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me. hi. one says it's combat ready and has dispatched its own ships and jets after chinese navy ships and aircraft crossed the taiwan strait. median line, ah, hello there, i'm miss darcy. attain this is out of your life from doha. also coming up, the monkey box outbreak is declared a public health emergency in the u. s. as cases rise and vaccine supplies slow down . move on us basketball star, brittany griner, a sentence to 9 years in prison and russia for drug possession and angry crowds attack suspected illegal miners in south africa after 8 women gang raped. ah,

now tow one's defense ministry says multiple chinese navy ships and aircraft crossed the taiwan strait. median line on friday morning. taipei says the islands military is preparing for combat readiness and has dispatched its own aircraft ships and land based missile systems. but it also says it is not asking for war. china's military drills are focused on fixed excursions zones that surround ty, $13.00 zones, overlap areas which taiwan says it controls. now in some places they are just 20 kilometers of taiwan shores. the drills include long range live ammunition being fired into the taiwan straits. china has warned all vessels to avoid the area for 72 hours. nearly half of the world's container ships travel through these waters every year. when at spring individual pollen, she is the international editor of taiwan plus. she joins us now on skype from taipei, w, taipei says, it's preparing for war rather than seeking war that they don't want escalation.

just how nervous is the taiwanese government at this stage? that's right, the government has very carefully sought to reassure the people of taiwan that the national defense ministry do everything it can. the defense ministry here has sent out several messages and had made an ounce men saying that they have broadcast to any chinese hardware or military vehicle feed in the air on, on the water that they are trying to deter from coming in to taiwan surgery. it's something they normally do whenever any chinese military aircraft goes to derek, freights or any of their spaces and water spaces are impinged here. they've also said that they've dispatched aircraft and ship to react to any provocation at the accused china of provocative actions. and he said there the clearly said that they are preparing for war, but they are not calling for war. and again, trying to ministry of defense to try to reassure the people here that they are in

control. they have the situation that release the video, what? well, what you could call it a propaganda video showing it's courses being on the ready, you know, something that's very, that motivates the public to make them feel a bit safer at something that the ministry of defense does do from time to time, to show that they have a handle on the situation. well, did it just in the last few minutes you a secretary of state anthony blinkin, who is that our san meeting has actually said that china has sought to intimidate, not only ty one but also ty, one's neighbors. i mean your standing now in, ty pay, so let me ask you how people they're on the streets feeling at the moment. right, so no, so do you walk out on the street that feels like business, the usual people are very aware of what's going on around them, but they've lived with this specter of war of invasion for decades now. perhaps now there's a more percent of things i see if you talk to people, they talk about yes, but we're going on with our daily life. we are keeping an eye on what's going on.

everyone's watching the news very carefully. and what is indicative is that the number one app, right now, the capital to be is an app that tells you where all the bunkers are. here. i want has a number about 4000 in the capsule. error rates, shelters that are under buildings or an underground car parks. and every year they do these exercises so that people are aware that they're after the fact that people are now downloading that app and checking the closest location to them. it shows that level of anxiety to be have, but i want to make it clear people are not so worried that china is going to invade during these exercises. what they are worried about is that they're going to be some kind of miscalculation that will cost or lead to conflict to the bigger pollen they're speaking to us from the high pe. thank you so much to hear. well, patrick folk is a journalist who is based in beijing and he has more on the chinese military drove well to say one global times has been detailing extensively what the military

actions are about and what weaponry and other assets have been deployed. and one of the things that talked about today is how the missiles that were fired from china over taiwan the day before showed that china, the ability to hit targets in the philippines. c, like aircraft carriers that may try to intervene. that was without a shout of a doubt, a reference to the u. s. as ronald reagan, which has been ordered by the pentagon to remain in that area to monitor the situation. it is expected to remain tense in the coming days. separately reports the same, but chinese foreign minister one g cancelled a face to face meeting with his japanese. can't about your masa high, ashy on the side lines of an aussie and gathering in cambodia off to the g 7. issued a statement expressing concern about beijing's threatening actions. it also comes off to toko, said that missiles fired by china had landed into it's exclusive economic zone.

this may be seen as a direct warning to japan, as it has also become increasingly outspoken about the needs and maintains high wants national security. of meanwhile, southeast asian foreign ministers are urging restraint, as china has launched that 2nd day of massive military trails of the coast of taiwan and beijing began those exercises following us how speak in nancy percy's trip to the island top to pronounce from the al sam block and our meeting for final dave talks in cambodia, chinese foreign minister, one me and russia say a lover of are attending here, secretary of state. and me blinking, as i mentioned earlier, is also that 3 different shots are sitting at the same table with their us and counterparts, but thinkin is not expected to hold any one on one talks with either one year or lover of on. now pelosi has also visited the demilitarized zone separating north and south korea she visited sole, and her laces stop on her tour of the region. she praised when she described as the strong bond between the u. s. and south korea well, frankly,

has worn out from that icy on missing and put on pen. cambodia is, is, is the chair and host of ours in this year. and it's foreign minister again made the point that they faced many challenges in the past. but they never had to confront so many at the same time. and he also said that the, the region here believed in p security and prosperity, and that is the ultimate goal. now there was this specific mention of what's happening in the taiwan strait, but it's very clear that tensions in the taiwan straits have really overshadowed event in pen and the tensions i even being paid out on a personal level. chinese foreign minister when he entered the summit venue on friday morning, he tapped the russian foreign minister take a love rope on the shoulder as a way of saying high, but he made a very point of the japanese foreign minister. and just the day before china cancelled at the very last minute, a meeting with japan. this was to show china's displeasure with

a statement issued by the g 7 with regard to how speaker you had how big a nancy pelosi visit to taiwan and japan. of course, a member of the g 7. so we're really seeing those tensions in the taiwan strait being played out in a personal level here in cambodia. now, you know, dislike the best efforts of and top diplomats from austin and from around the world . you know, it's, it's really quite a tense situation here. and we'll have to wait and see what the next couple of. well, what the meetings that will take place late on friday. what sort of a diplomatic, when diplomats will be able to achieve well, staying in southeast asia and at least 13 people have been killed in a fire in a nightclub in thailand, police and sean bori province that south east from the capitol, bangkok say 40 people have been injured, the fire at the mountain b like club sounds around 1 o'clock in the morning. the cause is not yet clear. now moving on and the united states has declared the monkey pox outbreak of public

health emergency. the number of reported cases is now said to be doubling every 8 days, calling it an emergency means more money, and a facility is made available to fight the virus. they are all concerns that vaccines are running out. there are more than 6600 cases in the us. so far. president biden has appointed to federal officials. bell now coordinate a national response or aaron, sol as the director of the elizabeth r griffin biosafety program in georgetown university. she says there's a need for greater education about this virus. i think one of the big things that we need as a public health community, as just a general community, is to think about risk communication for exposure. it needs to be clear and it needs to be non stigmatizing. and so while this outbreak began in men who predominantly have sex with men, it and it spread from there, it could have easily broken down any type of population of individuals. right now it is not time for panic, but it's for education and awareness. so this is

a pathogen that we have been able to do research on, we have the vaccines, we do have kind of measures antivirals that are effective. the pros, i, i guess i could say to this virus is that there's a longer incubation period. so when we identify cases, we can treat them and identify close contacts and, and vaccinate those individual. so we can actually really continue to spread much more effectively than something like code that transmits very, very quickly the kid, the cases themselves are self limiting. so typically people recover within 2 to 4 weeks. and really the, the key here is preventing transmission to more even vulnerable populations, those that are immunocompromised, pregnant women and children. and so that the key here is really being able to increase our ability to openly reports and detect cases how point of care testing at health care facilities. and that is going to be

a rate limiting step. i think both here in the us and abroad. and being able then to get the proper treatment to those indeed, well, us basketball and brittany griner husband jailed for 9 years by a russian court. the sentence comes nearly 6 months after moscow. apple security still found vague cartridges containing cannabis, oil and luggage. but as my counter reports from washington, d. c, the u. s. is describing the ruling as a miscarriage of justice in the courtroom grind, listen, does the judge handed down her sentence? not wanting to go up to 79 years imprisonment. the fine of some, $16000.00. earlier greiner told the court, she had no intention of breaking any russian law. i may say. and i hope that in your ruin, it doesn't. in my life, the bite and administration remains adamant that grind was wrongfully detained, and the president immediately released the statement after the judgment saying,

it's unacceptable, and i call on russia to release her immediately, so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends and teammates. negotiations are and a way to secure grinders release and that of another american citizen who the us says is being wrongfully detained in russia. poor whelan, we have pro, made a serious proposal to the russians to try to get brittany and paul whalen, who is also wrongfully detained home, where they belong. and we urge the russians again to seriously consider that proposal to act on it. and let's get these 2 americans on where they belong. this is a russian being held him, us who could be part of the exchange, victor about to serving a 25 year sentence for arms smuggling and supplying weapons to columbia as far movement, which is classified by the u. s. as a terrorist organization. the russian government has been reluctant to comments

we still think that any information exchanges on this theme should be discrete. megaphone diplomacy, st exchange views won't lead to the results were at a time in history where the u. s. in russia have very bad relations. that doesn't help, but even in spite of that in may, there was a prisoner swap between the us and russia, where trevor read was held in russia was brought home in exchange for a rote russian prisoner. so there is precedent for it happening, and i think it will happen here to britney griner is led away to begin her sentence with a message for those waiting at home. mike, hannah, out 0, washington hostile ahead. here on al jazeera, denmark's government is facing questions as it tries to get rid of areas. it calls ghetto critic say the move is racist. ah, an uncertain times in afghan has done t 20 cricket is bringing some light and plenty of mine.

ah. with or for parts of the middle east temperatures in sun spots are running about 10 degrees above average. hey, for one hears the details on friday. so buck dead at $52.00 degrees q weight at 50 . that's while above where you should be for this type of the year. got to tell you, i think there's the very real risk of seen some flooding in demons, capital son out with these bursts of ranger rate through to the he jazz mountains. now i want to take you through the gulf states. the winds are going to shift around south for doha. so that's going to ramp up your temperature to $41.00 degrees. this is a day forward on saturday, and there's that flooding, rain potential on either side of the red sea as it carries through on saturday. the rain starting to wind down for portions of box stuff. we do have some bursts of

rain to be found, but the bulk of the energy will stay toward the northwest of india. next, stop or go into turkey. we've got just a mix of sun in cloud. through is stumble, 30 degrees, some showers across turkeys, black seacoast, but nothing major. central africa looks like this. of course, we've had that flooding in eastern uganda, especially around late victoria. but these bursts of rain coming off the ethiopian highlands. and just moving further toward the west, and as we check in on south africa right now, plenty of sun cape town, looking good with the high of 15 on friday soon. ah, what is the ocean witness? lane? witness differences, witness change? witness hockey. miss with the song like witness do not witness last week was charity witness, confusion, witness. clarity, witness. family, witness? friends. which was the beginning. witness and witness life.

miss out. mary lou. ah. hello there. i'm associate a indoor hong this. remind you about top stories here. the sour taiwan is defense, ministry says it's military is preparing for combat readiness. but as not asking for war, it says multiple chinese navy ships and aircraft cross the taiwan straits median line on friday morning. meanwhile, the u. s. secretary of state has said that china has sought to intimidate, not just taiwan, but also its neighbors. with its military drills. lincoln was addressing the asi on

meeting, which is also being attended by the chinese and russian foreign minister. and the u . s. is declared, the monkey pops, outbreak of public health emergency. the decision means more money and facilities to fight the virus. there are more than 6600 cases in the u. s. are now for us police officers have been charged over their role in the facial shooting of brianna taylor. the 26 year old black woman was killed in her home in louisville, kentucky, and 2020. her death led to mass protest across the u. s. and helped to establish the black lines, math and movement. non american conspiracy theorist will have to pay more than $4000000.00 after claiming a school massacre was just a hoax. a jury has ordered alex drones to pay the parents of jesse louis a young boy who was killed in the sandy hook shooting, joins host to the far right. web site info was below, his family says they were harassed and received death threats because of his claims . gave us under reports, question to a one and

a half $1000000.00. question to be $500000.00. one of america's most notorious propagate years of conspiracy theories will now have to pay up and pay up big for his lies. a jury and texas ordered alex jones to pay for $1000000.00 in compensation damages for spreading the y that the 2012 sandy hook school massacre was a hoax. the, some of the money in damages is significant, but far below the 150000000 families of one of the victims was asking for on friday the jury will consider punitive damages. jones claim was that the mass shooting in connecticut, which killed 20 elementary school children, was staged by actors to bring about stricter u. s. gun control laws. it was lapped up by his millions of followers, some of whom went on to harass and even issue death, threats to the dead children's parents. jones lawyers argued his statements were

protected by free speech, but the parents of 6 year old jesse louis, one of the children killed, argued the wise, were so malicious and painful. they fell outside the bounds of free speech. it's been a long journey and it's really, really nice to be able to turn and look at my client and say, you can't get off scot free for that he can under cross examination during the 7 day trial, jones admitted the shooting was quote, 100 percent real, the verdict will almost certainly be the final blow that forces to close what remains. of his info war's media network, which at its peak, was a hugely popular youtube show. and even controversial had former president, donald trump has a fan and president, i will not let you down. you will be very, very impressed. i hope you know, at one moment during the trial, lawyers for the victims family confronted jones with 2 years worth of phone records

and emails. some showing guilt jones own lawyers in an apparent mishap. mistakingly sent them to the opposing lawyers. it's unknown if jones will face any sort of criminal charges moving forward. but what is very certain is that his financial ruin is now all but certain. gabriel is aniko al jazeera new york. now you an expense, say they have solid evidence of wanton troops operating and neighboring democratic republic of congo. supporting and working with p. m. 23 rebel group, for one that has repeatedly denied similar accusations in the past. now reuters has seen a confidential un documents with photos and drone footage from east and congo. the report says we're one to provide c m $23.00 group with weapons. and it says its troops and rebels have carried out joint attacks against the companies military. residents of the south, african township has beaten a group of men. after 8 women were gang raped last week,

police arrested more than 120 suspects in connection with that assault crowds and co he so on the outskirts of christ or target. the men were also suspected to be illegal. miners, please say at least one person has been killed in the unrest residency. the miners are responsible for high levels of local crime. me. the miller has one out from her . he so the situation you are in khaki. so and the west side of town is, what is quite volatile. i just behind us is a large group of community members. we've also seen a people they need to be illegal. mine as amazon, as, as they're known here. they say, not only are they mining illegally at disused mind sharps trying to find gold, but they're all so according to the people you are terrorizing the community. they accused these illegal miners of killing people in the area of raping women. here. people here say they're not safe and now they've come out and you see

a number of police vehicles. they've had to use stun grenades and tear gas to dr. disposed people. but a lot of these community members have come out. they say they've had enough. and because police, according to them are not doing enough, they are taking matters into their own hands or human rights lawyers on challenging a controversial housing policy in denmark, the government is enforcing and no ghetto is rule which restricts non westerners from living in some districts. and the idea is to keep areas diverse, but the plan is proving to be divisive with critic saying that it's simply racism under a different name. police reports from copenhagen, mom at awesome is a danish citizen. he came to copenhagen from pakistan as a 7 year old. his children were born here in the me on the parking district, but to drive to abolish cycles. ghettos has led to the danish government reclassifying citizens along racial lines. with the as lamb family now labeled ika vest, liquor non weston,

if you are living in the western western county that then you have the full, right. and if you lived in the non western country, then you don't have the same right? nice, very tobar to think about. we can make some kind of law in denmark, in my country. it could be seen as a laudable goal aiming for greater racial integration under reduced crime. but the problem is how the government plans to do it. setting ethnic quotas for every district in the country. it's possible raft of measures the government has brought into abolish ghettos within the next decade. by then, the aim is for every district in the country to have a population that is at least 70 percent western 80 percent of milder parkins residence or from an immigrant background. the danish government can't make people leave areas like milner park and purely on the basis of ethnicity. what it can do is force the housing to be sold off to private investors who then raise the rents. the idea is that mainly western people assumed to be more wealthy will then be able

to move back in. but the lord forgot and ghettos go further. they include lower welfare payments for people moving into areas on the government's ghetto list and harsh punishments for criminals in ghetto areas. also a ban on refugees moving into the targeted districts. residents are suing the government. oh even for thank you. in scott, it's an anti segregation policy centered on social conditions and crime rates would be valid. but we object to removing people from the homes based on ethnicity living positive development in these residential areas. but the measures against them got more and more intense port complete, multiple min dominga minorities find themselves stuck. they move out of one area to lower the number of non westerners but can't move into another area. for the same reason, the government declined our requests for an interview or statement, but as it pushes ahead with the controversial get laws, many people still don't know where they will be. how's a wet they will be welcome. it be safe for all send our kids and our generation to

live in denmark in the, in the future now. and white anxiously to see of their voices will count for anything in the country. they always thought of as home full rece out his era, copenhagen and supporters of pakistan's, former prime minister among khan, had been demonstrating against the election commission in islamabad. the angry about its ruling that cons policy received funding from foreign sources and no confidence vote back in april forest khan from the prime minister's post from all hider has moved from atlanta, that 1000 of the board judge of debugger. don daley again. gov with him, ron ron hardy, have gotten wise to add vol. can, and it's ahmad no, no. df. 9 bob. the day of walked up protesting against the election commission of budget on that one. that education of the election commissioner and out of fraud had ripped up of political dom regards just a few days ago. the election commission of buggers daunted,

rude that enron fonts party had received funds from overseas that did were prohibited fund. i hit body of god continue to maintain, that they have nothing to hide, that most of the people named by the election commission of budget don. i'll budget on it, didn't oversee, and a political dolman are developing or would that, or if you are protesting just because of the, an construct if them or not that i behavior health alexson edition of august on. and that you listen to me that it was in the 2nd that isn't on the roger. ah, just because of his vice statements regarding focused on that again south on hub yog, we've got to learn who day we have gathered here against the election commission. if we do not accept the verdict as they have me to long decision, a government of god is granger day to the maximum they warned doug and ron font with waller fired bodies would be bad,

but it will end up again in the gorge than budget funny god brought that mean super active when it comes to political deadlock and trying to give you that deadlock are one thing that bugged on cannot afford it continued political in the ability of god, the government in power. now in the lines of february bardeen. but they have failed to damned or died of inflation and are becoming more and more unpopular. and i did also approved by the fact that the bugger gone, de again thought had ripping victory and upon job proven that in the country would fall for the proven and it was a humiliating defeat for the government. the line. well, afghanistan's main domestic cricket league has contributed and cobble competition has been around that for nearly a decade. but this was the 1st one since the taliban take over last year. david stokes reports, ah,

julia seems like this hip in all too rare enough gamma stand recently. after 2 and a half weeks of competition. it was the spin god tigers who came out on top in the spaghetti a cricket league. the tournament was scrap last year in the wake of the us withdrawal from the country. but while women's cricket remained suspended, the taliban has allowed the men's game to start up again. nathan huffman, the one who did have hot on the ticket, is happiness. here. most afghans who faced lots of challenges still come to motivate the players o back in july, midway through the tournament, there was an explosion during one of the games in cobble injuring for spectators. the game was able to completed, but it was a stark reminder of the dangers the afghans face on a daily basis. ha, directly from the auditor on. on sunday, i want to tell those who oppose this tournament that you can't break of guns. we are all one, and when those people see this cry, it's a big slap to their face, them and show the unity of all are gone. so honey, over the past 2 decades, sports,

particularly cricket had been the rec, consistently positive stories to come out of afghanistan. the men's national team set to tow island this month. both several players considered among the world's best. but at the latter category of on a cricket is the only game in afghanistan we're, we're ranked in the warm stop turn. and some of our or rounders and bolos are in the top 3 is the individual ranking. so we've achieved all of this pretty quickly and around 20 years. economic sanctions of lead to humanitarian crisis in afghanistan, with the international rescue committee has wound, could lead to more deaths than 20 years of war. despite this, thousands of people turned out to watch 32 games of crickets a game loved by many and bringing much needed hope during and certain times. they did stokes algae 0. ah.