in the subject of cover up and mystery mouth the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation on how does iraq play an important role protecting it would. ringback face. protesters the man the release of opposition leader maria. after she was abducted by mass the men who try 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 amar soldiers have confessed to their part in the

crackdown on bringing the muslims in what could be a breakthrough for international prosecutors chances of a no deal breaks it grow and the u.k. government admits it would break international law to bypass parts of its divorce agreement with the e.u. plus. i'm going to invest the both of them in one of the neighborhoods that has been affected by the floods from the nile river and i'll be telling you about the impact of the floods on neighborhoods and the government response. hello and welcome to the program new details are emerging about how a prominent bellaver 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 or across the border into ukraine but she tore apart passports or she couldn't leave bella bruce now 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 over 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 week over the loss of life in the e.u. either are 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 belorussian border bellerose says border guard committee has confirmed that kolesnik over is now being held by the belarusian or florence's she was a key supporter of the only candidate allowed to run against president alexander lukashenko former teacher spread learned here cannot skier in the center here from exile in lithuania she cannot 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 do all desperately want to. we need some 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 unmarked 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 a 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. well despite mass protests president alexander lukashenko says he will not step down from power but he says he hasn't ruled out holding an early presidential election look at shankar claimed victory by a landslide in a dispute of poll last month which his opponents say was rigged in unspent of the results triggered weeks of historic protests across the country. g 7 foreign ministers have condemned in the strongest possible terms what they have described as the confirmed poisoning of kremlin critic alexei navalny and un human rights chief is urging moscow to investigate the attack the valley is now out of a medically induced coma and responding to doctors in a hospital in berlin germany experts say he was poisoned with a nerve agent another chunk of the russian disputes this special

a 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 never only was poisoned with an overtrick nerd nerve agent the high commissioner is also urging the government with the russian federation to carry out will 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 for soil over the past 2 decades is profoundly disturbing. many have called it genocide now 2 soldiers from ian larger 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 more his lip muslim or human rights group fortify rights says it has seen taped confessions from 2 soldiers who say they deserted from the me and my army in the lengthy videos the men admitted them as massacres rapes and that the structure and overhang of alleges the rights group says they've also named other soldiers and senior commanders involved in the crimes. step vasant 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 is independent from the court so so far there hasn't been

any rest warrant against these 2 individuals from me on my 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 consequence from 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 it's a crime against humanity of course what happened to me on my 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. mohamed jew has covered the drink a crisis extensively and says man morris 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 state in august of 2070 talks police leaders in new york's 3rd largest city are retiring and masts and made an inquiry into a man's death in custody last week protests erupted in the city of rochester after details emerged about the death of african american daniel prude in march crude family released previously unseen video of his arrest which showed police putting

a hood over his head as ino naked and restrained on the street he died a week later after he was taken off life support. a british iranian aid worker jailed for allegedly spying in iran faces new charges after being summoned by innovating in court now has it in zachary radcliffe 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 sorry radcliffe's husband blames his wife's ordeal on britain's refusal to pay a 530000000 dollar debt to iran over the castle sale of chieftain tanks which were not delivered after the 1979 islamic revolution the u.k. government says it may break international law in an attempt to change the brakes of the old 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 more. than 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 already even before british government minister confirms that the u.k. now intends to break its not the law relating parts of the divorce agreement with the european union had already signed up to. i would say to my friend yes these guys great international law in a very specific and limited why we're 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 islands 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 a narcotic as 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 london. south come here on al-jazeera the u.k. shuts down pubs in the town of bolton due to a surge in corona virus cases and limit social gatherings to 6 people across the country. and helicopter as rescue residents trapped by wildfires in california 2000 blazes are now burning uncontained across the state. you know they're a fairly crowded picture across much of southern australia can see this long line of clouds here i want to shout generally only leaving and all of that front as you can see through wednesday the continue to carry away through new south wales so

a down day in sydney with just 19 degrees and really beginning to push into the south island of new zealand not just rain those snow to the mountains and then it's the day in between across the west the showers are pushing in certainly by thursday the temperature coming down again so quite a cloudy day but there is a fairly fast moving and ahead of this front once again is warming up across the southeast so adelaide for the next few days it will warm up then the front will come through bringing their and then temperatures dipping back down to just below the average for this time of year as for sydney it is fairly cool with those showers they will begin to clear and that's when it warm up sunny tools to the end of the coming weekend then we had the tools asia and here of course it's about this system to the north this is the remnants of what was typhoon haiyan now this will sit here for the next couple of days it'll be some very heavy amounts of rain it could once again lead to some localized flooding and again the rains very quite heavy through much of the korean peninsula and particularly across much of japan most of china across the east is fine and dry but it's a bit of a piece

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temporal reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera new details are emerging about how a prominent opposition leader was of reportedly stach from the street in minsk it's believed are known men tried to force maria. across the border into ukraine protests have been held demanding her release 2 soldiers from myanmar may have provided the evidence needed to bring a case to the international criminal court human rights group and fortify rights says it has seen taped confessions from them admitting to massacres and rapes of the ring. and the u.k. government says it may break international law in an attempt to change the brakes of deal relating to northern ireland the head of the u.k. government's legal department has quit in response and the pound has fallen sharp. saying in the u.k. the surge of corona virus infections there is causing major concern to the

government prime minister boris johnson has just announced 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 a nighttime curfew is being imposed to shut bars and restaurants after new figures showed the cases 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 $120.00 per 100008 new fall lock down 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 them 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 barrier. 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. pub doorman anthony walsh is

on the frontline he says every night is a struggle they don't care less so they go where the mosque is the refuse to a mosque i've done i have a few places that go soon there's no socialism or so i was a ridiculous absolute discoursed and some do observe the warnings most college students in the town center where wearing masks but i know plenty who don't. i 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 a physically fave you got it you got it. there's not going by the people it's all of just a bit skew it for the rules because they don't really know what's what's actually going on because they're not really informed well it's not much you can do about it . 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 children. is 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. al-jazeera bolton. trials for one of the leading coronavirus vaccine hopes has reportedly being put on hold i suspect that adverse reaction from a trial participant has led to the suspension of the astra zeneca and university of oxford trial the news was reported by online site stat news it quotes a spokesperson from. us saying the standard review process triggered a pool subjects in ation to allow review of safety data it's not yet clear who placed a hold on the trial. well astra zeneca is one of 9 companies which have pledged not

to rush us government approval for corona virus vaccine the companies say the drugs will not be submitted for approval until they're proved to be safe during clinical trials the c.e.o.'s promise follows suggestions from u.s. president donald trump that a vaccine could be out as early as november right before election day. and staying with president standing a ban on offshore drilling along florida georgia and south carolina drilling is a 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 expand that 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. where u.s. think tank the brookings institution lists 74 actions of donald trump is taken to weaken environmental protection they include the promising to withdraw the u.s. from the paris agreement on climate change alone cannot officially leave until the day after the november presidential election killing off barack obama's clean power plan which required states to meet targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants intervening in the permit process for fossil fuel infrastructure including green lighting the keystone x.l. pipeline that will carry or oil sands crude oil from canada to the u.s. well earlier i spoke to michael mann a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at penn state university he said

translate his claims are contradicted by his environmental record. he's claiming that he's going to support a restoration policies in the everglades that will supposedly prevent the red tides will those red tides are occurring down in florida because a 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 infect his policies which have been. his is in mr a sion 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 helicopters of rescuing people stranded by huge wildfires in the u.s. state of california the latest rescues followed the dramatic weekend they are left

of more than 200 people the country's national guard says helicopters pulled 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's spokesman says it's alarming how early the wildfire season began this year jennifer of your client that is in a susan california she explains what to expect in the coming days. 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're 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

at least $110.00 people have died from the severe flooding in sudan the government declared a state of emergency days ago after the nile river reached on precedented levels and flooded several areas hundreds of thousands have been displaced and there's more good reports now from khartoum they're desperate for help. this is how and if i had to abdurrahman 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 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 want to come and help us with what's happening we decided to act on our own and bring sandbags but we found the water coming in from all

directions as much of a heads neighborhood in the southern part of sudan's capital hudson 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 to assist 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. 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 banal is slowly starting to recede but hundreds of thousands of people are now desperate for shelter and 8 b.c. they hope the government will soon get them out of this crisis people morgan on to

their own hot zone well 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 basket more away a bason 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 capital at nori to bury the 7 to 10 meters beneath pyramids had been affected by the rainy season. zimbabwe's government has banned the mining in the game reserves after 2 chinese companies were accused of exploring for coal in the biggest national park who engage in national park in western zimbabwe is home to one of africa's biggest population of elephants along with large prides of lions and herds of buffalo and anti poaching team checking on

endangered dry nose reportedly found chinese workers hunting for coal samples they were arrested but later returned with permits for exploratory drilling on monday lawyers launched an urgent application in the high court to sought exploratory drilling in the pike. and now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera new details are emerging about how a prominent belive hussein opposition leader was reportedly snatched from the street in minsk it's believed unknown men tried to force maria calista the score of a across the border into ukraine protests have been held demanding her release. un human rights chief michel bashir lay is urging moscow to investigate the

poisoning of a russian opposition leader alexina the german experts say that he was poisoned with a nerve agent chalk although russia disputes this russian they says it's not acceptable for russia to deny the need for a thorough transparent investigation into what she describes as an assassination attempt. in light of the assertion by german specialists that they have quote unequivocal proof that not only was poisoned with an overtrick nerd nerve agent 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 for soil over the past 2 decades is profoundly disturbing. 2 soldiers from myanmar 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 or hangup human rights group 45 rights says it has seen taped confessions from them admitting to massacres and rapes the rights group says they've also named other soldiers and senior commanders involved in the crimes. 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 . that say women make science is next with an episode called from the lab to the field more news from though and half an hour of c.n.n. thanks for watching by. building.

was the promise made in the bid for the white house 0 tolerance approach the southern border became government policy detaining children and separating families the stark reality. picture too much to bear for many americans in a country that was built on immigration. follow the key issues of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera. but when i was working in oxford which probably tens of my create was really a pinnacle moments my mother was very proud and just like but you know. what

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