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to the news hour new details are emerging about the disappearance of a prominent opposition leader who is seen being snatched from the streets in minsk protesters are demanding the release of maria cardona whose whereabouts remain a mystery to fellow activists say unknown men tried to force her across the border into train they say men in plain clothes tried to drive her from baton rouge sent to ukraine but she ripped up her passport at the border of france has condemned belarus for forcing opponents of president alexander lukashenko into exile the day in baba reports. this is believed to be a car arriving at the ukrainian border carrying 3 belorussian opposition activists or members of the recently created coalition council they'd all been bundled into a vehicle in the better russian capital minsk the day before now 2 are in ukraine but some reports say the 3rd maria kolesnik over ripped up her passport.

maria kolesnikov the committed to bribe action which prevented biller a special services from expelling her to ukraine to other opposition members were forcibly expelled from below russian territory now they're on ukrainian territory they enjoy the same rights as any other foreign citizen they're under ukraine's protection bellerose says border guard committee has confirmed that kolesnik over is now being held by the bell or russian authorities she was a key supporter of the only candidate allowed to run against president alexander lukashenko a former teacher. in the center here from exile in lithuania to sky has used a video link with the council of europe the rights party based in strasburg to call for tough action against the better russian government meaning and international pressure on this regime on this one did you do all this perfectly clean in on 2. we need some actions on individuals who issue and exit your criminal that to

violate international norms and human rights. in the meantime the street protests on the crackdown continue here people trying to stop security forces taking away demonstrators who called for his release and bundling them into one motor vehicles. such things happen every day now more than 600 people were detained on sunday according to the ministry of internal affairs for participating in peaceful demonstrations there will be trials for those who own 2 released the list of political prisoners is growing. for now the protests show no sign of dying down but neither does the government's determination to silence opposition figures al-jazeera will bring in a team he's joining us from london so now we know more of what exactly happened at the ukraine border but what we still don't know are her whereabouts and the.

exactly right and there are ongoing street protests right now in minsk the capital of belarus calling for her to to be released safe and sound now also in the last hour or so the 2 men the 2 members of the coordination council who she was forced into a car with been taken to the border with ukraine they have been giving a press conference in the ukrainian capital kiev and they've been explaining how extraordinary events were there at the border because what happened was that maria calista make over actually ripped up her passport this is what she says and this is confirmed by ukrainian authorities she ripped up her passport so that she couldn't be forced across the border and then apparently climbed out of the window of the vehicle but they were all in and refused said she wasn't going anywhere and then was arrested the belorussian of thora he's have compare them to that she's being

held but they haven't said where they have given no details apart from that so yes worries for her well being confirmation that she did refuse to enter ukraine because according to ukraine's deputy interior minister this was all an attempt by the government of better rufus to make it seem as if these 3 were actually just leaving the country of their own accord in effect giving up their struggle against alexander lukashenko all right thank you for that update from london. well the president of belarus alexander lukashenko says he won't step down despite a rising tide of protests against his leadership but speaking to russian media on tuesday he did not rule out her olding an early presidential election the percent claimed victory in a disputed election last month which his opponents say was reg's since then mass

protests have been held across the country as you've been hearing despite threats by security forces that the action is legal and i'm a very eyes a visiting senior research fellow at king's college london she says the crackdown on opposition leaders has united the citizens activists around the against the government i don't think that will happen which the president has reference because they already have arrest that they made because the opposition even much longer before the election that is a change because other people came out the. actual younger people less known people so now you ask me how i got out of the country they have the rest. and look recognizable but. new people will be coming out.

the changes out of the bottle so that it's not point to make a huge one. only because of when i came in belarus will not be made of the station that is not going to go so now you will right now it's possible for him to stay remember he has nowhere to go he resigns he will have to leave the country where. you can't really have many allies. who will be happy to host so you will hear. if this is something which can be managed. he still has quite a lot of the country security employees like you and me lawyer so he just has to live list of an area un human rights chief michelle batchelor is urging moscow to investigate the poisoning of

a russian opposition leader alexina vonnie is now out of a medically induced coma and responding to doctors in a hospital in berlin german experts have found he was poisoned with a nerve agent now which are the russia disputes that in a statement said moscow has been able to act with near total impunity. in light of the assertion by german specialists that they have quote unequivocal proof that novelli was poisoned with an overtrick nerd 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. many have called it genocide and now 2 soldiers

from me and maher may have provided the evidence needed to bring a case to the international criminal court there are reports that 2 men are in the hague in what could be a breakthrough in the search for justice over the killing of muslim are of human rights groups fortify rights says it has seen tape confessions from 2 soldiers who say they deserted from the mean maher army in the lengthy videos the men admitted to massacres rapes and the destruction of roping of alleges the group says they've also named other soldiers and senior commanders involved in the crimes how much of june has covered the rohingya crisis extensively and says me and maher is army's brutality has been exposed. fortify rights representatives fortify rights of course is an international human rights group they have viewed this video they obtained it by from the kind of army our kind of army is a rebel group in iraq and state they are fighting the government of myanmar for greater autonomy in the region and they say that the video shows the confession of

these 2 tatmadaw soldiers the tatmadaw is the name for me and morris military that they are foot soldiers and that these soldiers describe how they were ordered to exterminate rohingya who they saw in these villages that these soldiers name at least 19 other members of the military including senior commanders and that in these confessions they talk about the clearance operations in which they killed numerous villagers and in which they also participated in rapes of village women this is all very disturbing and of course i've been told by members of other rights groups that what is being described in these videos very much fits the pattern of testimonies taken from rohingya refugees over the years as far as the atrocities that were committed against them when that brutal crackdown by min mars military started in iraq and state in august of 2070 staff osten has more from the hague.

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 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. 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 'd 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 it's a crime against humanity of course what happened in myanmar has been described as genocide and this if this was introduced 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 antonio movie is the executive director of legal action worldwide who is in bangladesh is a u.n. investigator at the height of the crisis she says these soldiers testimony confirms the stories told by displaced roving go. this is an astounding turn of events and certainly when i was a u.n. investigator on the borders of allegations as the hundreds of thousands were hanged who'd across the border we never thought that we would be in this situation the

stories that i knew seem to resonate with what we have seen from the testing these these 2 former me and my soldiers that they were ordered to kill indiscriminately they were ordered to rape to gang rape crucially brutal sexual violence and since that time i now represent hundreds of bring some of them are from the villages that these 2 former miramar soldiers have talked about and i talked to them earlier today in the camps to try to gauge their reaction to this and what they said was relief relief that the world has had what has happened finally an admission from the me and marley but also that tends to anger and sorrow and thinking about their loved ones that all saved everything got that still remain in millions . well manned mars leader. has kicked off her governing party's campaign ahead of

november's parliamentary election it's likely there could be a delay because of a recent rise in coronavirus cases florence louis has more. than most leader. launches a 2 month election campaign in the capital naked 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 wheels 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. remains popular at home even though internationally her

reputation has suffered. in the national league of democracy i would not use 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. the targeting and persecution of journalists and also become apologists for general say as we've seen earlier this year did i and the international court of justice also 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 rohingya minority in rakhine state in 2017 causing 3 quarters of a 1000000 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 the or hinge of it have been that have been moved out of this area but many of the other

records that 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 and ethnic groups clients are plenty more ahead on the news hour including the british and your negotiators meet for another round of discussions as the u.k. threatens to leave the block without a trade deal. not so black and whites why fair housing act of us in the us a president trump is clinging to an outdated vision of america suburbs. and rest of defense by the l.a. clippers and the n.b.a.

playoffs stories coming up a little later with me in sports. but 1st the u.n. is warning that the situation in sudan could get worse as flooding continues to devastate some regions officials say about 100 people have been killed more than 100000 homes are damaged the government has declared a 3 month state for emergency flooding has pushed the nile to levels not seen in a century have a mortgage as a heart to men she says many people are demanding more help 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 lava 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 high 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're 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 midst of an economic crisis and they say that the government needs to respond more and show its presence more so that they know that when the water south receding they can 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. in a move aimed at reassuring the u.s. public 9 drug companies have pledged not to rush approval for corona virus vaccines

unless there prove to be safe during clinical trials the promise from the c.e.o.'s comes as president donald trump continues to suggest that a vaccine could be out as early as november right before election day our white house correspondent kelly harkat has more from washington d.c. . 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 well 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 let's talk about those who dr marcus plus show he's the chief medical officer of the association of state and territorial health officials he is joining us via skype from atlanta that's in georgia dr marcus thanks for your time

with us on al-jazeera just put this into context for us and tell us in your opinion how significant this pledge is by the 9 drugs companies. i think this is very helpful and very significant i mean the most important thing that we need to be external here is the public don't start to lose trust in the backseat in the vaccine process and i think hearing from the manufacturers that they won't move for it we have a product that the nose effective and we know is safe is very very helpful what's behind this move however i mean and how unprecedented is it it's but i think well and everything that the car here is somewhat of president i mean we don't usually have. at this level and we don't usually have pharmaceutical companies you know the directors of different companies many of whom were rivals we don't usually have it coming together on something so this is

somewhat unique. but if it's important to them i mean it's important to them that the public trust the vaccine process and the public is what participate do you think that the timeline is actually a realistic one that a vaccine will be ready by the end of october and that of course is according to the u.s. president i think the end of october seems very very ambitious ringback to me i mean we're only in the phase 3 trials now it is 'd possible it is reasonable to end those trials early but not until you have a good back seymour and of the vaccine is safe and it's just it's hard to imagine will be quite there at that point so there was quite a bit has to happen as far as our ability to scale up manufacture the vaccine get it out to the public to keep track of what's going on with this look at ways 'd that we will prioritize some of the early doses 'd so the end of october does seem a little bit ambitious right which is exactly what i wanted to ask you about in

fact i mean are you it doesn't sound like you're confident that the states actually have the ability or the tools to start with the distribution of the vaccine for example by also by the end of october. well i think the states are getting their i mean all of the states are preparing actually because we do think a vaccine is eminent and maybe with this in this calendar year so they're getting ready there's other pieces so we don't have unlimited quantities of vaccines begin with will have you know maybe 20000000 doses so one of the big things going on right now is to decide who we want to make sure it's the vaccine 1st we have to prioritize some of the early doses until we have a lot more quantity and we start you know the general public and the dr marcus many people saying that this is really an unprecedented pace for vaccine development and if you look at some of the surveys that are coming out of the u.s. one survey at least suggests that 2 out of 5 americans say they

pardon me that only 2 in 5 people in the u.s. say that they plan to get the vaccine once is actually available so do they have a point to some americans have a point when they say they're skeptical about its safety. well i think that's what's going on here and that's why i think it is very useful to you happy c.e.o.'s of the pharmaceutical manufacturing companies coming board and really reassuring the public that they will they will start manufacturing the product so they feel confident so that's what the american public needs to know i think it's totally understandable that people are wary and apprehensive about the speed at which we're moving at the same time we do have to move quickly if we want 'd to begin to make things better and move out of the pandemic so hopefully we'll have a process that's transparent the public can trust it because we need more than 2 out of 5 people to participate in backs of nation we need a majority 'd of people to be willing to get back once the backseat is read all

right dr marcus plash and we thank you very much for speaking to us from atlanta thank you. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour people in parts of california are being told to prepare for the worst as record setting heat fans dozens of wildfires in sport lewis hamilton goes electric the formula one champion gets ready to launch his own bracing team details on that later. hello it's still hot and dry course it is but it's still hotter than it should be in places like jerusalem was temperatures in the middle thirty's they're not quite record breaking but they were only a couple days ago and were in the middle to high forty's from iraq down towards kew

wait there's not much of a breeze so what clouds in the sky just wandering around in society but this cloud is more significant that was a mass of thunderstorms that went through the middle of sudan just topping out the flooding most likely the 2 and there are masses elsewhere which form into little curves and just so you westwards nigeria has seen flooding recently it will see more flooding on wednesday and probably thursday and then eventually those things go through west leaving some flooding in senegal maybe or the gambia and just recently a tropical storm which is often a result of these things has gone through cape verde islands so that's where the action is which means for the south you think it should be quiet and you're probably right but one thing that is happening is time of the year is that the breeze is bringing more moisture on to the east coast of madagascar looking wet for the next 2 or 3 days i want to show end up in mozambique but for the most minor southwards it's looking dry and sunny and surprisingly.

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al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour protestors about the rooster demanding the release of opposition leader maria khaled after men in plain clothes tried to force her across the ukraine border she ripped up for a passport but her current whereabouts are unknown. to men who say they deserted from the me and ma army have reportedly given confessions detailing mass killings on the destruction of rohingya villages they're now said to be in the hague and could help the international criminal court. the u.n.

is warning that flooding in sudan could intensify with more heavy rain for cost about half a $1000000.00 people have been affected by the floods since july and aid agencies say they're running out of supplies. we were going to bring you on a on our top story those reports that bella roosts has forced some opposition members into exile let's speak to any niece marian who's the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in by the roosts she's joining us on the phone from warsaw. thanks for your time with us on the news are what is your reaction to what is happening right now and particularly the opposition leaders either being detained or forced out of the country one by one. well actually those. opposition leaders who were trying to run for the presidential elections have been in jail once in april the other one since june on political charges

and mrs kolesnikov 5 is just the campaign manager of one of them of that above article and she was the only one from the crazy jam of the coordination council of the opposition created by the city to kind of care who claims to have been elected on the 9th of august and who herself is in any sway now was indeed forced into exile and mrs cliff because that was the only one left who would still in in belarus but she was as you said abducted yesterday and and they tried to force her out of the country which is of course the premier by all possible international standards you cannot just expel one of your nationals and my square back into the worst times of the soviet union of course how concerning is all of this to you. well it just adds this pile ups to 5 a number of human rights violations some of them extremely serious which we have been monitoring for the past 5. i'm particularly concerned with cases of torture

performed on on peaceful protest has been arbitrarily detained in the days following the 9th of august vote and 5 yet these are extremely serious cases 150 of them we have very feisty and. we've heard about threats of rape apparently also rapes on women men and children committed to using weather batons electrocution teams etc and the people 5 and not in the position given the state of the justice system in belarus basically they have no one to turn to and the perpetrators of these crimes are apparently not even worried about of being ever prosecuted for these crimes but it is getting extremely urgent to indeed launch an investigation maybe edge international level because we might be talking even about crimes against humanity yes but on that point what is

it that the international can community can practically do right now. well it's extremely difficult because as you know bellicose is struck between 5 the e.u. and russia and russia is supporting 5 mr lucas shango in his bid to truth sustain power against the will of the people which we have seen expressed in the streets for the past month 5. so the issue of the leveson situation of human rights made its way to the un security council last friday is true in an informal meeting the so-called 9 formats meeting but still 5 and the number of governments have expressed concern for the same with the situation but the delegates from the from the russian side would basically calling this interference and. their call for 6 blogs or constitutional reforms are just meant to to gain some time to keep mr look

at shang going power and maybe have a say in the some control over there the transition process which will start at some point because it already started i mean that at the level of society and but but for with dilution to be adopted that the at the u.n. security council of course you would need consensus and here we can expect what russia and probably china true to is it yeah that's that's just it i mean are you expecting the not to move forward then at the u.n. security council. well you know i'm an independent expert test by the human rights council to monitor the situation so of course i can only call on 5 action and i welcome all the initiatives taken by neighboring countries giving you know humanitarian aid to the russians are running away from the country. 5 but you know there are several policies being being implemented at national level by by poland by at least way nya the u.k. even but unfortunately there is no consensus even within the e.u.

on un sanctions and making more than statements in order to try to call mr lucas and go back to a little then just final question for you what are you specifically calling for today. i believe an international inquiry an investigation into the crimes that have been committed is necessary because we cannot really trust the current judicial system in dollars to prosecute these crimes and the victims have a right through to redress and them guarantees that this cannot be cannot happen again i mean the red line has been crossed on more than one actually and so it's getting extremely extremely worried all right and we thank you very much anything erin for speaking to us thank you. now a new round our bricks and talks have started in london as the u.k. acknowledged its plans to break part of its withdrawal agreement that would violate international law it wants to override customs rules designed to ensure there is no

hard border between northern ireland and ireland lawrence the reports. have been several rounds of talks already and mutual suspicion has only grown over time sticking points over trade to do with things like state aid and fishing with their already even before a british government minister confirms that the u.k. now intends to break international law or an aching on parts of the divorce agreement with the european union it had already signed up to. i would say to my friend yes these guys great international law in a very specific committee why we are taking the powers of the supply the e.u. nor concept of darren to create required by asking for in a certain very tightly defined circumstances no like the e.u. some very senior conservatives who devoted for the bill were left asking who trusts the u.k. in the future how can the government reassure future international partners that

the u.k. can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations for the agreements signed when boris johnson signed the withdrawal agreement which led to the u.k. exiting the e.u. at the end of january it will seem ton and dusted the trade border would be in the irish sea thereby keeping the border between ireland and northern ireland open and protecting the good friday peace agreements chipping away at it now risks destabilizing the entire process with fewer than 4 months left to finalize a whole set of trade arrangements quite apart from all this leading to the prospects of yet another rift inside the conservative policy critics of the government's argue that the principle of breaking international law is sufficiently a knock it as to raise questions about the credibility of the u.k. in wide a way so it could also mean the entire dispute ending up in of all places the european courts the legislation will go before parliament on wednesday it may fail but the damage might already have been done lawrence leigh al-jazeera london.

britain says new charges laid against a dual national in iran are indefensible and they're unacceptable now as a means of garri radcliffe was told of the new indictment after being summoned to court in tehran she was detained back in 2016 while visiting her parents and accused of espionage so governor radcliffe was temporarily released from custody in march because of the corona virus but she's barred from leaving the country india and china are accusing each other soldiers of firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of actual control in the western region on monday and opened fire and its soldiers took what it called counter measures 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 the area to try to you as i'm 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 there 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 the longest disputed areas an able to agree over this line of actual control which is further complicated by this complex topography along the region now when our firearms have not been used but things did escalate in june where there was a skirmish between both sides and these 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. with programmers in new delhi and she says the indian army maintains it 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 just swayed 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 are committed to disengagement 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 that's an attempt to mislead it's to the west and the international audience now this happened just 3 days after that meeting between the 2 countries defensemen this does 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 men and initially bar them from leaving the reporters one from the state broadcaster a.b.c. and the other from the front end for who sought refuge in australian diplomatic compounds. departure was negotiated it comes off to the arrest of another australian journalist. chong wei who works for china's state owned channel c g t an. i decided it's very disappointing to. believe as i sit there. in the. country with anyone reading. this is a whirlwind some call it. is going to be good experience. wildfires in california have burned more than 800000 hectares of land this year that sets

a new record for the u.s. states which continues to battle with extremely high temperatures and dozens of fires are reports. residents living near the angeles national forest have been told to prepare for the was just full cost to say strong winds will push a large wildfire in that direction our number one priority for this fire is the protection of life property situation that we have right now. new a life threatening situation with the weather forecast that we have for the next 3 days. the forest blaze is one of 23 raging across california and we really need to pay attention to any instructions on evacuation the fire is likely to move south toward 6 community a lot of people a lot of property to the south of this fire right now california has suffered more

the 900 wildfires since mid august extreme heat and lightning strikes have been blamed but one fire was started by a fox display during a family celebration started i was pushing to the east and then to the north and then big westerly wind shift and then today was moved to the south 8 people have been killed during this year's wildfire season the challenge now is to help bring the blazes under control. barbara and. sara still ahead base reports news and action from the u.s. open quarterfinals dots coming out with me. so much.

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let's cross over to lee in london with the sports is highly. thank you let's start with some important cycle news in the top of farts continues but the rice director has tested positive for corona 'd virus along with staff members of fourteen's including that of defending champion again but now christian put out and the 4 staff dropped out of the vice bubble ahead of stage 10 put on that contact with the french prime minister who is now also isolated so low side to anything with 2 or more positive tests within 7 days of each other would have to drop out of the rice before things affected well have further tests wait but only if someone shows symptoms the next main round of tests is on monday but the counter goes back to 0 and started saying would need 2 new positive tests to actually be ejected as for

the 10th stage the races you get from a rest day and it was won by irish fighters sam bennett on a sprint he's won stages on the vita. and this year the talia before but this is his 1st on the talk completing the set so the news promotes muggeridge retains the lead is yellow jersey the french open tennis is coming up in paris later this month but the women's number one will not be that ashley barty is also the defending champion at violent goes but she's decided to sit it out because of concerns about traveling during a pandemic on monday french open organizers announced that a limited number of fans will be allowed to attend bassy also chose to sit out the u.s. open and that's taking place right now in new york the action is underway on tuesday american jennifer brady firing yourself into the semifinals with a straight sets win every year pretty unsavory so we know williams is still in the tournament i mean for grand slam number 24 as peter stem ever bring.

just 2 weeks ago serena williams was beaten by greece's maria sakari at the western and southern open in the u.s. open 4th round the 2 would meet again and just like a fortnight ago williams won the 1st set before losing the 2nd but any fears of a repeat of the previous meeting was soon put to bed the american coming out on top 6367 and 63 despite no fans in the stadium to support her. williams will be joined in the next round by victoria azarenka and tsvetana pironkova it's the 1st time 3 players who are members have made it into the quarter finals of the same grand slam only 3 members have won a slam in 50 years of the open era kim clijsters. and margaret court. everything in mothering and yes it's helped me. obviously you become a different person you don't focus on yourself that much anymore like your focus is

primary on your child and i guess that's a good thing i don't identify myself on the tennis court as a mother i still identify myself as a tennis player and me being in the quarterfinals is i didn't get there by being a parent i got there tennis. on the men's side 2nd see domini team showed why he is a genuine contender for the title with 876-6161 win over canada's felix seem 72 with novak djokovic out and wrap around the bell and roger federer absence there will be a new male grand slam singles champion for the 1st time since $24.00 team. just always tried to focus on my next match and. my focus or my concentration it's the same it doesn't matter if played one of the big 3 members or

if i blame somebody else. last year's runner up daniel medvedev will be hoping to go one better than he did in 2019 the russian is also through to the quarter finals after defeating american france's t.f. 06461 and 6 love in just over 90 minutes. it also means the weight since 2003 for an american male grand slam singles champion goes on peter stammered al-jazeera. to the n.b.a. and the l.a. clippers a taken a turn one late in the western conference semifinal iraq against the denver nuggets jock itch led with a double double just 2 more assists and that would have turned into a triple double and can we learn a tremendous central figure for the clippers he delivered $23.00 points and fruiting going down for a double double of his eyes for one of his most impressive clocks he only used one finger on the clippers winning 813107. the game came down

to one of the 2 teams he's going to place in the fans. and we're 3 have quarters you know. score in the last 6 minutes it was our day that's not that way back why was amazed i didn't notice would one think i thought he just blocked it but it was impressive i do you know where he came from. so it was a heck of a ploy. there was a day to remember for golf phone number one dustin johnson on monday at the top championship in atlanta georgia certainly a lucrative one johnson's final round of 68 went to a total of 21 on the par for the tournament and victory by 3 shots and it also means he's the winner of the fed ex cup and with it the recipient of $15000000.00 in prize money johnson is actually the fastball double want to win the fed ex cup since tiger woods in 2009. yeah it's definitely very satisfying you

know be the focus cup champion you know obviously come in here i was and i was in 1st with a 2 shot lead and i needed all of those strokes that i could get. those top golf course but you know i feel like i played pretty solid all week finally forming a long world champion lewis hamilton is launching an electric ricing take. this expo to. exploit a new kind of racing team that is going to change the world for the better explain forward and the 1st season of the game. actually fall to the hamiltons column number enough one and the new extremely rising series is that surprise awareness about climate change electric s.u.v.s will rice in remote locations across senegal saudi arabia the pole greenland and brazil it's how would his 1st taste of say no to ship but he won't be in the driver's seat for the rices and that's a little to do with the thank you very much while the u.s.

president has replaced an obama era rule that sought to end racial discrimination in american housing so donald trump says that this will give local governments more freedom from federal regulations but his height is 0 cassar reports from maryland the move is also part of trump's campaign strategy that's 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 into my neighborhood like these are critical in picking who is president suburbs contain yearly half of all u.s. voters and in 26 team 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 part of the column with polls showing trump trailing joe biden in the suburbs the 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 the future of crime and chaos corruption and economic collapse that puppet joe biden would actually show america but american suburbs are going through a dramatic transformation suburb. are now home to more immigrants and more african americans no longer the white enclaves of tribes thinking she wrongly assume people are other people or are not already integral members of suburban communities and also readily assume that white people in suburban communities are racists who want to keep everyone out. the trend continues to attack democrats and their housing

policies cancelling and obama a rule that forced 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 mindset 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. castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland solomon green as senior fellow at the urban institute he says trump's new housing policies make access to affordable housing more difficult. so the truck administration has actually done 2 things neither of which actually gives local governments more

control the 1st is that they've reversed this a 5th age requirement essentially said all you need to do now to qualify for federal funding is certify they were furtively furthering fair housing the previous structure didn't limit local control it gave data and they gave a process to local governments to be able to do better and it also up provided support to those local governments to look at the data and come out with better plans so again there is no. required. policy that local governments had to adopt and frankly over the years we've seen that local governments with out taking a hard look for example at their zoning policies are often going to engage in exclusionary behavior and so to require them to take a look at those policies figure out how they can do better and strikes the right balance between local control and making sure we have an economy in

a society that really works for everyone that's it for the news hour as there are we hand you over to our colleagues in london barbara starr as we did in just a moment too much of the day's news thanks for watching bye bye for now. jump into the story and julian on political community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on as well online be part of the debate let me put some you keep coming steve you would know topic is. the table is taking on all the systemic risk that people of color have suffered not only now but for

decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he gets human way to get business if we're going to adapt to climate breakdown this street on out is there on the deserted streets of become from your figures careerism bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants . a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus i receive messages on the out saying that i was a nurse back who what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. a passion for supporting local communities. and pioneering inoperative african science and technology projects his child

beautiful. all of us on this planet for al-jazeera one is a leading by chemist determined to use his scientific knowledge to say africa women make science from the lab to the field on al-jazeera. protesters them and the release of bella russi an opposition leader. after she was abducted by masked men who tried to forcibly expel her from the country. hello barbara sarah you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up claims that to me and more soldiers have confessed to their part in the crackdown

on muslims in what could be a breakthrough for international prosecutors chances of a no deal breaker.