this is al-jazeera. 10100 g.m.t. here on al-jazeera santamaria welcome to the news. from afghanistan to mexico to france the challenges facing students parents and teachers at school restarts during a global pandemic. a week after a religious celebration in iraq and health officials are warning homeschools might lose control but a huge jump in coded 19 it's also in the news arrests and violence this is the u.s.

city of portland where they've been nearly a 100 nights of protests against racism and police brutality in sudan to close a 3 month state of emergency for some of the worst flooding in decades. and in sport believe the last thing is not happy but he is staying at barcelona and he wants to avoid a legal battle with the club who are blocking his departure with a buyout clause of more than 8 $130000000.00. so we'll begin this hour with an issue something affecting families and educators all around the world and that is simply how to get back to school during a pandemic a new academic year is beginning for millions of children but in this age of coronavirus just how do you balance going to school with protecting everyone's health already in front. 12000000 students returned to classes on tuesday but then

there was a jump of 9000 infections on friday which forced some to close again in spain teachers students and parents are protesting and they say the measures to stop the spread of covert 19 in schools across the south are just not good enough and in mexico students have started distance classes and communities are rallying to fill the gaps this is a a tortilla shop in mexico city which has decided to offer free internet and books and tutoring we're going to focus this hour on 2 other countries as well iran and afghanistan iran schools have been closed since march and the government's made it clear they won't be reopening in what are considered high risk districts are so big we'll have that report shortly but 1st on how afghan teaches a focusing on catching up female students on the illiteracy. after 5 months school is back across afghanistan with many more rules and public

schools like he'd only students in the last 2 years can return they must wear masks sit apart and have hand sanitizer on the table here they used to be $45.00 goes to class now it's kept and half that what they know that. we are very hopeful after 5 months of closure we will try our best to get these classes back on track with their curriculum so their school year can be saved we have professional teachers and i are very confident they will be able to catch them up. many students have tried to learn from home most read books and watched lessons on t.v. by the ministry of education only 20 percent of afghans have access to the interviews so online learning was difficult for meaning. 17 year old shabnam says she's happy to return to school but is worried about exposing the family to the virus i think it's good if we are all. instructions just 1st of all of us has given

us but a for not following in that it's dangerous for every student to come to school and to study i think helped us more important study. coronavirus has been widespread in afghanistan the country has officially recorded 38000 positive cases but a sample antibody test of the population found one 3rd of afghans have had coronavirus it's 10000000 people shared names family has been vigilant staying home taking vitamins and eating move fruits and vegetables. we were a lot about shabnam as most of the students do not fall the health guidelines we advise her to wash her hands use a mask and social distance we were a lot about her getting infected kona virus is a serious disease and the school is a big gathering place. here get this stuff to consume to feel compound to continue my fam is also worried about me that i'm coming here to teach my students but

this is our holy job so we have to come on we have to teach our students so far they take as many precautions as possible for the men the students education must go on a shell of dallas. ok so that's afghanistan mel our report on iran and that tussle between the government and the provinces the how and when schools should reopen here is a setback with. temperature checks a disinfectant tunnel. and social distancing is what met students returning to school into iran journalists were invited to this school to see iran safety measures president has and rouhani addressed the flag waving children by a video link. today the education starts it means education doesn't shut down even under the toughest conditions it is the teacher's responsibility to remove anxiety from the minds of students and their families anxiety will prevent students

from beginning the educational here to join me. some in the country have questioned the government's handling of the pandemic that wrong is still considered under iran's red zone for krone virus infections and despite measures put in place in schools like this one some parents are still reluctant to send their children back into school and nick out of the take us to say i have lots of stress and i'm worried one of my son says allergies and i disagree with him attending school in this situation i think i won't let him go to school because his health is a priority over education their kids they touch everything and then they touch their faces the children however seemed less concerned. i think it's good to come to school with stayed at home for nearly half the year and studied online yes there are concerns about the virus at school but we should just observe the health protocols class time to have been reduced to 35 minutes students attend on alternate days and an online learning occasion has been introduced. the education

minister to try to reassure parents. the health of students is our most important concern we don't want to put students' health at risk we trust the health ministry has had great experience fighting the virus we hope families also trust us and will be sure that the education sector is following health protocols but. more than 100 people a day of dying from the corona virus in iran and about 2000 are becoming infected the government may want to return to normality but it still it has a grip of the spread of the virus said big al jazeera that are on very pleased to welcome david wholly to the news he is director general of the international school of geneva which is one of the world's oldest international schools 3 campuses more than 4 and a half 1000 students is with us from geneva and let me say right off the bat i don't envy you because or any educated around the world right now because well let's talk about you've got to balance what your government says anywhere what

a school believes and what a school is capable of doing and then what the parents and the students want as well how are you juggling that. that's a thank you that's a to terrific question so and in fact you you asked it in a way that captured the tensions and the conflicts among the various groups whether it be parents students staff government etc we opened we've been open for one week we've heard glorious weather which helped us tremendously. but the best way that we have approached this so that we can deliver at least the degree to which we can deliver for our students something that is predictable something that is safe and something that is supportive of them. and that is to be as clear and predictable as possible so before the school started we did a synthesist in which we keep up to date of all of the federal and cantonal

guidelines and we've created in fact we've created a equivalent which is our. 19 guidelines so that students staff parents know exactly what to expect we've created a what if document so that if something happens these these are the these are the quotes of consequences it's utter so you're trying to use are you going to up today you're cured. this difficult position of trying to please everyone and when you try to please everyone you can unfortunately that pleasing no one if you're not careful isn't it and maybe i'm saying this from the perspective of someone who has a child in school isn't it the parent and the child who should have the ultimate decision here about whether they feel safe about sending children back to school or not and the ultimate decision lies with them. well that's that's a that's a that's another great question because that is not the case in switzerland meaning

its students unless there is a reason for them not to be here students are required to be in school and so we set we're following those guidelines the standards set by the government and i think the critical thing is that we are clear about the standard we are following because you mention one standard could be we just leave it up to the parents to make a decision the other one is we leave it up to other organizations like the world health organization or we leave it up to other countries or other organizations but we have chosen to declare that we are following the guidelines of the federal government the the tone of governments in our schools and. you know we have to have some faith and confidence in you know a single source of truth even though everything is very unpredictable what. it is and get interrupted because i do want to get these questions into you for kids in

schools especially younger children having to wear masks having to social distance that is tough stuff for little people to deal with it becomes tough for the teachers to police as well maybe right now in this situation it would be as much as possible trying to keep things distant store online just because it's all so unpredictable at the moment. it's unpredictable but but but what we can't control either as adults let's say in this case of course teachers and staff and students we control those to the best that we we have indicators i mean switzerland is in a fortunate place although cases are going up across the country about 8500000 yesterday we had 400 cases it's higher than it has been in the summer we want to 1100 or so cases so we're following a standard trying not to panic and giving the students the tools to take care of

themselves so obviously hand washing wearing masks when they after a certain age in the case of switzerland so our students are not not all our students are obligated to wear masks except for students who are 16 years old or wearing masks right now and that's all and that is a really interesting point that was going to lead into my final question the science the idea the theory out there that children are not as badly affected by cope at 19 as grown ups again why take the risk why not just decide hey everyone's got a chance and that would minimize the chance of of transfer. well again we cannot reduce the risk to absolute 0 but right now the data the data here in switzerland the data and the experience of our schools are such that we are poised and ready to change our approach when the environmental and public health situations change so we don't want to change prematurely and have

unfortunately which is often happens when you talk about this the tensions in the world someone will read something about another country and they will then demand that we apply that here when our reality is dramatically different so again we're trying to be as predictable as we possibly can but there's no right it is no one size fits all thing in the end is there no no no don't we're being clear about our standard and i'm also as an educator hopeful that this behavior is going to be long term protective meaning the people students and you know i saw a lot of students visit all of our campuses they're generally managing quite well where a mask they don't love it but they're getting on with it and i think it's actually going to help long term with public health because in the winter when we have flus it's not going to be socially acceptable right to wear a mask and there's that you know we're never going to happen again if you took sort

of thing isn't it yes sorry david i'm going to have to i'm just i've got some other news to get to as well as still more covert news to get to from around the world but it has been really interesting talking to you david holies from the international school in geneva thank you ok recorded corona virus infections of past 4000000 in india again they registered a record on saturday this time it was 86000 cases the 3rd country to pass the 4000000 mark after the u.s. and brazil the indian government is pushing to reopen business to revive a shrinking economy. and over it is in iraq warning hospitals may lose control of the outbreak within days this is after more than 5000 new infections were announced on saturday the highest rise yet iraq's hospitals have suffered years of conflict of course as well as inadequate funding and neglects let's check in with dosage of bari in baghdad this news door sir what is the reason for such

a spike in one day. well it come all of this is because last sunday on august 30th it was the holy day of assura in iraq it's a very important day for share muslims across the world is a day that the grandson of the prophet mohammad it was killed in karbala in 688 and they converge on to curb a lot to commemorate his passing and although the government's had this had said that they will be a limited number of people able to allow it enter the shrine of imam hussein there are still hundreds of thousands who attended to pay their respects as opposed to that number as we've seen in the past last year there was over 3000000 people who visit a curve along the shore of the government has urged people to try and abide by the guidelines but after that day we've seeing a spike over 5000 positive cases in the past 24 hours this is something the authorities are very worried about the country's already in

a semi lock sound there is a partial curfew from 10 pm till 5 am 25 percent of government employees are allowed to go into work schools are still not reopening here until probably the end of october for now so there is a lot of concern that these numbers will continue to increase because people did not listen to officials although the government didn't shut down the shrine they said that they could not close it down but they did allow a limited number of people to go in but it's still has managed to increase the numbers of positive cases the world health organization has also said that even prior to assure they were concerned by the alarming rate of increase in numbers in iraq and that they've urged the authorities to do everything they can at all costs to try and limit the spread of this pandemic but many people here we are seeing on a regular basis just do not listen to the guidelines and there is really very little the government is doing to enforce the rules and regulations that they have

put in place thank you for that update dosage of the situation in iraq. for a quarter past the hour here is what's coming up. keep digging through the rubble of a collapsed building still there is harper finding a survivor from last month's explosion. and katherine sawyer in 10 years mao forest where the government is trying to solve a complicated landownership problem and protect the forest i'll tell you why some indigenous mildly say they're being treated. and in spite of the l.a. lakers did not live up to their top billing this is the n.b.a. playoffs we'll find out what happened with a little later. today. so the search continues for a possible survivor beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in beirut highly sensitive equipment it detected signs of

breathing on friday risky was have so far dug 3 tunnels to the spot where the signs of life were picked up but so far nothing has been found and update now with cena who's been up that search site in beirut for the past couple of days anything more to report. well a short while ago the head of lebanon's civil defense says they found nothing no body no survivors but as you can see behind me the search operation continues the possibility really of finding a survivor 32 days after the blast is quite slim but nobody here is giving up hope late yesterday the head of the chilean team and they are leading this search operation in fact it was their dog and then their machines their scanners their sensory equipment that was what the tech to really a sign of life thursday morning 18 breaths per minute 24 hours later it reduced

significantly but late yesterday afternoon they were not able to detect anything they're not discounting the possibility that there was jamming their signal was jammed because of the live transmission the phones in the area so as you can see the search operation continues it is they 3 no one here is losing losing hope the chilean that of the chilean team told us yesterday is that we shouldn't be talking about the percentage of ever because he was asked whether or not the machines could have made this error he said this is not what we want to talk about what we want to talk about is the percentage of humanity even if it's just one percent they are not going to give up so people here are waiting to see but there's a lot of anger with the authorities because it's been 32 days and that collapsed building was never searched and another question which nobody can answer at this point in time is if there is a body or if there's a possible survivor who is it according to the lebanese army 7 people are missing 3

lebanese to the syrians one egyptian but so far no family has came you know came to claim the possibility that their loved one is underneath that building what an extraordinary situations in a photo there as the search goes on in beirut thank you. now police in portland in the u.s. have broken up protests as the west coast city heads towards $100.00 straight nights of demonstrations they've been arrests as well this is all been going on since the death of george floyd in police custody back in may president obama trying dispatched federal agents to portland in july saying local authorities went table of stopping the wrist they were later withdrawn also jonas's following those protests in portland and told us protesters are energized ahead of what will be the 100th night of demonstrations and also explains the impact president trans comments on the city are having now. tomorrow is the 108 more and so there's protests

planned all throughout the day i think you know or the police continue to say that they are tired here 'd and you know they can't stack this many police officers the sunday nights with protests and stacking for the conservative rally. but overall the city is on one hand weary and on the other hand. kind of energized the thing about the protests in portland is that the president trump he's kind of an ancillary figure most of the chants and the and the kind of demands are to the mayor here they want him to define and even abolish local police depending on who you talk to a lot of it is not so in the run for president now when present from some federal agency here you know it was definitely much more about president and federal government but you know the process here a ton of hyper local with the mayor doesn't you know has not been talking about so much in the press conferences that he's also the police commissioner and a lot of decisions on how to police these protests you know he's directly

responsible for so police you know have been using tear gas and buttons in the making arrests in the street and they've been unsuccessful and i know. this will be protesters from continuing the protests each night there's new clips of protesters being brutalized and so the mayor you know is not really giving clear answers on how we you know you know tell his police force to just release these protests. and in rochester in the state of new york protests against police brutality of continued into the night dozens of people are seeking justice the day after the death of daniel crude in march he suffocated after being arrested by police officers put a mesh hood over his head and held him down for 2 minutes while he was handcuffed 7 officers have since been suspended. jacob blake the unarmed black man shot by police last month in cannot show wisconsin has appeared in court by video link are you able to hear me clearly today sir yes sir. he faces charges of sexual assault

and domestic abuse police say they were trying to arrest blake when an officer shot him in the back 7 times it has left him paralyzed the shooting triggered days of protests in several cities. we moved to sudan now with the government's declared a 3 month state of emergency because of weeks of floods that have killed nearly 100 people they remain risen to levels not seen in a century and overall rates of flooding and rain exceed the record set in the 1940 s. and eighty's 100000 homes have been badly damaged or collapsed entirely and all up half a 1000000 people are affected. morgan with us now from what is it that is making these floods so bad. walk a mile we've spoken to meteorologist and 2 government officials who work in the ministry of water and irrigation and they attribute the reason of the unprecedented

levels of the river to multiple factors they say one of its climate change they say that there's been heavy rainfall in ethiopia where 80 percent of the water comes from the blue nile and so so they say that the heavy rains in if you've been high lands and that eventually comes down stream on the nile is one of the reasons why we're seeing heavy flooding along the banks of the nile they also say that the dams that have been built along the nile over the past few years have contributed to the fact that to the heavy rains and to the rise of the water levels now we've got at least 4 dams along the nile river 3 of them here in sudan and one of them just on the border just just over the across the border with egypt and one of them that has just recently been an ounce so that has been filled in ethiopia now that was expected to reduce the amount of water that is flooding right now because it's partially filled in because no deal has been reached between the 3 countries sudan if you have here and egypt a lot of issues remain to be decided and

a lot of things are yet to be completed in terms of the operations of that dam but sudan right now is saying that it is announcing a 3 month state of emergency because of the president at levels it's right now at 17 meters point 61 that is a record that has not been broken in a century this is the 1st they're recording this is the 1st time the record of such a level and they say that they're expecting it to rise in the coming days so they're calling on organizations both local and international to aid the people at least 100 people killed more than 100000 homes destroyed and they say that it would get worse within the coming days of the movement that up there on the stronger flood situation in sudan thank you. before we take a break with a look at the weather still tracking those typhoons going into korea yeah that's right kemal with we've got so high set of course we've been talking this for a couple of days now this is likely to become a record breaker actually when it does make its way into the korean peninsula because that was the 5th storm to hit the korean peninsula in one season that is

a record you can see the size of the storm you can see the size of the eye this is absolutely massive and it's making its way jeremy north which it will cause problems into the southwest of japan initially and then run up toward south korea at the moment as weak and that's about the only good news i've got for you but at the moment we're looking at winds of 210 kilometers per hour with significantly higher gusts no cause for celebration because it is still a massive storm that's equivalent to a category 4 storm 14 foot waves at the moment a large storm surge will come in we've got the heavy rain that's going to make its way across the southwest of japan into the korean peninsula and we do expect widespread flood flooding widespread disruptions so as we go through the coming hours you can see how it makes its way further north it's again it will continue to lose some of that intensity becoming a little more disrupted but it is still massive even ahead of the storm strongest winds are going to be on the east and all the northeastern flank all that storm

vast kind of battery sway across q.c. and then it will sweep pop into south korea eventually running up into the north korea and it's going to be the middle part of the way before it finally clears away from the korean peninsula kamau goodness ok thank you for that evidence folks with your international weather will see him in the next news hour 1300 ounce still to come in this one they're fighting to preserve their language protests in a chinese province where it's feared mandarin is being promoted ahead of speaking i'm going. to show the resolve for you still a lot of differences between. also u.s. brokered deal between serbia and kosovo creates an economic bridge. there are political differences that i still don't know. and we've got action from a record breaking out of athletics in belgium it's my bar and we've got coming up with sport a little lighter. from

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oh. this is the news hour on al-jazeera and these are the top stories before he's in iraq a warning hospitals may lose control of the corona virus outbreak within days more than 5000 new infections were announced on saturday which was the highest rise yet . u.s. police in portland have broken up protests as the city heads towards $100.00 straight nights of demonstrations have also been arrests this is all been going on since the death of joy george floyd in police custody back in may and sudan's government declared a 3 month state of emergency because of weeks of floods that have killed nearly 100

people the nile's risen to levels not seen in a century. people living in the u.s. state of north carolina will become the 1st to vote in november election by mail 600000 ballots are being sent out to those who requested them postal voting in itself has become an electoral battleground donald trump has claims without evidence that it is vulnerable to fraud i mean this week the president urged people to try voting twice which is illegal as a way of testing security measures he wanted to maybe we should delay the election . maybe we should. you know write in ballots are fraudulent not a single bit of evidence this i mean it just is and i think it's all society creates so much chaos. that no matter what the outcome lecture news is thrown up in a year. it just undermines the legitimacy.

of our democratic process and its dangers the u.s. president is also denying claims he called war veterans and fallen soldiers suckers and loses the allegations were published in the atlantic magazine but don't trump's denounce the report as a hoax and a disgrace now was a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer but it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there it was a terrible thing that somebody could say that kind of things and especially to me because i don't work for the military then almost anybody else. the students and teachers in the northern chinese province of mongolia are taking part in rare protests against a new policy in the requires certain classes to be taught in mandarin right now the main language is mongolian representing a 5th of the provinces population more about this in

a moment 1st this report from katrina a year in beijing. videos the students shouting is our mother language and storming school grounds are circulating on social media protests have been held across the northern chinese province of inner mongolia after a new education measures were introduced to reduce the use of the mongolian language in favor of mandarin that spoken nationally. many parents have withdrawn their children from schools some have clashed with the local police was. my fellow mongolians may not know one another but if they arrest one of us let's all go to the police station authorities are offering $150.00 in return for information on more than $100.00 of them wanted by police for taking quarrels beijing says the protesters have a political agenda and the new measures only affect certain subjects mongolian

language class hours remain unchanged the textbooks remain the same the language used for teaching remains the same and the existing bilingual education system remains unchanged. but activists say the new education policy will see the region's main language of instruction changed to mandarin by 2022 the vast grassland province borders mongolia where one 5th of the population is ethnic magali and. culture. in the. policies. cultural life similar changes have taken place in tibet and she john where ethnic languages are now only 2 of its special classes the united nations says minority cultures are being

suppressed chinese communist party. is anything. coming. 'd in the organization. any sort of. diversity china's leaders say promoting the majority had culture and nationalizing chinese language provides ethnic minorities with better economic opportunities. but many people are convinced and say they fear for the survival of their traditional way of life katrina you. replace every night with us now in london a professional research associate specializing in modern china at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london thank you for joining us actually reading an article today which you were quoted and we talked about the

spinning a strange and abrupt shift isn't it really just that beijing is doing what beijing doesn't that is pushing its influence out as far as possible and it's come directly from them. well that's exactly right but beijing has generally with this policy of trying to get minorities to switch to chinese language done it quite subtly quite on the other side one small step at a time and what's happened in in mongolia is they've made a very abrupt and they've made a very abrupt move which people in mongolia clearly really perceived as being the thin edge of an end of the wedge so they've changed 3 subjects 3 main subjects that were changed quite slowly over 3 years but they are 3 of the 5 main subjects taught in elementary school junior high school so they've taken on here mongolian population has been really very quiet for the last few years even the last 23 to get to kate. it's very unusual for china to try to provoke

mongolian people like this and it could be a bad mistake when china what but doesn't what type of risk does that mongolian population run by protesting i mean beijing is saying all your politically motivated with these protests but i mean beijing doesn't tolerate too much dissent . yeah it's a very important question you beijing does actually allow certain kinds of dissent i sometimes on economic issues sometimes even occasionally environmental issues but the line moves all the time and you can see here that people are just talking about language they're not they're not attacking the party as they're just attacking the education policy issue and in other parts of china some protests which were bad language in the past were allowed to take place and the authorities did back off if they didn't stray into political topics but this to protest now that we're seeing in mongolia i'm going to show extensively some widespread even though it's just on

the language issue it is clear as you say that the chinese are reading it as political and they could interact this is a this has become very dangerous is it a threat. it's only just starting out but is that a threat long term possibly to the mongolian language you said that it's going after 3 of the 5 key subjects i mean long term that could have a quite an effect. yeah it's really important question because we see people saying this is culture genocide and so on abroad you know. yet it is true that chinese policy does who are in military terms people called salami slicing it nowadays often takes a small bite at a time and in the hope that it will get through and gradually you can get to a place where people can sit and i think that you know mongolians are very experienced in working with communism the mongolians who had communists who

communist parties for longer than the chinese they see themselves as the elder brothers of the chinese in terms of communism so they know how this sort of strategy works and they they have very good justification for war and that this is as i said the thin end of the wedge and it will lead to less and less language use in the education systems and in society as a whole robin it is a story and a part of the world which we do not talk about very much so i'm really glad we could talk to you about it thank you for joining us and thank you for covering this issue. serbia and kosovo have agreed to normalize their economic ties after decades of conflict the serbian president aleksander church and kosovo's prime minister of the lot the attended days of talks in washington d.c. in addition both sides agreed to normalize their ties with israel. absolutely this is a great moment for kosovo and for the region i think we need a huge step forward or for normalization of relations that's what lead eventually

to mutually good mission between the 2 countries we are fully committed to work together to improve people's lives to create new jobs to get into. be sure and resolve for problems there are still a lot of differences between us but this is a huge step forward we didn't speak about many items that we signed to do for us it's very important that we are going to have the economics on an entire western balkans which will bring us to the real economic result for the benefit and for the sake of all people more now with marcos about a trial jazeera balkans in belgrade when the president talks there about a lot of differences still between us what is he referring to clearly an economic agreement is a good step but there are a lot of differences that. yeah there is

a huge line of questions between belgrade and prishtina especially there is going process in brussels lasting for several years with negotiations between. politicians and any and politicians regarding the status of course regardless to death belgrade sees these agreement as a huge diplomatic success and this morning we could serbian president saying that it made momentous step forward not just in the relationship between serbia and kosovo but also. relations between. russia toward. the seat here keep political strategic event that serbian president signed something american president about this agreement it covers all political questions between not just serbia and kosovo but all sorts serbia israel and other countries from their

political questions to the economic questions from the energy in this document we see they agreed on as they said diversification of energy supplies especially it's important for serbia because serbia depends from russian oil and gas here also we saw that they agreed serbia agreed that it will prohibit as they said any import of 5 g. equipment by untrusted lenders even though in agreement it's not mention who are those untrusted when those we can assume that china it will be a big problem for serbia because it has great political ties with china china helps politically in foreign policy and also in economy prime minister. said this is strategic. agreement between strategic step between subi and washington won't

affect any other corporation that serbia has with other countries opposition here just one more saying our position here says that this document is not in the interest of serbia and it won't benefit serbia but it also just benefits president putin his political campaign elections because it was mentioned that serbia will move its embassy from jerusalem to israel in kosovo we'll have some political ties with israel palestinian ambassador here in belgrade said that if serbia do so that it will be violation not just a violation of international law but of friendship between syria and palestine to joining us from belgrade but that update thank you mark a. community of forest dwellers in kenya struggling to survive after being evicted from their ancestral lands the people say they were given the legal

right to live in the forest by a court the government says they are destroying parts of a fragile ecosystem and soil reports now from the mouth forest in the great rift valley. ringback jane career is among hundreds of kenyans addicted from the mound forest in july is in the rift valley kenya's most important water catchment area government officials in the last 2 decades the forest has lost many of its trees because of logging chuckled bonding illegal settlements and increased our culture tells us she's a forest well from the community and the mouth is home and the only solution is to permanently settle us in our ancestral land all governments found us in the forest but have never found a proper alternative place for us we have suffered for many years some of the displaced have source shelter in schools this grandmother says is the 3rd time she's been evicted in as many as the controversy over land ownership around the

model forest has been going on for decades people here live on the edge always ready to flee from government forces or other hostile communities everyone we've talked to said that tired and want a permanent solution in just over 40 years hundreds of thousands of people from different communities moved into the forest and surrounding areas some are said to have illegally obtained title deeds for land where the organic was supposed to be settled others were brought here from other parts of the country to increase votes for sat in politicians during elections the battle over ownership of the land has often resulted to ethnic clashes. campaign a daniel kobe shows us remains of fighting following the recent vic sions he says the community has won court cases including in the african court of human rights the judges ruled in favor of their rights to live in the forest or be settled elsewhere what we want. to land where protected. because we have

seen the. cause of the problem government officials say some of the 52000 had been resettled but a few sold off their land influential people also grabbed much of it and the process has since been politicized area covered by indigenous want to know but. do not like. this is an emotive issue that has often led to death and despair here governments of is meat hostile villages as they inspect in 1907 forest boundary which has been adjusted several times leaving large swathes of forest land unprotected. that people say they're tired of boundary changes and they're tired of fighting. forest kenya of the united states has announced sanctions against venezuelan election officials ahead of an

upcoming parliamentary vote many opposition parties intend to boycott the ballot calling it an attempt by president nicolas maduro to take control of the national assembly and support from. this tunneling that i cast has become a source of water for people in venice with less capital and. people here call it the beach. italy the us comes here a few times a week because there's no running water available at home just like many others in venezuela these days italy's has lost hope and that's why she's planning to not vote in venice way less legislative elections in december. the general is again are these away i don't want to watch the news anymore the controversy is always the same politicians don't solve our problems i am not going to vote the situation is terrible there are people with nothing to eat i have free university a look at where i am oh you are this week president announced

a pardon to at least 100 members of the opposition some of them have been hiding in foreign embassies inside the country. the move analysts say was meant to divide the opposition events in the past week show the president's strategy worked. who over 50 countries including the united states recognize as venezuela's president says the opposition won't participate in the elections he has been trying to run a parallel government but has not succeeded in removing my daughter from office. we have a part that's a call to action to protest to mobilize an agreement with the dea and transit towards democracy not to participate in fraud not to participate in a trap by maduro. but why though is facing a rebellion by 2 time presidential candidate and we got us who says the opposition has to fight the government in the ballots. is banned from participating in the

elections but there are other candidates in his party who are willing to run. he says boycotting elections means losing all of position representation in. congress know your place in that nobody can be surprised what is happening people are screaming for an option in an act of desperation we have to change that a plan we had is exhausted the agenda we presented to the country had failed it's over but as the political battle rages on in venezuela there is also a fight for survival where millions have lost hope that their situation is going to improve anytime soon. and to c.d.f. us what's coming up with far including this nobody can take away their years of holding out hard play no messy fans in argentina still dreaming their football legend will come.

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the earth the the auto. czar is here to talk sport is all this stuff and sort of finally oh yeah but he's not happy about it ok well massey has been forced to back down his attempt to leave barcelona he's reluctantly decided to stay for one more season to avoid taking the club to court a player wanted to leave on a free transfer but parser and the spanish league say he's still bound by an $837000000.00 buyout clause it's not handed a dream for massey's fans at home in argentina who hope he will eventually return to his childhood club daniel swimmer has more. he's staying but he

wants to go with the world of football wants to know is where amalia no messes destination be on next season remains unclear the dream among fans around the world as it will be their club like a phone on your way because. it's been a difficult year i suffered a lot in training during the games and in the changing room it made it very difficult so i thought i'd leave the club in search of new objectives a new environment and a new experience for me. fans in miss his home city rosario are hoping he'll want to find those new experiences in his boyhood club rules old boys she won't be snacking on i'm not going to mess he's coming to us the biggest club in argentina we've had marriage on here and now we should have messy their neighbors are doing me out of the support leo deserves love he's not had much space to play in his career mules could give that to him. but could the club be left when he was

14 years old before the player earning a reported half a 1000000 euros a week money may not be the only incentive the 33 year old has always said his heart was in. he returned in 2018 to marry his childhood sweetheart and the city certainly loves him although he's a footballing icon in this football mad country leo messi left argentina before he could play professional football there are no memories of him here no nostalgia distant dream that one day soon he'll return home in the fountain able to see his magic with their own eyes born only when mrs eventual destination has been a hot topic in argentina a distraction from the pandemic it's even drawing in the country's president but is it a viable dream or a crazy fantasy nobody can take away their you and me out there isn't. i'm joe mr retires it will be there are $22.00 which mrs lane with

us and always have shared so. in that sense they will keep their reason and until the end. these was not clearly that moment to come to i didn't you know rachel knew it but there's still hope that moment will come there's a tradition here a star players like to visit but on returning to play for their boyhood clubs of the making their fortunes in europe leo messi playing in argentina in the old boys' shirt not yet but maybe one day. there are 201 of us. and the n.b.a. playoffs the top seeds in the west the l.a. lakers last game one of their semifinal series with houston rockets le bron james pushed hard but ended with just 20 points and the lakers never less has 1st quarter russell westbrook chipped in with 241 for the rockets but it would change harden to start for houston with $36.00 points and 5 assists leading them 211-2297 when

going to add the best of 7 series as on the sunday there were lot of speed office. and you could watch more if you. get out the field for us we did not we got a feel for their speed which before they were going to. and in the eastern conference miami have taken a 3 nothing lead in their semifinal series against milwaukee bucks jimmy butler scored a game high 30 points jay crowded airport in an impressive 17 leaving the heat 215-2100 win while the best team in the regular season the boks faced in must win game on sunday. in the n.h.l. play also vegas golden knights of reach the western conference finals there was a funny moment early in their deciding game a 7 against the vancouver canucks when the pump disappeared everyone was

a bit confused but it was eventually found stuck in the shorts of one of the canucks players and they can x. probably wish they had been founded because vegas went on to dominate and win 3 nothing puts top seeded team in the finals where they'll face the dallas stars. now that jock itch continues to power through his matches at the u.s. open tennis the world number one reached the 4th round with a straight sets victory over german player young leonard straw is now 129 matches in a row and will face spain's public arena boost to next which is trying to form a new players' association and after his match said that women will be welcome to join head out at cricket critics who say that his plan is to this. 80 b.w.t.s. still stay the same still stay you know as a governing bodies of our tours they're supposed to be there and that's why we can live together we can co-exist i don't understand why there's so much resistance towards this association especially from players i'm really i have to say i'm

pleasantly surprised with some players you know thinking this is not good for our sport. the foreseen stefano since the post has somehow been knocked out he had 6 match points against warner porch in the 4th set but could not get the job done and quarter back from 51 down to take it into a 5th set anyone is way through to round 4. seed alexander's of rab had his match delayed by 3 hours because new york state officials were trying to stop his opponent playing adrian mann arena was under strict protocols after playing cards with fellow freshman ben or pair the player who hold out after testing positive for over 19 all the match did eventually go ahead but arena won the 1st set but several others came back to win in 4. it seems. to go off and john ram is putting the pressure on dustin johnson in the race to win the $15000000.00 fed ex cup johnson was top of the standings heading into the season ending tour championship so we started with a 2 shot lead he had some great shots to open up with an impressive round of 67 and

led to about ram was even better. the spaniard hit a $65.00 to wipe out johnson's leave each means both players are now tied at the top heading into day 2. and 2 world records have been broken at the diamond league athletics meet in brussels so from a house and at the neverland set a new mark in the women's one hour by running close to 900000 meters in 60 minutes then the men's record fell brittany a 4 time olympic champion mo far randoms more than 21000 meters to beat the previous pass by every endeavor last last 8 and 2007. and qualifying start soon for the formal one italian at guam premier saying these are expected to dominate after lewis hamilton was fastest and practice had a teammate about 3 blocks. ok and that is all your sport for now back to you can thank you far far and i will see you for the next news hour at 1300 hours g.m.t.

after the break mr. each country has tackled the crisis in its own way some like peru in argentina with strict the lockdowns others like brazil emphasizing the economy over health brazil has just reduced to the 120000 deaths from the virus 2nd in the world only to the united states. is that we don't work in days that we don't eat and don't have enough to pay for utilities or anything until many countries in latin america believe their rates of infection will be peaking around now and they begin dreaming

about the end of the crises that's not happening the nightmare only continues. this is one of them both down doing that no logical revolutions in all of this make our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars are made mitchum in motion they need to be mindful where people are just talking about the stars if that's going to solve. the world of business and commerce driving energy transition is the promise of clean energy an illusion side of green energy. on al-jazeera. if you're looking at this from the outside it would really wonder what was going on but what is this race is it a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as

a capital artist we are trying to pay for the well smaller and smaller we don't want to base that realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. war. that we come to a religious celebration in iraq health officials want to hospitals may lose control with a huge jump in covert 19 cases. slogan on peace it will be watching out to see or a life like global headquarters here in doha also coming up sudan declares a 3 month state of emergency for some of the worst flooding in decades. arrests and violence in the u.s. city of portland but we've been nearly 100 nights of.