the negotiating table put watching them now we're in a different phase and i wish the afghans can blame the united states the united states also looking at it with urgency it's a blast but i do see that the. some of the key players in the peace process talked out. this is al jazeera. this is a doozy our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes taiwan scrambles fighter planes as chinese military jets approach the island while a senior u.s. official is visiting taipei. carrying all they possess to another temporary homes thousands of refugees move into a new tent camp on the greek island of blood spots. hospital admissions doubling

every 8 days concerns growing over a sharp increase in cope with 19 cases in the u.k. . and the u.s. justice department pushes prosecutors to charge protesters in portland and the rarely used law. and sport justin thomas head to courts rather to take a 1st round lead at the u.s. out then american is a shot clear of the 2nd major championship here. so visit to taiwan by a high ranking u.s. official has led to fighter jets being scrambled and it seemed china launch major military drills taiwan's defense ministry says it had to send up jets to track approaching chinese air force planes if they cross the sensitive mid line of the taiwan strait which lies between china and the island china's mistreated. justified

friday's new drills saying they were necessary to protect what it calls national sovereignty and territorial integrity it accuses united states and taiwan's ruling party of colluding to stir up trouble. me with recently the united states and the democratic progressive party authorities have set up their collusion and frequently stir up trouble whether it's using taiwan to contain china or rely on foreign powers to threaten others it is wishful thinking and is destined to be a dead end who plays with fire will get burnt the chinese people's liberation army has firm will full confidence in sufficient ability to pour it all external interference and separatist acts of taiwan independence and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity well u.s. undersecretary for economic affairs at crocker arrived in taiwan all thursday he is the most senior state department official to travel there in 40 years and he's a 2nd problems official to visit in a month let's go to robin wright who's following the story for us from seoul

certainly very tense times around the taiwan strait what do we know about what's happening and what china is saying about it. absolutely i mean all of this military activity really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world the chinese military says that this exercise was reasonable and necessary but taiwan's military feeling it necessary to scramble its intercepted jets when it detected all of these approaching aircraft on its radar also 'd deploying edge defense missiles before these aircraft turned back since then we've had the presidential office from taipei being very critical of beijing saying that this is not conducive with china's standing in the world and also calling on the much more mighty a neighbor china to show self restraint to so beijing will not be happy about being lectured to by what it sees as an upstart renegade china often uses this saber

rattling these military exercises to show its displeasure and obviously it's very unhappy about this visit by keith crocker the very senior official from the state department who is actually in taiwan to pass on the u.s. respects it's a memorial service for lead on quite a very prominent former presidents who died recently but during this visit he'll be meeting with saying when the current president of taiwan who is viewed with extreme suspicion by china is seen as being very hostile towards mainland china and any talk of reintegration so china not happy about this visit but also of course that follows just a month after the visit by the health secretary from the united states alex as are ostensibly to talk about the coronavirus but as everybody seems to know that was seemed to be a further attempt to have more and more relations with taiwan to go do it seems mainland china all right rob thanks very much indeed for that reporting there from

seoul on the situation let's take a closer look at why the tension between china and taiwan is flaring up beijing has claimed sovereignty over the island ever since each eye. the civil war of the 1940 s. the 2 sides have been ruled separately since then but china insists they will eventually unify relations solid after in when was elected as president and that was in 2016 she leads taiwan's pro independence democratic progressive party in taiwan has introduced laws to shield itself from what it sees as growing interference from china and china's president hasn't ruled out taking taiwan by force if necessary and she ping has been building up his country's military capabilities so let's take this all we can speak now to out of me who's the director of china policy center the china policy sentiment which is an australian based think tank is also editor of china story with a blog on china related issues and joins us by skype from leipsic in germany adam welcome to the program so it is china reacting directly to the u.s.

visit tensions have been escalating lately happen there. yeah absolutely i mean just to set all this in context china in recent years has been stepping up its pressure on taiwan for 3 main particular reasons and the biggest one of think is that beijing sees a window for achieving unification to be closer as public opinion shift in taiwan so the ptolemies overwhelmingly rechecked beijing's overture for unification and there's a growing ptolemy's identity that is distinct from dad into t. based on common chinese heritage so the 2nd one is that his rise in competition with the united states. us a top one ties has been growing substantially over the last few years across a whole range of fields health trade security cooperation eccentrics. beijing feels that there is a need to check these developments with

a strong message and this falls into that context and of course the 3rd one is that she is playing to a dumb mistake nationalistic audience the hard line approach on taiwan plays well with the chinese public which are fed official narratives about. the nature of cross street relationship with one atom that is never likely to back down every claim over taiwan isn't it is it so the question is i guess will it keep upping the pressure and will that eventually inevitably lead to conflict. yeah i mean china beijing has made a phatic that it's not going to give up its sovereign claims on taiwan. and you know she's being very public very sharply into that position so there's no doubt that beijing sees this as a call. as a core issue of national interest if the question is whole far paging is willing to

push the envelope beijing is already changing the status quo you know kinds of ways in the region as well as in relation to taiwan in terms of coercing it not only in terms of showing its military muscles but also in terms of its economic economic policy and restrictions as well as its interference influence and interference camping in the mystically in parwan so certainly beijing wants to push the arm low the risk of course is that increasingly the u.s. is stepping up to back taiwan for a whole range of reasons but to counter china regionally mainly. on a democracy as well as its critical job graphic location has assumed an increasingly more important role in u.s. strategy ending up sick so we're likely to see an increasing retching up of tension in the tollemache hts could china actually achieve its objectives of reunification

outside of conflict. it's highly unlikely that china would be able to achieve unification with taiwan whether out the use the use of force i mean overwhelming amount of taiwan's population reject the notion of being of unification with with china and that is one of the reasons why fading has. being very tough line in seeking the lane that it is swelling to use military means to foresee unification. and of course step gets into trouble with the united states which doesn't want to see china do that. great to get your analysis on this thanks very much indeed that of neither joining us from would like to get in germany great thank you. 15 pro-democracy activists in hong kong are back in court for their role in last

year's protests among them is a newspaper publisher and a business with jimmy lie there facing charges of insider to organizing for participating in an authorized demonstrations outside of court one of the movement's leading figures said that hong kong police have banned protests for almost a year. i want to tell you well know that we are the pride of all clubs if you're right and that a basic law the pride of all right that no civil had political right international calling on i.c.b. out and this is what happened a long gone. now sudden taishan facilities of the new refugee camp an increase of already started to break down thousands have begun to settle into the camp on the island of lesbos where they fear the conditions will be as poor as they were in their old camp which burned down last week 12000 people had been living there it was only designed to hold a quarter of that the new site has space for 8000 people so far let's get the very

latest stephanie decker is live for us there now and stephanie what she reports coming in as way more people queuing up to get in today. there are i mean the army is continuing with that operation and we were outside that count all morning it's packed and people are having to wait in the saw a nap because a they have to register but also they are being tested for the coronavirus also just arriving here now we are at doctors without borders seeing people who've been busted sitting under the olive groves with the police they've been picked up from the areas where they've been seeking shelter and are now going to brought into that you can't i can tell you people are not happy about it i just spoke to a young man from aleppo from syria he said you know i have had rejections to my case i don't know what's wrong with me i keep going from camp to camp just give me on 7 it's incredibly frustrating but i want to bring in our guest stuff and often i.e. is the country director for greece for doctors without borders thank you very much you have experience here from the very beginning and you've seen morea camp new

tourists for its conditions give me your sense of this new camp and how do you see the situation going forward but what we fear is before all that it will be a 2nd more your camp more camp is just a shame of europe on the except double what happened for the last few years and the last few months have been extremely difficult for the population living 20 cells and at the beginning of the year with very few totally very few chiles not enough water then of violence a vigilante against. the migrants themselves and against jews as well and then the corner virus turned up and then you know the farmers and people making an exodus from the mountains down to deceit finding no relief waiting for them no plans from the government to take care of just merge and see and it's just unbelievable that they have been left alone with very little help so again just trying to get in trying to sort of provide things and very little help from the government now the

only thing that the government did is to start a new camp by to see in the form of military target range. why the target would be used is because again this is not a good place for setting up a camp in the winter it's very cold completely open to the wind and we very much fear that this temporary camp could start last thing very long so again what is the purpose of dispute camp are we talking about a 2nd morea where people are going piled up for months and then or even years is this part of the continuous containment policy policy of collective punishment for making you know some form of pushback of. asylum seekers yet this is extremely worrying as such and we want to know now what is europe plan to do want to continue having the shame of moria and other moreas

continuing or been ready to change a policy accept that asylum seekers a human beings in this should be treated like animals and have indeed own designs did needed reception for a few days maximum few weeks it's a transit and then taken to proper places but to more years have to stop and to just tell us a little sit out the way to what do you been seeing in patients what kind of how much state are people coming to you well that coming a lot on the shock of course for what's happened to them in the last few days and last few weeks after the fire of everything that's been going down the walk down to the deceased side finding no nobody to wait for them except for policeman sort of pushing them around and then inserting them and keeping them in despair a restricted area so for sure it's difficult and patients are coming because they have chronic conditions so they have us motive cardiovascular issues they don't

have you know drugs but then that also is people getting cut from big having some result of defiance on birds and then we have a lot of mental. case that coming to us that completely disparate and that need top the care that the to be taken. on the proper conditions not just you know a psychologist sending them back out in the street it's just unacceptable very very difficult thank you very much so you get a sense there of someone who has it wealth of experience here since the very beginning and certainly a lot of people have been telling us that how they feel now entering this new camp is that they're starting from scratch and i think he they're the question with this count how temporary is it of people going to be spending you know just a couple of days certainly we know that's are going to be the case the greek authorities have made it clear that for a moment nobody is leaving their paperwork to be processed and we know that that is a very very long process all right stephanie thanks for that update there from las vegas stuff there. well probably more still ahead on this news hour including more

u.s. states begin to. leave a trail of destruction. the pieces of history we look at saw the remains of the 1st mine slave ship to ever be identified. and is called the usa the champion but he wouldn't be any more major titles this year or is here with that story. now a coronavirus cases in several countries has driven the global number of infections to more than 30000000 india is one of the hot spots with more than 96000 new infections the czech republic has seen a record $3000.00 plus daily cases but a news in new zealand reporting no new cases for the 1st time in more than a month the number of people being admitted to british hospitals with coronavirus is doubling every 8 days that's according to health secretary not having called but

he won't say whether that means another nationwide lockdown is imminent is not involved. newcastle northeast england a major city and now parts of a huge region on the new covered restrictions from friday more than 1500000 residents can't socialize with people outside their household or social bubble and bars and restaurants have to close by 10 in the evening the u.k. government says it agreed to measures with local councils following a sharp rise in infections i think you should follow the rules to make a go we can't. think people not really follow their instructions they shoot yeah but i'm quite happy about it you know do whatever we need to do. here to stop the virus i don't think the household things or the fact is that it can go away with. other people on from the household but i can socialise with bands such as me make sense nationally in the u.k.

infection rates are going in the wrong direction daily new cases number in the thousands with experts saying the truth could be in the 10s of thousands and after prime minister bars johnson admitted testing capacity isn't good enough the health secretary not for the 1st time appeared to blame the public when he appeared before parliament the challenge is that demand has gone up faster and they can say on the other side no it's not what they call defy the facts and the most important thing for everybody across the country to hear from all of their elected representatives if they are interested in helping this country get through this pandemic is that if you have symptoms get a test if you don't have a sentence please do not come forward to get a test unless you're specifically britain's far from the only european nation worried about rising infections and deaths that's prompted the world health organization to issue a new warning to governments not to reduce quarantine periods from its recommended 14 days in the spring and early summer we were able to see the impact of strict

lookdown measures. efforts over a 2nd phase as a day off. in june cases hit an all time low the september cage numbers however should serve as a wake up call for all of us old all these numbers reflect more comprehensive testing it also shows alarming rates of transmission across the region in italy the alitalia airline is now trying to domestic coronavirus free flights per day passengers are offered a covered 19 test at the airport before flying the results come within a half an hour only those tested negative can fly we can speak tonight in live now if not in yes the challenges are enormous out there and there in the u.k. numbers rising rapidly. they are indeed me not only as you pointed out the health secretary saying hospitalizations

are doubling every 8 days from 90 but also in fact the infections number of infections is doubling. around every 7 or 8 days according to health experts of course there is a like and what the the chief of medical advice and the chief scientific advice have apparently been telling ministers is if there isn't more concerted action by next month there will be a significant number of new deaths from called the 19 so going very much in the wrong direction well matt hank called on friday he has been talking about the government's new social care winter plan trying to protect care homes that involves things like guaranteeing free protective equipment until next march but we've been hearing in the last 24 hours from many people in the care home industry

saying they're feeling pressure to actually accept people who might be positive with copied 19 from the hospital into care homes to free up bates basically with the winter season approaching the government's also under fire over its test and try system as you heard matt hancock saying it simply because people who don't need to have a test or trying to get one will not so people have been trying to get one when they have been asked to get one and still are being told to travel far away from bad homes or simply can't get one at school there is a problem in not area and now we're hearing that the government seriously considering what they're calling a circuit breaker perhaps 2 weeks nationally in england where risk limited restrictions will be brought back. notably hits in the hospitality sector places like pubs and entertainment venues trying to keep offices open and schools open but

whether that will be enough to turn the tide to holt's the infections and get things back in the right direction is hard to predict yeah and briefly not even if you would as you said in your report britain is far from the only european country worrying about this rising trend. of course you just heard from the w h o's europe director saying that it's crucial that governments get on top of those infections and for example don't reduce their quarantine periods when people have come from abroad he's really worried we'll just in the last hour the french city of nice on the south coast has said people must not gather now in groups of more than 10 in public spaces in austria they've just said that inside people mustn't gather in groups of more than 10 in spain we're expecting new lockdown restrictions in the madrid area the capital city in france the number of cases should be pointed out

was on thursday a record since that pandemic started so no wonder the healthful forty's in these countries as well are extremely concerned about the way things are going he said troubling trends reporting on the net in place for that reporting from london. heavy rain and further flooding is forecast in parts of sudan in the coming week since july floods ravaged nearly every single state can at least 115 people the united nations is scaling up emergency food assistance and hundreds of thousands are now living in desperate conditions in makeshift camps mohammed day reports now from sin jar in southwestern sudan this is one of the areas worst affected by the floods. this primary school in seem just town is now home to some of sudan's numerous flood victims at least a 1000 people are holed up here every classroom hold several families there's no

electricity and say they long for the moment they could return home one was not that they headed to them we've been here for 13 days the floods hit our village early in the morning we tried to build defenses to protect our homes but the winds were too strong so we decided to salvage what we could and fled brother tell us a village on the banks of the blue mine was completely destroyed but then that and novellas we've lost all hope the floods destroyed our homes and swept away our livestock and everything we owned we have nothing left the worst floods in sudan in a century continue to displace thousands total of 18 villages in sonata state ruined by the flood waters and cut off from the rest of the state there's a lot of concern for the safety of the people who continue to live in both villages some of that aid agencies have been trying to have a quick those who are willing to leave their homes most of them have been finding

themselves in camps like this one. comes for the displaced are growing in number and size on the outskirts of single town that when they come 1st they need the basic. food shelter as many seen. as the food including the nutrition and also. some of them liked on my thighs. now we had taken such a supposed ongoing we use the community their local communities we provide they provided some food and also we compliment each other to interior work just as if it in recent days the government has issued new warnings to communities living on the banks of the nile that remains in the highlands of the brink if you appear could lead to more flooding along the river according to the government's humanitarian aid commission 650000 have directly been affected since the start of

the rainy season in mid july millions others are facing hardship as the cost of food and transport soars across the country prices of some staple foods like bread and sugar have increased by 50 percent over the past few weeks and their warnings this crisis will only wasson. singa south western sudan. or tropical storm sally has moved to the eastern united states after causing widespread flooding on the gulf coast to ensure rain has fallen in virginia and the carolinas with tornadoes threatened further south boats are being used to rescue people caught off by floodwaters in alabama and on the florida panhandle reporter jay gray has seen the storm damage in the pensacola florida. a full day after the storm has moved through and we're getting a better idea of the devastation i want to give you a look at what sally did here in pensacola these 2 huge boats pushed up on to the

ground here along with other debris from the water you see the chaser boat there in a piece of the dock that was picked up and pulled ashore when you get back to the water though this is amazing devastation you see all the boats that are crammed together the piers that have been splintered and thrown on top of each other understand that before the storm this little inlet this little area was empty there were no boats here there were no piers here all pushed from hundreds of yards away into this area again just a testimony to how strong this storm was when it made landfall current situation on the ground you've got more than a half a 1000000 people without power and that's going to take some time to come back flooding the water still rising in some areas and rescues still going on right now a full 24 hours or more after the storm moved through the system is going to continue its slow march to the east coast and as it goes still dumping water we'll see flash flooding associated with this for the next couple of days. well i'll tell

you what it is not the atlantic is the mediterranean where we go for is not how i know exactly and you know what that damage we just saw those those yachts those smashed up this is the sort of thing we're going to be seeing nick in the next 24 to 48 hours as you say in the mediterranean so let me show you what i'm talking about here is a map of europe hey is the mediterranean that little bundle of cloud you can see there doesn't look too bad but my goodness it is this is a serious situation we have that this is known as a medicaid and it's literally what it sounds like mediterranean hurrican put the 2 together and you have a medic a look at this these pictures just coming in this is already some of the damage that is being done you can see these huge waves already loss of debris up on the beaches here you can see a tree has been it receded the winds all strong this is the power of a hurricane and this is it so throughout friday this is going to really sit very very slowly it's barely moving it's going to continue to affect the western side of greece but look at these winds sustained winds about 125 kilometers an hour gusting higher than that it is moving to the east but it really is almost stationary so

again just like how can you talk about in the atlantic is sitting there and is producing all this rain over the same area and the winds of course are continuing to pound areas as well and again the storm surge as the system comes closer to the coastline you get this storm surge now the rain at times we could see in some areas as much as 400 millimeters there's also the threat of tornadoes now more typically the rain won't be quite that heavy you can see is a go through south and it does actually begin to push to the south it continues to move southwards on through sunday but of course we will see the rain in human eyes over the next few days there it is it is very much to the south of greece but we could be seeing easily widespread nick about $225.00 millimeters of rain to say some areas it could be more so we could be looking at some landslides as well all right we'll be keeping a close eye on that jury thanks what think you. still ahead here on al-jazeera we look at the efforts being made to keep classrooms and indeed these used remote communities. because corkery up to be mine. once again proving that they come by

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r block over white. america decides how to care for a nation. extensive coverage of the us elections. on al-jazeera. are you watching al-jazeera or mind of our top stories this hour taiwanese fighter jets have been scrambled multiple times to intercept chinese aircraft into taiwan's space china has launched military drills in response to a senior u.s. officials visit to taipei beijing says the drills are to protect what it sees as its territorial sovereignty. sanitation facilities are already starting to break

down and a refugee camp on the greek island of les paul's people leaving into it fair conditions will be as poor as those in the old overcrowded count the burned down last week. and the number of people being admitted to british hospitals with coronaviruses doubling every 8 days that's according to health secretary matt hancock but he won't say if the government would consider another nationwide lockdown. of the coronavirus crisis is causing a rethink about working in offices at the shift to being based at home has benefits such as reducing traffic pollution and improve mental health because of less office stress some government such as in wales are proposing radical ideas to make the switch permanent more recently reports now from cardiff. what to do with all this offices all over the world when mostly deserted for months and cardiff is no exception yet as elsewhere people have been prepared to work just as hard from the

comfort of their own homes fill john dean is a partner in a law firm which put most of his 150 staff on a home working in march has been a revelation to him and has altered the way he sees his business in the future everyone in who occupies an office is looking right now at not not at their office requirements and how much space do we need and more importantly what quality of space to be need so i think a lot of us believe there's going to be a flight to quality where people are maybe taking less space but better space all sorts of business leaders have been saying they're now thinking about spending less on office rents and more on their employees but as more profound thinking going on as well making a virtue out of the crisis is clearly the best thing that could happen after coronavirus clearly working from home all the time is fantastic news for people who have a lot of lands and terrible news if you're in a tiny apartments but certainly reorganizing the way that people use city senses is suddenly being seen as

a massive opportunity. just around the corner from the empty offices are all the signs of what's happened to high streets across the u.k. in recent years something needs to happen urgently to rescue small independent businesses wells his 1st minister had the idea to keep a full 3rd of the workforce on retain that home permanently part on the grounds that it spreads the money around cities far more successfully than making most people come into the center every single day even in wales we have people spending up to a whole working day you can write it up over the whole week just in the car going to and from where they live and where they work and if we can make some inroads into that their needs much more than economics it is about the environment it is about quality of life it is about making places where people live more important to them economically socially and environmentally. this argument also suggests that big infrastructure projects so beloved of the government in london like this new rail line into cardiff may become

a bit redundancy for all they do is move more and more people into city senses when they might be better off staying working and spending money in the area they live in what you really want the different sorts of people coming in together moved both cities in the u.k. haven't as not allowed that to happen so now yes what we're seeing is really call into question why that model of agglomeration of of crowding together people in largely quite boring service jobs is actually giving us the benefits we need if it's not getting the benefits we need while we stand all the cost no doubt temples to corporate culture like london will resist this sort of thinking and in cardiff to the offices are still going up but isn't clear is if anyone is going to want to move into them barnsley al-jazeera in cardiff. education for millions of children has been disrupted in indonesia and people in remote communities do not have internet access so teachers a going the extra mile to support students but as jessica washington reports from time around even those close to the capitol hill struggling. to.

indonesia's with it seems nothing can get between these teachers and their students from monday to friday they travel to newton. new though this school is closed because of code 902 cautions class is still in session. at the rich cannot do online learning because there's no internet access and people don't have computers laptops or mobile devices the teachers go from village to village using makeshift outdoor classrooms with covert 900 safety measures in mind. they say they are trying their best and limited resources ghalib are 30 like us we are thankful that even though the road to a village is bad and it's very far away the teaches a still willing to come and teach us schools in this community like many across indonesia have been shot since march the teachers took it upon themselves to stop visiting the villages of the students knowing that without internet access and

often no electricity online learning was never a viable option for most children he. the pandemic has disrupted the education of millions of indonesian children and it's not just remote provinces experiencing difficulties with distance learning but cities close to the capital as well. entire on the western border with jakarta schools are closed and these children have no internet access at home. the local government has set up an internet hotspot in this classroom the children to do their homework. that we would not hear we started online learning in march i really miss my school and i would like to go back the education ministry says it sees the need to change the system. before we already have a plan that we don't like 3 years olds will be connected by meaning that they should have electricity the teachers without those resources it's

a challenging time cause i think teachers a working twice as hard we are being overworked. some schools have reopened but for many teachers there's no sign when the challenge of teaching without a classroom. just in washington al-jazeera tuggeranong indonesia. the un human rights council is meeting on the continuing unrest in bello reduces happening right now the focus is on the government's crackdown on the opposition and its supporters following disputed presidential election as those talks go on let's get a live update from step bason who's following things in minsk and step hundreds of cases of torture being documented and published over the last week what are the survivors reporting. well what stands out from all these documented cases is that it was very much planned and says systemic hundreds of people have recalled that they have been tortured severe

beatings electric shocks also one least one case of rape are done with the police take care of people who are thrown into detention vehicles and they were also brought into a very overcrowded retentions times where they were deprived of food they had to lie on top of each other there was no medical aid so all these cases now have for made a very strong case that there has been torture here during these protests of after the election result was announced this and that not only has led to the un urgent a session which is happening right now but also the 0 s. c.e. the organization for security and coordination in europe for the 1st time now is taking steps it has implemented the so-called moscow mechanism which means that a special expert mission will be done here to. balance itself is also a member so it's going to be

a question if they're going to cooperate but the international pressure on bellows is definitely increasing and the meantime this has already immediately led to reprisals here because one of the members of the main human rights organization here in minsk has been detained last night and her whereabouts are still unknown. pressure increases the president is now talking about border closures what's the latest on mine. yes he has announced that he wants to close the border with poland and lithuania at the moment the border is still open it's seen here as a part of his war rhetoric that he has been talking about since the beginning of the protests that the threat was in fact coming from outside an xterm no threat basically trying to distract attention from what's happening here after the elections and also trying to distract the attention from the fraud that he has been

accused of done during the elections also using this war rhetoric also to be aimed at russia because he has a a military cooperation pact between russia and belarus so if there's an external threat russia supposed to help him so far russia hasn't sent any troops here but look at shank a keeps repeating this war rhetoric nearly every day now. first i will leave it there for many times for which to divert up the interest of us reporting from means . the u.s. justice department is reported to be looking to use a rarely used sedition laws against black lives matter protests in portland the city has seen 2 months of demonstrations following the death of george floyd in police custody rob reynolds reports now from oregon. portland has become the flashpoint of america's culture wars. there have been well over 100 consecutive days of black lives matter protests demanding justice for george floyd briana

taylor and other black people killed by police. were. no mother to her george drake. me or does your no no no no what are you doing president donald trump sent in federal law enforcement in late july a stance oblique to protect a federal courthouse that intensified the protests some of which went from peaceful to violent. police arrested school hours of people in recent days protesters say the number of demonstrators has decreased sharply but the trumpet ministration is contemplating a new legal crackdown in response to the protests here and in other cities the u.s.

attorney general william barr has reportedly urged federal prosecutors to bring charges of sedition against some of the people involved that's a rarely invoked federal law designed to punish people who try to overthrow the government of the united states. legal scholars question whether such charges would hold up in court on and if you look at the most recent examples where sedition has been charged under this act it's not been successful i think juries and judges alike and not like to convict on this unless there is real hard evidence to show that there is an imminent threat the government nor the. experts say aggressive prosecution could stifle legitimate free speech and political expression which are protected under the us constitution i think the threat of the erast alone would be sufficient to make some people feel it is not safe for me to go out on the street

and exercise my 1st amendment rights and the thought that the government would yield it our in a way that would yell or chill or silence that type of speech should be really frustrating upsetting threatening to us american citizens that trump is using the protest to drum up is law and order platform during the election campaign but a report by princeton university shows 93 percent of all protests since floyd's death have been peaceful robert oulds al-jazeera portland. and us judge has temporarily blocked what he called politically motivated changes to the postal service 14 states complain that the changes threaten the delivery time of mail in ballots for november's election and the judge agreed some home has already being done by some service chief nummi the joy i think of many when he announced the

changes in june joy has donated to donald trump's reelection campaign. the f.b.i. is warning us politicians that russian agents are working to influence november's election the director christopher ray says a steady stream of misinformation is being issued aimed at denigrating the democratic candidate joe biden. we certainly have seen very active very active efforts by the russians to influence our election in 2020 through what i would call more of the maligned foreign influence side of things social media use of of proxies state media online journals. are an effort to both so divisiveness and discord and and i think the intelligence community has as says this publicly. to primarily to denigrate vice president biden and what the russians see as kind of an anti russian establishment. that's that's essentially what we're seeing i

believe it is interim president is withdrawing from next month's presidential election janine and yes' says she wants to avoid splitting the vote and prevent the socialist party of former president the former us from winning he was forced into exile last year following his disputed reelection. the caribbean island of barbados is to remove britain's queen elizabeth as its head of state the symbolic act is due to happen next year on the 55th anniversary of independence from british colonial rule proposals have been made for the 300000 islanders to move ahead and become a republic babied ians want a barbie d. and head of state this is the ultimate statement of confidence in who we are and what we are capable of achieving hence by. the next logical step towards full sovereignty and become a republic by the time he celebrated our 55th set anniversary of

independence well david carr was showing as ambassador of barbados to the caribbean community and he says the country is trying to retrieve its own identity. this is a different barbados this is a barbados of you know predominantly latin nation and with a new sense of what our national are who are the heroes are our values and principles we want to hold up and send a brit so the decision has been taken that the you know it's a statue will go into our museum it will be treated as an historical act rather than as a statue through which should be i said a great thing lord nelson and what he said for best going to be so for british empire and image and the maintenance system of slavery those are not 21st century barbadian values that we want to hold you know hold that bargain this is

a very well run very orderly society we are that kind of nation we are when you know fundamental interests are at stake the whole week or less and so you know you have a long history of running a lot of fears and in a very orderly and struck to manner so that's not a that's not a concern at all and you know and the other thing is that barbados is a member of the caribbean community of nations 15 are nation states that had to join to get out that organization known as the caribbean community carry palm and we're in the process of transit develop a caribbean civilization. sport coming up here on al-jazeera the athlete hitting new heights in the pole vault far away here with well.

no i may end slave ship has been discovered by archaeologists in mexico it's the 1st time that this kind of shift has been found scientists say the wreck is believed to date back to the 850 s. and that's when the indigenous mine people were being captured by slave traders and sold as property in the caribbean and were public reports from mexico city. all this debris on the sea floor is all that remains of a 160 year old slave ship mexican scientists recently identified the vessel is latonya and believed to have gone down in september of 1961 again.

the big takeaway after uniting this multi-discipline investigation is that we know for a fact this is the steam boat. which sank on september 19th $861.00 we also know that apart from the cargo that was being hauled to cuba there were mayans illegally held captive aboard. though the wreckage of the ship was 1st located in 2017 researchers are still shining a light into its history the wreck of lower new and off the coast of the yucatan peninsula is the 1st ever mayan slave ship ever to be identified researchers say it provides evidence of the enslavement of indigenous people long after the abolishment of slavery in mexico. the time period also coincides with the war of the castes a revolt led by indigenous people of the yucatan peninsula against the population of european descent it's a conflict that lasted through the end of the 19th century. scientists say the

discovery helps to establish a historical record for the descendants of indigenous mayans whose ancestors had been brutalized and exploited since the days of the american conquest is get beyond elements of justice it would be worth finding the descendants of those who stayed behind on the yucatan peninsula and those who were taken to cuba and find out their story i think that's the most important part the human element. experts say despite its many years under the sea the wooden hall of low and is well preserved aiding in the accurate identification of the vessel when read up a little al-jazeera mexico city. or this movement of sport has for nick thank you so much american jesson thomas hit a course record to take a 1st round lead at the u.s. open thomas is the shot clear of compassionate patrick reed at the 2nd major championship of the year and he richardson reports. delayed from jeanne's you to

coronavirus the u.s. open is being played with no fans in attendance to witness moments like this. the opening day of the winged foot course in new york produced 2 holes in warm the 2nd by 2018 masters champion patrick reed here in new york of the fans are amazing and you go you make you whole out for the fairway you may call them one that the fans will just go crazy and there's a force of the fans or america's out of an awesome experience of a same time you know an ace and a cell take either way. reid has put himself in title contention just one shot behind american compact trick just in some us he shot a 5 in the past 65 the lowest ever u.s. open round at this course for stroke is in a lovely thomas talks in a 2nd career major and 1st ever win in this tournament really solid round of golf as all the best rounds i play in a while to the green you know there's a couple things here and there that definitely could have been better but it just i

made sure that all my misses were in the right spot and that's what you have to do to us open. world number 2 john rome of spain had a good opening day to finish up on one under par. at 47 england's lee westwood is still trying to win his 1st major he's finished 3rd in this event twice and is in good shape on 3 under he's alongside rory mcilroy on the leaderboard the last of the northern irish men's 4 major wins came back in 2014 you know 1st round of major always anxious to play well and maybe have over thought of times. and you know i just found out today and you know just to quote was what was given to me a little more relaxed and you know played really nicely. 20 years ago tiger woods won the u.s. open by 15 strokes the biggest ever victory margin that's a major. the 2020 version of woods he's

a child's behind the leader on the richardson al-jazeera the miami heat beat the boston celtics are now just 2 wins away from reaching the n.b.a. finals they were down by 17 in the 2nd quarter but had a big 3rd to rally past the celtics like they did in game one bam adebayo led miami's comeback with 21 goren drastic scored 25 when the heat topping boston 10601 miami leave the eastern conference finals by 2 games to one they last went to the finals in 2014 as the defending champions but lost to the san antonio spurs. together and. we 'd use our this are. you know what we don't want. that is not our goal to be. the. later on friday le bron james and the l.a.

lakers face the denver nuggets in game one of their conference finals the lakers got there by beating the houston rockets in 5 games and will be heading to their 1st conference finals in 10 years meanwhile it's been a levon years since the democrats last made an appearance and they made history all the way by becoming the 1st and be 18 to rally from a 31 series deficit twice in the same postseason. it's thanks a lot of energy effort a lot of desperation to be able to come back from a 31 deficit. and they did it twice. so the respect level is out as well for what we have to do. and that's how we're going to do series understand. what they came and what they stand but i am of a lightning are through the hockey stanley cup final anthony isarel he scored in overtime as tampa beat the york islanders 21 in game 6 of the eastern conference finals. the win puts the lightning back in the championship decider for the 1st time since 2015 they'll be taking on the dallas stars with game one coming up in

edmonton on saturday. u.s. open champion has pulled out of the upcoming french open dude injury osaka says she's struggling with a hamstring problem and is still recovering from last saturday's title win in new york the french open is set to start in paris on the 27th of september but dorie as a ranking lost out in that final against osaka but her good form is continuing at the italian open in rome as a rank of being world number 5 the fia can without losing a game when taking ballet russian to parade around 3. and sweden's armand duplantis has again shown he's one of the rising stars of athletics the 20 year old has just broken the outdoor world record for the pole vault in rome on thursday night he cleared 6.15 meters to beat the mark set by survey book crowd almost 3 decades ago. ok and that is all your sport for now back to you nick for thanks very

much indeed for that look forward see you later and that is it for this news hour be back in a couple of hours with another one but in the meantime here's daryn with another of your next. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question because these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to you the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. this underwater treasure

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