100 days until it host the winter olympics. but how will the pandemic and calls for a boycott impact the sporting event november on out jazeera ah this is al jazeera ah, it's 1800 hours g m. c. i'm come all santa maria, welcome to the news hour from al jazeera. another crackdown on protest is in sudan leads to several people dead as activists announced a new cit him in the heart. so we have to make sure that they are getting the assistance they need and of that. so the fighting ceases and the, the talking starts, your secretary state,

they're backing regional efforts to end the fighting and ethiopia of to weeks being pushed around at the poland, belarus bought some refugees and migrants finally get some relief. and the united nations, as iran is stepping up its nuclear program and violating the 2015 nuclear deal, i suppose. well, number one shock of it, cheese into the semi finals at the season ending atp finals, yoko, which beats in andre group left. he bits to win this title for a record equaling 6 time. ah, the breaking news out of sudan is that protest leaders are saying now at least 10 people have been killed during another massive rally against military rule. ah, latest pictures, the dozens of people in jude as well opposition groups had called for many people to demonstrate. plenty did turn out despite the killing of 6 people on sunday,

as well as to say they will not be in timid, intimidated, and have announced a one week says him. in addition, the military is locked down several areas enclosed off bridges. the l mc nearer bridge, the undermanned bridge, the tutti bridge, the aim being to stop protesters from moving south and joining together in central cartoon the area we've not to read there. so let's start with wrestle soda, who has been out on the streets of the sudanese capital covering the protests. we are in the bullet districts off deck capitol, of sudan cartoon, and to broadcasters started to gather around one p. m. local time, which is the usual trotter practice for the protest, there are tight security measures all around to reach to such as the threat of one needs to go to the the check points, guarded by the army,

the main roads there that, that the bridge that connect to size of the that the 9 river are blocked by the army to prevent people to gather. however, people are managing to reach to the cities. this is bullied this week and at the moment there are 7 other districts also that are forced in the protest. protesters behind me, they are barricaded the roads button in the tires and chanting. i guess it did that the military, they say are they want an immediate restoration off a civilian government. and they say or so they want the release of the political prisoners and also on me to commit to death cause additional declaration. it's signed in 2019 with with, with civilians. there's other districts that there's the protesters right behind me . you can see that it is relatively peaceful, but that is not well for all the other products that are going on around the city

just are just one hour ago in the 6th city it in khartoum. i have seen that there security forces was steering as fighting the ideal gas over the protesters shooting into air, to disperse them, and even following them into death base to 3, to disperse, to remove them from 2 to 3. so this protesters here how gathered here by the a call off, the, the resistance committees to force the source free demand, change the main civilian coalition, which had been in our power shaelyn with their military here. so far, all they're forced to find a political dialogue out of this a took to find a solution out of the baltic of that book is ladon. how failed and the civilian group says that they are going to keep organizing the protest to, to step up the pressure on the military to force it to

a power shade in agreement. and they said that they will not leave the streets until a civilian government is in charge until the news in belarus is set up shelters for some of the migrants and refugees stuck on the border with poland. thousands had been living in make shift camps come to day after polish police used tear gas and stun grenades to stop them. crossing into the e u. a survey from us at bake lining up to get some sustenance algebra them. these refugees and bell russian troops in the britsky area near the polish border. bella ruse has in recent days, stepped up a tab to show its treating people humanely. on tuesday night, it provided shelter for hundreds of men, women, and children in this warehouse to logically release o'clock, the commentary on this video comes from by the russian states media. many of them have now returned to the forest. these pictures from wednesday film by poland,

interior ministry apparently shall migrants leaving the makeshift camp as by the russian forces. look on some a carrying logs. the only thing that's kept them warm at night, overnight, there were fresh attempts to break through the razor wire and reach polish territory. i was earlier. polish forces had used water cannon across the border at a group of migrants. polish border forces said they were attacked with stones polish police said to one officer was taken to hospital with the head injury and the polish side. what provision there is has come from volunteers. on tuesday, the human rights commissioner of the council of europe visited one migrant aid center near the border. it is absolutely unacceptable what bella rose is doing and how the people are manipulated. that at the same time, i think we need to step aside and, and think you know, what is happening at the european border. why are these people left in limbo and

what can be done in order to stop this extremely dangerous situation? meanwhile, polish forces of parked water cannon opposite a new makeshift camp at the border. with no sign, the political standoff or the misery. 4000 stuck here, ending soon. as i beg, i'll jazeera poland. we're off to cuz nature now which is on poland. that side of the border with beller is to talk to jona hall. jonah, wonder if you could start with the diplomatic side of things and you were pointing out last ow that well, at least there is some sort of diplomatic process. that's right. there is a 2nd phone call this afternoon between the outgoing german chancellor anglo merkel, and alexander lucas shanker, the bell russian leader. that after a call that the pair had on monday, a german government statement saying that she urged him to allow greater access to un agencies in particular to the people stuck on his side of the border and to

allow aid to flow in the pollution state. news agency says the pear reached an understanding. we don't know quite what that means. interesting and controversial contacts these in any case, given that the you and germany in particular don't recognize lucas, as the feller president after an election in 2020. but western nations continue to have been a sham at so much so that poland has said andre, due to the president here, that it will not abide by any arrangement reached on its behalf by germany. that it will consider to have been done over its head. in the meantime, alexander lucretia said he's not backing down. indeed, he's threatened to retaliate further if sanctions go ahead. sanctions that were agreed upon by e u. countries this week and indeed on wednesday we hear that an oil pipeline heading towards the e. u through battle, russia. batteries has been turned off, apparently for shad your maintenance and all of that happening in the context of

a wide, somewhat sinister looking geopolitical picture with russia tacitly supporting its out. i bellows in its endeavors here, and also at the same time applying pressure to another week flank of the european union, the eastern border of ukraine, potentially preparing to open up a 2nd front with massive military, massive military build up. and jonah, those people who we've been talking about, the thousands of people on that border area as it is anything changing for them. i said, set it out there. the situation is very broadly improving and that there is some shelter. there is some small amount of aid getting through to them. you know, look by some accounts, 12 others, 9 people have died during the course of this crisis over the last couple of weeks. you and agencies warning that that number could easily rise as the temperature falls here, the european union has promised to make a $1000000.00 worth of aid available on the line. the commission president saying

will do more. but only if you alex on the new consent to stop nearing people here putting lives at risk and, and on that idea of leering people here, one potential avenue of escape opens up tomorrow with a repo repack creation flight on thursday vitamins to bill 200 people are set to have signed up for that flight among the 2000 trapped on that side of the border. look at many of those people would have come here and left everything they had behind, given up everything that had rather all sold everything to afford the journey here . they may have nothing whatsoever to go back to join a thank you for that. update. jenna, how's on the poland batteries border? a 16 year old palestinian has been shot dead and 2 is ready. soldiers have been injured in occupied east jerusalem. israeli police say the palestinian stat. the soldiers before they opened fire on him. israeli army says it has closed access to the area until further notice. at least 10 people killed during twin bombings in

the afghan capital. the explosions happened in a she a neighborhood in western cobble. excuse me, car bomb went off in the dusty but she neighborhood. second, last reported after that, i've got stones been suffering repeated attacks claimed by an armed group affiliated with iso. ever since the town and take over the country in the head of the united nations nuclear watchdogs, as iran has boosted its stock pile of highly enriched uranium. ralphio grossi is expected to visit surround on monday, after several visits this year. in its latest report, though, grosses agency highlighted a lack of access to monitor nuclear activities. now the i. e estimates. iran has increased its stock pile of enrich uranium from 48 kilograms to almost 2 and a half 1000 kilograms. and just 3 months, roughly, grossi says, restoring the agencies monitoring capabilities is essential. for a return to the 2015 nuclear deal,

to run removed surveillance cameras after the test, the garage nucleus site came under attack early this year. the report also opened questions about the origin of uranium traces found in several former sites. we talked to anybody about this who's director of the iran project at the international crisis group. who says iran can ramp up its nuclear program much faster than the west can impose sanctions. the more iran's nuclear program verges towards the capability of producing nuclear weapons. the more international community would be concerned, and the iranian calculus is that the more they would be willing to make concessions that they were reluctant to make to the previous iranian government. the ronnie administration during the 6th round of talks that took place earlier this year in vienna. so it is, the idea is that iran can still ratchet up its nuclear program, much more and much faster than the west can reciprocate by rationing of sanctions. because the trump administration basically maxed out u. s. s leverage by sanctioning almost anything that moves in the race

administration came to office with the view that its predecessor was weak and was too desperate to restore to deal which was its keep on a policy achievement. and was willing to accept the deal that was not fundamentally in iran interest. and so they took 5 months long how you took from the negotiations in order to focus on basically escalating their nuclear program significantly as evidence find a report and also ratchet down the level of transparency and monitoring of their nuclear program. in order to get back to the table and drive a harder bargain. now the vitamin administration is, i don't think in a position that it would be able to surrender to iranian demand, it control flexibility. but that has to be reciprocated with iranian flexibility. 13 minutes past the hour, his what's coming up, a once in a century storm hits vancouver, leaving thousands of people stranded. the u. s. congress is urged to take tougher

action against china and deter it from invading taiwan and sport. canada secures a memorable wind over mexico and woke up qualifying andy will have that story later . ah, see, let's look at those storms in canada. at least one person kills on canada's west coast as a result of that 2 days of heavy rainfall across the pacific. province of british columbia has shut down transport links in and around vancouver. the regions been hit by flooding and landslides after the swarm struck on monday, thousands of people forced to leave balance. let's check in with jody vance who is in vancouver, jody so many disasters owns. how has the response been? and if you got an update on, on support from the, the government's indeed we have just received

a somewhat of response from the federal government in that the canadian forces will now be deployed with air supports. because as you mentioned, so many roadways here in british columbia have been impacted by these unprecedented levels of rainfall. and at each and every main transport route in and out of the lower mainland, the vancouver area that connects vancouver to the rest of canada have been impossible since sunday evening. some people have been stranded in their cars since then. certainly in need of evacuation. and yet, extreme weather has continued to hamper rescue attempts by the teams here locally. so canadian forces are being sent in by the minister of public safety and emergency preparedness bill blair that that was announced just an an hour or so ago. justin trudeau prime minister trudeau has made a statement on supports of those suffering in terms of, of rescue,

but also those dealing with their livelihoods being significantly impacted all over british columbia. the floods are unprecedented and certainly putting many thousands in danger. certainly once those flood waters recede, there's also the issues of what those impacts might leave behind in terms of agricultural impacts or infrastructure or industry. all of those questions in need of answer right now though, very much a fluid situation in terms of trying to protect citizens and addressing the supply chain issues. there are already empty shelves being seen in some areas as people are quite concerned about whether or not those systems will be put back into place in any quick timeline of it. ok, thanks. jody vance. in vancouver, we're going to try and get some of those answers that jody was talking about. some of the bigger picture questions with simon donna, who was a climate scientist, to professor climatology at the university of calendar. and he's on scott from vancouver. did i? thank you for your time today. this is the same british columbia where what 4

months ago, 5 months ago people were evacuated because of forest fires and now floods. this is everything that the world was talking about last week at the, the cop summit, isn't it? absolutely, you know, when i, when i 1st started studying climate change 20 years ago, there was this idea that you had to go somewhere else that canada was wealthy and would be fairly insulated from the effects of climate change. and i mean this summer has just taught us here in canada, but i think people around the world that you don't have to go anywhere. climate change is affecting everyone at home. this type of thing been seen historically in vancouver before or in other parts of canada. so it's interesting, the west coast of canada is really accustomed to wet winters. vancouver is quite famous for that is particularly wet winters when we have what, what meteorologists and climate scientists called la nina events or linea conditions in the pacific ocean. but nothing like this has ever happened before.

this, this type of weather event, we call them atmospheric river because the volume of water in the atmosphere is similar to that of the great rivers in the world. when one of these events happens, this just absolutely shattered records. it stayed in place for a long time. and it funneled all that water, all that moisture in the atmosphere towards the mountains up the fraser valley. some of the places is differently. vance are talking about and you know, when it hits the mountains, it causes heavier and heavier rainfall in that rainfall landed on top of soils and rivers that were already really full of water because we've been having a wet winter already. so it's not the kind of thing which could have been quote, unquote predicted. i mean, i know this, you gotta be careful with blame in these situations because where there is unpredictable but is with this one of those things, which was just, you know, to make almost yeah, i don't, i don't think anyone was predicting the rainfall took totals to quite reached a levels we saw. i mean 250 millimeters. ready of rainfall fell in hope over the past few days at the town in the interior interior of the province from vancouver.

and that's the rainfall totals you expect out of like a tropical cyclone. not, not an event in november and, you know, in british columbia. but that being said, the forecast didn't say it was pretty clear by mid to late last week that we're going to have an atmospheric river event. it was going to strike the lower mainland and the be severe rainfall. so i think it's fair to be a little bit upset with the kind of late nature of the emergency planning and the mornings that we're going out to people in the province. okay, so this is what i wanted to ask you about about preparedness because now that something like this has happened, we know it can happen again. avia ways to be more prepared. so the similar to the damage has happened right now has been not so just from rain, but from rainfall turning into flooding. right. and that was particularly severe in this event because of there's already some still in the mountains that could melt, but not enough. so was able to quickly melt and then also we had so much rain already earlier this year,

but really about whether rain turns into flooding of land management and where people live about what type of land you practice is we have about how we're treating our forests and whether soil is being held together and so there are some pretty long term plan. you know, there's long term planning that can be done to try to mitigate these events. but, but really i think what these events are showing us is that we can't keep waiting to see the impacts of climate change to decide how to respond, that we need to act now to stop. the more mention this from happening in the future . so i'm down to joining us from vancouver today. thank you for your time and take care with all that. whether, thanks so much us congress has been urged to take stronger measures to protect time one and influential advisory body has issued an annual report, detailing the threat of chinese aggression washington increasingly concerned about china's military build up. and it's pushed to develop nuclear capable, mis love to capitol hill and alan fisher to take us through this. so this advisory

body is this the type of group which would meet normally and make the thoughts of to give this sort of advice, i guess, regardless of the, the situation with china. bipartisan good that recommendations to both the heights and the saying that 32 recommendations if you're asking for the headline, it is that this group believes that the chinese communist party and the people's liberation army are no equipped and ready to invade, ty, one. but the do acknowledge that that would be a high risk strategy for the chinese at this stage. and that forms the basis of one of the recommendations more than that in a minute. but this report highly critical of the chinese, it says that china is engaged in a systematic effort to attack, oppress arrays and marginalized people whose opinions and social cultural educational values, religion an ethnicity sees as a threat. and it says that the united states should be aware of this. so what sort

of recommendations did they put forward? well, 1st of all, they're saying that they should be greater preparedness for the military. and taiwan essentially thing is that attempt against any possible action by the chinese anti one. they're saying that they should consider the trading relationship between the united states and china, particularly when it comes to investment and chinese companies. who is the main shareholder. who else is involved? the chinese communist party involved the talking as well about moving at the reliance on china, away from major supply chains, particularly those that could impact the did states and key and critical areas as well. and they also said that you consider what they call withholding release order, which essentially says, do not do any business with anything that is coming out of gene jang. and the reason for that is that the committee believes that there is widespread use of force labor not just in one or 2 areas, but across the region. and of course,

she jang is the area where the mainly muslim we hers live and that has been a concern for the by the administration. so these recommendations that the 2 of them and all will be presented to congress. it's really up to congress now to decide what they want to do. but of course, we've had a lot of talk coming out of this building and from in, from just down the road in pennsylvania, avia in the white house where the byte them, ministration of people here in congress are concerned about the acceleration of china's influence around the globe and how to combat it. the chinese have said that they think they will be a world power that people are getting turned off essentially by western democracy and that they will form the new basis of how the world moves on. the americans are determined not to let that happen. alan fishes on capitol hill for us this wednesday. thank you allen. and are failing language with us professor of international affairs at the georgia institute of technology. also the author of

the china order centralia world empire. and the nature of chinese values on scott from atlanta to day. thank you for your time professor. as alan was pointing out, this is the type of bipartisan group which meets and makes recommendations like this, normally, but that the difference this time is that presidents biden and she just had their virtual summit, which was testy at times. and, and, and, and, you know, it had sort of veiled threats in it as well it's, it's a different environment. yes, in the oh, i actually share the sentiment that has being reported just now. and i think the shooting pink, vital virtual summit actually was quite empty. a lot of gestures, lot of talks. but the only concrete commonality between them now seems to be the climate issue. a global warming issue that is kind of pretty or is something

because there are so many conflicts, so many disagreements, so many tension between 2 countries, particularly tie one, which has the potential to unite a full scale. i mean, it's a conflict, yet the tutti does seem to agree on working more with regard to climate change. that is kind of unsettling. ok, maybe let's focus on taiwan then for a 2nd. how much concern do you have about that situation escalating further? a great deal concern because taiwan is an issue that cuts into many ways. it has a direct impact on the political legitimacy of the c c, p in beijing, and also on changing the personal ambition of staying power beyond the 2nd term. it also has a great impact on american reputation, credibility in the region, and on a chinese experiment of his democracy and our regional stability. so any chinese

effort to change the status quo was a force could really good, nice something that could escalate into for skill confrontation between the world largest economy and 2nd largest economy. so that is pretty, pretty uncertain. a future you would think this is just very simple, told that the united states would not want that. you know, that the idea of opening up this other front with china, that would so, so then, what do you think the u. s. congress can do to send a message without it going up to that sort of level the united states has had a long term policy of so called a strategic ambiguity. that is, don't tell everybody what we're going to do. if china inmate what that ambiguity, strategy is kind of fading out because the united states now increasingly concerned with the rising chinese confidence and in china committee of taking tie went by

force. so therefore, united states want to make it increasing clear the u. s. well, defense, how, what we'll have time to defend itself. if the p o a launch is an assault that kind of a fading, a way of strategic and be greedy. now seem to have a bipartisan support in the united states. and i personally think it's probably why it moved, because this will minimize the chance of miscalculation and misconception and therefore held to stabilize the region. because if the she, c, p, c's, the united states is almost guaranteed to get involved. you don't have to think twice or 3rd time before you launch into a tech finding. one pleasure talking to you. we thank you for your time and for your expertise today. thank you. we'll grab a break on the suzanne. when we come back, germany sees another surgeon cove at 19 infections of the highest number reported. since the pandemic began. as a foss spreading,

bird flew putting both europe and asia on a list and report on vance. and in sports, there will be a new champion at the final big event of the women's tennis season. and andy will have all the details on that. ah, now kodak, when flooding through iraq and he come to the warmish waters of the gulf and you tend to generate thunderstorms. that's the forecast the thursday around the water could be affecting the emirates might even get into doha, but i do not think so. i'll take you to friday and show the same thing, get dangerously close. it's difficult to forecast was exactly the shout who happened, but it's a big weekend come. yes, the grown pre we can for doha. i have forecast sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. there you go. that's the official forecast to for the practice days

qualifies and the race it self with the winds. optically strong. in fact that the general picture winds all that strong throughout the middle east, levant, we are changing fortunes further west. you'll notice with the hint of showers in the mediterranean, and that's coming out of what's been very active rather further west. so some chows in turkey, sometimes with a levant, and they could become quite popular. tommy get 2 fridays out of view colder. and of course, it will feel wetter after actual jo, africa, we've been concentrating not on this side of the rift valley, but on the other side. and we still shall the heaviest rains india, congo, increasingly in northern and go to as well south of that day time. shares are quite big and poky cuz temperatures are high in places. for example, in cavaloni. ah, it said, did he tell me oh with somebody's got to do it,

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