right. washington. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is that he is live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. paying tribute to the city still in mourning one month after a huge blast tore through beirut. downed jumpers not fit to be jumped through to be the commander in chief democratic presidential nominee joe biden hits out at the u.s. president after he reportedly insulted the nation's war dead. serbia and kosovo

announced that they'll normalize relations at a white house meeting their leaders also committed to opening embassies in jerusalem. it has one of the world's lowest ages of consent we look at the fight to protect young girls in the philippines. and in sport leno messi is to remain a boss on a player messi says he's changed his mind about wanting to leave to avoid a legal dispute with the club. commemorations have been held in lebanon marking one month since a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut people poorest in a moment of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm that's the time almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited in the ports sending a devastating blast wave across the city 200 people died and thousands will. one of

the many buildings reduced to rubble one is now the focus of a search for a possible survivor off the signs of life were detected on thursday but so far scans of the building a fail to find anyone alive what we have seen so far is unfortunately no trace of any big team of body we have been conducting 2 scans in 2 different room holding the scanner on the porch we just need a 4 'd inch fence and commit the horse so we did that so far we don't see nothing and but we are going to conduct again i'm sure another scan thing is done we work in phase the call the nation is quieter she b.m. together with the military. 11 is going to tell me we have a very good team everybody's working hand in hand al-jazeera zana had a takes a look back now at the blas hts that forever changed lebanon. it's been

a month since the explosion at beirut port and many like north are still struggling to cope this is my 1st time coming to modify and after the explosion at the time of the explosion i was feeling really bad that i couldn't go down and help. but i was just very afraid of leaving my hand even the blast rips through neighborhoods like . killing nearly 200 people and wounding thousands but some injuries can't be seen as a matter of concern for us now what we call the cars we don't see the psychological effects of these explosions. the blast was lebanon's latest calamity. many businesses already reeling from a deep economic crisis were impacted united nations estimates 70000 people have been put out of work that's 12000 households lebanon was also on the verge of

a humanitarian crisis with more than 50 percent of its people in poverty alley nostra dean is thankful that he and his family survived the explosion their home is just a kilometer from the port they struggle to carry on like so many others they rely on aid agencies for handouts and. my car was destroyed or used to be a doctor i was able to feed my family and buy milk and diapers for my daughter going to the focus came to assess our situation 3 days after the blast the. damages are in the billions of dollars money the nearly bankrupt state doesn't have decades of corruption has been blamed not just for the economy's collapse but the port blast. many lebanese blame the political elite for this explosion so far mainly ports and custom employees have been arrested as part of the investigations but senior officials haven't been questioned even though they were aware almost 3000

tons of ammonium nitrate were stored in unsafe conditions in a warehouse i expected the president. the president to bury today in prison. because the investigation dependently from their presence lebanese authorities have rejected calls for an international investigation into one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions in history on this day feel angry. and. you're sitting here at home and you. and you're in danger. are you going to go through that. everything is so unstable country i don't even know i mean nor is not alone in her despair and misery it's been crisis after crisis in what is now a broken country. u.s. president total trump has announced that serbia and kosovo have agreed to normalize

relations with israel so b. and president alexander of the church and cost of his prime minister of the hoti of attended days of talks in washington d.c. muslim majority kosovo will recognize israel and be able to move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem they've agreed to cooperate on a range of economic issues we have correspondents on both sides of the story in a moment we'll get reaction from jerusalem with ari force of the 1st let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how could kelly what do you make of the timing of this announcement why no. well this is a white house that is looking for a much needed diplomatic with and so that may have a lot to do with it the u.s. president has made it a campaign goal of the 2016 and throughout his presidency to boost israel's standing you have to remember just a few weeks ago the much touted an announced and celebrated at least by this white

house normalization of relations between the u.a.e. and israel even a 1st flight direct flight from israel to u.a.e. so this is really on the heels of that as you mentioned number of days of talks to put this together in addition to economic announcements but this is especially what donald trump needed in terms of a win just today is a bad news day domestically for a president who is fighting back the domestic press when it comes to allegations he called soldiers losers even a decorated war hero in fact these his rival joe biden has just commented on that saying these comments are deplorable that the president should apologize he is not fit to be commander in chief so those are the news headlines donald trump's beating back just today but just in recent weeks and months it's the issue of coronavirus the economy being depressed and the fact that his poll numbers are sagging as opposed to. joe biden's his rival to run for president in november so with an

imminent u.s. election this is a presidency in need of a victory that may have a lot to do with the timing of this announcement or it could be many thanks indeed white house correspondent kimberly how could back in washington let's go to jerusalem ari force that is for us ari what's the significance of this than. well for israel the significance is more recognition of jerusalem in israel's language as the capital of israel donald trump of course recognized jerusalem as the israeli capital in 2017 move the u.s. embassy here in 2018 so far only one other country has done that opening an embassy in jerusalem very shortly after that u.s. embassy opening the embassy of guatemala was opened not far from from here indeed and so this will be the 3rd and potentially 4th such moves by countries moving their embassies and opening an embassy in kosovo's case here in jerusalem

the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that this is a significant moment because it is a muslim majority country that is doing this in the shape of course averred and this recognition of course was something that israel had been reluctant to do in the past it tends not to want to recognize independence movements and countries without any kind of questions over their statehood because of the potential precedent that might set in terms of the palestinians and of course this also. involves a european nation not an easy nation but a european nation in serbia another european nation they say that they will move their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem before july next year and before then they will open a representative office here so far a little bit of reaction coming in from palestinians have a natural we the executive committee member of the palestine liberation

organization she's been tweeting about it speculating as to what else donald trump is going to deliver to israel ahead of the november elections in the united states al jazeera sorry force that live in west jerusalem harry many thanks indeed. thank you live now to commercial in the u.s. state of wisconsin much for a court hearing is underway for jacob blake he's the black man who was shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer last month that incident trick of days of sometimes violent protests opening remarks been made let's listen in for just a few moments where he has hired counsel and has made arrangements for this appearance so given all of that i do think that a signature bond is warranted we don't object to the no violent contact order being put in place and we do concur with the condition that he should be allowed to leave state for the purpose of seeking medical treatment all right and no other objections to what the state is requested as to conditions of bond as well those

are their terms of the wow ok aren't great he's all right thank you well court has reviewed this complaint understands these are allegations that this juncture they're serious but nonetheless court believes a signature bond is that in order aaron courts can impose $10000.00 signature bond and this is for mr blake and mr blake. good afternoon again sir now where i have some i am in the process of setting bond at this point sir and i want to let you know what the 1st it's a 10000 dollar signature bomb but i want you to know the non-monetary conditions of bond as well so that you're aware of those all right. are you able to hear me clearly today sir yes sir all right thank you all right now mr blake non-monetary conditions are you to have no violent contact with an individual with the initials and date of birth l. and be it a birth 12692. that also involves children l.

and b. . that you may not possess any weapon sir and you may not leave the state of wisconsin unless you're going to seek or obtain medical treatment. and i see that there is $500.00 cash that's been posted allah also order the bets retained as a cash component of the signature bond and that further you must make appearances in court when required sir and not commit further crimes obviously while out on understand all of those conditions mr blake. thank you very much you are right now. there is the matter of the plumeri hearing and again i do have before me a waiver of rights women are hearing and also an information so we may move to luminary hearing but i wanted to ask. in terms of if there's been any type of law

operate. out there has i want to ask you know was there we felt was the waiver at this point at all asked mr kaplan is one of based upon the anticipation of future discussions to be held between the prosecution and mr cafferty or has there been an actual offer tendered i can advise that i have not made any offers to defense counsel i did take over a special prosecutor but i don't believe any offers were made prior to. my taking over the case if that at that point that's a hearing under way for jacob blake the black man who was shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer last month let's bring it out to sara such an hendra who is in kosha what do you make of what we're seeing here joan jacob blake appearing in court from his hospital bed. it's an extraordinary parents one that's been done on line for 2 reasons one

because of the. situation and the other because he is paralyzed from the waist down now normally he would come into that court in a wheelchair if he were able to but he hasn't even made it out of the hospital so what happened there is that he was released on a $10000.00 bond that means he is free and won't have to be detained what had been happening up until recently was that there were 2 deputies in his room and he was handcuffed by his hands and feet to that bed that you saw there making only the briefest of appearances but there were restrictions on what he can do he's he's free but he cannot contact the woman who is accused him of sexual assault or her children he can't have a weapon that is a firearm and he can't leave the state of wisconsin except for medical reasons so this was an extraordinary appearance and it's our 1st time getting to see jacob

blake from that hospital bed i spoke to his uncle justin blake yesterday in kenosha and he said jacob blake was in good spirits and that he was determined that whether he remained paralyzed or not to power through this whole situation and to make something of his life but 1st against the face this sexual assault charge the charge is that he entered the home of oh a woman with whom he had had a long term relationship after and that he had asked for some of his things back and that he had touched her in a way that amounted to sexual assault those are the charges he's facing and because there was a warrant out on that that is what caused police to seek to arrest him on the day when he was shot a week ago sunday 7 times in the back as he climbed back into his van. i was there as john henry reporting live there from well 24 hours ago john was in kenosha when we spoke back in chicago john many thanks indeed. democratic presidential candidate

joe biden has lashed out at president trump fay's alleged remarks about war veterans the atlantic magazine said that during a 1st war with 1st world war santini ceremony the u.s. president described the war dead as loses the president has denied making the comment. i quite frankly if it was written in the land use choose to scotty. in the firms would most of us believe to be true. don't jump is not fit to be john the prison be the commander in chief let me be clear my son was an assistant u.s. attorney and he volunteered to go to kosovo when the war was going on as a civilian he wanted to sucker my son volunteered enjoy the united states military as the attorney general went to

a rock 3 year won the bronze star and other commendations he was in a sucker in the service men and women he served with particularly those did not come home we're not losers this is the news from out 0 still to come on the program. dulce responsible for this attack must be held accountable i'm brought to justice nato steps up the pressure against russia over the poisoning of opposition leader alexian about. russia's corona virus vaccine receives a positive review from one of the world's most renowned medical journals but it still needs to be tested for. and serena williams moves a step closer to a record equalling 24th grand slam title u.s. open action coming up and.

the un's atomic watchdog says that iran is stockpiling enrich uranium well beyond limits set by world powers in the 2015 nuclear deal the i.a.e.a. says that it's reached more than 10 times the limit decided under the agreement which promised iran economic incentives in return for curbs on its nuclear program iran has been violating restrictions since the u.s. pulled out of the deal 2 years ago it's trying to pressure the remaining nations to help offset crippling u.s. sanctions. nato is calling on russia to cooperate with an international investigation into what happened to kremlin critic alexina valley doctors in germany when it all he is being treated say that he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agents but russia's government says that it has no evidence of any crime lawrence lee reports. the russian government insists it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the arch critic of president putin alexina valley the state

hasn't opened a criminal investigation despite the valley apparently being poisoned inside russia by a weapons grade nerve agent novacek which is only produced in russia in the latest exercise in banging their heads against a wall in the valleys legal team went to court in moscow accusing russian investigators of not doing anything to the surprise of nobody their case was thrown out still they said they would keep trying to members of it was cross congress comes that we will appeal this decision at the moscow city caught and you will also ask the following activity build illegal defeated to consider the claim if it all to check definitive launch a criminal case on the deliberate poisoning of alexina violence. after the european commission said it was marshalling its forces to get russia to focus on the poisoning nato has now involved itself as well arguing it has the right to do so since the poisoning was a breach of international law made dollars agree that russia now house serious

questions it must answer the russian government must fully cooperate with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an impartial international investigation those responsible for this attack must be held accountable and brought to justice yet when he was asked what exactly nates a would do next he could only say he would continue consulting with allies the problem for nato and everyone else is that if there was a crime it was committed on russian soil and without russian consent in an investigation where they go next is totally unclear lawrence lee al jazeera. the tension between turkey and greece of a gas exploration rights was also raised by nato secretary general he says they've started talks of spies a denial from greece which says the talks will only happen once turkish ships leave

disputed areas of the mediterranean what nato is doing with arm trying to do is. not to address the underlying problem about to de conflict and to try to develop and hans mechanisms for decon fiction. as long as we have so many ships in the eastern mediterranean we believe that there is a need to have technical talks on how to. develop the mechanisms and hans mechanisms for the confliction his part turkey's foreign minister accused greece of lying about the nato initiative another going to stick at it the nato secretary general asked for greece's views and greece gave the go ahead and after he got the go ahead the nato secretary general made an announcement we were not surprised but unfortunately grace refuted the nato secretary general but it is not the nato secretary general who is lying it is greece itself which is lying but

a russian opposition leader chicken of sky is calling on the united nations to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters they accuse president alexander lukashenko of rigging his election victory last month she going to sky is urging the u.n. to send a monitoring mission to bella reuss on his ear as bernard smith reports now from vilnius in the neighboring lithuania. so a lot of chicken off believe that by now she should have been sworn in as the new president to balance instead she's exiled in neighboring lithuania via video link she asked an informal meeting of the un security council to help. today in the country where the rose is in turn were a peaceful protest and been illegally detained beaten and imprisoned. in the balance capital men's cooperation colleague maria kolesnikov and others have formed a new political party chicken of sky having been told in advance but all signs

insist any misunderstandings have been ironed out and the other more united than they were on the list with lionel score of the nation council we want political prisoners screech we want an investigation into the killings of peaceful protesters and we want new fair and transparent election as the altar of our choice will stall on and we're not going to leave it like that speaking to al-jazeera the new vilnius had quarters of her coordination council chicken or acknowledge the challenges of not being in belarus is difficult for both of us because i'm here it's safer for me to be here but it's more difficult to. not morally to be here because i understand that i should be there in my people and it's difficult for her as well because she is under pressure of the time she is in danger all the time as any person and.

also on friday police arrested students at the minutes state linguistics institute who ignored calls from arab ministration to stop protests. that the demonstrations across baton rouge since the august 9th election which president alexander lukashenko said he'd won with 80 percent of the vote. many belorussians and major western powers say the vote was groot. alexander lukashenko says lithuania and other neighboring countries are behind the protests and he says nato is building up its troops along the bell roofs borders u.s. troops and tanks have started arriving here but the lithuanian government says that the exercises planned long before the elections next door burnitz may al-jazeera vilnius patients taking part in the clinical trial of a corona virus vaccine in russia of all developed antibodies according to a report in the lancet medical journal but lots of says the trial is too small to

prove the vaccine safety and effectiveness $40000.00 volunteers are due to take in further trials the kremlin has announced international criticism of the facts of the vaccines rapid development saying that it's an attempt to undermine russian research carried gov is of all a just a blank us to university in the u.k. he says the speed of vaccine development will ultimately depend on politicians. i think the timing actually largely depends on on political pressure if we were tense such an international emergency at the moment and governments were feeling so pressurised to to do something about it then vaccine development would would always take a lot longer than the time scales that we're seeing out the russian people that came out in the lancet describes how thiis one and 2 were compressed in their particular trying or so they began a feast one traveler beat the basic safety trial and in 5 these later they started

the feast through trial for if you can see and board a tree tasting normally we do 20 days before you begin your face trial at least so it should it shows how they're combining all of the stages intercom to fix elevated process you know the results that have been. said hope that in the lancet sure that the russian vaccines boutique 5 produces neutralizing antibodies in the volunteers neutralizing antibodies antibodies that are capable of binding to and activating the virus in the aborted tree so theoretically those people might actually be protected from from covert $1000.00 invention and it could be that at some point politicians will decide that that is good enough that we will we will go ahead with vaccines for release that have this kind of property even though we mean or have complete data from face the clinical trials it's only as former prime minister

silvio berlusconi is in hospital with pneumonia after testing positive for the corona virus it was taken to the lands san rafael hospital on thursday at ellis county's part and 2 of his children also tested positive after a holiday on the island of sardinia lived out of a land francesco jan but tony for a san francisco what do we know of his condition. well italy is waiting to hear more about the 83 year old former minister silvio berlusconi's health the news from today is that he has not been into baited and he is breathing autonomy's leave without the need of a ventilator he was hospitalized yesterday around midnight in the health facility of santa fe early in milan it's not the 1st time that he is treated in that sort of a lead his physician. held a press conference this afternoon saying that only tested positive for corona virus 3 days ago without symptoms until yesterday night after checking on berlusconi

detected early stages of pneumonia on both lungs so he decided to hospital is him but at the moment the medical staff says to be optimistic his clinical conditions are said to be calming and confort being nevertheless berlusconi had preexisting health conditions and must be kept under close observation he overcame a prostate cancer in 1907 and is about to turn 84 before the end of september the physician said his famous patients mood is not the best at the moment probably he will need to stay in his private hospital room for a few days more discriminating francisco jumbotron do their reporting live from that. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then we'll tell you why cyprus is stripping 7 people of citizenship following an al jazeera investigation. hours

after they stormed a city in the democratic republic of congo surrounding a prison and dozens of armed fighters leave peacefully. that is force the man behind the football links website that corruption investigations across europe has gone on trial and he hear that story little is. how we got plenty of hot dry weather across the middle east as we should have some places of class the downed tools a salamander the red so you might just catch it up a few and far between further north is really about the heat with all the heat there in kuwait and baghdad getting up towards the made forty's once again but also more so in fact just around the levant where temperature is still currently running

around 5 to 10 degrees above the average a little colder here as we go on through sunday by cooler we're talking 36 in jerusalem 2 should be as hot as that further north we have got some showers starting to push across the black sea the caspian sea behind this system just one this is going to knock the edge off those temperatures but elsewhere as you can see it is going to be largely dry warm if not hot and sunny want to see a sense that western side of yemen plenty of showers there around the highlands drifting further west would see as they should do for much of southern africa it is looking fine and dry we have got a few showers coastal showers in the full cost of mozambique full recap pushing up towards maybe even into southern parts of somalia but look further south across the southern cape some very heavy rain coming in here that wet weather setting it all saturday and slowly pushing east the something.

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it is good to see willis hello everyone fitting in here in doha with the news hour from al-jazeera the headlines a ceremony has been held in beirut to mark the moment exactly one month ago when a catastrophic explosion tore through the city around 200 people died and thousands were wounded in the blast. u.s. president donald trump has announced that serbia kosovo have agreed to normalize relations with israel they also agreed to cooperate on a range of economic issues after 2 decades of conflict. nato secretary-general is calling on russia's cooperation with the international investigation into the

alleged poisoning of the opposition leader alexina volley again stoltenberg called it an appalling assassination attempt on moscow. cyprus says that it will strip 7 people of citizenship for violating the terms of the scheme offering so-called golden golden passports and exchange for investment it follows al-jazeera investigation into a cache of leaks documents they revealed european passports been sold to a number of convicted criminals fugitives and political figures considered to be a high risk for money laundering well deborah davis led that investigation and says the cypriot government is on the pressures of wax. it's not news they're recycling something that they said in november of 2019 when another scandal because this scheme has been plagued by scandal for several years revealed the names of people who should not be given passports at the time the government said it was going to

strip our sports from about 30 people and 26 names emerged then in may of this year in a form or applied to us the ministry of the interior said they'd already begun to strip the passports from 11 people so 26 had already shrunk to 11 now it seems to have shrunk to 7 and non of those names are among the names that we revealed in the cyprus papers we had about 30 people by the convicted wanted or under investigation for the crime as far as i can tell the secret government is not reacting to any of those revelations i think what's going on is that they are very . pressurised by the criticism and the fundamental criticism is what they are not addressing the fundamental criticism is that these schemes attract dirty

money they try to criminals who want to hide proceeds of crime and they try to people who want to hide themselves because they're wanted in their home countries so green with the rules saying you're going to take the passports away from a handful of people they may think that's going to deflect the criticism but it's not going to end it. pro-democracy activists in hong kong urging people to boycott a new disney movie star of moulin if a lot of new caused outrage by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protestors protest leader joshua warm says that anyone who believes in human rights shouldn't support the movie let's bring in fred home but an asia expert on the former chairman of the export import bank of the us our fred good to have you with us how concerned should hollywood be of course to boycott its movies well you know entertainment is one of our biggest exports in the united states i

just wrote a book called trade is not a 4 letter word and it turns out we export more television movies and music then we do aerospace which is often thought of as our biggest export so this is of course a concern and you know when the stars are c.e.o.'s start making and taking public positions there's going to be a reaction not just in china but in the united states from customers from employees and that's the world we live in today is president trump right when he says that hollywood is pandering to china. well i don't know i don't say that i would say that you know we when movies are made. they are made with the global market in mind there are sensitivities not just in china the sensitivities in the mid east certain movies are edited when they go on an airplane so it is not unusual to have films make adjustments to the marketplace we in the u.s.

have a rating system the films work hard not to get an x. rating and a concerned are rating will 'd also have an impact so. those kind of adjustments always happen. and the important thing is china is a giant market there are over $70000.00 screens in china more than the u.s. and so it's not surprising that that wouldn't be a market but i think we have to understand with a soft power they're going to be more and more these issues more and more conflict and it's going to take some deftness to navigate them so hollywood is perfectly prepared given the size of the market in china. to a certain extent to do what the chinese government wants as far as movie content is concerned well i would say what the audience in china wants and granted the government has a lot to say about that and you know. you know any business person has to or an artist for that matter is being aware of what the audience isn't what

the or how far you can take an audience before you go too far and that's true in literature in film and theater and clearly it's a particularly careful cut case when it comes to china and right now because there are heightened sensitivity these between the u.s. and china right now but if you were advising hollywood you'd ensure that the contracts of. performers and artists the actors the stands included a clause that that made them keep their mouth shut. well i'm not a big fan of c.e.o.'s of companies even or artists sort of of voicing their personal views when it impacts also their craft and there are work now and china is overly sense of that is very sensitive to this we had that issue with the national basketball association earlier this year so i'm not happy about china's views of this and that isn't

a good thing but that is also the reality we're facing if if one wants to operate in that market they're going to be some conditions upon that and companies have to make a decision whether that's within their value system or not really good stewardship for it many thanks indeed for being with us for help book thanks i mean. the u.s. economy is showing a few signs of recovery employers how cautiously hiring but so far only hoff of the $22000000.00 jobs lost to the pandemic of been recovered and some roles and airlines hotels restaurants and all of us may be gone for good as i was it was rob reynolds. mary bennett dead oh lost her job as a janitor months ago when the coronavirus pandemic crashed the u.s. economy like millions of others she's worried for the future that saved by plant. i think live on

a stroke for months president donald trump and his advisors have been predicting a rapid recovery and we've been talking about the v. this is better than a v. this is a rocket ship from preferred to graphs economists to vaas to show the length of an economic recovery v. shaped means activity goes down fast but then rises again quickly the bulk of the evidence says we are still on track for very significant upward move and it's to be shaped recovery but many economists say no it's not easy it is not a choice right now because we had. too much firing if people are afraid of getting sick and dying they're just not going to behave. in a way that's conducive to growth more likely says a federal reserve bank chief is an l. shaped recovery a steep fall followed by a long plateau of low growth and high unemployment a time that's required to recover is going to be a quite

a bit longer than we might have otherwise expect even with effective vaccines or therapeutic methods economists say there's no question of magically returning to the free pandemic economy many jobs in affected industries may be lost forever airlines like united and american if cut thousands of positions as have to part. and stores clothes makers big banks and blue chip companies like 18 t. boeing and hilton hotels and the list goes on businesses are looking out at the landscape and realizing it's not going to be a quick recovery they are the resizing in resealing their operations to manage that situation which comes with more permanent layoffs the workers hit hardest tend to be those with the lowest wages who work in hands on jobs like mary benedetta oh that's not bad don't want to work and i have to either find a job for millions like her there's

a long hard road ahead rob reynolds al-jazeera an armed group has returned to its base in the democratic republic of congo after a standoff outside a prison around $300.00 fighters from the so-called co-operative for the development of the congo and to the town of bunia on friday they did initially given the army a deadline to release fellow members who are being held in the jail they've since left often ago seizing but the military although it's unclear what exactly was discussed welcome webb has been following developments from nairobi. hundreds of fighters piled into the town they were demanding the release of prisoners and also demanding the terms of a provisional deal that they'd made we've some factions of the army to be upheld they want to be demobilized they want to be integrated into the army for fighters to be given food rations this is something that they say they've been promised and that the army and the government had failed to deliver the army's point in trying

to defeat this militia who could echo since the beginning of the year they failed to do so to the militias said you know if you can give us positions in the army food rations and so i won we will come out the bush now they said this has been failed to army and failed to deliver been and it seems that the reason for this is that there isn't backing for this kind of agreement from the capital kinshasa there in just 2 days ago the un's chief in congo said that they would not support this kind of demobilisation because they don't know they have done this kind of thing many times in the path they now don't want to be in a position along with the international community where they're seen to be rewarding people for taking up arms and for killing civilians in many 3 millions have been killed by these groups in that area in the last year or 2 many people have fled their homes many people have been displaced because of this escalating violence also in the democratic republic of congo there's been a protest outside the embassy that police used tear gas to disperse around 250

people processed stemmed from a dispute over the massacre of 1100 people in the east and see in 1998 demonstrations accuse rwanda's ambassador to congo vincent of denying the massacre ever happened for del buffalo and but is a civil society coordinator researcher based in goma he says the congolese people resent their government's lack of response. i think you're. going to affect. the relationship are on. the political side because unfortunately of it come to this government. and the head of state and the howard always being in our party 2 years or be outside they have i mean seeing this tad of the country are vienna governors vicar russian and so full so they have no choice if not all we need to whatever i wonder will say are where via on the social

side are i mean through become of his people i think that's where things are going to eat up because that is still days. resentment are general resentments within the congress people who feel they have been betrayed by the congress government and of the regional if not of international bodies. 10 soldiers have been killed in an attack in central mali that happened in a town or near a town around 450 kilometers north of the capital bamako reinforcements are being sent to the area it's the worst attack of its kind since a military coup in mali last month. a criminals died in an explosion in the engine room of the oil tanker that song off the coast of sri lanka 22 crew members have been rescued from. the panama bridge the tanker has been on fire now for 2 days trying because navy and indian coast guard crews are trying to put out the fire but now for this reports from colombo. the vessel itself is on man and all the crew

have been evacuated the surviving crew there is no power because of the fire so it is drifting basically in international waters it seemed that it was moving slightly towards the sri lankan course something that the sri lankan authorities are very conscious of this is off the eastern coast of sri lanka now obviously more than $2000000.00 barrels of crude oil massive environmental disaster waiting to happen we just heard at the official press conference by the navy the marine environment protection agency about what is being done so far now obviously the sea they're keeping close tabs or working with the indian course guard to bring the flame under control to cool the surrounding sort of parts of the ship to prevent the spread of those flames into the cargo area but obviously there is no guarantee

that this can happen now the navy very confident that the indicators are that they might be able to contain it within that sort of bridge area and the engine room area but obviously the coming hours are crucial at least $48.00 people have died in the latest monsoon flooding in pakistan hundreds of homes have been damaged or destroyed roads and bridges swept away more than 200 people have died since the monsoon season began in july. the philippines congress is proposing brings in the age of consent from 12 to 16 years of age it's a sign of some progress rights groups say that it's still not off compared to what's being done in other countries. than reports from the thank shiela gardy is a journalist who focuses on gender related issues she has been speaking in schools against a culture of harris meant and victim blaming towards women and young girls in the

jeep this guy kept leary when i got out of the jeepney it was about 15 minutes of the guy just following me home. saying very vulgarly basically asking me to come home with him she's one of many women who have joined the filipino version of the global need to movement a call which means i'm a girl was created after a facebook message posted by staff at a police station in june told women to dress modestly to avoid getting harassed this fight having one of the highest number of female executives in the world and to female president in the past it remains to be the only country globally where divorce is still not recognized and where the age of sexual consent is still at 12 years old one of the lowest in the world. congress has now filed a bill that would criminalize sexual intercourse between an adult and

a minor aged 16 years old and below even if the child gave consent to the act government data shows at least one woman or child is raped every hour in the philippines and most victims come from impoverished communities and they're afraid to come forward. for instance a very conservative the church has gone again many. women. are excellent or productive longer or are. a repair not productive. activists also say government officials is to blame barney and president would be good at their to has repeatedly joked about raping women in his public speeches even recently lost like receives raises or. recognize an acceptable any rule he'd be dead and punished on the legislative run we must continue our oversight on the implement the sean because also sexual harassment is

certainly a byproduct of the broad rape culture size says she knows that the battle she chose is difficult but she is determined to continue to dog and al-jazeera manilla a man more poet and activist has been found guilty of violating a law which requires advanced notice to hold a protest song song carr was fined $22.00 by a young go because he was accused of staging protests devoting an end to internet blackouts the dutch appeals court has upheld the conviction of a far right leader for collectively insulting the moroccan people. will face no punishment over the comments made in 2014 the court struck down another charge of inciting discrimination is far right freedom party is the 2nd largest in the dutch parliament. still to come here all the news in sport lewis hamilton's closest wyvil

for the formula one world title its problems it is a leap. and

again time for sports is that we thank you so much agent a little messi has said he's now decided to stay a ball salada because he doesn't want to cite the club's a cools the footballing world when he handed in an official transfer request last week the player believed his contract would allow him to leave on a free transfer with the club spanish league have said he still. clause that means any buyer who have to pay out more than $800000000.00 in the 33 year old has

described that sum as impossible adding i would never go to court against basle because it's the club that i love which gave me everything since i arrived is the club of my life i've made my life here i love barcelona i'm not going to find a better place than here anyway a man behind the football league's website has gone to trial in portugal really pin so he says his aim is always been to expose corruption in football information he made public led to investigations in france spain belgium and switzerland he faces 90 criminal charges though that include computer fraud and attempted extortion no army or suckers just booked her spot in the 4th round of the us open she beat ukrainian seen a massive cost $3.00 sets 8 seed also advancing the croatian beating vargas shaper in straight sets 6363 the 29 year old series the quarterfinals at flushing meadows for the 1st time. serena williams has also advanced the 6 time

champion i mean so when a 1st grand slam title in 3 years and says she's quite enjoying playing in front of large friends far is far. from a record equalling 24th grand slam title is moving ever closer for serena williams . a straight sets win over russia's margarita i guess sparing in saw her advance into round 3 at the less open where she'll meet 2017 champion sloane stephens williams says the copen era quiet of a family's stadium isn't affecting her so far and i love the crowd here obviously but it's something cool like i mean i've been playing so long i now play in the modern area where there's there's no crowd it's all digital stuff but it's something kind of calming about it you know africa's top ranked player is also through tennessee is owns job beating kaia kanepi to reach round 3 for a 2nd year in a row to go any further job or will have to beat sophia can top level tennis was

suspended for 5 months due to coronavirus in the reigning australian open champion says her best form is only just returning. apparently people are telling me you're playing well you're playing well i'm like no i'm not but yeah i'm going to put these 2 matches i've really got a good groove and i'm playing some really good tennis andy murray's grand slam return is over. coming off the back of a 5 set win in the opening round the former world number one who was beaten in straight sets by candidates felix all share the s. to. 33 year old murray is coming back after a career saving tips are to break the back of your mind you know you're facing in the mary so even though you have to set some of you always in the back of the mind you always think you know i got to get this break i got to get this lead because you never know how we can you know start playing well and come back and you never know what tricks he's got you know in his pocket or a 20 year old seem this is already a career best performance at the u.s.

open for a smile al jazeera. much 1st stop and crush down during the 1st practice session out of sunday's at sally and grown pretty the instant resulted in the session being wholesome but the local driver was able to take part later in the day he was more than a 2nd slower than solidly to lewis hamilton in 2nd practice stuff and 2nd in the championship standings the an enormous 80 drivers who want to race this season. the fighting n.b.a. champions run a raptors clinched game 3 of their series with the boston celtics and one of the most dramatic games of the plus side for the celtics were leading with less than a 2nd to go on the clock and looks set to move 3 up in the best of 7 series then the raps is o.t. and an i.v. sinking a 3 points ahead writes on the positive. winning one of 4 to one i 3 game 4 coming up on saturday so. all credit goes to the.

shirt you're going to record out i don't want to ask you is just it's just a good guy like o.j. so does moment and that's a great moment and i'm so happy i go and not take away you know the past not in the show i was very. the l.a. clippers have taken game one of their western conference semifinal series against the denver nuggets the clippers dominating throughout this gang wall and it's called again points $1000.00 only points leading his team 281-2697 which led to. canada's last remaining same in the n.f.l. playoffs since taking the series into a deciding game 7 the vancouver canucks defacing the vegas golden knights for nothing in game 6 the going to have been 31 down in the series not the sort of coming up in a few hours. ok more support for me in a couple of hours time that is it an advert time for us to have the battle to our colleagues and love the barry machinery here to update you next i'll see you again

thanks for watching but. on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures careerism bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go amiss a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work in 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 i receive

messages on me i'm seeing that me under your nose i was a nurse back who what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. from lagos to jerusalem to buy. the government is playing. my own form my last man history background. 3 short films that show how people take a stand against evictions in their struggling communities the 1st time they arrested i was 11 years old a.j. selects on al-jazeera. after 2 years in office as the pakistani prime minister delivered on his promises of freedom of speech it's now being curtailed under your watch with the prime minister. watch as the evidence then you just talked earlier pakistan's prime minister imran khan talks to al-jazeera. when you see big groups of people walking

through europe they're all individuals the children the law if you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something that in respects. serbia and kosovo agree to normalize ties in a diplomatic way and for president donald trump but he's facing intense criticism over media reports about his attitude to military personnel. what most of this believed to be true. down chump is not fit to be john the president be the commander in chief.