wind and solar is it that's going to solve the problem. to bring the moon documentaries. afghanistan's vice presidents survives an assassination attempt in the capital kabul 2 others die. in the attack on his convoy. hello i'm down in jordan is the al-jazeera live from doha also coming up put on hold astra zeneca pauses its corona virus vaccine trials after a participant falls ill. and overcrowded migrant camp is partly evacuated on the greek island of lesbos after several fires were reportedly started deliberately. and police leaders in the u.s.

city of rochester stepped down amid protests over the death of a black man. we begin with breaking news out of the afghan capital kabul the vice president has survived what appears to have been an assassination attempt a spokesman for a miller salis says he's unharmed 2 other people were killed when solace convoy was attacked let's get more details on this now speak to nazirite he's a journalist in kabul now so what more can you tell us about this attack on the vice president's convoy. yes an explosion trying to convert the office of vice. kabul is a spokesman says mr zolli has survived the bombing but this man has been warned it and mean it's your problem is that. these 2 people and want it more than a dozen and thoughtless of that that woman and children want it exposing them to do

more and that but by then it was going to his or it's. not see here and who could have been behind this attack can is anyone likely to claim responsibility so far no militant who has members on stability is on bang on turn to taliban and they are and governmental been talking peace and it is still not managed to stop peace talks so long at some video clip sponsibility or desponding yeah and this isn't the 1st time that has survived an assassination attempt why has he become such a target do you think well 1st of all vice president was far more head of india's intelligence agency and he also was held by last year are which way are his office was targeted by a military more than a dozen people who were killed or wanted in battle armed gunmen it's c.e.o.

well at least here is that 2 people have been killed and milled in a dozen on it on normal isn't going to personal problems sponsibility or that. at nasa you mentioned the peace process a little earlier we know that a taliban delegation recently returned to doha for more talks as part of that u.s. taliban peace deal how is this latest attack on the vice president's life likely to affect those talks do you think. well there live 1st there are lots of the marked up that number a while back that he said is that they are not going to deal on the i'll bet you but they will definitely stock the stock but they will never make deals on the other value and will not compromise on very important thank you but don't. say anything about it but it pops out it. coming day. i do it up now in minutes. piece it is that the

delegation will not stop because of their telephones but at that moment it is not so seldom down. and down national security on top so that they are not holding any element. in our apartment they live they have been given by the taliban no moden. 'd palawan prisoner of war really dangerous and i were there they were chance start yesterday it would blow up on top of. it but we'll all making excuses and disregard ok naseer again thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you nasser. thank 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 need further investigation the

pharmaceutical giant is working with oxford university to develop the vaccine late stage testing got underway last week thousands are taking part in the u.k. u.s. brazil and south africa it's hoped 3000000000 doses can be distributed globally but julie fisher is from georgetown medical university she explained why the 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 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's c.e.o. is 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. the largest migrants and refugee camp in greece has been partly vacuity because of several strong winds fanned the flames at the camp on the island of lesbos reports say some of the blazes were started deliberately to protest newly imposed coronavirus restrictions the facility was placed on a quarantine last week after the 1st case was found infections have since risen to $35.00 but douglas herman is the co-founder of refocused media labs that's an organization that works with citizen journalist inside maria camp he says the increased restrictions led to riots on 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 where 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 of those cases where it's symptomatic and they were just basically quarantining 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 and sued the images and the photos and the stories that are coming back from our students are about 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 staff it follows day is a 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 mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. . protests underway for the 7th consecutive day in new york state's 3rd largest

city they began last wednesday following the release of the body comforted just daniel prudes arrest by police. police a prude told them he had corona virus and started spitting at that stage they put what is called a bag 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 daniel 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 i 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 commercial wisconsin on the 23rd of last month the 29 year old african american was shot in the back several times during a wrist 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 'd 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 proved in rochester as yet another tragic confirmation of independence statistics that black americans are as much as 10 times more likely to be shot by police than white ones mike hanna washington. the u.s. justice department to 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 jean carroll. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back. foreign ministers meeting gets under way with trade and military talks on the agenda plus displaced and desperate

for help hundreds of thousands of people. in sudan or in the stay with us. hello there is a fairly quiet picture across much of the middle east you see want to further to the north in fact quite a bit of cloud as the working 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 that on the rise so $47.00 in baghdad and q.a. so on wednesday the winds 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 and all while 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 but they do tend to develop on thursday so want to 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. this is one of them both are sounding there's no logic revolutions in all of this make our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars are made mitchum in motion they need to be

mined sure people are just talking about the soldiers if that's going to solve. the world of business and commerce driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy an illusion the dark side of green energy. on al-jazeera. more. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories a on al-jazeera afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears to have been an assassination attempt a spokesman for i'm going to solace says he's on the hot and 2 other people were killed when saddam's convoy was bombed. one of the world's most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold up by participant fell ill astra zeneca says the

patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation. and the largest migrant and refugee camp in greece has been partly vacuity because of several fires reports say some of the blazes will start to deliberately to protest newly imposed coronavirus dysfunctions. now a prominent better russian opposition politician has ripped up her passport and jumped out of a car to prevent being thrown out of the country allies of maria callas nick over 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 what it's like over has played a key role in organizing mass protests against the president alexander lukashenko she has insisted she will not leave belarus voluntarily talking to russian media president look claimed kolesnikov was fully. used just as the border has been under increased security measures so we added an extra station actually they were stopped there to restart choosier thrown out from the car in

motion a sign is i mean 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 feud a high on the agenda for diplomatic talks in southeast asia in 10 nation the us is holding a delayed summit with foreign ministers meeting virtually due to the outbreak scott highlight has more now from bangkok. the end 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 and 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 austria 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 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 flash points 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 why. 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 and scott joins us live now from bangkok scott so a new virtual format this year because of code 19 so what are the main issues the leaders hope to tackle. yeah and they just got under way in the last couple of hours again vietnam is the host for this year's foreign ministers meeting all the meetings this year and it got underway virtually as you said and it will take place over the next 4 days as a series of summits kind of internal meetings then also accidental meetings as

we're hearing in that piece you know china the united states is here japan is also here other regional players will take part in this because this is a vital important trade area for the rest of the world for global trade so that's why you've got these other entities here but also there are regional issues now to discuss this further let's bring in 15 on punxsutawney dot who is with 2 a long corner university here in bangkok now you and i did not have talked about the on and off the on related issues for the last several years now when we look at what's happening now this is unprecedented $1000.00 so let's start regionally what other nations here are going to be talking about during these next 4 days when it comes to dealing with covert thinking and how they interact with each other but a pandemic has been so devastating it's been so wide ranging for the reasons i think no no country can escape from the there was a fact of the virus for us in southeast asia you know there's a good records man last of the station 2 recently in mine it's now a sea in spite. indonesia philippines seeing persistence of the virus infections

keeping keeping steady but this means that we will not see a revival of economic activity within the region any time soon i think they're still coming to terms with the 19th and i think the countries here around here awaiting for some kind of vaccines so we're moving from the pandemic from the virus now to the vaccine development and the race for the vaccines and that's when i think when we have a vaccine the region will normalize a little bit with maybe some economic activity some travel and tourism but so far it's been devastating like all the other regions in the world so we're not going to be able to see any probably not see any announcements about travel bubbles or maybe increased trade because that is so vitally important yes thailand is a good example of how much of a reliance the. to me here is on tourism but also other nations in southeast asia so that's crippling when you look at any possible we're covering. long long term damage i mean that thing was what we're seeing is going to maybe even reshaped the growth models of these countries i mean time has been dependent on tourism 18

percent of g.d.p. it's been decimated you know very empty restaurants and hotels and so on so i think after the 19th a lot of rethinking will be done about how the economies grow how much they rely on exports and tourism and so on and so on overall i think we also have to see how the the beyond the regions you know other countries developed countries other markets develop and recover from from the pandemic and that's a good spring point to talk about that the big influencers in the region that's the united states and china they have been here for decades but what we've been seeing over the last several months between those 2 nations the tension has really increased and that clearly has not been on the facts when you look at the alliances and you look at the geo political relationships with as a bloc but then the independent nations of us in the 10 independent nations what do you see is it you know we talked about this today on in the past you know nations have to pick a side but i'm hearing more and more no they don't but still when you have these 2 very vitally important economies interacting with r.c.

on it's going to be difficult you can see scott that even before and before the pandemic deriving competition between the u.s. and china and trade war and so on where intensifying already recovered 19 you know there is an opportunity for china us to cooperate collaborate to work on the virus huddling together but we haven't seen that we see competition rivalry. and i think they've been forced to choose sides you can see the u.s. is upping its game in the mainland. u.s. partnership that will be announced in the coming hours and then the u.s. is upping its game in the south china sea it's a u.s. election year i think that there's been some distraction domestic wallace domestic problems too international. facing up to. china for china itself also domestic reasons it cannot stand down they cannot budge so we're seeing this rivalry between the 2 superpowers intensifying escalating at a time when arsene it's needed to provide a forum for strategic dialogue this is

a set back year i'm afraid to say because you know normally asin thrives on personal meetings informal meetings on the sidelines and so on this is the time when we need those kinds of meetings to cool down and bring down the temperature between the u.s. and china we're not seeing that online and virtual in addition the u.s. election year this plays into it if tom loses so he wins you know for southeast asian countries the us and overall i mean we would be hesitant and reluctant to rely too much on the u.s. because we don't know what will happen after november it's you know as always thank you very much so then obviously you know a lot of regional issues but it's not just brought up a great point you know we're just you know a couple of weeks months before the u.s. elections so we've been seeing this increased pushback on china's moves by the united states but interesting to see if the secretary of state of the united states participating in these meetings in these discussions will use this as a forum for further pushback there or i just got there live for us in the thai capital bangkok scott thank you at least 110 people have now died from severe flooding in so down 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 us even more when reports from khartoum they're desperate for help. this is how and if i had to abdurrahman arrives 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 they have slowed down in the senate in ways 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 want to come and help us with what's happening we decided to act on our own lives and bring fan back but 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 leveled 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 their bad guys are ready 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 one. plans were put in place to respond to this year's floods the levels exceeded expectations. than anywhere 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 that is slowly starting to recede but hundreds of thousands of people are now desperate for shelter and aid they say they hope the government will soon get them out of this crisis people more going on as they were hurt its own. fires continue to rage across california which the governor says of been spurred by climate change dozens of people had to be airlifted to safety on tuesday after more than 200 are rescued over the weekend but

or again simply as 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 has been safe and this is at least 2 more months of this to come we are experiencing an unprecedented confluence of issues this year that we did not experience last year unprecedented record temperatures a heat 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 firefighters 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 5. 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 victoria gating

be al jazeera. now the oscars has set a new diversity standard for their best picture award starting in 2024 films must meet at least 2 of 4 new categories in order to be nominated it's meant to promote representation on screen among the crew in the studio and in the field of interned ships in recent years there's been criticism over a lack of diversity among nominees it's. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears that been an assassination attempt a spokesman for says he's on heart and 2 other people were killed when solace convoy was bombed journalists naseer told us more 1st the vice president was farmar head of india's intelligence agency and he also.

you know. your way out of this was by military more than a dozen people who were killed or wanted in but aren't. you know. that 2 people have been killed and milled in a dozen only it on normal isn't going to. want to look for that one but 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 need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with oxford university to develop the vaccine late stage testing got underway last week the largest migrant and refugee camp in greece has been partly vacuity because of several fires. reports say some of the places that they can be on the island of less boss were started deliberately to protest newly imposed coronavirus restrictions the facility was placed on a quarantine last week after the 1st case was reported. a prominent belorussian

opposition politician has ripped up her passport and jumped out of a car lot to prevent being thrown out of the country allies of maria kolesnik over 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. the coronavirus pandemic in the south china sea high on the agenda for diplomatic talks in southeast asia the 10 nation bloc is holding a delayed summit with foreign ministers meeting virtually due to the outbreak. continue to rage across california which the governor says have been spurred by climate change dozens of people had to be airlifted to safety on tuesday after more than 200 are rescued over the weekend so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post states have done so much in life and. times the prime minister right where you can ask these days it's hard to filter out the newly seen keep track of what's really important the bottom line

tackles the big issues this issue. its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only. it is hard to comprehend how something like this could happen. how in 1904 cords of hutu militias would roam the streets and countryside of wonder looking for to seize to kill. it is difficult to comprehend why they would turn on their neighbors their friends and in some cases members of their own family. it was a killing spree that lasted $100.00 days and came to aid.