Better was his capital despite the government stepping up pressure by jailing and questioning activists also this hour all of the african continent is declared polio free only afghanistan and pakistan are yet to eradicate the disease worldwide and the father of an African American man shot 7 times by the police in the u. S. State of wisconsin says his son jacob blake has been paralyzed wastes. And in sport Manchester United captain Harry Mcguire has been given a suspended prison sentence by a greek court defender was arrested in greece last week following an altar cation with police. Thank you for joining us spock could lead to a disaster thats a warning from germanys foreign minister heikal mosse who is on a. To help the stenches between turkey and greece in the Eastern Mediterranean is serkis count upon. To say turkey is ready for talks with greece over a dispute about Gas Exploration in contested waters but without preconditions heikal ma says both sides are willing to find a solution without military involvement and both the greeks and turks have announced rival military exercises in the mediterranean and turkish warships are guarding a ship surveying the seabed for gas and oil reserves gray says the area where the turkish fleet is overlaps its Continental Shelf attack is fretted and issued a warning to greece on monday which has been followed by ishant rebuke from athens you know it is the truth going on most women own an autoloader greece is throwing itself into a chaos that it cannot get out of as of now greece will be responsible for all negative developments that may take place in the region and it will be the only country to suffer damages it would be useful for a greek neighbors to know as we know that those who throw greece on the path of the turkish fleet will be nowhere to be seen tomorrow in the event of trouble that may emerge. That were witnessing the attempt to implement expansionist aims against neighbors and allies we are witnessing the display of new autumn and ideology expansion and control of the mediterranean we are witnessing the undermining of the stability of the entire region with blatant and absolutely can dimmable violations of International Law even to the detriment of 2 Member States of the European Union greece and cyprus on a spring incident kosovo live for us in a stumble now so synonym. Turkey certainly not backing down they say theyre ready to talk but under certain conditions what are they. Well this turkeys says the 1st condition is that greece must avoid its must stop its facts about the approach plus there should be a Fair Distribution of rights and what do you mean by rights the rights are din Natural Resources. Under to see for all players or all neighbors who have caused by the sea so turkey believes that a natural. A fair share of these Natural Resources would be the initial step to open for dialogue and turkey accuses greece and the greek cypionate for provoking the process actually end in a search i wish all the warned that if the greece doesnt give up on these behaviors doesnt give up on these on these approaches a real conflict is unavoidable so it was in a way a kind of threat from the turkish minister against the greek side today but i have to say that german minister is sounded more is much much softer compared to his speech in athens and he said that both sides are willing to come to the table for dialogue but folded turkey and greece these 2 neighbors have been have been in dispute for decades then they are accusing each other with the same arguments actually one accuses the other for provoking the region or do other and vice versa so one thing is important in the recent developments we have new players which turkey is actually disturbed of we have seen france and we have been the it we have seen the u. A. E. Supporting greece in this dispute for instance the into these military exercises for f. 16 fighter jets from the u. A. E. Landed in the greek island creates to joint a company into military exercises and these developments are now. The world cant buy turkey because turkey and france they have been on different camps in libya and the tension has between air between turkey and the u. A. E. And turkey and if france is actually very high in the last couple of months thats why turkey is in a way kind of not hopeful about greece coming to the table with the conditions that turkey is saying because turkey also accuses kris for imposing preconditions to come to the table but turkey says the 1st condition is a Fair Distribution of fair share of the rights and resources in the sea of time will show whether greece is going to accept that but turkey turkish officials from the top level at present are don and today Turkish Foreign minister they said that theres some other players pointing out to the u. A. E. And france are throwing greece under device to the field to confront turkey and don warned greece yesterday that when youre in trouble those parties those players are not going to be siding with you but for turkey as i have said in the previous lies as well greece is the spoiled child of the European Union receiving unconditional support from the e. U. Thats why turkey is in a way distant to any kind of mediation efforts from the e. U. Because turkey believes in you is siding with greece but when it comes to germany its the friend the latest medication efforts were initiated by german chancellor Angela Merkel but it was halted because of some other between turkey and greece bullets but it will it come to a solution well see we indeed we continue to follow the situation very closely with you because you can lie for a say in the sample well lets take a closer look at the disputed areas these are the exclusive Economic Zones of greed. Is drawn up by a Un Convention which turkey is in to signal terry to greece 71 percent of the a j n c turkey 9 percent but this is how turkey redraw is the same map claiming some of the greek waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started exploring for oil and gas but the e. U. And the u. N. Say that infringes on greeces Maritime Territory now Lawrence Brennan is a retired u. S. Navy captain and a professor of International Maritime law at Fordham Law School he says greece and turkey will need to look to compromise its. There are many disputes such as this about borderlines and outer drawer and the s. And territorial c. S. We seen that even between the United States and some of its closest allies canada and the us it had disputes and weve even had to master disputes between new york and new jersey over which state has title to Liberty Island where the statue of liberty but its simple in those cases where people either can agree or theres a court that has jurisdiction the problem were dealing with now is an escalating if your part spawns noted or months and there is the risk of military intervention intentionally or accidentally and the rhetoric continues to grow and domestic political issues and every International Issue always has a domestic tone who are the National Leaders but weve seen tremendous looks and possibly positive motion in the middle east in the last couple of months particularly in the us the and israel having some sort of proper mizer trough that beginning that may extend further to have to nato allies they have to e. U. Nations come to blows whether its intentionally or accidentally as a result of the expedition by the trip your. Would be a heart full of bands that would set back progress and at the mic the bellman for years if not that federalists now and protests have assumed in the capital minsk despite a government crackdown on the opposition and activists demonstrators accuse president an example look a shank ill vegging his reelection handler this month and on demanding an end to his 26 years in power 2 members of the Opposition Coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail that team bob every 4. Addressing the world via a video link to the European Parliament in brussels the unexpected figurehead of the better russian opposition who fled to lithuania so she represents the majority and believes a peaceful revolution is on the way it is needed and until European Union no truly European Union. E. T. S. And democratic revolution it is this driving of the nation to decide for itself the parliaments Foreign Affairs committee echoed her call for the belarus government to release protesters and political activists detained since this months president ial election won fraudulently they say by Alexander Lukashenko during the Election Campaign the people of belarus have demonstrated their desire for democratic change. The authorities responded with repression and arrests of potential candidates and political activists many of whom remain in prison but thats not keeping people off the streets the latest gathering on tuesday came in response to a call to mark the anniversary of belarus declaring full independence from the soviet union in 1901 the same time the crackdown continues against the National Coordination council set up by the opposition to negotiate a transitional period with the government as 2 prominent members were jailed for 10 days another whos the only former senior official sitting on the council right the questioning standing going to very shortly is going to want to do for us to be to you know or. To. Between society as a government or sora do so he says demotivation a day after meetings for donna taken off sky u. S. Deputy secretary of state stephen begun was in moscow for talks with the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov afterwards lavrov told Russian Television the us was eager for external players to enable dialogue between the or thirtys and opposition in belarus. But we answered that we support such an approach but we dont believe its possible to impose mediators on the belarus of storage fees and belarus people from outside so theres no sign the or thought is in minsk a feeling pressured from outside to reach out to the opposition but neither is there any sign the ante lucas sanka movement is ready to capitulate on its demands nadine barber al jazeera. Or less find out now about the situation in bella rusin speak to Alexandra Steele janowicz gone from a moscow based journalist joining us now live on the news hour alexander we are again seeing huge crowds on the streets of mens the opposition activists dont seem to you know to be scared they seem undeterred by the arrests and threads tell us 1st about what has been happening in minsk today and how is the russian government reacting to all of this. Yes indeed they are not afraid that theyre showing that theyre not going to be threatened or intimidated there was a huge crowd that gathered in minsk there were also gatherings in other towns of belarus at the same time there was probably shank a meeting organized a couple of kilometers away were also people together to support he meant to warn the rest of the country that belarus is doomed if he goes its a quite opposite message coming from the opposition rallies that it is the only he stays so they get there despite that 2 of the members of the clear Coronation Council god then they are at 10 days jail sentence today for organizing similar rallies the 3 other members are to be questioned in connection of criminal case of creating the Constitutional Council which was deemed unconstitutional today but will Constitutional Court also appeal to the Supreme Court has been dismissed the field filed by the whole last saw you with the results of the disputed the elections earlier this month the army stepped in to support a look at openly saying theyre going to protect the order and. Defend the us from its internal enemies now this Constitutional Council has been created in order to ensure a transmission of power in order to dialogue that will be possible but here in russia russian minister of Foreign AffairsSergey Lavrov was expressing doubts whether it is the Court National council that should be talking with the oath or it is or rather all dorothys with this council saying it which is not clear how it was created and he also said that they are managed from from the west so you also suggested that they should accept at the hand of look at shango in the form of this proposed constitutional reforms which for sure would by. Local schenkel more time to reorganize so the russians message is yes there should be a Broad National dialogue about somehow we dont feel that it should actually in a wall or going to it was created in order to facilitate the dialogue in order this. That one of the homolka called and beautiful revolution to indeed turn into a beautiful transition of power thank you so much for that and xandra so janowicz contre my forest there in moscow thank you more ahead on this aljazeera news hour including testing the limits of the Worlds Largest hydroelectric dam some chinese fear it could collapse after weeks of torrential rain brassy u. S. Food and drug abuse administrations head apologizes for overstating the benefits of class metry meant because in 1000 patients and in sport a standout performance by the bron james sports the l. A. Lake is in charge of their playoff Series Details coming up later in the program. The end. Of. A u. S. Attempt to bring back sanctions on iran is facing major push back at the United Nations the Security Council president says 13 members are against reimposing sanctions and it will not take further action the u. S. Had been pushing for the reimposition of sanctions for alleged violations of the nuclear deal which washington left 2 years ago the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Told the council that iran continues to be a threat to peace in the middle east. Direct military cooperation will benefit the entire region by countering the threat posed by irans destabilize activities in the middle east and beyond for years and up to today iran has defied International Law by breaking the uns own weapons ban and providing militias and terror groups with the firepower to kill and maim men women and children across the middle east while members of the council are so far unwilling to confront this daily threat to peace and security the United States stands by the arab world and israel as we work to maintain an arms embargo on the murderous iranian regime. Christensen to me at the u. N. Headquarters in new york for us so chris interest what was the reaction when that pronouncement from the Security Council president was made from other Member States. So let me give you some background here under the j c p o a Nuclear Deals snapback provision which has been invoked by the United States these sanctions on iran are due to stay and a fact unless theres a new resolution in the Security Council reaffirming the desire to lift these sanctions clearly if there was any such resolution in the Security Council the United States would veto that so in a monthly meeting on the middle east today the president of the Security Council was asked about his intentions here and stated that he basically would not give the United States the opportunity to veto such a resolution and he cited lack of consensus in the Security Council and he was backed up by 13 of the 15 Security Council members in that assessment basically saying that the United States had no standing to invoke snapback in the 1st place because it did in fact withdraw from the deal back in 2018 so we have heard from the europeans even some of them like the United Kingdom who say that they do have concerns about iran supplying weapons to proxy groups in the middle east saying that they will not back the United States up on this call for a new resolution because they they think that keeping the nuclear deal is the most important thing here and that the United States does not have a right to do this United States for its part acknowledged it was isolated in the Security Council the ambassador said we have no fear of standing alone on this issue and she accused the europeans and all the other members of the council essentially standing with terrorists so with no consensus now on the on the council where does this leave the u. S. Bush or impose sanctions on iran where does it go from here. Yes so the United States continues to maintain that it has every right to do this and that in 30 days the sanctions against iran will be returned that they will impose sanctions on the other country that attempts to sell them these weapons its possible that the United States very likely in fact that they will continue to try to push this issue to get it recognized officially in the council in the form of some resolution theres a new president next month or they may try again when theres a new leadership to have this come up the europeans for their part have been calling for more dialogue there is a meeting of the parties to the j. C. Coming up in september and youre hearing the europeans talk about more dialogue and finding other ways to strengthen the deal through that meeting but not through what the United States is looking for here in the Security Council and here at the United Nations the standoff is likely to continue thank you for that chris since you know me with the latest there from the United Nations. The deal between israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations may be souring after less than 2 weeks a u. S. News website says u. S. Called off a meeting with american and israeli officials after Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu oppose the sale of f. 35 warplanes the u. S. Navy u. A. E. Wants the south jets but u. S. Policy dictates israel must maintain its Regional Military superiority and in a further set back saddam has told my compiler the u. S. Secretary of state that it is in no position to normalize relations with israel during talks in khartoum Prime Minister abdullah him doc said the Transitional Government isnt mandated to make such decisions early in his or out on bail promise to promote closer ties between israel and other arab states he morgan is in khartoum she says the u. S. Is using sudan status as a state sponsor of terrorism as leverage. Following the meeting between the sudanese Prime Minister and the u. S. Secretary of states my comp Prime Minister tweeted that it was a great meeting and that they discussed number of issues including bilateral relations. Off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism that is something this government has been working on since it came to power exactly a year ago weve seen the Prime Minister bringing it up with so whenever he meets with several foreign officials trying to lobby them to back him up to get the u. S. To move them off the list of states sponsoring terrorism now it looks like to get removed of that list there are certain conditions initially it was paying for the victims of the bombings in kenya and tanzania more than 20 years ago but right now sudan is quite concerned that the other condition the new condition that has popped up right now is normalizing time normalizing ties with israel now the Prime Minister has stated clearly and weve also spoken to the government to the spokesperson of the government and they both stated that this government is not mandated to normalize relations with israel this government has a certain mandate and that it is a coalition of Political Parties that with different ideologies their main goal is to achieve peace in the country and to lead this country towards elections in 2 and 2 years and a half so that is right now the goal of his government so right now there are questions about now that sudan has made it clear that it is in no position to normalize ties with israel as per the you request of the u. S. What will happen to sudan being on the list of countries concerning terrorism. The World Health Organization has declared africa 3 naturally occurring polio the continents last case was reported in Northern Nigeria 4 years ago the announcement is a major step in the 30 Year Long Campaign to eradicate the disease worldwide. We must continue to protect africas children against all forms of polio and other childhood diseases ensuring they are protected. And we must take the Lessons Learned and best practices from eradicating one polio virus to achieve africas other Public Health goals and improve health care for all africans. Has this report now from nigeria. The announcement has come too late for tens of thousands of Polio Victims here with paralyzed limbs life gets harder in a country where little attention is paid to the needs of the disabled. But for parents of future generations a major source of worry is lifted. Completeness a success was delayed because of vaccination or stuff for years in many parts of Northern Nigeria. Some parents said the order of polio vaccine was a Birth Control scheme. Attacks another major obstacle to the Immunization Campaign the challenges in accessibility the challenges where how you deliver vaccine in hard to reach areas the challenges that how you gain the trust those who need the vaccine. Global intervention especially by unicef and the bill and Melinda Gates foundation was critical in achieving success what immunizations are started. A clear indication that no matter what the challenge is when all of humanity comes together with one dedicated purple as a for cause seen all our resources to really confront whatever challenges we fade we face there we can be triumphant this is an example of triumph i guess a disease that is asia and however experts one of the threat of an outbreak remains some parents still resist immunizing their children and there is the danger of a false sense of security. Officials want to take their experience in fighting poorly or further by using similar resources in defeating the fall of either 6 years ago the same lessons the same resources the same front Line Technology is what were using to address given 1000 in nigeria World Health Organization praised nigeria success as a victory for africa but one that regular vaccinations and increased vigilance are required to defeat polio once and for all coming to greece aljazeera reporter. As can can die is the Polio Eradication Program coordinator for the africa region at the World Health Organization he told me earlier just how hard it was to get to this point leave men challenges which we faced along the way i 1st of all was vaccine refusers. If a you may remember in 2304 in nigeria there were some rumors misinformation that in these projects in this hell would cause h. L. V. Or that cause infidelity so we had a period when people not exactly these vaccines weve had some out of that bubble realizing leaders leaders and Community Leaders and government and everyone to vaccinate the children the 2nd military inge was in security so just when you thought we had the spreading rumors then this is a security came up and that meant that we could not do surveillance as well as they vaccinations in the areas where we have been accessibility because of this insurgency so we had to come up with ways of trying to vaccinate very quickly in those materials before vaccinators could be attacked and in areas where we could not risk the vaccinators we had to use Work Together with the military that is quote knitters all trained so they could do the vaccination themselves and the other issue which we had as a charity was the Mass Movement of people in africa people move a lot from one country to the other from one religion the other so we had to sure that we have systems of tracking these movements and ensuring that we you vaccinate them at every transit point where we find these people with the good thing about the poor program is that we have a very big footprint around africa and also have a lot of expertise also have a lot of analysis of that which is and paired by any other. Public Health Program in the african region meanwhile Health Workers in pakistan have an urgent leave resumed the polio vaccination drive it had been halted since march and then are trying to vaccinate at least 800000 children come out hyder has more from islamabad. Situated on the outskirts of islamabad this is the no 4 did advocation of the polio widest hair in pakistan just afghanistan and pakistan are now the 2 remaining countries pakistans battle against polio began in the mid 99 however pakistan has suffered many crises including the alpha one war and uproar back effect of dad also the fact that protestants driver larry along the of onboard what carter all for many years because of the conflict there the program also suffered a setback in 2011 after a fake. United nations program. To take up an lardons read about dead gave an excuse to some of the groups fighting against the government targeting polio vaccination games doesnt have been lucys communicate because of this. Pull you into Education Campaign these are the sensitive a. D. R. s and there is a past history of. Attacks and these are. In the Security Forces so as a precaution that you may as we are through waiting she did you conclude these people as like not as you dishonest how is unless you decide we have successfully conducted this campaign my. Minority some people who are against this campaign but they had been censured and now i think this challenge has been diminished has been contained the large extent this is one of the more operations in the word and wall ring games of cowden report having Large Scale Campaign which go was 130 districts in pakistan in this particular campaign we are getting about 34000000 under 5 children the plan that we have. We. Say that in 20 twentieths of consolidating the transformation that face at the start and in charlotte the big 2021 as the year of interruption in pakistan. Where did imported to the north there while pakistan was making progress still march 19th friend make wars another setback raising fears of another spike. Still ahead on the news hour what happened on the wildfires raging across california destroying thousands of homes in sports light as formula one is set to return to this track for the 1st time in almost a decade ill be here with that story very shortly. And. Throughout much of the middle east all the time does have me quite as high as usual over the last few days and thats really the trend as we continue on was now the winds a little bit stronger on wednesday through iraq so that will kick us in sand and dust but these winds do not travel very far south of the time which is not as high as weve seen but certainly the winds like a winds i should say make it really feel quite human so 42 in doha although wednesday 46 still quite a bit of cloud in showers across to the fall south and west of yemen nothing particularly have a similar scenario a little bit heavier later in the day but then we will see some strong winds that really just pick up the sound and say not really making a false out 36 very light winds and if there are any sort of breezes about the tending to come in off those very warm waters so its a feeling very humid that we had down into africa and Central Regions weve got these thunderstorms on quite of the cloud continuing just a pos by for the most for the fall south of south africa those winds a fairly strong they will bring want to show us we through eastern areas and that is not a bad day wednesday we have also scattered showers across into tanzania they become a little bit more widespread as we go into thursday further inland but also spreading up into kenya somalia but conditions continuing to improve across the south lawn about importance with 80. 1 of the sounding revolutions in all of. Maybe. We have to meet the c o 2 emission targets because theyre to diminish the minor people were just talking about with the solar is it thats going to solve the problem of the world of business and commerce is driving the Energy Transmission is the promise of clean energy an illusion the dark side of green energy coming on aljazeera a story of love and deception love and death an israeli spy operating on the deep cover in syria knowing that discovery would make sense and. Aljazeera work tells the gripping story of most at spike lee coming up rated undercover in syria in the 960 no day shift career that ended in public execution illegal and Mossad Agents on aljazeera. In the the in. The in the. Welcome back a reminder of our top stories on aljazeera turkey says its ready for talks with greece over a dispute about Gas Exploration in contested waters in the Eastern Mediterranean but without preconditions germanys foreign minister has been meeting both sides in an effort to defuse tensions protests have resumed in better was his capital minsk despite a government crackdown on politicians and activists 2 members of the Opposition Coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail. And the World Health Organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio in the continents last case was recorded in Northern Nigeria 4 years ago. By the u. S. Food and Drug Administration has apologized for overstating the benefits of using plastic from recovered patients to treat covert 19 commissioners stephen hand says his earlier statements about the treatment were not entirely accurate present donald trump adhan the f. D. A. Announcement as a storage breakthrough for that cause an arm for scientists who disputed the effectiveness of the treatment alan fisher has more from washington. On saturday donald trump tweeted out saying that the people at the f. D. A. Deep state or whoever were holding back some treatments that could help covered and then on sunday here at the white house with the f. D. A. Commissioner by his side he announced that he was giving emergency authorization to use convalescent plasma saying that it had a 35 percent success rate that was backed up in that News Conference by stephen had no a number of scientists came up with the figures and said look there have been no big tests of this you cant stand by that 35 percent figure there is something very wrong here stephen has now admitted that perhaps he overstated the benefits of convalescent plasma because there have been no big tests carried out nor big surveys so donald trump probably isnt terribly pleased because there is the feeling that he pushed through this announcement to give him a political when coming on sunday the day before the Republican National convention and we know that the president has invested a lot of time and a lot of money in trying to find not just therapeutics but also a vaccine for covert 1000. 00 talked often about how he believes will be a vaccine before the election although the scientists still say that they are working to the original timeline which would mean much later this year or perhaps early next year the father of an African American man shot 7 times by police in the usa jeffrey sconce and says hes paralyzed from the waist down. Police fired tear gas at protests as defying overnight curfew orders in kenosha wisconsin west sundays shooting happened 29 year old jacob was repeatedly shot in the back as he leaned into his car with his 3 children inside the vehicle as ring in john hendren whos in konoha wisconsin for as john last night things started off from the peacefully and then the protests turned violent remind us of what happened overnight. And why the governor called in the National Guard you had about 125 of those troops keep we had a couple 100 of the Police Officers here in town and sheriffs deputies but it simply wasnt enough while they were protecting downtown the rest of can osha woke up to scenes like this you can see this building is already been boarded up but if you look a little further down the street here youll see that nearly every building here has been hit and the firefighters here have spent the day just toes ing down the burning embers of these buildings right over there on the on that right hand side for me you will see the firefighters knocking out the windows of a building because even many of these buildings that remain standing are going to be unfit to inhabit you can see the one next to the one theyre working on is completely destroyed but theres one building that was hardly touched at all and thats the Kingdom Word Ministry Church and theres a good reason for that someone threw a rock through that window right there and that gentleman in the white cap behind me is reverend David Montgomery he came out and he said listen this is a church and the looters said oh right were not supposed to hit churches and they moved on destroying everything for about 2 blocks from here but this place was spared and thats what you see throughout the city one place can be destroyed and right next to it can be a place entirely standing we also have learned a word that in fact. Jacob blake the man who shot last night indeed was paralyzed were not clear as to whether thats a permanent paralysis his lawyer Benjamin Crump will be speaking about that with the family shortly and well get you more information on that when we have it how can this all and john. Well in the short term what could happen is either police could come here an overwhelming force which they simply havent been able to muster so far because they as they control one part of town neuters in demonstrators some of the more violent ones will go to other parts of town like this one another thing they can do though is meet a couple of the demands of of the demonstrators that is arrest charge and fire the Police Officers involved now a couple of officers have been relieved of their duties temporarily that helped in the george floyd case in minneapolis and it happened within days but that is a rarity in a larger sense though d these protests are likely to go on as long as there are incidents in which police shoot apparently unarmed africanamericans across the country this is something thats been going on its galvanized black lives Matter Movement and bats really what is happening now youve got protests not just here but in minneapolis and new york and those are the demonstrators say will continue going on they will continue violating the curfew here in konoha and well see scenes like this until they have some kind of satisfaction or the police come in overwhelming force that they have not yet been able to muster thank you so much for that john hendren Conference Center in can you assure wisconsin. As saying in the u. S. A change in the weather has provided some minor relief to the thousands of firefighters battling wildfires across the state of california cloudy skies cooler temperatures and rising humidity have to fire crews consolidate some of the gains they made over the weekend but hundreds of blazes are still burning in some of the largest wildfires the state has ever seen the fires have killed at least 7 people and destroyed over a 1000 homes as guests yes get the latest with reynolds now joins us live from lake hughes in Los Angeles County tell us about the scene where you are right now from well fully id like to show you just a small sample of the devastation that the state of california has suffered over the past several weeks were in lake hughes where the late where the lake fire swept through a little over a week ago and you can see here a burned out house in the distance a chimney standing thats all that remains of someones home a burned car and everywhere a very surreal scene this vehicle completely destroyed here and i want to show you something give you an idea of how hot and intense these fires were this is melted aluminum from the vehicle here. And they burned the melting point of aluminum is 660 degrees celsius so these were very hot fires id like to introduce now sky cornell he is a inspector with the Los Angeles CountyFire Department scott thank you very much for joining us give us a sense of the underlying conditions and what is making the fires all across california now so intense and widespread. Good morning well we can see just in how this fire started it started a little after 330 in the afternoon when it was at its hottest temperatures and because we had those heavy rains over the winner all of the brush had a lot of growth and so because of that he wave it just dried all that out and one little spark could start a fire that we saw here were burns 11000 acres in the 1st 6 hours now there are some 14000. 00 firefighters on the frontlines in various parts of the state especially in Northern California which is sort of surrounded by a burning ring of fire give us a sense of what its like for those crews how difficult it is for them to keep working under these conditions well theres no doubt about it that were stretched thin all the way from Southern California to the Northern California weve already sent troops that were here fighting fire on this fire as soon as they could be released they were released and they didnt even get to go home they went straight to the fires up in Northern California to assist with those so as you can imagine when you have these high heat in this case they are in the mid to high hundreds throughout the sustained burn period its very taxing its heat exhaustion something have to worry about heat stroke is something to worry about so the fact that we only had 3 injuries for for all of this for now what is a 31000. 00 acre fires is Pretty Amazing it says a lot about the firefighters and their training and preparing for these and these firefighters are working 24 hours a day in some cases right that is correct our work period is a 24 hour shift so theyll get their meet up around 4 am they will load up together at a fire station theyll come theyll relieve one crew thats coming out from working all day and all night the day before and at 6 am theyre at the Office Briefing and theyre out here fighting fire by 7 some cases even earlier and theyll do that till the next 24 hour period and then well be relieved sky were of course in the midst of a pandemic and top of all this very quickly is the coronavirus demick and demick hampering your efforts well firefighters are are no different were except were probably exposed to more individuals than most people l. A. County fire here we run over 400000 calls a year so you can imagine were exposed. When someone calls i one were going to go and we dont know what they might have and in some cases they have had covert and some of our firefighters have done it too so when that happens we run short so that just means those that would have had a day off are now coming in to back fill and we keep fighting fire and doing business as usual cornell of l. A. County Fire Department. One of those who is helping california say survive these devastating fires fully thank you very much for that rob reynolds reporting there from california in the United States now pressure on the 3 gorges dam in china has eased but fears of a collapse remain following weeks have to wrench all rain record high water levels and devastating flooding in Southern China has reignited debate about the Worlds LargestHydroelectric Project katrina you reports from beijing. Located in chinas Central Province the 3 gorges dam was designed in part to protect the 10s of millions living close to the mt asias longest river from devastating flooding but this year record down poles are testing the limits of the Worlds LargestHydroelectric Project water levels are at their highest since the dam was constructed 14 years ago and locals are worried. If you scared im never seen the water level so high the noise is so loud the my door rattles. Weeks of torrential rain have flooded the n. C. And several tributaries forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes the 3 gorges dam is 181 meters high thats about the same height as this 52. 00 Story Building behind me extreme weather has seen water levels inch closer to the down capacity on saturday the body reached 167 meters thats about the same height as this buildings 47th. Water is allowed to accumulate to 175 meters from maximum efficiency engineers have discharged water several times to prevent it from overflowing a potentially catastrophic event. Analysts say its unlikely the dam will collapse but inadequate flood plains mean severe flooding is certain to reoccur the 3 gorges dam and with up with a partial justification for Flight Control and we have a removal of some levees try to increase what works for each and we have treatment and vegetative reestablishment objects eyes are easter tribe slow. To try to run off and even though all these things are done. And i get 5 we still this year have the highest for a record history the flooding has destroyed crucial farmland and cost an estimated 26000000000. 00 in damage some say the dam has made matters worse. You know what if with the mito and downstream youngs the river area is supposed to be the richest and the most urbanized yet the people there feel so weak and helpless this raises concerns for chinas future and questions about the governance model taking 2 decades to build the 3 gorges dam is one of the few manmade structures visible from space but this year is unusually heavy rains have laid bare its limited ability to protect millions from losing their land and livelihood katrina zira beijing. A 48 hour lockdown has been declared in gaza after the 1st few cases of Community Transmission of the corona virus were identified until now 1000. 00 cases have been linked to residents returning from abroad and theres now worry that gazas Health Care System will not be able to cope if the disease becomes widespread Howie Fawcett reports. For months garza has managed to dodge this moment but now its here near empty streets. Instructions to stay home for personal safety after 4 cases of coded 19 would attempted in the same family the 1st cases at large in the general population for a blockaded territory with an under equipped overstretched Health System this is a frightening time. And. We have started to implement a plan that we prepared for in advance police are imposing a curfew on people are completely committed to it we will take more preventive procedures depending on you evaluations of. A combination of the israeli and egyptian blockade and very strict quarantine measures had till now kept the coronavirus out gazas 110 cases had all been in corinth 100 centers these new Community Cases were traced after a woman got an israeli permit to travel to jerusalem for medical treatment and was found to have the disease the World Health Organization says such a moment was always likely to come and if Health Workers are following correct procedures in tracing the origin and spread of the outbreak and since we discovered the 4 cases in because he refused to camp the medical teams had been following up with more people who could have been in contact with the infected people weve stopped outpatient treatments halted planned surgeries and repaired all the Health Facilities to receive possible infected people. Gaza has about 100 ventilators in the Public Health system with another 100 in private clinics the w. H. O. Says the territory can deal with hundreds of cases but not thousands hamas which controls the territory is calling for a new International Aid the coded threat only compounds anxieties for garzas 2000000. 00 people already struggling with as little as 4 hours at a tricity a day after israel banned diesel imports for the strips only power station its part of a recent escalation in hostilities between hamas and israel within century balloons and rockets launched from gaza and in nightly air strikes by israel the biggest fear for now is of the power of this pandemic and what it could do to a place like gaza but the hope is it can be contained in time for sit aljazeera. This force is next and messy be on the verge of leaving boston guys here with that story and the rest of the days wars and after its. Time for sports and i have fully thank you so much lena lassie has told barcelona that he wants to leave the club are so confirm to the Associated Press that the argentinian striker sent them an official request lessees announcement comes just days after the club was beaten 82. 00 by byron munich in the Champions League the 6 time world player of the year has been at barcelona for his entire career the 33 year old has won 4 european titles and 10 Spanish League championships with barcelona at Manchester United captain Harry Maguire has been given a suspended prison sentence by a greek court the verdict follows his arrest last thursday the 27 year old was in court for the trial but was found guilty of repeated bodily harm attempted bribery and violence against Public Employees after a late night alter cation with police is currently in the u. K. And earlier on shoes day was named in the england squad harry. Regrets the fact that hes brought that sort of focus and. Attention on the team and he apologized for that but he also has his own side of the story that i think come out in time we recognise that if youre with england that has a profile and there are expectations and there was also attention and focus that goes with that and clearly if youre the captain of a club like Manchester United thats the same so. Hes hes fully aware of that and his statement Manchester United said the prosecution confirmed the charges and provided their evidence late on the day before the trial giving the defense team minimal time to digest them and prepare on this basis along with the substantial body of evidence refusing the charges are in mcguires legal team will now appeal the verdict. England cricketer Jimmy Anderson has become the 1st fast bowler in history to take 600 test match wickets the 38 year olds big moment came on the final day of the 3rd test against pakistan in southampton anderson taking away kids pakistan captain as the really the rain affected match finished in a draw with england winning the series one nil. Party hosted by you saying bolt is now the subject of a Police Investigation and jamaica after the former sprint star tested positive for corona virus a time olympic gold medalists is self isolating at his home bolts positive task comes just days after he hosted a number of Global Sports stars for his 34th birthday jamaica has had fewer than 1700 confirmed coronavirus cases. The l. A. Lakers are now just one win away from the western conference semifinals they beat the portland trail blazers in game 4 with Le Bron James putting in another big performance hell malik reports. Far better. Love bron james really looks like hes enjoying his 1st post season as an l. A. Laker in game 4 against the portland trailblazers not only did the n. B. A. s biggest star show of his individual brilliance sure. But he also set the stage for his fellow lakers to shine. On top of bagging 10 assists some excellent shooting and gotten 30 points takes a deep sigh and thats liberal and if its setting up a 20 point win to move the lakers within ones win of the next round he came up on what was a special moment for the franchise the 24th of august being dubbed kobe bryant day due to 24. 00 nate being the numbers could be wore during his career you know so is this beautiful beautiful knives or branch. That. Was. Or. This moment. Much of. The one play a seemingly capable about shining le brons this postseason is yanis and critical to. He scored 31 points to help the bucs 281212106 when overall amdo and take a 31 series lead a win in game. Lives will send the bucks into round 2 he never liked to step back. Just yet. And there are. You know lets get to talking theres been little between Oklahoma City and houston so far. On monday the thunder came out on top with 81172114 win. This series is now all square 2 wins apiece to possession with and looks to be heading for an exciting finish so hell malik aljazeera. And formula one is added 4 more races to its season and organizers are hoping a limited number of fans will be able to attend some grand preys this year turkey bahrain and a doubleheader in abu dhabi will finish a 17 race season the turkish grand prix in november will see f one return to the ystem ballpark tracks for the 1st time in 9 years. Ok and that is all your support for now fallen back thank you so much for that aspect for this news hour on aljazeera for me for me back to you and a whole team here in doha thank you very much for watching were live from london you center next to stay with this. September on aljazeera the trial of those accused of helping in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo newspaper attacks begins in congress as the world plans to move to was agreed and its a new documentary examines the fresh environmental challenges this will follow in the postponement of parliamentary elections due to coronavirus iranians return to the voting booth one on one east investigates indepth stories from across asia and the pacific as u. S. President Donald Trumps executive order banning will check chinas most popular comes into effect across america will dispose of the strain on us china relations september on aljazeera. 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The World Health Organization says the african continent is now free of the wild polio virus a final battle against the disease was fought and won in nigeria. Oh i merriam and london youre watching aljazeera also coming up on the program the calls for justice a grow stronger and it was and policing is once again in the spotlight after an unarmed black man is shot 7 times by police. And he