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a moment. but. charged with undermining national security better russian protest leader maria kolesnik over could go to prison for up to 5 years. 100 pound has a new prime minister the emperor has a preview actually had a suit as appointment his priorities include fighting the pandemic and reviving the economy. with the sports news the former head of world since found guilty of corruption. was sentenced to 2 years in prison at the trial in paris the full story coming up. now a 2 prong to whether assault in the united states has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid to be a flooding in another. slow moving hurricane sally is

a nation heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the gulf coast and another powerful storm is also brewing in the atlantic hurricane teddy could have been near as early as this weekend and they're just 2 of 7 storms currently moving across the atlantic with 5 of them categorized as tropical storms it's only the 2nd time on record that this has happened the last time was back in 1991 on the other side of the u.s. in oregon a federal disaster has been declared as wildfires continue to battle forcing people out of their homes. in oregon where more than 2000000 hectares of land have already been burned will speak to him and just a moment but fast alexy o'brien has more on the situation on the on the gulf coast . early morning in mobile alabama brought a battering from hurricane sally. trees uprooted or splinted by the howling

wind city streets piled with daybreak only a few braving the elements to survey the damage and stop what could be a lone cleanup. making landfall as a category 2 storm it's not sally size that's the main concern but it's speed moving so slowly it's threatening days of rain with forecasters talking of life threatening flooding still to come jordan muse fled her mobile home in pensacola florida to shelter in a hotel it is under water boarding. as the storm moved in the wind packed a punch leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power the driving rain swamped streets and surges of sea water cools flash floods dozens of people had to be rescued from their homes rebuilt to have a lot of. sally is the 2nd hurricane to

hit the gulf coast in less than 3 weeks and one of the busiest hurricane seasons ever earlier this week sally was just one of 5 storms chanting in the atlantic hurricane tate is developing out at sea with forecasters predicting it could become a catastrophic catch agree for storm and. as we've been saying storms are the only natural disaster country affecting the u.s. several states on the west coast are still battling record fires of course want to rob reynolds joins me now from portland in oregon rob that's quite the ominous scene where you are those fires have been raging for days now how are all of ours he's they're coping still. well this nazi of the people of oregon got some welcome good news today firefighters are making progress on

a number of the major fires and one of the most destructive ones the so-called tell me to fire in southern oregon is now 100 percent contained this improvement is due in large part to favorable weather conditions it's gotten much more humid the temperature has dropped and that's true in large part to the fact that because of this fall of smoke over the entire region the sun's rays can reach the 4th floor and warm up the debris and fuel that would otherwise burn this thick blanket of smoke is also causing health problems there we'll talk more about that in a few moments but there are thousands of people who are still have been evacuated they're living in friends' homes or relatives homes in motels some sleeping in their own horrors and it's been a 2nd week now of this type of situation dozens of fires have charred as you

mentioned more than 2000000 hectares and there have been 8 deaths associated with the fires here in oregon now there are 16 people missing. rather that smoke around you look so noxious i see it's even made its way to the other side of the country even been detected across the atlantic ocean how are people there on the ground dealing with it. well good. people are dealing with it as best that they can there's this really no way to avoid it there has been a 10 percent increase in admissions to oregon hospital emergency rooms for people with breathing problems people who have asthma or other lung diseases are really suffering and it's these small microscopic particles of not only would slow but also the smoke from burning cars and you know toxic plastics and other things that are burned in these towns that are all in the air and that can get into

your lungs it can even get into your bloodstream i talked to a man who is fullest who is walking along the shore there will land at river here in portland a few moments ago he said at one point he was coughing up brown material and even blood so it's very dangerous indeed we have more information now on the overall situation with regard to the west coast wildfires in this report. there's not much left of talent in phoenix in southern oregon the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing i've ever stayed in my life it's the same up and down the west coast near boulder creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble and covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the so-called bobcat fire

is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash. it's making skies hazy as far away as new york portland seattle and san francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started to read that and 95 rather than just that quatermass because that ash in s.t.k. to oregon 50 kilometers from portland police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are unheard of in this part of war this is never happened i mean we've had fires you know open up in the national forth before they've never been this close to canada and i've lived here

33 years they've never been this close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss haslam stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house is burning it's a total loss is it's not something you want to wake up to. amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and other necessities organizers say so many donations have poured in here they can barely give it all away. people here say they all have to look out for one another oh it is still eating all of us. breads that anything that we can do to help out families that are needed now thank you you know with the fires and everything we've kind of need to make sure that we're helping out as much as we can some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by fever will weather but the trees

will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now robert oulds al-jazeera has to cater orgon. moving on now and a bell a russian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has now been charged with undermining national security maria kolesnikov is in jail and minsk off to ripping up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force and before her arrest you played a major role in organizing demonstrations against long time nida and xander luka shanker he's accused of rigging last month's presidential election our correspondents basson is in the capital minsk she says almost all of the opposition leaders have now either been locked up or forced to flee these charges are actually quite brought to call for action aimed at undermining national security instead of what the police earlier sat was a coup d'etat which was of course much harder to prove but still she is facing 2 to

5 years in prison she was indeed the last 3 male opposition leader still in the country and because she ripped up her prosperous overreading being deported to ukraine she gets turned tear into a national leader the opposition movement is not really relying on its leaders to be honest so it won't affect the protests that we have been seeing in the last couple of weeks in fact only one of the opposition members of the council that was a created to have this transitional government by the opposition is now still free and here in a ballerina's and she's in fact being protected by european diplomats 24 seventh's so they come to her house to make sure that she's also not being arrested well we can now speak to dhamma tell us a grammar so she's a lecturer and the department of war studies at king's college london and she joins us on skype from their home until as step was just saying their protests are set to

continue where is the protest movement now is it just so organic that it's functioning well without distinct leadership figures. yes i mean this movement the street movement has always functioned certain extent independently although of course as we know for example because she participated in a lot of the marches and she joined the protest inspired the organization was struck such an extent autonomous from them although these individuals who form the council they certainly played an important role and they continue to play. as far as i can think of even though they are not actively play not part there is a possibility that eventually they could be more relevant in the future because i think the protesters are not going to be bop. despite these announcements are regarded. that so i think that you know there is a very high chance that the protesters are going to be very much and bold and very

much upset by these neurons and the protest against their protests are going to continue what we have seen these charges against class could have a do you see the government actually following through on all of this might that not just be more of a rallying call for further protests. exactly i mean they're probably going to i mean look actually it was probably going to try to follow through whether it's also a lot of pressure for on him coming also from moscow from the kremlin to create some sort of. constitutional reform which would allow i think potentially for him eventually to hand in power so it may be that there is a more effective parliamentary and different kind of leadership which would also be potentially acceptable to live below the ocean people so i think we really don't really know what this is going to lead to. the situation changes very much day to

day and i think your question god knows that he's not going to stay forever he even recognized that himself. in the meeting on monday with. made it very clear that some kind of reform was necessary inside the rules and i think that could also involve the releasing of some of these figures who have become so relevant and so symbolic because that's the only way also to sort of arm down the protesters to be have these people some kind of role in a future bigger rules so i want to tell you that meeting i'm sorry time until i because i'm curious about the level of confidence that is feeling right now i mean especially after that meeting with president putin you mentioned the potential constitutional change i mean there is tension in that relationship too how do you see that meeting as having gone. well i mean it depends on what side you look at i mean from the russian perspective it went well because the russians have

a much weakened to gush and go who are now cannot play a both sides you know russia the west versus each other and you know to a certain extent has to abide a bit to war to the kremlin is telling him to do in exchange of course for not only political support support for him as a president of miller rose but also for economic support and financial support which is so relevant for the russian economy at the moment so from the perspective of look or shame call it is positive in the short term because he gets the necessary support that he needs but also it would be interesting to see what what he has to give in exchange because at the moment nothing has been said about for example potentially. an airbase a russian airbase at being set up in belarus which is something that the russians have been wanting for many years very little has been saying. for example about

military participation or some other integration between. russia but these are things that could come later on in the pipeline i mean what is very clever he knows that if he now pushes along the lines of integration further integration between the 2 countries or pushing for a military basically only upset at the below russians further. the kremlin has really tread a very fine line trying to make sure that it is it to a certain extent supporting the other shango but also shameful some kind of change which is people are demanding he doesn't want to appear as someone who is completely indifferent to their demands of the bigger ocean people still i think the situation is tricky for balls because very much will depend on. what happens on the ground at that moment it seemed as though they are you know.

to a certain extent and control but he's incapable of stopping these demonstrations despite he's very violent indeed and will continue watching the situation on the ground very close to tell us i agree most are there from king's college london thank you for being with us great to get your insights again here on out is there. thank you very. well there is plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including south africa eases coronavirus lockdown restrictions we'll take a look at just what's changing. and find out what the u.s. congress had to say about boeing last year's 2 crashes involving its 737 max plane that killed 346 people. and in sports south america's biggest club football tournament returns despite the coronavirus pandemic.

mali's military crew leaders have yet to commit to demands made by west african mediators who are trying to resolve political crisis eko us gave the joint to 18 months to hand over power to a civilian government in exchange sanctions would be lifted but only if the military puts together a transition team within days when i speak now to our correspondent he joins us from the senegalese capital dhaka nic i believe we've just been hearing from the military gentle what if they had to say. that's right their spokesperson wouldn't a lieutenant colonel want to go and took to the press then what's interesting during that press conference is no live transmission was allowed of the press or perhaps for security reason it took place in catty which is their military base just outside of bomb might go outside or spouses and wives 1 of the soldiers chanting their support of the military basically the point of this press conference is to show unity to show that they're in charge and to speak in one voice there's

been criticism in part of the 1000000 population especially from the m 5 the opposition movement that the meeting with the west african leaders was a failure according to lieutenant colonel was going to it wasn't a failure it was a success just by the fact that they were met and received by west african leaders well for them that gives them some sense of legitimacy now they have to nominate by tuesday a new president and a new prime minister and those 2 that will be appointed cannot be members of the military there but also a vice president and if they don't do so lieutenant was going to war and that what would happen is that the west african countries have the ability to fix eate mali and completely shut down this. country's in fact you know here in senegal 60 percent of its exports go to mali so there's a lot at stake for balance but also for neighboring countries listen into what

colonel was going to have to say. but. we did not go to a cross to make a decision and for the moment we cannot make an announcement we ask to have more time to return to our country to meet and discuss to put a committee in place here all positions and allow the committee to make a decision i think it certainly sounds like there's going to be at least some kind of the delay so where does all of this leave any kind of the transition where do they go from here. well they have just a few days to try to find a president a prime minister and so they said just just as we heard that they're going to appoint a committee now that will decide on who will be the president and who will be the prime minister and who will be the vice president now who will be members of that committee but we don't know will that be members of the military jones out will they be appointed from members of civil society or the opposition it seems that it's an additional hurdle for this military leadership that seeking to gain

recognition remember the context in which this is taking place i mean we saw a military coup on the 18th of august in a country where we have one of the most powerful armies of europe we have the 4000 french troops we have the biggest deployment of german soldiers outside of germany here in mali we have 14000 u.n. peacekeeping troops in what is the most expensive u.n. peacekeeping operations and this coup took place in this particular country where there's really been an uptick in violence is specifically in the area of mopey in the center of the country there's a bit more killings of the ins in the region and then in this a hell all together this year alone so at stake here for the millions is to find a new leadership that will bring security to mali ins and to jumpstart their economy to reassure the population and to bring back the state where the state has

so longer so so far been absent and i think a lot at stake there nicholas hunt for us and thank you very much nick on a south africa is easing its coronavirus lockdown restrictions due to a drop in the number of cars that 1000 and factions presence around imposes said that starting on sunday it will drop to level one and international travel will be allowed starting from next month we have with. the cardinal by the storm. now is the time to return our country its people and our economy to a situation that is more normal. that more examples the lives that we were living 6 months ago it is time to move to what will become. what we call our new normal for as long as the coronavirus is with us. correspondent for me to joins me now from johannesburg for me to present

a prize a cover quite a lot of ground tonight a lot of days how that talk us through the highlights of what he said. well some of the major announcements coming from the president included the gathering of people at public venues both social and political events at the moment those are restricted to not more than 50 people at any type of event that's now changing to a 50 percent capacity of whichever venue is relevant but even then indoors it's limited to $250.00 people and out those $500.00 so that also has a curfew in place at the moment people have to be indoors by 10 pm that changes from 12 midnight to 4 am still no sporting events allowed for south africans one key area 'd that supports a lot of criticism is around very around funerals specifically in that the

government has said that this is a high risk for south africans in that it's a situation where a virus can be contracted or infection spread quite quickly and easily now more people can't go to funerals but the most important announcement coming from the president this evening is around the opening of borders now south africa has endured 6 months of closed borders no international travel and now from the 1st of october they will be somewhat restricted travel countries like the united states perhaps india brazil countries where there is still a high levels of coronavirus infections it's likely that people won't be able to travel to south africa from those countries but generally borders are opening there would be a quarantine in place for people who haven't tested negatively for coronavirus or can't produce those test results but ultimately this is really important for south africa's twere as an industry with millions of jobs have been lost it's an industry that contributes significantly to the economy and of course the economy economic

growth job losses all very important for south africans having been through a lot on one of the strictest in the world there is so much anger and debate around the lockdown of south africa as well as government response more broadly how is all of this likely to be received anything. well it's been an interesting time for the government in that south africans initially welcomed this very swift response from the government around a lockdown when there were just a handful of cases in this country but as the months wore on south africans became increasingly frustrated so tonight's news really is welcome and again the emphasis i think for south africans is around the impact that this very long lockdown has had on the economy south africa's latest statistics show that there was a 50 percent drop in the g.d.p. in south africa's in the 2nd quarter. a number of jobs up to perhaps 3000000

according to some studies having been lost so these easing of restrictions for south africans at this point is really about boosting the economy trying to create jobs for people who have lost them and have relied on the government up to this point was grants and is any sort of support that's been offered. there for us in johannesburg thank you so much for me to. well still ahead few here on al-jazeera setting the trend how the current a virus pandemic changed to the look at new york's fashion week. to flooded homes the challenge facing many people and to don as they try to dry out after unprecedented rains. and in sport one of the most expensive footballers in the wild ones to rejoin his former club.

hello there fairly cautious and calm picture across much of the middle east the winds are going to be picking up again in the next couple of days. developing say that the central western areas a soggy but this is what i mean about the way we could well see some dust. say through the interior of iraq tom it is not faring too badly mid forty's celsius 39 is expected to high in doha but of course it does tend to feel very humid when the temperatures come down particularly when the winds are very light or coming from the east there's no real change on friday how much is still pretty high for the eastern end of the magic and these temperatures are above average for this time of year then down into central africa plenty of rain showers and thunderstorms becoming a little widespread and also typically for this time of the a beginning to push a little bit further south because they want to shadows across areas of angola and it's a fairly catty picture as you can see staying mostly fine across much of south africa we've lost that run of the frontal systems coming through say damages in the high

teens celsius where we have goals of very warm air is across into both want to temperatures here above the average sunny for this time of year it's going to be mostly fine for the next few days and tom much is getting up to about 36 certainly by sunday meanwhile feeling much cooler in cape town with showers on sunday. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against corruption corruption is not something to be told that it. is not on the african. no country his. let's destroy this wall. in 2020 the free space overlord encourages the heroes who are fighting against corruption this helps our communities to save the resources that we need in order

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gulf coast impact winds of about 160 kilometers an hour and record flooding is forecast to last for days. belorussian protest medium rare quest has been charged with undermining national security of a paid a major role in all the knighting demonstrations against a long time leader alexander lukashenko. and south africa is easing coronavirus or strictures after a decline in the number of infections that measures include opening up its borders international travel will be allowed starting from next month. japan's emperor has approved the appointment of a new prime minister here she had a longtime ally of the former prime minister shinzo who resigned last month for health reasons probably pride has more from seoul. it's the ultimate victory for a self-made politician your shahid a sukkah who in a career spanning decades has finally risen to the highest political office in the land. in contrast to merely of japan's previous prime ministers his previous sessa

shinzo avi included suger does not come from one of japan's elite political dynasties he's the son of a strawberry. farma his elevation means a change in style but not in substance as a faithful right hand man to say he is expected to follow the same conservative economic policies while applying his acknowledged problem solving skills to the continuing covert 19 crisis and the ill fated tokyo olympics that the pandemic has delayed and now threatens to wreck a well known figure on the domestic political stage it was super powerful chief cabinet secretary who heralded last year's succession of emperor's unveiling the name of the new imperial era. his appointment as prime minister was confirmed at an imperial palace audience with emperor and narrow hito while hardworking and

reliable many believe he lacks the charisma needed for the job in particular in his dealings with other world leaders. that's something that comes naturally to shinzo of a who leaves the office having set a record as japan's longest serving prime minister at a price so much i would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who supported me in both tough and difficult times i submitted a method on the next today the sugar and demonstration will be born i would like to ask for your strong support for the ruling l.d.p. party soon guys mission is to act as continuity prime minister for the next year before elections are called with japan's mounting problems suga needs to prove he has the required leadership skills to do that rob mcbride al-jazeera. a horrific culmination of failure is by boeing's engineers and the amount of time and that's

the conclusion of a u.s. house investigation which blames the plane make if a 2737 x. crashes that together killed 3 $146.00 people the report says a series of decisions by both boeing employees and to the crash of a line in an ethiopian airlines flight within 6 months of each other the report also places blame on the federal aviation administration for what it calls grossly insufficient of a science the entire 737 max feet is still grounded while the wind. our white house correspondent can be help us has. yet another report and there isn't a lot that is particularly new here in terms of isolation but what this report is is the most comprehensive to date in terms of outlining the failures not only on the part of boeing the manufacturer but also on the part of the federal aviation administration or the agency that oversees aviation in the united states often referred to as the f.a.a. what they say in this report by house democrats in the transportation committee is

there was a pattern of technical miscalculations management misjudgments an oversight lapses and also a severe lack of accountability when it came to the oversight now what this basically says is there wasn't one singular event that caused these crashes but instead it was the culmination of technical assumptions not only by boeing engineers but also by the lack of transparency by the management so this is a particularly damning report for the company but also it cites gross mismanagement on the part of the f.a.a. . now the british prime minister is refusing to back down over controversial new legislation forest johnson says he's confident britain and the e.u. will not be forced into a no deal breaks it johnson has defended the proposal which would allow his government to override parts of its withdrawal agreement with the e.u. the government does admit the bill could break international norms the head of the

european commission says the chances of reaching a deal are fading. this bill is intended to uphold the economic the political territorial integrity of the united kingdom and i believe it to be schooled by every member of this house when our correspondent dan barber is then on time he says the british prime minister remains defiant despite pressure from both e.u. and precious politicians with the proposed bill affecting the withdrawal agreement between the u.k. and the european union was brought up in 2 different parliaments on wednesday firstly in the european parliament the president of the european commission live on their lie and said that what the u.k. government was trying to do right now was against the spirits of 3 years of hard negotiations which had led to that deal not only that she said that it was damaging to everybody's interests including britain's boris johnson is currently trying to appease some m.p.'s from his own conservative party who have their grave

reservations about this bill and they're trying to bring an amendment to it next week which would give parliament more say over how it was actually actions but johnson's own northern ireland secretary has already said the bill in itself breaches international law in a limited and specific way will the warnings from some of his own m.p.'s from former prime ministers here in britain avert this is such a damaging signal because it will scupper the idea of striking trade deals with other partners if britain's words cannot be trusted he said that when he heads suggested no deal breaks it would be a good outcome as well that he didn't really mean it he said that he was his hope and his expectation was that there would be a deal but he set himself a deadline for mid october to strike a deal without which then britain will be heading for a no deal breaks it now refugees being moved into

a new camp on the greek island of response must have their asylum claims processed . so they can leave that's according to the united nations 12000 people were left without shelter when the morea camp burned down last week the u.n. representative in greece has asked for european help to house them there are fears that this new campus suffer the same overcrowding problems as the last one correspondent stephanie deca has more for less. at the moment this is the only option that the greek authorities are saying where they can ensure that the refugees in the migrants have you know food shelter and most importantly where they're going to process their paperwork a lot of people are still reluctant you can probably see them having bought some some things in some supermarkets ahead and then they'd pull them back to the street where they're currently living visit are not in the camp because the conditions in moriarty counted for down were so desperate and we've had a visit here of the un h.-e. r. head of the group office of the un agency that deals with refugees and i asked him

you know they themselves have criticised morea camp whether you know he was satisfied with this one but this is what he had to say it's not manageable to manage a camp with 5 times its capacity or even trying to the capacity that insomuch as we speak you need she are easy pushing the authorities that should have a good process so that people do not stay too long in these places this is still our message we hope that any new camp does not go. does not become overcrowded because it's unmanageable so it's overcrowded and it's also having to do with allowing these people to leave the island in the sense of speeding up their paperwork the other side of the story is that basically the islanders are fed up they've been hosting this population for years now many people many of them want them to leave completely but certainly you know this camp is expanding still the army is expanding it it certainly seems at the moment and even the message from the greek authorities is that people are not leaving the island

any time soon. now hundreds of acidic choose from. trying to visit a pilgrimage site in ukraine stuck at the border every jewish new year tens of thousands of pilgrims travel to the town of a month to visit the tomb of of i know how this year they were warned by the israeli and ukrainian government's not to travel because of coronavirus restrictions ukraine has accused belarus of aggravating the situation by giving false information the pilgrims are now holed up at the border and are calling on israel to deliver. iran's president has issued a warning to gulf states after the united arab emirates and bahrain signed a u.s. brokered agreement to normalize ties with israel dubbed the abraham accords by the white house the deal makes the u.a.e. and bahrain the 1st arab countries to normalize relations with israel and more than 25 years has done rouhani condemned the deal saying there would be consequences for them without civil knew about his cues for how could you reach out your hands to

israel and then you want to give them bases in the region all this is your consequences that will arise from this or and you as you are the ones doing something illegal against the regional security. and the number of people affected by floods in the sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the nile river and as its waters recede residents are struggling to clean up and make repairs our correspondent have a morgan reports from khartoum. this is what the inside of a blast his house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has. he says he's got no way of training the water out hiring a water pump is costly and he's lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option shadier than my house is about 3 kilometers away from the dial and i've lived here for a number of years. getting

a plot to move elsewhere is costly with today's economy and me and my family can't afford it so all drain the water and hope this doesn't happen again next year. the lost his home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of collateral in the southern part of sudan's capital hard to. torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people and it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the waters have begun receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of out of tune after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and health facilities have either been damaged

or destroyed it's a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this year's rains are unprecedented so dan's government says its focus is on helping those who've been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them. we want the government to give us new plots so that this doesn't happen again really who live in the banks of the mine we don't have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the route a normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that he has he says he'll do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding morgan algis there are hundreds and. more than a 1000 girls in pakistan are kidnapped every year forced to marry and convert to islam prime minister and run councils the practice must stop fed has this report.

the only body in a family a plan to study they lose they like generations of hindus along with the partition of india and $947.00 have lived in the southern province of sindh all their lives the ali says on september the 10th 3 armed men forced their way into her home and kidnapped her 15 year old daughter. there i don't know what they've done to her if she is alive or not and what about her life here 2. police suspect pasha who is 3 years under the legal age of marriage in pakistan has been forced to convert to islam and marry a muslim man i think that there are human rights commission of pakistan says more than a 1000 normal muslim girls are forced to convert to islam every year there's been widespread outrage at the practice among muslims and norm muslims in pakistan

members of the religious minority communities have protested demanding better protection their rights. hindus and christians make up around 5 percent of pakistan's $220000000.00 muslim majority population the government is helping to renovate around $400.00 hindu temples places of worship often neglected since the partition of india more than 70 years ago by the prime minister imran khan has been praised for recent program that gives indian sikhs visa free access to visit a shrine close to the border evidence he says of pakistan's commitment to ensuring freedom of worship he says the kidnapping and forced conversions to islam have to stop. you can see if. it really was related how can you forcefully convert someone to islam or force them into marriage either by threatening them or at gunpoint as we have heard incidents like these and sent all these practices are totally on the

sly mick. attempts to changing the law remain a challenge in 2016 the regional cinda simply trying to pass a bill banning under eighteen's from converting to another religion some muslim religious parties objected to the age limit. they threatened to besiege the assembly if the governor approved the bill which he then refused to sign into law a revised version of the bill was signed into law in 2019 the religious parties protested again a parliamentary committee on minorities and forced conversions wants to eventually make the law a political a cross of pakistan. religious minority struggled through the independence of pakistan with our muslim brothers and sisters but certain loopholes were left in the constitution which they used by certain groups against them we are fully aware and all the parliamentarians from all parties are on one

page and will soon constitute a lorry gainst the brutal crimes of forced conversions in marriage. police believe the statement posted online of cautious saying she was not kidnapped but willingly converted to islam and married a muslim man was forced they say kidnappers often threaten victims into making similar claims. they could pass his home to her family as distraught the ali says she can't live without her daughter and she just wants her back stratford al-jazeera. oh still ahead here on al-jazeera of action from the n.b.a. basketball playoffs including a game winning block that's coming out with me and school still. playing corruption

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place. but it's now time for support and here's lee. thank you the former head of world athletics lamine diac has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison this for his part in the scheme which covered up russian doping in return for bribes david stokes reports. i mean diac was the most powerful man in athletics for 16 years but on wednesday in a dramatic fall from grace he was found guilty of corruption at a court in paris he's been convicted of multiple charges including accepting more than $3000000.00 in hush money from russian athletes in return for covering up

their doping offenses the 87 year old from senegal was sentenced to 4 years in prison with 2 of them suspended and find nearly $600000.00 his legal team confirmed they will appeal. to see this is this decision is unfair and inhumane unfair because we see that the judges have tried to be politically correct and i've wanted to use mr jack as a scapegoat. diac was originally charge 5 years ago he's been under house arrest in paris ever since and the case has attracted global attention it was a big question on the table. it was the 1st. one of the case involving. leaders in the indian sport community so we understand that there was a big media to put it to pressure it's not the 1st time that a friend german english judge has difficulty trying to resist resist pressure. diac

was head of what was then called the r w f from 999 to 2015 his help in covering up russian doping and that many athletes who were cheating were able to keep competing at major events all at the expense of clean athletes to mask a war you can see the smile on my face with the mask but i'm very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the leaders and i'm also happy for all the other athletes who are victims we need to. in your fight against doping. the court handed guilty verdicts to 5 other people including d.x. son a saturday ak who worked as a marketing consultant for the i w f when his father was in charge $15000000.00 were funneled to his companies including commissions from t.v. rights deals up of a saturday lives in senegal which is refusing to extradite him he was sentenced in absence to 5 years in prison and find more than $1000000.00 as for his father the appeal keeps lamine diac out of jail for now he himself made no comment as he left

the court david stokes 0. transfer story that's developing and tottenham manager as emery know today refused to talk about reports that gareth bio will return to the london club. to join val madrid in $20132000000.00 which was then a world record faith he's agent has said he wants to come back and work. as a real madrid. players from other clubs can you confirm if talks are taking place with. representatives. that's not my. that's not my job to have contact. with agents. south america's wine club competition the couple of its adore as. after a 6 month suspension juice the pandemic restrictions have been introduced to allow

the games to go ahead as the reports. back in south america but not as we know it. the regional football association cami ball has implemented a series of measures to deliver to doris cup can resume in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. come a ball has designed and implemented a detailed program to enable us to restart our competition with dogs checked out at the return to football will be safe. those measures include no spitting no kissing one another no exchange of shirts the obligatory use of mass through those not on the pitch and of course no fans they've also ruled the $32.00 clubs in the competition can choose their teams from squads of 50 rather than 30 players some will need to the argentine club 6 times neighbors adore is champions baka juniors last week announced more than 20 of their players were infected but. we can't rush

to be a 100 percent it doesn't exist we hope to be the best we can and i'm relaxed and hopeful we will be. called the ball is allocated $95000000.00 to help overcome the just difficulties since commercial flights have been suspended and there are different degrees of lockdown in the 10 competing nations but why in this time of crisis are they playing football a top the national team championship the america's cup has been postponed until next year and they played no club football here in argentina since march those hot beds of footballing passion like the iconic block of junior stadium behind me have been eerily silent. the football here is a fundamental element of many people's lives and life must go on as part of the gradual return to some kind of normality as well. a reminder of one of the places we're missing somewhere for all the clubs that play they. need the money we need the dollars especially in argentina venezuela. in your way so they have to play.

and play they will continuing a 61 year tradition that pits the best of south america's club sides against one another only this year and until the final in rio's maracana stadium in january they've covered 19 to contend with to. that their al-jazeera one of cyrus tennis number one novak djokovic has won his 1st match back since being disqualified from the u.s. open he was out of the tournament in new york far extend to hitting a line judge with the ball but he's back on course at the italian open debate salvatore crews are in straight sets which is using the tournament to get ready for the french open which starts on monday so the n.b.a. playoffs and the denver nuggets completed another remarkable comeback to reach the western conference finals for the 1st time yet again by phone from behind against you like clippers to a deciding 7 jamal mary a nickel

a jock itch the standout players to not get to the 1st team in n.b.a. history surviving from a 31 series deficit twice in the same process. meanwhile the eastern conference finals are already underway at the miami heat edge the boston celtics to win game one you know it's hard to be bought no problem ahead with 12 seconds left but it was an incredible block. to stop jason titans dunk that might show all of their win on lights i like that's what it's all to make for now. i'm not saying it well new york's fashion week has taken on a different look in the wake of the current a virus pandemic the new normal face masks and social distancing has been the talk of the town and as patty hand reports the wider fashion industry has been hit hard . new york fashion week has a new look yes the styles are cutting edge but the live shows are fewer and the guests farther between thanks to the coronavirus for designer mico underwood who's

showing for the 1st time the pandemic has brought with it major challenges from disrupted supply lines to the staging of the show itself we all have to be super cautious we have to be you know awful of the space stuff a little social distancing making sure that everyone is feeling ok in the moment that they show up making sure that we provide masks and gloves and the all of these things you know just very new environment this year fashion week is only 5 days instead of 7 with the majority of a vent online and spaces that once host of events turned into production studios fashion week of side the industry particularly luxury fashion has been hit hard by the pandemic stores may have reopened but many people are still working from home if they have a job and go eat out less all of which means less demand for new clothes department stores like neiman marcus and lord and taylor which cater to high end customers have declared bankruptcy and the mall based stores like j.c.

penny brooks brothers and j. crew are also struggling experts say with house without a strong presence particularly vulnerable of consumer demand wanes for a pair of high heel shoes add a glamorous dress retailers we're going to have to pivot very quickly and as you see demand for mass are going up demand for the essential items are going up which brings us to this year's must have excess or as designers we all have to look at with this new accessory was the mask and what does that mean and has that look like going forward as a creative i think its challenges are good for me and it stretches me to be more innovative so a fashion trend embraced by designers but one that everyone hopes will be short lived particle hain al-jazeera. don't forget you can always find a much more on our website and also it watchable us on the fly bad to there just for that is al-jazeera dot com. well that is it for me this evening bob or sarah

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