how much money does a refugee get those people you would think that it's been direct one german and american the new germans on al-jazeera. context these are the same storytelling around the biggest issues. they have to do you should do it again . concerns about food security in lebanon after tuesday's explosion at beirut's port in the midst of the coronavirus and economic crisis. comes around and watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up twitter and facebook take down a post by president trump accusing it of being harmful misinformation about covert 19.

remembering victims of hiroshima japan marks 75 years since the world's 1st atomic bomb killed 140000 people. and under the shadow of the pandemic police in argentina are tightening a rise in crime. welcome to the program a dying humanitarian situation is coming into focus in lebanon 2 days after a large explosion tore through its capital there are concerns about food security after 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 the economy minister has warned that lebanon is not financially capable of dealing with the impact of the explosion and will need international help several countries are already dispatching about agency 8 including food and fuel to mobile hospitals

a medical personnel senator is in beirut with more the ongoing rescue and recovery missions. dozens remain missing search operations are continuing we are outside 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 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 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 to carry out quick search operations and that's why some countries have been sending search and rescue teams there 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 the french president is going to be the 1st foreign official to visit lebanon since the blast but lebanon is expecting to receive its 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 twitter has temporarily restricted president trumps campaign team from tweeting it was a response to a video on a fox news interview with trump where he made false claims about covert 19 links to the tweet now arrive at this page and twitter says the post violated its rules on covert 19 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign appears to have complied hours earlier facebook also removed the same video from president trump's main page that was the 1st time that 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. 19 or virtually immune

he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly and 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 that president trump has to use 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 900. vote counting is underway in sri lanka's parliamentary election which was delayed twice because of covert 19 the strength in people's front party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as president and prime minister are expected to win a majority this was south asia's 1st major vote while the pandemic was in force and was delayed for over 4 months michel for me now from and this was more from colombo . 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've 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 water 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 all of these individual votes 5 results start coming in people start piecing together you know what kind of indications and how the vote is going in the absence of those examples 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 in the final stages of world war 2 robert bryant reports. a poignant commemoration of 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 by. 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 of hiroshima's mair 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 evil society must reject 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 a sense that we don't have much longer to live i'm now 82 i don't know when i won't be able to speak so in some form we need to preserve our stories but when 3 days after hiroshima nagasaki was attacked with a 2nd bomb another run a verse or

a with more survivors to mock it 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. let's take you to lebanon beirut international airport where the french president about one lakh crore. plane has just landed to expect him to leave the private jets in a few moments time various dignitaries and officials and their ears the man himself

coming to see the disaster zone itself at beirut's port he's expected to meet house and the prime minister and also michelle but he's made very clear that he wants to meet the people of beirut and the people of lebanon who got to experience this disaster michel aoun there the president of lebanon greeting the president of france they expected to have a private meeting to discuss how fronts could help at the moment france along with countries such as turkey saudi arabia and qatar have sent in medical supplies food and even on thursday iraq has now announced it will be sending food an oil tankers virus landrieu into lebanon of course we'll continue to bring you more of what the president has to say and where he visits on his very short trip to the lebanese capital. still ahead here on sarah find out why a canadian pastor has been sent to prison in me and martha holding a religious gathering. and open to widespread strolled to president trump again

attacks the legitimacy of november's election as his approval ratings slump. and plenty of trans street across much of indonesia but really across areas to the south it's a relatively dry picture not so the across the philippines and all the heavy downpours particularly into luzon as we go through friday and again those raised very extensive and quite heavy through as a thailand account and again on the towards of it and so through suffered a it's pretty much a pretty much of a piece of friday as you can see the rain very heavy fight of anything heavier downpours a low pressure on its also feeding this heavy rain but also the winds are funneling everything into loose on and then to the sufi just go areas a scout of showers and thunderstorms that down across into australia is rather heavy and very widespread rain on the way you can see where the cloud is and we've

had some fairly strong thunderstorms to across south australia but as we go through friday it will clear across much of south australia maybe a cloudy day maybe some areas that really it's victoria new south wales and queensland where we're going to see some rain at times or all the heavy downpours in fact of the next 2 or 3 days we could pick up about 140 millimeters in the fall southeast of new south wales but generally 40 to 50 millimeters those showers still in the forecast today not a bad couple of days at all across much of new zealand the next system waiting in the wings out him perth that the high you bought is fine and dry for the next few days in melbourne roll them all unsettled. but. there was a we've been through a lot of coaching we played with terrorists in 2017 people in power investigated why trinidad and tobago became a ripe recruiting ground for i saw. their feelers so there's no one else almost

in 2020 we returned to uncover the fate of those who left their homeland to join conflicts in iraq and syria or caribbean to caliph it on just. but the bank you're watching undesirably said the roman reminder of our top stories there's concern over food security in lebanon after tuesday's explosion destroyed beirut's port the economy minister says lebanon will need international aid to help it with the financial impact of the blast at least 137 people were killed and more than 5000 injured. these are the latest pictures from beirut where the french

president has just arrived to meet his counterpart michel aoun the lebanese president of the closed door meeting before president much is given a tour of the disaster site he says he wants to meet the people who've been affected by this disaster and france will stand by levanon and help in any way that he can. twitter temporarily blocked 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 vote counting is underway in sri lanka's twice delayed parliamentary election these franken people's front party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as president and prime minister are expected to win a majority. at least 8 coronavirus patients have died in a hospital fire in western india not the victims are all receiving treatment to the intensive care unit of the facility in the city of in good drought states there

were around 50 patients in the hospital at the time a quarter miramar 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 young god the law was put in place in mid march to combat the spread of covert 19. has more from kuala lumpur. david law has been found guilty of violating the disaster management law and has been sentenced to 3 months in prison but because the judge is going to take into consideration the time he's already served in prison he could be out within weeks or within days having been detained since the 20th of may now according to government figures 20 more than 20 of his followers tested positive for covert 19 and at least 70 people who tested positive for covert 19 contracted it at events organized by law all via

people who had been to those events and on law had famously said true christians will not contract covert 19 well he tested positive for covert 19 had to spend time in hospital and was also quarantined now he's also controversial because of his other remarks once claiming that the teachings of buddhist monks can make people sinful he's also made derogatory comments about islam and the l g b t q community but this case is also drawn attention in myanmar and outside of myanmar because some people are questioning whether there is some bias in authorities decision to pursue this case now one person tweeted that a buddhist ceremony held in yang gone over the weekend hasn't been met with the same level of scrutiny and myanmar is a predominantly buddhist country having said that this is not the 1st time that myanmar authorities have taken such a tough stance and its fight to combat coronavirus now human rights watch said that

between the months of march and may of this year at least $500.00 people including children and returning migrant workers have been sentenced to time in prison for violating curfews quarantine or this or other movement control restriction on what is the top infectious disease expert in the us and says the country's regulators are not cutting corners on drugs in safety in 2 separate interviews on wednesday doctor and he said he doesn't believe the white house is trying 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 to 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 a 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 in melbourne is under a 6 week lockdown after a surge in cases military personnel have been deployed to help in falls isolation orders the state of victoria reported 471 new infections in the past 24 hours. many in argentina struggling to get by after 4 months of corentin and an economic crisis the situation has been worsened by rising crime poverty and hunger stories about reports of what is ira's. security personnel on the ground in went outside and their target is a drug trafficking ring involved in arm robberies. the operation is money toward by the provinces security minister said. he sell a tank or an enemy army 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 are going to want to fade in the province of buenos aires is going through a pandemic his original virus but we already had other intimate problems like insecurity it's getting deeper and we need to approach it with all sorts of policies. the raid is not an easy one members of the group try to escape and shots are fired this is great heard one side is very aware of high poverty rate and working security has been on the rise and major challenge for the government is keeping the situation in this part of the country under control. 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 pin demick 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 mental the crime we're seeing now is younger people involved in criminal activities people with no criminal background it's more disorganised 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 i will want to cite. former colombian president. has tested positive for covert 19 a day after the supreme court ordered his house arrest he's been detained over allegations of witness tampering and fraud which he denies. reports from bogota. was 2nd startling news for former president alberto just as he prepares to begin home detention and me the witness tampering investigation he announced he tested

positive for covert 19 but for many colombians he's undeserving of any sympathy. like jacqueline christie you know who considers him responsible for the death of his brother jaime a decade ago. who lost their son the same way they are 2 of thousands of men that were abducted and murdered by soldiers during his administration then declared rebel combatants to boost war statistics and justify usaid a scandal known as false positives the evidence is that not the court's decision gave us great joy we know it's not about the false positives yet but we think it's a great step forward we thought it was out of reach i think it will open the way to the continuation of other investigations into all the other things we know he's implicated in. been a towering figure in colombian politics for the last 2 decades and has been investigated for ties to drug traffickers paramilitary groups and illegal spying.

dozens of his government appointed close allies and even family members have been found guilty of a number of crimes and feel he himself has always managed to avoid prosecution. millions of colombians support him and believe he is the big to murder conspiracy of the left in response to the supreme court decision his party is calling for a constitutional assembly to change the country's justice system. as you see under the court's decision is totally arbitrary and a slap in the face to the immense majority of colombians who believe is honest and demonstrates that colombia's justice system is politicized and not impartial but political analyst arlene ticknor says the fact that the court went on to detain with this spite incredible pressure against it is unusual do you do you a case is unprecedented in terms of the level of the politician involved and so i

believe that if indeed he did this will set a tremendous precedent in terms of future investigations of high level politicians in colombia. jacqueline in dorry's say they're not interested in retribution they're just hope that after more than a decade the decision to put their house arrest could become a turning point in the search for justice and truth at least in the room and just. preparing for flooding and landslides after days of heavy rain agricultural areas are amongst the worst hit state media released this video showing people repairing damage to their farms no details of casualties have been revealed parts of south korea have also been flooded after 44 consecutive days of rain some highways have been closed at least 16 people have died under around 1600 have been left homeless . united states plans to submit a u.n.

security council resolution next week to extend the arms embargo on iran it's just to expire in october secretary of state but pompei is says washington is using every diplomatic tool to get it extended the security council's mission is to maintain international peace and security council would make an absolute mockery of that mission if it allowed the number one state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell weapons freely the united states has conducted now a years long the plumber see on this matter we have a bipartisan consensus in congress we have a 13 year consensus on the council and the proposal we put forward is eminently reasonable one way or another one or another we will do the right thing we will ensure that the arms embargo is extended u.s. president donald trump has once again claimed that mail in all postal voting in november election is open to widespread fraud it's a statement he's repeated over the last few months us his approval ratings drop

over the handling of the coronavirus crisis she had written see how small. 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 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. 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 merits 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 floored. me because absentee nominee. for whatever he said it. does not mean that young life he. and tweets like this suggest the president is in no mood to concede share a term see al-jazeera. your child has a roof needs a whole room to remind us of our top story says concern over food security in lebanon have to choose days explosion destroyed beirut support the economy ministers lebanon will need international aid to help with the financial impact of

the blast at least 137 people were killed and more than 5000 injured cynical to house more from beirut 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 french president manuel mccall has just arrived in beirut he's the 1st head of state to visit since the blast 2 days ago and his pledge solidarity with lebanon he has met he was met on the tarmac by president michel aoun france a sense of urgency workers and several tons of aid. in other news twitter

temporarily blocks president trumps official campaign account for violating its content rules it included a fox news interview where trump made false claims about covert 19 vote counting is underway in sri lanka's twice today of parliamentary election the sri lankan people's front party led by the rajapaksa brothers who served as 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 in on hiroshima about 140000 people were killed after u.s. forces attacked japan in the final stages of world war 2 because of me a man sentenced a canadian pastor to 3 months in prison for violating coronavirus restrictions banning large gatherings david was charged april over a religious event in the end those were the headlines the news hour is here in half an hour next its people in power do stay with us. trade

tensions could cut global economic growth by in $700000000000.00 we'll bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world lead living the government has shifted focus from saving lives to saving the economy. counting the coast on al-jazeera. caribbean states or trying to open to vatican has long been famous for its spectacular conduct putting 2017 we reported on a more sinister reputation it was then developing as the nation with the highest group in right to iceland in the western hemisphere so what happened to the young trinidadians who went to join islamic state for this updated episode giuliana rufus has been finding out.