transmission is the promise of clean energy an illusion the dark side of green energy. on al-jazeera. put on hold astra zeneca pauses its corona virus vaccine trials after a participant falls ill. in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming off an overcrowded migrant campus partly vacuum on the greek island of les books after several fires were reportedly started deliberately. police leaders in the u.s. city of rochester stepped down amid protest over the death of a black man. and counting the cost 6 months on from the 1st coronavirus case in peru the country has more deaths per capita almost any other nation.

one of the world's most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold after a participant fell ill astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained this which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with oxford university to develop the vaccine late stage testing got underway last week thousands of taking part in the u.k. u.s. brazil and south africa it's hoped 3000000000 doses can be distributed globally but judy fisher is from georgetown medical university and she explained why these steps have been taken. at this point a group of external experts will be consulted and it's a normal part of the process they'll be called in to see if any adverse events that were reported and were serious are likely to be due to the vaccine or to be

unrelated and their advice will help decide whether or not the vaccine trial continues we are all familiar with my old versa vents that can happen after vaccination like fever or pain at the side of the injection to put a pause it has to the the event would be serious something that was perhaps related to. the heart the lungs the kid is another system in the body. that was really required medical attention and that was found to be serious enough to merit causing this very important effort to test this vaccine in order to make sure that the vaccine is safe and that the adverse events were not due to the vaccine itself there is a set of expectations to test the safety of any vaccine that will be given to 2 people and that that is that would be tested in a small group of volunteers to make sure that it is safe and has a reasonable chance of being effective before even going into larger groups of

volunteers much less the public without that kind of testing we just don't know for sure if the vaccine will protect people from infection i think we would like to see one as quickly as possible all of us but i think it's reasonable to assume that it would be at the very earliest the end of 2020 and more likely 2021. well astra zeneca is one of 9 drug companies that have pledged not to rush approval for vaccines until they're proved to be safe the joint statement from the company of see those comes as u.s. president donald trump continues to suggest that a vaccine could be out as early as november be right before election day but i white house correspondent kimberly holcomb explains how the development of a vaccine is being politicized 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 success 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 coronavirus 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 largest migrant and refugee camp in greece has been partly vacuum rated because of several fires strong winds fanned the flames at the morea camp on the island of les boss reports say some of the blazes were started deliberately to protest newly imposed coronavirus restrictions the facility was placed under quarantine last week after the 1st case was found infections of since risen to $35.00 for douglas herman is the co-founder of refocused media labs an organization that works with citizen journalists inside maria cam he says the increased restrictions led to riots and the fires being started. at the current moment there are several fires that are kind of all over the camp. yes corona has been identified in this camp in recent days and the number of confirmed cases have been rising many of the asymptomatic people have been put into

a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier this evening was attacked by individuals who seemingly do not believe that corona is actually in the camp and that it is being seen as a reason to continue a 6 month lockdown in the camp some attacks on some vehicles to move people out of the camp or to move them around ensued and some of the people that were in this current team area were fleeing from that violence and in the process of that several fires were set on the perimeter and then now those fires have been set inside the camp also office for the asylum seeking process takes place is on fire our students living quarters are on fire. numerous people have been evacuated from the area of their own accord or are now by authorities the space that was created for quarantine was for anyone who had recently tested or had been potentially connected to anyone who had tested positive all those cases where it's symptomatic and they were just basically quarantine them off to the side for 14 days so once

you know once night falls it's kind of not necessarily you know aggressively policed and in this area some individuals gathered and started arresting some of the people that were inside and some sort of violence ensued the images and the photos and the stories that are coming back from our students are that you know this violence has just kind of turned into kind of a full scale riot. the police chief of rochester in the state of new york has stepped down along with his senior stuff from his days of public outrage over the city's handling of daniel prudes death by suffocation protests broke out after his family released a video of the incident last week some viewers may find the footage disturbing my kind of reports now from washington d.c. . protests underway for the 7th consecutive day in new york state's the largest city they began last wednesday following the release of the body can't put it down you'll prudes the west by police. police say prude told them he had coronavirus and

started spitting at that stage they put what is called a split over his head who died a week later and the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. now amidst the ongoing protests the rochester police chief has resigned claiming in a written statement that there had been what he called a mischaracterization and politicize ation of his actions following down or prudes death and the early retirement confirmed by the city's mayor while the timing in tenor of these resignations is difficult we have faced tough times before i choose even leave now we will get through this and will be meeting with city council to chart a path forward i can assure this community i am committed to instituting the reforms necessary in our police department and know that there are many questions

but this just occurred and honestly i do not have the eastern today this is just the latest wave of protests following police action against african american individuals they were nationwide demonstrations following the killing of george floyd in may this year the 46 year old died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than 7 minutes. then a fresh round of protests following the shooting of jacob break in can osho wisconsin on the 23rd of last month the 29 year old african american was shot in the back several times during a rest in full view of his children sitting in his car blake is paralyzed from the waist down. the u.s. attorney general recently denied there was systematic racism within the police making the claim that in his words it is very rare for an unarmed african american to be shot by a white police officer the millions that throughout much of this year have

protested the police killings of african americans would disagree pointing at the death of daniel pearl in rochester as yet another tragic confirmation of independent statistics that black americans are as much as 10 times more likely to be shot by police 'd than white ones mike hanna washington. the u.s. justice department is seeking to take over donald trump's defense in a case brought by a woman who's accused him of rape the unusual move means government lawyers would defend trump and make american taxpayers responsible for any damages awarded the defamation suit was filed by the columnist e.j. and carol her lawyers have requested a d.n.a. sample from trump to determine whether it matches the genetic material from the alleged rape. fires continue to rage across california which the governor says have been spurred by climate change dozens of people had to be lifted to safety on tuesday after more than 200 are rescued on the weekend it or again to be has the

story. fueled by record temperatures strong winds and dry conditions wildfires are once again sweeping across america's most populous state the fire season is only just beginning here but already california has set a record with more than $9000.00 square kilometers burned safe and this at least 2 more months of this to come we are experiencing unprecedented confluence of issues this year that we did not experience last year unprecedented record temperatures a heap dome that impacted the entire west coast of the united states not just a few states the west coast we are dealing with the reality of some 14000 lightning strikes over 72 hour period trust me that did not occur last year that had previously occurred in the late 1980 s. . in fresno county dozens of people were lifted to safety after becoming stranded

by wildfires burning through the sierra national forest that's after more than 200 people were rescued over the weekend so so far the creek incident has burned 143929 acres the containment remains at 0 percent which is have over a 1000 vajra fighters working on the incident right now with more en route and more resources being ordered to come help out with this incident with just over 5000 structures still threatened right now. the impact stretches far beyond evacuation zones that california's pacific gas and electric utility company cutting power to more than 170000 homes and businesses to minimize the risk of power lines sparking additional fires and it promises to be a tough week for thousands of firefighters the rough terrain high winds and low humidity all hampering their efforts to stop the flames spreading the turei gates

and be algis their. i mean on the u.s. state of colorado temperatures took an extreme turn after several days of scorching heat and wildfires a snowstorm hit the region just 24 hours earlier the temperature was around 30 degrees celsius forecasters say it's because of a powerful surge of cold air from canada that came with damaging winds the sudden freeze has been welcome by crews battling those wildfires in the state. brings a breaking news now here from afghanistan where the vice president saleh has survived an assassination attempt his convoy was attacked in the capital kabul when 2 people were killed the vice president is bring him on that as we get it here at al-jazeera time for a short break when we come back displaced and desperate for help hundreds of thousands of people are hit by flooding in so that. we know why the northern english town of bolton has the highest case rate of coronavirus in the country.

hello there is a fairly quiet picture across much of the middle east you see want to further to the north in fact what about a cloud of the work its way eastwards away from the black sea tools the caspian sea side still want to see shows to clear northern areas of turkey as we continue on through wednesday hopefully not particularly heavy and then we've got areas of cloud developing across the central and western areas of side of it again is about the temperatures there on the rise so $47.00 in baghdad and q ace on wednesday the wind is a fairly light in fact how much is a fairly low down into doha 37 degrees the feeling quite humid the winds are very light and again on thursday if you were there showers back into the fall south and west of yemen or while so much is remaining above average in jerusalem 35 for the next couple of days the average is about 28 celsius this time of year central

africa plenty of activity has some heavy thunderstorms across developing but particularly around the gulf of guinea working their way across west africa it's mostly clear across much of southern africa south africa again in between the friends that they do tend to develop on thursday so want to these coastal areas and in fact showers really spread all the way through the on along towards coastal areas of tanzania and up towards somalia as the temperatures in cape town it's very warm sucking on friday very light winds and high of $24.00 celsius. a passion for supporting local communities. and pioneering innovative african science and technology projects his child beautiful how glorious are all of us on this planet not just africa al-jazeera one is a leading by a chemist determined to use his scientific knowledge to say africa women make

science from the lab to the field on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick recap of our top stories here on al-jazeera one of the world's most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold after a participant fell ill astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which needs further investigation. the largest migrant and refugee camp in greece has been park evacuated because of several fires reports say some of the fires that maria come on let's cross will start to deliberate to protest newly imposed coronavirus restrictions. and some breaking

news from afghanistan's capital where the vice president has survived an assassination attempt a spokesman for the vice president. says he's on the hearth and smoke was seen rising over the city skyline. prominent belorussian opposition politician has ripped up a passport and jumped out of a car to prevent being thrown out of the country allies of maria collison a kobo say she was forcibly taken to the border with ukraine after being snatched from the street in the capital minsk she's now in detention but i sneak over has played a key role in organizing mass protests against the president alexander lukashenko she has insisted she will not leave voluntarily talking to russian media president look at a claim kolesnik over was fleeing to ukraine. just dislike each of the of the border has been under increased security measures so we added an extra station actually they were stopped there they raced off she was either thrown out from the

car in motion simas and they threw her yes there were 3 of them who else could throw over our border services officers of course detained her they followed the rules and centered to the border services unit the others went across the border by the ukrainian post. now the coronavirus pandemic on the south china sea feet high on the agenda for diplomatic talks in southeast asia the 10 mentioned bloc is holding a delayed summit with foreign ministers meeting virtually due to the outbreak scott reports now from bangkok. the end you will see on meetings are viewed as an opportunity for the host country this year vietnam to showcase its culture progress and position but not only have 2020 meetings in summits switched to virtual gatherings their traditions and the usual focus on the big regional issues this year are taking a backseat because of covert 19 but even more than the pandemic itself it's the dire economic downturn the region is preparing for i think that this is foremost in

the minds of foreign ministers and i think they'll be looking for creative and practical ways of trying to. quickly recover in 2021 they may also be talking about opportunities for allowing tourism or travel bubbles or other things like this have been discussed primarily bilaterally between governments in the past while the 10 countries of austrian look to work together to help restart their economies superpowers china and the united states continue to ratchet up their rhetoric and posture in the region tension between china and the u.s. in the south china sea has surged both in moving military assets into the areas of disputed territory but also in diplomatic action sanctions and threats with the need for both nations to be involved in the region for economic and security reasons. they look to avoid flashpoint. countries in this region they look at hong kong right and they see a very sort of concerning trend where if you play into one of the you know

superpower arguments if you become sort of an object of superpower competition it tends to go very badly for you and i think countries in the region are are watching that example very carefully so while the foreign ministers look to make progress and working better as a region along with powerful outsiders they'll be focused on plotting a path for their collective 650000000 people who face years of post pandemic economic recovery it's got harder al-jazeera bankers zimbabwe's government has banned mining in all national parks that's after 2 chinese companies were accused of exploring for coal in a park which is home to around $45000.00 elephants lawyers filed an application saying the mining is a breach of conservation duty. at least 110 people have now died from severe flooding in sedan the nile river has reached unprecedented levels the government's declared a 3 month state of emergency hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced

and as heber morgan reports now from the capital khartoum that desperate for help. this is how never had a man arrived to the door steps of her home these days she comes to see if the water which flooded 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 ever slide down in the senate in a way that we were surprised this year when the waters entered our neighborhood and 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 floods 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 one. 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 there is slowly starting to recede but hundreds of thousands of people are now desperate for shelter and aid they see they hope the government will soon get them out of this crisis people morgan are just they are hot zone for saddam isn't the only country in africa suffering record rainfall and floods areas around senegal's capital dhaka are under water after several days of rain the water ministry says saturday's downpour exceeded what would usually be expected in 3 months of a rainy season president lucky sal's administration has been criticized for its

handling of the floods even after an emergency aid plan was announced. a surge in corona virus infections in england has prompted the prime minister introduced new restrictions and i'm glad to meet socially has dropped from 30 to just 6 and there are stronger localised measures in the town of bolton which has the highest case rate in the country is paul brennan. 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 are 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 don't wear the mosty if used to amass i've done i have a few places that go soon there's no social disease and more so i was a ridiculous absolute disgusting some do observe the want 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 favor you got it you got it. there's not going back to the people it's all just a bit skewed for the rules because they don't really know life what's what's actually going on because they're not really informed or 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 the family grandchildren come to you how they say it they were going to rush down because no one could say no to that blacks jews that 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. now at least $30000.00 people have now died from the corona virus in peru that's one of the highest death rates per head of population in the world there's concern that the number of fatalities could be significantly higher than official figures suggest trees about. it's been 6 months since the 1st $1000.00 case was confirmed in peril. and even though the country imposed a strict lockdown early on it's now registered more deaths per capita from the virus than almost any other nation many here are using patients.

people think that this virus is a joke this is something they don't believe they think it's a smokescreen i have family members who have died because of covert so this is not a game this is real and people take it as a game they even have parties and meetings without wearing face masks. so far over 600000 people have been infected by corona virus on tuesday the country reported over 30000 deaths. a country of 33000000 people with high poverty rates and a health care system that has been chronically underfunded leaving it unable to cope with the demands of 19. over $150.00 doctors have died in the past month health care workers say they feel completely abandoned by the government. we have always been concerned about the health of our colleagues and with our own funds we manage to move them from different regions to lima we have moved about 100 doctors to save their lives in this case we do not see any major interest on the

part of the government and we feel abandoned the same goes for the medicines in the i.c.u. use they are no medicines. they do impose a log down early in march but attempts to restart the economy cost further spikes of the virus. peru's economy is largely informal and social distancing is difficult in its overcrowded markets and populated slums. in recent weeks police officers have been breaking up gatherings in bars and at community events making arrests as they take a stricter approach to police inquiry in 1000 rules. no matter short does not kill alone let's not been excessively who have excess series those organizing family parties organizing community gatherings organizing sports events with no measures in place. even though they will seem to do everything right to fight the spread of covert 19 it has not worked as planned like many other latin american countries

peru was already struggling when the pandemic struck making it all the more difficult to save lives. venezuelans are struggling with more fuel shortages despite having the world's biggest oil reserves it's believed 3 iranian tankers could be trying to deliver petrol after turning their tracking devices off for more than a week washington's been trying to block tehran shipments to venezuela. time for a quick check of the top stories here this hour afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears to have been an assassination attempt in kabul a spokesman for says he's unharmed 2 other people were killed in the explosion attacking solace convoy a former spy chief has escaped other attempts on his life. one of the world's most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold after a participant fell ill astra zeneca says a patient has

a potentially unexplained illness which will lead to further investigation julie officials from georgetown medical university she explained why the steps have been taken. expectations to test the safety of any vaccine that will be given to 2 people and that that is that would be tested in a small group of volunteers to make sure that it is safe and has a reasonable chance of being affected before even going into larger groups of volunteers much less the public without that kind of testing we just don't know for sure if the vaccine will protect people from infection i think we would like to see one as quickly as possible all of us but i think it's reasonable to assume that it would be at the very earliest the end of 2020 and more likely 2021 the largest migrant and refugee camp in greece has been partly vacuity because of several fires strong winds found the flames of the maria camp on the island of les

boss reports say some of the blazes were started deliberately to protest newly imposed coronavirus restrictions the facility was placed under quarantine last week . the police chief and other senior officers in new york state rochester city have announced they're stepping down as criticism grows ever the department's handling of the arrest and subsequent death of a black man daniel prove on the u.s. justice department is seeking to take over donald trump's defense in a case brought by a woman who's accused him of rape the unusual move means government lawyers would defend drum and make american taxpayers responsible for any damages awarded the defamation suit was filed by the columnist jean carroll. so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream of time so what. talk to old is there are we earth is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air

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