A small group of the president s supporters standing vigil outside in midmorning a following soft doctors and nurses appeared to give a briefing on the president s condition. The general prognosis was highly positive but a statement by the president s personal physician raises questions about the timeline of diagnosis just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of code in a particular day some to 10 of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness another of the consulting physician said the experimental antibody cocktail regeneration was administered 48 hours ago were working very closely with the company to monitor him the statements all to the timeline substantially placing initial diagnosis on wednesday and saying that dont suffer a general was administered 24 hours earlier than the white house said it was in response to calls for clarity the president s personal physician has issued a statement saying and i quote i incorrectly used the term 72 hours and stood off day 3 and 48 hours instead of day 2 with regards to his diagnosis and the administration of the policy clonal antibody therapy he continues the president was 1st diagnosed with cope at 19 on the evening of thursday october the 1st and had received regenerations antibody cocktail on friday october the 2nd. Another issue of contention concerns what appears to be a lack of transparency in the medical briefing for example we were not told what type of feeder the president had how high did it go we were not told with any clearly whether or not he in fact was or was not the recipient of supplemental oxygen ha the doctors rosy prognosis was undercut by the president s chief of staff mark meadows told reporters trumps vital signs in the past 24 hours have been disturbing and the next 48 hours of treatment are critical there are questions too about. The testing protocols. A week ago this gathering took place in the rose garden to announce president trumps nomination for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court at least 8 people who attended have now returned positive tests for covert including 2 senators the white house protocol for such gatherings is to administer and teach and tests which return results in 15 minutes but which a number of studies indicate produce a false result in nearly 50 percent of cases theres going to have to be complete from top to bottom review of the measures that are going to need to be. Moving forward all these questions are being punted another tweet from the hospital ward d prays for the hospital staff or described as amazing the supporters at least apparently prepared to accept the president s words and the doctors diagnosis at face value. Like ill just era but thats. 2 other covert 1000 news in india surging outbreak has now killed more than 100000 people thats nearly 10 percent of all cope with 1000 related deaths in the world its the 3rd country to record that number after the u. S. And brazil Prime MinisterNarendra Modis government has been criticized for its handling of the virus and madrid is back on her partial lockdown as the government struggles to stem rising cases and whats become europes biggest hotspots 4800000 people are now barred from leaving the spanish capital and restaurants capacities have been objects police have set up barricades to stop cars on major roads leading in and outs of the city yet today to the headlines struggle over the nile is coming up next on aljazeera. The nile. The worlds longest river. A 7000 kilometer lifeline for almost 400000000 people. Flowing north the nile runs through 10 countries. The highlands in the heart of africa. So the mediterranean sea. A source of sustenance but also one of tension even attentional conflict. These tensions between come. Trees along the river nile have their roots in the 19th century. Colonial decisions of the past. Are a point of bitter dispute today. And new political realities on the ground are increasing the sense of uncertainty over who owns the river nile. In september 2005 a team of explorers set off on a unique journey up the nile river. To. The striking in the pits right at the mouth of the not sure about to begin the longest running journey in the world. Led by new zealand adventurer a chemical a team aimed at being the 1st expedition to travel up the nile to its furthest source. The 1st stage of the trek through egypt and Northern Sudan proved a breeze. But then the explorers encountered the suit the Worlds Largest swamp. In fallon today and it dies into this mess of swampy area at 1000 kilometers long and 3 and a kilometers wide is now held these niger raised is just buried alive and water its sort of incredible. The suited means obstacle in arabic and it has proved just that. A labyrinth of waterways that has hindered past expeditions up the nile. Macleans team managed to navigate their way out of the swamp. After 90 days of travel overcoming tremendous obstacles they eventually arrived in rwanda. At a tiny spring which they determined to be the southernmost source of the nile. Today but clay is settled in uganda where he runs a White Water Rafting business in the city of jinja here on the nile. To life and its good to decline. That im. Just a few kilometers away from the clays business stands this list a monument to a past mile adventurer john manning speak. Speak was a british explorer who arrived here almost 150 years earlier 1862. He came in search of the answer to an age old question where is the source of the nile. The Royal Geographical Society in london was established in 1830. It houses the maps navigation tools and personal belongings of famous explorers from the 19th century. Men who were in the gray. Of a romantic obsession to discover the source of the nile. For europeans the exploration of the mile is probably the biggest goal drives their enterprise in 1000 century because its seen as as the largest the most important river and also because there is this long heritage or History Associated with it. Rather than trying to cross the sued area in southern sudan explorers in the mid 1900 chose another passage via the island of zanzibar. During the 19th century zanzibar was an arab kingdom controlling the trade route from india into africas interior. These arab traders facilitate european exploration its the europeans the arab traders for example who began 1st to report that there are great lakes already great like in the interior of east africa. Based on this information the Royal Geographical Society sponsored expeditions into the heart of africa. In 857 using zanzibar as a starting point john hanning speak cross to east africa and ventured into the hinterland where he found a huge lake he believed to be the source of the nile. 3 years later on a new expedition he travelled around this lake today known as Lake Victoria to discover the nile flowing out from its know them so. Side. A roll call of famous explorers ventured into the continents interior to build on speaks discovery. Men such as samuel baker David Livingston and Henry Morton Stanley helped complete the picture about the true source of the nile. Back home they were lauded as heroes with monuments built on of them but others saw them differently it was mistakenly called to discover that you know most books in the past use it speak to discover the knife as if you was a fussed you might have been through the night when actually he was a fussy european to see this as of the night but im not to discovered it because he was even so and this is some of the nadir by the africans. The Royal Geographical Society helped push the boundaries of exploration and empire. But this age of exploration is seen by many as a precursor of colonize a ship. Moment in is most of these people were explorers but Intelligence Services in their own countries made use of their experiences for them that. They were not only british but also belgians and french. Theyve served the people and the situation in these areas. They then pass this information on for colonize ation and has. Armed with greater information the age of exploration began the scramble for africa. The continent was up for grabs. To divide the spoils european nature. Convened at the berlin conference in 884. 00 where they sliced up the african continent interests fears of influence. Britain had formally occupied egypt 2 years earlier in 882 to control the suez canal the strategic route to india the jewel in the crown of the british empire. In berlin it was decided the nile basin region would fall under british rule. When the british to control you to knighted or to the very soon realized that they had become rudeness of a society that were totally dependent on the nile so they understood from the very beginning that the Economic Development the political stability to depend upon my control. To assert control upstream the british established what it called the east africa protectorate in 1905 comprising what is today kenya and uganda. The next step was sudan a territory ruled by egypt since 820. With their domination in egypt the british persuaded the egyptians to sign an agreement in january 899. 00 for joining rule of a sedan. In reality joint rule was a fig leaf for british command. Here in the president ial palace in khartoum to this day a museum houses portrayed of former governors of sudan. The paintings are testament to a time of british dominion. You know what in fact the british master the art of ruling sudan they completely sidelined the egyptians. Gillies the governor general was british the commander of the army was british and so were all the high ranking officials in the administration. Controlling the Great Lakes Region source of the white nile the british mix turned their attention to ensuring hedge many over the blue nile the rivers of a source originating in the ethiopian highlands. In may 902 the british signed an agreement with emperor men like the 2nd of ethiopia in which he promised not to build any dam that might affect the flow of the blue nile to egypt. Feeling they had secured the full length of the nile britains Decision Makers in london began to put in place the next phase of their master plan economic gain. From quite early on the british also decided to transform egypt into the cotton farm of the textile industries and like it here in the. British reliance on egyptian cotton began to increase. To boost the harvest the british set out to revolutionize egypts irrigation system a system dating back thousands of years. They gave a oddity to the vote countries denied countries their old engineers what the plan is remedial from the colonials service and teed. Experienced guys give them a lot of plans not a Political Freedom so that they really can take the nile in hand. The british came up with the idea for a dam in southern egypt to hold back the nile flood and use its water as irrigation. Construction on the ass one low dam began in 181009. It was officially opened 3 years later at the time it was the largest stone dam of its kind ever built. Britain wanted to ensure the full flow with the nile reached egypt to maximize cotton production. No one else upstream was allowed to siphon off any of the river. For have some strict orders were laid down to god in the use of the nile water because the british were concerned about egypt money. For example they banned sudanese farmers from the using of water pumps unless they obtained permission from the egyptian irrigation authority. In. Britain discriminated in favor of egypts claim over the nile. The british expected the egyptians to be thankful but they were to have a rude awakening. In 1919 following the end of the 1st world war the egyptians revolted against British Occupation and demanded complete independence. They were led by a fiery nationalist called saad zabulon. With such sentiment on the rise. The british looked for a way to cower the egyptians into submission. The river nile egypts lifeline was an effective political weapon and the british had in mind a Perfect Place to use this weapon. The get 0 region in sudan between the blue nile and the white nile was an area with the potential to become the largest cotton growing region in the world. That to france to motives or to main strategic and is that they can see us again or wrong to increase the cut. Production in sudan for the benefit of the british takes a long history secondly this huge need is not really in control of the now its running through saddam and his who has the power and. The bit it has a power in saddam. British attempts to intimidate the egyptians only further inflamed nationalist sentiment. A crisis point was reached when in november 1924 so least stack commander in chief of the Egyptian Army and governor of sudan was assassinated while driving through the streets of cairo. The assassins were arrested and sentenced to death. But the murder of the british official was a turning point london now found its reason to implement the good 0 scheme. What they did was that ok you kill the governor general then the will take more work from the nile as a punishment so this was the 1st time in practice that stream power punished the compiler you dude. For the vote with. Britains trump card was this a nod dam completed in 1925. Built on the blue nile in sudan it would help the irrigation of the gezi or area. But it also delivered an ominous signal to the egyptians for the 1st time in their history a dam built outside of egypt would affect the flow of the nile into their country. Nationalists however continued to mobilize Popular Support against the British Occupation. Cooler heads in london began to realize that relations with egypt were deteriorating fast. Something which could threaten british control over the suez canal. As before the river nile became a useful Political Tool this time for compromise rather than coercion. In maine 129 notes were exchanged between the british high commissioner in egypt george lloyd and the egyptian Prime MinisterMohammad Mahmoud pasha this diplomacy led to a landmark agreement in which britain awarded egypt exclusive control over the full course of the nile waters from egypts point of view the night 29. 00 agreement also calls. And the tree. Because here the british said that well the now is in a different rhythm of an s. And and it has a with a right to stop its a shame if they dont want it. By signing the 929. 00 agreement with the british so to coopt the egyptians. No such consideration was given to the Indigenous Peoples upstream who were not consulted even though the river originated in their lands. By the early 1930 s. Britain was becoming increasingly concerned with a growing menace closer to home. At the end of world war 2 in 1945 britain was no longer the mighty empire that could claim control of a large parts of the world such as the nile basin. After the 2nd world war britain came out of the war is that brits economy came out very much device that it and the us is now the king of the world. The United States stepped forward to assert itself more boldly on the world stage in places formally controlled by the old then piles. In 1953 u. S. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles became the 1st time ranking american official to visit cairo. Dulles offered Financial Support for the construction of a massive new dam on the nile in southern egypt. But 3 years later the offer was withdrawn. The americans had become suspicious of egyptian president Jamal Abdul Nasser as nonalignment policy. At the same time the withdrawal of the offer provided an opportunity to undermine british influence john pozza dollars and the American Government that understood quite clearly that one way or crushing the influence of the british imperialists in this area both to make them powerless when it comes to the now question became clear that everybody. That was of the americans decide it and the bridge had to just fall off as said prior to. Despite the withdrawal of Financial Support for the construction of the ass one high dam nasa chose to push ahead. In july 1956 nationalize the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the project. The takeover stun british and french shareholders in the suez company. The british still ruling parts of east africa at a secret planned retaliation. The plan would involve using the enfolds dam in uganda to cut off the flow with the nile upstream in an attempt to force nasa to give up the suez canal. The scheme was never adopted since the ensuing drought would take too long to have its effect on egypt. Britain wanted more immediate action so they reverted to a more obvious method boots on the ground. In 1956 britain and france with israeli collusion invaded egypt in a bid to seize back the canal. The americans publicly distance themselves from the aggression. By the states but not consulted in any way about any phase of these actions nor were we informed of them in advance. It is our only intent just matter will be brought before the United NationsGeneral Assembly there with no veto operating the opinion of the world can be brought to bear in our quest for a just didnt do this tormenting. The United Nations declared a ceasefire. So as crisis ended with a humiliating withdrawal of the invasion forces from egypt it was to prove a seminal moment in modern history. The sun was setting on the british empire. Colonialism was on the decline. In africa nations began to gain their independence among them nile upstream countries. The winds of change were blowing creating new states and new demands for a share of the waters of the nile. 2 planes from school and 15 men checked in now to tell us that their mushers missing for 5 days it is possible to fully clean the premises all forensic evidence but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned the mystery wanted to give some of it from started speaking about the role in the before even the saudi government give up with just a Jamal Khashoggi murder in a saudi consulate on aljazeera 40 years ago on october the 6th when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people egypt and syria going to surprise war against israel. Out of israel permitted so to get into this situation out of disaster now in the 1st of a 3 part series aljazeera expose what really happened during the 1st week of the war in october on aljazeera. This is aljazeera im dating obligato with a check on your world headlines u. S. President donald trump says the next few days will be the real test but pledged to finish his president ial Election Campaign the way it started he made the comments in a new video posted from the Walter Reed Medical Center where hes being treated for corona virus his doctor has warned that trump isnt out of the woods yet but that the team remains cautiously optimistic. Ill be back i think ill be back soon and i look forward to finishing up the campaign the way we started in the way weve been doing in kind of numbers that weve been doing weve been so proud of it so i just want to tell you that im starting to feel good. You dont know over the next period of a few days i guess thats the real test so well be seeing what happens over the next next couple of days meanwhile the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says all legislative activity will be rescheduled to later in the month as the virus sweeps through the republican partys ranks but Committee Work like the confirmation hearing for a Supreme Court nominee amy kone barretts will continue india is surging outbreak has now killed more than 100000 people thats nearly 10 percent of all cope with 19 related deaths in the world its the 3rd country to record that number after the u. S. And brazil Prime MinisterNarendra Modis government has been criticized for its handling of the virus francisco 1000 outbreak has once again hit record levels with almost 17000 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours the government is expected to announce new measures to curb the outbreak. Is really protesters have defied coronavirus restrictions to rally against the Prime Minister for the 15th straight week on wednesday israel banned outdoor gatherings of more than 20 people as part of renewed lockdown measures netanyahu is government is under fire over its handling of the economy and the covert 1000. 00 crisis as esthers want him to step down while hes on trial for corruption on charges of bribery and fraud. Armenia saying it will use all necessary means to protect Ethnic Armenians from azerbaijan this is the fighting has intensified in the disputed nagornokarabakh Region Military leaders in the enclave say another 51 of their soldiers have been killed those are the headlines on aljazeera back to struggle over the nile next thanks for watching. The health of humanity is at stake a Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. Is the guardian of Global Health delivering lifesaving tools School Supplies and training to help the worlds most found people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and effects working with scientists and Health Workers to learn all we can about the virus keeping you up to date with whats happening on the ground in the ward and in the land advocating for everyone to have access to essential Health Services now more than ever the world needs w. H. O. Making a healthy a world. For everyone. Khartoum capital of sudan. The Meeting Point of the white nile from the Great Lakes Region and the blue not from the ethiopian highlands. Hamdi is a resident of tutti island where the 2 niles converge. He explains to his son the difference in the color of the waters. The white nile on the left and the blue nile on the right and how they join here to form one river flowing northwards to egypt. You may need many the most beautiful thing distinguishing us from the rest of the world is the mind we do not imagine. There is no other river like it its a great river heavenly and the life around it is unique. In this small truck each day hamdi delivers vegetables across the river to the market on the amount. Of oil. And the. Idea of the nile they take visible that girl here to the market how would they live otherwise and liberals way even with i will be buried by the live in. Sudans road to independence started in the middle of the 20th century. And 953. 00 britain and egypt joint rulers of a sedan for more than 50 years. Signed an agreement giving the sudanese people the right to selfdetermination. 2 years later in 1955 the Sudanese Parliament unanimously adopted a declaration of independence rather than unifying with egypt into a single country. On january the 1st 956. 00 the sudanese flag was raised for the 1st time and khartoum. The largest country in africa was born a country flowing 60 percent of the entire nile basin area. Sudan had enormous agricultural potential but there was a drawback. The 1929 anglo egyptian agreement allotted only 4000000000 cubic meters of nile waters to the sudanese territory. Compared to egypts 48000000000 cubic meters. The newly independent sudanese were not happy inheriting this colonial legacy. And that this agreement reinforced gyptian dominance over the nile he made any and gave sudan just a token amount of. What was that it was done with each half most sudanese believe that the knowledge agreements were unjustly set and that distribution of the water should have been based on the size of the country heisley missa sudans share should have been much more than what was agreed upon because its far larger than. The 929 agreement had also given egypt the right to monitor the nile flow beyond the egyptian territory. Under so that i remember when i was young in geneva. I moved to the center not my room mate was an egyptian engineer this was and his sole job what the check the amount of water for then took from the night and to ensure that so then didnt take water during the drought these were your i guess but in the end. Keen to assert its newly won sovereignty the Sudanese Government declared it was no longer bound by the 1929 agreement. By 958 relations between sudan and egypt had to tear rated. So downs foreign minister traveled to cairo for urgent meetings. The 2 peoples had often described themselves as brothers of the nile valley but now there was a growing rift. But dramatic events in khartoum brought a sudden end to tensions in november 1958 the Sudanese Army staged a coup detat overthrowing the government. General Ibrahim Abood took the reins of power. Looking back on events some see the hand of venue gyptian president Jamal Abdul Nasser behind the coup. A little. Jumble of the nasr like a military coup and it. And Lieutenant General abboud was close to the egyptian regime in. A year after the coup a sudanese delegation arrived in cairo to sign a new nile agreement. The 959 full utilization of my waters agreement allocated a new share of the river ahead of the completion. But the us one high down in egypt. Once constructed the dam was due to save over 30000000000 cubic meters of floodwater annually. Egypt share of the nile increased by several 1000000000 cubic meters sudans limited share more than quadruple. The 1959 agreement between egypt and sudan consolidated a renewed alliance. Muscle issue that egypt and who then formed a joint committee this sponsible for monitoring that it in the 2 countries looked at that and increasing its water flow was the ad that is allowed. One way to increase the nile waters was to resurrect a plan dating back to British Colonial times. Over 20000000000 cubic meters of the nile waters carried downstream from the Great Lakes Region a lost by evaporation in the huge swamp area of southern sudan known as the sewage. The plan was to dig a canal diverting the nile to bypass this area reducing the water loss it was cooled the jungle a canal. There was one problem. Sedan was far from stable. The nation had been born with a dangerous fault line between a predominantly arab and muslim north and a mainly christian and animist south. Chief dummy and is a village leader on the outskirts of juba. Apical of southern sudan. He remembers the mood of secession in the south during the early 1950 s. But wanted to point out because we were all used already by arabs as 2nd men in the government we want to get it. Get it but at night i thought up what did it badly im not gonna im as good as ive got i. Am going to have a good. In all this 955 the 1st sudanese civil war erupted between north and south. Fighting raged for 17 years. Eventually a peace accord was signed in 1972 in. The end of fighting meant that plans for the jungle a canal in southern sudan could now be brought back off the shelf. Egyptian president anwar sadat and his sudanese counterpart just mary did exactly this and in 1978 work started on the 360 kilometer canal. But the southern sudanese viewed the project with suspicion. The main tribes of the region such as the new heir and dinka made a living by grazing their cattle across the suit. The jungle a canal threatened to dry up significant parts of this wetland. From the start it proved harmful for the tribes and their livestock. I know that when they dont look and i would be open i would still a young man and we saw stock in the stock of kept on coming from the east going to deny to bring water and they just went in and they perished because of the big. Bank and that was. Open because of those machines. A campaign against the jungle a canal project gained momentum reaching far and wide. Will be. Harmless shot while the dumbly canal was met with a hostile campaign to give a go but you know yeah but i was minister of education and i received letters from japan from environmentalists asking me why we would want to dry the wetlands in southern sudan and create a desert with the felix hardy a letter from someone in japan who wasnt even living here and had no rights to this food harmless what it was part of the campaign of negativity aimed at creating instability in our area. Otherwise the wealthy want to. Buy the early 1980 s. The project almost 2 thirds complete had become the focus for suspicion and wild rumors. Well there was politics and you know politicians can create they can create stories to frighten people one of them was that probably there were a lot of it just was coming to stop the locker on the canal. That was not true but of course in the absence of proper information anything could be really. Relations between the north and the south began to deteriorate once again. In 1983 a group of southern sudanese soldiers mutiny refusing to obey orders from the Northern Command as. An officer by the name of john garang joined the mutiny is. He led them into the bush to start a Guerilla Movement which came to be known as the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army the s. P. L. A. The sudans people Liberation Army was not against the john meccano person as such. Turned out on the lead with billy i written his p. H. D. Thesis by the way on the donek now his program was not the person itself but his complaint was the sudden sit down. Also needs an altar and even not just been set aside a little bit. The project provided one of the very 1st targets for the s. P. L. A at the beginning of sudan 2nd civil war between the north and the south and. The canals giant excavator lays in the spot where it dug its last hole a rusting destroyed rink. Where the fighting lasted for 22 years. 2000000 people died and 4000000 came directly james. Just after a series of talks the Peace Agreement ending the civil war was signed in january 2005 in ny vashon kenya changed. The accord stipulated a referendum to be held throughout southern sudan on independence by january 2011. The referendum resulted in southern secession. A new country was born. And a new question arose. Would the new country abide by previous water agreements allocating a share of the nile flood. Even before the announcement of the referendum result the opinion from the south was clear. We must advise of those agreements. Because saddam didnt become a different state then these must be divisive those items wouldnt you know dont they. Loaded in that i get. A new nile basin country in africa rejecting that the liberty of old agreements. A new nation looking to secure its own share of the rivers waters something similar has happened before. In the 1960 s. With european colonial powers declining a number of african nations gained their independence among them upstream states on the river nile. Soon after they announced they would not abide by the 1929 anglo egyptian nile agreement which had given egypt exclusive control of the river. Article 14 d. Of 1000 internet argument he states very clearly that most states sound be able to utilize the nile river what us or that he was feeding their mates or the lakes wheat fields that he went in without the approval of the dance of they give him a government that alone gives veto to egypt or i doubt the party and states. The 2 agreements from the previous century from 19291959 lie at the heart of todays struggle over the nile. Egypt and sedan on one side see the agreements as historical legacy is to be maintained. When i close some of the thought of so we must uphold agreements and treaties the holdup is that this is a logic that applies to National Borders to me and hold them no you cant just change the borders of african countries because the demarcation had been ratified in preindependence treaties their manner let you and so you can just demand new stipulations in the agreements especially since this is a crucial case reading to our livelihood then i want out of such a case egypt doesnt have any other. Water source probably never yet. On the other side upstream countries see the past agreements as colonial relics and demand their own rights to a share of the nile waters. Were all aware that the argument on the usage of the native what. Were saying that were back in the tank. And since then ive noticed things have happened and therefore there was a need to review the alchemy itself and how the countries. Through which the nail growth can benefit potentially. In an effort to resolve the growing dispute in 1999 the ministers of Water Resources from all the nile basin countries met here in Dar Es Salaam tanzania. The socalled Nile Basin Initiative was launched aimed at promoting joint projects and reaching a new agreement over the sharing of the nile. But the mood of camaraderie at the initial meetings soon changed and would that work in the kennett. Id like it to be known that the relationship between us and them wasnt that amicable he said they believed we were taking all of the water and that they were getting nothing under the sharia law when there was less than fear when we went for meetings in those countries they would say you are taking our water with my up it. Ok i dont want to say it was a hostile atmosphere but it certainly wasnt friendly for in. The upstream countries accused egypt of digging in its heels by refusing to consider relinquishing the agreements from the previous century. Negotiations continued over 10 years. Attitudes hardened. Positions became ever more entrenched. The egyptians saw their share of the river flow as both negligible and nonnegotiable. Ignited the other near the amount of rainfall in the entire nile basin area is 1. 6 trillion cubic meters of ahead of but what arrives downstream is 84000000000 cubic meters only which means less than 5 percent is a fuck so where does the difference go its wasted in evaporation and swamps in forests and it does not use an upstream country. Either therefore we should put aside the small quantity which is less than 5 percent leave it aside and focus on building joint projects between the nile basin countries this will save part of the last water then we can divide it in a fair way between the 10 base and countries. Hold and i felt. The upstream countries rejected egyptian arguments. Ethiopia was one of the countries which after years of being caught up in internal strife and tragedy was now pushing more forcefully for a greater share of the nile. When the whole is a not here to be negotiated because this is a visit on. The nature and it is a good and what are good in or that is not negotiated in any International Argument and thats why it is a demanding the nih what are the when or what was the reason it instead of telling is it is a matter of this office and about another one of the sort of is that. The responsible for every. People. Things reached a head in may 2010 at a meeting in entebbe uganda when 4 upstream nations signed a new agreement nullifying older ones and setting out policies for a more. Dibble share of the nile. To this date 6 countries are signatories ethiopia uganda rwanda tanzania kenya and burundi. Egypt and sudan were absent having refused to even attend the meeting. There was a mood of celebration among those who signed the socalled mile quarter Framework Agreement and want to regulate ourselves but i think. Its far. Better to why its even more often said to make sure that all. The signatories believe egypt and sudan will have to come on board at some point and sign a new agreement all the time they walk out but they still come back because there is no in the cells that they can be able to use and what we have been telling them the only simple way is population with. Nations sure enough a few weeks later in june 2010 the egyptians return to the negotiating table. It was a bitter pill for them to swallow. However they have yet to sign the entebbe agreement. For the egyptians at least for the time being facts on the ground are more important than the signing of any a cool must of. Egypt and certain neutral parties believe that we dont need to sign any agreement at the present time that had that there is no need for a Framework Agreement for the foreseeable future wouldnt we believe what is important is what is happening on the ground especially the fact that there are no big dam projects at the present time that may affect egyptian interest. But the status quo is unlikely to hold. African upstream nations are increasingly demanding a larger share of the nile waters. Such demands are raising fears downstream. Fears stoked up by a history of suspicion and rivalry. Fears about countries not only on the nile but even beyond the great river itself. The river nile is a vital source of systems to the countries and flows through this enormous thing called on who can lay claim to have been given a good given the resources we reach but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry countries suspicious of each others intentions in the battle for control of the river transporting through consultation was not up to me to come to is because i was on the field struggling on aljazeera. However we have something of a cold blast across the Northern Plains of the us a lot of cloud just diving out of central canada pushing down towards the midwest some wet weather i have its was the southeast and colder as well some potential for flooding into parts of florida the east disabled not so bad for a time but we will see some showers edging up towards a callout as we go through saturday sunday on into monday some showers that just around the midwest and heading of its wars the appalachians temperatures at around 15 celsius in winnipeg around 12 degrees in minneapolis it will improve it will warm up as we go on into monday as the those temperatures quite nicely on the rise a few showers over towards eastern seaboard still a few showers down towards the southeast and quite a bit for much of central u. S. Pushing i would say was the west of course no help its always fossilized arkansas north of the border we will see a few showers getting into were purchased colombia now from mexico it is generate dry away from the south southern parts will see some very heavy right and we have yes another Tropical Storm in. The offing here gallery is making its way across the yucatan peninsula possibility of life threatening floods moving in across parts of mexico it will gradually make its way into the buy of campaign as we move into next week. The wilderness of cambodia is under threat. Pillaged for profit by illegal timber trade one on one east investigates the plunder of cambodias forests. To see her. Back i think ill be back soon in a video message from hospital donald trump says hes feeling much better but the next few days will be the real test as he continues to receive treatment for cobra 19 i. Want to know just arrived from headquarters in doha im dan navigator also coming up i mean the Prime Minister says his country faces a decisive moment as fighting with as a reformer says intensifies in the disputed nagornokarabakh region. Indias coronavirus death