ah, i the news is mega damn has been filled for a 2nd time in another milestone. the project that caused great tension in the region. ah, the whole rahman watching, i'm still like my headquarters here and coming up in the next 30 minute. no longer a threat to its national security, the by the ministration reasons. first prisoner from guantanamo bay. the us and its allies accused china being behind a worldwide email,

that compromised tens of thousands of competed. yeah. and this policy telling indian lives protocol with restrictions. but scientists are warning it could lead to 100000 cases a day. i welcome to the program, the 2nd phase of filling the controversial grundy therapy. renee sounds damn is complete. the issue has res. tensions with its neighbors. egypt answered on want a binding deal over the filling and the dams operations of approach the un security council to intervene. ethiopia says the project is essential to its development, but kyra and cartoon fer it could restrict their water access while we speak with him. morgan in saddam's capital caught him shortly because let's just cross over to catherine soy in addis ababa, ethiopia as capital. and catherine,

it seems that matters really are coming to ahead. yes, it does. and your peers, irrigation minister, has been tweeting about it and saying that the is completed. also say that there's enough water stored now to run to top binds to generate electricity in the coming months since the beginning of the feeling of the in this early this month. we so more soldiers being deployed around that down with a prime minister. i'm really saying that they are to protect the process and the dumb against external threats. we've also had before from egypt. thing it's going to do whatever it can to protect it's protect told you're right, so a lot of tension. i've been around the regional countries, but made me feel pins that i've talked to here. so hale,

i'm very excited about this project. they say that it's going to elevate them bring them out of poverty. $65000000.00 feel p and not connected to the greed, and many of them contributed raise money to buy government bonds towards the construction of these damn. so they're saying that they excited to see the completion of the dumb and to get the benefit from it. but again, like i said, the regional tensions with a country down stream it onto done worried over how this may impact their own water levels. catherine, so that thanks very much for the update from addis ababa. let's call save another hippa morgan, whose life was in the sydney's capital call to a very different reaction from the leadership in car tube and certainly from the people who live along the the river along the waterway. that is the nile. yes indeed, they are concerned for those who are living along the mouth and who rely on denial

for there was a supply put down. the government has said that 20000000 people will be affected by the 2nd feeling. but the government itself is yet to give an official reaction to the announced by the government that it has finished. the 2nd phase of filling up a therapy in renaissance them. what it did instead was give a reaction on the ground to say with them, which is about 100 kilometers away from the renaissance. them. gates were closed for the past few weeks. they had to open it this morning once if you'll be announced that it is completed. it's 2nd phase of filling that because they say that with more water flowing across all over the dam, there will be more water in the reservoir of the favorite them. that's something that has been raising concerns for many cities officials. they say that the capacity of the repair in them is 10 times less than the pin is on them. so the government was trying to work out an agreement over the filling and operation of the renaissance, them out of concern over the safety of their hands on them itself. they say that is

going to affect the hydro electric them, which is responsible for generating about 25 percent of the hydro electricity, which is again half of sedans, power sources. they're also concerned about the people themselves who rely on the water. they say that especially farmers, they say that they've already seen the impacts and they're concerned about what lies ahead now that the 2nd pulling has been announced normally around this time of the year i became his name's farm in prudence blue. now state near the border with if you appear has more fruits, but the farmer says the past year has been different than previous years. and he blamed it on changes in the blue nile river, just meters away for governor upon me. we lost the hill to get from the river every year. the river comes from the european highlands carrying a lot of shield is good for a river irrigated farms because it changes the soil. but the past year has brought less cells because of the renaissance dam storing water. and we don't often get it this year. abdicating farm is one of hundreds of thousands of acres in the state

that lie along the banks of the blue nile and depend on the river for irrigation. but the, if you've been renaissance dam being built upstream on one of the 2 sources of the river is raising concerns. it's set to be africa, the largest hydro electric dam upon completion. and a few p says it's a lift more than half of with the population out of poverty. but in downstream sedan farmers fear it will reduce their productivity mohammed, most of us farm lives, nearly 500 kilometers down the river near the sudanese capital whom he says, even he has noted changes in the foil since the 1st filling of the if you can renaissance them or light or the above or below the one, the effects that on there for them have been back for us. if there is no sailed, then there'll be no farming because we needed for the soil. last year that was where it is felt. and so we can farm crops and very farm the crops died because the soil quality talks to reach a deal about the filling and operation of the dam have repeatedly field for dance. has information sharing is critical during this process so that the government has

nearly 5000000 people suffered the impacts of the 1st filling of the few. been renaissance them that was completed last year without an agreement. this year the government says $20000000.00 people or have the population will be affected. that's include not only farmers along denial, but millions of people who rely on the river for their water supply. that's because, unlike last year, when 4900000000 cubic meters of water was stored, the 2nd filling is expected to store 13500000000 cubic meters. those who rely on the mile for water are afraid of shortages after last year's filling created problems for some water treatment plans. the renaissance dams, environmental impact is also yet to be fully revealed. those who rely on the river for other means of livelihood. the changes in the past year have affected their trade, was about that. we rely on mud sales and water from the nile to make bricks the most important to sell because it's what keeps the materials together. otherwise, it's just a block of mud, but still has reduced since last july. that's been bricks of lower quality,

which we have to sell cheaper. the 3rd phase of filling the renaissance dam is scheduled to happen next year. no new rounds of talks have been announced yet, but for many like i've been getting, the hope is that something is worked out before the changes to their farms become irreversible. now while for dance, government has said that there was a drop in the amount of water that is coming in from the highlands, the repairs them over the past few days. they said that they're expecting the levels of the water now coming into rise once again, and we're approaching the rainy season. so the impact, the real impact of the 2nd filling will not be felt until after the rain season. and that's why then has been very concerned about the lack of a deal and the lack of an agreement over the filling and the operation of them. they said that this information sharing a process is very critical to the operation of its them. but also that the farmers and those who live along the nile can manage their day to day lives, their sources of drinking water cleaning water so that the government also knows

house advises citizen and how to manage the other 3 dams. besides the service that lie along denial, now the african union is yet to announce a new date for round of talks between the 3. 5 to them has said that it doesn't want to go back to talks. if the method of negotiations has not changed between itself and egypt, and if you have not clear yet, if the 3 sides will come again as a negotiating table to try to reach an agreement to work out a deal before the face of the 3rd. for them, which is scheduled for next year, hibbon logan in call to thanks for the update. now the 1st one tell them of a prisoner released under the biden's administration has been re penetrated to morocco. it marks a break from the trump error when transfers and negotiations will halted of the ladies. nothing was captured by barcus on the agents in 2001 i was sent to guantanamo the following year. nasa was keys involved with the taliban, but was never charged. he was cleared for release of 5 years ago, while at its peak after the 911 attacks on the invasion of afghanistan,

the prison complex held about 675 inmates. now just $39.00 prisoners remain only 11 of those have been charged with war crimes. but other that the nasa, 10 of the remaining inmates have been recommended for transfer. i correspond, kimberly how kit is following events for the washington dc. it's a significant movie. i suppose for president biden's administration, one that he would have liked to see happen a lot earlier, perhaps when he was the vice president. no question about it. you may recall that brock obama made the pledge that on day one he would close the one ton of obey detention facility. but often what politicians find is the progress is made on the campaign trail. once you become the president, the united states, you find out that it's not always as easy as you had hopes. that's exactly what brock obama and joe biden found as vice president. and they were unable to keep that promise. and then as you reported under donald trump,

he not only was opposed to close to the facility he wanted to add to the population . so joe biden now who has really staked his presidency on upholding human rights wherever possible under us policy is looking to keep that promise made when he was vice president. and so what we've seen now is the 1st trap for under the biden administration of abdul nasir to morocco. but this is a lengthy process, and this is a challenge that the vice president now president is facing. and that is, but not only does each case have to be reviewed, it has to be put through the state department, been approved by the defense department, and then notifying congress. each one of those steps is lengthy. but in addition, you need a partner country, not necessarily the country where these detainees originated from in order to receive them. and so that has been a big obstacle,

but add to that. and this is what the obama administration found is that when you make a lot of noise about these cases that give congress time to push back and conservative, you don't want to see these men relief gives them a chance to charge the case. here's the other issue that the by the ministration is facing and why this means that those still there may not see a quick release. you have to remember that these men, for the most part were abducted by the ca held when they were 1st picked up in secret blacks, like prison for many, many years before they probably popped up at guantanamo bay. that means that the lawfulness of those detentions and abductions, have been challenged by their lawyers. and given the fact that so much of it has been in secret, that has also complicated these cases. so the, by the ministration is working very hard to try and keep this promise. but again, it's a lengthy what in terms of how this moves, but still the secretary of state antony blink and saying that they are going to

look at each and every one of these individual cases and work with countries to see that it is accelerated. kimberly, how could all whitehouse correspond to? thanks very much for the updates. well still had here on al jazeera is ready, spyware is linked to an investigation that finds the phones of hundreds of journalism. politicians have been hacked on the german government faces. accusations of not providing an adequate warning to people ahead of last week that the floods they stories after the break. ah, now the season rains for the time being taken a step back as we got not just one but 2 tropical storms in the system, just to complicate things. so in pocket which is just about to impact the science of china, even go to strength very much more remote tropical storm. whereas in fact,

we're probably become a tie food pretty soon to be honest. and instead of the water moves slowly towards ty, pay across the southern part of the recruit changed japanese islands, rice and bucker as impacting as i said, glen dong. now for the rest of the seasonal range look bit further north the yangtze, up towards the yellow river, shannon stretching up towards beijing. we could see significant rain, but for shanghai in all places, to the sas till the pickup the south coast is looking fairly dr. that is in japan and the korean police a bit more detail. this is where you can see this land impact the smallest storm strong winds, but rain will be the real thing. can i think of course you've got big waves coming to all the harbors. lol. not coast the philippines still looks quite wet as a, as a massive island both fit into zone. there are big showers in jakarta and in solar way. so you have to say, but for most of borneo, su marsha and including singapore,

it's quite dry. the talk to al jazeera, we'll roll. did you want the un to take and who stop to we listen, you see the whole infrastructure in guys being totally destroyed. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on our sierra. a lot of the stories that we cover heidi complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as i'll just say correspondence, that's what we strive to do. oh a

welcome back to that with me. so the reminder of all top news stories, the 2nd phase of filling the controversial grandy p. a. p. renee dam is complete. the issue has res, tensions with its neighbors. egypt on to don't want to binding dealer selling and the dams operations offense. guantanamo a prisoner released under the by the administration has been re pantries to morocco, a month to break from the trump era when transfers and negotiations were halted. and the german government is now on the defensive as it faces grain, criticism favorite floods preparations. the opposition says it failed to adequately warn citizens of lasting last week flooding. more than 160 people died in germany alone. heavy rain was forecast. the scale of the deluge took me by surprise. ministers admit that lessons must be learned, but se federal institutions did their part for a bit of the thought of the german where the service gives warnings of severe

conditions and is supported by european institution. and these warnings passed on to the federal states and from the states flooding centers to the different regions . and they are the ones making the decisions when it comes to protection against environmental disasters. so the state of emergency is not declared in berlin, but where it is taking place at m rainy as in the bobby hit state of north ryan west valia, where a clean up operation continues to be away. i'm in the middle, this town ard last and as you can see, it has this can now are rivers system goes right to the middletown. the waters rose so high and so fast that they just swept aside this safety barrier on wednesday night when they came rushing in. and here in town, you really get a sense of what's going on. people are putting all of their damage and discard a bolt valuables and belongings into the middle of the street and these back hose behind me here, lined up, there's several of them. they're picking up, putting them in dump trucks and the dump trucks are carting off. tons of material

from the people's homes. we've seen keepsakes, we've seen furniture, we've seen appliances. we've seen everything. basically anything on the ground floor was pretty much destroyed because the water rose almost 2 meters here. and let's look a little more at the damage here. you have the local bakery out of commission, not clear when it's going to be back, and the water is rush so hard and we're up so long that they caused the utter collapse of tons of concrete, asphalt, and steel. it's basically unsafe to walk alongside this river walk, which is in the heart of town. all these businesses are shut. you can see the building down there where the water rose so high there, they're just clearing up people there. and then over on the other side of the street here is, is a center where they're helping volunteers who come from near and far. people are coming up here. they're talking, they're trying to understand what happened. they've just finished their lunch. it's a little quieter than it was earlier, but a big operation just to clear all of the damaged property here, and many people,

of course, lost their businesses all their possessions. they say insurance is probably not going to make them whole, and they're counting on the german government to give them the support they need. china is being accused of engaging in malicious cyber activity, including the had called the microsoft exchange emails. earlier this year, the u. s. u k. and while i say groups banked by beijing were responsible, compromising tens of thousands of computers worldwide. now it's one of a range of cyber threats. china is being blamed for, including ransomware attacks worth millions of dollars. the us lead lyons is expected to announce details of action against china later on monday. mike hannah has moved from washington. d. c. us has come out with a very strong statement from the 2nd international past the country. making very clear that the u. s. whole. china responsible for this massive pack of microsoft servers. what the u. s. is doing at this particular point, it's informed microsoft about the nature of the hacked. it has launched an

investigation into the nature in a rare occurrence, the f b, i obtained a search warrant to go into corporate servers and remove elements of the hack that were left behind to prevent further hacks and also of course study how the heck was made so the u. s. is sharing all of this information with private entities in a bid to blocked any future attempts at hacks of service, such as those of microsoft. but it must be noted to as well that this is the 1st time that has been such a broad alliance formed what the u. s. has done is created a massive alliance, ranging from australia and new zealand, japan, b, e, u, nato, to publicly come out, and basically name and shane china for this particular action. this is unprecedented. the width of the protest, internationally against the village section by chinese hackers who the u. s. says associated with the ministry of state security in china. so this is the issue that

us faces, the reluctance among its allies. although it is a huge step for them to come out and name and shame, so to speak, but to get them to join into some kind of sanctions. campaign is going to be a very difficult issue. now things belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, and politicians have been hacked by government, seizing spyware owned by israeli surveillance company. and as oh, great, that's according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media outlets. investigate to say they obtained a list of 50000 members, talked by these spyware, pegasus, at least 600 politicians, 85 human rights activists, and almost 200 journalists from 50 countries have been effected. not journalists working for international news organizations such as the associated press, new york times, bloomberg and al jazeera have been targeted since 2016 and a so initially said the software would only be used to spy on terrorist and major criminals is really firm, has coley investigations,

findings exaggerated and baseless well. earlier we spoke to sit harvey dodge, and he's a founding editor of the wire. a journalist in india, whose phone was also hacked. he says that there needs to be legal repercussions that is something known as muffle lawful interception. and there's the prescribed procedure for this mention in statute in government rule, as well as a supreme court guidelines. and the you suspect, which was hacking into my phone, 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 it has been found on my form, 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 tread on civil liberty with almost all kind of iris restrictions, england have now been lifted. thanks man,

the no longer legally required social distancing rules have been scrapped and science limits on events have been removed. but doctors, a warning that could be a 100000 cases a day in weeks, in a few weeks time general hospital from london. how many young people this was the ultimate expression of freedom. nightclubs, roaring back to life in the early hours of monday morning with the lifting of cove at 19 restrictions for i definitely feel free to leave that things are going back to normal. it feels like is, but it still is a little bit apprehensive like, i don't feel like it's great for many freedom could prove short lived every day. now around 50000 people in england test positive one of the highest infection rates in the world. and among the vulnerable, despite the vaccine rollout, 277 people died last week. there's a lot of concern. any information coming out which shows rising cost supplies, ations in the u. k. rising case, number's the attendant consent of the writing number of people suffering from long

have some kids 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 and isolation that's needing to happen. the government strategy to allow the virus to spread among the young means more than 800000 school children were sent into isolation at home last week. scientists have warned the fertile conditions for new variant mutations, leaving parents to worry about the ongoing risks. i want to give up the mask and not know my children or my husband. we want. we will wear the mosque. a majority of the public, according to opinion polls agree. it may not be law any longer to keep a social distance or where a mosque indoors. but most people don't feel confident enough to dispense with them altogether. and is this the national health service that pinging away incessantly

telling hundreds of thousands of people to self isolate each week? because a close contact has tested positive and each paying means income. last stop, shortage is holiday planned in ruins on abroad to note singing his back band. since the start of the pandemic and the chorus of full throated approval for that, it means the return of church congregations and theatre audiences. but as the prime minister knows best, there is no freedom from the virus itself. but i've been thinking, i've been an artist too. so if i slate by the test, crazy, nicely. system after i be in contact with somebody who has kaylee, in this case of course, the health secretary said your job it. both johnson and treasury secretary richey soon equip pinged the 2 most senior members of the government, celebrating freedom day in isolation. at home journal, al jazeera london,

south korea military has recorded its biggest cluster of cave in 1900 infections to dates with more than 80 percent of personnel abroad board. a ship tested positive, not 247 sailors on an anti piracy mission. in the waters of africa were infected that comes to south korea battles its west of outbreak with 1200 new cases in the past 24 hours, restrictions have been extended across the country to curve the spread over indonesia. while it's reported a record number of crowd virus death in the past 24 hours, that the 1400 people have died due to the virus. but it's reporting the lowest number of new infections in a fortnight as battling oxygen shortage. and now has more daily infections than india. and brazil, thailand has expanded its low down as quote virus infections. rise is reported a full consecutive day of record new cases. with more than 11000 infections. domestic flights have been suspended and law places are under curfew. people from high risk areas have been asked to stay at home. jacobs was

long wedding corruption trial has been adjourned. until tuesday, when the court will rule, if the former south african presidents trial can go ahead virtually zoom denies, charges of fraud corruption and money laundering. they're linked to a $2000000000.00 deal with a french defense. when he was deputy president on july, the 7 zuba handed himself into police to serve a 15 month prison sentence on a separate case. his arrest spark days of violence and looting. bennett says has more front side the court in piece of merits book. this case goes back to 1999. when jacob zoom was deputy president, an indication of how long the former president's trials and tribulations have dominated the political scene. here in south africa, it concerns allegations of fraud over the sale and purchase, a fighter jets of military hardware from 5 european companies. the one in this case is policy jacob zoom. it denies any rolling corruption, sodas,

toddlers. now the trial only got going in may after many, many, germans over the years. and then a couple of weeks ago, zoom was jailed for refusing to give evidence to a government corruption. inquiry that sparked the violence that swept these countries to most popular populace provinces in the last week. and there were concerns that with the trial restarting. today, there would be another focus for violence to load. zoom and supporters did not set up in court. in march book on monday, zoom as defense lawyer want this case adjourned again, its being heard virtually at the moment. they wanted to journey until zoom is able to pay in person to make his case. the judge rule on that application on tuesday going on is withdrawing its diplomatic staff from barcus dawn after the brief abduction of ambassador's daughter in the capital. islam above the route between the neighbors has taken a turn the worst. and the african government accuses boxes of the boarding. the

taliban now comes ahead of buckets on hosting talks next week, following the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan. well, more, the 180 wildfires are burning across siberia, that you could. our region is one of the worst effected, almost $2500.00 fire fighters being called into battle. the blazes will fall in the region happen every summer. this year it's been more intense to to record high temperatures. ah, you want to live with me? said hill robin. indo reminder of all top new stories, the 2nd phase of filling the controversial ground. ethiopian renee sold, dam is complete. the issue has res, tensions with its neighbors? egypt answered on one to binding daily the filling and the dance operations conference or has moved from addis ababa the minister doctor unless you.