boy and civil war. now is it there or me, you want to help save the world. needs into your own. ah, oh i this is al jazeera ah hello, hello raman. you're watching the algebra news. i live my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 60 minute. the 2nd filling of the grand ethiopian renee, salt damn, is about to be completed, a major milestone and a project that's called tension over the regions water supplies. i. england dropped almost all of it. 19 restrictions,

despite warnings that could be heading to $100000.00 cases a day. also, the struggle to clear up to some of the worst flooding western europe is seen in decades. and israeli spyware is linked to an investigation that finds the phones of hundreds of journalists and politicians have been hacked. and i'm far as small with this ford as another to athletes has positive for over 19 inside the olympic village in tokyo, on one of the biggest olympic sponsors, toyota, withdraws all its commercials in japan associated with the game. ah, could help you with this welcome to the news. ethiopia, state media is reporting that the 2nd phase of selling the controversial grant renee sold stuff is nearly complete. now the issue has res, tensions with its neighbors. egypt and sit on want

a binding deal over the filling and the downs, operations of approach, the un security council to intervene in therapy says the project is essential to its development. but kyra and cartoon, it could restrict that access to water as go straight over to catherine. so he joins me now from addis ababa. it does seem catherine, that matters are coming to a head in the region. yes it does. they're still trying to get in touch with the officials or the ministry of, of irrigation to give us more detail of this. but then it has been a now. so the said book costs and the government news agency saying that the dumb feeling is in the completion of porting sources, as a ministry of information, were saying that there were no major problems. but as you mentioned, it has caused some little tension between the field and those drop downs to countries, egypt and sudan, worried about what this will do. their own water flows along the now they are

saying that then needs to be binding legal agreement before any operations on the dam had off. if you had to stop this process and feel that agreement is reached. but he has said no, that cannot happen. we will continue, the prime minister has been speaking about his saying that he does not intend to tom any of this countries, but then i'm going to do whatever i can he's administration is going to do whatever i can to protect this process. all the feeling that started all year in the month he talks about the un security council meeting. the members of the un security council meeting all seems to be leaning towards going back to talk, mediated by the african union. we know, previous talk mediated by the african union, have failed. but if you'll also say that this is an officer problem that needs to be dealt with by the african union, egypt and sudan, saying that we need mediation from the un that european union. and so one, but

a lot of people here in, if you're saying that they're waiting for these projects to be completely waiting, they're hoping for those benefits of 65000000. if you can, that's half the population or not do have access to electricity. we've been speaking to some of them who is saying that they're very proud of this project. it's a project that they raise money to fund. so. 5 a lot of uncertainty in the reason, but if you've been here saying that they want the project to come to and they want to benefit from that dumb. catherine over the past few years, we've been following the construction of this down the mediation. as you mentioned through the un security council and through the african union, as matters have come to a head, it seems that diplomacy can only go so far. so one does have to wonder, is there a concern about any conflict?

because africa doesn't really need another conflict. well, there is a huge concern about what this may do. it just has to done both saying that they do not want any conflict, but recently we so training courses by both countries and the course close on here in if you're, if you're p as, while we've seen a build up of, you know, troops around. 7 you know, the dumb filling sides, we had the prime minister saying that so one of the reasons why they withdrew soldiers from the guy, whether the ongoing conflicts, the one of the reasons that we do a soldiers from there is to prepare for a possible external threat to all this or talk is causing quite a lot of concern, but all the countries are agree that there is no appetite for a conflict. they say that diplomacy is the only way to go. the un security council have said that this country should go back to talks mediated by the african

union. there's a lot of concern. yes, but i mean, a lot of people will talk to here in a few. and in those other 2 countries as well saying that the reason know, obviously for hopefully this needs to be resolved, but a binding solution of binding legal agreements must be in place so that everyone can be on the same page on the operations of his dom catherine, so that for us in the sub a thank you. now after 17 months serve m t down salt, england's night clubs of reopened with bank confetti and countdowns marked the start of what's being called freedom day. almost all cro virus restrictions that are being listed much to the disapproval of scientists. health experts, warm cove at 19 infections could reach 200008 day within weeks. meanwhile, a south korean military ship is the latest current of ours battleground in just a week. infections on board have gone from 6 to almost all of the crew of $301.00.

it comes as the country finds its own worst outbreak at home. southeast asian nations are also struggling with fresh outbreaks. thailand disordered strict locked downs and curfews in areas of high infections and suspected domestic flights to control a delta variant search will be halted. that's got the very latest set on the situation . over in the u. k. with joan, how in london and gender the calling it freedom day in london. but what does that really mean in practice? why do you spell it out there? it's the lifting of all the remaining social restrictions on life in this country. protecting people up to now against coven 19. there's still some in place travel restrictions and so on. but basically everything is now lifted, no more social distance seeing it's no longer know that you've got to wear a mosque in doors that lifted the restrictions on the numbers of people who can gather indoors. that's why you're seeing the nightclubs reopening long queues during the night. sunday into monday morning,

around the country. young people trying to get into nightclubs for the 1st time since march 2020. so it's, it's stage 4 of the government's phased return to normal life. already delayed by one month towards something that begins to look and feel inferior at least a bit more like normal living. but of course, what it doesn't mean is that the virus is no longer a threat every day around 50000 people in england test positive for cobit 19 the highest number in 6 months, and rising fast. most a young unvaccinated fit enough to survive, but not all. 277 people died last week and among the vulnerable so called freedom day brings little more than anxiety. is a loss of concerning information coming out, which shows rising cost supplies, ations in the u. k. rising case, number's the attendant consent of the rising number of people suffering from long

symptoms in this country. but also just in the last 24 hours, we'll say we're starting to hear from dr. is that and it just services starting to have clinic services cancel because at the high rate to start thickness isolation that's needing to happen. it's a small mercy then that the schools will close in a few days time. more than 800000 children were sent home last week because someone in a year group bubble tested positive, many will begin their some a break in isolation. parents, we worry about the ongoing risk of infection. i want to give up the mask and not know my children or my husband. we won't, we will wear the mask. because i can see really nice and clear and future in the next mounts to wear them or not to wear them. mosques are a question the government has wrestled with, but without conclusive answers,

they will no longer be required by law. but most offices shops and transport companies will continue to encourage them. and this the national health service app pinging away incessantly telling hundreds of thousands of people to self isolate each week. because a close contact has tested positive and each ping means income. last stop, shortage is holiday plans in ruins. there is some good news singing is back band since the start of the pandemic, and a chorus of full throated approval for that. for people who sing, but you sing as an amateur or professional, it's a very important part of your life. it's way to keep your sanity and keeping your relationship to the world. and so for us to be able to finally get together and here's a sound around us, not just coming out of a few speakers in front of our computer. it's just been regulatory. it means churches, nightclubs and theaters can rule back into life. freed also from social distancing

rules, but will there be people brave enough to fill them and maybe call freedom day for suddenly jo, nobody in fact for the prime minute status finance minister. while one does, whether to set them up, shop themselves in the foot by sources singing the praises of freedom de well, you know, the government's rational in the, in the words a problem is devoris. johnson is, if not now, when, if you wait is the scientists are urging for more people to be vaccinated, they're always going to be gaps in that vaccine program vulnerabilities within it. well then you risk the, the possibility of a higher peak later, the going to the winter a difficult time for the n h s. anyway, they don't want to have to do that. you would also be missing out on the some of the natural firebreak as he called it up the schools being off preventing why to spread infections there and all the while you've noticed in the government messaging here, it's become ever less gung. however, more tempered, frankly,

quite confusing people are being told to go out, live their lives. but to do so with maximum caution, exercising, personal responsibility. and on that point, you raised that with the hundreds of thousands of people being pinged into isolation every week. include now boris johnson himself, the prime minister re she said that the secretary treasury secretary and indeed the health secretary job is actually got the virus. these are the 3 most senior arguably government figures in fighting cove. it all will be watching the so called celebration of freedom de tightly locked up inside their homes. joe, for the latest thanks very much. joining us from london broadcast center the d and good. the sunny is a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer, queen mary university in london. she says lifting restrictions could lead to more mutations that can be more dangerous. this is not a wireless that we can live with. i mean, we are seeing this virus evolve and the to

a new how do you transfer me to believe every few months then which then takes over across the world and leads to another search. the only way to prevent this sort of bias that, that patient and protect our precious vaccine resources is to prevent transmission . and that's not just in the regional level. but in a global level, we know that many countries don't have adequate access to vaccines, and it will be a long time, perhaps even one or 2 years before everyone is vaccinated. and in that period of time, if we allow transmission to continue at high level, we will see many, many more new radians. and one could potentially escape vaccines more 40, which could have implications for the found to be across the globe. so i think countries who think carefully about not just you know, vaccination strategies, but also how to keep transmission low with good surveillance test is isolated systems. and you know, good measures to deal with transmission like investment and ventilation a, into environments and marking and good border controls until we all get this under

control. what's happened now is we've had a highly transmissible train emerge, which is threatened elimination in areas that haven't had strong mission for long periods of time like vietnam. and that's what's really concerning. and if we continue to live with the wider, we're going to see more and more transmissible streams of at some point. and she's going to become impossible. and they may also keep ahead of our vaccines, which means even with vaccines, we may not be able to protect ourselves. and that will be a really dangerous place to be there um abroad isn't sol with more on the south korean war ship outbreak. it is a very alarming outbreak, given the fact that this did seem to spread through the entire ship's company in the matter of just a few days. it is rather reminiscent of the outbreak that courts the u. s. aircraft carrier way back at the beginning of his pandemic march of last year that was similarly stricken in the pacific ocean war. ships are, we know, are incredibly vulnerable, confined spaces,

especially below decks with very little chance. will lodge cruise to socially distance. this is a much smaller ship and it's no less alarming out of the crew of some $3247.00 testing positive. this said destroyer is part of south korea is contribution to the anti piracy task force of the east coast of africa. it still had another month of its deployment to run, but that has now been premier surely cut short as questions are being asked here is have career about given the vulnerability, why hadn't the crew been vaccinated now the military have come under a lot of scrutiny and they have said that there were logistical problems in getting vaccines out to the ship. that may be true, but they certainly have much bigger logistical problems. now they have a stricken vessel and a sick crew. and the solution to it is by no means easy as they have sent from south korea to military craft to bring the entire crew back here to south korea. those same planes have taken at a replacement crew, a reduced crew of

a $150.00 sailors whose job it is now to bring this ill fated vessel back to south korea waters well as it increased lockdown across thailand. tony chang has the latest from bangkok. drove past the hospital today where they were queues outside the hospital around the block of people waiting just to get tested. it's a real problem here. i think the government recognizes that they don't have the system. this situation under control. they're trying to increase the level of the locked and we're still not seeing the same level of lockdown. we saw this time last year when very strict missions were in place. but the tightening things up, this is the 2nd time in less than 7 days. they've increased the curfew, it's now no longer optional. people have to stay in doors between the hours of 9 pm and 4 am. more places of business are being close to being forced to shut again. that was voluntary last week when they put these measures in place flights out of

the capital a being bad. now this is regarded as a deep red zone in an area of really serious infection. and they want to start people from moving in and out of bank corporate. all the problem is the government kind of torn down in the south is trying to open up trying to get tourists back into pre kit and some movie now. the other holiday island opened up with the sandbox scheme, but with everything that's going on in the rest of the country, it seems very unlikely that time will open up. the prime minister's hope was that it would happen on the 1st of october. i think at this stage that's very, very optimistic. well, thank morehead on the news are including type security in south africa as the corruption trial, a full month president, jacob zimmet resumes after days of writing for me to one champion. louis hamilton is racially abused after winning the british from free reactions about coming up in force. with a

japanese chancellor has described the situation in areas hardest hit by floods, a surreal and terrifying angler. myrtle has visited one of the effected villages as a man so clean up gets underway across europe. western europe more have more heavy rain has parts of eastern germany, australia and the republic at least 100, maybe 3 people are dead, but that number is expected to rise at a rainy is life for us in as cushion of the carrier by adam continues, but it's not easy for those that really have lost everything indeed. so we're in an area not far from where the major flooding happened, suite me through this whole region. you can see a police roadblock behind me and these are sprinkled all across this region because this whole area was completely flooded under water. you can see a car,

perhaps in the distance, a road that got washed away. we've seen dozens of bridges just swept aside with the force of these floods. and people are starting to dig out of their damaged home. some of them will not be her biddable anytime soon as we saw in the nearby village of should destruction on a scale hardly imaginable. people in short, germany are clearing out with the flood waters left behind at a local guest house, in brewery, they're taking stock. and saving whatever they can with fish and deficient initial food, either fish, good line of also some 1st of all, bar manager michael croyt. it shows us how high the water rose here. often there's some saturday was meant to be the brewery grand opening after 4 month renovation. now he says he'll be lucky if they open within a year the cushion line and was annoyed on the thought that i will not thousands of nobody in under everything in the cellar was destroyed. the heating system, everything technical and the cooling. we're talking at least 3 quarters of

a 1000000 euros to replace it all. with recovering cleanup efforts fully underway, chancellor merkel came to this region on sunday, promising give these people what they need and she was clearly touched by what she thought is this a slick and it's terrifying. i would say there's no word and the german language to describe this devastation. but what i witness is incredibly comforting. it's how people are sticking together, how they helping each other, the solidarity among people. merkle cabinet is scheduled to meet on wednesday, where, according to reports, they'll approve billions of years in relief and reconstruction funds down in the village. it's all hands on deck volunteers that come from across germany to help out the burner norm. if in his 2 friends came from the neighboring village and down the hall, it's crazy to see old people now become poorer from one day to the next. they can

use all the help they can get. back at the bar, michel croyt says he doesn't have time for the sadness to sleep in help. his started to arrive and he wants to focus on reopening as soon as he can. and i did not seem to be the message that anglo merkel got from the public that she met what less than 24 hours ago. because how the government reacts will impact really on their reputation as they head to a presidential election just a few weeks away. indeed, what we have a couple of things going on. so we have officials merkel among them, but also her interior minister out among the people today, monday in this region. her interior minister's visit dan, that many feared would break from the force of rising water, says waters are receding now, but there's still fears that more damage is to come. we're also hearing reports have more bodies being found and, and, and sellers in another area has these waters continue to add,

been steep away. but we're also starting to hear people clamor for, for some kind of accountability, who's responsible for a flood system that was supposed to be very strong and, and efficient and working properly seems to have failed on some level. so we have officials going out on the major media in germany saying it worked, but perhaps the sirens sit and go off as much as they should have. perhaps the message wasn't received as well as it could have been in the middle the night. so we have people trying to find some accountability while the government is assuring people the system work that could be tweaked, it could be improved while angle americans also trying to protect her legacy with the september elections coming up and her chosen successor from one of these hard hit regions up for election, we're going to see a lot of jocking for who's going to convince people that they should get their vote . and this is all happening as merkel herself the thing we need to do much more to prevent storms like this in the future. she's suggesting that the government will

enact or pass some sort of, of major climate reform. of course, these are just vague promises right now, although the european union is making more concrete proposals and the coming months . but what we're seeing is a clamor for accountability and also just some assurance that the government is going to pay for all this rebuilding that needs to be done in the billions of euros and come up with new policies that protect germans in the future. so things live in cash and thank you. nothing's belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, and politicians have been hacked by government, seizing spyware owned by israeli surveillance company, and as over. now that's according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media outlets. investigate to say they obtained a list of 50000 members, targeted by the spyware, called pegasus, at least 600 politicians, 85 human rights activists. and as many as 200 journalists from 50 countries have

been effected journalists working for international news organizations such as the associated press, new york times, bloomberg and douches. there have been targeted since 2016 and a so initially said the software would only be used to spy on terrorists and major criminals. these ready firm has called the investigations findings exaggerated and baseless. let's get more in this model until hamid who's a head sillier, near tell a v. i mean what r s i was saying? a, what do we know about the product and their activities? well, i mean, so it was actually described to me as quite a secretive, not very transparent company. it is a take company, it does deal in cyber security and it does sell it software and it's 6 knology to foreign governments about $45.00,

somewhere between $45.60 foreign governments. i've actually all are still using it software. now this program pack is, is, is it set to be sort of their star products. what we understand also that company was formed by ex, officers of the military intelligence here in israel. and they drew a lot of the employees also from people who had experience during their military service in military intelligence. now the company is saying that it bears no responsibility, that once it says it sells those systems to the various governments. it has no control about what happens with this system. it has no collection, no data as to what those governments do with that software where, where it be, you know, tap into foes of human rights activism,

political dissidents, or journalists. and it still says there is no responsibility for that hold. i mean, really so many people around the world have been affected by this product itself. who in, in the region where you are, might have been affected, are we getting any word on math? we're not getting any word about so someone here in israel that would have been affected by that product. now it has to be said that m s a says that specifically on this show of data that has been published that it's actually denies. any of that is, is, is she said they say it's on corroborated data, the sources are not good and it's sort of denies all of that report all together. but what we do know for a fact that is that sold that system to various governments in the region,

going from maroka to a man, to saudi arabia, to bahrain and others. the traces of the peg as this system that has been found on phone in many more countries in the region. that does not mean that the governments of those countries are actually using it. but there are people, virtually in every single country, at least in the middle east, and as far as mexico that have been affected by that system that had been monitored through that system. and it has to be said, it's such a sophisticated software that the person doesn't really know that this phone is open, that all the data on his phone is being looked at by somewhere else by someone else somewhere else in the world. that even the phone can act as a voice recorder. so that's as much that is how in seed is that little? that software is but completely unbeknownst to the victim,

to the person carry weapons and i for on android again. and if so, says that all of this information that we have been talking about lately is encore over rated is based on false claims and false that and refused the whole thing for me that head soleah. thank you. bye. well, ellia, we spoke to said harvard roger, and he's the found to get his the of the wire, a journalist whose phone was also hacked. he said that needs to be legal repercussions. there is something known as lawful lawful interception. and there's the prescribed procedure for this mention in statute in government rules, as well as the guidelines and the you suspect, which of all hacking into my porn is specifically excluded from the definition of multiple levels. because it is defined as one of the constituents of the crime of hacking. so if you practice, it has been found on my phone as we can confirm. this means my phone was hacked.

that's me, the crime was coming. the question is, who has committed the crime now? and that's all on the record, a thing that they only sell by where to so called better government. so it's really for the government of india to answer. and when they've been in the past that are you, are you a user of pegasus the have stopped well short of it. categorical denies. the government has never been denied on the record that they use. pegasus is really, you know, in military and civilian technology have developed a lot of tools which are very useful for government around the world, particularly those that play fast and loose with the humanitarian norms or democratic norms. and so the targeting of journalists cannot be justified by any people to national security, which is the usual alibi cited by, by government. when they, when they trade on civil liberty,

the 1st guantanamo bay prisoner, released under the by the administration has been re pantry handed to morocco. and the thief, nasa was captured by pockets on the agents in 2001 i was sent to guantanamo the following. year nasa was accused of involvement with the taliban, but has never been charged. he was cleared 35 years ago. $39.00 prisons remain in the facility in the 11 have ever been charged. while still a had here on the news, i will hear from the 24 year old taking the world of gold by told story coming up with foreign in for a while the rain has moved on. it's still as it presents a potential threat that snows heavy.