russia now seems to be going off to the main economic resource which is of course we'll bring you the stories in development is the rapidly changing the world live in president obama's america 1st policy of trying to try wall that morphed into a technological wall counting the cost on al-jazeera. senior republicans distance themselves from president trump after he refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election. on tennis's al jazeera live from london also coming up. calls for calm after anger across the u.s. over a decision not to charge the police officers who shot dead brianna taina. france

and the u.k. both announced record high numbers of new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours. even sweden's prime minister is warning of a warning a rise in covert cases saying caution has been replaced by hugs and counties. and rival groups fatah and hamas reach a deal to hold the fast palestinian elections in 14 years. her senior republican politicians in the united states have been promising an orderly transition if donald trump loses november's presidential election this off to the president refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power senate majority leader mitch mcconnell tweeted that there will be a peaceful handover of power as the has been every 4 years since 792 trump started the latest controversy when answering questions in wednesday's white house briefing

we have to see what happens you know that i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballot surges airstrip and that people are writing commit to making sure that there's a nice little word for all of the want to get rid of the ballots or you'll have a very transfer we'll have a very peaceful there won't be a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation of the ballots are out of control you know it and you know knows it better than anybody else the democrats know it better than anybody else. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi who is a democrat says the president should honor his duty to the constitution but that a president of the united states would place in doubt the idea of the peaceful transfer of power is well it's no surprise because the president has been contemptible of science and governance. meanwhile donald trump has been paying his respects to the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg whose coffin is being displayed in washington.

received unless the new welcome with protesters chanting vote him out trump says he will announce this weekend his nominee to replace justice ginsburg who was a liberal and strong advocate of women's rights she had requested her replacement be chosen by the winner of november's election let's talk more about the list with our white house correspondent kimberly how kids are completed the president's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power feed loses the election has its course question rouse and. it has a right he's done essentially is cast doubt grave uncertainty over the integrity of what has always been a cornerstone of american democracy and that is the peaceful transition of power now the u.s. president has said that he really 1st of all believes that there will be continuation other words he doesn't kill lose but what he's done is said that if i

do lose it may suggest that there was vote rigging that there was fraud and this is something the president has done for weeks now is suggested that because of mail in ballot being due to cope with 19 the fact that many people don't want to stand in line for in person balloting the results could be questionable now the white house press secretary kelly machinating was asked about this she said that the president would accept the results of an election but only with conditions. the president will accept the results of a free and fair election and he will accept the will of the american people loses and it's free and fair he will accept that answer your question he will accept the results of a free and fair election. now it's important to point out that the interpretation of free and fair could be very broad and interpreted in a number of different ways leaving open the possibility once again that the president may not accept the results now the other thing the white house press secretary did in her briefing was point to the fact that it is not just the

republican president but also some prominent democrats who are casting doubt on the election pointing to the fact that donald trump is challenger and 2016 hillary clinton has in more recently said that she believes that joe biden the current democratic presidential nominee should see the error should not accept the results especially should not concede under any circumstances so what we've seen for americans here the bottom line here is that prominent members of both the republican and also the democrat party have really undermine the credibility of elections at a time when americans are looking for some leadership and also some certainty as they approach this very important what could be a potentially pivotal vote and community launch group meantime of former pentagon leaders who have publicly endorsed joe biden. yeah this is interesting because you have to remember the u.s. president is the commander in chief now this is a list of roughly 500 or almost 500 retired or former national security officials

some of them are actually decorated officers with 4 stars many of them who served under president trump the commander in chief of the armed forces now it's important to note in some of these cases these were people that were appointed by the previous president commander in chief iraq obama but essentially what they have done is said that they don't believe that this president is fit for office that he is a threat to the public and already has shown a failure to lead in their opinion this is certainly going to have ramifications at least in the military community where we already know that the president is hurting in some polls as well the president could take this is a personal slight given the fact that he has given so much money to the military under this presidency tried to rebuild the military and has really taken that as a badge of honor on to the campaign trail so there's no question that this is something the president may comment further on given the fact that it is so very

clearly not in his favor committee how could thank you very much indeed. reveals bracing for a 2nd night of protests over the decision not to charge police officers for the death of briana taylor one man has been charged with shooting and injuring 2 police officers during protests in the kentucky city on wednesday night. began after a grand jury decided against charges for 3 offices the black woman's death during a drug raid in march 1 for so it was charged in danger in his neighbor's $120.00 professors were arrested overnight with demonstrations taking place in several other cities the mayor of louisville has called for calm as the city approaches another nighttime curfew. what we saw last night with the 2 police officers being shot was obviously completely unacceptable by alliance will only be a source of pain not a cure for pain and we know that violence is never the answer our community is

hurting many see brianna taylor's case as both the tragic death of a young woman and the continuation of a long pattern of devaluation in violence that black women and men face in our country as they have historically but the question obviously is what do we do with this pain there is no one answer no easy answer to that question but i do know this violence is not the answer and destruction is not the answer brianna tennis family lawyer has denounced the decision saying it shows a divided and on equal justice system they're watching endangerment charge is it just doesn't make sense when you think about they want to end danger man for the white neighbors apartment. the bullets going there but not for the bullets going into briana taylor's body underscores what i have said many times we seem to have 2

justice systems in america one for black america and war for white america. inspector general antonio terrorist says the world has failed when it comes to cave in 19 blaming a lack of preparedness cooperation and unity in speaking at the united nations general assembly which is being held virtually this year because of the coronavirus during a security council session the us russia and china clashed over responsibility for the pandemic if someone should be held accountable if you should be appealing u.s. politicians themselves. the you are through to understand that believe me are because we are not solve its own problems. the number of americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week unexpectedly increased suggesting the

economic recovery from the coven 19 pandemic is running out of steam amid diminishing government funding according to thursday's labor department report claims increased 287-0000 last week from 866008 week earlier the country has so far recorded nearly 7000000 cases and at least 202000 deaths. as europe sees a 2nd wave of coated 19 the u.k. and france have both announced record numbers of new cases france reported 16096 over 24 hours its 4th record in 8 days the u.k. reported its highest ever number of daily new cases at 6634 while the figures are higher than at the height of the pandemic testing has also increased dramatically. and his case is increased the u.k. government has unveiled new measures to help workers and businesses suffering during the pandemic chance irish eastern ak unveiled a 6 month program to subsidize the wages of workers who return to their jobs part

time and also extends loans to companies hit by knock down restrictions unemployment in the u.k. is set to spike after the current furlough scheme concludes in october. the government will directly support the wages of people in walk giving businesses who face depressed demand the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours rather than making them redundant so to support more than 150000 businesses and help protect 2400000 jobs through the winter i'm announcing today that we are cancelling the planned increase and will keep the lower 5 percent v.a. t. rate until march the 31st next year. and cost need barker who is out on the streets of central london where bars and restaurants are being ordered to close early from thursday need 1st of all talk us through some of the details of a new job scheme has begun to work. through this is

all deliberately timed to coincide with the end of an incredibly popular scheme the 1st scheme they're paid 80 percent of the wages of millions of workers are keeping thousands of businesses afloat but what the government's essentially saying is that look covert is here to stay we need a new way of dealing with things and that is to a certain extent in a mission that some businesses are simply just not going to survive the new package of measures seems to be targeted companies that are basically saying look we're experiencing a shortfall of turnover in business particularly in the hospitality sector bars restaurants like these here in soho but they're also saying look we can bounce back from this in several months time we need a lifeline so the government is saying is. they will pay 2 thirds of the last earnings of workers providing that the workers continue to earn a 3rd of their ordinary salaries and providing of course employers keep those

employees in a job it is designed to avoid a serious spike in unemployment there are huge concerns that when this 1st comes to an end that it would exacerbate levels of poverty and unemployment we're yet to really see what it's going to look like when it's translated into numbers and figures exactly how many people are getting a benefit from this of course questions already being raised about self employed people really soon at the chancellor saying that there is a parallel scheme that's been devised and as well more details about that to follow in the meantime cases are still going up so extra measures to try and combat that as well. you also you want all of this amid a backdrop of spiraling figures according to the chief medical and health officers who spoke earlier on in the week a case is a doubling on a weekly basis they say by the middle of october if things continue to spike and go

up at this rate we're talking about $50000.00 new infections a day and a month later that translates to $200.00 deaths a day hence a new raft of restrictions announced by the government early on in the week yes bars and restaurants will have to close earlier at 10 pm businesses are worried about the impact of that on a late night or a commie restrictions on the number of people going to the going to 10 weddings and funerals people no longer be encouraged to go back to the offices are being told to work from home if they can for the foreseeable future and also new fines for people filing to where mosques in certain places under certain conditions but of course there are some saying look this simply doesn't go far enough among that growing chorus are several prominent scientists because ahead of this. latest round of restrictions the government had been talking about introducing a circuit breaker approach a much fuller lock down for a short period of time possibly 2 weeks to dampen this soaring or steadily rising

numbers doesn't appear to be part of any raft of measures now boris johnson most certainly isn't ruling out the very last a new out that's come online today more than a 1000000 people have signed up for that but there have been some glitches some people saying they can't download it because their phones on you enough of course some teething problems there we had to see exactly how that new technology can be used effectively. thank you very much andy. or sweden is urging residents to limit social gatherings as it attempts to avoid a 2nd wave of the coronavirus a rise in local cases has prompted health officials to ask the public to avoid private parties crowded places and to work from home schools and restaurants remain open but plans to lift a 50 person limit on gatherings has been postponed it follows suggestions that sweden have beaten the coronavirus pandemic through a policy of herd immunity to knock downs honest estefan often told swedes that

they've become too relaxed about following anti covert guidelines. is so you throw food from it to most people in sweden still take a big personal responsibility to stop the spread of the need for all of our risks but many have become less cautious the caution that existed in the spring has more and more been replaced by hugs parties bus trips in rush hour traffic and every day life that for many seems to be a return to normal. finland is trying a new way to sniff out the code 19 virus quite literally 15 specially trained dogs are testing a scientific theory that they can detect the virus using their sense of smell passengers at the international airport in the capital helsinki what their neck with a course which is placed in a can for the dog to sniff it should then give an immediate result if successful it could provide a much quicker and more comfortable alternative to the conventional swab test.

still to come this off hour israel tightens its 2nd nationwide not down further and protests and ordering all non-essential businesses to close. and they strike for millenia could the ancient pyramid to see john be swept away by the floods of today . had there not much in the way of sunshine across areas of europe because they had the loss as low so streaming across central europe also across much the mediterranean wanted to pass in chiles and of course some thunderstorms still only class slightly ahead up into school in this country rain on the way and also some pretty strong thunderstorms have been impacting parts of italy so you can see here dramatic night skies over the city of rome but what a messy picture on friday plenty of heavy rain fairly vigorous system really impacting eastern sections of the u.k.

that will spread the rain across into southern scandinavia and in fact that rain training all the way down towards the owl's but not just rain of course snow as well in the forecast the next few days as winds a strong come into the bay of biscay and they will sweep across the mediterranean some very heavy rain again through will central and southern areas that will work its way towards greece as we go through saturday and some very heavy rain on the backside of this area of low pressure really impacting much of germany says some very heavy downpours we could well see some flooding from all this rain over the next few days it's not bad though in london we've got mostly dry conditions roll the more in the way of class by the time we get to sunday and monday and then in paris the game sunday monday and how much is really still well below the average. border an essential tools for humankind. i'm across europe pressure to recognize

water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think through the european commission would be very very true those would be privatization on anybody it's the only fields. people who see every 2 years something to invest a profit of they want or up to the last drop on al-jazeera. they're going to one of the top stories here now jazeera senior republicans in the united states have been distancing themselves from donald trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. louisville is bracing for

a 2nd night of protests over the decision not to charge police officers the death of briana taylor one officer was charged for endangering his neighbors but not for the fatal shooting of a 26 year old black woman. and as europe sees a 2nd wave of covert 19 the u.k. and france have both recorded record numbers france reported 16096 the 4th record in 8 days the u.k. has reported its highest ever number of daily new cases 6634. israel is imposing even stricter coronavirus knock down measures after a surge in infections from mr benjamin netanyahu says the restrictions are necessary to keep the country from being pushed to what he calls the edge of the abyss hurry force it has more from west jerusalem. israel was already one week into its 2nd coded 1000 locked down now with new cases nearing 7000 a day and the health system issuing warnings of overstretch daily life in the

economy to be restricted yet further. in the past 2 days we heard from the experts that if we don't take immediate and difficult steps we will reach the edge of the a bit in order to save the lives of israeli citizens we are required to impose full lockdown for 2 weeks. that means all non-essential businesses will close at an estimated cost of $10000000000.00 with around a 5th of the workforce unemployed the measure was opposed by the finance minister is unnecessarily damaging and it's a hard sell to a public already doubting and in many cases defying the current rules i think the government. is using and deploying actions that there is no medical agreement that are necessary i think that the government is completely dysfunctional i mean nothing nothing that is related to the country to the citizens and it's it is in its priority. the restrictions will stop the weekly anti netanyahu demonstrations

in west jerusalem political protesters will be able to gather only in groups of 20 no more than a kilometer from their homes prayers will be subject to the same rules with the exception of the jewish holy day of young people next week when synagogues will reopen with restrictions. that's led to fears of further spread within ultra-orthodox jewish towns and neighborhoods already hotspots of transmission netanyahu has been accused of failing to impose early targeted measures on such places because of the influence of the ultra-orthodox political parties and so with the competing factional demands confused messaging coming from the government has been an erosion in a crucial commodity public trust a poll this week but support for benjamin netanyahu is handling of the crisis at just 27 percent palestinian areas have also seen high infection rates and sporadic government enforcement especially in the patchwork of jurisdictions that make up occupied east jerusalem. the man in charge of tackling the pandemic went himself on

thursday to the refugee camp within jerusalem but beyond the separation wall to find businesses open and people mixing. when you look at the streets here you see people without vests who are wearing that it's not a picture to expect in a neighborhood with such a high rate of people dying of course at 19. the israelis have been watching the numbers grow with deepening alarm for weeks now they wait to find out whether this hastily arranged much argued over extra lockdown will work when so much has failed ari force it out just syria west jerusalem. fatah and hamas have reached a deal to hold the 1st palestinian elections in 14 years the poll is huge be held within the next 6 months and coincides with a move by the 2 groups to form a united front against israel this off to the u.a.e. and bahrain established diplomatic ties with israel this month i'm going

palestinian groups have accused arab neighbors of the trial. in the end we. had the. restoring our national unity is a strategic and dialogue is the only course to take elections and the democratic process are the only means a clear cut agreement has been reached that elections on proportional representation basis are the most conceivable course to take with a timeframe no later than 6 months need to abraham in ramallah says this isn't the 1st time the 2 groups have agreed to hold elections. the senior leader to be there too has talked about the consensus and agreement that has been reached between fatah and hamas to hold elections in stages 1st to start by the just of the council elections the presidential ones and then the palestinian national council elections which are expected to be including the palestinians and that they asked for of course this announcement comes after a series of meetings between fatah and hamas the started with

a press conference between the leaders in july in which they vowed to work together against israel's plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank course events after that continued and the palestinians were surprised with the announcement of the u.a.e. and beheading signing normalization deals with israel and that has led to the hand tense of by their meetings and say they really have so many limited options that they only hop to conciliation in unity as the only way forward but it's it's worth mentioning that this is not the 1st time the 2 port is agreed and talk about reconciliation and wanting to pull to elections. thailand's parliament has voted to delay a decision on whether to amend the constitution opting to set up a committee to study the process instead more than a 1000 protesters gathered outside parliament as the decision was made demonstrators say the constitution was drafted to keep promises to fire in power

after last year's election and a calling for his removal 8 there also demanding reform of the monarchy new elections and an end to the intimidation of political after activists when haye was at the protest he says all members of parliament upper house were handpicked by the military. changing thailand's constitution is going to be a very long and complicated process that was written by the military after they staged a coup in 2014 yes it did pass through a referendum after that but that referendum was held under pretty questionable circumstances and by design the constitution is very hard to change and that's why we're seeing so many people gathered here on the streets of bangkok over recent months and now outside parliament one of the main problems the protesters and opposition political parties have with the constitution is the makeup of the senate that sits in this building thailand's parliament holds

a 150 sentences were handpicked by the military and they have a lot of power including the power to hands pick an unelected prime minister so that is one major aspect of this constitution that these people gathered here today want to train our. bank accounts and property belonging to the russian opposition leader unexplainable may have been seen it comes just a day after he was discharged from a bell in hospital where he was being treated for poisoning with a suspected nerve agent his spokeswoman says a moscow apartment was seized over lawsuit stemming from a corruption investigation around the initiated his supporters say president putin was behind the poisoning the kremlin denies involvement. oh what's left of an ancient civilization which dominated north east africa for more than a 1000 years but the ancient pyramids and other sides of the state ensued on a threat from some of the worst flooding the country has ever seen why would i go travel to numero to find how i've been protected. these are the

ruins of the royal city in but you know we're not all swans the city of the powerful kingdom of kush that dates back to the 8th century b.c. there are remnants of temples palaces cemeteries and other places of interest that testified to the wealth and power of the question at state a major power in the north east africa region for more than 1000 years but now these ruins which have weathered thousands of years under threat through 2 weeks ago also residents of nearby villages join hundreds of students from her term university to protect the ruins ha tim had that was one of them. a cent of the honestly we've never seen anything like the floods last year they broke all differences and destroyed many homes including mine we were really worried they will sweep away the ruins the kings bought the house one of a few buildings still standing at the site was nearly flooded before the students

and locals intervened it's. this is out here it's a massive history right here that belongs to us and it should be protected properly no river floods every year and there's no guarantee it won't damage the sawing a few 100 meters from the ruins of the royal city sudan's motto we pyramids where kings and queens were in told slender and graceful this moment is bear witness to the last thing splendor was the kingdom the once rival the federals of egypt through the years the pyramids have been blundered of all their wealth i'm left to the elements as conventions began here only in the mid 19th century a few of the smaller pyramid self since been restored looking new in comparison to their more button is but ultimately they will never have to think about these morning ones are not just want something to enter the black race should be proud of it just to have it reaches 3 white. weeks so flooding is saddam

has killed nearly 100 on thought to people amid thousands homeless saddam's prized pyramids safe for now but for how long more floods have been predicted with help that of informal justice with the highlands of neighboring ethiopia a killer to say and the destruction to the pyramids as well as the thought was that the us all over the ruins of this ancient city would be a huge loss how about the world as it were but you know we're so done. with the headlines here not just here senior republican politicians in the united states have been distancing themselves from donald trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power trump starting the latest controversy wall street questions in wednesday's white house briefing forcing many from his party to

confirm they would definitely hand over power if the news is november's election senate majority leader mitch mcconnell insisted there would be a peaceful handover after president trump said there would be a continuation rather than a transfer. we'll have to see what happens you know that i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster and that people are writing to you commit to making sure that there's a nice little warrant for all of the want to have get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very transfer will have a very peaceful there won't be a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation of the ballots are out of control you know it and you know who knows it better than anybody else the democrats know it better than anybody else for. reveals bracing for a 2nd night of protests over the decision not to charge police officers for the death of briana taylor one man has been charged with shooting and injuring 2 police officers during protests in the kentucky city on wednesday night they arrest began

after a grand jury decided against charges for 3 offices of the black woman's death during a drug raid in march 1 officer was charged for endangering his neighbors $120.00 protests as were arrested overnight. as europe sees a 2nd wave of covert 19 the u.k. and france have both reported record numbers prince reported 916096 cases over 24 hours the 4th record in 8 days the u.k. has reported its highest ever number of dating new cases at 6634 the figures are higher than at the height of the pandemic testing has also increased dramatically. rival groups hamas and fatah say they've reached a deal to hold the 1st palestinian elections in 14 years the vote is expected to be shed door within 6 months of the last parliamentary elections in 2006 so hamas win an unexpected majority and lead to a conflict with fatah to stay with us up next is the stream.

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