lissett in the human rights abuses that are occurring an australian investigation into china systematic repression of the weakness. on al-jazeera. ending the border standoff india and china agreed to ease months of tensions along a disputed boundary. blown down jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up protesters attack a police station in columbus demonstrations continue at the death of a man in custody. ordered to leave half a 1000000 people forced from their homes in the u.s. state of oregon as wildfires continue to burn along the west coast. and at risk of

being submerged teams battle to protect an ancient archaeological site from floods in sudan. india and china have reached an agreement on deescalating tensions along that disputed border really 3 months after the biggest military confrontation between the 2 sides in the last 45 years foreign ministers from both countries have been holding talks in moscow the 5 point plan is centered around honoring existing border agreements 20 indian troops were killed in hand to hand combat in june in the border area of the northern which china also claims both sides are prohibited from using arms under a treaty well let's bring in schmidt ganguli he's a professor of political science at indiana university in bloomington. we've seen a number of serious clashes recently along the line of control between both sides

how significant is this deal and how much pressure was there on both india and china to deescalate tensions. well i think this deal is significant but on the other hand i am still cautious because if you do let's we'll wait and see what transpires in the next few weeks and months. that will be the crucial test and yes i think both sides had can considerable reasons to deescalate in the indian case the indian economy has cratered in the wake of the covert 19 crisis and the shambolic handling their art and consequently india can ill afford to devote significant resources to the military at this particular juncture on the chinese side i think the chinese

did not want this to become a major distraction as their economy is finally recovering and they are focused on the november elections in the united states extraordinary keen on seeing what the outcome is and both sides schmidt's have talked about confidence building measures to cement peace across the border one of these measures like it to be especially in terms of military assets along the line of control. they would probably involve withdrawing troops from eyeball to eyeball contact with one another they would probably involve reducing certain kinds of actual deployments of artillery and other weaponry along a particular band of territory beery are the meetings between commanders between

local commanders these are the kinds of confidence building measures that are extremely likely to follow in the wake of this 5 point agreement in terms of the bigger picture show me it so where does this deal now leave india china relations i mean many observers say indian prime minister narendra modi had made significant diplomatic and economic investments trying to win over china but that seemed to have failed with the border dispute so what happens now going forward in the foreseeable future where i think the relationship will is going to remain quite frosty india has taken a number of economic measures against the p.r.c. and more importantly just yesterday announced that it is going to limit the visas that it grants to nationals of the p.r.c. so the mood in the country is actually fairly hostile and this agreement while it

may lead to a deescalation or hostilities along the border it is not going to change the attitudes of popular attitude towards the p.r.c. any time soon from a gun go to good to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera my pleasure thank you. now colombia's capital bogota has seen another night of violent protests with demonstrators attacking police stations with molotov cocktails on wednesday 9 people were killed and hundreds injured during rallies against the death of a man in police custody that anger was driven by a video showing 43 year old neuer haue the or don't as being repeatedly shot by officers with a taser gun he died soon after a sunroom pitch he is in bogota with more. thousands of people are out on the streets for a 2nd night here in the capital as you can see behind me we are in front of one

of the many neighborhoods police stations in. and many of them were burned to the ground last night the protesters have been hurling rocks at the police at this station throwing molotov cocktails at this police station to try and light it on fire this is just one of the 15 different demonstrations that have been called for this 2nd night of approach and riots that were sparked by the killing on part of the police about 43 year old a lawyer that was out on the streets drinking with some friends in violation of coronavirus restrictions this situation is quite tense here. it could get quite more animated any moment now. and if we're going to have to see us tonight that will be as violent as last night i just to remind you 9 people were killed last night. with gunfire

another 66 people were injured by firearms what daniel garcia penya is a former high commissioner for peace in colombia he says tensions have been building by the police for many years. history of police brutality and. in fact of going back to my 1029. he's a university student was a low brow was killed by the police on june 8th and every year you needed a date that he didn't remember that act but for many years too late brutality was was overlooked was was tolerated with the armed conflict with the war on drugs but more recently the issue has come back to last year in november another student iran cruz was killed by by police he was protesting was killed by a beanbag and his death was set off protests and so we're seeing now is a combination of outrage for what happened with javier or the news last night but

a lot of anger against the colombian police is built in built up over the years police in colombia a highly militarized police force that their weapons are there in fact one of the few countries in the world in the markers is that the police is actually part of the of the defense ministry alongside the army the air force the the navy so there's a culture of the police that that leads to this but also has a lot to do with with with the way that the pandemic and the poverty and the inequality globe is one of those in unequal countries of the world all of these things have led to what we're seeing now on the streets of the border ammunition storage facility has exploded north of jordan's capital amman the country's minister for media affairs says unusable mortar bombs were being stored in the warehouse and electrical short circuits being blamed for triggering the explosion then there are reports of casualties. to the u.s.

now where half a 1000000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in oregon as wildfires continue to spread across the west coast 11 people have now been killed in several states particle has the latest feel. san francisco at dawn thursday in ominous sign of what the day would bring buyers chewing through hector after hector pushed by fast moving winds devouring the dry land in its path and destroying everything entire towns gone. horrible terrible absolutely terrible you don't know whether your home is going to be there when you get back we have animals that we couldn't bring with us there are countless hopefully we have place to live because of our stuff burns down that said i mean i'm on a fixed income millions told to be ready to flee some making the narrowest of escapes if there is there is fire 360 degrees around me among the

dead 2 found a car that didn't make it through the wall of flames in oregon and a one year old baby boy in washington state to put this in perspective in the last 3 days we have lost more acknowledged to 2 fires then any single entire year in the history of the state of washington except 2015 leaders are warning residents the death toll will surely climb there are almost $100.00 fires burning throughout the west the vast majority of them uncontained and growing the fires that are going on in the western united states right now are unprecedented even to our most senior leadership and senior most tenured people on instant management teams in this country we have not seen this before tens of millions of people impacted even those far away in los angeles the pollution level reached a high not seen in 26 years and by all indications all of it is just going to

continue to get worse in the coming days had it all hang out 0. floodwaters in sudan are starting to recede but water borne diseases remain a threat hundreds of thousands have been displaced as the river nile reached unprecedented levels even morgan reports now from the capital of. barely able to stand 13 year old mohamed salah seeks treatment at this health center in the south of the capital how to medics say he's suffering from a parasitic infection usually caused by lack of access to clean drinking water his mother tries to comfort him through his pain but she herself is barely able to hide her own discomfort. we've been living on the streets for more than a week a home is completely flooded and we didn't receive tents this father's also sick he's mentally unstable and i can give him his medication if he had a 10 i'd be able to take care of him there the clinic treating mohammad was set up

nearly 2 weeks ago to help patients affected by recent flooding in many villages and towns in khartoum many have fever diarrhea and stomach infections thinking that they will last longer i can read my daughter has been suffering from diarrhea for the past 3 days i myself am also sick and it feels like i'm coming down with an infection my voice is now weak it's all from the floods i'm living in the camps. floods hit sudan after the nile river which flows through the country rose to levels not seen in more than a century the surge in water was caused by heavy rains on the ethiopian highlands upstream more than 100 people were killed and dozens injured and at least half a 1000000 people were displaced as homes were damaged or destroyed by the water the government declared a 3 month state of emergency last week and while the rivers water has started to recede this week the number of those falling ill is increasing. so dan was facing

a health crisis even before the flood emergency pharmacies have been reporting shortages of medicines and many hospitals like adequate equipment since the floods began 3 weeks ago the number of cases of water borne diseases in areas affected have increased many families say they're struggling to cope with illnesses after having lost so much already aid organizations see the health consequences of the floods will be much worse in the coming days and that action needs to be taken now and. the biggest protest is the water it was a disaster when it flooded and will be a disaster when it recedes if not dealt with properly and if there are no strategies to fight contagious diseases will have a bigger catastrophe than what we see it will be stagnant yours which will result in more malaria cases have more diarrhea cases and more cases. sudan was already struggling to handle the coronavirus pandemic when the floods hit those in areas affected they're hoping proper measures will be taken to reduce the

health risks now that the floodwaters are receding so that no more lives are lost people more going on just their own hard to. an ancient archaeological site in sudan is at risk of being submerged teams have been working to prevent the ruins of the album from being damaged it was once a royal city of the 2 millennia old merrily take empire here includes the famous pyramids recognized as a us go world heritage site. break here now to 0 when we come back iranians are due to head to the polls shortly for a parliamentary runoff election which has been delayed since august because the pandemic plus. we'll hear from the protesters behind the weeklong occupation of mexico's national human rights commission or not stay with us.

for the. slight bit of news good news for the west side the u.s. is still hot was not heat wave is still breezy but it's not windy but there's no rain in sight really the rain that was there which actually brought some snow to the rockies is now a warm night again and it's throwing itself across the plain states of enhanced these showers running through south dakota and into the midwest they could be quite poky for a while leaving behind clear skies now these hot it's still 40 in phoenix but in san francisco in boise doesn't indication here comes on as high as they were prospectors some rain for washington but not until after the weekend the rain here further east could be potentially flash flood the again and into the atlantic states and there has recently been flooding further south to in cuba significant daily big showers and in the biz to become too much they could carry on the way to the bahamas and cuba possibly hispaniola we've got frequent fairly big showers it's

not time of the year the same is true but for the south honduras had flooding a few days ago by get some more of mexico's just full of showers most of south america so waiting for the race to come back through brazil but the further south you go the more light winter it still is it's hardly surprising that throughout the chilean andes there's more snow to come. in response to global warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry but is it happening fast enough we don't have any time to waste any more we can't wait so we're taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of culture may as climate change activists challenge communities reliant on the industry for jobs people in power asks who will win the cold war on al-jazeera their.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera india and china say they'll on the existing border agreements after months of increasing tensions in the himalayas in a joint statement they've also vowed not to escalate the situation and say it will carry out confidence building measures. protests against police brutality in colombia once again turned violent demonstrators throwing molotov cocktails at a police station has been building after the death of a man in custody in the capital bogota. half a 1000000 people have been told to leave their homes in the u.s. state of oregon is around 100 wildfires continue to rip through the west coast 11 people have now been killed in the several states affected. the c.e.o.

and 2 other senior executives of a mining company that destroyed ancient caves in western australia are stepping down rio tinto has been widely criticized for blowing up 46000 year old rock shelters in may to expand the iron ore mine the jew can gorge caves are one of the earliest known aboriginal heritage sites rio tinto internal review found that blasting was legal but neglected the company's own guidelines and cut bonuses of its top executives. the greek government says migrants who have been left without shelter after their camp was gutted by fire will not be moved to the mainland blazes ripped through moria camp on the island of the last bus on tuesday and wednesday following protests at a coronavirus restrictions john psaropoulos reports. the 3rd in as many days in moria camp planes helicopters and fire trucks battled what seems to be a recurring nightmare of destruction but these fires are not accidental flare ups

from smoldering ruins they are springing up because someone is lighting them this new fire in morea camp which the fire service seems unable to control despite several attempts is now threatening to engulf the last remaining quarter of the camp that is inhabitable and a few residents from maine here refusing to leave their premises the gas canisters you can hear going off helping this far to spread very quickly indeed we witnessed the beginning of this fire it didn't start in one place it started in 3 places all within an hour of each other it appears that these fires are being set deliberately by people who want to see the last remains of this camp disappear this afghan family refuses to leave caught between 2 thought fronts they insist on using the oven they have painstakingly built to bake bread they have needed this morning until police are shut them out in burnt areas all that remains is door hinges bolts in the hills a child's mumble collection onions stacked against the wall testified to the

valiant efforts of refugees to rebuild fractured lives where the fires allow refugees return to salvage belongings which they drag back to where they are camping out awaiting shelter hundreds of families are forced to sleep on the road they have been promised a ship a tent or a municipal building but these things have not yet materialized. 2 kilometers from moria camp local residents have set up a roadblock they've heard that the government plans to send build. to rebuild the camp and they want to stop them from getting through. wrong adorable enough for years we've had problems all the all of groves destroyed the sewage treatment doesn't work the sewage runs to the sea and poisons our well they steal our sheep eve free day nothing has been lived there trying to rebuild the camp they don't want to move it elsewhere because it's convenient for them we're going to use our bodies as shields we can't do anything else we've finished anyway the refugees

don't want to dream build either they want to leave but that is now more difficult the asylum service is burned out the offices and interview booths destroyed so is the paper archive that was housed here which means that many applications have to be filed from the beginning and many people have months longer to spend here than they did before this week's fires. al-jazeera lesbos. people in ukraine are calling for president volodymyr selenski to be impeached they've held protests outside his residence in kiev demonstrators are angry about joint patrols with russia taking place in the donbass region more than 14000 people have been killed in fighting there between ukrainian forces and russia backed separatists protesters saying selenski is eyeball to protect the country's sovereignty. polls are due to open shortly in iran for the 2nd round of a parliamentary election it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic voting will

take place in 9 province is a big report from tehran. 10 seats in the neurons parliament are up for grabs in the 2nd round of voting favorites parliamentary election so the lowest voter turnout in the history of the islamic republic and resulted in the most conservative parliament in its 40 year history hardliners now make up the majority and that's not good for president has done rouhani is reformist aligned government in june farmer mr jeffords reith was interrupted and heckled in parliament and at least 12 government ministers still have to face questions from politicians next week the same issues still dominate politics the state of the economy corruption and u.s. sanctions englishtown province in northeast iran people want to see action from their elected representatives who said i hope my lawmaker cooperates with the people and his people expect their lawmakers to fulfill their content pledges that in taba actively participated in the fibber voting and god willing will attend this around to politicians are encouraging more people to come out and vote. we usually

don't worry about small constituencies we're usually just one lawmaker should be elected concerns about voter turnout always about citizens in the big cities in provincial capitals such as teheran. but the covert pandemic makes it difficult to see how that will happen candidates have been barred from campaigning on the street mo mr health ministry has warned against any public gatherings we ask the candidates to take their campaigns online. while the battle now is for parliamentary seats in 9 provinces results show likely voting intention in next year's presidential election and the results of that will determine how the country deals with the world for the next 5 years as i beg al-jazeera to her on. south african police say allegations of brutality will be investigated after a report allege they were the most corrupt civil servants on thursday 3 police officers appeared in court over the killing of a disabled 16 year old boy from the miller reports from johannesburg.

you. were referring. to the. phone video taken by angeline mage's daughter in law to show at least 7 police officers arriving at a home in eldorado park the family say they were arrested and intimidated by police after mrs major accused her husband terence of attacking her in may in the video police refused to give a reason for her wrist she spent the night in jail before appearing in court charged with common assault drew your attention to any of the cases that anyone opens up in eldorado park people are crying out for help. when when my mother got assaulted on the 1st of may the police could see that she's busted up she's in pain but the police decide if they going to his towing steer her husband was

a rest of the smugglers and appeared in court he's been released on bail pending further investigation as police leave they tell mages daughter in law to delete the video and threaten her with the rest according to the latest corruption watch report almost a 3rd of complaints against police or about the abuse of power followed by failure to do their jobs the report also says the police all the most corrupt civil servants live in samson's family says she was called to the eldorado park police station for questioning in 2010 when she became ill the family say police prevented them from getting help a police report confirms she died on the floor of the police station restroom. it was really i can feel brutal because when we was flirting there what are you we did we were not actually sure if she passed on or we were just trying to save us folks that know we are being from the police now we are right for everything from them 10

years on from making their complaint sampson family says there's been no response police spokeswoman but a pillow peters says the incidents are worrying and should be investigated you probably do you don't trust it takes us back to where we were in the past where communities do not come to report races because they don't have confidence so we need to think that it's very very important as i would relationships with our communities mean a lot to us as these families wait for answers we need just. it's all we asking many in this community say they've lost faith in the police service that sworn to protect them from al-jazeera janice berg to mexico now where relatives and friends have held a funeral for a journalist who was the capitated earlier this week julio val davis' body was found on railroad tracks in the town of months or longer in the state of veracruz it covered an area known for its gang violence rights groups a call for an investigation is at least

a 6 journalist to be killed in mexico this year. relatives of missing children and survivors of rape in mexico have occupied the offices of the national human rights commission they say they won't move until perpetrators are brought to justice reports from mexico city. protesters outside the offices of mexico's national human rights commission. they are survivors of gender violence and family members of missing persons who with support from feminist activist groups have moved into the building and taken over. there protesting against the government which they say has turned a blind eye to soaring rates of gender violence and other human rights abuses in the country. mexico has close to $600.00 reported femicide so far this year more than $75000.00 missing persons and the murder rate higher than at any other time in the country's history. when at least west that were

predicted a lack me this action is different to others we've seen in the past but i think it's a response from the thousands of victims who are waiting for any investigation from authorities in 2 cases of disappearances famous sites valiant story and many other human rights cases that remain in impunity. for mexico's president under this manuel lopez obrador is often criticized for downplaying the issue of gender violence in particular. during a press conference this week he scolded the activists for auk you behind the building in mexico city's historic center and vandalizing portraits of mexican heroes housed in the offices but his job is bit of money just as you and i respect all demonstrations but i do not agree with violence or vandalism and i do not agree with where they have done to the painting of francisco. protester 80 come out

of the news says her 7 year old daughter is a survivor of sexual. at the end the point is that what we've been talking about what the president said in that video my daughter has asked me how is it possible the president can be outraged over a painting but not outraged when a girl is rate. she tells us she and other women here are tired of demanding action from the poor on matters of gender violence. the protesters say they have no intention of relinquishing control of the building adding that they intend to raise funds to transport abuse survivors to the building and transform it into a shelter mexico's national human rights commission have expressed their concern over the safety of sensitive case files housed inside the government offices but have not commented on any potential plan to forcibly remove protesters from the building. the leadership of the national human rights commission has frequently been the target of criticism by relatives of missing children and domestic violence

survivors who say the commission is more focused on slashing budgets than pursuing investigations below al jazeera mexico city. activists from greenpeace have stopped an oil tanker from making a delivery to a refinery in sweden the protest is to draw attention to a planned expansion of the refinery which activists say would increase carbon dioxide emissions by up to a 1000000 tons a year greenpeace says rainbow warrior vessel dropped anchor and a few were named by to block access. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera india and china say they'll on the existing border agreements up to months of increasing tensions in the himalayas in a joint statement they've also valve not to escalate the situation and say they'll carry out confidence building measures shotgun goonies a professor of political science at indiana university he explained what steps the

law to take to disengage. they would probably involve withdrawing troops from eyeball to eyeball contact with one another they would probably involve reducing certain kinds of actual deployment of artillery and other weaponry along particular band of territory periodic meetings between commanders between local commanders these are the kinds of confidence building measures that are extraordinary likely to follow in the wake of this 5 point agreement protests against police brutality in colombia have again turned violent demonstrators of throwing molotov cocktails at the police station anger has been building after the death of a man in custody in bogota offices repeatedly shot have year or done as with

a stun gun. half a 1000000 people have been told to leave their homes in the u.s. state of oregon as around 100 wildfires continue to burn through the west coast 11 people have now been killed in the states affected hundreds of thousands of people displaced by flooding in sudan are getting some relief as the water begins to recede but water borne diseases are beginning to emerge with a growing number of people falling sick. for c.e.o. and 2 other senior executives of a mining company that destroyed anshan caves in western australia are stepping down rio tinto has been widely criticized for blowing up 46000 year old rock shelters and made to expand an iron ore mine. polls have just opened in iran for runoff parliamentary election and 9 provinces that meant to take place in april but were delayed due to the fan demick those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera of the people in power a cold war that's a lot of. russia now seems to be going off to the main economic resource which is

of course we bring you the stories in development is that a rapidly changing the world living presidents promise america 1st policy of trying to try wall that morphed into a technological wall counting the cost on al-jazeera. in response to global warming germany is in the process of closing down its coal industry for many years the country's principal source of energy especially in the formerly communist east but there's fierce arguments about the pace of that closure between those worried about the economic consequences and those who believe that immediate action is necessary to combat climate change so who will win germany's cold war.