undone interrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. and you power play in malaysia opposition leader anwar ibrahim says he has the backing to topple the prime minister and form a new government. this is our desire life and also coming up. we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world president donald trump attempts to put the focus and blame squarely on china as u.s. coronavirus test passed 200000. chinese tech giant weiwei says it's struggling

after u.s. restrictions start to affect its supply chain. hoping for help but doubtful it'll come away with farmers and villages you've lost everything in sudan. so then there is uncertainty about the future of malaysia's government opposition leader anwar ibrahim says he has a strong majority to form a new government he declared that the prime minister will get in the sins of ministration has fallen but he still needs the king's approval to replace yes and he came to power in march and was not new to politics he served as deputy prime minister and was also sentenced to prison for corruption and sort of me. here from france ludicrous one who joins live now from kuala lumpur in florence tell us more i understand that the prime minister has now been speaking what did you have to say . that's right now while the prime minister delivered

a special address but he's only been so far he's been speaking only about the aid and the assistance that the government is going to render to the public in light of the difficulties they've had to go through because of the demick that he hasn't yet addressed. announcement during the press conference and that is most likely because that the prime minister's address was most likely recorded now and going back to what i had to say it was rather thin on details he didn't say the number of m.p.'s he's got supporting him he didn't say what parties they come from since on was press conference 2 political parties have said they are behind it brought him but that's not a surprise these are parties from his opposition coalition but together they still don't have enough numbers to make up a simple majority much less a solid and convincing majority which is what i said so it seems like a rather bold pronouncement on his part because still there's one hurdle to cross now and he has got to have the king's consent to be appointed as prime minister

because malaysia is a constitutional monarchy the king appoints as prime minister the person who commands the confidence of the majority in parliament now at the moment has yet to meet the king the king has been admitted to hospital says he's spoken to the king he's kept him informed of developments but prime minister you didn't could also be seeking an audience with the king and even if he meets the king 1st he could very well ask for parliament to be dissolved and that would trigger snap elections so there's still a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen now and the government's response so far what we've heard is a cabinet minister taking a dig at announcement now he tweeted a photo of the cabinet meeting on wednesday with the caption nothing has collapsed or fallen the subtext being the current administration is still very much intact. so it's been a very uncertain times in politics how do we get. well

that's right so prime minister didn't yassin hasn't been in power for very long now and he took power just about 7 months ago when he left the then ruling coalition he and his supporters left that then ruling coalition and they aligned themselves with politicians they had defeated in the 2018 elections and this includes paul the former prime minister najib razak who's been convicted of corruption and is facing other charges is on trial for money laundering and other corruption charges now and anwar is now using the same tactic that we didn't have used 7 months ago to try and take power but he's rejected criticism that he's also forming a song called backdoor government that is not going through the ballot box but instead through political maneuvering and horse trading now is the opposition

leader but he's he was also known as the prime minister in waiting and that's because. when his coalition was in power. there was a deal that would take over as prime minister he and his coalition partner partners had tried for years to defeat the the alliance that ruled malaysia for more than 60 years and when they finally succeeded in 2018 are now was serving time for a sodomy conviction that his supporters say were politically trumped up but he eventually got a pardon and there was a deal between him and the then prime minister mahathir mohamad that he would take over after 2 years the mahathir was reluctant to hand over power and before anything could happen in left the coalition triggering a collapse of the then government and then came into power and we find the malaysian politics is now in a way back in that position it's been thrown into turmoil again with this announcement by anwar ibrahim for instance for that update to a certain uncertain times a the top. u.s.

president on trump has once again blamed china for the spread of coronavirus using the u.n. general assembly as his platform he accused beijing for unleashing what he called a plague on the world in response china called for unity in the fight against covert 90 diplomatic editor james bays has this report like all the other world leaders speaking at the u.n. president trump speech was prerecorded his words though were as controversial as. we have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy the china virus which has claimed countless lives in $188.00 countries in the united states we launched the most aggressive mobilization since the 2nd world war we fact checkers in a country that suffered more than most from cope with 19 unlikely to question those claims as the chinese ambassador to the un listened in the general assembly hall

the president intensified his attack on china we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world china in the earliest days of the virus china lock down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave china and infect the world before introducing president xi the chinese ambassador made an impromptu intervention complaining about bullying and. china resolutely great acts that baseless accusation against china his president in a clear contrast to president trump said international cooperation was the key to combating covert 19. 19 realize that we're living in an interconnected global village with a common stake all countries are closely connected and we share a common feature no country can gain from this difficulties on the taste of billet

taking advantage of the struggles in his address the president of france expressed his growing concern about the tension between the world's 2 largest economies new purpose for the today's world cannot be left to the rivalry between china and the united states regardless of the white in the world that these 2 great powers share regardless of the history that ties us especially to the united states the collapse of the frameworks of our cooperation. that just referenced all of that means we must build a new order trump's speech was almost certainly the shortest ever given by a u.s. president to the un general assembly just 7 minutes long it was delivered with a machine gun like style of oh there was criticism of iran china was the main target in his sights diplomats say speeches like this do nothing to decrease the polarization on the world stage james pays out 0 at the united nations well

let's hear now from ryan grim who is the washington d.c. bureau chief of the intercept and he says that trump has repeatedly tried to deflect attention from his for handling of the pandemic. it's notable 'd that the reason that we know that we crossed the threshold the macabre threshold of 200000 deaths been from the corona virus is because john hopkins university has been tallying those deaths in other words a non-governmental actor has you know had to do the compiling of the system and share them with the public because the the president has a secondly shut down the federal government's ability to call to collect and then distribute those statistics which which undermines a case that he could reasonably be making about china's handling of the coronavirus but none of it is going to get through because of who the messenger is the the

goal was so transparent that a lot of legitimate criticisms might get overlooked what president trump was trying to do here is you know with just weeks left in the campaign and with people already voting was to shift blame away from his handling of the virus number one deflection from the from the very beginning has been to a call at the china virus and b. support out that he banned travel coming out of china and you know that that's been his go to no matter where we have been in this pandemic the fact that we now know through the bob woodward tapes that that trump as early as february 7th had learned from the chinese government that the corona virus was passing through the air was extremely deadly and extremely contagious undermined you know any attempts that

he's going to make to try to shift blame at this late date. chinese type john way says is battling for survival against nonstop aggression from the u.s. government the mobile phone maker has blocked from buying any chips made with u.s. technology missions the chinese government is using its network equipment for spying at the company's chairman groping cooled in the united states to rethink about i mean it's ogmund is the co-host of the china tech invest the podcast and the tech industry analyst he says some u.s. chip makers selling to well we have already been granted exemptions to the ban was way is a still the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker they are the number 2 smartphone maker in the world so if you're a chip maker and you can't sell to fall away that that's a big problem what we're seeing right now is that some of these lower end chips are starting to be exempt to be able to self acquire a way but when it comes to their higher end chips those are ones that are that that

don't seem to be exempt right so what we're seeing is there is a lot of pressure from the u.s. out of while they they're there now want it willing to allow for a way to get past this pressure hold to to a point where they can surpass some of these other large kind of u.s. dependent. medications. definitely. pressure so what we're probably going to see is that eventually we're going to see while we probably will be making a left or fewer smartphone be just because they don't have the equipment and they also will not be able to make as many of their high end smartphones the company or the subsidiary to watch here is a subsidiary of volleyball and that is their chip making subsidiary i think we restructured quite a bit but the way that they look at it is that it's kind of you know one step back but a few steps forward in the future they're just kind of trying to really organize their

entire business not be dependent on us for u.s. sanctions at all. still ahead here on al-jazeera remembering the past but looking to the future molly marks 60 years of independence from front to faces political crisis. why scientists say the wildfires could be the new normal as far as planet several countries. however where to stay at the start of astronomical autumn and bang on cue we've got some autumnal weather sliding in across northwestern parts of you have ahead of it quite a rash of showers in sioux fronts pushing down across the alps easing into italy and the balkan some wetter weather coming through here and could cause some localized flooding must again pressure pushing over towards craze the best of the sunshine is going to be further over towards ukraine into that western side of

russia come back towards the west here's our line of rain that will make its way across england temperatures in london take back to around 18 celsius and 40 by the time we come to thursday temperatures and higher than around 15 degrees say something like a 910 degree drop in temperatures seen on recent days that wetter weather that windy weather that autumnal whether it will continue to push its way further south with temperatures falling away just about everywhere actually some wetter weather there she can see making its way back into northern italy southern parts of france adding to the flooding problems that we have seen in recent days across the medicine not so bad lots of warm sunshine as is the case too across northern parts of africa further south the show is continue across central africa into the gulf of guinea some wetter weather sliding across southern parts of mali or the way across into senegal.

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a new government and whatever him says the prime minister me you didn't yes since administration has fallen he needs the king's approval for his appointment. donald trump has used his speech to the u.n. general assembly to attack china over the coronavirus pandemic list president accused beijing of failing to share information on the outbreak again. a chinese tech giant weiwei is calling on the united states to rethink its trade restrictions and mobile phone maker is blocked from buying any chips made with u.s. technology over suspicions the chinese government is using. for spying. the city of louisville in kentucky is preparing for protests as it awaits an announcement about the fate of police officers who shot brianna taylor the 26 year old black woman died in march and she's become a rallying cry for protests against police brutality the city is expected to decide whether the officers should be charged a state of emergency has been cleared last week her family was given a $12000000.00 payout and the city pledged to police reform. until government

protesters in egypt have been back on the streets for a 3rd night. and those pictures right there from visa which is just north of paris the demonstrators are calling for president of all federal sisi to step down and they've been defying a police crackdown that seen at least 200 people arrested since sunday. mullins have marked 60 years of independence from france as a country faces political uncertainty the muted celebrations come a month after the military coup that brought the country and the region into crisis nicholas back as a. a parade to morgue 60 years of independence leading the celebration is the military commander who forced mali's president. to resign last month see me go is now been named interim vice president as you know. in an address to the nation

goodenow and the concession he made to the west african body ecowas his demands to name a civilian president the retired colonel and former defense minister by and out at the age of 70 he's supposed to represent the aspirations of young molly and is calling for an end to corruption and bad governance and resign from key does government in 2014 after disagreeing with the former president's plan to integrate armed groups into the 1000000 military. he's an honest man and a patriot this our criteria when eating our leaders along he will make it we all collectively have to help him despite the announcement the west african body has not lifted the sanctions it imposed after the military took power last month borders with a landmark country remain closed in financial transactions have been halted losses chief negotiator good luck jonathan is expected in bamako on wednesday the sanctions are not just affecting millions but also west african countries here in senegal 60 percent of its exports go to its neighboring country mali now that trade

is at a standstill west african leaders want to see an end to this crisis as soon as possible . and going to are expected to be sworn in on friday for a period of 18 months enough time to organize new elections well it's. a state that can be anywhere from 8 and physicians. in place steps and balances. governor man i say that can deliver on people need public service here's education health but also many security and nearly a ww displaced because of fighting with armed groups in the north and center of the country. the population is dependent on humanitarian aid and $4000.00 french soldiers remain on the ground 60 years after its independence millions are still seeking their founding promise of peace prosperity and the prospect of a better future nicholas hawke al-jazeera. to cameroon now where the main

opposition party says that one person has been killed in anti-government protests police used tear gas and water cannon to break up the economic capital. protestors are calling for an end to the long running conflict between english speaking separatists and security forces that is traitors want a president from the year to resign he's beaten path for nearly 40 years. more than 100000 homes are now known to have been damaged or destroyed in sudan's floods huge areas of farmland are also under water and victims admit it's unlikely the government can help them recover ever morgan reports now river nile state. this is what's left of i doubt the last home in sudan's or now state he says his farm used to extend from here to the banks of the nile nearly 2 kilometers away now the river is one with the farm destroying what was his main source of income while living mother i love and i used to live in this has put my kids and their families that's all gone now on the farm where i used to plant onions and nuts is all

destroyed i've lost nearly $20000.00 because of the floods but that's just from what i had ready for harvest this season and now i can't farm for winter and i don't know if i'll get any government assistance. at least as it's hard for him to know exactly how much financial damage the floods have done to his farm he'll have to wait until the waters dry out completely to find out his village of is one of dozens on the banks of the nile and river nile state that was destroyed by floods countrywide hundreds of villages were also destroyed because of the river rising to levels not seen in a century at least 120 people have been killed and more than 600000 have been displaced most now are waiting for government response to cope with the situation after losing even most or all of their belongings. manana the other muslim we need the government to come and take care of the water that's in the houses because the water is now mixed research water from the latrines that collapsed we need to avoid

malaria color and go hard here because we can't deal with diseases on top of losing our homes the damage in chicago a village nearly 5 kilometers away has forced all of its 1000 families out of their homes most had relied on farming and livestock for income both devastated by the floods thank you a village which residents say was once vibrant with schools markets and farms now look like this their homes either damaged or destroyed so dams government which has declared a state of emergency says the nile has receded in many parts of the country it's distributed tents and food aid to help those affected in the state but many say it's not enough even as the level of the nile river drops to where it was prior to the floods sudan's government and aid organizations say the impact of the damage will continue for months with agriculture health care and economy all affected and here in rebel states the residents say a slow response will make the effects last even longer. and chef italy for us to get on the boat with us to see what remains of her family home she couldn't help

but break down when she saw what she's lost. this house is where i lived with my mother and father it's the home where i got married and had my kids and when my grandkids were born all those memories were in this house of lost but i thank god my children and grandchildren are alive and were away when the house collapsed i'm now waiting to know government plans to help us recover and rebuild. a recovery that may take months if not here is in a country already facing an economic crisis and where more than 60 percent live in poverty many say they expect the economic situation to worsen in the coming weeks if no help is offered he will morgan is there a river nile state. there being protested mexico to mark 6 years since dozens of students disappeared demonstrators started a fire at a government building in the state of guerrero $43.00 students went missing in 2014 a case which is still unsolved remains of only one of them have been found. people in argentina have been evacuated as much as you workers try to contain wildfires

burning through the province of cordoba at least 3 firefighters were injured the region has been hit by a shortage of rain over the past week that's made the situation worse. and dry conditions and record temperatures of course while fast to spread along the west coast of the u.s. over the past couple of weeks and that's led to increasing concern about what this could mean for the environment scientists say catastrophes like the one we're seeing right now maybe the new normal reynolds has this report from our. the fires ravaging the west coast of the u.s. have captured the world's imagination and inspired horror but they are not the only ones in the amazon rain forest that swaths of land are on fire terrifying uncontrollable blazes tore through large parts of australia last year and in the arctic vast fires are consuming the tundra and peat lands of siberia an area that has never burned before on such a scale

a fire historian who has studied fars for decades says we have entered a new era i'm calling it the piracy in and that is because i think we're living in a fire age the industrial scale burning of fossil fuels has changed the planet and fires are but one consequence once the tune of our fossil fuel burning. scaled up. to the point that it's an end to the climate all the collateral effects which we're discovering are very unhelpful for the world we've created widespread fires create a negative feedback loop speeding up climate change these wildfires have already sent more than 30 megatons of carbon into the earth's atmosphere according to our european atmospheric monitoring service now all of that carbon will eventually contribute further to global warming in the normal course of events burned forests

would regroup over time and the trees and plants would reabsorbed much of that carbon but the planet is changing woodlands will become grasslands grasslands may become does or areas that we think of as a. reference woods may may become something else i'm not sure we we really understand all the all those possibilities some policy makers. clearly see the disastrous future ahead the experience that we have in the state of california just underscoring the reality of the ravages of climate change others turn a blind eye it will start getting cooler i would just you just watch even if fossil fuel burning were stopped overnight the world would continue warming for generations because of the greenhouse gases already emitted there's no vaccine for

fire we're going to be dealing with it and managing it and perpetuity this is our planet's new normal as humanity enters the age of fire robert oulds al-jazeera portland oregon saudi arabia will allow muslim wash post to stop before before me i should say pilgrimage from next month as part of its gradual nifty of covert $1000.00 with regions but only $6000.00 people kind of visit the holy city of mecca each day that number will increase in middleton for now only saudi citizens and residents will be allowed for and this will be will be start will be met in starting in november. well followers of the sikh religion have the death of their founder in pakistan is the 1st year of commemoration since a visa free travel corridor was opened between india and pakistan to allow pilgrims to reach the holy site of dava so hip and cost but indian sikhs were not there in

the charlotte but us explain. this calmly of sikhs in southern pakistan is on its way to one of their holy assignments debussy he. is where they found none expand the last years of his life and this is the anniversary of his death. the pilgrimage their own is seen trees olmert that the road is near a 4.6 kilometer therof there between india and pakistan it is the 1st of these a free border crossing in the 2 nations history it opens last november the real moment of cooperation between a nuclear armed rivals was meant to allow sikh pilgrims to visit holy sites on either side of the border. that covered $1000.00 restrictions put a stop to that and mudge now pakistan is allowing the pilgrimage to continue but india is not yet gets excited excited. yet sad.

about the way back from india where the brought the border. and militants like a salad or the restaurant. that if you bothered sure. the feds. was india's stops the pilgrimage citing concerns about the spread of covert 19 is now experiencing a record number of infections with around 90000 new cases every day. in. all the pilgrims here believe that we are absolutely saved by the grace of baba good enough pakistan has come out of covenanting so we believe that we are safe here and nothing will happen to us the india is concerned about the spread of covered 19 because this is a 3 day commemoration with thousands of pilgrims few people when mosques and social distancing rules have largely been ignored was that if we don't use a mosque nor do we followed the other precautions because it's against our ritual

or the programs here believe that nothing will happen to them and they are safe here at the shrine indian sikhs have struggled for more than 70 years to visit the sacred trying and while political disputes on this issue have been resolved the road built one obstacle remains covered 19 shallop ballasts al-jazeera. say this is absurd these are the top stories in malaysia's opposition leader claims to have a strong majority to form a new government and whatever him says prime minister you didn't yes since administration has fallen but still needs a king's approval for any leadership changes to falsely has more now from quote of them. prime minister could also be seeking an audience with the king and even if he meets the king phares he could very well offer parliament to be dissolved and that would trigger snap elections so there's still

a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen now and the government's response so far what we've heard is a cabinet minister taking a dig at announcement now he tweeted a photo of the cabinet meeting on wednesday with a caption nothing has collapsed all fallen the subtext being that the current administration is still very much intact. has used his speech to the u.n. general assembly to attack china over the coronavirus pandemic the u.s. president once again accused beijing of failing to share information when the outbreak began chinese tech giant well wait is calling on the u.s. to rethink its trade restrictions a mobile phone maker is blocked from buying any chips made with u.s. technology over suspicions the chinese government is using its network equipment for spying. the u.s. city of louisville in kentucky is preparing for protests as it awaits an announcement about the fate of police officers who shot brianna taylor the 26 year

old woman died in march and she's become a rallying cry for protest against police brutality a state of emergency has been declared the city is expected to decide whether the officers should be charged last week her family was given a $12000000.00 payout from the city pledged police reform. government protesters in egypt have been back on the streets for a 3rd night. though these are pictures from giza just north of cairo demonstrators are calling for president i will fight to l.c.c. to step down as they've been defined a police crackdown which has seen at least 200 people arrested since sunday. all right your state with the headlines your analogies are coming up next we have inside story. as a strictly prepares for bushfire season survivors of the last summer's catastrophic fires are still struggling whether one east follows one community's road to

recovery but now just 0. trying to forge a new beginning in mali after months of protests and a military takeover and interim leaders made for a return to civilian rule but will mali and success their new leaders in building your ancient gets international support this is inside story. hello there welcome to the program i'm hala my he'd seen the people of mali have had a challenging few months their military has been in paris since august after forcing the resignation of president ibrahim boubacar kaita now as the nation marks its 60th in the.