on al-jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. with the tough security law in place people in hong kong decide which democratic candidates they want to run in elections. hello i'm sam is a this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the largest broadcaster in the philippines abs hours away from shutting down for good as the deadline approaches for an appeal. 25 years after the genocide in 70

a somber day is being marked with special ceremonies. and protests. people demand the president's resignation over attacks by armed groups and economic challenges. begin in hong kong where voters are casting their ballots to narrow the field of democratic candidates who will run an upcoming election campaigning has been underway for several hours people will be voting over the weekend but a newly imposed national security law is overshadowing the lead up to the main vote in september as sarah clarke now reports. these images of a mob indiscriminately attacking protesters journalists and civilians in you long last july. marked

a turning point in the hong kong demonstrations journalist with hope was live streaming when she was targeted i know that the broadcast live broadcast of me being beaten up by gangs and lobsters it's terrible to watch but the thing is i do know like that so many people they went to you know because they watched a park and it was this incident and last year's months of anti-government protests that inspired going and hotu into the political arena for the 1st time she'll run as an independent candidate in the new territories at the legislative council elections in september despite china's newly imposed national security law she's prepared to take the risk and fight for greater democratic reform in hong kong of course i'm concerned by a future of course the people here concerned about the future we also know that if we do not do something if we do not resist the other terror or even total the tarion rule there's no future at all for us to concern about you know in last year's local council elections the pro-democracy camp secured 17 of the 18

districts and that's put greater competition in the pro-democracy bloc more young independent candidates are now standing for election to the city's legislature the probation camp which holds the majority acknowledges it might lose some seats but it's confident voters will support the central policy to restore order in a city rocked by months of political unrest. the upcoming election will be a tough one we will focus on issues such as restoring social stability because of last year's social unrest people hope the city can go back to normal soon as possible china's new national security looms over its campaign analysts say it effectively empowers authorities to disqualify candidates from local and pro-democracy camps who are critical of the chinese government this year i think china is taking a much stronger position against the opposition so i. the opposition candidates

make out this qualifies the national security law has already seen some parties withdraw from this election because some members fear the risk of imprisonment should the pro-democracy cap secure the majority that would live then the power to enact laws and reject or approve the budget and in extreme circumstances they could even try and force the resignation of the chief executive order over the final result on september 6th the coming months are likely to narrow hong kong's political divide syria clock al-jazeera hong kong the largest broadcaster in the philippines is just hours away from shutting down for good but after m.p.'s refused to renew a b.s. c.b.s. license on friday the deadline to appeal the decision expires in the next few hours president of the bigger the territory has repeatedly threatened the network over its critical coverage was forced to go off air in may after its license expired general and organising manila she reports there's no word yet on whether an appeal

will be launched. the technicality we were told is that that appeal should be coming from a member of the majority that voted against the reopening or the re issuing of the license so this is a bit absurd if you look at how unlikely though that just yesterday one of the a lawmakers of the 70 may actually come forward and petition for an appeal in favor of a.b. a c b n but you see its executives its lawyers say that over the last few weeks during the 12 congressional hearings that were conducted by this committee and despite this all the allegations and accusations hurled against them that nothing has been proven allegations against tax evasion about labor violations and even the citizenship the question over the citizenship of the owner of e.b.'s e.b.m. media corporation has been put into question so again just before the voting the speaker of the house told everyone to vote against their conscience and you see it was a crushing blow for a.b.c. b.n.

and to a certain degree according to rights groups to press freedom in the philippines 70 lawmakers out of 84 voted against the issuance of a broadcast license for the biggest media network in the country rights groups have said this is ill timed where you know basically some or around 11000 workers of a.b.s.e b.n. are might be losing their jobs in the middle of a pandemic where millions of filipinos have already lost their jobs they say this is also an injustice to millions of filipinos who live in the countryside in far flung areas where free broadcast of e.b.'s c.b.l. used to be the only access to information well let's take you back to the story we've been covering in hong kong where primaries on the way to decide which democratic candidates are going to run in september's legislative council elections the vehicle polland joins us now from hong kong so how is the primary going what is turnout look like. whoa so i mean. penton which

area where many people have are said to have shown up and cast their ballots but there are certain other areas where people are much more wary but organizers estimate that around $60000.00 people have already cast their ballots and that's not bad showing especially their target is only $170000.00 which means they're nearly halfway there and. balloting and casting and polling will continue until sunday evening so that's quite a time to go yet but they have faced a lot of obstacles in the run up to this particularly just before they try to open the polling is they had to delay polling due to the fact that police had raided the polling monitors that were supposed to monitor these pull these ballots and then eventually count them but he said they were investigating them due to 2013 project they did it had nothing to do with this but democratic activists are questioning the timing of this also many of the venues that were earmarked have pulled out and

that's because landlords have said that they do not support the offices or shops that it originally said that they could cast or be balloting stations have said that they were not allowed to do that anymore and so the democratic candidates had to be very creative with this and if you're wondering why i'm standing at a bus station one of the ways that circumvented this is by getting a bus if you see the red and yellow bus behind me which says polling station number 0481 that has now been converted into a polling station and people have been trickling in there to cast their ballots. you know what's at stake in terms of the balance of power with ultimately if the democratic guns make a big win in september elections. so yes that is the plan and that's the whole idea of these primaries the democratic camp wants to consolidate their base consolidate their supporters and try and get a majority in the legislative council elections which are happening in september

but the question now is whether they would be allowed are valid there or their candidacy would be valid under these new national security laws which are being used vaguely and being imposed upon for instance joshua wong has highlighted the issues with this saying that it just steer ours move the process towards the probate camp but says that this is a very important time for the pro-democracy camp and people should be casting their ballots in these primary elections here's what he had to say about it. with the fact that the basic thought was not i was surrendering everything and the protest vote would receive and generate the moment that what you put in. the full you know primary election let's face it oh that we were not part of the time. so he basically says that this is a very important step in the democratic process whether it will eventually be

regard how it will be regarded or rather will amount to anything is questionable particularly because hong kong is going on there through such on certain times at the moment sami all right thanks so much difficult. a commemoration is underway in the same bosnia-herzegovina for the 25th anniversary of the stubborn it's a genocide. more than $8000.00 bosnian muslim men and boys who are under the protection of u.n. troops were murdered by bosnian serb soldiers it remains the only massacre on european soil since the 2nd world war to be ruled a genocide while most of the remains have been recovered many victims still haven't been found so on the guy go has more an expanse of gravestones each one a victim of the genocide perpetrated here a quarter of

a century ago. the fathers grandfathers brothers uncles and sons of strep and. those they left behind come to pray here but the trauma of what happened is present so. i only wonder why they killed my children they were my neighbors and my oldest son's wedding day i invited them 1st enables. the widows and mothers of srebrenica left with their photos their memories. lost her 3 sons and husband the body of her eldest has never been found every day she is haunted by the last time she saw her youngest son movie and. he hung on to me when super soldiers came to take him he said mother don't leave me i stroked his curly here and said i won't leave you. they took him and i followed

i don't know if they hit me i don't remember anything it was this man retcon lad teach the commander of the bosnian serb forces who gave the order to exterminate the muslim men and boys of srebrenica here he reassured the young that they had nothing to worry about before condemning them to a massacre. together with a war time leader of the bosnian serbs rather than courage each the unleashed an atrocity the like of which had not been seen in europe since world war 2 they were later found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity by a un real crimes tribunal both are now serving life sentences in the hague but the failure of the dutch forces acting as un peacekeepers sent hundreds to their death many of the victims fled to the un designated safe zone only to be handed over to the bosnian serb forces. lost his entire immediate family in the killing that ensued he succeeded in holding the netherlands partly liable for their

deaths. here all. the army. was. bystander. while genocide was. now there is a new generation of young people many may have been born after the genocide but it is never far from their minds or their family history as is the need to preserve the memory of those who were killed and i grew up near here i keep an eye on the symmetry i lost a lot of family there a loss my grandfather keeping the memory of the victims alive and for their families a chance to remember them in dignity so. al-jazeera. joins us now live from part of how our collaboration this year given the current

a virus pandemic. well we are here in the memorial center and 7 it's and the people are starting to get there you may see people walking behind me but this will definitely be a much smaller crowd than usually everything is down due to the pandemic. since this is a quarter century anniversary it was planned to be a big memorial service honoring the victims but that had to be cancelled some dignitaries high level dignitaries had to cancel it was announced that the united nations secretary general will be here former president used former u.s. president bill clinton also they had to cancel they will address the common ration via video message sent in advance the commemoration is on its way later in the day around one. in 3 hours or so. they are will be held and then

afterwards the burial prayer the so-called. and then the physical act of burying the. take it had taken its toll on the number of victims that will be buried here today some families couldn't be here so they had to withdraw withdraw their consent for the burial and 9 victims of the 2nd it's a genocide will find their internal peace 25 years later how it's maybe surprising for some but you know 25 years later still burials still recovery of remains still an issue right. yes that is the exact the official number of. victims of the genocide a 1372 in the cemetery behind me 6600

victims have been buried 7000 have been identified now the difference to explain the difference we have to go back to the summer of 1905 when the killings stopped when they were finished the victims were buried in mass graves but then came the outcry of the international community and the only major intervention in the in the in the late summer so the answer both already is went back to these mass graves with heavy machinery excavated the bodies and relocated them since this was done with heavy robust machinery. you had victims and the ending in different location there is this infamous case of a 14 year old boy who was the remains have been found in 4 different locations in the cemetery behind me and there probably isn't a single grey wood a full skeleton. also not not not just that but there is more than one might think the graves with containing only

a bone or through this cover up operation created a nightmare for the i.c.m.p. the commission that was engaged in identifying and searching for the missing people so when they say they have identified 7000 people it may mean that there is only a bone or 2 and for some families and the families have the final say over there are not remain will be buried for some of them it's just not enough to make their final peace and also still there is one more than a 1000 people missing and yet to be found all right thanks so much tajik live from 70. still ahead on al-jazeera find out why millions of lives are at risk in syria as the u.n. security council fails to meet an important deadline. and another latin american official tests positive for cope with 19 with the pandemic worsening across the region.

how it got so warm and dry weather pushing into western parts of europe over the next couple of days the heat for the race does remain in place for the time being but this weather front here that cold front that's going to sink its way for the southwards and eastwards it will squeeze the heat out of the way as we go on through the week ahead so temperatures in vienna yesterday friday got up to 35.5 celsius saturday noticeably colder 22 degrees sunday showers some very heavy rain on this line actually pushing all the way up into that western side of russia but here we go with more in the way of clearer skies that will still be want to see showers around but it is brightening up and temperatures lifting nicely as we go on into the next couple days to $24.00 celsius in london by sunday $25.00 in paris.

wetter whether the live the storms they will continue to make their way for the race was 34 brooke arrests will fall away sharply as we go on into the early part of next week that few showers across spain largely dry across southern areas if europe with more very warm sunshine which extends across northern parts of africa come down into central africa to west africa some very heavy showers there into nigeria and some very heavy right all the way along the west. an image can change the way we see the womb ask if we had not seen. yes you could be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created does not mean. it can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story. and it. looks pretty intense because it can forge

narratives right through the listening post gives you the full picture on a 0. 0. 00. world. welcome back you're watching our just time to recap our headlines now kongs pro-democracy camp is holding a primary vote to decide on its candidates for september is that just that of council elections they say a newly imposed security law is threatening freedoms in the territory the largest broadcaster in the philippines is just hours away from shutting down for good that's after m.p.'s refused to renew the a.b.s. c.b.s. why since on friday the deadline to appeal the decision spiers in the next few

hours. a commemoration ceremony is underway in eastern bosnia-herzegovina for the 25th anniversary of the genocide more than 8000 miles away and most american boys were murdered by bosnian serb soldiers during the 1995 war. opposition supporters in mali have attacked the prime minister's office as calls for the president's resignation intensify a rally turned into violence and turned into violence rather after protesters tried to occupy the national assembly and force the state broadcaster off the air. reports. protesters attempting to burn down mollies national assembly saying the parliament no longer represents the people overwhelmed police fired tear gas outside the prime minister's office demonstrators have set up roadblocks in the capital bamako the country is on edge. and we have come back and we are here and then he's there right now today is the last day of president

the president you prime bucketed and we are calling everybody to come out to stop on this popular idea. in an address to the nation president called for dialogue saying he would form a national unity government appoint new judges to the constitutional court and organize a new vote in constituencies where there were allegations of fraud in favor of the ruling party during last april to elections for protest organizer mahmoud eco this is not enough. i am not an opponent or opposed to. i am opposed to the system and the way of ruling that isn't working. in the center and north of the country millions are displaced after fleeing attacks from armed groups and into communal violence money and security forces have so far failed to bring peace despite the support of $14000.00 u.n. and european troops to protest want to strip president of his power calling for

a transitional government but for key to supporters this is unacceptable to me for we have to sit. we each bring demands and we compromise you can't just demand the resignation of a sitting president. the protesters are calling for a nationwide civil disobedience movement demonstrators have occupied government buildings and control entry and exit of the capital bamako it seems the president is unable to contain a movement that is gaining momentum because hart al-jazeera. the un security council has missed a deadline to reach an agreement to keep cross border aid flowing into syria through separate proposals failed to pass 1st vetoed by russia and china the 2 countries want to cut the number of crossings used a day agencies are warning of dire consequences for displaced people many in southwestern syria depend on aid from turkey at least 23 people have died in

thousands have been displaced by flooding and landslides in the poll heavy rain is slowing down rescue and recovery efforts thousands are still missing with rescuers searching remote areas for people who were swept away by floodwaters. are parts of colombia's capital bogota are to be quarantined with cope with 1000 cases rising in the city certain neighborhoods will face strict rolling 2 week long down starting from monday intensive care units are reaching capacity colombia has around $134000.00 cases about a 3rd of those are in bogota. in the spread of the current virus is slowing in latin america several countries in the region now wrong rank among those with the highest per capita infection rates in the world and the least 3 leaders have tested positive. reports. with few exceptions the coronavirus

pandemic in latin america is worsening deaths in the region and now account for nearly half of daily coronavirus deaths worldwide and the pandemic is not scaring regional leaders. on thursday libya's interim president janine and yes announced that she along with 3 cabinet members had tested positive for the virus. then i will remain in quarantine for 14 days until a take a new test to see how i'm doing i'm feeling fine strong i will continue i can remotely in isolation. she's not the 1st in the region to become infected last month hunder and president juan orlando at mandy's told reporters that he and his wife had tested positive a recent spike in coronavirus cases in honduras has caused concern over the possibility of the central american nation becoming the next pope at 19 at the center. on monday brazil's president jade wilson out of became the 2nd regional leader to contract the virus brazil remains latin america's worst hit nation also

narrow however insist on reopening the economy maintaining that a spiraling economic crisis is worse than the pandemic itself. on thursday the leader of venezuela's socialist party said that he too had become infected venezuelan president nicolas maduro was quick to confirm the announcement be. you has just sent a message on his green accounting forming that they are taking the piss the molecular at this for 1000 years though has to. be from my family official coronavirus cases in venezuela stand at just over 8300 but the opposition has questioned the accuracy of the data accusing the government of a lack of transparency and al-jazeera. the buy based airline emirates has revealed it'll cut as many as 9000 jobs because of the global pandemic flights around the world have been grounded for months emirates had around 60000 staff

members this is the 1st time the carrier has disclosed the number of jobs being lost. the netherlands is taking russia to the european court of human rights for its suspected role in drowning a member in downing rather a malaysian airliner all $298.00 passengers and crew were killed when the jet was shot down over eastern ukraine 6 years ago the boeing triple 7 was flying over territory controlled by russian backed rebels russia has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attack. turkey's president says the 1st prayers will be held inside the stumbles i fear on july the 24th after he signed a decree formally restoring the landmark status as a mosque on friday a court ruled it's conversion to a museum in 1934 was illegal so in course all new reports. dozens celebrating conversion of istanbul's iconic landmark hagia sophia back into

a mosque through a much awaited court decision at dream turkish muslims have been chasing for 85 years of i'm very happy i wish hard use of fear remains as a mosque until the judgement day i still get them i as soft as a mosque is a legacy of 5 children my met you got it back turkey's present project a part on signed a presidential decree shortly after the country's highest court revoked a 934 cabinet decision that turned the other face in term museum change i mean. like all our other mosques the doors of high gas sophia will be open to all locals foreigners muslims and non muslims being the common heritage of humankind hagia sophia will continue to embrace everyone in a more sincere unique way with its new status. high gas off the ice turkey's most popular tourist site attracting nearly $4000000.00 visitors a year so you know ask a world heritage site and part of the historic area sophist. the un wants to make

sure no changes are made to the structure we deeply regret this decision made by the turkish authorities made without without prior discussion and prior consultation a prayer dialogue and we call for the universal value of this splendid world heritage to be to be preserved. the implications indeed have to be discussed now and this is why we call on the turkish authorities to reestablish the dialogue without delay immediately after turkey stop administrates afford to. again turkish people who have been awaiting for as a citizen for years are here to celebrate and they are impatient to have their 1st prayer inside i guess software was built as a christian orthodox cathedral 1500 years ago and it was converted into a mosque after the ottoman can cast in 1453 turkey's decision has caused outrage in

greece and russia home to millions of orthodox followers ecumenical patriarch bartholomew had earlier warned the decision would disappoint millions of christians around the world but present tired on say is deciding the purpose of our guest sophia is turkey's sovereign right so now because although al-jazeera a stumble. let's take you through some of the headlines here now does iran now hong kong's pro-democracy camp is holding a primary vote to decide on its candidates for september's legislative council elections they say a newly imposed security law is threatening freedoms in the territory. has more from hong kong. the primaries as they call it were delayed by a couple of hours due to the fact that police raided the polling at

a company that was supposed to monitor these like the ballot police say it was because of a project they did in 2013 where data was leaked but there are many questions particularly among the democratic camp at the time the largest broadcaster in the philippines is just hours away from shutting down for good m.p.'s refused to renew a b.s. c.b.s. license on friday deadline to appeal the decision expires in the next few hours the president has repeatedly threatened the network over its critical coverage a commemoration ceremonies underway in eastern bosnia-herzegovina for the 25th anniversary of the structure needs genocide more than 8000 bosnian muslim men and boys were murdered by bosnian serb soldiers during the 1995. the un security council has missed a deadline to reach an agreement to keep cross border aid flowing into syria aid

agencies are warning of dire consequences for displaced people many in northwestern syria depend on aid from turkey another latin american politician has been quarantined after getting covert 19 venezuela's oil minister confirmed he was infected just days after a televised meeting with president nicolas maduro at least 23 people have died and thousands of been displaced by flooding and landslides in the paul heavy rain is slowing down rescue and recovery efforts to buy based airline emirates is revealed it'll cut as many as 9000 jobs because of the global pandemic emirates has around 60000 staff members those are your headlines this listening post now. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geo political tensions not to mention the small matter of

a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. ministration official should they get blamed for that they. have a college official silence. could be given to the jury for a belief that the virus originated in the lab hello i'm richard just britain you're watching a special edition of the listening post code with 19 as the world's 2 most powerful countries the usa and china staring each other down so far it's been a war of words and soundbites a blame game over the origins of the pandemic and each side's response to it conducted mostly through the news. the chinese and american media industries are ideological opposites.