes people think it's certainly republicans think that high voter turnout tends to favor democrats but why would trump want to

undermine the confidence they let in the election because i really don't think that he can steal the election and it's too difficult into too decentralized and so his biggest strategy is to undermine confidence in the election if you're under my confidence the election it allows you to do 2 things one you can distance when people can participate because if they don't have confidence why would they participate and you know if things don't turn out the way you hope you can claim that it was our project that if things start to turn out the way the president hopes will he honor the election result. that will depend greatly on what the republican party will decide to do in trams are backing up you know our constitution it's for sure that whatever happens on election night we probably going to be in for qantas station and car and it's

a longer period of trying to figure out what actually happened unless we have a landslide if it's close it's going to be a contest that but i do believe that ultimately the constitutional processes in the country will prevail and if the republican party stands by our democracy then i think that ultimately the effort will be. a company that is the united states that where we're discussing here sounds like something from a banana republic do us elections need independent monitoring like we see in other countries where the democratic process is perhaps less robust you want to elections how independent monitoring they've been having independent monitoring things 2002 from the o.e.c.d. so that nobody really pays attention to them including the me the. that said the

united states does have a free media and a constitutional process these that we can fall back on and so i don't think that the integrity of our election will ride on whether or not we have. monitors by certainly welcome that you don't really get to talk to many thanks indeed for being with us you did kelly that. the sanford school of public policy duke university thank you so much for having. lebanon's army says that it's found bold of 4 tons of ammonium nitrate at beirut poor the same highly explosive material of course the blast last month on the engine is a reported to be dealing with it's with no specific information given about what action is being taken let's go live out of beirut i was there as they know how to joins us from the site of this clearly something going on behind you right now that i will talk about that in just a moment but 1st tell us what more if anything we know about this new ammonium nitrate 5. $4.00 tons of

ammonium nitrate that's according to the lebanese army statement they said that custom officials alerted them to the presence of this highly explosive material at one of the containers near the entrance at the ports now this material is believed to have been responsible for causing that massive expose in a month ago that ripped through neighborhoods and killed 191 people and injured thousands of others it's not clear why 4.35 tons of ammonium nitrate was in a different container when and if the night at the night at the night of the explosion officials says that 2700 tons were kept at the warehouse 12 since 2013 so really a lot of questions are being asked a few days ago there were some reports that emerged the tough thing that the authorities at the port were concerned that ammonium nitrate was being stolen so

that there was work air work on warehouse 12 which could have caused the fire now investigations are continuing the authorities had promised a swift investigation they said in 5 days the lebanese public would know the outcome it's now been a month and only today a high ranking official the 1st high ranking official the caretaker prime minister was questions over the presence of this material because high ranking officials knew that the money of nitrate was at the. court and did nothing about it so i know what's going on behind you there right now. or in a beirut neighborhood that may see one of the neighborhoods that was badly damaged as a result of that explosion you can see the collapsed building behind me it's been a month like we've been saying and only this morning a team from chile one of their dogs a search dog alerted them to the possibility of a body underneath that rubble now we've spoken to

a number of the team members here and what they're saying is that their dogs as well as their machines because they brought advanced machines with detected 2 bodies one could be dead and the other could be alive because they detected respiratory cycles they said this morning 18 respiratory cycles in a minute now 10 respiratory cycles in a minute it's very difficult to really know whether or not in fact there are body bodies underneath that rubble or if there is a survivor but it's been a month and the rubble has not been cleared this is why the lebanese people are so upset with their with the government with the authorities because of their negligence because they really did not do much in the aftermath of the port explosion they didn't clear the streets they didn't help in repair work so now there is the possibility of a survivor but what we understand at least dead bodies so this this could take hours adrian we're just going to have to wait to see whether or not they find

anyone underneath that collapsed building so this scene a lot of reporting live from beirut set up that he thinks. we'll get a weather update next here on the news out then. across africa claims of corruption in the response to the coronavirus prompted protests in a number of countries. taking aim at tech giants the bass founder tackles the firms that he believes a damaging democratic value is. at its course we'll hear from the man that led england to world cup glory and whether his side the big crickets top t 20 team. hello the dry weather across much of the middle east but it's also a very warm that all few days to the eastern end of the mediterranean no real cloud

in size and no real easing of those temperatures now elsewhere the winds are very lies they will say much the way of sand or dust but in fact how much is reaching the mid forty's baghdad across into kuwait not quite as hot further to the south a feeling really quiet here at pennsic as well developing through central western as a saudi and still the chance there shows into the fall south and west of yemen the south of it is more rain in the 4 calls working its way across the black sea so we could see one to more showers and some thunderstorms across northern areas of turkey nickols coming down some very saturated ground say there would be to have you now those temperatures combat injuries of them suffered a 39 degrees celsius that is well above the average for this time of year maybe by monday want to but even then with a temperature of 35 it is still very warm for this time of the central africa. they tend to really cluster around the gulf of guinea for the next couple of days notice a bad day friday further to the south across south africa by there is more rain in

the forecast pushing into cape town on saturday i will see more of those scattered showers and try to conditions throughout much of central and southern areas of mozambique. an experimental treatment in russia is hope and some multiple sclerosis sufferers hope the disease what stage of the treatment in us one o one east follows those trying to get in and out of moscow in a time of pandemic. al-jazeera . every. this lands of money in. a politician's playground during election season they say few women on the jury got their. promises are made and votes are gathered

their votes are for see they are the bigger the whole thing but will the real changes make their way to the lives of the people who were. on leave in the slant. on al-jazeera. get is heavy with us adrian for the good here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the headlines nato has announced that greece and turkey will attend talks to try to diffuse tension in the eastern mediterranean they've been locked in an escalating disputes of a gas exploration lights. us president donald trump has backtracked on his

suggestion that people try to vote twice in the event of selection he says the mail in votes should be sent the early of the voter should go to polling stations to make sure they're counted. lebanon's army says that it's far more than 4 tons of ammonium nitrate of a report saying highly explosive material caused the blast there last month army engineers are in the process of securing. the kremlin is rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valley germany says that it has unequivocal proof that the opposition figure was poisoned with another chalk nerve agents chancellor angela merkel said that the poisoning is attempted murder and that only russia can answer the serious questions raised al-jazeera florence li reports. now lying in a hospital bed in palin alexina valley has become the latest critic of the russian regime to have his life put on the line the german government has made it clear he was poisoned by novacek in order to silence him and has demanded answers from

moscow across much of the european union the reaction has been the same be called on russia to investigate these in a transparent and thorough manner and it's also in the interest of russia to provide. answers to the questions because this type of. chemical agent is not freely available it was used on the russian territory against a russian citizen so it's very important that it's thoroughly investigated and that the answers are provided both to the russian public and to the international the echoes of the poisonings of the former spice case cripple and his daughter in the english city of seoul spree also by novacek only to clear the british government has also condemned the attack on the valley but the response from the russian government has been identical in both cases there is no proof and if you will the investigation then let us help there's no chance of that russia's one friend in all

this inside europe is bellerose where the beleaguered president ran to putin's aide accusing the german government of making the whole thing up but the calls have begun once again to get russia's attention properly by threatening to pull the plug on north stream to the gas pipeline which will run from northern russia through germany to denmark yet for all the demands for a pan european response countries like hungary whose nuclear power is underwritten by moscow will surely never agree if russia was responsible for the poisoning it also follows it is still not concerned what the repercussions might look like laurence li al jazeera. as lawrence mentioned that ties between russia and belarus are strengthening by minister mikhail bush just in as traveled to the capital minsk to meet embattled president exiled alexander lukashenko belarus accused russia of interference ahead of the disputed election which led to mass protests from russia now appears to be the country's strongest ally both of you of course russia

completely supports the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of valorous delarue says dear to us not only thanks to historical linguistic and religious connections but also our hundreds of thousands or millions of citizens who are practically one people are serious about it speth is monitoring developments from neighboring. want to meet those incentives prime minister to stand down and mince to really seal the deal for moscow to make it clear that bottom if you sin is going to back to. the now and that was never clear before in the run up to the presidential election in ments on who was the 9th shanker in fact used to set the roost threats of russian interference in his country's affairs if people didn't vote for him poll went to had claimed he won with $0.08 that has now as we know for tens of thousands of people out on the streets of men's who rejects that and many most western powers of also rejected that 80 percent result on the

calling for a reelection putin has decided to but who has decided to back. previously there was no love lost between the 2 leaders but the payoff of putin may well be that where you once had an irritating and not very compliant neighbor to the south well now. it's survival to vote in the huzzah. prosecutors in slovakia have appealed the decision to acquit an influential businessman charged with the murder of the journalist young course yack and his fiance 2 years ago relatives of the victims and political leaders have criticized the decision to say axe murder sparked massive protests and forced the prime minister at the time to step down as a serious note in barber reports. he's one of sort of ak is best known businessmen and he's just been acquitted of murder judges said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that mary and another defendant ordered the killings of

journalist young could jack and his fiance 2 years ago will remain in prison serving 19 years for forgery in an unrelated case sort of trick question. when you put everything together the evidence was sufficient and they did they would certainly claim something along the lines of his financial criminal activity not being connected to this case but in my view it is all connected so they should have acknowledged. alina suso over an acquaintance of kitchener was also found not guilty but thomas zabol was sentenced to 25 years in prison for helping carry out the murder back in april 2 men were convicted after admitting involvement in march 2nd former soldier who was the gunman got 23 years in prison and the other 15 years . young can his fiance martina near over was shot dead in their house near brought to slather in feb 28th they were both 27 could check wrote about corrupt businessmen in slovakia as well as italy's drunk at

a mafia and its connections with slovak politicians the 1st targeted killing of a journalist in slovak history prompted the biggest street protest since 1990 anticommunist evolve it revolution in czechoslovakia within weeks the government collapsed a minister robert fico resigned in the national police chief was fired but the anti corruption protests continued and a year after the killings susanna cutover a human rights lawyer and political newcomer was elected president. was she said she was shocked by thursday's not guilty verdict which left the families of young martina cruz near over distraught and the prosecutor involved says he's already filed an appeal to the supreme court nadine barber al jazeera. a prominent media mogul and pro-democracy figure in hong kong has been found not guilty of intimidating a reporter from a rival newspaper jimmy lai was facing up to 5 years in prison. reports from hong

kong. it was all over very quickly surrounded by media some from organizations he owns jimmy lai was a man in a hurry as you ride it west kalou magistrates court within minutes of entering the building he was acquitted of the magistrate said she found insufficient evidence to support allegations that the media proprietor had intimidated a reporter from a rival newspaper more than 3 years ago calling the journalist an unreliable witness. i didn't talk as he left court it's not the end of his legal fight he faces at least 5 other criminal investigations last month around 200 police raided his newspaper office after he became the most high profile figure from the city's pro-democracy movement to be detained under a new security law he was charged with foreign collusion and faces up to 10 years in jail that trials expected to happen next year jimmy lies acquittal comes amid

renewed debate over judicial independence in hong kong just this week the chief executive terry land said there was no separation of powers between the executive legislature and judiciary a principle that's been repeatedly emphasized by the city's top judges carrie lamb will be able to point to wednesday's verdict as proof in her eyes that the judiciary here does remain independent even as more legal thinkers say the opposite adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. afghanistan's government has freed nearly all taliban prisoners in the run up to peace talks due to begin $400.00 prisoners were awaiting release astray and france objected to the release of the last 7 remaining inmates so they're due to be held in custody while ago ca sions take place libyans in the city of misrata have been voting for the next municipal leaders other cities

are also planning elections despite the pandemic and a shaky cease fire nationwide elections are being held in areas controlled by the warlord khalifa haftar as russia played a major role in the un recognized government's campaign to drive huffed us forces out of western libya. jamaica's general election is on the way despite a worsening corona virus outbreak that infections have spiked since the vote was called in august by prime minister andrew wholeness 6 months ahead of sched jewel hole suggest that his center right ruling party will win another 5 years in power or than 7000 people have been hired to maintain hygiene a polling station. in brief let me in a. more serious british order in life very quickly i don't want this to happen even standing in line for an extended period so generally the voting isn't as we have expected. just some old eternal spirit.

persons are complaining the reports are received that everyone. has been very mild . and the politics of the date has been set for the united states for withdrawal from the world health organization president trumpet already signaled the move saying that the w.h.o. but failed in its response to covert 19 the state department says that u.s. involvement with the organization will end on july 6th next here a statement says the u.s. is looking for alternative partners to carry out the work that the w.h.o. was doing and washington is refusing to participate in the global vaccine effort kovacs because it's led by the world health organization more than 70 welty wealthy nations have committed to fair access to any future vaccine the coalition will buy and deliver 2000000000 doses by the end of next year india has recorded the world's

biggest single day rise in new corona virus infections all the 83000 cases were reported on wednesday the 3rd time this week the turtles but above 80000 the u.s. had held the previous single day record with 77000 india has recorded over 3850000 cases more than 67000 covert 19 related deaths france has announced a near 120 $1000000000.00 stimulus package to try to ease the economic impact of the pandemic from mr sharon costs costs thanks presented the plan at a weekly cabinet meeting in paris from where the tosh about reports. well france has very strict a 2 month lockdown and the current a virus pandemic has meant that the french economy is now in recession unemployment is rising so will the french government want to do of course is reverse this trend and that is why they have launched $118000000000.00 stimulus package now it was

announced by the french prime minister. said the aim is really to try and make france more competitive and more self-reliant the focus is very much on job creation and also investing in sectors like transportation health culture present macro has also said that he really wants a focus on the green economy sir 3rd of the money from this fund is going to go into green tech green jobs and industries the support for sustainability there's little doubt that for president micro with an election in less than 2 years time he will want to see the economy really getting a boost and he will just say unemployment rising unemployment and it is of course in micros interest however trying to lift the economy and public confidence at a time of so much uncertainty won't be easy the current a virus pandemic continues and infection cases in phones have continued to rise with an average of about $5000.00 new infections each day being reported the

government is telling people to remain vigilant many cities across france most major cities of in fact made the wearing of mosques out in the streets obligatory children are the 11 at school and university students they have to wear masks to the government says the people must take care and continue to social distance because of course his health crisis is far from over. a number of african nations are facing protests over scandals related to the purchase of medical protective equipment hospital stuff in south africa held a demonstration in pretoria over low salaries and the poor quality of protective equipment a report by the order to general the found that some of the 30000000000 dollar coronavirus fund has been fortunately used in kenya the president has ordered invent an investigation into the state agency that handles medical supplies after allegations that some officials and business men stole some $400000000.00 during

the procurement process and in nigeria doctors in state run hospitals have been striking over a lack of p p more than $800.00 health workers that have been infected that's enough for mount a serious from it amila who has more on the situation in south africa. a few dozen protesters have gathered outside the union buildings here in pretoria that's the seat of government just outside the president's office and while it is a fairly small group because remember covert restrictions are still in place they can't be gatherings of more than 50 people they people here are vocal and these have also been very persistent complaints around the procurement of personal protective equipment equipment and hospitals and a lot of it revolves around alleged corruption we've spoken to a number of health workers who have said that there isn't enough p.p. in hospitals sometimes nonna tool they've also complained that often they've had to reuse and disinfect p.p.

and they're blaming corruption for this in that the companies that have supplied p. p. e. often have connections a political connections are connected to the ruling african national congress here in south africa and that's how they've come by these contracts when in fact they aren't actually capable of delivering the equipment that's needed and they say it's for this reason that health workers are at risk at least 24000 health workers in south africa many of them nurses have contracted covert 19 and at least $250.00 have died so far and this is what angers the protesters behind us they say that so the africans have sacrificed so much so far during the slump down and to add to that you now have a government that they're accusing of being in ept and corrupt only worsening this health crisis in the country and pakistan days of torrential rain and widespread flooding of course chaos in caracas the financial capital at least 23 people have

died in this widespread anger among people living on it john jones reports. in karate floods batter the city plunging pakistan's financial capital into chaos since last week people have had to contend with power cuts mobile network outages and shortages of both fuel and cash. the last of all the a.t.m. machines aren't working all over the city and we are unable to withdraw money even for our groceries and we are facing a huge problem there is no want to help. dozens of people have died as a result of the torrential downpours and widespread flooding. and anger is growing . but incumbency did negligence say absolutely it's incompetency and negligence on part of the government we are paying taxes and in return what are we getting there's not even a proper sewage system and that's why there is dirty water flowing all over analysts also say corruption and lack of proper urban planning are to blame but

government officials deny those allegations the accusations made by presenting davis motor connection on this night. in the. flooding situation in the city of one person i think the influences you have put it's a little unprecedented it has been on previous record and it is really unfortunate that at this wonderful time when the nation needs food and then that to solve the problems these p.t.a. presented is that again distorting these bases allegations despite the difficulties driver hide cleans and repairs his rickshaw i see a lot of financial situation was ready by that but now the flood waters put drainage and made even worse i'm unable to draw even a lot of water has. i really hope he'll be able to continue to provide for his family but like so many others in karachi he also worries things may get more

difficult. just ahead here on the news tyson fury says he's ready to knock down another champion probably not the one the boxing fans were expecting santa here with all the details just a moment. stuck

inside my time machine i'm going to take you back 25 years now to the beginning of the dot com boom many of the startups back then wouldn't survive but one that became known as e-bay transformed buying and selling as we know is now the man who

founded it is working to limit the size and power of today's tech giants reports from los angeles. in 199528 year old computer scientist pierre omidyar had an idea for a new type of e-commerce company based on an ancient model it became known as e-bay used to take in the. idea and the bizarre which we have now now is like centuries all and you have figured out a way. and you know kind of scale it globally and that was the beauty of you know kind of really not all e-bay quickly became a rising star in the emerging online world e-bay became a publicly traded company in 1998 making omidyar a billionaire at $31.00 under c.e.o. meg whitman e-bay entered a period of growth and acquisition those were the years that you know wired.

and so many different companies that were very very lucrative and were a significant part of the company's early success by 2015 e.-bay stock was worth $80000000000.00 it had revenues of 8 and a half 1000000000 dollars that year and employed $11600.00 people but he commerce rival amazon began picking up steam innovating crushing rivals and taking more and more of a share of e-commerce from e bay i would characterize than as a little bit of that that happy year the company was was doing well financially but then they seemingly had slowed down it had lost the momentum in the market place to amazon today e-bay is still profitable but it is dwarfed by amazon scale and reach as for omidyar he stepped down from the base board in 2017 and has devoted himself to philanthropy through his investment firm the omidyar network he's stepped away

from and yes a lot of time to think about how to make the world a better place from this point of view the no. that work has taken aim at tech giants including google and facebook and their impact on political discourse and democratic values 26th you know where should the scene and on purity are a lot of other people around the world raise concerns and where that might platforms were very powerful or maybe yours network supports legal efforts to break up and rein in the tech giants an issue that has become increasingly prominent politically democratic presidential candidate joe biden promises to take a hard look at splitting up companies such as facebook if he's elected robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles time now for sports his son no thank you very much adrian has continued to fall at the u.s. open tennis he'd been was the latest star to exit the torment at flushing meadows

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a solution to stop messi leaving can be found you are quite ok little machine gun i think leo messi never wanted to leave i think he was angry angry with the board of directors angry with the results and the lack of provision but in view and i think it was a case of momentary anger for everybody's sake i think we must get him to stay there are frictions in all of stories and leone bossa had to friction after many years of a relationship but i think love must prevail carter's national team have set themselves another big challenge ahead of their home while cup in 2022 the asian champions it will be guess and trends at next year's gold cup the tournament is a 4 teams up from north and central america and will be hosted by the united states in july while qatar will also play in next year's corporate america which will be held in argentina and colombia. brazil's football association has announced that female national players will now be paid the same as their male counterparts when

they represent their country australia norway new zealand there are other countries with this policy brazil's women's team haven't played since march to 2 coronavirus . use the rockets have set up a semi final encounter with the top n.b.a. sees the l.a. lakers they did it by beating the all the home a city thunder in game 7 of the 1st round series russell westbrook school 20 points against his former team james harden and may have had a low scoring night with just 17 but made a big block shot with just seconds left in the game the rockets winning 104200. and it isn't conference the miami heat as pos the milwaukee bucks the heat has planted a 6 point lead in the final seconds of the game. 2 free throws with no time remaining live to the heat 216214 when i am is the 1st n.b.a.

team in history to take it to nothing lead over number one seed. and the brooklyn nets have hired steve nash as head coach following the 1st round exit the canadiens joins our 5 seasons as a player development consultant with golden state 46 year old the olson had impressive playing korea being named m.v.p. twice a limited overs captain on morgan believes his side are underdogs ahead of their home t 20 series against australia which begins on friday morgan side are 2nd in the world rankings just behind the aussies are expected to be at full strength the draw and series against pakistan would draw for our chair and just available for selection the series was meant to be a warm up for the wall t 20 which was scheduled to begin in october has been postponed because of the global pandemic. when you grow watching ashes cricket or any game against australia

it's always built open and seen as. the pinnacle of anybody's career and i think regardless of the format that you play there is always a bit more on the line when you when you play against australia strongest scored it so will probably be putting out the best 11 so she had to go on doubt i'd say they're probably just a 1000 theory has set his sights all winning more championship gold but probably not the top but you'd expect the world champion boxer wants a showdown with the world wrestling entertainment champion it through macintyre fury of course is no stranger to the wrestling ring having performed the w w e n last year and he seemingly got plenty of time to spend with him the highly anticipated bout gets answered you just were not expected to happen till 2021. they said contact my people make our last get it on get tagged triple h.

overage contact make let's get this fight over the line. congress at 5 year old going to grab a swing around at rick never mind play ball you're going to get knocked out by the gypsy kay that's my promise and that's no small thing we'll have more for you later on but for now i'll hand you back to. somebody thanks david that is it from buddy's out time for south of me and the team here in doha to pass the baton to our colleagues in london barbara sarah here to update your next i'll see you again thanks for.

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discussions from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. the arab. the 1st steps towards a military deescalation in the eastern mediterranean nato says greece and turkey have agreed to start talks. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up the u.s. president backtracks after being accused of suggesting that people vote twice in the november election russia rejects accusations alexina brownie was poisoned by novacek as they include the man sandstones days of heavier.