in russia makes national i didn't just pull. it to bring the fame fortune and power i thought of that when i went to investigate on al-jazeera. 0. hello i maryam namazie you're watching the news hour live from london coming up a nation in mourning the hunt for survivors goes on in beirut 2 days after a devastating explosion and there are growing demands for change in the country the french president emanuel macron calls for urgent reform also coming up on the

program the saudi crown prince is accused of sending a hit squad to canada to outlines claims of a thwarted assassination attempt. and u.s. attorneys have the n.r.a. in their sights triggering lawsuits designed to dissolve the gun rights group. uses the n.b.a.'s biggest stall stands up to donald trump the president says he turns off when he sees social justice protests before but. he couldn't care less we'll hear from of this hour. as the people of lebanon grieve for the victims of choose days blasts the french president emanuel who's been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion as despair increasingly turns to anger people have been demanding change with president back home adding his voice to calls for urgent reform the death toll

from tuesday's explosion has risen to 149 but it is expected to rise about 5000 people are injured many of them being treated in hospitals that have been completely overwhelmed dozens of people still missing or unaccounted for and then more than 300000 people have been displaced from their homes shopkeepers and residents are still clearing up the rubble that's littering streets and homes up to 8 kilometers away from the blast site well emanuel mark owen has called for a transparent. actual inquiry into beirut massive ports explosion the french president met with lebanese political leaders after surveying some of the damage from tuesday's blast but he was also mobbed by residents in the city who are furious at their government and are demanding accountability. what i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and it's not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the financial system so there are as for the short term that we need as we know the

answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems the customers we need transparency for imports and exports we need reforms for all the sectors and insist on these changes quickly. or public anger against lebanon's ruling class is growing many hold them responsible for the economic collapse of the country in there is a new one in our ports just from the lebanese capital the state has been noticeably absent from the recovery operation search and rescue teams are still digging through the rubble at beirut port the site of massive explosions that damaged or destroyed much of the lebanese capital families are desperate for news about their loved ones dozens are missing there is pain and grief zainab fears she will never see her husband allie again. there's a still image still you know i don't know where he is i haven't heard from him

since 6 pm monday i want to know if he's alive or dead. rescue experts from abroad have started to arrive to help a country that wasn't prepared to cope with a disaster like this. hoping to each other with. the fund says there's still a lot of destruction we need to move the stock to building to find. somebody. the blasts were felt kilometers away killing dozens and wounding thousands buildings homes shops all destroyed 300000 people displaced billions of dollars in damage investigations are focusing on possible negligence in storing tons of highly explosive material at the port officials have promised assistance and compensation to those affected by the explosions but driving around the city the state is noticeably absent and destroyed neighborhoods like this one it is the people who are helping each other they are cleaning the streets clearing the debris

and distributing food and water to those in need public anger against the political class many believe is responsible for lebanon's near economic collapse is not new decades of corruption in the glare triggered an anti-establishment movement last october we've been fortunate going used to the not being present for its citizens we don't have properly just city we don't have a proper garbage infrastructure we don't have proper water infrastructures and unfortunately the people have gotten used to it but it's it's it's a time for change it's we've been asking for change for quite some time and i think this last catastrophe is going to make change for the country much better the priority now is to help the victims many are still in hospital in critical condition calls for accountability and justice are growing louder for now people are focused to rely on themselves i need money to rule. myself. and i need everything. i didn't want to be. so

this is why i'm. i want to. believe. some may call it resilience but for many this is about survival nearly half the population of 5000000 lebanese were below the poverty line before this disaster the situation has since got worse. beirut. well let's course one of planets myths he's also following the story in beirut tend to just looking at zain is report there such a mixture of emotions people are going through right now still trying to process that the shock of what has happened while also trying to. repair their lives. but we saw earlier on today when the french president emmanuel mccrum was down on the streets of some of the damaged parts of beirut people shouting for the

return of the french mandate from the clonal power here before independence and it's because the macro people turn to mark wrong because he's essentially stepped in to avoid. political leaders mccrone was able to offer practical help in the terms of rescue in terms of rescue teams and financial aid in recovery and was able to offer moral support lebanon's political leaders have not been able to offer anything they've been conspicuous by their absence in comparison to emmanuel in micron so there is very real anger and very real frustration at the lack of assistance from the lebanese government to this catastrophe that has hit the capital city a wave that went out 3 kilometers across the city from the port smashing destroying pretty much everything in its midst a real anger tonight there's little help coming from the lebanese government nearly

150 people killed but that's expected to rise thousands of injuries and then hundreds of thousands of people also left homeless one of people been telling you throughout the day about their immediate needs right now. what we've seen all day mainly armies of mainly young people with pickaxes shovels and brushes they're out trying at least. to clean up almost everywhere you look every building look up to the glass has been blown out people are painting up. plastic sheeting and windows to try and give them some sort of privacy protection from the elements those that have gone homes or shells of homes to go back to there are some 300000 people who do not have to go back to many of got relatives elsewhere in the country they might have been able to go into the mountains for cousins and relatives living up there but there are other people without anywhere to go enough frustration is manifesting itself tonight with a small outbreak of

a protest near the parliament building not far from me here in the center of beirut an indication really of the stream frustration and powerless in a speech full of feeling because they aren't getting any assistance i can also say that just in the last hour or so the lebanese authorities said they are they have detained 16 individuals in connection with their investigation into what led to this explosion but of course in the right top of the political tree we haven't had any resignations or any admissions that they are responsible for what has happened here over the last more than 24 hours ago. thank you very much from beirut bonnets ness. well many people of blaming the entire system for what has happened the lebanese confessional political system for essentially leading the country into a serious deadlock of course this is before the current disaster there are 18

recognized sects in lebanon for muslim 12 christian the drew sect and then the due date judaism as well since its inception lebanon's whole government governmental system has been built on power sharing between these different groups but it is from each group of maintain a power and influence through a system of patronage networks critics say it's led to an entrenched and entrenched and corrupt political class which has paralyzed politics and prevented reform there are also concerns about the power and influence of hezbollah which is sponsored by iran and forms part of lebanon's coalition government well let's now speak to rami curry who's a professor at the american university of beirut he joins us by skype from boston so rami obviously we've been speaking about what's happened in lebanon and people trying to cope with it but of course it's really i suppose a symptom of a system that has long been broken and riddled by corruption and negligence there

was a lot of fieri on the streets of beirut today is that likely to get worse. it's definitely going to get worse to keep this in perspective their sectarian powers or a system worked reasonably well in the middle of the last century there are the great face of nation building state building all across the arab world until around the 1990 s. say the end of the civil war it was most people in lebanon of their lives were getting better broadly speaking and so people were in the room with the system but there is really in the last 25 years that the system has collapsed because it has become very corrupted and it has allowed a lot of external influences from all different parties to to 'd manipulate people 'd in lebanon and then just the expectations of the citizenry was so high in terms of basic services electricity water garbage education but even that the government could need it because the people in power were allowing corruption misconduct and

inefficiency to dominate everything they did leading ultimately to the lack of any concern by the government for their own citizens which we see here with the explosion since the explosion happened very one or 2 lebanese officials trying to go there in town talk to people the minister of justice this morning was hounded out of the area where the where the explosion happened the people yelling out a revolution resign that people have no trust at all in the government and they certainly don't trust its investigation so how do you go from a situation where their government has lost all credibility with the people that was the case before this explosion happened to then having some sort of reformulated and it's occultist and or at least to a new independent government that's i suppose stuffed with experts in technocrats that have not seen you know political and sectarian affiliation how do you go from one scenario to another. well this is the great challenge facing not just lebanon

but much of the arab world jewry a sudan palestine jordan iraq morocco many countries are facing similar challenges have you transition from a top heavy system of autocratic system into a more genuinely democratic system that is also equitable and it's social in the economic policies there's really only 2 ways to do it either you get rid of the old system by force as happened in tunisia for instance and build a new democracy through consensus or you push the own system so hard that if you force it to share power 3 a negotiated transition with you which is what's happening in sudan right now sudan is the most exciting place that they are world because of this 3 year transitional period with a government system that is half civilian and military jointly managing the transition to a full democracy and that was forced on the military who had not salute power they

did this because they saw they couldn't just keep shooting and killing their people who are demonstrating for simply decent citizen rights lebanon's best hope is to do that at some point the power elite show 0 sign of being willing or able to do any of that this is the problem so we're going to see a lot of political money as ashen interest just wanting you saying that the elite so far has been reluctant to because only see their interests are at stake so they're not likely to relinquish until want to change the current system but now that you have this this awful the south and it's taken place can the humanitarian aid or assistance be contingent on some sort of serious reform could it be used to create to bring about a turning point and i've been. sort of somebody cut into your statement could what happened to bring about reform i'm just wondering if any humanitarian assistance or international aid could be timed to that being reform and serious political change

in lebanon yes many activists and political personalities are calling for this i've written myself about a proposal 'd to have a joint government and private sector and civil society commission to oversee the disbursement of aid and to monitor its spending so that you don't have a being used to build a power station next to some minister's house or to buy your cousin a new car which has happened and the past so i think foreign aid the humanitarian day that's going to come in the it can be a crucial pivot to start forcing on the government a mechanism of decision making that is shared between the state and some of the few honest people there are honest people in the state there are good people in the government but they don't make the decisions and so you can give some of those good people in the government with the people that are sector working together another

was you share sovereignty use you dishonor and i as an authoritarian system and you make it share power with others and together they make decisions for the benefit of all this is not only possible step for lebanon it can be a signal to the rest of the art world about again the transition mechanism and then this can continue for other sectors of life where decision making is done jointly thank you very much from me kerry for joining us today thank you. you're watching the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about africa has passed a 1000000 coronavirus cases but there are concerns there still isn't enough testing in many countries on the continent. 75 years since the 1st atomic bomb and calls for a nuclear weapons free while. and then a bit later this formula one driver gets the green light to compete again off to contract in the coronavirus will have that story and much more quickly in the sport

. the saudi crown prince is accused of dispatching a group of hit men to canada to kill one of his top former intelligence officials sagal jobbery the allegation was revealed in a lawsuit filed by brian washington it men were allegedly sent by mohammed bin so money just days after journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october 2018 jobbery is seeking damages from the crown prince for allegedly orchestrating an attempted extrajudicial killing and for violating international law my counter is for following the story from washington and joins us now tell us more about the claims within the lawsuit. well it's $106.00 pages in this particular lawsuit a that goes into extensive detail about the composition of the celeb hit squad the

names of the individuals involved and the links between mohamed have been solved and the crown prince and those who allegedly was sent to assassinate side are jobbery he also speaks about a number of text messages that were sent from the crown prince to him which started off by asking him to return to saudi arabia to ease the transition between himself and the former crown prince and then it escalated into a series of threat saying that. would be dealt with in one way or another so it is exhaustive detail in terms of this case that is brought before the d.c. court all job really making very clear that he and a number of others who are mentioned in the documents are targets for assess the nation by a saudi hit squad under the orders of the saudi crown prince and why was the case then filed on u.s. soil instead of canada. well there i was some u.s.

legislation that allows non-u.s. residents or non u.s. citizens to file claims against leaders in other countries who are alleged to have committed torture or and or extra judicial killings so there is the legal basis and the legal ability to be able to bring such a case but in addition. in his court papers alleges that the hit squad actually assembled in the united states before attempting to enter canada so this is a crucial point which obviously provides a linkage towards the united states and allows justification for the case to be heard here i must just mention briefly to that. 2 children are allegedly being detained by saudi officials in what he sees as human bait to do him out of hiding and only last month a group of u.s. senators sent a letter to president trump saying that because of our job rieslings to u.s.

intelligence in the past and his value to them the u.s. has a moral. systems to actually take argument against saudi arabia to get these children released and return to their father as yet there's been no official response from president trump. all right thank you very much for the latest from washington mike hanna just to get a bit more analysis on this story now. and the center for conflict security and terrorism joins us live by skype from ashford in the u.k. now if i can start by getting your initial assessment on some of the details and many of the revelations contained within this whole seat. well i think the revolution too small steps so point to a tactic that algebra aryans job really is embarked on and that i think is not just to put pressure and get some compensation from the amount of billions and

sunland it is because he wants to put pressure on the american government to provide pressure on o.b.'s to release his daughter sarah and his son omar who are now in custody. i think the other thing that's very interesting is that if the hit squad of the new alleged hit squad assemble in the us they were picked out for a by canadian border forces even though they tried to come in through different chaos with suggests to me that they might be in a tip or to be in a year as a canadian agencies suggesting that these people were coming in from nefarious purpose and so that does suggest to my guess is right that there is some corporate issue in the premier american agencies down that it seems to prevent what could be in. that allegations have any basis behind them and so obviously

there's a great deal going on in washington right now as we're not far from an election but how and how well washington view these saudi efforts against mr al japery. i think that washington will view anything to do with saudi arabia through the prism of the very significant economic and defense relationships that they have certainly on the show gave a case a great deal was said but not agreed to was john after those revelations came to light and i think in this case this will be a very awkward situation for the american government and i think that what they might be able to do in this case without causing too much harm is to put enough pressure on the saudi regime to release mr all japanese children and also to extract some degree of assurance from the saudi regime that he and

other dissidents would be pursued because if they are pursued if this alleged and if mustn't decide as we alleged that if this alleged assassination attempts at succeeded then it puts a great deal of pressure on the u.s. on canada and indeed on europe in its fight against the alleged assassinations that the russians have been carrying out on british soil and elsewhere and so for those reasons this takes on a very significant to a wall of political hue and i think legally the american government will be weighing up those options but no doubt that if this case is proven and none of these allegations have been proven in court but if the washington district court finds these allegations to be proven then i think the american government will have very little choice but to put some pressure on the saudi government to release.

former here our job or his. children and also to get some insurances that western soil at least will be a no go zone for any attempted assassinations of kidnaps all right thanks for sharing our. thank you for joining us on the news hour. one of a new a story from nigeria dozens of anti corruption protesters there have been arrested accused of breaking social distancing rules tear gas was used against members of the revolution now movement they were peacefully demonstrating in cities across the country police say the activists will caution about violating coronavirus restrictions before being released rights group amnesty international has described the arrests as an awful surgeon coronavirus cases in africa and a lack of testing is sparking growing concern from public health experts the world health organization has won the pandemic could overwhelm strain overwhelm strained

public health systems the continent has recorded more than a 1000000 cases and at least 21000 deaths south africa accounts for more than half of these cases it's also has the 5th highest number of infections globally while 75 percent of the continent's infections are in just 5 countries south africa egypt nigeria ghana and algeria just 10 countries on the continent account for 80 percent of the new coronavirus testing taking place well dr regina o.c. is an infectious disease specialist at the ahriman suit joins us live by skype from johannesburg. looking at these figures is a suppose what's really alarming about there being more than a 1000000 cases on the continent is the fact that this is i mean these are just the figures in the absence of widespread testing. but yes sure i think that you know there are there of course we always know that they're more

complicated than they are people test that that's true everywhere in the world because a lot of people who remain is symptomatic and who also have government and 1000 disease and therefore you don't always have the full picture but of course it is very concerning but there are places where there's not a lot of testing and we still seeing a rise in the number of cases however it's very difficult to predict what the implications are facts not of not testing i mean what how the figures would look if you were doing more tests generally but yes it was a little bit concerning but i suppose the worrying thing about african countries compared to other parts of the world perhaps and in europe and elsewhere is that you have a health sector that is under a great deal of pressure and that has suffered really from underinvestment for decades. yes that is true i think that there has been considerable investment recently with the advent of the global fund and for example for tb each avian

malaria so their effort definitely been recent investments i've been made across the board but yes the house the sims generally are quite fragile and therefore have a difficult time dealing with things like these massive epidemics and it's really south africa that counts for 50 percent or more of a virus cases on the continent how. bad is is the situation there and could they end up sort of exporting it to other parts of the region. well so currently we our borders are still closed so south africa has had closed borders since march and we don't have any. movement in and out of the country is not movement of people there's movement of cargo but not movement of people and so we're hoping that that's going to of course create an environment where cases are not being exported. south africa is really i mean we are getting quite

a lot of cases right now we're probably going to get close to a 1000000 when this is over but i think that we have seen no matter bit of relief in the last week or so in terms of the number of cases being reported also in terms of the hospital a burden and the number of people who are in the hospitals and the percent occupancy of the hospital beds so i think things seem to be getting a little better it could be just because you know maybe people are not testing as much or maybe there's just some other reason but hopefully that trend continues right now it's just a trend but hopefully a trend continues and then we can see in a few weeks whether we referee actually over the hump but of course it's not going to take a long time to get down back to 0 so we if you look at where we are right now all right thank you dr regina c. for joining us there from johannesburg. ivory coast president allison what tyra says that you'll be running for

a 3rd term as president in the country's october presidential vote is opponents say this would violate the country's constitution so i cannot speak to that address his following an announcement from areas capital a budget was what are expected to make this announcement well for many. expected this remember when. former prime minister i'm not going to credibly suddenly died on a july of a political equations in ivory coast especially that of the ruling party changed dramatically and since then they have been speculations as to whether or not a loss in what i will contest 4th term although his supporters say he constitution that he locks the mandate to run for a 3rd time unless the constitution is changed suddenly a lesson or to came back today just before the independence day celebrations slow to analyse evidence that he is in fact going to run for the 4th tom he said he

planned to retire peacefully and run his own foundation but the events of july 8 really changed everything he said in his own words month proposes god disposes so when members of his ruling political party asked him to run because of the color situation in the in the party he accepted it and he says it's a national call that he willingly accept to run for the time in ivory coast. and he's not the only one we'll have another west african leader indicating that they're going to run for a 3rd term despite that despite protests. absolutely across the border in a guinea it's octogenarian leader alpha coordinate was nominated was selected by his party to run again i remember for 4 more that to 2 years now the delay

presidential elections in guinea has attracted a lot of opposition demonstrations in guinea where dozens or hundreds of people according to opposition members have been killed during these demonstrations. did not outwardly say he accepted to run but everybody thinks that he will run in his own words he said i hear you the political party the supporters the nation everybody i will think about it those were the words when the party said that you standing he wants them they want him to be their flag bearer in the presidential elections so a lot of people in both ivory coast and guinea especially foreign partners will be watching events closely in the 2 countries to see how things pan out in ivory coast for example today there were demonstrations of the intended electoral commission headquarters in in the capital where supporters of former president bob or an arch

rival of. us and we're told him some protests did that they want to see their man on the ballot and they want also to see his name in the voters' register the crowd was dispersed by security forces in guinea as we said they've been several demonstrations in that country asking president wanting president convey to step down a bit at the end of his 2nd term and it's all pointing to the fact that president will definitely run for another term in guinea all right thank you very much all the latest on the political developments and in west africa i'm going to address. well still ahead for you on the news hour a crown of ours moratorium on evictions is lifted across the u.s. states millions now fear will be left behind us. and the world's top tennis player attends the indigenous race to boost the sports in the community.

however got some lovely summer heat spilling across much of year it now losey fine and dry we have still got a nasty little clutch of storms there just around the balkans but elsewhere you can see how the skies are opening up nicely and we are going to see something with heat wave into the northwest of here we'll see temperatures in london getting up to 34 celsius on friday saying what about the seasonal average the average is actually $23.00 degrees in london 3 consecutive days in a row where the temperature is 5 degrees or more above that africa constitutes a heat wave in that you can see is going to be with us for much of the week ahead that warm sunshine extends across much of europe as a separate do still have those showers down towards the southeast just around the balkan southern parts of italy greece seeing some rather lively shows as we go on through the next couple of days but else as you can see was very hot sunshine

coming through some absolutely lovely conditions there full value for the organ stem pushes then we're going to see fine and dry weather too across northern parts of africa still those life showers still just around the sun help pushing across a good parts of sudan south sudan through chad easing of it was more than parts of nigeria little further north and they should be southern areas of nigeria still in with a few showers but lost a fine and dry for many. coburn daintiness you know war of words escalate between the u.s. and china challenge us general robert spaulding and british diplomat and also kerry brown on whether the west is entering into a new cold war with china in a special edition of head to head you want to travel ban on china for much of the muslim proposal we need a strict vetting process is to. again beijing we have a china centric world and then

a world which is not china centric head to head on out his iraq. news as it breaks there is increasing pressure to tun its back and u.k. is finding itself corp's between the 2 superpowers with detailed coverage. tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure. from around the world human rights groups say that. they were killed or disappeared by argentina security forces. who lose. a mac. i look at the headlines now french president emanuel mark khan is visited by

a route 2 days after its massive chemical explosion has also called for a transparent international inquiry and says there needs to be a new political order in lebanon. where the death toll from tuesday's blast has risen to 149 but that's only expected to rise people are still clearing up the rubble littering the streets up to 3 can only says away from the port. and now a bit of news a lawsuit filed in the u.s. is accused the saudi crown prince of dispatching a group of hit men to kill one of his top former intelligence officials in canada. now early results from sri lanka's parliamentary election shows a big lead for the governing party the people's from party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as president and prime minister looks likely to consolidate power the brothers of promise to repeat to repeal the recent calls to tional amendment which reduces the powers of the position of president. explains the

electoral process from outside a ballot counting center in colombo. that's another set of results leaving the official counting center here in the colombo district one of 4 every single result that's tabulated is being sent obviously to the election authorities the hardcopy under strict security escort now most of the work over the last 10 to 12 hours has been completed to tabulate all the awards here in the colombo district and this exercise is being replicated in the $22.00 districts throughout sri lanka so basically all the votes come in to centralize counting centers in the district they are tabulated and then officially communicated to the election authorities who basically check them the rubber stamp them they basically officially recognize those results before they are announced so far from the early indications and the results we've seen the essel p.p.

the party of the rajapaksa has seems to have galloped ahead 70 percent almost in terms of every single area that the results have been announced so far seem to have gone strongly in support of the rajapaksa the s b j which is the breakaway faction of the united national party seems to have come 2nd but a very far 2nd palling something like one 4th of the p.p. parties total now obviously this situation will unfold over the coming hours as the true picture of the extent almost all of the rajapaksa gains becomes evident it's been a long day obviously the crowd you see behind me are basically election officials who've been manning these counting centers they've had a long day a meticulous manual counting process of each and every ballot paper of votes counted for the party votes counted for candidates which is another set of counting

so they had long days you can see a number of sort of transport by. asses on standby and all waiting to get home but having done their civic duty in helping the conduct of this august parliamentary election here in sri lanka i want to turn to bella ruse now the president says that several u.s. nationals have been detained in the lead up to the country's presidential elections on sunday but alexander lukashenko doesn't specify who was arrested or why a leader is facing his strongest challenge yet to his 26 year rule the run up to the vote has been marked by a crackdown on opposition figures who accuses of plotting with foreign powers to topple him step vastness at a rally in the capital where thousands of opposition supporters have gathered despite the government's response to dissent. this is unprecedented and bellow risk thousands maybe even thousands of people to strike here i don't want to

write rightly that you would try to better the last question opposition rally. or days before days on sunday but concession leaders 3 women who are going to court can superchunk up call on their supporters to show off we're already starting to trust some government they didn't follow the rally and so they did say oh ok they were our own waiting for them made the decision criteria so kind as to kind of guy out there but nobody knows where she is and actually showed our police forces here surrounding us how far they were here with with us inside trucks and everyone was worried that people would be arrested today but because of this massive turnout at least i was just standing here and looking at it or shanghai's increasingly getting worried that is also increasingly clamping down on this unprecedented

opposition through our border are 200 people have been detained during this whole election campaign even to complain much of the main opposition candidate 1st you claim to be a lebanese people are undeterred i think say they are beyond me or. you tony's general of new york and washington d.c. of announced a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the powerful national rifle association there accusing the organizations leaders of financial mismanagement york's attorney general the tissue james says years of corruption and misspending has undermined its ability to operate as a nonprofit group the n.r.a. has described the lawsuit as a baseless premeditated attack shihab rattansi is in new york and has more on the allegations. $64000000.00 siphoned off from the n.r.a. funds in about 3 years by wayne la pierre the n.r.a. c.e.o. and 3 other executives the attorney general of new york says they used the n.r.a. as their personal piggy bank to fund an obvious lifestyle wayne la pierre has

$500000.00 worth of luxury private jet trips to the bahamas not just for him but for the his family and extended family when mr la pierre wasn't even present as well as. siphoning off money to various friends families business associates and rather dodgy dodgy business deals the attorney general wants that money paid back but she also says that the n.r.a. has been so destroyed by this corruption it can no longer be registered as a nonprofit organization in new york so this will now go to court the n.r.a. has filed a countersuit this is likely to take a very long time and as you suggested he had already is already suggesting in a very trumpy and fashion that this is simply a part of a witch hunt whatever happens to the n.r.a. the right like you think you this is actually just what we needed just before the november election to get people to remember why they voted for trump trump in the 1st place despite this idea of disillusion is concerned is concerned that the

dissolution of the n.r.a. as a nonprofit organization in new york even told trump didn't seem terribly terribly bothered by that that's a very. terrible thing is that. i think the n.r.a. should move to texas. and lead a very good future for life and i've told them that for a long time i think they should move to texas that would be a great place to another state of using so this may or may not be the end of the n.r.a. either in the short time or the long term but historically we've seen that when the gum robi's are under attack paul is that follows do mobilize. well in all the developments the number of american seeking unemployment benefits dropped to 1200000 last week hiring picked up in the months of may and june as states started lifting coronavirus restrictions after a record loss of $21000000.00 jobs that was in april but to more than $60000000.00 americans are now collecting unemployment benefits a federal aid package of $600.00

a week in addition to the state benefit expired at the end of july politicians have so far failed to reach a deal to extend it when on top of that millions of people who rent their homes across the u.s. could soon face eviction protections imposed in the wake of the pandemic a coming to an end in many states experts say it will most certainly lead to the was tauzin crisis in a generation and he gallagher reports from miami. even as unemployment rates remain at historic highs the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of slowing with so many out of work in the midst of a health crisis the specter of massive victims is now real temporary moratoriums meant to prevent renters losing their homes have been lifted in 30 states and millions of facing a harsh reality the landlord here has started an addiction process against that when my mom lost her child and her father. 19 pandemic and

completely scared and frightened because i don't want to become homeless i don't why my family be split in half left at home by shelter over the last few months is job losses of grown so too have the lines that food banks that massive loss of income and increasing desperation not only affects renters but landlords to somebody who own just one property in their service. to pay their bills and they have duplex and they make that one happen the other without the rental income they cannot pay their bills this is absolutely to be drawn and provide additional federal leave to people who've been laid off in washington negotiations between the democratic party and the republicans continue over a new relief program some unemployment benefits officially ended last month with no new plans in place that combined with an end to protection from addiction could have a devastating effect housing experts say without action the u.s.

could witness a tsunami of addictions that may affect tens of millions of people without homes many are forced to live with relatives or in shelters increasing their risk of contracting cope at 19 the court system is overwhelmed hearing addiction cases as a safety net designed to protect the most vulnerable seems to be straining according to the data companies to distance 40 percent of americans and now at risk of a vixen for some it's already happened is heartbreaking. then i lost everything else and no money no not a king and i'll sleep well past the worried about stuff that by some estimates 14000000 people could lose their impacting poverty rates homelessness and the wider economy and they go across 0 miami florida survivors of the world's 1st atomic bomb attack i've been marking 75 years since it was dropped on hiroshima

about 140000 people were killed when u.s. forces attacked japan in the final stages of world war 2. 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 the original survivors of the attack declining each year this is likely to be the last major round a verse or rate 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 for star we must never allow this painful pass to repeat he fell for civil society 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 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 in 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 is

a strong piece called through the 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. well still ahead eva's return to britain after a 5 year trial decides that down building is good for the environment. and in sport with meanwhile lang's tiger woods goes in search of his 16th major title.

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the room. he's here now it's all been thank you very much the biggest stall and be eyeballs keyboard of one judge how spoken out against president donald trump and his regular criticism. player protests trump says he turns off games when he sees social justice protests before them and still believes players show disrespect when i kneel for the national anthem but james who plays for the l.a. lakers is one of those players and says he couldn't care less if the president watches on not the real thing the best ball community. are

sad about losing. viewership and i hope everyone you know no matter race in america or see what world leadership that we have in our at the top in our country and november is right around the corner and this is a big moment for us as americans if we continue to talk about we want you know better change with the game will go on without. without his eyes on. good news for the n.b.a. is that the bubble at disney appears to be working well with no new coronavirus cases in the latest round of testing it means the action continues and this was the defending champions the toronto raptors getting the better of the orlando magic they have now won their last 7 games dating back to before the suspension now to another team from toronto the blue jays after losing 10 what the night before to the run survived by turning things around to win $21.00 on wednesday major league baseball has tightened up its covert 19 protocols after that outbreak at the minute

new lows include mandatory mask where you dug outs and also banning players from speaking up meals finds gulfs 1st major in 13 months is underway in san francisco books kept i mean to complete a hat trick of page 8 championships he's just one of the lead held by jason day an incredibly coca is 74 under par in majors is 26 day that's more than 50 shots better than any other player. tiger woods has made it a star considering his only played once since the page 8 overturned his 2 under par just 3 shots back and that's his best start of major since 2012 which is i mean to imagine under 16 as each ice is the overall record of 18 held by jack nicklaus who are just over a month away from the planned start of the n.f.l. season and the league has unveiled a new measure to help pay players they've been working on a mouth shields go inside helmets sunglass manufacturer has helped design this year old which is hope to limit transmission of covert 9 say some players though have

said they won't wear it. dark chartreuse fabio jakobsen is serious but stable after 5 hours of facial surgery following that crash on the tour of poland the 23 year old went into the barriers of the finishing line on stage one of the colliding with fellow doctrine dillon earn a very good who was disqualified and could face further sanctions jakobsen was awarded the victory his team say he has no brain or spinal injuries the player and his doctors trying to bring him out of an. coma police are investigating the crash . to cricket in pakistan took control of the 1st test against england on diy to open a shop put them in a strong position at old trafford but these 3rd straight century this time a career best 156 pakistan with $326.00 a lot of anger were struggling at the close on $92.00 for full. in the ukraine mexican formula one driver sergio perez will be allowed to write this weekend 70th anniversary silver star the racing point driver tested positive for corona virus

ahead of loss rates british born pre but health already in england now say he's completed his quarantine period he will be tested and has to return a negative result before he can return to practice on friday the mass participation part of the london marathon has been cancelled because of the pandemic device which normally attracts almost $40000.00 runners was originally perspiring from april until october but now we're going to as well only run the elite race on a short lope with elliott guy looking for a 3rd strike when that many of those athletes will be trying to qualify for the delayed lympics next year but the olympic rings in tokyo been put away for now at least they had been at the city's by since early this year but they've been hauled away on a barge for maintenance and a return next year had it not been for the pandemic the games would have come to a close this sunday finally women's tennis number one party may have skipped this

month's us open because of her coronavirus fears but she's been keeping busy the 24 year old has been promoting tennis in indigenous communities in the far north of australia bharti is the 1st woman of aboriginal heritage to top the world rankings since yvonne goolagong cawley she spent the last week working with young players in the community after tennis australia announced this week an $80000.00 fund for indigenous tennis over the next 3 years. it really does bring a small mafioso and i feel like for me it brings back so many of my favorite memories from when i was a child growing up how much tennis and how much tennis brought joy to my life and happiness to my lot it's a it's a massive stepping stone a massive stepping stone i think for us it's it's a pathway to the young kids to see an opportunity not just in tennis but in education in experiences in all of these different things and i think you know it's incredible to see the pathways it is now available to indigenous youth and from

there it's opportunities where they can grow and develop as people any more of a profession. and that's all for much bottom from thank you very much leigh also just one final story to bring you on the news hour after 400 years beavers have been allowed back into the wild in england the semi aquatic animals were given permanent right to remain on the river officer in a step and it follows a 5 year trial that showed that down building activities will good for wildlife and for people. were hunted to extinction in person more than 4 centuries ago for them meat and also a substance they happen to secrete cold kasturi and which is used in food medicine and perfume to work alongside with all fallen off healthy it's the same with the production the natural management systems like this would be this comparable if a one of the own says that promise could be paid to have the be even. though there's more in everything we're covering on our website al-jazeera dot com is

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