To make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the giant of errors that will save countless lives the u. S. Stance a major advance in the fight against covert 19 the use of blood plasma from recovered patients to treat the virus. Fraudsters fugitives and convicted criminals an aljazeera investigation identifies some of the foreigners buying European Union citizenship in cyprus. Welcome to the program they were warned not to gather and that the military were ready but one of the biggest protests crowds yet has packed the center of the bell or ruse capital the estimates were around 200000 people as they called for president Alexander Lukashenko to step down he was flying above in a helicopter clad in body armor and armed with a semi automatic rifle our correspondent son youre going to go house will. United in one cause they gathered in the streets and in a school. As of the below recent capital minsk since the disputed president ial vote on august 9th protesters have defied the authorities and have been gathering every day calling for an end to president ricocheting because 26 year old despite the continued threats of a violent crackdown opposition supporters say they wont give up ahead of sundays rally the bell or a song rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching any unrest monuments and statues would not be tolerated and they not the police would see to that. On saturday in the city of gold now in the west so the man at the center of this wave of discontent alexandr looks railed against the opposition supporters queues nato of deliberately positioning its forces by the countrys western border and the army to defend its territory with joy you are not the nato forces are approaching we understood this last year when they announced drills but coronaviruses slowed them down a bit now the situation from their point of view has become unstable internally they have switched back to operation and theyve deployed all their troops we can see this. Nato has dismissed the question because accusations as baseless only a few days ago strikes and protests to take place here but a heavy handed response from the old farts has provoked further outrage along with threats of job losses if state employees the president s traditional support base go on strike again. The belarus is opposition leaders for atlanta to cut off sky has fled to neighboring lithuania this is not a movement that is disappearing and shes urged her supporters to keep up of a bantam want to know the russian people dont want this president president anymore and its our people and authorities has to go this year history all this in and listen to his to hear what the russian people want. This is a protest that has taken root across the country maybe clinging on to power by any means rejecting any talk of voter fraud and his electoral win but it is unlikely that he will be able to cultivate support for his leadership in a country where many say they have had enough of his leadership. Aljazeera. And demonstrators in neighboring with the way they are formed a human chain in solidarity with the people around 50000. 00 people including the lithuanian president lined the streets from the capital vilnius to the border with the roofs. As a Senior Consulting fellow for the russia and Eurasia Program the think tank Chatham House he says sundays protests have reinvigorated the opposition movement. There have been tortures there have been apparent murders all intended to dissuade people from taking up the opposition scores and in some cases from not agreeing to sign the false election protocols confirming the bug. So put that all together and yes it is impressive that this many people have come out once again today for all of this time russia has been watching and waiting to see which way the situation would develop but theres another angle to this which is disturbing as well which is in the stories that president bush into his friend put together about external the russian against bill that was you saw him earlier getting off a helicopter with body armor and an Assault Rifle and in a ridiculous pantomime trying to suggest that the country is under attack all of this is exactly what russia does not want to hear and it provides a pretext for russia to step in should wish to look at is been pointing to the Western Region of broaden and near the borders with poland and lithuania is what he says the the center of where nato and the west is trying to stir up unrest to unseat president and in fact to attack from outside now it just so happens thats exactly the scenario of a huge exercise military exercise with russia and belarus working together that we took place a few years ago calls up and 2017 where precisely that region was the site of these nato shenanigans and the response was for russia to send in troops to work with belarus to suppress that and then that escalated into a broader conflict its that kind of playing with fire by stirring up this war rhetoric by look at that we need to be watching out for now. An explosion that in a rainy a Nuclear Facility last month was an act of sabotage the conclusion of Irans Atomic Energy Organization but it did not reveal who was responsible a spokesman for the Government Agency says theyll reveal the reason behind the blasts turns facility and you time spent comes a day before the head of the uns atomic Watchdog Agency arrives in tehran and theyre hoping to get access to sites believed to be storing undeclared Nuclear Material is in tehran and says iran has felt suspicions after several incidents well this is the 1st time they were officially admitted that this was an act of sabotage when this incident took place in early july we were 1st told that it was an accident f. I had taken place then it was revealed that actually there was more damage than previously thought and then we were told that there was considerable damage and it could cause medium term delays for the production of advanced machines where iran said that they would compensate for any delays by creating more capacity now we dont know the exact details of this act of sabotage retold that that will be released by Security Officials at the appropriate time now this incident did take place over a month ago but was preceded by an explosion east of the one near a military base and then there were several incidents fired power plants and also factories which were a suspicions in the country now this isnt the 1st time iran facilities have been targeted in 2010 the stuxnet virus was discovered at the very same Nuclear Facility then the 10s Nuclear Facility which is thought to have caused considerable damage to Irans Nuclear program now no one admitted who was behind that but its largely thought that the United States and israel were behind that virus but the specific details of this how it was carried out we still dont know. Jewel of the is the president of the National IranianAmerican Council joins me now from washington d. C. Good to have you with us on the program sir how surprised are you by the decision by the iranians to announce that this is sabotage but still getting very few details and specifics as to who or what is behind the attack. Think the timing is whats most notable as this comes with the i. A. E. A. Director had it too early ron looking to resolve some of these outstanding issues with iran and you have the sequence of events. At the u. N. Security council last week the United States being shut down in its efforts to snap back sanctions on iran and some very tough statements from europe and others then you have iran actually say ok were ready to result some of these difficulties with the i. A. E. A. Result some of these questions and now as the i. A. E. A. Chief hence to iran theyre saying our facilities are being sabotaged by to me it sounds like perhaps a form of leverage or a negotiating point as they try to work with the i. A. E. A. To sort out some of these lingering issues if those are the issues to one side at the end of the day begs the question about Iran Security of its own facilities if they are sub a target of the iranians now admitting this someones doing it so there is a weakness in the Security Apparatus to guard some very very dangerous materials. Absolutely and. You know the not everybody is looking to israel and the United States and some officials in the region have said it was israel who planted a bomb others have sent then they speculate that it was a cyber attack which we know iran has been hit by a cyber attack or 4 we also learned that the cia has been given a much longer leash conduct Cyber Operations against iran under the trump ministration but these are facts that actually do speak to the controversy or the challenges with the i. A. E. A. Because i think for the iranians they have seen examples in the past such as with Saddam Hussein in iraq where letting inspectors into these facilities actually was used for spying and to develop intelligence about these facilities so i think the iranians are are trying to show that look they are paranoid there are legitimate concerns that they have about the security of these facilities and so as theyre granting access that way i. E. A for other facilities there is this paranoia his need to deal with the fact that there are actors out there who do want to sabotage these facilities this also does give the iranians further incentive to bury their or enrichment facilities underground which was one of the main can points of contention during the Nuclear Talks where iran agreed not to put its facilities in there in the underground that the fordo facility and so for iran this is actually an sent an incentive to further hide and bury its facilities that theyre not expose these acts of sabotage of a cosmetic exercise then really is the visit to in terms of the relationship they have with the raw because as you say iran is very good and has a reputation for hiding its Nuclear Material even before the main g. P. C. Away agreements you know they had to admit what they had per say but. What are they willing to give and take in this particular situation how much of an important meeting is this. Well you know the iranians have been very restrained masson them they have conducted sort of maximum resistance and maximum restraint they havent resorted to retaliate in these episodes that from my perspective it does look like israel and the United States attempting to goad iran into doing something that would invite further pressure and backlash from not just the u. S. But the europeans and others who want to keep this Nuclear Deal Alive so i think the iranians its a matter of a balancing act can they give enough to ensure that the deal is not killed and that it continues to be the United States was isolated on the world stage on this question but can they retain enough leverage in order to not completely lose all of their and go shooting chips to the iranians its really its a matter who wins in november and you know if as expected theres a biden ministration you can expect iran to want to have us come back to the deal and to really want to have as much leverage as possible to not have to give up too much for the United States to do that so i think its a balancing act u. S. That iran is doing and i dont expect a breakthrough on i. E. I eat front but those negotiations are finally starting in earnest osha see what happens the jammal of the thanks so much for joining us from washington d. C. Ledger. Being hailed as a major advance in the fight against krone virus the us president has announced the emergency use of Plasma Treatment for covert 900 patients those involves using plasma from recovered patients to treat people with the virus but theres no conclusive evidence of its benefits this also roys ation comes just days after a double trump accuse the food and Drug Administration of delaying the approval of drugs and vaccines for the to scenes. That is everybody working together were years ahead of approvals that we would be if we went by. The speed levels of past administration wed be 2 years 3 years behind where we are today and that includes and vaccines that youll be hearing about very soon very shortly to deliver treatments and back scene to save lives were moving are necessary barriers and delays. Not by cutting corners but by marshalling the full power of the federal government because of the chambre times he joins me now from washington d. C. Is the president really hoping that this statement will change the nations perception of how hes handling the pandemic. Regular it could have been so but the amount in which this announcement has been rolled out makes it very difficult to escape the conclusion purely circumstantially that donald trump strong on the f. D. A. Into approving the wider access to this treatment possible treatment then convalescent Plasma Treatment is taking the plaza which is the whats leftover and blood elf to remove the white blood cells the red blood cells and platelets you have a soup of ingredients including a lot of antibodies and the fear is if you take that positive for people whove recovered from curb it you inject it into people especially at the early stages of the disease ben they are likely to have good results and theres some indications of that but there is some theres some hope that this is were actually working by the f. D. A. One did to announce the road out of this procedure widely a couple of weeks ago but the National Institutes of health and doctrines and you found she and others said no wait a 2nd dont do this we dont have the data to back this up just yet its in the intervening weeks that all thats happened is old trump and his associates in the administration have ramped up their attacks against the f. D. A. Even suggesting that there is a couple of deep state operatives in the f. D. A. Who are preventing the testing of approval of treatments and and vaccines in order to stop adult from selection trojans the new data has come to buy that but that sort of you know theres a tag sort of increasing and now we have todays announcement but it is a problem of scientific debate to be how do about this but on the one hand you could say look this is an emergency power was been shown to be effective in the policy posts. As it can be safe as long as you as always youll check the blood supply just started casualties on the other hand theres a 1000 others of august. We dont know what effect this having because we have that runs the place to the trials yes people can seem to be Getting Better off their injected with this but we dont have its the past and it could just be that theyre Getting Better health care because theyre being it sort of viral but i getting trials but treatment they could be from a demographic that is not susceptible to curve at 19 and unless you have that randomized trial that we will never know and once you actually increase the distribution of this sort of treatment we may never have this randomized trial because people dont want to go into a randomized trial where they may get a placebo or they go off for the for the full day for the directly for the updates have a chance to thank you well still ahead here on aljazeera protesters are back on the streets in southern iraq as a key deadline expires in hong kong joins the global race for a cave in 19 vaccine but thats raising some concern among us to this those stories after the break. Hello there its a fairly quiet weather picture across much of the United States showers and thunderstorms across the east but really is out across the west that we are really focusing on but to kill all of these foster california of which there are thousands now already over a 1000000 acres have been burned thats 406000 hectares 12000 firefighters of fighting these blazes hundreds of homes have been destroyed and about 120000 people have been evacuated from their homes because of the danger youll notice 3 monday some areas of blue pop up and in fact they spread across areas across the west as well however the danger here is that actually could just cause dry lightning that has sparked many of these fires so really no change very extreme fire conditions very strong gusty winds but as we go through monday into tuesday this is when her is expected to make landfall into that southern section of louisiana and as you can see no far behind is laura working its way into as well waters of the gulf of mexico both of them a bit more detail laura through monday working its way across cuba torrential amounts of rain up to 300 millimeters and then through monday marco really pushing across the gulf of mexico and this is expected to make landfall in louisiana late monday on into choose to at which point lower than pushes into these will mortise and it is expected to become a hurricane so 2 storms well watch very closely. Human bravery. Precious pieces of literature rescued from being. Sorry. Its the bosnian women and men who risked everything to save their roots and heritage. The love of books on aljazeera. More. Or. To back you watching all deserve means the whole roman reminder of our top stories more than 200000 people have rallied in the belorussian capital to demand president alexander look at the start of the his contested reelection but hes refusing to resign or does deploy the army to respond to any unrest irans Atomic Energy and if people going to the station says last months star of the new turns Nuclear Facility was not just sabotaged but didnt say he was responsible the Government Agency says authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast in due time. The u. S. A suit and Drug Administration is also rise the use of plasma therapy to treat covert 19 patients but theres no conclusive evidence of its benefits. Southern iraq is facing the prospect of more unrest thats after a deadline set by protesters for the resignation of the local governor and it expired theyve been demanding justice for the killing of a prominent activist well Prime Minister mustapha they me has visited bandra in a bid to find a solution and to give them a warning dorsetshire by reports. At that time has come and gone but these protesters still dont have what they want. They had demanded the resignation of us gov over the killing of prominent activists for now they say theyll continue to protest. On saturday Prime Minister mustapha academy arrived in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d. C. He met local politicians with the hope so. Calming the anger on the streets but he had a warning for those looking to cause trouble i decided we couldnt we should i mean this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that is working to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish security and prevent crime id like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the governments law they want esky punishment on the killers will be brought to justice very soon id like to tell the criminals who are. The scene and the young female doctor that your blog will be a title for justice. 33 year old 300 coupe is the young female dr Prime Minister called to me refer to she was a prominent activist investor and let several womans marches she was killed on wednesday when gunmen with Assault Rifles riding a motorcycle opened fire on her car. Days earlier godman had shot dead activists seen osama their deaths sparked days of protests and on rest fueled by anger protesters set fire to local government buildings in the southern iraqi city demanding those responsible be brought to justice and calling for the resignation of the provincial governor danny the recent rise in targeted killings poses a challenge for the new Prime Minister there have been nearly a dozen attempts on the lives of well known activists this month and 4 have been killed 3 of them in basra the Prime Minister dismissed the local police chief last week after osamas death in response a number of senior tribal leaders issued a statement saying the armed themselves if the government fails to protect the people this is the worst andress the city has seen since last years protests which led to the resignation of Prime Minister of the lokpal mighty. Is known as the wealthiest province in iraq its home to most of the countrys oil reserves yet it has some of the worst facilities of Public Services years of mismanagement and corruption have led to protests on a regular basis this mural of passing osama the father of 4 who was killed in basra in august 14th quickly went up in taxpayer square in the capital shortly after his death and that death is a constant reminder of the risks that activists and protesters face in iraq on a regular basis as the new government tries to bring some stability to an increasingly volatile region dorsetshire Bari Al Jazeera baghdad. Has rejected the un recognized governments calls for a cease fire the spokesman described it as a public a publicity stunt and accuse the tripoli administration of planning a Turkish Backed defensive on the city of sirte after silence include egypt the rival parliament to the east of libya and theyve supported suppose its the ceasefire. Cyprus has denied selling passports to convicted criminals fugitives and fraudsters in exchange for millions in investments the denial comes after an aljazeera investigation reveals serious flaws in the islands lucrative golden passport scheme in the 1st of all exclusive reports on the sign press papers heres Deborah Davis from london. To become a citizen of the mediterranean island nation of cyprus cost more than 2. 00 and a half 1000000. 00 among those whove paid that russian businessman alley bag love hes already served a prison sentence for extortion and the Chinese Investment tycoon junk achang who had been jailed for fraud the cyprus papers a large data leak obtained by aljazeera revealed it to an all 1000 people from 74 countries who bought a cypriot passport cyprus says it checks applicants have a clean criminal record but we found multiple cases of applicants who wanted by police at the time they was sold cypriot citizenship. Was already wanted in ukraine for large scale theft of public funds. In june prosecutors displayed the 6000000. 00 they said was offered in bribes to end years of investigation into his energy company. Slit chev ski denies any involvement his cypriot passport allows him to live out of ukraine and he didnt return for questioning. Vietnamese businessmen pham that blue wont be using his cypriot passport any time soon he was already facing trial for bribery when he bought it see how. We found 30 people linked to criminal activity whove bought socalled golden passports allowing them in their wealth to move freely around the e. U. The passport scheme of cyprus is a risk to security in europe these passports are for high value in particular for people from countries which have a record of economic and political criminality passports and citizenship should not be for sale they are not a commodity the cypriot interior minister told us no citizenship was granted in violation of regulations and the independent committee now studies and evaluates previous applications and a new law can strip citizenship from suspected criminals that shooting clude father and son malek sabet and Mehdi Ebrahimi they wanted in iran for Money Laundering and fraud and facing similar charges in canada but many deny all charges the cyprus papers suggest theyre among dozens he may have used their golden passports to evade justice Deborah Davis aljazeera london. And i live alexina valleys says he believes the russian dissident will survive a suspected poison attack but will be incapacitated for months the valley is being treated in germany they have to be airlifted from siberia he is the latest in a long line of kremlin critics to become seriously ill or dari in apparent poisonings. After 2 days of meetings between malis coup leaders and west african mediators there are reports that the army has agreed to allow the president Ibrahim Boubacar quetta to return to his home it also wants a transitional role in leading the country to 3 years soldiers seize power on choose day an innocent kid after months of antigovernment protests spearheaded by the former nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan the regional echo arsala geisha is trying to lead talks for both sides of gold is joining the global race for a current virus vaccine it also is launching voluntary must testing next month to combat what seen as a 3rd wave the government has enlisted the help of medical experts from Mainland China does divya parlor reports what everyone supports the move. Hong kongs latest outbreak with the worst and most widespread prompting the government to impose its sick to social distancing measures yet its proved effective for now but according to the medical community here this will not be the last way for the city overnighting virus is a very smart virus so it is behaving more and more like in france. So is likely to be staying with us for a long story and the way to combat this virus will be by vaccination dr ivan hung is a very religious treating current virus patients at one of the citys main hospitals and is working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully all over actually move be able to go into phase one in the coming november the vaccine will be inhaling vaccine its still in the early stages of development but at least 5 Chinese Companies are already in phase 3 of Clinical Trials thats the last stage of testing required for approval which means they could introduce a vaccine for public use by early next year for now hong kongs government believes mass testing is the best way to control the spread of the virus or in the past month weve been the only hong kong profitable or trade to be appointed by the whole government for Mass Community testing so in the past month weve already done 200000 tests and we will continue that with the high cluster areas danny and is the c. E. O. And cofounder of primitives its one of 5 Companies Unlisted to help with mass testing set to begin next month kinetics will continue to focus on high risk clusters all the other 4 companies all subsidiaries of mainland chinese firms who spearheaded the voluntary testing drive Hong Kong Government wants to test at least 5000000 people and about 2 weeks a team of about 60 experts from Mainland China that will be leading the process that along with the fact that the majority of the companies conducting the tests lengths across the border its raising concern and suspicion among some groups on sunday activists and local politicians how the News Conference calling on people here to be wary of the free government testing offered the mosque testing of government is trying to get the data from hong kong people am a positive target. And so we have that. On the money or even stand to defend chinas top 40 the government has dismissed the claims saying that no samples will be sent to the mainland and the laboratories will not receive any personal information if you go pollen hong kong. Your child is there with means the whole rob a reminder of our top stories more than 200000 people have rallied in the bella russian capital to demand the president Alexander Lukashenko to step down after his contested reelection but hes refusing to resign and has deployed the army to respond and the unrest Irans Atomic Energy Organization says last months fire at the natanz Nuclear Facility was an act of sabotage but hasnt said who was responsible the Government Agency says authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast into course the u. S. Food and Drug Administration is also rise the use of plasma therapy to treat covert 19 patients but theres no conclusive evidence of its benefits. Everybody working together were years ahead of approvals that we would be if we went by the speed levels of past administration would be 2 years 3 years behind where we are today and that includes in vaccines that youll be hearing about very very shortly. To deliver triplets and vaccine to save lives were removing unnecessary barriers and delays not by cutting corners but by marshalling the full power of the federal government. Protesters in southern iraq are threatening more unrest unless a local governor resigns the killings of a number of prominent activist sparked the rallies the Prime Minister visited burns road to help find a solution to the crisis libyan war to either have to has rejected the un recognized governments calls for a cease fire his spokesman described it as a publicity stunt and accuse the trippy administration of planning a Turkish Backed defensive on the city of sirte those are the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on our which is over do stay with us a. J. Select is next. Meet maria driven by poverty into prostitution and drugs as an early age now as a mother shes turning her life around with the help of a Theater Group of colombian women fighting the challenges they face. Was compelling series which showcases fresh filmmaking talent from around the globe do you find a lot in america presents acting lessons on aljazeera. Yellowed im not. 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