Country. The u. S. Intensifies its pressure on beijing announcing visa restrictions on Chinese TechnologyCompanies Including huawei. And the u. S. Trial thats posted confidence that a Coronavirus Vaccine could be developed by the end of the year. And only well into the sports news as world cup organizers release the show jewels of the 2022 title tournament for the 1st time theyll be 4 matches a day in the group stages of all the details coming up later this hour. Egypt has demanded urgent clarification from ethiopia over whether it started filling a mega dam on the river nile ethiopian state media has reported that the reservoirs are finally being filled the controversial project will transform the lives of millions but control over its waters has led to needy a decade of contentious negotiations and a final deal still hasnt been reach ethiopia is the source of the blue now which flows through sudar and merges with the white nile up through egypt. At full capacity the dam which is the size of london will be able to hold 74000000000 cubic meters of water the hydro power will turn on the lights for the 70 percent of ethiopians that currently have no electricity and egypt relies on the now for 90 percent of its water for a population of 100000000. 00 trafford has more on how the dam divided the region before it was even completed. It say continues to build and cost close to 5000000000. 00 if you o. P. s flagship Infrastructure Project is a great source of national pride. But the grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start be coping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to exporter electricity across the region and says the dam will stop seasonal flooding in neighboring sudan. But egypt says there are a number of outstanding legal issues that need resolving and filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat and egypt does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on our 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each direction territory and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amount of what they produce and the amount of water they consume. And with a rapidly growing population of over 100000000. To this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because its the source of the blue nile the largest of the river gnarls tributaries if you appeal was never included in a colonial era agreement between egypt and sudan the gives the lions share of water to egypt there are many highly balance calculations including internal political ones that reply you know if you go and meet the other big you have i may add havent come into power in 2018 he wants to secure its position and you know be reelected in future elections in your area in egypt you are president sisi with you know an economy that has had been struggling but also he needs to ensure that he has the continued backing of the military establishment country which of course has an Important Role in the. Economy. In late june ethiopia rejected a u. N. Security Council Meeting requested by egypt saying the council should not be involved at all ethiopias u. N. Ambassador said the dispute should be solved at a regional Level African Union talks hosted by Science Africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he g. O. P. Did not sign of the final document ethiopia always said that it would have preferred agreement before it begins to fill the reservoir but if that wasnt possible it would go ahead anyway it has potential huge security implications for the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt of repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day Charles Trafford ill just. Say don stands to benefit from the project through access to cheap electricity and reduced flooding but it has also raised fears over the dams operation has been morgan has more from sudans like nubia. Filling of the dam is of great concern to both sudan and egypt because the dams capacity alone is twice the size or rather the capacity of the blue line which contributes more than 80 percent of the water so dan has repeatedly expressed concern over the impact of the dam and its safety on sudanese dams and Water Resources it says that its worried about the safety of the operations of the ground if you bring in his own stem especially because if you is yet to provide any guarantees its also worried about the impact it will have on water bodies downstream now one of those places where we will see an impact of the feeling is right here on lake newbie or as its much more commonly known lake nasir this is a lake that is created by the reservoir of the aswan high dam in egypt and most of the body of this lake is on the egyptian territory but this part which is about 20 percent lies on sudanese territory lots of fishermen and lots of farmers rely on this water body to be able to make a living and theyre saying that theyre concerned because this leak is largely reliant on the amount of water that flows into it and into the amount of water that is released by the egyptian dam so should egypt release a lot of water by the from behind dam and should there be a reduction in the amount of water that is flowing into the lake the size of the lake is likely to significantly reduce and that would have an impact on the livelihoods of people who are living here in the health and fishing and farming on the on the shores of lake so lots of concerns by sudan of course and also concerns by egypt over how much water it would be receiving especially because more than 90 percent of its population relies on the nile for fresh water to get any guarantees of from. A feeling of the down will not will not affect the amount of water that is flowing downstream. Thats me too professor Allan Mohammad to president of the World Association for Sustainable Development he joins us on skype from london thanks so much for being with us how significant this is the timing of this. Thing that. I think thank you very much for having me on your program i think its quite significant brink and as a mission duty story which i see is quite important i hope you are committing to from sudan brought back into that is a deep it is that sudan is going to be going through a very difficult time as a Prime Minister who gets sacked said you know if he scab in it one of them is a minister of Foreign Affairs finance. Else so the country is in day limit now so i say im not in the you are doing the fact that this you be have use a stymie to get 6 going through but if i take you back i think i have said this many times they should have been much more clear and more transparent in this issue of them now because we are facing what i call it last night i know its not very nice way but i couldnt get 19 for africa it has no solution because as you peel we simply say i dont subscribe to any of the colonial agreement because youve got an e. U. If you be a has been using the last i dont know how many years now going to 20 years of negotiation discussion and building that down why we were discussing going to meetings around there were building that down pretty decently you have a great. Negotiation was a discussion i didnt get a decent maybe last week theyre not feeling that or theyre not feeling that is it was until we reach an agreement its actually just it wasnt did you think this means essentially that he was giving up on any kind of talks about this and is just going ahead unilaterally. I mean to be fair. You have to see the bridge it is. For many so you will be its not just the government because they feel like the National Bright this is the flagship as your comment did that say it is the flagship product for the holy see will be and if you be a have you been every single soupy and citizen put money on this project the chinese what some money sordo as does the government even this european in the desert but what money so for soup this is more of a life or decision they really have to get this done to produce a result unfortunately does that hes off mean getting electricity which is double what they need so they can sell it and they become our african leader in energy so if. The Prime Minister if he is under a huge pressure or i can just simply say he had no other option than to really be sure this scene out of your is a scenario is not acceptable and i think it has to go i think it come on to the live feed of the Security Council because he cannot order the Prime Minister of his you become not continue ignoring that very legitimate course and by sudan and even if you think what you expect egypt to do and ive asked for clarification but if it is confirmed to them that this is being failed what exactly are they going to do you think i dont think they are going to get anything from his u. P. A. Because if you i have been following that comments by this european water minister if you look at the f. T. Brahman to all of them even i had to get the c. B. C. All the news he started by saying oh yes we see the feeling of that is it goes side by side by building the dam which he somehow indicating they were feeling it then when he is being confronted by some of that he bought does he then started to withdraw from that statement or hes not sure that this is not sure about it that it is season water with gum which is more of a technical argument they give sheehan now saying we have to with them as a must in order to really see this. This fuckwit is a flooded the very seasoned water or not someone at least they said its not very clear whether this is from the flooding from that early season or not but that if she didnt i dont think theyre going to get any answer which is a looking for which is simply to delay or to brought along the feeling of that isnt what you give him a seek to get people involved because also remember that he was getting the. Call that a bit of a silent like for example you east r. D. N. A. Be in china and i think it may be so done i recommend strongest when done well go to talk to get germany to become one of the international negotiate there so we are going to see lots of movement but i dont think egypt will get any success for us our and what they need from ethiopia thank you. Michael. Coming up on aljazeera this news hour the global population crash that the world is creeping towards and how society must prepare. Anger on the streets but karma turns to the border work begins to forge a truce between azerbaijan and armenia. And a tiger woods prepares to return to competitive go for the 1st time in 5 months to get his view on the black lives matter movement. Airstrikes in northern yemen have killed at least 24. 00 civilians including children thats according to medical sources a saudi immorality Coalition Aircraft reported be hit several homes in the district while a wedding was taking place at least 7 others are believed to be injured is the 3rd such incidents since june as violence resurges in the war damaged country last month an asteroid killed at least 12 people including 4 children inside our province hussein advocate he is a yemen and hooty Affairs Analyst he says United Nations must do more to hold the Saudi Led Coalition accountable for civilian deaths. From the beginning of the war they have killed by a strike more than 17000 yemeni civilians and it just hid in some media as they have always say that this attack came after it. Has targeted saudi arabia with ballastic on monday and actually that the attack on so you on monday it came. And i thought because on sunday the day before a saudi has killed 910 civilians including 5 children. But i believe that one main point that actually given that i would agree like to continue this type of attack against civilians is insecurity. Removal of the name for all children. Of the killers of children about 2 weeks ago they did this many time devoted that so i think if the United Nation will not help so i would be responsible for this killing i believe that thats all we can continue in the comic as the Communications Coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council she joins me live via skype from dublin thanks for being with us but what do you make of this latest attack on civilians in yemen well the reports are still coming in from todays attack but we do know that at least 10 people have died including children and we do know that this happens just 4 days after another airstrike on sunday also in a small rural area also in civilian homes and which killed another family and mostly women and children are started actually been area only weeks before. And they are now dealing with the dozens of families who fled in fear from that area this is the 3rd mass civilian attack you know a month which we see is a blatant disregard for the war thats why weve been reaching Refugee Council are calling for an immediate independent investigation those responsible to be held accountable and aside from the wrong going conflict what is the humanitarian situation and. It continues to be absolutely dire and this is a country where already and the for this before co 80 percent of the population repentant on aid its a country also in half a sing and lethal economic crisis its had 5 years of war and the devastation that that has wrought and now of course youve had the covert pandemic sweeping across the country so at a time when really all efforts all hands that should be on deck to try and protect people from the virus we should see a cease fire or actually seen to reverse were seeing an escalation in violence were seeing bombings by the coalition reaching into your high were seeing missiles into said eurabia also increasing the most concerning of oh were seeing a tripling of severe civilian casualties between may and june and so its yeah i mean you mentioned that a moment ago that youve got teams who who are in the area what what sort of work are they doing and how much can they achieve on the ground in the 2nd 1000 well these families that 3rd on sunday fled in chaos so they brought hardly anything with them so the kind of assistance that we are providing is from the most basic it is ready to eat meals it is mattresses it is blankets this basic equipment to keep yourself clean and and this is the kind of assistance that we have been providing for years but are our staff and we have over 250. 00 staff in yemen are seeing this every month every week sometimes on a daily basis and we can only do so much that this is a man me crisis and only a cease fire bring it to an end how much of a factor now is coronavirus in yemen. Its very serious i mean youre looking at a Health System that was already severely crippled by 5 years of war and its safe to say its in a state of near collapse at present official numbers for corona virus cases are still quite low but the latest research from the London School of medicine and tropical hygiene estimates that there is probably but a 1000000 cases in yemen at the moment people on the ground are telling us they are afraid hospitals are shutting their doors theres a shortage of equipment the situation is very severe but even in the middle of this people are telling us were also just as concerned about food the situation remains so critical that these this is the kind of level that we need to be providing assistance at. Thank you very much indeed jeff a joining us from the Norwegian Refugee Council thank you thank you. Tensions are escalating between the world 2 most powerful economies the u. S. Says it will put travel bans on employees of Chinese Technology giant huawei and other companies that violate human rights and now the white house is doubling down over a contentious maritime dispute seynt will back countries who oppose chinas territorial claims in the south china say its not chinas maritime empire if beijing violates International Law and free nations do nothing that history shows that the c. C. P. Will simply take more territory that happened in the last administration our statement give significant support to our leaders who have declared that the South China Sea disputes must be resolved through International Law not might makes right what the c. C. P. Does to the Chinese People is bad enough but the free world shouldnt tolerate beijings abuses as well and china is vowing to retaliate after the u. S. President donald trump authorized sanctions over the status of hong kong the u. S. Will penalize banks that do business with chinese officials who implemented controversial new security you know the train you reports from beijing. Hong kong is known as the world city but the u. S. Government says that nickname no longer applies washington has revoked the territories special economic status as punishment for the newly imposed National Security law. From now on says the u. S. It will treat hong kong like Mainland China the Chinese Government has condemned the move saying it will respond with sanctions were going to up hold our legitimate interests china will make the necessary responses to sanction the relevant personnel and entities of the u. S. Side we are the u. S. To correct mistakes and to not implement this act and stop interfering in chinas internal affairs critics say the new security law