dr but it's a bit of a piece on thursday that secure call central areas of honshu. al-jazeera . hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes. protesters demand the release of belorussian opposition leader maria. after she was abducted by masked men who then tried to expel her from the country. claims that to me amar soldiers have confessed to their part of the crackdown on rohingya muslims

in what could be a breakthrough for international prosecutors. chances of a no deal breaks in grow and the u.k. government admits it would break international law to bypass parts of its divorce agreement with the e.u. . and only welling's with the school students on yet another memorable night for christiane over nada he scored his 100th goal for portugal and becomes only the 2nd to complete a century in international football. new details are emerging about how a prominent opposition leader was reportedly snatched from the street in minsk more than 24 hours after the disappearance of maria. her whereabouts remain unknown it's claimed unidentified men tried to force her across the border into ukraine but she

tore a purpose for it so she couldn't leave the game baba has more details. arriving at the ukrainian border in the early hours 3 belarusian opposition activists 2 men and one woman the driver and another man inside had been arrested in the bell russian capital minsk not long after maria collision to go vote was detained they'd been told they'd be prosecuted if they didn't cross the border speaking in kiev the pair explained what happened ticklish nick over the loss of life in the e.u. either or as soon as she got into the car and saw her passport in front of her she ripped it up into small pieces she threw them out the window at the unknown people surrounding the car then she got out through the rear window and started walking towards the pella russian border bellerose says border guard committee has confirmed that kolesnik over is now being held by the belarusian all for it says she was a key supporter of the only candidate allowed to run against president alexander lukashenko former teacher spread learned he cannot skier in the center here from exile in lithuania to kenya sky has used

a video link with the council of europe the rights body based in strasburg to call for tough action against the better russian government meaning and international pressure on this regime on this one. desperately want to. we need some actions on individuals who issue and exhibit huge criminal orders that violates 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 on 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 to 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. well despite mass protests by lucien president alexander lukashenko says he will not step down from power but he says he hasn't ruled out holding an early presidential election that claimed victory by a landslide in a disputed poll last month which his opponents say was rigged the announcement of the results triggered weeks of historic protests across the country well earlier an ace marine the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and joined al jazeera by phone from warsaw she says crimes committed by the bellaver government could be considered crimes against humanity a warning her comments include some graphic detail. 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 cause. 5 i'm particularly concerned with cases of torture performed on on the peaceful protesters has been arbitrarily detained in the days following the 9th of august vote and 5 yes 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 bleaching the touch and the people 5 and not in the position given the state of the justice system in the law is basically they have no one to turn to and the perpetrators of these crimes are apparently not even worried a lot of being 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 g 7 foreign ministers have condemned in

the strongest possible terms what they have described as the confirm the poisoning of kremlin critic alexina about me and un human rights chief michel bestially is urging moscow to investigate the attack the valley is now out of a medically induced coma and is responding to doctors in a hospital in berlin germany experts say he was poisoned with a nerve agent not a chalk of the russia disputes this specialist says it's not acceptable for russia to deny the need for a thorough transparent investigation into what she says was an assassination attempt. in light of the assertion by german specialists that they have quote unequivocal proof that move around he was poisoned with an overtrick nerd nerve agent high commissioner is also urging the government of the russian federation to carry out will fully cooperate with a thorough transparent independent and impartial investigation. the number of cases

of poisoning or other forms of targeted assassination of current or former russian citizens either within russia itself or on for soil over the past 2 decades is profoundly disturbing coming up on al-jazeera this news hour helicopter is rescue residents trapped by wildfires in california 2 dozen blazes are now burning uncontained across the state plus. i'm people morgan in the above the bottom 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. and in sports one of a setback for a limpia in the olympic champion runner caster semenya. many have called the genocide 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 the 2 men are in the hague in what could be a breakthrough in the search for justice for the killing of muslim are going go human rights group $45.00 rights says it has seen taped confessions from 2 soldiers who say they deserted from the myanmar army in the lengthy videos the men admitted to massacres of rapes and that the struction of really given the judges their rights group says they've also named other soldiers and senior commanders involved in the crimes that fast and has more now 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 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 their travel to the adolescents and also provide them with assistance so during their stay here but the prosecutor's office says the consequence for 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 across what happened in myanmar has been described as genocide and this if this is told this would be the 1st testimonies 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 salacious of the hague there were numerous mohammad judge who has covered the rank of crisis extensively and says myanmar's army used brutal methods to drive the muslim minority from rakhine state. fortify rights representatives fortify rights of course is an international human rights group they have viewed this video they obtained it by from the our account army our kind of army is a rebel group in iraq kind 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 more is 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 me in mars' military started in iraq and stayed in august of 2070. and tony mulvey is the executive director of legal action worldwide who was in bangladesh as a u.n. investigator at the height of the crisis she says a soldier's testimony confirms the stories told by the splay striking. this is an astounding turn of events and certainly when i was a u.n. investigator on the borders of bangladesh and 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 seemed to resonate with what we have seen from the test in these these 2 for me and my soldiers that they were ordered to kill indiscriminately they were ordered to rape to gang rape brutally brutal sexual violence and since that time i now represent hundreds of bring some of them up from the villages that these 2 people monium our 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 turns to anger and to sorrento and thinking about their loved ones that all say they reckon get that still remain

. at least 110 people have died from the severe flooding in sudan the government the clear the state of emergency days ago after the nile river reached unprecedented levels and flooded several areas hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and his al jazeera as he but morgan reports from hard toil they're desperate for help. this is how never had a man arrives to the doorstep of her home these days she comes to see if the water which flooded it nearly 2 weeks ago has receded the yard which was once dry and where she used to spend most of her evenings is still covered with water from the nile river which is now steady after rising to levels not seen in more than a century they have slowed down in the senate in ways that we were surprised this year when the waters entered our neighborhood we didn't know what to do there are no stand bags there is no one to come and help us with what's happening we decided to act on our own lives and bring found out we found the water coming in from all

directions as much of a heads neighborhood in the southern part of sudan's capital khartoum is now flooded some homes have collapsed as a result of the force of the water as the river which was once nearly 3 kilometers away became one with the area the levels of the nile started rising 3 weeks ago causing destruction as it flooded its banks and flowed into villages and towns more than 100 people have died in the past month as a result and more than 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed more than half a 1000000 people have been displaced most left their homes with the help of their neighbors who also lost their homes there by. the people here are struggling despite all the difficulties we're helping each other out because we can't abandon each other we grew up together so we can't just turn our backs on each other and we have to make sure that everyone here gets out so i flee because we're part of one neighborhood one neighborhood in the midst of dozens that have seen the same devastation those affected by the flood they most of the response so far like the

building of this makeshift barrier using sandbags has been their own volunteers have also formed groups there is this helping with food and collecting donations and all have criticised the government thing considering floods from the mild happen every year its response has been far from enough sudan's government declared a 3 month state of emergency days ago and now it's the country is now a natural disaster zone it says that while. plans were put in place to respond to this year's floods the levels exceeded expectations with you. are using sandbags to block the areas that are being swamped however we cannot use them along the whole river over the past few days water levels reach records high even bridges were flooded residents in affected areas have been evacuated and warnings were sent to those exposed after the destruction and loss of lives the knowledge slowly starting to recede but hundreds of thousands of people are now desperate for shelter and aid they see the hope the government will soon get them out of this crisis people

morgan on to their own hot zone where the flooding in sudan is also threatening sites housing the royal pyramids of morrow and norrie 2 of the country's most important archaeological areas the royal baths at the marrow a but basin that fails during the annual flooding of the nile was at risk from unprecedented water levels teams have been working since monday to protect the site from being flooded mero is an ancient city on the east bank of the river nile about 200 kilometers northeast of khartoum and at nori tombs buried 7 to 10 meters beneath the pyramids had been affected by the rainy season a british iranian aid worker jailed for allegedly spying in iran faces new charges after being summoned by an iranian court as a means of garri ratcliffe was arrested in april 2016 at an airport in tehran as she headed back to the u.k. she was sentenced to 5 years in jail for allegedly trying to overthrow iran's

clerical establishment so gary radcliffe's husband blames his wife's ordeal on britain's refusal to pay a 530000000 dollar debt to iran over the canceled sale of chieftain tanks which were not delivered after the $979.00 islamic revolution. the u.k. government says it may break international law in an attempt to change the brakes a deal relating to northern ireland prime minister boris johnson intends to impose a unilateral interpretation of how arrangements to avoid a hard border with the republic of ireland will work the head of the u.k. government's legal department has quit in response and the pound has fallen sharply as the prospect of a no deal exit increases lawrence lee has. there 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

british government minister confirms that the u.k. now intends to break international law or an aching parts of the divorce agreement with the european union is out already signed up to. i would say to my friend yes this guy's great international law in a very specific and limited why we are taking the power to disappoint you nor concept of daraa to create required by article 4 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 of 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 all seemed done 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 agreement 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 in startle law is sufficiently and not kick to raise questions about the credibility of the u.k. in wider ways 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 barnsley al-jazeera. offer more on this i'm joined via skype or by mushtaq by rob len he's the managing director for europe at eurasia group a political risk of research and consulting firm sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so explain to us why is this proposed to change the

legislation which of course may affect the withdrawal agreement coming now when the u.k. and the really reaching a crunch time moment when it comes to trade talks for a post breaks it deal between them. so there's a there's a growing view at the very top of government that a deal with europe cannot now be achieved without transgressing on some key u.k. red lines of the only way to do the deal is ultimately encroaching on u.k. sovereignty and in that case in the event the 2 sides can't do a deal and they move towards no deal the government wants to address some of their concerns around the legal default but will apply through this withdrawal agreement basically in the event of no deal this withdrawal agreement will still constrain what the government can do on state aid in great britain that's a problem and it will also mean the u.k. has to operate an internal border in the irish sea which compromises the integrity

of the u.k. single market so the government wants the effect of the renegotiate the withdrawal agreement to mitigate against some of those legal dissolves and that's what all of the news and all of the noise is about at the moment at i guess we don't exactly have the wording for example of what this proposed legislation would look like what kind of things will you be looking for in the detail of the wording. well i think what the government is going to do and brandon lewis said today in the commons and there's also been resignations of senior lawyers from whitehall today is effectively rights across the withdrawal agreement on the face of the legislation so there will be a sense of clauses that effectively say yes we know that we signed up to the withdrawal agreement last year however we reserve the right to and then as i say with respect to state aid with respect to terrorists with respect to export declarations the government will effectively be saying to europe and the rest of the world when not going to abide by the commitments we made in the context of the withdrawal agreement so i think it's pretty clear the language is going to run counter to the withdrawal agreement the big question now is how europe will respond

tomorrow this is a big test and a big day for the e.u. tomorrow. i guess at the heart of this trust i suppose the leaders will think of what they can trust the u.k. to stick to the withdrawal agreement that was very it was an agony to to get to that agreement then why would they trust them and when it comes to trade or anything else correct so i think it absolutely blows up frankly that the remaining trust which is very limited between the 2 sides it makes any notion of a compromise between the 2 pretty difficult to see now but it also raises a broader question for the u.k. with the rest of the world you know what does the us what does australia canada new zealand and other countries but the u.k. is in the process of negotiating a trade deal with think when they see what the u.k. is doing there the its 1st international commitment in the context of this withdrawal treaty with either only agreed this last year has not even come into force and the government's already proactively reneging on or is claiming that it

will do so tomorrow so i think it's a big problem not just the euro but the rest of the world frontally you've been following bracks a development more closely at than most then we can see that the cabinet to split over this as well as this move has surprised you. it has surprised me i think there are very strong voices opposed to what the government is doing pretty soon not so the economic fallout michael gove is worried about the integrity of the union he's worried about the no deal implications for business because on understandably those foreign secretaries going to be very hard for him to stand up to your putin in russia or the chinese when his own government is not respecting international commitments that it's made so i think there are powerful voices in cabinet arguing against this move but frankly the number 10 team and the number 10 operation just think the implications are being overdone and over spun and that just not the concern which is why indeed the government is going down this route which is quite surprising it's worth reminding people that of course this government has been in place for less than a year and i'm sure boris johnson never thought that covais that for example would

take so much of his time as opposed to a break said do you think that that was a factor in this the fact that we've actually got to this late in the day to try to come to any trade deal with the e.u. or do you think it was always going to end up in ts in a sense it's a bit of both i think over there's obviously aggravated the inability of negotiators to come to an agreement they've not been meeting face to face they've not been able to have been for more shots in the corridor or but obviously aggravated the ability to build compromise but i think ultimately the deal was only lightly in this window september october november now i think the government on the box from kogut is looking to take control of the agenda seize the initiative throw some red meat to the base demonstrates a former labor voters they're serious about delivering on their commitments to get it done by the end of the air and frankly ideologically there is a view that only no deal delivers on the government's substantive agenda to take control and that's exactly what they put they look as though they're serious about doing and so do you think and no deal breaks it is inevitable right now not

inevitable but the odds are definitely rise if we have a 55 percent view of the deal i think that's strong downward pressure on the news this evening we'll need to look at the legislation tomorrow but i think the odds of an agreement now 'd are falling in light of the moves the government is making it it sets off a process and set of consequences that are deeply outside the government's. troll because your costs to react must have a ramen managing director for europe and the eurasia groups are always great to get your views on al-jazeera thank you. thank you still to come on al-jazeera at this news hour prioritizing the planet or playing politics president traffic spends a ban on offshore drilling in key 7 states ahead of november's election the u.k. shuts down pubs in the town of bolton has a surge in coronavirus cases causes the government to consider a stricter measures across the country and in sports at lewis hamilton goes

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into all scotland london fairly fine there really over the next few days it be fairly cloudy with that want to see bits and pieces of sunshine the time which is close to the average for this time of year any funk juana some warm in paris although a little bit cloudy for the next couple of days than we had down into northern africa is to say there have been affecting areas of tunisia and then plenty of activity across the central areas some heavy downpours again through nigeria out across the west i mean watching these 2 storm systems here renee and paul as both of moving away from the land but all the while these. very heavy of those coastal areas of west africa. with a passion for supporting local communities. and pioneering innovative african science and technology projects how his child beautiful. stories are all of us on this

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a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera new details are emerging about how a prominent position leader was reportedly snatched from the street in minsk it's believed the unknown men tried to force maria kolesnik over across the border into ukraine protests have been held demanding her release 2 soldiers from e.m.r. may have provided the evidence needed to bring a case to the international criminal court human rights. 45 writes. taped confessions from them admitting to massacres and rapes. the u.k. government says it may break international law in an attempt to change the brakes a deal relating to northern ireland the head of the u.k. government's legal department has quit in response and the pound has fallen sharply . donald trump has replaced the obama era rule that sought to

end racial segregation in american housing the president says this will give local governments more freedom from federal regulations but as i do you feel castro reports from maryland the move is also part of trump's campaign strategy of 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 2 months they were hoods like these are critical in picking who is president suburbs contain early half of all u.s. voters and in 2016 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 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 in the future of crime and chaos corruption and economic collapse that puppet joe biden would actually showed 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 of color are not already integral members of suburban communities and also rightly assume that white people and suburban communities are racists who want to keep everyone out. but trump continues to attack democrats and their housing policies canceling 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 she. again trying to tap into the minds of those who are ready for. 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 told police leaders in new york's 3rd largest city are retiring and lasts amid an inquiry into a man's death in custody protests erupted in the city of rochester last week after details emerged about the death of african american man daniel prude in march prudes family released a previously unseen video of his arrest which showed police putting

a hood over his head as e-mail to naked and restrained on the street he died a week later after he was taken off life support. helicopters are rescuing more people stranded by huge wildfires in the u.s. state of california the latest rescues follow the dramatic weekend the airlift of more than 200 people the country's national guard says helicopters pulled the dozens more people from the sierra national forest on tuesday morning california seen nearly a 1000 wildfires since mid august mostly started by lightning strikes the state's fire agency spokesman says it's alarming how early the wildfire season began this year. well jennifer björk lind is live for us from a susan in california so jennifer tell us a little what's the situation like where you are. barbara the situation is ok for now but we are looking toward the afternoon evening

hours with a bit of trepidation because there is a forecast for wind and we have very dry fuels in the foothills above and what could happen with the fire on the mountain is that when those santa ana winds here in southern california could blow down and take that fire with them into communities a through brush that has not burned since 954 when there was a major fire here in these mountains as you mentioned this is been a record breaking year a record 2200000 acres already have charred across california this year and we are just now getting into pretty much the heart of the fire season with the drier months past the summer heat but when those winds kick up and take the sparks through the dry fuel with them in northern california there has been a lot of fire just started by lightning strikes which is a very different situation because they don't have as much wind but they have the

dry fuel in those remote areas where the lightning strike starts fires that burned out of control and stretched resources ordinarily there are 2 separate occasions for fires the weather driven and then the wind driven and they alternate as to when they happen now they're all happening simultaneously and in the midsection of the country in the great basin we're also seeing fires those those areas usually would be done with their fires by now and be sending firefighters to california to help so the resources are stretched very thin and we're only just getting into fire season for this year and the next couple days will be crucial here in southern california barbara jennifer björk linda with the latest from the susie in california jennifer thank you. u.s. president donald trump has extended a ban on offshore drilling along florida georgia and south carolina drilling is the key political concern for states such as florida a must win state for the president's reelection the announcement is also

a reversal of administration policy trump expanded offshore drilling in the atlantic in 2018 but today i have a very important announcement i don't know if it's bigger than the things we just announced or the things that we've already done or were in the process of completing in a few moments i was on a presidential order extending the moratorium on offshore drilling on florida's gulf coast and expanding it to florida's atlantic coast as well as the cause of georgia and south carolina. while little earlier i spoke to michael mann a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at penn state university i asked him for his reaction to trump's announcement. well you know you need some context here he of course has perhaps the worst record on the environment of any modern president in this seems like a distraction here he's pandering to florida floridians are of course concerned

about offshore oil drilling he understands that he understands he needs to win the state of florida somewhat cynically he's down there in florida saying that he will continue to oppose off shore oil drilling along that part of the u.s. coast but meanwhile his you know his rival joe biden has actually and democrats have gone on record affirmatively opposing any additional offshore oil drilling and they are opposed to the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure something that trump has actually worked to expand and he's sought to deregulate to eliminate policies that were put in place under the prior administration the obama administration to restrict carbon emissions and methane emissions and he's gotten rid of those policies he's basically given polluters free rein to continue to pollute and so his actions really be tray his

words and what impact would you say his actions have had when it comes to the environment over the past 4 years since he's been president. you know well here's an example he's claiming that he's going to support a restoration policies in the everglades that will supposedly prevent red tides well those red tides are occurring down in florida because of rising ocean temperatures rising ocean temperatures mean there's less oxygen in the water and so you're more likely to get these harmful algal blooms these red tides and so in fact his policies which have been is in mr ation has dismantled climate policies put in place by prior administrations including the last administration he's threatened to back out of the paris accord and he has undermined policies like the clean power plant aimed at restricting carbon emissions from coal fired power plants and so his actions have in fact led to

a worsening of the very problem global warming and climate change that underlies these red tide you know tides that florida is now dealing with these deadly red tides and there's nothing that everglades restoration is going to do to stem that problem if we continue to pollute the atmosphere with carbon pollution and we continue to warm up the planet and his policies will enable that happening we've seen more extreme weather around the world in the united states is no exception in light of that and this perhaps is a more political question but how key do you think the environment is as an issue for the average american that will go to the polls in just under a 2 months how much do you think that what he says and thousands resonates with the average voter. well i think it does i think certainly among democratic and independent voters we've seen a rise in the priority that they place on climate action and environmental action

it was actually the number one issue during the democratic primaries according to democratic primary voters and so trump recognizes that he recognizes that well his base the sort of fringe right might not care very much about the environment and he's fighting for sort of independents he will need to win over some independents if he has any chance of winning this election and so in a somewhat cynical gambit he's trying to convince those independents that he cares about the environment when he has spent 4 years doing everything he possibly can to undermine environmental protection 9 a u.s. drug companies have pledged not to rush government approval for corona virus vaccine the companies include that there are now and astra zeneca who are trying what are believed to be the most hopeful potential vaccines they say the drugs won't be submitted for approval until they're proved to be safe doing clinical trials the sales promise follow suggestions from u.s.

president donald trump that a vaccine could be out as early as november right before election day well our white house correspondent kelly halkett explains how both presidential candidates are politicizing the facts. this is unprecedented according to some drug industry experts what i can tell you is that the u.s. president has certainly been touting that the vaccine may be released by the end of the year then as recently as yesterday on the steps behind me at a press conference he said even by the end of october of course the timing rather interesting given that election day is november 3rd and that seemed to cause some alarm among the c.e.o.'s of these major drug companies because quite unexpectedly and again without precedent they released this letter stating that they are only going to release a vaccine when it is safe to do so and they won't sort of rush for any arbitrary timeline put forward by a politician now in the case of donald trump he certainly is pushing to get this is

quickly as possible looking for a 6 asked given the fact that he is lagging in the polls but he is not the only one politicizing it in fact his rival joe biden is hammering hard on donald trump's sort of claims that he's handled the krona virus very well in fact the focus of a new ad being put out by the biden campaign is that he's framing the contrast between himself and donald trump darkness versus a fresh start as he calls it the coronavirus pandemic and strict lock downs have crippled south africa's economy sending the country further into recession g.d.p. for the 2nd quarter contracted by 51 percent from the previous quarter that's the 4th contraction in a row more than 15000 people have died from covert 1000 in south africa the spike one of the world's strictest lockdowns almost 640000 people have been infected the

lockdown designed to minimize those numbers has caused heavy declines in manufacturing trust transport and retail in particular. well the u.k.'s surgeon coronavirus infections is causing major concern to the government prime minister boris johnson has just announced a new england wide restrictions reducing the number of people allowed to meet socially from 30 to 6 there are stronger localised measures in the town of bolton and like 10 curfews being imposed to shut bars and restaurants after new figures show that the case is dramatically rising over the past 3 days paul brennan reports . 2 weeks ago the infection rate in bolton was just 15 cases per 100000 people now it has leapt to 120 per 100008 new full lockdown is a strong possibility of tuesday morning this northern english town had introduced new restrictions on household gatherings by afternoon the rising infection rate

forced the council to extend that to restaurants cafes bars and pubs all of the now only open for takeaway food and drink and they must close by 10 pm to be fair to the general public many of whom have been going about their everyday business that they will find this frustrated because we are not able to say specifically it's this business or that factory or this particular part of the power. but again the realities are it is going up and therefore we have to be responsible and we have to take action the u.k. chief medical officer warned back in july that britain was reaching the limits of its opening up and the trade offs might be necessary and just last month the prime minister said the pubs and restaurants may have to close in order to keep schools open against the relentlessly rising infection rate that decision has now been taken. hospitality venues and the young people who attend them have become the focus of covert concern in many european countries in the u.k.

30 percent of new infections are people in their twenty's in bolton 90 percent of new infections are in the age group between 18 and 49. dorman anthony walsh is on the frontline he says every night is a struggle they don't have assaulted or where the mosque if used to. i've done i have a few places that go soon there's no social disease and more so as a boutique us absolute discoursed and some do observe the warnings most college students in the town center where wearing masks but they know plenty who don't. know it quite a lot of people probably think they're not going to get it they're all like physically fit but it doesn't really matter of the physically fave you've got it you've got it. there's not going by the people it's all just a bit skewed for the rules because they don't really know what's going on because they're not really informed or it's not much of. many people complain that the government's rules seem complicated and contradictory and difficult to observe but

it just seems that you can have people from members of the family children come to you how is a bit different in the restaurant because you know one could say not that let's choose a concern of governments and health chiefs though 'd is that people have simply relaxed too much since the u.k.'s lockdown was eased that rising infections will soon put pressure on hospitals just as the busy winter period approaches and the bolton situation will soon be replicated in many other towns and cities paul brennan al-jazeera bolton india and china are accusing each other soldiers of firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says that indian troops crossed the line of actual control in the western region on monday and opened fire and its soldiers took what it called countermeasures india's military has laid the blame with china accusing it of what it called provocative measures to

escalate tensions both sides usually avoid using firearms in the area. mian mars leader and san suu kyi has kicked off her governing party's campaign for november's parliamentary election it's likely there could be a delay because of a recent rise in corona virus cases florence louis has more. than mostly. launches a 2 month election campaign in the capital naperville 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 cast a 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 its 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 on sun suchi remains popular at home even though internationally her reputation has suffered. in the national league of democracy have not used their parliamentary majority that begin to extend myanmar's democracy and the fact be about 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 and i and the international court of justice also defended her government at the court describing allegations of genocide as incomplete and misleading the alternative myanmar military carried out a crackdown on the rigging of 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 record time residents and citizens in those areas are completely been 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 corporate $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 ethnic groups clients al-jazeera india has sent firefighting vessels to help out to help put out flames they reignited on an oil tanker near sri lanka ships and aircraft began battling the

fire on board the new diamond tanker on monday the sri lankan navy says the ship is leaking fuel from its engine room the ship is carrying more than 270000 tons of crude oil. still to come on al-jazeera the news hour action from the u.s. open tennis quarterfinals that's coming up in sport with leak.

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football tonight just of something highly unusual let's go straight to one of the greatest individual change events in football history christianne over now don has scored his 100th international goal and it was a trademark free kick for portugal in a 2 no win over sweden he got the other goal as well of course he did so make it 101 and it's 16 years after his 1st international goal against greece euro 2004 iran's early days the only other man to score a century he's got a 109 now it's his great rival lino messi who incidentally has scored 70 goals argentina has been training with barcelona for the 2nd day running after being forced to stay on a lot the year messi wanted to leave for free but and lolly blocked it by insisting on a buyout clause of more than $800000000.00 and she thought it was a worry we always want leo to be with us i've said it many times that he is the best player ever he's been in this competition for 20 years and as president of the

league i would like him to finish his career in this competition no player or club is bigger than the brand but there was some worry because we want him to be here and not in another league. caster semenya has lost her latest appeal against the world i thought expose which limits naturally high testosterone levels in fame our athletes a case against the court of arbitration for sport was dismissed by switzerland's supremum court it means she cannot defend 100 major olympic title in tokyo next year unless she agrees to limited to starts to run with medication or surgery which she's repeatedly said she will not. the total fraud surmise on routes but the rice director has tested positive for corona virus along with staff members of 4 teams including that of defending champion in canberra now christian britto and the 4 staff dropped out of the vice bubble before stage 10 push home had contact with the french prime minister who is now also isolated so will say anything with 2 or more

positive tests within 7 days of each other would have to drop out of the rice the 4 teams affected will have further tests this week but only if someone shows symptoms the next minor round of tests is on monday as for the 10th stage of the vice resume for the rest day it was won by irish artist sam bennett's on the sprint has won stages on the voter and the jury the tally of before but this is his 1st on that saw completed lisette so venus promotion while glitch retains the leaders yellow jersey. the french open tennis is coming up in paris ties this month but the women's number one bore not be that ashley barty is also the defending champion of oil and gas but she's decided to sit it out because of concerns about traveling during a pandemic on monday french open organizers announced that the limited number of fans will be allowed to attend a party also chose to sit out the u.s. open that's taking place right now in new york american jennifer brady far yourself

into the semifinals with a straight sets win of a year put in savor and in the menage draw our exam deserved rove has just beaten boredom corage to reach the last 8. now some news on calling captain a ko is not played in the n.f.l. since 26 they know after he began nailing during the national anthem to protest against racism well now he's been welcome back to the video game version of the sport a sports announced that included him in madden $21.00 fans can purchase him as a free agent and he will raises fist in the air after scoring a touchdown cap and it is yet to receive any real life offers though even though the n.f.l. having coverage franchises to give him a try outs in the n.b.a. tonight the milwaukee bucks try to stay alive in game 5 against the my b. hate and who's to markets and i like is you but one game apiece the l.a. clippers of taken a 21 lead in their western conference semifinal they beat the denver nuggets 113270 full of jackets lead with

a double double just 2 more assists and that would have turned into a triple double and call it learned to remind a central figure for the clip is a delivered $23.00 points and 14 rebounds for a double double of result for one of his most impressive blocks he only used one thing. and the defending champions to untie raptors all one defeat away from being knocked out the boston celtics beat them heavily in game 5 of the eastern conference and made to lay 32. it was a day to remember for gulf's world number one dustin johnson on monday that's all championship in atlanta georgia certainly a lucrative one johnson's final round of $68.00 runs a total of $21.00 under par for the tournament and victory for 3 by 3 shots 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 1st to our number one to bring the fed ex cup since tiger woods in $29.00 to. the formula one world champion lewis hamilton

is launching an electric racing to. this expletive. expletive new kind of race to take a team that is going to change the world for the better exporting forward and the 1st season of the big screen the early 2021. the x. 44 tame is named after how woodson's call number in the new extreme a vice in series will raise awareness about climate change and vice in remote locations across senegal saudi arabia nepal grain and brazil it's how was his 1st taste of team ownership but he won't be in the joy of his seat for the vices it seems he has seen the future die that's a list of the thank you. and that is it for then you can get the latest on everything that we've been covering on our website the address al jazeera dot com or you can stay watching me back in just a few minutes with one of the things.

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ringback protesters them and the release of an opposition leader maria call a sneak off after she was abducted by mass the men who tried to expel her from the country. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program claims that to me i'm our soldiers have confessed to their part in the crackdown on bringing the muslims in what could be a breakthrough for international prosecutors chances.