every. confessions of mass murder and burning of entire broken government is how do you tell from to me and more soldiers could help bring a genocide case to the international criminal court. watching out 0 like from a headquarters in doha into an opera gave also ahead a day after she was reportedly snatched off the streets and men stood by the russian opposition leader maria cullen escobar is detained at the ukrainian border plus. i'm people morgan and both of those

a lot of them in one of the neighborhoods that has been affected by floods from the nile river and i'll be telling you about the impact of the floods on neighborhoods and the government response. not so black and whites wife fair housing activists in the u.s. a president trump is clinging to an outdated vision of america suburbs. many have called a genocide now 2 soldiers for me and maher may have provided the evidence needed to bring a case to the international criminal courts there are reports the 2 men are in the hague in what could be a breakthrough in the search for justice over the killing of muslim. human rights groups fortify rights says it has seen tape confessions from 2 soldiers who say they deserted from the me and more army in the lengthy videos the man admitted to

massacres rapes and the destruction of or of villages the group says they've also they and other soldiers and senior commanders involved in the crimes. has covered the rohingya crisis extensively and has more. if these 2 soldiers are indeed giving these kinds of details to i.c.c. investigators that could have a huge impact on a potential case it's been well over a year now that the i.c.c. has been trying to build a case they launched an investigation they have opened a case but it has been tricky for the i.c.c. because of jurisdictional issues because me and maher is not a signatory to the rome statute they are not a member of the international criminal court they do not recognize the i.c.c. bangladesh however a which has helped the i.c.c. in building this case is a member of the rome statute and the fact that in the reporting there has been about this we heard that these 2 soldiers fled to bangladesh it's really going to

be interesting to find out just how much of a role bangladesh played in trying to get them to the i.c.c. of course having direct testimony from soldiers involved in what many have called these horrific atrocities committed against the rohingya that would be a huge development rohingya refugees since the beginning of the crackdown that was launched against them august 25th 2017 have used the word genocide to describe what happened what was perpetrated against them so if now there is direct testimony that means that me and mark could be a lot more liable stuff osten has more from the hague. if we are hearing reports that they might have a right here on monday officially the court denies that they are and cost $30.00 which is probably now the case is that there is a witness protection program here at the prosecutor's office the prosecutor's office i have to explain its independence from the court so so far there hasn't

been any rest warrant against these 2 individuals from me on march the i.c.c. the international criminal court has a significant protection program for witnesses so if they are here it's very likely that the court has helped them get the visa travel to the netherlands and also provide them with assistance so during their stay here but the prosecutor's office says they caught on to confirm any of this information while this investigation is still ongoing and they also urge everyone not to speculate because you have to understand this is a very sensitive case that it's a crime against humanity of course what happened in myanmar has been described as genocide and this. would be the 2 1st that's the most news from people within the military from me on my to come out so there is of course a lot of concern for the safety of these 2 people did to form a soldier so to court and the prosecutor's office is not confirming if there are

actually here in the hague right now the battle russian president alexander lukashenko says he won't step down despite a rising tide of protest against his leadership but speaking to russian media on tuesday he did not rule out holding an early presidential election but the claimed victory in a disputed election last month which his opponents say was rigged since then mass protests have been held across the country despite threats by security forces that the action is illegal. well the bellary opposition candidates vets take an office skya says president alexander lukashenko no longer has the magenta mysie to engage in diplomatic affairs she told members of the council of europe that any treaties signed with look a sanka wouldn't be upheld by future governments might concentrate my nation my people now need help these need

international pressure on this regime on this one indeed he did all this perfectly clean on to. being the sun. exists your criminal that violates international norms and sure lives rights and another prominent dello russo protest leader who disappeared from n.c. is now being held at the border with ukraine state media says border guards remain with maria cardona school from a car early on tuesday a ukrainian government minister said she resisted attempts to force her out of bell room on monday called an escort it was seen being snatched off a street in men by a last man a freelance journalist andre vice a vicious and men with more on maria disappearance. we know mostly from either state media will from other sources because her lawyer still hasn't got any summation during the last 24 hours we've seen this morning the video with one of

her team member who was explaining that he has chosen to become tripped over now we know there are 2 of them back out in ukraine and maria kolesnik and i couldn't leave the country because she simply tore off her pa sport so she couldn't last to ukraine because of the incident basically it proves once again that sees the park wasn't wasn't wilensky city will too with the country shit that's couple of days to go to me that she will be staying here till the end fields of a career and today what we saw once again proves that the russian authorities just try to keep out of it from the country the main opposition figures they would not leave. even if they don't they defaulted but still they are very well known me and people respect them every thought i talk to them on the street during the process

so this incident rules again that the building within the boy will continue the russian now one journalist edited for. one of the main media outlets she was the route that there 1 are sorted that had bartman. basically a. dumb day a lockdown day we see that there were threats and. they got back and they will continue in the next hours and the next day you are in u.n. human rights chief michel bachan is urging moscow to investigate the poisoning of for russian opposition leader election of ali is now out of a medically induced coma and responding to doctors at a hospital in berlin german experts have found he was poisoned with a nerve agent novi chalk there russia disputes that in a statement bachelor's said moscow has been able to act with close to total impunity in light of the assertion by german specialists that they have quote unequivocal proof that not only was poisoned with another choking the nerve agent

the high commissioner is also urging the government of the russian federation to carry out or fully cooperate with a thorough transparent independent and impartial investigation of the number of cases of poisoning or other forms of targeted assassination of current or former russian citizens either within russia itself or on foreign soil over the past 2 decades is profoundly disturbing severe flooding continues to devastate parts of sudan days after the government declared a 3 months they differ emergency officials say about $800.00 people have been killed while more than 100000 homes are damaged flooding this year has far exceeded record set in the 1940 s. causing the nile to rise to levels not seen in a century but the u.n. warns the situation may get worse with more heavy rain expected until the end of the month about morgan is it hard to know she says many people are demanding more

assistance from the government. we're here in the southern parts of sudan's capital hard to me and the residents here tell me that up until nearly 2 weeks ago these areas including about 2 to 3 kilometers away all of it was dry land but as you can see right now there's not a speck of dry land inside they say that the nile river has overflowed its banks and when into the neighborhoods damaging houses filling homes that are concrete destroying homes that are partially concrete and that are weak forcing people to get displaced now according to sudan's government at least 100 people have died as a result of the flooding over the past month and more than half a 1000000 people have been displaced people who have been affected by these floods which is the highest in more than a century say that the government response has been weak and the government says that they are trying their level best but some things were out of control the liver to see them in the hole where using sandbags to block the areas that are being

swarmed however we cannot use them along the whole river over the past few days water levels reach record highs even bridges were flooded residents in affected areas have been evacuated and warnings were sent to those exposed now while the government says that they have tried to respond with some preventive measures but people are saying that they're now looking into the neighborhood resistance committees common sees that have been active during sudan's revolution mobilizing people and who are now working on the response plan forward for those affected they've been trying to mobilize food donations via social media by going through neighborhoods to try to get people to come together to help those who have been affected by the floods people are saying the people who are affected are saying that they want to see more government response they say that they're demanding medications they're demanding shelter they're demanding food they demanding clean water and they're concerned about the long term impact of the floods they're worried that they won't be able to rebuild the destruction that has been caused by

the floods especially in the country in the mid seventies. anomic price is a myth about the government needs to respond more and show its present more the beno about when the what the thought through is eating bacon go back to their lives and they can start rebuilding with help from the government rather than being left out in the open with their future unknown still ahead on al-jazeera india and china accuse each others' armies are firing shots and violating raymond's in a disputed the land border region. british and your negotiators meet for another round of discussions as the u.k. threatens to leave the block without a trade deal. goodbye how shen actually we won't say goodbye to the amount of rain this with it just the

circulation brought the wind damage so far northeastern china has a lot more rain to come on the still more rain the 4 showers through south korea and north korea and japan slow moving stuff or at least more moving northward so it will tend to pass over the same place again and again as for china the east is fine but in the west the rain is brewing once again this still is drifting slowly east was but shanghai remains dry but the country as a whole clearly does not malays here is taking a bit of a hit also from the showers that are all going slowly sas they have colds with the sun is always an area this wetter than elsewhere and this is the area at the moment running through northwestern borneo down towards sumatra and then the scottish as virtually anywhere else with maybe the exception of java java still looks relatively the not completely dry which is right this time the. the monsoon rains are sunny receding now so they've more or less gone from pakistan afghanistan northwestern india but have not gone from northern india and they certainly gone

from the west and gas this is a concentrated area anywhere from a dime towards carola there is significant right so be yet more flooding. rewind returns. with updates on the past about dizziness documentaries i would compare it to any onion we have in the onion the free to spot the house and to see the temple mount to their own city rewind continues with losing louisiana what was once a thriving community only water with lettering above. right on the southern tip of the it lies submerged 30 feet below us on al-jazeera.

well again the top stories on al-jazeera 2 men who say they deserted from the me i'm army have reportedly given confessions detailing mass killings on the destruction of or finger villages they're now set to be in the hague and could help the international criminal courts. the russian president alexander lukashenko says he won't step down but he's not ruling out holding early elections claimed victory in a disputed photo last month which his opponents say was very. severe flooding continues to devastate parts of sudan days after the government declared a state of emergency officials say about 100 people have been killed while more than 100000 homes are damaged. at least $22.00 people are dead after a walk slide was triggered at

a mining site in northern pakistan 20 injured miners were rescued from the marble corrie but there are fears that dozens more are stuffed under the rubble area is known for its high quality marble which is exploited globally india has sent firefighting vessels to help put out flames that reignited on an oil tanker nearest sri lanka ships and aircraft are battling the fire on board the new diamond tanker the sri lanka navy now says the ship is leaking fuel from its engine room but its cargo of more than 270000 tons of crude oil is still intact. india and china are accusing each other soldiers are firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of our children troll in the western region on monday and they opened fire and its soldiers took what it calls counter-measures but india's military has laid the blame with china accusing gets of what it called provocative

measures to escalate tension both sides usually avoid using firearms in that area katrina you has more on the reaction from beijing now china has called this a serious provocation and violation of the border agreement we know that things between these 2 sides have been tense for some years but if this is true this will be one of the 1st times firearms have been involved in about 40 years that had been agreement to keep firearms out of it but we do know that things have been escalating with both sides building up troops for the past 2 months staring at times at each other eyeball to eyeball along this disputed area both sides unable to agree over this line of actual control which is further complicated by this complex topography along the region now we know firearms have not been used but things did escalate in june where there was a skirmish between both sides and at least 20 indian soldiers will last china says that it's conducting negotiations and dialogues with the indian side there have been talks at different levels for the past few weeks including very high level

talks in moscow between both the defense ministers from both countries just last friday but it seems that those talks have been very limited in terms of what progress they have been able to make and india also says that china has captured 5 indian civilians and china's foreign ministry when asked about this said they didn't have any information saying simply that they were continuing dialogue with india that they wanted peace but china's foreign ministry has predictably laid the blame for escalating tensions completely with the indian side elizabeth purana was in new delhi and she says the indian army maintains a did not go across the line of actual control. they are saying that it was the chinese army that tried to close in on one of india's positions and when they were dissuaded by their own troops that they fired a few rounds in the air they're also saying that despite grave provocation that indian troops exercised great restraint that they committed to disengage meant to

deescalation that china continues to undertake provocative activities to escalate and they're also saying that the latest statement by the chinese army about the firing is an attempt to mislead it's to the best dick and the international audience now this happened just 3 days after that meeting between the 2 countries defense ministers at the shanghai cooperation organization summit it was the highest level meeting between the 2 countries since the current standoff began in may and we also had both sides saying that the other agreed to deescalate the situation after that but we have had so many rounds of talks at different levels since may and each time they maintain that they are committed to disengaging and get we've had more incidents including the most serious between the 2 countries in june when those 20 indian soldiers and a number of chinese soldiers were killed we do have

a meeting between the foreign ministers off the 2 countries coming up again coming up rather again at that shanghai cooperation organization summit on thursday. to australian journalists have returned home from china after a tense diplomatic standoff which left fearing arrest chinese police had demanded interviews with the man and initially bar them from leaving the reporters one from the broadcaster a.b.c. on the other from the financial review sought refuge in australian diplomatic compounds while their safe departure was negotiated it comes off to the arrest of another australian journalist who are. she has kicked off her governing party's campaign ahead of november as parliamentary election it's likely there could be a delay because of a recent rise in coronavirus cases florence laurie reports.

launches a 2 month election campaign in the capital with a rather low key event original plan to visit her constituency had to be cancelled because of an increase in coronavirus cases but she was in full campaign mode jokingly telling journalists to cost to vote for her party in. the upcoming elections are seen as a step towards myanmar's transition from military rule which ended in 2011 to full democracy the military still wields enormous power it's guaranteed 25 percent of the seats in parliament and retains control of 3 important portfolios but the governing party the national league for democracy is still expected to win by a comfortable majority. all sense each he remains popular at home even though internationally her reputation has suffered seems. to key in the national league of democracy have not used the parliamentary majority that begin to extend myanmar's

democracy and fight be about a few districted the franchise of democracy to other minority groups and a vote to increase the targeting and persecution of journalists and also become apologists for general say as we've seen earlier the sheet and i and the international court of justice also on suit she defended her government at the court describing allegations of genocide as incomplete and misleading in the alternative myanmar military carried out a crackdown on the roof minority in rakhine state in 2017 causing 3 quarters of a 1000000 get to escape to bangladesh there are also questions about how fair the upcoming election will be for the community that is being excluded not only there were hinge of it have been that have been moved out of this area but many of the other record time residents and citizens in those areas are completely be cut out and there are other fighting areas in the country that are also being excluded and

this goes to the issue of legitimacy a lot of migrant workers because of covert $1000.00 are not going to be allowed to vote and these are again we're talking about millions of people that are being excluded not small numbers the election commission has said it will decide in october whether november's poll will go ahead in places where this fighting between the myanmar military and armed ethnic groups clients al jazeera i know round of talks have started in london as the u.k. acknowledged its plans to break part of its withdrawal agreement would violate international law so it wants to override customs roles designed to ensure there is no hard border between northern ireland and ireland or in sleaze and west minister where he says talk of changing the customs roles has added more attention to these negotiations. it's now emerged that the governments of this country might want to run a gun parts of the withdrawal agreement to the absolute consternation of the european union because it's a breach of international law say the europeans so the talks start this afternoon

michel barnier is there in the room with david frost's there for us explaining what's going on meanwhile in the house of commons while these new sets of rules are being outlined to the europeans a lot of very wary conservative m.p.'s say well hang on if we break this international law then what does that say about our reputation as a trustworthy partner with other countries going forward one senior conservative us nor not and secretary because it's all about northern ireland is this is this or is this not a breach of international law the large sector stands up and says yes it is a breach of international law in quite a very limited and specific way. it's it is frankly is pretty unbelievable at this point in the process the u.k. side is basically saying it is prepared to break its national law to try to force the europeans into some sort of compromise on only its own red lines and plainly it does a number of things it is potential going to cause and yet another written side the

conservative party it could lead to a very acrimonious note a lexus and an awful relationship between the u.k. and the european union because a shadow over the u.k. as reputation to the rest of the world as being a trustworthy part that and on top of that it also brings back in supply the status of the border inside the un and the violence and there's a great deal of people inside islands who are going to be very worried that what it might mean about the potential for hard border going up splitting the on in the voting yes again into so it's a very very high stakes controversial stuff this from the british side donald trump is being accused of playing politics for suggesting coronavirus vaccine could be ready by next month just ahead of the u.s. presidential election despite the president's suggestions the chief executives of 9 drug companies have promised not to rush through trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines our white house correspondent kelly halkett has more on the president's insistence that a vaccine is coming soon. the u.s.

president continues to project optimism he will be traveling to north carolina and florida today in the last 24 hours as he held that press conference here at the white house he did continue to say that perhaps this could be ready by the end of october and that is of course the timing that would be significant for him because he wants to try and get this out before the november 3rd election but the c.e.o.'s making it very clear that they will not commit to a political timeline now one of the reasons they don't want to commit to a timeline is the human trials are still underway and this involves tens of thousands of people and there has been some difficulty we understand in getting enough people to test the vaccine so the other big question of this is when this does come out who will get it when there are all kinds of things to work out the president has taken into account now seizing upon all of this is the president's

rival democratic presidential nominee joe biden not only has he released a new ad contrast to his approach to a presidency with donald trump's saying this would be a fresh start versus donald trump's darkness but he also released a statement saying that donald trump when it comes to the vaccine refuses to listen to experts 2 and scientists so while the c.e.o.'s have come out urging the presidential candidates not to make this political it's clear that both men are doing just that. well the president has replaced an obama era rule that sought to end racial discrimination in american housing he says this will give local governments more freedom from federal regulations but his height is 0 caster reports from maryland the move is also part of trump's campaign strategy tying race to the safety of suburban communities. it's a beautiful day in this washington suburb of silver spring maryland and the election is less than 2 months away that means over picnics the discussion is

sometimes politics and i think that we need a change in the united states we need. a new leader it's very important for us to take it seriously we're going to make that difference in too much neighborhoods like these are critical in picking who is president suburbs contain yearly half of all u.s. voters and in 26 teams they delivered a narrow victory to donald trump but this here he is struggling to keep those votes reach 911 i'm sorry that there is no one here to answer your contacts to call with polls showing trump trailing joe biden in the suburbs a trump campaign has aired ads like these playing to what the campaign believes to be the fears of white suburbanites will save our cities and our suburbs or in the future of crime and chaos corruption and economic collapse that puppet joe biden would have really shown america but american suburbs are going through

a dramatic transformation suburbs are now home to more immigrants and more african-americans no longer the white enclaves of tribes thinking she wrongly assumes that black people and other people local are are not already integral members of suburban communities and also rightly assume that white people in suburban communities are racists who want to keep everyone out. the trump continues to attack democrats. and their housing policies canceling and obama a rule that force cities to report on housing discrimination in their local communities new orleans had made strides under the obama rule says fair housing advocate delfin at martin she says trump will likely lose votes by demonizing minorities he's not really concerned about our though he again trying to appease and tap into the minds of those who already follow him it remains to be seen

whether trump's racially charged campaign strategy works to sway those few who remain undecided heidi castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera 2 men who say they deserted from the man more army have reportedly given confessions detailing mass killings on the destruction of a finger villages they're now set to be in the hague and could help the international criminal court's muhammad has covered the roving a crisis extensively and has more on this having direct testimony from soldiers involved in what many have called these horrific atrocities committed against the rohingya that would be a huge development rocking the refugees since the beginning of the crackdown that was launched against the august 25th 2017 have used the word genocide to describe

what happened what was perpetrated against them so of now there is direct testimony that means that me and more could be a lot more liable well the russian president alexander lukashenko says he won't step down but he's not ruling out holding early elections because franco claimed victory in a disputed vote last month which his opponents say was rigged there have been mass protests since then against his rule. u.n. human rights chief michelle bachelet is urging moscow to investigate the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei in of all the she says moscow has been able to act with close to total impunity of all the is now out of a medically induced coma and responding to doctors german experts have found he was poisoned with a nerve agent not be charged though russia disputes that it's severe flooding continues to devastate parts of sudan days after the government declared a state of emergency officials say about 100 people have been killed or more than 100000 homes are damaged but the u.n.

warns the situation may get worse with more heavy rain expected until the end of the month at least $22.00 people are dead after a walk slide was triggered at a mining site in northern pakistan 20 injured miners were rescued from the marble corrie there are fears that dozens more are stuck under the rubble india and china are both accusing the other soldiers of firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of control in the western region on monday and opened fire but india's military has laid the blame with china accusing it of what it called provocative measures to escalate tension both sides usually avoid using firearms in that area those are the headlines rewinds is coming up next but by.

hello and welcome again to rewind on this but prada back in 2006 when we 1st launched al-jazeera english our goal was to find stories that other channels simply weren't covering here on rewind we revisiting some of the best of them to find out how the story has moved on in the years since today we rewind into 2009 to the web .