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It will always be. Brianna taylors family say kentuckys attorney general failed and vowed to keep protesting until the officers who shot the charged. With your sporting during a big windfall be l. A. Lakers in the n. B. A. Playoffs bron james and his teammates beat the Denver Nuggets through just one game away from the finals. Welcome to the program and we begin the hour in egypt where there are reports that at least 2 protesters have been killed after thousands of people defied a Police Crackdown to protest against the government for a 6th straight day dozens were arrested in raids ahead of the demonstrations that didnt stop people expressing their anger over corruption a deteriorating economy and poor Living Conditions and demanding the resignation of the president addle a time. Reports. Despite the threats of arrest or even death egyptians took to the streets in several areas across the country on friday. They dubbed it the friday of reach to demonstrate their opposition to the rule rather than fatah to c. C. And demand that he resigns. Slogans like this so you tell too loud dont be scared of sisi has to go on were heard in cairos one neighborhood. In the giza governorates which has been the epicenter since protests began last sunday police and other security personnel were deployed in force. This latest wave of antigovernment an anti military rule protests were triggered by ccs decision to demolish entire neighborhoods across egypt under the pretext that the homes were built illegally. These neighborhoods how some of the countrys poorest communities who have already. In suffering the brunt of a faltering economy unable to cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic according to the world bank 70 percent of all egyptians 70 percent live under either under poverty or on the brink of poverty thats a situation thats understandable add to that the social and political constraints just this week 2500 people have been arrested according to Amnesty International and just yesterday 150 appeared for the state Security Court im charges of terrorism because they were protesting in the streets we know that terrorism charges in egypt are the ways with which the state clamps down on any bourses of dissent the recalls true by former Army Contractor turned opposition figure mohamed ali now an exile for people to demonstrate with september 20th marking one year since similar demonstrations took place against c. C. S. Rule lives she says supporters particularly those who control egypts media will claim that these protests are marginal and largely in significant but the way in which the state is dealing with the protesters would suggest otherwise. Human Rights Groups like Amnesty International have already denounced the mass arrests of demonstrators over the past few days. Egypt has now witness 6 consecutive days of protests the slogans have all been demanding an end to ccs rule and while the number of protests may be growing gradually ceases grip on power doesnt seem to be loosening. A jersey or a. Trying to slide now from doha what is it that makes this latest wave of protests and different to previous ones. Well there is a geographical element to its that these protests whether its been sporadic or something thats been a bit more coordinated have shifted away from trying to break the security barriers that have been established around the main squares in the metropolises in the big cities cairo alexandria and other places and decided to make their selves heard even in the smaller narrower streets of marginal talents in rural areas and so forth and therefore in that whilst it may not give you the same spotlight as to where would it gives them the freedom to at least gather in not necessarily huge numbers but enough numbers to make themselves heard its also very difficult for security apparatuses to operate the same way they are because of the nature of those streets as well but more if we look at where these protests are taking place all across the nile across those rural areas farming communities much more underprivileged communities what makes it different is that with a lot of these people as we were explaining in the news report there they have they not only have anything to lose youre talking about people who are living in these shanty towns whose homes we have seen on mobile phone footage where ransacked by police and Security Forces their belongings thrown out into the streets moments before. Bulldozers came and tore down their houses taxi drivers are unemployed People Living on less than 2. 00 a day who now no longer have it roof over their heads and therefore that desperation is far greater than the fear thats been instilled by a regime that has massacre of hundreds of hundreds of people and imprisoned thousands or tens of thousands of others and in that there is something unique whats also important is that with the lack of cruel ism and Political Society that has emerged because of ccs im group rule over the past few years the sporadic nature of opposition thats coming thats a lot more organic its not being coordinated by any specific group even if we are to think of somebody like muhammad ali ultimately muhammad ali was not known to the egyptians before 12 months ago and therefore the vast majority of those coming out onto the streets are coming out from kind of instinctive desire or need to see some sort of change to solve it for their own livelihood and thats what makes these this latest wave maybe significantly different from previous ones thank you very much jim and jim on a shallow end thank you jamal well tennessee held us as a nonresident fellow at the institute and in his policy in washington joins us now from boston by skype and speaking about poor communities around egypt and we know that the government made a big deal about its Reform Program 4 years ago cutting subsidies and in agreement with the i. M. F. Now how much how badly suffering from from poverty and poor Living Standards particularly in the wake of the covert crisis. Even before coven poverty was a huge problem in egypt and a growing one. Following the the i. M. F. Program and the and the sturdy measures that were implemented already rose from 27. 8 percent of the population to 32. 00 and the World Bank Estimates that this is again before kobe that 60 percent of population was near or below the poverty line. So and what we have now are reports that unemployment has risen. Invariably pushing more egyptians into poverty so i doubt only theres a quite a lot of strain economically on the population. How is the government likely to deal with this we have these protests springing up but is it likely that they will die out particularly if the government responds with repression well we saw protests of a similar nature year ago. They were or they have been a number of governorates as is happening in this case it seems as well as. Having a lot of very young people if you look at some a lot of the videos youll find a lot of miners are protesters. I think that its really too early to tell whats going to happen last time around there were mass arrests over 4000 people or did. And rumor has it begun was actually quite surprised to find how otherwise it largely a political many of the people they arrested were and they were driven by these economic grievances were talking about. And that led to some kind of soft language coming from the government afterwards it doesnt mean that it reduced the repression that was happening both things happened in tandem but there was even a tweet from sisi saying i hear you and there were some rumblings in parliament about needing to address the impact of austerity so its a nonissue in these people. Nama. Thats the thing i was about to say ill timidly. The amount of assistance just simply pales in comparison to the scale the problem at the beginning and co that we had some cash transfers to informal workers but they reached roughly 15 percent of the people who are working in informal labor the government doesnt have great infrastructure for this or being the sort of assistance and generally means tested cast ransford so basically programs to get cash in the hands of poor people cover about a 3rd of the population that lives in poverty and that was before coded so there is simply an inadequate infrastructure for dealing with the strain of poverty in egypt and the government keeps squeezing with this with this new conversation about informal housing and doesnt take enough responsibility for how thats possible in its not realistic that in a country in which you cant hold a sign on the street for 30 minutes without getting arrested that these 1011 storey buildings were constructed without any complicity from the state and so until there is an accountability state officials for their role in all of that informal housing will persist as a problem and punishing the people who. Who live in these in these houses or who have built these houses without addressing that doesnt really address the problem thank you very much got to get your thoughts on this time for he called us from the to hanson chair the middle east policy. So youre watching the news out lie from london much more still ahead. She changed the course of american law. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes history again becoming the 1st woman to lie in state in the u. S. Capitol in ita nation says weeks of severe flooding as forced over half a 1000000 people to flee their homes in south sudan. And a bit later rafael nadal is not happy going into this years french open well hear from him later in the program. The number of confirmed covered 1000. 00 cases in the United States has now passed 7000000. 00 according to Johns Hopkins university thats more than 20 percent of the worlds total reported infections this is a study by u. S. Researches says the recent reopening of college new University Campuses could be linked to more than 3000. 00 additional u. S. Cases a day top Infectious Disease expert and sniff out she has said that he would like to see the number fall to below 10000 a day before flu season starts in october well talk to tom frieden is a former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention hes now president and c. E. O. Of resolve to save lives and initiative of vital strategies a Public Health organization working to solve International Health quite says he joins us via skype from new york so the United States has passed 7000000 cases now of covert 19 how worried are you about this surge getting much worse as we go into the winter months. Well its clear that different parts of the United States as different parts of europe are in very different places youve got the north east and a few other states that have relatively low rates and have kept those low for many weeks now have other states with rapid increases one thing i think we need to be clear about is that we dont know what the Police Season will look like this year in the Southern Hemisphere there wasnt a bad flu season so it may be that you dont have this kind of double trouble of flu plus coated but we do expect to see more code spreading in Colder Weather that would be expected and with people coming back to schools and colleges with not having consensus around mass wearing with not having good programs to test and trace people the u. S. Does not have the upper hand on the virus right now gene you optimistic that that can be a vaccine before the end of the era. On the one hand weve learned a lot more about immunity to cove it so it does appear that a vaccine may be possible you can be guardedly optimistic about that but we dont know for sure and its really important to be humble this is a new virus the bold predictions you hear from various individuals academic or political or otherwise really are without foundation in science and fact the fact is this is a really bad pandemic it should not be underestimated it can come back if you turn your back on it and you need a science based approach that puts Public Health 1st we hope there will be a vaccine rolled out through 2021 but thats not assured and even if theres a vaccine its not a fairytale ending to this pandemic with the vaccine were still going to need to be careful about indoor spaces be careful about hand washing and shaking hands and Wearing Masks do a good job of finding cases and contacts and outbreaks so that there isnt spread i think we need to get past the concept that we just mean one thing and then this will go away we need to chip away at the risk of covert and recognize that were all connected within countries and among countries and its an all of our best interest to Work Together to stop this pandemic and also be much better prepared for the next one he said that its important to be humble has that been much humility all clarity in the governments approach to this crisis. Well i think frankly the u. S. Governments response has not been very effective and because of that the death rate is high the economic losses are high when we look around the world or around the us the places that have done best have been guided by and have fully supported Public Health and a scientific approach theres a misconception here that Public Health and economics are in conflict in fact the places that follow Public Health principles get their economy back faster and thats something that all of us can learn from the u. S. Governments response has not been particularly effective whether it be in the messaging on masks which wears quite confused or the problem scaling up testing or the focus on the most important indicators or opening and closing in a granular sophisticated way to minimize economic harm while also minimizing the spread of disease is weak about a scientific approach that weve really seen that there were of us of that havent lee weve seen an attack on scientists pressure on scientists and on. Evidence and facts around the coronavirus how. Is that likely to change. Well i wish we would see as much attention in fighting the virus as we see fighting science sometimes and wed be better off wed have fewer deaths and less economic dislocation and we saw that with mask where we saw it with shutdowns with start with reopening we saw saw it with schools reopening and in each of those 4 cases and 80 science perspective backfired it meant more spread of covert more loss of jobs more deaths and the same will be true for vaccines we need to follow the science and not cut any corners on safety we need to get them out as soon and safely as possible but with an objective transparent open look at what the data shows. Dr tom frieden former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention thank you thank you. Well countries around europe are recording record numbers of new coronavirus cases as we heard dr frieden mentioning there a 2nd wave now tightening its grip on the continent more people are being tested now than when the pandemic 1st peaked in late march but governments are also struggling to slow the spread of the virus without resorting to costly and disruptive lockdowns. What is worrying to us is an increase in hospitalizations and an increase in bed occupancy for hospitalizations and also in i. C. U. Were at the end of september not even towards the end of september and we havent even started our flu season yet so what we are worried about is the possibility you know that these trends are going in the wrong direction well france has reported 15797 new cases in the past 24 hours just down from a record 16000 infections on thursday its also confirmed 150 deaths from the virus in the last day triple the daily levels a week ago spain reported more than 12000 cases with authorities in hot spot madrid warning of tough weeks ahead the u. K. Reported almost 7000 on friday a record high for the 2nd day in a row new restrictions have been imposed in several cities and london could be next and russia has reported more than 7000. 00 new infections in 24 hours last goes instructed its hospitals to free up beds after new cases jumped almost 50 percent overnight. Reports from paris. Anger in the french city of mass a after the government ordered bars and restaurants to close for 2 weeks to stem the spread of the corona virus infection rates in the city the highest in the country but a missing their businesses are being unfairly targeted as a drawing of my savings and 7 months to my head above water or asking us to be heard we feel our societys outcall city officials joined the protest saying the government in paris didnt consult them about the restrictions i understand the anger of shopkeeper i understanding youre a professional weve pushed them to the limits today theyre here theyre showing it theyre right france is government to serve the people must learn to live with the virus but in recent days its hardened its tone and approach these most is a temporary. Theyre not all but 3. The study shows that unfortunately there is more risk in closed areas without masks in bars and restaurants its not we the french government saying this its International Research so we must reduce the risk across france the Health Situation is deteriorating files and of new covert cases are registered each day doctors in several regions say hospitals are under pressure here in paris the government is also imposing more restrictions jim does school falls and swimming pools will close and balls will have to stop serving at 10 oclock at night this cafe owner says the new rules are confusing and we dont understand at all why only bars bars and restaurants in our culture there a place for people to come together a place where you can go after work to relax if they dont come here theyll go elsewhere theyll buy wine and go home it will be worse than clusters across Europe Countries are battling to contain the virus in russia the mayor of moscow ordered elderly people to stay home in spain all sorties why didnt a partial lockdown in the madrid region infuriating some of its a shame because people are going to lose their jobs. Their continuing uncertainty and restrictions are clearly taking their toll while governments try to protect both economies and people medical experts warn that the Health Situation is likely to get worse natasha partner al jazeera paris. A legendary indian singer has died from cove at 19 at the age of 74 as balasubrahmanyam recorded some 40000 songs in his 5 decade career his music was 1st popularized in tamil and tell you go cinema in Southern India later again success in bollywood and sang in 16 languages as p. P. As he was widely known tested positive for the virus in early august and died of cardio respiratory arrest. Demick has forced Rio De Janeiro to delay its wild famous carnival for the 1st time in 100 years elaborate floats and costumes usually attract tens of thousands of tourists to the city every february but organizers say they can ensure the safety of the crowds brazil has the 3rd highest number of infections in the wild well the family of Brianna Taylor has condemned a kentucky grand jury decision a charge on me one of the officers involved in a killing in march comes hours after protesters in louisville defied a curfew on thursday night to demand justice for the 26 year old hospital worker they want the arrest and prosecution of all 3 officers involved in taylors shooting inside her home the grand jury decided on wednesday not to file substantial charges of a killing one officer was charged for hitting a neighboring apartment will be on his head as aunt Bianca Austin read this message from briannas mother about kentuckys attorney general Daniel Cameron what i had hoped is that he knew he had the power to do the right thing that he had the power to stop the healing of this city. They had the power to help me in over 400 years of oppression what he helped me realize is that it will always be us against them that we are never say when it comes. Well al jazeera is john hendren has been covering the story from louisville and tells us more about why bernie taylors family lawyer is a demanding the transcripts of the grand cherry what they really want to know is did the prosecutor ask for charges to be preferred against the officers who actually shot Briana Taylor because as we know no one has been charged for that the grand jury did not come out with charges against anybody for shooting Briana Taylor the only charges that were levied were against a single officer for Reckless Endangerment a man officer was charged because he fired into neighboring apartments seemingly indiscriminately and they were there was a family of 3 a white family van is the basis for those 3 Reckless Endangerment charges but its not clear whether anybody will ever be held responsible for firing the shots that actually killed Brianna Taylor vats what people here in the streets want the prosecutor here the attorney general has not let me those charges but theres a federal investigation and that would look into whether there was a violation of Briana Taylors civil rights so theres still the possibility for charges there vats where Brianna Taylors family and lawyers are hoping for now. Meanwhile police in los angeles say one person was hurt when a pickup truck drove into a small crowd protesting against Police Brutality on thursday night a few minutes later a protest has chased down another vehicle which full stats way through the rally the driver of the white caught tried to escape before being surrounded by protest as some of him began striking the cop before drive away and he slates of course out with the vehicle and arrested the driver. Now members of congress have paid final respects to the late us supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last friday at the age of 87 she was a transformative figure in American Culture upheld by the left as a vanguard for gender equality and respected by the right for her friendship with conservatives now shes become the 1st woman to lie in state at the u. S. Capitol i do joe castro has more on ginsburg and the political earthquake caused by her death. A military guard escorted Ruth Bader Ginsburgs casket up the steps of the u. S. Capitol honoring a woman who helped transform life for millions of americans it is with profound sorrow and deep sympathy to the ginsburg family that i have the high honor to welcome Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg to why in stay the late supreme Court Justice was a champion for equal rights for men and women born to a world vastly different from the america of today in the 1950 s. Despite her brilliant mind and dogged work ethic she was demoted because of her gender and questioned for taking a mans spot in law school her tenacity and painstakingly thorough legal record eventually caught the eye of president bill clinton who nominated her to the Supreme Court ginsburg sat on the high bench for 27 years her diminutive size be lying her juggernaut status as a feminist icon for the left and voice for social justice through her scathing dissents. Lying atopic had a bill for president Abraham Lincoln ginsburg broke yet a final barrier becoming the 1st woman and 1st jewish person to be afforded the honor of lying in state at the u. S. Capitol. As a lawyer she won equality for women and men not in one swift victory but brick by brick case by case through meticulous careful lawyer. She changed the course of american law democratic president ial candidate and former Vice President joe biden was among those who pay their respects at the end of a long struggle with cancer ginsburg dying wish was to have a new president named her replacement to the Supreme Court polls show a majority of americans feel the same but President Donald Trump plans to announce his nominee to fill ginsburgs vacancy saturday. Trump will nominate a conservative judge and Senate Republicans have the numbers to push through confirmation possibly before the november 3rd election that would give trump a significant victory to tout to his base the creation of an ironclad conservative majority in the Supreme Court whoever replaces ginsburg could wield key votes for upcoming cases on health care and abortion rights and as the president has acknowledged could even help resolve any recall challenge to the Election Results those powder keg circumstances fewer than 40 days before voters choose their president all but guaranteed contentious congressional hearings ahead but for now a last quiet moment beneath the u. S. Flag at half mast in honor of a woman who leaves the country more equal for individuals and more divided in politics. Castro aljazeera washington. So ahead on the Program Rising cases despite a swedish model we take a closer look at the airplane country that refused to lock down. Bodies transitional president is sworn in 5 weeks after a coup but the country remains under sanctions. And Lewis Hamilton has a work to do after being slightly off the pace out of the russian grand prix he so explain in sport. Hello the weather has turned disappointedly cool at wet and windy across western parts of you have lots of clouds swirling away some big downpours the same flooding in spain recently sentenced by madrid source and sliding over the past couple of days so these were the frontside there was of low pressure to swirling away mains. Very very wet and on the chilly side as well but other tools he says with a fine weather is southerly winds lifting this temperatures up here into the low to mid twentys a Little Pockets of warmer air but you push further west was 121314 degrees disappointingly cold peris well below the seasonal average things will warm up as we go through the next couple of days at least for some occasion that cool northerly wind through saturday just along the north sea coast theyre pushing right down into the low countries and whats the weather just diving across southwest france into Northern Spain through the peyronies because some west of weather thats who went to germany and some pretty big downpours over towards from mania pushing up towards ukraine at all not just a little further north woods and a swiss what about the piling its way back in across that western side of the mets youll see some very heavy downpours into a good part of italy for northern parts of africa fought a dry but a few shot was up towards in that. Remote area liberia ponderous and cameroon aljazeera world means for right isnt performance. Journeys to europe have changed their lives. For us. We were moving fleeing persecution seeking a safe haven and creative freedom dropped from home journalists and activists on aljazeera. Building a wall was the promise made in the bid for the white house 0 tolerance approach the southern border became government policy detaining children and separating families the stark reality of picture too much to bear for Many Americans in a country that was built on immigration. Follow the key issues of the us elections on aljazeera. The. Quick recap of the headlines now thousands of antigovernment protesters have gathered across egypt for the 6 straight day despite a crackdown there are reports that police used live ammunition killing at least to protest as. The family of Briana Taylor is condemned a kentucky grand jury decision to charge only one of the officers involved in a killing in march. And the 2nd wave of corona virus continues to take hold in Europe Frances reports of just under 16000 new cases in the last day and 150 deaths. Sweden was one of the few countries in europe that never imposed a nationwide lockdown that decision that too much higher death toll to capita than its nordic neighbors though well below countries like spain and italy but with infection numbers now rising again and sweets to limit social gatherings for greece looks at whether swedens model is sustainable. 6 months after sweden triggered its Coronavirus Response stockholm in the autumn doesnt look too different from stockholm in the spring while other countries go in and out of lockdown the swedes have stayed open throughout the pandemic but a large decline in covert 19 cases came to an end this week with 533 reported on thursday the highest daily number since early july there is to have those on pounds the caution that existed in the spring has more and more been replaced by hugs parties and everyday life that for many seems to be a return to normal from one of the worlds highest covert 19 writes in the summer sweden says drop below countries that imposed lock downs like france the u. K. And spain they have been just a handful of recommendations under strict ins in place and despite this weeks new cases the government says it isnt planning to get hotshot just yet schools have stayed open since march and mosques are arrest site even during rush hour. This has become very common in most of the world but in sweden virtually no one wears a mask the Health Agency doesnt recommend them saying it can make people more careless about social distancing. Individual responsibility and sustainability are the pillars of the swedish model although they show you away from admitting herd immunity as a major target for most decisions the government defers to the Health Agencies chief epidemiology just. To keep the number of cases down when you stay in long term regulation in place or when you go into the plans main program but as we know most were homophobic to know Term Care Facilities it was the devastation of elderly care homes that was behind most of the countrys nearly 6000 deaths to date critics now say it wasnt just the lack of a lockdown that was the problem the government together with authorities was asking us doctors to palliative really plan to give and states treatment to otherwise Healthy People with risk factors to give them more freedom. Instead of oxygen because we dont have oxygen and care homes thousands of elderly have died without talks to junk that could have been otherwise saved. The care home watchdog has since reported that mistakes were made as sweden recorded more deaths than its 3 nordic neighbors combined but now denmark a short drive over the bridge from alma has overtaken swedens infection rate with the government in copenhagen bringing in new restrictions last week its true weve seen a couple of weeks worth of cases in sweden have been going down while theyve been increasing in denmark but we also see that testing much more than in sweden i think theyre just saying that theyre most ok and. Sweden may have flattened the curve considerably since the dark days of the spring and summer but the surge of cases in some parts of the country suggest its still far too early to know if the swedish model is working poor riess aljazeera stock. Or throughout the wealthy spread patterns of covered 1000. 00 mean that the months ahead could be even worse than fear and anger simmons looks now at the statistics comparing europe and other countries like the u. S. And brazil where there is a bigger and unrelenting crisis. Could it be as bad as last time or even worse. Coded 19 has been with us for more than 6 months everyone knows what it can do. But understanding covert defeats some of the best brains in the world in europe winter is ahead and with it the flu viruses will increase testing on covert has exposed the increase in positive cases yet death rates have fallen in some countries only to start rising again recently experts say theres been some complacency 1st of all you see it in the community particularly in the in younger people and then 4 weeks later it starts to treat. Those who are older and those who are 10. More probable and that when once it starts to see the hospital admissions rising thats when one starts to see the number of deaths youre izing so i dont think we should be deceived that just now in some crises once even. More detection more cases but not more deaths what the professor says there is borne out by the statistics here were looking at spain france and the u. K. On april the 1st at the height of the pandemic its a 7 day rolling average and these are infection rates spain in the 7 thousands france in the 4 thousands the u. K. In the 3 files fast forward to september the 23rd and rolling average is up spain with more than 11000 france 10000 and the u. K. 4000 whats happening to the death rate at this stage back in april it was measured in the hundreds getting more up to date youll see that dip in deaths but on september the 23rd theyre rising again 1135925 respectively that backs up what the experts have been warning about dont be full when infections increase and death rates go down while europe grapples with a covert crisis again in other countries theres been no response whatsoever more than 21000 infections of the United States on april 1st brazil 629 and weve picked out india with some of the most densely populated cities in the world but only 188 infections move on to september the 23rd again and the u. S. Shows nearly double the infection rate 42000 brazil not far behind and look at india the highest of all approaching 90000. The deaths on april 1st the u. S. Was at 609 brazil 26 and india with 6 in september its far worse deaths hope for a go around 700 in the u. S. And brazil beyond the files and in india. There is another worrying factor under reporting in countries suffering conflict past or present such as syria official figures there show 160 deaths in damascus medical research is that while the inaccurate based on our report we would suggest far more further forward in that demick potentially with almost 40 percent population potentially affected in. Any were both sort of 404400 deaths that were really missed there is no cure for covert yet for now no one could afford to ignore the sciences due to sticks and to simmons aljazeera well and quick bit of news on a Ukrainian Military plane carrying air force cadets having crashed in the countrys east at least 22 people have been killed another 2 have been injured and Emergency Services are searching for missing passengers the plane was carrying 28 people at least 18 of them cadets from bihar air force university forces are investigating the cause of the crash the head of kosovos War Veterans Group has been arrested to face charges of witness intimidation or award crimes tribunal in the hague mosques Police Arrested his knee in pristina on friday in recent weeks he and his aides have released Court Documents naming suspects and witnesses as well as civilians allegedly murdered during the 198999. 00 cost of an corella uprising has Prosecutors Office condemned the document dumps as an attempt to undermine the proper ministration of justice. 5 people have been arrested in the french capital paris ofter a knife attack on 2 journalists near the film offices of the satirical magazine charlie hebdo. Says they were attacked randomly in the city while they were having a cigarette break it comes 3 weeks after 14 suspects went on trial of the 2015 challis abdo attack in which 12 people were killed. Well now to Political Developments in mali the country has a new interim leader 5 weeks after the military ousted the president brand boubacar are tight conlan former defense minister. Is promising to hand over power in 18 months when nationwide elections are planned for the country but its west african neighbors say sanctions wont be lifted until a civilian Prime Minister is actually named nicolas hock reports. A squaring in ceremony under exceptional circumstances absent were the usual heads of state and foreign dignitaries instead an audience of mostly soldiers religious leaders and members of Civil Society 5 weeks after mondays military coup retired colonel bind becomes the countrys new civilian leader his Vice President the man who led that coup colonel in charge of security and defense. Lets not be afraid to admit mali is shaken we can communicated by and its our fault thanks for. Watching from home while he was shot by the military in july after protesting against former president he supported the military coup and now the Transitional Government hoping that they will bring to an end corruption and bad governance crippling the country in the midst of. Contempt of our leaders against our people needs to stop we want the new leadership to bring in and talk problems on the suffering the mali and people are going through over a 1000000 displaced and almost half of the population are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance and signs of mali and the current concerns of all of us they want a safe place to live they want their kids to get a good education they want access to healthcare and the obstacles are perhaps greater than many of us. Armed groups such as these long extended the greatest in al qaeda affiliate Jemaah Islamiyah was the main continue to make gains in the center of the country attacking villagers in targeting the mahdi army who is best positioned to address this issue if its not the military and probably the trying to reorganize you know the difference off of the country but this being said you know here again with the army its a security issue its a sort of governance issue in july a un investigation accused of the money an army of extrajudicial killings of the civilians there meant to protect the oversight of the armed forces and addressing the problems of millions is now in the hands of these 2 men they have 18 months to not only organize you elections and ensure security but bring back trust to a broken political system that has so far failed the modern people it was hard al jazeera. The activist his story inspired the film hotel rwanda about the countrys 1004. 00 genocide has admitted helping found a rebel close to 8 refugees but recess up again told his bail hearing that he did not support any violence he is charged with 13 offenses including financing terrorism and complicity he says he was tricked into flying hunter a one to after years in exile sees a beginning i was held a hero for protecting hundreds of rwandans cheering the genocide all the worst flooding for 100 years in sudan is now causing disaster in neighboring south sudan a half a 1000000 people that lost their homes in what Aid Organization is describing as a humanitarian disaster more than half the population of 12000000 people relied on outside help before the floods ever morgan reports. This is what do county in south sudans jungle estate looks like after weeks of heavy rains and the flooding of the white nile river villages and homes submerged displacing residents and robbing them of their livelihoods most were already affected by intercom you know violence that killed at least 300000 knees between february and may this year and displaced more than 50000. More weve come here because of the floods of villages being completely destroyed and we carried our children in plastic sheets to bring them here we have nothing to eat except leaves because all the cattle that we had were either killed or was stolen in previous attacks do county lies in the greater upper mile region the region worst affected by floods since mid july 625000 people in 35 counties all over the country have lost their homes in penny jar in neighboring unity state a 3rd of its 110000 population are displaced and in need of humanitarian aid and that everything we have has been lost in the platte we need food we need tent we need blankets and there are no medicine and more than half of south sudans 12000000. 00 population rely on humanitarian assistance for survival the Flood Disaster has made their plight even worse the government declared a state of emergency 6 weeks ago and after 5 years of conflict the worsening economy is another crisis the central bank and mounts that it was out of foreign currency reserves last month the inflation rate is a 35 percent which increases the risk of starvation as many cant afford 3 meals a day the food insecure to also the men to make it a challenge many people are in need of Food Security and also the influx of the i. D. P. s written nice and internally displaced persons from one estate to the other state has also created a citys who wanted it situation generally flooding now demands made a challenge and in terms of Food Insecurity also demands made. Well and so too is the risk of Waterborne Diseases such as malaria and cholera in flood affected areas with a fragile Health Care Infrastructure and the coronavirus pandemic is creating further difficulties this challenge that we face in the room to do abrasion thing is a whole thing related to how we keep ourselves protected from coffee we need to continue to practice physical distancing and wearing a mask where we saw in the communities today when people are actually trying to run a really good for the city for their life they were having difficulty actually practicing physical distancing it will take weeks before villages and towns affected by the floods begin to recover for the many waiting for help to arrive there hoping it doesnt take long he will morgan aljazeera north koreas leader kim jong un has issued a rare apology after his soldiers shot dead a south korean fisheries official near the border in a letter kim said he was very sorry for the incident. Bride reports on this now from south Koreas Capital seoul and he says the north is making a concerted effort to improve relations with its neighbors. Quite a Surprising Development it is not very often that north korea admits to making mistakes like this rarer still that they would then go and issue one appears to be a very sincere apology according to the president ial office here in south korea this apology has come personally from kim jong un saying how sorry he is to have disappointed moon j. N. The president of south korea talking about this unsavory case and putting in place measures to prevent a similar occurrence and the north says that it has apparently carried out its own investigation and has pretty much confirmed the details of what we know happened that apparently this was a south korean citizen on a some sort of floating object that came across to the northern side of this maritime border he was intercepted by this patrol boat and that north korean Border Guards fired a total of 10 rounds 10 shots at this individual it then says that that the crew of this boat then set fire to the flow take floating material that this fortunate individual had come across on as a preventative measure it seems against covert 19 now south korean officials as we know have said that the North Koreans actually set fire to this mans body so there seems to be some dispute over that but at least this does seem to be a recognition that this did take place north korea is apologizing for it and it does seem to be a concerted effort by north korea to try to keep the door open to better relations at some point in the future. Still ahead on the program the l. A. Lakers move a game closer to reaching the n. B. A. Finals in florida. And the hero rat tus just won the highest price ever on a available to the animal wild. Pieces an out sport. Marion thank you very much the Los Angeles Lakers are now just one win away from reaching the n. B. A. Finals Anthony Davis inspired them to victory in game 4 of the western Conference Series to put them 31 up against the Denver Nuggets david stokes reports that the kids there are troops clicking on denver had the momentum after winning game 3 so Anthony Davis got the lakers off to a fast start making his 1st 6 shots before any of his teammates it even made a basket but this is this kid who speaks by it wasnt long before the others chipped in this dunk from lebron james so the move 10 points clear in the 1st quarter the nuggets managed to stay in contention vote thanks largely to jim armory who produced the most eye catching move again because. I was. Joking i was sorry this attack the good god good guy who does what most of put in place impressive stuff but they couldnt contain the lakers charge davis racked up 34 points le bron finished with 26 as they secured the win and moved within one game of their 1st n. B. A. Finals for a decade it means that denver for the 3rd time this postseason will have to fight from 31 down game 5 on saturday will be the 7th time that they face elimination from the n. B. A. Bubbles david stokes aljazeera. The french open tennis start on sunday in paris but all eyes as of had to alter their plans to allow fans in to watch that after an order from the countrys government they had originally hoped to let in 20000 a day but thats now been whittled down to just 1000 a day across the 16 courts at Roland Garros meanwhile world number 2 rafael nadal will be going for Roland Garros title number 13 the spaniard has voiced his displeasure though with the hitting a balls that have been used the year. I really believe that. The gun is ation need to take a look on on that for the next couple of years for the health of the players still because the ball. Becomes dangerous for the for the elbow and for the fathers for the shoulders i think so but this year is what we have. Meanwhile a 4th seed daniel made a video of his playing on clay for only the 2nd year in his carrier can you believe it the russian thinks the cooler conditions in september and october could help him do well though the tournament was delayed from its usual may june date because of the coronavirus maybe can help me though its a bit called a restore the ball flies marj dont go a spinny so maybe i can play some flat down is this of course a practice and before the match so i think it can be an opportunity for me actually an advantage. Of course tough to say before you play your 1st match leonor messi has launched yet another attack at barcelona is bosses after they allowed striker luis suarez to leave for Athletico Madrid suarez a signed a 2 year deal with a place to go after passing his medical examination on friday the requirement was told by new barcelona boss ronald criminy had no future at the club they seem self was hoping to leave boss of before the current season kicked off base he wrote a message to suarez on instagram saying you did not for them to throw you out like they did but the truth is that at this stage nothing surprises me anymore. There wont be any fresh signings at real madrid with the transfer window closing on october 4th coach the new things that dan says hes happy with the squad years israel look to defend their spending a good title. Getting worse sister the squad i have is this one i dont want anything else and i will not ask for anything as ive said before anything can happen between now and october for and this is why i like all coaches i just want their day to arrive so we can stop talking about who comes or who lose. 30000. 00 fans are expected to attend this weeks russian grand prix in sochi that will make it the biggest formula one race in the coronavirus pandemic era Race Organizers are allowing a capacity of 50 percent of the sochi olympic park despite a rise in covert 1000 cases in russia and that could be an historic race weekend for champion Lewis Hamilton youll have the chance to equal Michael Schumacher its all time record of 91 victories he pushed a bit too hard in practice on friday but was school 2nd quickest behind whos the sadies teammate but harry potter us. Organizers of the Tokyo Olympic games of agreed on several measures to simplify in next years delayed lympics but found it difficult to make major cost savings the postponement is estimated to set japan back billions of dollars and the original plan was to cut 200 items but they have only managed 50 thats because of existing contract so already being in place broadcasters and other stakeholders the main focus of talks this week has been how to hold the games safely despite the threat of covert 90 but concrete protocols are not expected until at least mid december. While weve agreed on some 50 simplification measures at this stage to maximize cost savings the crease increase efficiencies will be continuing to look further opportunities over the coming months indeed right up until the guy were going to leave an important legacy which were already calling the tokyo model that will become a blueprint that will benefit future really big organizing committees for many years to come thats all the sports news mary respect to you in london thats great thanks pete all now for the 1st time the highest civilian honor the committee bestowed on an animal has been won by a rat this is the right in in question a giant african pouch track called mike gar or to give him his working name hero rat and u. K. Charities awarded him its gold medal for his work sniffing out landmines in cambodia here iraq is so light that he can scar a across a minefield safely and can search a field the size of a tennis court in just 20 minutes on exploded mines are a major issue in rural cambodia the legacy of years of civil war in the seventys and eightys. They they are im very happy and thankful and will never forget them because ill be able to who could miss form without fear anymore i would like to say thank you but im just so happy. Thats it for the news hour but ill be about was a full but its an interest a couple of minutes time. 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Those people who see everything as something to invest a profit of they want are up to the last drop on aljazeera 2 planes from sudan and 15 man checked now to tell us that there might be missing for 5 days it is possible to fully claim the premises all forensic evidence but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned and mr a wanted to give an example of it its a from start to speaking about the role in even before even the saudi government give up with this Jamal Khashoggi murder in a saudi consulate on aljazeera play an Important Role in tackling it would. Face. Form. Reports of at least 2 dead after thousands defy a Police Crackdown in egypt to protest against the government for a 6 day. Im Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up we havent even started our flu season yet growing concern over the 2nd wave of covert 1000 infections taking hold in europe is the number of cases in the United States passes 7000000. 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