penetrates global market slavery a 21st century evil continues to charcoal say. an al-jazeera really understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we believe the news and current of that matter to you. concerns about food security in lebanon after tuesday's explosion of beirut support in the midst of the coronavirus and economic crisis. well it's a whole roman your jihad is there a lot of my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes twitter and facebook take down a post by president donald trump accusing it of being false and harmful

misinformation about covert 19. counting the vote in sri lanka's parliamentary elections a poll that could cement the president's grip on power also. remembering the victims of hiroshima japan marks 75 years since the world's 1st atomic bombing that killed 140000 people. welcome to the program a diet humanitarian situation is coming into focus in lebanon 2 days after a large explosion tore through its capital there are concerns about food security have to the destruction of beirut support which is the main route for supplies coming in the country imports up to 80 percent of its food and countries around the world now are dispatching. emergency aid including food and fuel mobile hospitals

and medical personnel and for many families the search continues for news about their missing loved ones let's cross over to beirut center has been following the story from the start and the search continues for those that are missing zain are. yes dozens remain missing search operations are continuing we are outside of beirut court the site of the massive explosions that the steroid much of the lebanese capital the people behind me these are family members desperate people waiting for any news about the fate of their loved ones a short while ago we saw a red cross the vehicle come out of the last site we are not allowed to enter the area neither is the families nor are journalists permitted to enter the site of the explosion and we saw how families gathered around the car looking inside whether or not they found someone alive or even even body parts people are telling us we need

closure we just want to know what happened there's a lot of anger here especially at the authorities there blaming them for turning a blind eye to the presence of highly explosive material that caused the blast are believed to have caused the blast and they're also angry at the fact that search operations have been moving so slowly because the authorities do not have the necessary equipment and people to carry out quick search operations and that's why some countries have been sending search and rescue teams they're only starting to arrive now so a lot of anger a lot of pain a lot of grief especially since doesn't remain missing and these people have been here since monday afternoon just a few minutes after the explosion went off and many of the people who work at the port are daily wage earners people who earn just a few dollars a day in order to feed their families one woman told us my husband we have 3 children who's going to feed them now indeed of course many people like you. with

the uncertainty of where the next meal is coming from and how to even keep warm or even keep their houses operational that's the next concern is due to many. yes the priority after the search operations is to help those that have been affected by by the by this crisis if you can see how upset people are they're talking to the army they just want to any any news 300000 people made homeless and these people are many of them are poor they've lost their livelihoods shops have been destroyed we met a taxi driver. who is a vehicle was destroyed and he said i'm still paying for this car this was feeding my family what am i going to do now and the government this cash strapped this state is close to bankruptcy and people blame the political class who still hold power for running the economy into into the ground so these people will need food

these people will need shelter and eventually they're going to need jobs in order to sustain themselves now in the workforce 32 percent of the workforce has you know they've they've lost their jobs. this is not a saying my brother is dead lying dead on the ground at least. they're. angry at the authorities for not working fast enough you could imagine how difficult the situation is for the families dozens and dozens remain missing. obviously very saying i'm calling everybody i called the civil defense it was a very stressful time for many and we're witnessing that now with you live on al-jazeera and of course this is these are the scenes that the french president is going to see when he arrives later in the day to also well what one does what sort of help both he and the european union can do. yes the french president

is going to be the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon since the blast we have to remember france was the binocs former colonial power france historically historically really has intervened in lebanon in times of crisis some see the visit as a sign of support that lebanon and will receive the help it will it will get but before the blast this country or this government has has been isolated really by by lebanon's traditional allies in the west and and in the gulf because they've been accused of refusing to carry out much needed reforms including. state corruption. in the west and gulf arab states are not going to be productive to give you the billions of dollars you need unless you carry out those reforms that was very interesting because we took the french president when he said i'm going to meet the lebanese people. and bring them a message of fraternal. testing on the people of lebanon not

the government so it's be a show of support really to a government. that has really is been struggling to gain legitimacy and credibility not only at home but abroad and just 2 weeks ago the french foreign minister was here and he scolded them he told them help us so that we can help you so now what lebanon is expected to receive is yes international assistance medical supplies food but it's likely you're going to see assistance directly to the government to allow it to kick start the economy because that is going to be conditional to the government carrying out reforms and dealing with corruption in state institutions indeed for the latest things that of course we checking in with you. every. hour thanks very much twitter has temporarily restricted president donald trump's campaign team from tweeting it was in response to a video of a fox news interview with trump where he made false claims about 19. links to the

tweet now arrive at this page twitter says the post violated its rules on covert 1000 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign appears to have complied hours earlier facebook removed the same video from president transparent page it was the 1st time facebook removed one of trump's videos mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . well president trump stated in that interview phone interview with fox television that children are almost immune from coburg 19 or virtually immune he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly patently false the centers for disease research research the c.d.c. says that quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted to corona virus and at least 6 have actually died of acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is

clearly incorrect but what has got to be looked at as well as the context said president trump has used this phrase virtually immune he has done it before in public on a number of occasions and the context is his absolute insistence that schools must open in the u.s. in their entirety he does not want virtual education he wants all the classes to open at the beginning of the new school year because he argues the economy cannot provide and this children are back in school freeing their parents to go to work so this is the context of these repeated false swords being made by president with regard to children and covert 19. because parliamentary election which was delayed twice because of covert 90 the sri lanka people's front party led by a rajapaksa brothers who serve as both president and prime minister is expected to win a majority this was south asia's 1st major vote during the pandemic which had been forced to delay for over 4 months to middle philander's who joins us in the capital

colombo vote counting does begin in a country where there are no exit polls so how do we gauge sort of the public's feeling towards the way that they voted. generally what happens is counting centers like the one you see behind me here in the colombo district what happens is colombo has 4 centers like this where all the ballots of the district are counted the situation is replicated in districts around the country now some of the people you see. just behind me you have the security but we have through representatives of political parties independent candidates essentially who are allowed to go in and observe the counting so in the absence of exit polls that are kind of early indicators of the way the election is going the way the votes are coming in you do have those agents who are in those centers once

the counting is formally finished and everybody signs in then that that process has been sort of rubber stand by the presiding officers in those counting sort of boots and centers each and every counting room if you like has a system where the official count of that particular area or that room is actually posted outside so once the results start streaming out and as they finish the counting there is a picture that starts getting sort of put together in terms of indicators obviously these are individual areas in a particular district and when enough obviously of these individual votes results start coming in people start piecing together you know what kind of indications and how the vote is going to hit in the absence of those exit polls indeed of course we're going to picture later on in the day and of course flowing through the country but i was sort of a long history of civil war and violence so

a free and fair elections support smooth governance and a transfer of power international monitors are important to that process but they're not present in this election. that's right it's a hell of an obviously the core of it pandemic has kind of taken over all forms of preparation even with this election obviously when it was 1st declared for the 25th of april there had been international monitors who were in touch with the national election commission with the authorities we've had election monitors obviously from the european union and things like that but obviously law just equally that was not possible but we do have the existing sort of local could observe a mechanism and that is very much in place you have groups like. sensually the people's action for free and fair elections and a number of them and they do have

a presence on the ground they have been reporting sort of regular updates of how this election has gone and generally the assessment is that it's been largely free and fair in terms of election day so this will work continue to check in on the vote count through the day with you with alpha and as in colombo force well still ahead here on al-jazeera find out why a pastor has been sent to prison to me and mark holding a religious gathering. open to widespread fraud president trump again attacks the gypsum sea of november's election as his approval rating slumps to stay with us here on alt. hello the weather is warming up nicely now across western parts of here was there was a little bit of sherry right to get out of the way across the far northwest through

the british isles but that will move through as we go on through the next 24 hours or so not because area of high pressure here that's going to squeeze that western weather and to the way still if you show us down towards the adriatic towards the balkan so this active area of low pressure still bringing some rather wet weather there just around croatia bosnia pushing down towards the northern parts of greece as we go through the next couple days but further west at about 5 and dry as we go on through thursday warm sunshine coming through london at 27 celsius 34 celsius there in paris and rising we could touch a 36 in paris or into the thirty's there for london as well 3435 certainly a possibility might see a little bit of wet weather there just pushing into northern ireland is the western part of skull to see what a little bit of wet weather to down towards both gary but that aside it's looking fine and dry warm and sunny lots of lovely hot sunshine coming through then what sunshine to across a good parts of the med northern parts of africa also fine and dry shells

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of the market watching all to 0 with me as a home run a reminder of our top stories 1st concern over sued security in lebanon after tuesday's explosion destroyed beirut sport countries around the world are sending emergency aid at least 137 people were killed and more than 5000 injured. twitter temporarily blogs president trumps official campaign account for violating its content rules that included a fox news interview where trump made false claims about covert 19 and the vote count is underway in sri lanka's twice delayed parliamentary election the it's sri lanka people's friends party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as both president and prime minister are expected to win a majority. survivors of the world's 1st atomic

bomb have been marking 75 years since it was dropped on hiroshima about 140000 people were killed after u.s. forces attacked japan in the final stages of world war 2 rob mcbride reports. a poignant commemoration at the moment 75 years ago when the world entered the atomic age and the whole city was destroyed. with the numbers of the so-called hit the original survivors of the attack declining each year this is likely to be the last major round of verse or they will attend in large numbers special precautions in place to protect them from the coronavirus that hiroshima is mare referred to as a new threat facing the world accompanied by a worrying increase in nationalism. we must never allow this painful pass to repeat he felt that if you've also cited most of rejects self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats. i take 15 in the morning local time

a single atomic bomb code named little boy exploded 2000 feet above the center of the city killing tens of thousands of people instantly with tens of thousands more dying in the months and years that followed many from radiation related illnesses michiko could die was a child when the bomb was dropped with the pandemic innovative ways have been found for her and other survivors to share their stories with the present generation. and there is this sense that we don't have much longer to live i'm now 82 i don't know when i went be able to speak since some form we need to preserve our stories. 3 days after hiroshima nagasaki was attacked with a 2nd bomb another round of verse or e. with more survivors to market and in both cities both among the generation who

endured the attacks and also the generations that came after them there's a strong piece called true that's really focused on abolishing nuclear weapons the experience of being the only country to be attacked with nuclear weapons help shape modern japan. by urging action from each country japan will take the lead in the international community's efforts towards the realisation of a world without nuclear weapons it's a goal still far from being realized but one held still is strongly in the 2 cities that have suffered most from such weapons rob mcbride al jazeera. a quarter 1000000 man has delivered its verdict on a canadian pastor charged with violating a ban on large gatherings david law was charged in april over a religious event in the end god the law was put in place in mid march to combat the spread of 19 fronts louis has more this forceful new center florence mr la has had his day in court what was the verdict. well the courts

found him guilty of violating the disaster management law and sentence him to 3 months in prison and the maximum sentence for those with 3 years in prison but the judge also took into account into consideration the time he's already spent in detention and he could very well be released in the next few days or weeks even he was detained by police on may 20th he had held together religious gatherings in defiance of a ban on mass gatherings that was put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus now and according to government figures he more than 20 of his followers tested positive for covert 19 and all in at least 70 people who later tested positive for covert 19 had contracted it at events held by law or been to events all via people who have been to events been to those events now law is also

a controversial figure he's got a fairly popular following in myanmar but he's also known for making controversial comments including claims that true followers of christianity will not contract coronavirus or he contract it coronavirus had to be admitted to hospital and was later quarantine now he's also made other controversial comments claiming that the teachings of buddhist monks can make people sin for sinful and that he's also made he's also make derogatory comments on islam and also on the community now this case is also drawing a bit of attention because some people have questioned whether there was a bias against christianity in. authorities decision to pursue this case one person to eat it that a buddhist ceremony held in yangon over the weekend has in met the same level of scrutiny but having said that this is not the 1st time he's had taken such a tough stance in combat inc coronavirus human rights watch said that at least 5.

people including children and returning migrant workers at them sentenced to time and prison between the months of march and may of this year for violating curfews quarantines and other movement restriction control orders for the update flawlessly thanks very much at least a krone virus patients have died in a hospital fire in western india the victims are all receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of facility in the state of good trot there were around 45 patients the hospital of the time prime minister know and remotely says that he's saddened by the incident a top infectious disease expert in the us insists the country's regulators are not cutting corners on vaccine safety in 2 separate interviews on wednesday dr anthony found she said he doesn't believe the white house has tried to pressure the food and drug administration i mean obviously they've expressed a nice the sooner the better but i haven't seen any pressure to do something that

is out of line with the regulatory yeah we have assurances and i've discussed this with the regulatory authorities that they promise that they are not going to let political considerations interfere with the regulatory decision because we've spoken explicitly about that because the subject obviously comes up and the people in charge of the regulatory process is sure is that safety and advocacy is going to be the prime consideration. australia's prime minister warns unemployment could reach 10 percent as the country deals with the economic fallout of the pandemic the 2nd largest city of melbourne is and a 6 week lockdown after searching cases military personnel have been deployed to help in full size lation orders the state's victoria reported 471 new infections in the past 24 hours. many argentina are struggling to get by have to 4 months of coron seen as an economic crisis the situation has been worsened by rising crime

poverty and hunger astri's about reports of what is ours. security personnel on the ground in winter sightings their target is a drug trafficking ring involved in arm robberies. the operation is money toward by the province's security minister said. he sell a 10 coronel in the army a surgeon and a lawyer he says the only way of stopping when a site is going out of control is to be on the ground every day. we accompanied him on one of more than 40 security operations that take place every day in this province of 12000000 people a provincial when i say it is the province of buenos aires is going through a pandemic is the region is a virus but we already had other intimate problems like in security it's getting deeper and we need to approach it with all sorts of policies and. the raid is not an easy one members of the group try to escape and shots are fired this is great

for one side is very aware high for her to raise and work in security as men on the right a major challenge for the government is keeping the situation in this part of the country under control and. the police searched the homes of the suspects for drugs and guns children are terrified. poverty has been on the rise in recent years but is the pandemic began the situation has deteriorated. even further the government has increased cash and food handouts but it seems much more needs to be done. better he says the situation can be compared to the 2001 crisis when argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt. even though looting and riots are under control for now inequality has been on the rice. and it's on the mental the crime we're seeing now is younger people involved in criminal activities people

with no criminal background it's more disorganized the crisis that is coming it's worse than 2001 because it's deeper and sharper but we're trying to control it. for people are detained on drugs confiscated but with more security personnel on the ground human rights activists say abuse has increased. we are seeing cases of abuse all around the country with different levels of violence abuse from the police and provincial and federal forces this is not new but it reaffirms that these are not isolated cases and there is a structural problem. argentina struggling to contain the spread of covert 19 and he's coping with an economic crisis the challenge is to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control once again. that is how will. this u.s. president once again claim that mail and all postal voting in november election is

open to widespread fraud is a statement he's repeated over the last few months as his approval ratings drop over the handling of the krona virus crisis she had returns he has been. for months president trump has alleged a mail in voting is open to fraud so it came as a surprise on tuesday when the president tweeted this in florida are encourage all to request a ballot and vote by mail the same day his administration filed suit against the state of nevada for its clients to send mail and ballots to voters due to the pandemic the white house insists there's no contradiction in florida voters must request a mail in ballot whereas in nevada all active registered voters will be sent one automatically anyway the president says florida's republican leadership just runs things better florida is a very well run state low taxes low everything they've done a great job really a great job and the 2 governors between the both of them they've really got

a great system of absentee ballots and even they even in the case of mail in ballots what is true is that florida is key to don't trump chances of re-election it's also true that although a higher turnout often favors democrats there is more and more evidence that the president's attacks on the integrity of ballots are backfiring florida republicans usually don't win 8 mail in voting however as of july the democrats have an almost 600000 advantage in mail in ballot applications across the country republican party officials fear increasing suspicion among its base about absentee ballots may be disastrous particularly among elderly voters who may be reluctant to go to a polling station during a pandemic and those in rural areas many of whom have long voted by mail anyway multiple studies carried out by organizations across political ideologies have found barely any instances of fraud in voting by mail because of the multiple

safeguards in place there's very little evidence to suggest that this strategy of mailing ballots to registered and active posters is going to. any sort of voter fraud. voter fraud that is associated with 1000000 elections is new skewl and it is about what you would expect in any kind of election post although it does have its problems for example this week in new york partly as a result of 10 times the normal number of mail in ballots the outcome of 2 primary elections was only decided 6 weeks after polling day and looking ahead to the general election in november it's widely expected that unprecedented mail in voting will mean the result may not be decided on the night unless there's a landslide both parties could patiently wait for the final declaration of the winner once all the votes are counted but in

a year is tumultuous as 20 twentieth's there is a suspicion that any uncertainty could lead to the integrity of the entire election process being questioned well before president trump has already indicated he will sue in court if he feels there are any irregularities some wonder if he's already laying the groundwork for potential litigation by making the case now that mail in voting is florida. absentee nominee. for whatever he said it. is not that young that he. and tweets like this suggest the president is in no mood to concede share returned see al-jazeera. your child is there with me so rob never mind of our top news stories there's concern over food security in lebanon after tuesday's explosion destroyed beirut's

port countries around the world are sending emergency aid at least 137 people were killed and more than 5000 injured the senator has more on the search efforts. the people behind me these are family members desperate people waiting for any news about the fate of their loved ones a short while ago we saw a red cross the vehicle come out of the blast site we are not allowed to enter the area neither is the families nor are journalists permitted to enter the site of the explosion and we saw how families gathered around the car looking inside whether or not they found someone alive or even even body parts people are telling us we need closure we just want to know what happened twitter has temporarily blocked president trump's official campaign account for violating its content rules that included a fox news interview where trump made false claims about covert 19 vote

counting is underway in sri lanka's twice delayed parliamentary election the sri lankan people's front party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as both president and prime minister are expected to win a majority survivors of the world's 1st atomic bomb have been marking 75 years since it was dropped on hiroshima about 140000 people were killed after u.s. forces attacked japan in the final stages of world war 2 a court in me and sentence a canadian pastor to 3 months in prison for violating a ban on large gatherings david law was charged in april over a religious event and young god and the law was put in place and to combat the spread of coronavirus. at least 8 kroner virus patients have died in a hospital fire in western india the victims were all receiving treatment in the intensive care facility in the city of abbottabad those were the headlines back and more news in half an hour next it's inside story do stay with us for. talk to

owners there are we as is the government not to take the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the ground is iraq. lebanon is willing from an unprecedented and devastating explosion that happened in the port of beirut the country is already in a series of long running crises so how would it deal with the fallout from the blast this is inside story. a welcome to the program. it's described by some as the great collapse the

lebanese capital beirut is in a state of chaos and rule when many have been killed thousands injured.