Including bill gates bracco barber and illness. And why the global population is expected to shrink by hundreds of millions in the coming decades. Welcome to the Program Egypt is seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africas largest dam of the blue nile Ethiopian State Television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renee sonce time had begun a 5000000000. 00 project is the centerpiece of ethiopias bid to become africas biggest power exporter egypt and sudan fear reduced Water Supplies downstream and didnt want the river downed until they reached agreement with ethiopia last month egypt told the un it faces an existential threat from the dam Charles Trafford reports now on the complex regional politics surrounding the project. Its taken 10 years to build and cost close to 5000000000. 00 u t o p s flagship Infrastructure Project is a great source of. National pride. But the grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start be coping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to exporter electricity across the region and says the dam will stop seasonal flooding in neighboring sudan but egypt says there are a number of outstanding legal issues that need resolving and filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat agent does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on the nile for 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each direction or tree and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amounts of water they produce and the amount of water they consume. And with a rapidly growing population of iran 100000000. To this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because its the source of the blue nile the largest of the river gnarls tributaries if you appeal was never included in a colonial era agreement between egypt and sudan the gives the lions share of water to egypt there are many finely balanced calculations including internal political ones that reply you know if you go granny the other big you have i be outmanned havent come in power in 2018 he wants to secure his position and you know be reelected in future elections in europe yeah in egypt you are president sisi with you know an economy that has had been struggling but also he needs to ensure that he has the continued backing of the military establishment on tree which of course has an Important Role in the. Economy. In late june ethiopia rejected a u. N. Security Council Meeting requested by egypt saying the council should not be involved at all ethiopias u. N. Ambassador said the dispute should be solved at a regional Level African Union talks hosted by Science Africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he g. O. P. Did not sign of the final document ethiopia always said that it would have preferred agreement before it begins to fill the reservoir but if that wasnt possible it would go ahead anyway just potential huge security implications for the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt of repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day charles stratford. Now said it stands to gain from the project which will reduce flooding and provide access to cheap electricity but its fair days benefits could be outweighed by the negative impact have been local reports from sudans lake nubia. Pulling of the dam is of great concern to both sadam and egypt because the dams capacity alone is twice the size or rather the capacity of the blue nile which contributes more than 80 percent of the nile was the sudan has repeatedly expressed concern over the impact of the dam and its safety on sudanese dams and Water Resources it says that its worried about the safety of the operations of the ground if you bring in his own family specially because if you have yet to provide any guarantees its also worried about the impact it will have on water boy these downstream now one of those places where we will see an impact of the feeling is right here on lake newbie or as its much more commonly known lake nasir and this is a lake that is created by the reservoir of the aswan high dam in egypt and most of the body of this lake is on the egyptian territory but this park which is about 20 percent lies on sudanese territory lots of fishermen and lots of farmers rely on this water body to be able to make a living and theyre saying that theyre concerned because this leak is largely reliant on the amount of nile water that flows into it and into the in the amount of water that is released by the egyptian high dam so should egypt julies a lot of water by being from behind dam and should there be a reduction in the amount of nile water that is flowing into the lake the size of the lake is likely to significantly reduce and thus that would have an impact on the livelihoods of people who are living here and why the hell swamps and fishing and farming on the on the shores of lake new bia so a lot of concern by sudan of course and also concerns by egypt over how much water it would be receiving especially because more than 90 percent of its population relies on the nile for fresh water its yet to get any guarantees of from the opiate that the feeling of the down will not will not affect the amount of water that is slowing downstream. 1st drugs on humans northern provinces killed at least 25 civilians including children but also calling to a rebel controlled ministry. The Coalition Aircraft hit several homes in the district while a family celebration was taking place not least of the people were reported injured hussain of hottie is a young man who theophanous analyst he says the u. N. Must do more to hold the saudi year you coalition accountable for civilians. In this it is not near any frontline. I didnt think that this is this should be any excuse for the saudi why they target this area because from the beginning of the water they have killed by died of a strike more than 17000 yemeni civilians and it just hit in some media as they have always say that this attack came after. Has targeted saudi arabia with ballastic missile and drone on monday and actually that attack on so you on monday it came as a retaliation i thought because on sunday the day before a saudi has killed 910 civilians including 5 children. But i believe that one main point that that actually given thats already a green light to continue this type of attack against civilians is that you insecurity. Or 30 removal of the name for all children. The killers of children about 2 weeks ago they did this many times before that so i think if the United Nation will not help so i would be responsible for this killing i believe that thats all we can continue. Twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its systems the scene has seen fake messages posted on some of the most followed accounts in the world now they began appearing a few hours ago asking followers to donate to a bit coin account with the promise that amount would be matched among those hired 2 of the former u. S. President barack obama by the message says donations would go to those affected by covert 19 president ial nominee joe biden numbers on boss jeff bezos microsoft founder bill gates apple duba and tesla have all been hit in afraid its chief Technology Correspondent for access she explains why some twitter users could have fallen for the hack well i think you know this was an account all about opportunity and what youre seeing is you know very high profile people reach a lot of people very quickly bitcoin is something that can be turned into cash very quickly anonymously so i think somebody found a very clever way to extract a lot of money from people in a very quick amount of time i mean certainly more people dont fall for it than do but i think when it comes from twitter and twitter caused a little bit of this problem they verify certain high profile users and say this is who you think it is and so that added to the problem is these were for the most part verified account so you look at it you say oh this really is this person and is it a little unusual that barack obama is asking for money yes but in the context of coded relief maybe not so much now with bill gates and some of the others it seemed a little more out of character but you know you think of the your typical email scam and this is actually more plausible than that now again it does say you know you should be where you should think twice and you should never donate money indirectly you should always go to the charity you think youre going to. The u. S. Has suffered its biggest one day jumping coronavirus cases with 67000 new infections more than a quarter of those infected are in 3 republican states of florida texas and arizona which were quick to lift restrictions but as rob reynolds reports florida has become the latest hot spot. Florida saw a Record Number of corona virus deaths among its citizens this week the state has surpassed 300000 cases of covered 19 in total with more than 10000 new cases reported on wednesday hospitals are scrambling to make room for the sick Emergency Rooms that are backing up and it is quite a feat now for the administrators to find an appropriate bed for an emergency room patient to go to one that fits their covert needs florida was one of the earliest states to reopen for business now that is looking like a terrible mistake its a complete failure of the Public Health system and we didnt. Hear the population enough so we were able to convince them once we opened up things could not be back to normal Florida GovernorRhonda Santas a republican closely allied to President Donald Trump pushed for an early opening and he has not mandated mask wearing or issued any stay at home orders despite the surge part of the reason we have more positive tests is because were doing so much testing at a recent event the governor was heckled shame on you you are an embarrassment doctor say the message to the public about mask wearing and hygiene has been inadequate if everyones nose and mouth were covered we wouldnt be facing this this researches the problem of course is that its been politicized and there are parts of the country and pockets within even even parts of the country except masts that that believe that its somehow a political statement or a sign of weakness or a disbelief in god to wear masks and thats simply not true florida schools are reopening causing some parents concern but the Anti Mask Movement is still loudly proclaiming its distrust of Public Health advice yeah right this is. Right there where i. Doubt is disease experts say changes in Public Policy from the top down must happen fast we need to take a deep dive into ourselves look at what weve been doing and why we have been doing so poorly in this outbreak and realize that its time for this introspection and this time for change and weve got to do it right away or were just heading for you or more success some Public Health experts say floridas coated 1000 surge may not reach its peak until September Rob reynolds aljazeera. Well still ahead here on aljazeera celebrations for some prisoners of war in libya 16 of them go home in a swap between the warring sides. And go on the streets but called return to the border work begins to forge a truce between us about john media. And theres still plenty of rain across central and eastern areas of china the cloud streaming across japan as we go through thursday that they had arranged to stay to the side of the key issue and really stay to the east of hong cheaper trading back into central areas of china and by friday some very heavy amounts of rain as you can see we could pick up another 200 millimeters of rain that will just add to the flooding and also heavy rain further to the north on its way towards beijing meanwhile down into indonesia silhouettes he has been particularly hard hit at least 16 people have died in this village theres a flash flood and all this mud just literally engulfed in the village as you can see dozens of people are also missing but the weather will contain continue very unsettled 3 thursday as we go into friday we should finally have some dry weather a break in those trenches but heavy rain out towards the west side across much of the mill a peninsula very heavy rain throughout much of India Bangladesh as well of course weve seen flooding here very widespread as much of a 3rd of the country is actually underwater people having to get it out by boats as you can imagine and there is more rain in the fall called snow so as heavy the very heavy rain through thursday and friday in particular is going to down across the west and really throughout much of maharashtra so what it does mean is mumbai is can see some very heavy rain of course weve had recent flooding there on this could again flood the city. Meets. Survive this after those closest to them were taken away never to return. Some of the 8000 muslim men and boys killed in the stripper needs a massacre 25 years ago heartfelt accounts from those left behind trying to move on from the pain of the past women who refused to die on aljazeera. World. But the market watching aljazeera with me said hell run a reminder of our top stories egypt says that seeking urgent attire of the cation from ethiopia about whether it started to fill the reservoir of africas largest dam on the blue nile Ethiopian State Television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground relates on star had to go egypt and sudan had requested it not be filled until an agreement is reached. Strikes on yemens northern other traffic province of killed at least 25. 00 civilians including children thats according to a hoofy rebel controlled ministry it says a saudi u. A. E. Coalition aircraft hit several homes and the other has a district where a family celebration was taking place and twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its systems fake messages have been posted to some of its most followed accounts in the crypto currency scam former u. S. President barack obama and amazon boss of jeff bezos amongst those targeted. The top u. S. Infectious disease expert is urging the white house to stop trying to discredit him and so close on tackling the coronavirus in an interview with the atlantic dr anthony found she described the criticism as nonsense and said it must stop he also calls for the end to divisiveness over the National Response to the outbreak the Top Administration has recently tried to discredit fancy by highlighting statements he made early on in the pandemic that turned out to be wrong mike hanna has more from washington d. C. Dr tartt she making that very clear in an interview with the atlantic news magazine stating that he just wanted to focus on combat ing the virus in particular finding a vaccine that will deal with 3rd rather than this infighting that is a merged in recent weeks between elements in the white house and dr felt she himself now President Trump has criticized dr felt she in the past however he has now backed his top at the are doing just a few the a ting his trade advisor Peter Navarro who wrote a blistering article about dr valjean in a daily newspaper president trance said he was only speaking for himself and Peter Navarro was in fact wrong to do this but this is. Voice of word of support from president transfers from dr felt she they have deferred over a number of elements the wearing of mass in public as president tran rarely does so or has only done so on perhaps 2 occasions since the pandemic began the reopening of schools President Trump wants all schools across the nation to reopen completely stopped a fire chief says its got to be treated on a case by case basis and of course the whole element of opening up states too early dr felt she warned that a number of states had not met the criteria to open up while President Trump was urging governors to do so. Mexico is beginning to reopen some of its biggest tourist destinations even the struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak but Industry Experts predict it could take yes for tourism to fully recover. Reports from mexico city. This is how some hotels along mexicos caribbean coast have welcomed their 1st guests in months was the slow trickle of foreigners is a most welcome sign for the 4500000 workers who make a living from mexicos Tourism Industry when or if its good to know that right now theyre restarting jobs and that tourists will come and they see everything here and the hotel sit through of cancun is reopening and we send a general invitation to all the national and International Tourists that they welcome. Pinku was one of the 1st mexican cities to reopen to tourists while national and International Flights to this ideally destination are operating at reduced capacity the city has already welcomed some 70000 visitors since reopening its doors on june 8th. Still a far cry from the packed beaches and busy arrival terminals of the days before cope at 19 is part of. The recovery will not be fast the travel industry has been one of the war. Restaurants the whole change related to travel we dont expect there will be will we have to reinvent many things become more efficient more up to mistakes and creative and above everything always always place Public Safety as a top priority. Mexicos travel industry is undergoing a safety overhaul efforts like the adoption of this thermal Imaging System that can koons International Airport our response to the demand for higher sanitation standards while many of mexicos Top Destinations like a coup in acapulco and mexico city have reopened mexico continues to struggle. To mitigate contagion of coronavirus. He says of corona virus are still on the rise such that mexicos government recently extended restrictions on travel across mexicos land borders through july 21st to resume officials however tell al jazeera the Health Crisis is improving but expect it will be years before the industry begins to bounce back so leave the us weve met the expectations set by the Health Secretary to control this pandemic based on europes experience with their contagion curves we expect to see a recovery near the end of 2022 to reach the tourist numbers we had before the pandemic. Every year more than 45000000. 00 tourists visit mexicos beaches historic cities and world famous or theological sites ranking the country among the top 10 most visited on the planet managed up a low aljazeera mexico city. Libyas warring sides a conducted a prisoner swap the un recognized government of national a cold unfolds as loyal to a load claimed to have to each exchanged 8 prisoners in misrata with the hope of more to follow none of training reports. Well wishers welcomed home for rose and brought hes one of a prisoners from misrata released by warlord 35 to his forces in Eastern Libya the men loyal to the internationally recognized government of National Accord or ginnie in tripoli or exchange for aid of have to his prison ears. The swap have been near where its and is that the south of the front lines with the hope of tribal leaders the old the rot was taken prisoner in southern tripoli last december during have tears filled campaign to capture the capital. He was then transported to a jail in benghazi in the Eastern Libya. After nearly 7 months in captivity hes among his family and friends again back home in misrata where. Im so happy it feels like im reborn i cant explain how happy i am i wasnt expecting to make it back home i hope all the families of prisoners from both sides can feel this kind of happiness his uncle mohammed is a prominent jian a military leader also from misrata he says the exchange may be followed by more. Than. This was the 1st exchange between misrata and the east since the fighting almost every family in Eastern Libya has a prisoner here in western libya and we have prisoners there these occasions bring us closer to each other and are signs of a possible reconciliation process officials in libyas 3rd largest city say up to 750 men from misrata have been killed in the fighting would have to forces so for. The city of misrata suffered so much from death occasions like this fill our hearts with joy and happiness may god help all those who helped bring these people home but for family and friends of the 8 prisoners who have been able to make it back home here in misrata its a joyous occasion it remains to be seen whether prisoner release is such as this one can help fuel a serious reconsideration process and bring about a peaceful solution to the libyan conflict Traynor Al Jazeera Misrata russian air strikes in Northern Syria have killed at least one civilian dozens more were injured in the attack on the city of aleppo province in the courthouse where hit the city is under the control of turkish forces. Defense officials in armenia and azerbaijan say fighting on their border has calmed down following days of clashes at least 16 people on both sides are being killed in the latest flare up the began on sunday the 2 former soviet republics have been locked in a cold flexor decades over the disputed region of the color got about robin forestay walker reports 2. Large crowds of protesters in barcoo demanding these ery government declares war on armenia some demonstrators managed to Enter Parliament early on wednesday and were dispersed the crowds are highly unusual in tightly controlled azerbaijan an indication of the national mood. An army general was one of 11 as ery servicemen killed in 3 days of fighting on the border with armenia the armenian government reports the deaths of 4 personnel. The latest fighting is north of the disputed territory of nagornokarabakh internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan its controlled by Armenian Forces some 30000 people died in the regional war between the former soviet republics in the 1990 s. Azerbaijan has accused armenias Prime Minister nicola of undermining longstanding peace talks chaired by the socalled o. S. C. E minsk group the armenian Prime Minister saying there is armenia isnt an example undermining of the negotiation process its a reaffirmation of the poles of annexation all disorientated there is one other by john on wednesday a lol in the fighting allowed monitors to observe damage to civilian homes. I mean years Foreign Ministry told aljazeera that deescalation was now the priority or is not an alternative there is no alternative to a peaceful settlement marry me. And work towards the escalation and establishing an environment which helps an atmosphere which helps. East and we share favor stage. This is the biggest escalation since a 4 day conflict in april 26th seen that saw some 200 People Killed russia and iran have offered to mediate pataki says it stands with azerbaijan unless the renewed fighting can be resolved the risk of a wider conflict remains robin 1st year Walker Al Jazeera today israels Prime Minister has resigned at the request of president saved and stepped down after the Biggest Party in his coalition began pushing for a vote of no confidence in the government the former Prime Minister is facing an investigation of allegations of conflict of interest the president now has a week to nominate a replacement who will have 2 months to form a new government. The worlds population is expected to drop drastically in the next 80 years according to a major study most countries could see their population shrink by the end of the century 23 nations are expected to see their populations hols by 21. 00 by the year 2100 that includes china currently the worlds most populous country by contrast Subsaharan Africa is expected to triple its population and nigeria is forecast to become the 2nd largest country in the world researchers say countries will also start to age dramatically with as many people turning 80 theyre being born Dr Christopher murray is a Senior Research of that report explains why womens access to education contraception is a factor the most important factor that determines population is actually fertility and what we have found looking back over the last 70 years is that telly rates are very much determined by levels of education for women and access to contraception and those 2 factors taken together explain almost all the variation weve seen across all countries and particularly since women are getting more educated and fortunately access to Reproductive Health services is improving fertility rates come down and they stay low and thats really the key factor that on average educated women. That want or have about less than one of the have children. And that really drives population down in the future from an environmental point of view fewer people on the planet main mean its easier to manage Climate Change for example but for the countries like china and then you know a couple of decades later india where you have this big reduction in the number of working age adults and this is going to happen also in europe and many other regions in the world you have a profound challenge for Economic Growth sustaining government tax base and even just the way societies are organized when you have many more 18 year olds than children. If you want your knowledge is there with me so whole robin her reminder of our top news stories egypt says its seeking urgent clarification from ethiopia or whether it started to fill the reservoir of africas largest down on the blue nile if european state television reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renesas down had begun egypt and sudan had requested it not be filled until it agreement is reached strikes on yemens northern province or killed at least 25. 00 civilians including children and thats according to who the rebel controlled ministry it says a saudi Coalition Aircraft hit several homes in the al hasnt district where a family celebration was taking place. Twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its system fake messages have been posted to some of his most followed accounts in a crypto currency scam former u. S. President barack obama i was a boss jeff bezos are among those targeted in a fried is a chief Technology Correspondent for axial she explains why some twitter users may have fallen for the hack. I mean certainly more people dont fall for it than do but i think when it comes from twitter and twitter caused a little bit of this problem they verify certain high profile users and say this is who you think it is and so that added to the problem is these were for the most part verified account so you look at it you say oh this really is this person and is it a little unusual that barack obama is asking for money yes but in the context of cold bit relieved maybe not so much now with bill gates and some of the others it seemed a little more out of character but you know you think of the your typical email scam and this is actually more plausible than that the u. S. Has suffered its biggest one day jumping quite a virus cases with 67000 new infections more than a quarter of those infected are in 3 republican states of florida texas and arizona libyas warring sides have conducted a prisoner swap the u. N. Recognized government of National Accord and forces loyal to the war people have to each exchanged 8 men in misrata and to his his Prime Minister has resigned in the house for stepped down after the Biggest Party in his coalition began pushing for a vote of no confidence those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour next its the bottom line to stay with us. Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question well the coronavirus pandemic be the Tipping Point that takes us into years of joblessness and poverty lets get to the bottom line. When we look around we see a lot of people who cant find work and a lot of businesses that have gone bust but there are some winners out there it seems like the Financial Markets are always winning at least from my Vantage Point economists usually say that they saw what was coming after the fact there are always rationalizations for the ups and downs of markets or of jobless rates of consumer and Business Confidence but lets take a look at the big picture my guest today is not afraid to go where many economists wont and to look at the key factors out there that predict a really serious financial and to some