in a country torn apart by racial inequality. can americans find a leader to unite. all of the key issues of the us elections. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a high profile bellows opposition leader is grabbed off a student in minsk after more mass protests and arrests. india pushes on with the reopening plans even as the infection records keep coming it's

now the world's 2nd worst affected country. after months at sea in a wooden boats nearly $300.00 rohingya make it to indonesia's problems. tropical storm hi sam moves towards north korea lashing south korea with strong winds heavy rain. and i'm only a harding with your sports news world number one novak djokovic is disqualified from the u.s. open after hitting a ball into the throat of a line judge. let me begin with a developing story out of bella russa prominence protest leader is missing after an incident in the center of the capital minsk in the last few hours. the cobra who spoken at many major rallies was taken away in a. by unidentified people she's been accounting manager for opposition politicians

and of vocal supporter. taken of scalia who is now in exile in lithuania or bonn in smith's monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania boehner just talk us through what we know about this latest incident. or we're hearing from activists connected with maria colonists that she was up ducted. off the streets at sea pushed into a minivan by men police say they are also looking into reports. that she has been detained some so no official confirmation of well being detained or arrested is now an occupational hazard really for many may main opposition activists in belarus a colleague of kolesnik overs was arrested was deported effectively on saturday to howel and she was in detention for 10 days in jail for 10 days and was told that if

she didn't leave the country she faced further time in jail and overhead and sent them to the border with poland and dropped but kolesnik over is a significant one she don't we formed a new political party pulled together last week and continued participation as headlining many protest events has obviously created joy and it is tensions and this is happening at the same time that we're hearing that the proposed meeting that was going to be happening between president alexander look in that moscow is now going ahead what more do we know about that. we just know the kremlin has announced that look the shank will go to moscow in the coming days quite a turn of events that's. ahead of the oldest 9 election he essentially for trade of russia as the threats about some wanted people to support him to hold back any

attempts fire russia to the influence what's happened in the us but after the oldest 9 elections the disputed results what he claims he won 80 percent of the vote has had to turn to moscow and now relies on blood in it suits in the supports i'm without blood and they didn't support lucas shank his position would be look looking much more precarious but that hasn't stopped people protesting on the streets still demanding that he go and that the elections are run again. there is still some safety in numbers for the 10s of thousands of protesters on the streets of mints. the ministry of interior in valorous has warned them that demonstrations are illegal closing off city squares and streets but that hasn't stopped people descending on the capitol for a 4th week of protest against the continued leadership of president alexander lukashenko he claims he won the aug 9th election with 80 percent of the vote the opposition say the polls rigged and they want to read from. those protesters made

their way home on sunday security forces seem to take advantage of the feeling crowds pulling out people apparently at random according to witnesses and bundling them into vans. another video has emerged on social media of masked men in civilian clothes beating up people on the streets of minsk. in warm no breaking down the door of a cafe where the owner had given shelter to protesters. with imagine if everybody people started running in say to the door and then out on 15 to 20 people in black mask started to smash the glass into some people our human rights experts from the united nations say they've received hundreds of torture ok she's a torture impeaching her for us. this is older couple kovar of the opposition coordination council sentenced to 10 days in jail she appeared in poland on saturday after she says she was forcibly taken to the border and then priya. they

came to the center where i was isolated they gave me a had a mask and took me out of prison they made me lie in the back seat and they drove me away from the isolation center. of the presidential palace in minsk that was tight security to protect luka shanker from his own people. we won't forgive we won't forget their shouting. bernard smith al-jazeera vill news. veronique us of colors in bello roussel position leader whose campaign alongside calista colvin she's joining us live by skype from poland thank you very much indeed for being with us 1st of all given your contacts in the opposition do you have any indication what might have happened to maria kind of sick over. well look she would morning well actually i find out this information. this morning i did. i did call the. group of people they want schoolwork you know if they so far there's

no information corruption issue was detained for a couple of hours because of our country in belarus you know it's normal it's not normal but the number of times but it's normal when the people get detained without any explanations so hope she will be released as soon as possible because i didn't worry about her of course when the bonus myths are said that it has become an occupational hazard for members of the opposition to that to run the risk of being taken like this in this case of course we still don't know who she has been taken by why do you think it is taken so long for an incident like this to happen given that maria was such a high profile member of the opposition. well actually you know in below is an entire nation became a meter so it's easy for you see at the leaders that we see the need there is everywhere now in the streets in the students in the universities in the factories in the plant plants look at encouraging works they spray every time they see

a leader and they would like to isolate this is theater company or people from the nation and these just suckled as i say it's not a mob in belarus right now but hopefully a question will not be able to the point 5000000 people of probabilities because that is simply that it will not be any space in the prisons but unfortunately this is called visual caution cruising is working now. given the fact that several members of the opposition leadership have no either been taken or have been moved to other countries have chosen to move to other countries what do you think the risk was that is though that the protesters are beginning to lose heart when they see these high profile individuals connected with their cause being targeted or having to leave the country in this way. i think that this source will never give up as you see has been almost one month since their peaceful but this those protests started and we believe the similar question can use the better for the

entire country for international community and to my opinion that we will never give up the nation she will never give up because he is no like there is no another way to belittle us we want to not a president who want to new york she elections and who want all political upon the political be nice to be released since past well so we will fight until the day and but we have seen just very briefly if you don't mind but we have seen of course that alexander lukashenko is going to be going to moscow the strength of this seems to be at least in public they seem to be strengthening of ties between the the between moscow and the locus shanker government and of course we are also seeing more violence in the streets when it comes to the security forces as well how concerned are you that things in belarus are going to get worse before they could get better. i think 1st of all i think that russia for the racial will not be moved to give us a nation that believes the russian racial will never allow any troops on the

deliverers border or on their estate to and will find hide until the day and it's so always i referred to their peaceful protests save for the peaceful demonstrations and the will fight until. they were sent to look us into gives ups it gives up. because it's a quick the lot of people do not support the question to any longer he has not more than 50 percent of the votes no how concerned are you about the safety of your fellow members in the opposition towards the top of the opposition to the parts of the formation of these over general protests. well actually. as you know the question go here isolates strongest leaders in our strongest position leaders do you know this because they quit presidential campaign 2 candidates book within the prison my husband he's facing the criminal charges up to 15 years sent to prison so question that he fights with everybody who can leave but

then surely did nation but of course and bill it was it's not so it's right now for the leaders and as you can see all of these there's still work in prison detained or. had to leave the country but hopefully distributional will change when the when the question collapsed the lovers but on account of color we appreciate your time and thank you very much indeed thank you aaron. india has now passed brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world and the past 24 hours its health ministry has reported more than 90000 new cases a more than 1000 deaths india has had the world's largest daily number of infections for nearly a months now but even with more than 4000000 confirmed cases that represents just point 3 percent of the population despite the rising numbers metro rail service is resumed in a number of cities on monday including the capital delhi the government's desperate to stimulate the economy which is shrunk by nearly 24 percent last quarter

elizabeth put on them at one of those stations in new delhi. despite any of the putting. any other country. first time in. number of major cities and leading here in delhi in fact mumbai is that one. in 10 might have the worst day. now this is i believe to many. many. many in the city. is being done and it pays to manage with limited lines and limited time to point. this place. inside this thing only allowed to sit on the now the government message from now has the indians must. take a look at the proportion that they say they come to another nation. like the one.

the latest g.d.p. figures shows india's economy shrunk by needed 20. that's more than any other major economy in the. and not to disclose as a social epidemiology estes joining us live from new delhi by skype thank you very much indeed for being with us on all jazeera can you tell us 1st of all the current spread where exactly is it located. heather on the situation stands today. much of the news spread is in the rural areas particularly districts with a high proportion of rural areas but also in and interactively urbanized states such as maharashtra because there is also a rise in this rural districts in addition to the strolling up and centers such as mumbai and burning in delhi also as we have it's been on

a new surge and this is a situation very seems to be a double burden of sorts with both open areas as well as dora there is increasingly reporting do people feel that they have a choice about whether or not they can for example stay home and socially distance or is there an urge on people to get back into work to earn money for their families. well hasn't been widely reported that. that the g.d.p. has in need showed a contraction and all governments both at the federal level as well as it did at the state level but secondly interested in opening up the economy as cautiously as possible. also there seems to be a kind of a fatigue possibly creeping in as far as preventer practices go. to that extent at the crossroads where the continent will have certainly have to open up now and they are no shades 4.0 but in the same time the the not the number of

active cases is a staggering nearly 9 100000 which is actually only about prisons 600000 nearly 700000 so it's this large pool of active cases. effective reproduction rate of $1.00 factory in the is there one point as we speak there has been criticism of the indian government in the level of testing certainly in the early stages it's been going on and just talk us through the kind of testing that's going on at the moment and whether or not that is having an impact on these increased numbers. when the good news is that both testing capacities and testing are 8000000 population has been steadily raising the government also announcing a very welcome step of testing on request. they they did the private sector labs have also been testing increasingly those other positive points

but remains still a big challenge is that despite population of a 1000000 population so in india it's currently at about 35000 which is about half of brazil and the us test for 1000000 is nearly 8 and a half times the indian rate. these other sort of standards that be need to reach to in order to get across also the fact that increasingly tests have been done to gen tests which come with its known share of false negatives and it has a protocol for follow up so therefore the best picture at this point is really a bit of a mixed back that she does go to we appreciate it times and thank you very much for indeed for joining us on autism thank you. but more ahead on the news hour including we're live in manchester for an inquiry into the 2017 a reno bombing begins a survivor seek answers as to whether it could have been prevented. pulling the

plug student led protests in thailand for some companies to cut the commercials from pro-government t.v. networks and it's a 1st career win in formula one for this frenchman and he is going to have all the details of the sport. only $300.00 rohingya refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting at sea for 6 months it's believed the group set sail from bangladesh in late march or early april they were banned from malaysia but they were pushed back as borders tightened because of the pandemic under it's of thousands of rahane get fed me and since the military crackdown in 2017 mostar in neighboring bangladesh john quigley is a human rights specialist he's focusing on the india at 45 bytes he's joining us live from bangkok by skype why do you think this boatload of refugees was forced to

make this journey. thank you so much for having me. refugees are fleeing ongoing persecution in myanmar as for kind to say this is persecution sponsored by the government they're not allowed access to education livelihood and freedom of movement and back in 201-6017 there was violent attacks genocidal led attacks against their people so many of our hunger refugees are fleeing this ongoing persecution getting on boats and sometimes getting in cars and trying to make it to indonesia malaysia and thailand my understanding is though that this group set sail from bangladesh why do you think that they would feel in this necessary to leave buying the dish where of course many have been given the places to live on some support at least by the government. yeah many were him directly g.'s have been embalmed with ash for you know 3 years now since the genocidal

attacks in 2017 and there is severe restrictions and on their everyday lives refugees in bali that are not granted education they're not able to freely move about they're not allowed to assemble or speak against the government so many of them have decided to try to seek better lives in malaysia and indonesia this boat of course was at sea for nearly 6 months and tragically an estimated 30 people died at sea and this is something that should have never happened in the 1st place let me ask you about the way that these boats are trying to because one would assume that if it had been at sea for 6 months it must have appeared somebody has radar there must be a coastguard from some country which is spotted them in the end from what you're saying very little or nothing has been done to help them with the result that people have died on board how concerning is that for you. government in southeast asia then all whole actually allowing work refugee boats to disembark on their

shores sometimes government in this region have pushed refugee boat back out to sea under international law that is considered for a fall month means that you're pushing boats or pushing people back to places where they could die or experience more persecution and this goes against all international humanitarian law so places like malaysia have pushed boat back to thailand has also pushed boat boats back in the past and we have to remember the boat that actually landed in indonesia was brought in by indonesian fishermen not actually by the indian nation authorities. from your perspective given the you work for 44 rights what kind of legal recourse if any or legal protection if any to people like the rohingya in these circumstances when the essentially are being set adrift by just about everybody. yeah there 40 isn't in indonesia and in our

share right now should after the 2 week kobe 900 korean team they should not detain refugees in immigration detention centers they should not prosecute them for entering the country without passports they should grant them access to livelihoods ways to work in the country access to units yard protective status and caseworkers a lot of the running the refugees that disembarked and. also had a lot of medical conditions they should be allowed to go to the hospital and looked after refugees in indonesia do not always experience that kind of treatment we've documented to 2 asian or refugees or extorted by police and are held indefinitely in immigration detention centers so the indonesian government to protect refugees not persecute them or jump quickly is a human rights specialist focusing on the working get out for the fire rights and we appreciate your time thank you very much thank you so much for having me south

korea's being battered by a 2nd major storm in a week typhoon haiyan shen brought heavy rains and strong winds but it's now being done graded to a tropical storm rather bright it has more from paul in south korea. came how linger sure pummeling this southeast corner of south korea the 2nd destructive tiny food within a matter of days this seafront restaurant was already extensively damaged by typhoon my sack last week the same family have been running it for 40 years and say they've never experienced storms like these pople had the what's he going to give up on things are completely wrecked i'm at a loss i don't know where to begin life was already tough before this. like typhoon my sac this typhoon 1st pounded the main southern japanese island of q shu with winds gusting up to 200 kilometers per hour prompting an order for nearly

$2000000.00 people to evacuate their homes. john back to the southern islands of japan it lost some of its intensity but by the time it reached the korean peninsula it was still a powerful typhoon bringing destructive winds and torrential rain. already drenched from successive typhoons and then usually prolonged seasonal rains there's been more flooding especially along the pinin chillis east coast extending up into north korea the country's leader kim jong un has taken a prominent role in directing the cleanup of earlier typhoon damage and punishing officials for failing to prevent the flooding of the main eastern city of one sun that city has been inundated once more by high fashion back in south korea. inspects the damage to his fish distribution business if more powerful typhoons are

now the norm he says maybe the country has to adapt to the new reality. governments should build sea defenses alone discoursed as a priority to start ways of the size in the future he and his neighbors wait anxiously to find out what the surrounding seas might throw at them next rob mcbride al-jazeera pohanka south korea in sudan unprecedented floods in a fencing more villages and neighborhoods as the blue nile reaches its highest level in more than 100 years scientists say dams that have been built over the past few decades are partly to blame him or going reports from khartoum. flood water has covered the streets in a dome in sudan's capital hard to homes were abandoned as water from the nile filled them making them uninhabitable it's the result of a rise in the rivers level the highest in more than 100 years lacking in how you get. the amounts of water was unimaginable was

a home no expect to reach my house reached the house before me with my house on the homes after me around my house more than 40 homes were destroyed by the floods. sure the people have taken their properties and left their homes we have houses that have been partially destroyed and houses that is completely collapsed in other parts of how to land that was once dry is now part of the river which is rising for the 3rd week its cost floods that has killed at least 100 people over the past month more than 100000 homes have been partially or completely destroyed a 3 month state of emergency has been announced by the government and the country is now a natural disaster zone where people once walked both have become the main form of transport people mostly use them to get to dry land this isn't the 1st time the nile has flooded its banks but those affected say it's the worst they've ever seen so down government says at least have a 1000000 people have been forced out of their homes as

a result of the mild unprecedented rise in levels experts say a large part of that is because of climate change. last year the international committee for the red cross had listed sudan as one of 10 countries to suffer the consequences of climate change climate experts say the increase in rainfall and if you can high lands is caused by climate change that's led to more water flowing down the blue nile which contributes to 80 percent of the amount of water that's were in experts who say development along the nile is adding to the effects of climate change well not that i will listen to the rains usually come at a certain time and people have been counting on that and they moved to areas where the knol borders the banks but this year we've seen an increase in the amount of rainfall because of climate change and so the nile has flooded more than before in addition a lot of trees are being cut down to make place for residential areas near the nile affecting the valleys where the water would flow through sudan's government says the levels will continue to rise over the coming days people say they hope the

water doesn't take long to recede so they can go back to their homes and start the process of rebuilding people more going on to their own home don't hurt them and now it's time for the weather and here is ever to know what was talking about that flooding in sudan you're talking about northwest right across the continent to the other corner of what's going on here that's right just a further. post but basically going on robbie's we've got the brains are a little further north than they should be at this particular time if you say they are still there across sub-saharan africa but it's not just south sudan it's thems all the way across towards the atlantic coast and i can show you from the satellite picture this little clutch of storms that we just have off the coast of west africa that produce some very heavy rain in senegal a recently 2 distinct areas of cloud here we got this one out in the mid atlantic and another one just around the cape verde islands these are actually tropical depressions and they may well they're likely to develop into tropical storms as you go on through the next couple of days or so since certainly one to keep an eye on you can see these 2 circulations just making the way across the atlantic one to

watch out for in the caribbean in that southeastern corner of the u.s. as the systems. drifted off the coast of africa you can say this little area of shower clout that we have just to the to the west of of senegal where we've seen some very heavy rainfall recently and that has led to widespread flooding in dhaka 93 millimeters of rain coming down in 24 as september i was right 130 millimeters so that's a huge portion of the monthly average rainfall and it has inevitably led to widespread flooding some downpours lingering here causing major problems i'm hopeful as we go on through the next couple of days that things will quieten down you can see the kind of issues that we are dealing with here as a result of that very heavy rain should be further now further so south by now of course because we're not too far off the aqua not socially much closer to the equator but the shout out remains there cross a similar area we go into the next day and that wet to weather that's going to make

its way back across a good part of senegal with further heavy showers to come ever since thank you very much indeed and still ahead on al-jazeera military helicopters are brought in to rescue residents trapped by large wildfires in northern california and in sports in the wrong james leads the lakers to victory in game 2 against the houston rockets play is going to have the action in sports. the world's biggest economy was put on hold. deregulating industries of old delivered new growth for a president who promised greatness again. but the coronavirus pandemic has seen resurgence replaced with a recession as the world eagerly watches zone to see out there presidential candidates might revive the flagship u.s. economy. details coverage of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera an image can change the way we see the womb if we

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a prominent protest leader is missing after an incident in the center of the capital minsk there are reports maria calista called a has been taken away in a fun by unidentified people more than 600 protesters were detained at a large anti-government rally in the capital on sunday. india has surpassed brazil to become the country with the 2nd highest number of corona virus infections in the world in the past 24 hours it's reported more than 1000 new cases and over 1000 deaths. nearly 300 going to refugees have been rescued from a beach in indonesia after drifting at sea for 6 months they were banned from malaysia but they were pushed back as borders tightened because of the pandemic. an inquiry into the 2017 bombing of a concert in the british city of manchester is underway after months of delays because of the pandemic 22 people were killed when an attacker detonated his explosives at a concert by singer i am a gandhi inquiry's going to examine possible security failings in the lead up to

the attack family members of victims and survivors were. also make statements last month the bomber's brother was jailed for life for his role in planning the attack paul brennan is joining me live from outside the court in manchester paul as we mentioned we're going to we're going to be members of the families who are going to be in court giving evidence plus some of the survivors is there any chance that they're going to get beyond says that they're looking for in this. it's going to be a long process we're not going to hear from witnesses and survivors certainly today we are going to have today from paul greeny who's the counsel for the inquiry setting out the kind of parameters on the list of the summary of the evidence that he's going to be presenting over the coming months that said. the relatives have said that they do expect to get answers to the question that they have there are some concerns though about the m i 5 security service evidence being given behind

closed doors there is some issue from the relatives about whether that will be good enough for them and give them the kind of truth that they want to hear and to talk about the my 5 and security services is our guest this. 'd he's a system professor specializing in counterterrorism now we've had we've had previous inquiries into what happened at the manchester arena in 27 series one tell me what you expect to be different this time particularly in respect to the behavior and the competence of suppose of the security services whether the foremost thing is that this is a public inquiry compared to the previous inquiries that have taken place in the house within and my 5 the security services and i think the element of publicness on transparency will certainly be a welcome one i think what makes it significant is the fact that survivors and the families of the victims alongside members of the public will finally be able to

understand some of the processes at play the. essentially informed the security services actions in terms of reviewing the intelligence and information that was coming to light because someone a baby was known wasn't he to security operatives to the security forces and yet dots were not joint this is an important point he was known to m i 5 he had been reported to have been associating with the subject of interest as the security services call them but then it later transpired that actually that was not salon a baby and the file was that full closed on some on a baby in 2015 again he emerges on the security services radar to say that he's in communication with somebody in libya but then it transpires that there is no direct contact with this member of alleged member of isis in libya so again there is no active investigation that's been opened later in 20172 critical pieces of information emerge which have been declared to be central to the to the attack but

that moment in time they are not acted upon and no investigation is open so i think one of the key parts of being required will be to assess the processes at play which essentially were not joined the dots that were not connected in order to prevent the attack now we were recently it was mentioned to start the outset will the relatives be able to have the transparency that they so desire if my 5 evidences given behind closed doors i think for the families and and the survivors of this type i think what will be important is the fact that ha shem a baby the brother of samana baby has now been convicted and is in prison so there will be more information that emerges that will have been held in secret in the past so i think that what we want to milk our whole but i think the families will hopefully get some more clarification on the processes and it will be traumatizing and and kind of

a difficult for them but i think i hope certainly for members of the public and the survivors and families there will be more clarity around the process. this is a play on what could have been done differently and what should be done differently in the future is one so be it thank you very much indeed for joining us now and the opening statements sort of said we're not looking for scapegoats we're searching for the truth and cold rainy the counsel to the inquiry said this inquiry will leave no stone unturned is going to run until spring of 2021 paul thanks very much indeed that's paul brennan the courts in manchester. well the stage of julian assange has legal battle to avoid being sent to the u.s. is resuming in london we can mix founders facing 18 charges in the us for publishing secret government documents revealed evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses in iraq and afghanistan could be jailed for 175 years if found guilty in the u.s. with loans lee is live at the court in london so the case is resuming today of all the arguments changed its whole. no but it

has become an opportunity for us and his supporters to restate their absolute opposition to the extradition hearing in defense of investigative journalism the rule of law and freedom of speech at least one comparison example since the current one people have been saying is well look i mean supposing levesque a journalist came up with say a tranche of secrets. information from the chinese authorities say that detail the detention and torture of we can muslims and publish states if the chinese said well we demand the extradition of that journalist think clearly a government like the u.k. government would say well no way you know the 1000000 years because it's about public interest john has been freedom of speech and so it calls into question issues to do with the rule of law in supposedly democratic countries one group which is famously opposed to extradition is am the state restructures is from amnesty international just opposed to that point very just for a 2nd if this was a supposed undemocratic country you might perhaps expect this sort of thing but

what you say to you that this is happening in a country like england it says to me that this shouldn't be happening at all what we're seeing today is not a trial against one man but accenture trial against freedom of the media and freedom despite its expression as you have just said julia stiles should have never had charges the charges brought against him that have been brought against him what he did in publishing classified information during his time with wiki leaks is an activity that journalist and publisher carry out on. the daily basis and doing so they are called the public's right to know what their governments are up to so amnesty is clearly calling for all of the charges against mr songs that are related to his publishing activities speech to be dropped fair and square we're also calling for the u.k. government not to send him in any way to the united states why for the reasons i've already had but also because we're very concerned he'll face gray's human rights

violations in the u.s. including torture what we mean by that is that if he's sent to the us it's very likely he'll be put in solitary confinement for prolonged periods in maximum security prisons that equals torture under international human rights standards finally we're deeply concerned he won't get a fair trial in the us why is that you probably well aware he's been subjected to a smear campaign by the highest representatives of the us government so that's really a travesty have you made these representations to the british government's absolutely we are obviously not trying to influence who are true because we respect the independence of the courts but all of the charges that have been brought against him are politically motivated and as such have no place in an extradition hearing and that's one for mary that i thank you very much well the parents to that you thought about 3 more weeks it was always does lose then then it will go to appeal so this is going to go on sir for some time yet to florence thank you very much

indeed lawrence from the outside the court in london thank you. west african leaders are holding a summit in asia that will focus on talks to form a civilian government in neighboring mali the 15 nation regional bloc ecowas has imposed sanctions on mali and closed its borders it's pressuring the military leaders who took control of the country last month to hand over power to civilian rule the military leaders who overthrew president even him bill carcache to say they're going to step down after a transition period let's take a closer look at what happened in mali after months of protests led by opposition groups soldiers seized power on august 18th and forced moneys president ibrahim baja cater to resign he was detained for 10 days before being released to get medical treatment as advisors ses in abu dhabi west african leaders initially called for hated to be restored to office but they have since dropped that demand they're now calling for a prompt transition to civilian rule mali's military leaders have pledged to give up power after

a transition period they're now in talks with opposition groups will ahmed addresses joining me from the nigerian capital abuja let's just talk about those discussions that are going on between the military and the opposition at the moment what are the main sticking points there. well basically the most important of course is the issue of how long the transition to civil war will take place all well hold on. who will be part of the transition government remember ecorse have laid out its own conditions a minimum of 6 months and among some of 12 months for transition to take place and it insisted that only civilians can be appointed as interim president and interim prime minister or transitional president and try to transition the prime minister initially over a week ago when the military called a meeting among what it calls take orders in mali that included opposition groups

and other. interest groups in mali many people did not attend especially the m 5 movement that pressured cater to to a point whereby the military had to step in to overthrow it. they said they were not invited and many of the many many of their members were not even part of the consultations that resulted in the calling of that meeting so basically they want to know who will be part of who will be part of the transition committee and how long it will take they want to see a quick resolution of the conflict quickly tend to democracy just like of course itself let's talk about the meeting that's happening in asia at the moment what is going to be the main focus of that meeting. well the meeting has started since friday they've been discussing serious series of issues ministers of finance ministers of economy ministers of foreign affairs and

of course the issue of security but the most important thing that they want to look at and what they have been facing is the issue of money one of the most important things by the way there is also the question of corporate 19 an economic recovery post covered 19 but what the leaders are focused more and they know very well that the international community citizens of west africa are watching very closely is the issue of mali how do they deal with this situation initially they tried to talk tough until. give both sides the military money and military and their course leadership some some kind of opening and insisted that he doesn't want to go back to power that gave a breather for both sides now the people are watching closely to see how this leaders will come together in case the military in mali refused to give ground on transition and they refused to at have to such an principles will they go ahead and impose those such as they continue those sanctions they said they are placing will

they also take military action because in the early days of these cool and i did it mr fording affairs were saying that they have activated a standby force that could easily be deployed to intervene in mali will they do that that's one of the things citizens of west africa are looking at and that some additional support into this nigerian capital abuja and thank you very much kenny's leading opposition leaders salute delina has announced plans to run in next month's presidential election the former prime minister says he wants to stop president alpha condé from winning a 3rd term 82 year old hyundai is approaching the end of what should have been his 2nd and final time is right in the running again after pushing through changes to the constitution. protesters in thailand have persuaded large companies to pull out votes from a t.v. network they say is pro-government student led demonstrations have been taking place for 2 months calling for the prime minister to resign you elections to be

held and controversially reforms within the monarchy scott type of reports from bangkok but one problem if it were not that mark it's the young faces that separate the current pro-democracy protests in thailand from the political divisions of the past as this movement is run an organized by students their method stay true to their generation they're not only deploying their efforts to the streets but also online with concerns about their future and the protesters don't feel the current leadership represents them so they recently targeted advertisers of nation multimedia a news network they say is pro-government an online campaign urges supporters to boycott companies running ads on the network they're demanding changes in the government and monarchy and that flies directly against what the network stands for according to its chairman we love our country we love our way of living we love. it it's in and we love to use this social bully against us and

right through the sponsorship sponsor i think this is a wrong. and. very unethical behind what nation t.v. calls social bullying a 1st year university student in her twenty's summer says her personal details have been previously published by the network so we're not showing your face here i think our campaign is a partial success we still have many things to do down the big companies dot support but it may be difficult because big business is practically running the country. but big name brands have pulled their advertising like the owner of the burger king franchise in thailand. and app driven food delivery platform food panda both saying they did so because of customer feedback digital marketing experts say companies that react to protest or boycott might not necessarily be picking sides

but choosing to stay with their key market i think for the startup company our digital companies are getting more on the young people so if they're not pleased if they're not taking an action that is saying that whole me as a young brand on the same side i ask you might be a baker is for them with a protest organizers are going to aim for the next round of boycott targets from some of the largest and most politically connected companies in the country as they see it any firm the support of the government is fair game. and while they will continue to front their boycotts online they will also continue to come out for the cause it's got other al-jazeera bangkok. there's been a dramatic rescue in the u.s. state of california after a fost moving wildfire stopped hundreds of people at a popular campsite the california national guard was forced to step in the region is also experiencing a record heat wave that's fueling the fires rob reynolds reports from the sun's

rays. they barely made it out alive a galloping wildfire trapped more than 200 people at a remote campground in the rugged central california mountains when fire blocked the only road out the california national guard mounted an emergency nighttime rescue mission sending in helicopters to airlift the campers to safety this picture shows dozens of evacuees crowded into a national guard chinook helicopter that fire grew so quickly so fast it trapped people at mammoth pools reservoir up in the mountains the creek fire broke out on friday evening and quickly exploded in size by sunday it had burned more than 18000 hectares tinder dry forest and underbrush fed the flames several small communities in the area were evacuated as hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze

authorities say $63.00 people were hurt fleeing the flames 17 were admitted to local hospitals and injuries including boken broken bones lacerations scrapes bruises those going to things another blaze called the eldorado fire is threatening homes near san bernardino east of los angeles it broke out on saturday and grew rapidly burning more than 1200 hector's and forcing some residents to evacuate the multiple fires are burning as a record smashing heat wave scorches california and other western states a community near los angeles reported a blistering 49.4 degrees celsius. robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. sports next here on al-jazeera and the world's number one goal for showing the others it's done me is going to have that story and more after the break.

it's time for this board seriously thank you rob tennis world number one novak djokovic has been disqualified from the u.s. open in new york the serb had a ball but struck a female line judge in the throat peter cement reports. with the absence of roger federer and rafael nadal. no backtalk of each was the outright favorite to win an 18th grand slam singles title but he would soon have to shoulder a different kind of responsibility after losing a service game to go $65.00 down against public at in your booster 1st happened here in europe. it is illegal as per the grand slam rule book and the officials had

no choice but to di folk the serb joke of each losing all prize money and ranking points from the tournament. work. out of their rules. this guy not seeing says there were legs i think. the referee and the supervisor and all the right think. those sentiments were echoed by billie jean king on twitter it is unfortunate for everyone involved but in this specific situation the default was the right call. the 33 year old left flushing meadows immediately before posting an apology on his instagram page saying this whole situation has left me really sad and empty i checked on the lines person in the to him and told me that thank god she's feeling ok i'm extremely sorry to have caused such strace. despite

a $26.00 match winning streak that included victory at the australian open joke of each has had a difficult year image wise he organized the adrian 2 in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic several players and spectators tested positive for covert 19 and the 2 it was abandoned he has also launched an alternative players' association in the last couple of weeks that has received a lot of criticism with they will be a brand new men's grand slam singles champion for the 1st time since the 24 team us open. he does them at al-jazeera. well on the women's side 2800 champion naomi osaka is through to the quarter finals after a 6364 win over a stone he has and that. however it is the end of the road for 60. 8 seed petra market and 2016 winner angelica kerber and be a the l.a. lakers pulled out a win to level the playing field at the western conference semifinals le bron james

of course for him $28.00 points and 11 rebounds against the houston rockets they opened a 21 point lead in the 1st half gave up 41 points in the 3rd quarter to fall behind and then regrouped with some impressive plays by james lakers beat the rockets 1170109 all good. you know beautifully big or small. between. you know we. always go. it was an example of being able to go to the. well the walkie bucks beat the miami heat and game 4 after losing the 1st 3 but in the 2nd quarter they lost their star player. to an ankle injury. chris middleton led the way with 36 points after that after going into overtime the bucs were able to hold on and win 81182115 keeping their eastern conference playoff series alive. and ice

hockey the dallas stars defeated the vegas cold nights in game one of the western conference final the only goal of the game was scored early on in the 1st period by john kling bird biggest tried to come back but had 25 of their shots blocked by a single player final score 10 the best of 7 when this series. well it's looking like kobe had 19 it will continue to impact europe's football league's manchester city's as an american a port have both tested positive for the disease this comes just a few days before the english premier league kicks off but city will only be in action on september 21st after they were given additional time to rest after reaching the champions league quarter finals. all right in baseball the baltimore orioles defeated the new york yankees in baltimore on sunday orioles right hander dean kraemer out dual japanese ace masahiro tanaka in the 1st ever in his 1st ever

m.l.d. start then at the top of the 9th inning erik kratz ground out in the game's orioles winning it by one state york yankees. with just one round to play at golf's tour championship world number one dustin johnson is firmly in control the american shot a 6 under par 64 on sunday at the eastlake golf course in atlanta georgia that places him on 19 under overall as a result johnson is 5 shots clear of the chasing pack going into monday's final round. of the games and good for my go out of confidence you know everything i'm doing right now. you played well over the last you know 4. you know i'm comfortable in the spot that i'm. there was an eye catching result in formula one and for once there were no mercedes on the podium at the italian grand prix and said it was frenchman pierre ghastly who won the 1st race of his career world

championship leader lewis hamilton started on pole but he was penalize for a pit stop in the states and dropped down to last before eventually finishing in 7th his mercedes teammate val to be both us only managed 5th both for ariz fail to finish their home race sebastian vettel with brake failure and then a huge smash for charles the clerk which stopped the race while the barrier was fixed it was all meant for a new a new look podium ghastly one for the italian team. mclaren's carlos signs was 2nd in line to stroll 3rd for racing point. it's unbelievable and i'm not sure izing would stop it right now. it was such a crazy race and then we got to devise on the red by the 1st podium last year i was already a lifelong results already and know my 1st win in form the one. i started to realize. an impressive win for that young man well that's it for me in sports he

back over to rob. thank you very much indeed now foley by going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories and of course more details on the website as well i'll just see about dot com i'm right about this and by the. global pandemic. family comes 1st. for every american health care has never been more important. because the new disease does not favor republicans over democrats bridge over poor r block over white. america decides how to care for

a nation. extensive coverage of the us elections. on al-jazeera. on mexico's busy roads there are those who've had enough. cyclists are taking to the streets on mass. their objective to make the streets safer alternative clean up forms of transportation but when it proved to be an uphill struggle for they scoop of activists over the wheel do you find on al-jazeera. 967 and the 6 day war was at its height a u.s. spy ship the u.s.s. liberty monitored the conflict from international waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of america's closest regional ally israel over $200.00 were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just red with blood what happened that

day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery mouth the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation on al-jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of on networks journalists on al-jazeera. the end of the high profile belo russo opposition leader is grabbed off a street in men scaf to a more mass protests and arrests. the air . play you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also ahead india pushes on with reopening plans even as the coronavirus infection records keep coming is now the world's 2nd worst affected country after

months at sea in a wooden boats nearly 300 rohingya make it to indonesia.