wait let me put some comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic islands that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way kids human way to a business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on out is there . because ruling party gets the victory it was looking for a majority for the rajapaksa brothers to push through sweeping constitutional changes. the whole romney watching all of their lives my headquarters here in doha also coming up frustration in lebanon and calls for political change as people left to clean up themselves after the deadly clash explosion. also the struggle to control

the coronavirus pandemic in india cases past 2000000 we're live in new delhi. and donald trump signs an executive order banning americans from business with the chinese owners of 2 popular apps. welcome to the program it's an election victory that's expected to cement the power of the rajapaksa brothers in sri lanka the governing party has recorded an overwhelming victory with nearly 60 percent of the votes these people's front is that by go to by and hinder rajapaksa who serve as president and prime minister along with their allies that has secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to make sweeping changes to the constitution let's bring in our correspondent in alpha landers who's been following the election and the vote count it's in colombo force me now a huge mandate really and an opportunity for really the country to see its

constitution change how soon could this happen. so we're waiting to hear sort of details of how the rajapaksa want to take this forward north that the 20th of august is when the new parliament has been convened by a gasket signed by the president they will come together but we've also heard that as early as next week we will have the prime minister my him that rajapaksa and his cabinet to be sworn in awaiting confirmation but talk of limiting the cabinet to 26 so obviously the rajapakse is not wasting any time in terms of carrying on with the work program that they had targeted for them serves they did ask for a man that strong sort of a support of 2 thirds which now with all of their own votes and their allies they have in parliament to pass through any changes now the key thing that they had said

was that the amended constitution does not allow them to carry forward their program but now there is that confidence with this result of the election in fact president gore tabi rajapaksa responding to the results as they came through yesterday said he is confident that he can build a strong parliament to take forward he is a vicious stars of prosperity that is kind of mandate and program that he put forward for his presidential bid and that this government is taking forward to help minimum your opinion why do the rajapaksa do so well in this election because at the moment one might assume. they themselves are very popular and people voted because they wanted to see a constitutional change but the economy is in the doldrums and also ethnic divisions which is still rumbling in society at the moment after the easter sunday bombings a year ago and the end of a very bloody civil war lots of factors here but they still got through.

absolutely i mean at the end of the day when you look at the result of this election 2020 you see the overwhelming support of the rajapaksa family essential commands here in sri lanka you did have a president mahinda rajapaksa voted out of office a century just one term ago but within that term we had the government essentially which call it of the good governance government that had a lot of plans a lot of promises came to power on sort of promises of bringing change and a sort of a new wind of change if you like from the rajapaksa but that failed miserably they did carry forward some sort of reform in terms of the constitution and things like that but ultimately they were such a great disappointment that the people of this country the larger number have

realized that they want to go back to the larger passes because whatever that experiment of bringing in that good governance sort of regime just did not work and that the rajapakse is they feel have actually shorn and delivered in terms of what they've done most recently the handling the corona and before you know the glaring sort of intelligence failures that led to the easter bombings when you 19 so that's the reason the rajapaksa have maintained and secured this massive sort of mandate indeed. exactly what they say as the day progresses and for the moment you know thank you for joining us from colombo. on to our other top story residents of beirut cleaning up the streets and destruction grows over the lebanese government's response to the port explosion there were protests against the government into the night on thursday. as french president manuel much damage streets the country was already facing an economic crisis before the plans to know the economy minister has

wall that it is not financially capable of dealing with the impact of the. splosion without international help when 149 people were killed in the blast 16 employees from beirut support of being detained let's get the very latest with our correspondent bernard smith who joins me now from beirut and and ben the just tell us where you are what the situation is like because obviously it's a case of cleaning up and making do for the moment. yeah and again this morning so we've seen thousands of people out on the streets with shovels pickaxes brushes doing the cleanup because the government isn't just across from the main blast site you'll see those standing grain silos and so the right of those where the explosion happened is a destroyed ship just beyond that and that everything that was in the way of the shockwave in the few just seconds it took to push out has been hit and

destroyed and i am surrounded by. by shattered glass by destroyed buildings everywhere that was in the way in the proper buckshot way of the sort in the few seconds it took. beirut looks like it's been involved in a conflict of many he's normally take of course many years to clean it all off so of course the struggle so many residents burn it will be of calls the immediate need for food and medical supplies that's a priority but with so much of the infrastructure damage as you're showing us that we know of me what are the options for residents i mean where are they going for help if they can get it's all. well this is the big challenge because as we've seen there is really a lack of any assistance coming from the government in the best of times this is a very weak state with very weak social service provision and in a catastrophe like this there's very little that government clearly has is doing or

is able to do we have seen n.g.o.s out on the streets we've seen people giving out food restaurants and takeaways shops giving out food on the streets and people giving out bottles of water but these are very very short plasters just take on these massive gaping wounds it's going to take years of course and there may be at least 300000 people without any homes to go to you can help them with n.g.o.s and volunteers are a few days but long term is an enormous challenge of what you can how you can help people how you can really house people in this government is just not set up to do that so for the moment and for the latest thanks very much ben smith in beirut. but india has become the 3rd country in the world to record 2000000 credit virus cases the covert 900 count has doubled in 3 weeks faster than the u.s. or even brazil which have much higher numbers epidemiologist see india is still

months away from hitting its peak but the country's health system is already feeling the strain from the pandemic and its products are india correspondent joins me now from new delhi of course those 19th figures worryingly increasing elizabeth and and as we say the health service isn't the real strain. absolutely so and that is india recorded and now the single highest a rise in cases more than 62000 cases and the worst hit state remains in maharashtra it recorded more than 11000 new cases on thursday and its capital my which is india's financial capital is also ringback dealing with some of the. worst flooding from the heavy monsoon rains in some parts of the city in decades and we've seen pictures of hospitals which have been flooded in the state of mind the chief minister of the state in the central government to pay for more treatment centers there are already around $37000.00 people either in hospitals in

treatment centers and there are still reports of people struggling to find beds especially in rural areas which have very health care infrastructure elsewhere in the country the cases are rising by around 10000 in the southern states. the government there says that's because they tested more people than anywhere else in the country testing around $50000.00 a day despite the overall rise that we're seeing around the country the health minister as always remains positive he says india is continuing to increase testing they are testing around 600000 people a day nationwide he also points to what he says is one of the lowest death rates in the world but we have to keep in mind that less than a of all deaths in india medically certified so it's difficult if not impossible right now if you know how many of the deaths in the country are from coronavirus do you think the government would lead by example because like many other people. in

large numbers and. that's a real problem as well. absolutely we don't hear much from the government especially not promised in the morty about the coronavirus situation in the country when we do from the prime minister he always asks people to maintain social distancing to where mosques and yet he inaugurate of the construction of a temple in india's most controversial religious site and you would be aware in the mob's destroyed a 16th century mosque and $992.00 because they believed it was the birthplace of the god drum when he went to iowa the year he inaugurated the construction of a temple $201.00. attended the event now these people were wearing masks and they were observing social distancing potch just hours after the prime minister left the town we had these scenes of you know large crowds cat gathering celebrating cheek to cheek not wearing masks and perhaps this isn't surprising given that event was

allowed to take place despite the fact that there was a bad on social political religious gatherings and we've seen all the scenes of celebration over the beginning of the construction of this mosque elsewhere in the country in the state of west bengal and we have to keep in mind that when there was there was only in the in the law down when there was a muslim religious gathering here in delhi which did lead to a rise in the number of cases muslims were vilified they were blamed for the spread of the virus there were attacks on muslims around the country and yet we haven't heard anything from the government about the celebrations that took place and i will be here for the latest let's go from new delhi thank you. and i forget the number of infections as past 1000000 they will health organization is warning the surge could overwhelm hospitals more than 21000 people have died from the virus south africa counts more than half of the infections it's not the actual amount of

cases on the continent is much higher than recorded due to a lack of testing to chinese tech giants have seen their shares plunge after the u.s. president is shoot an executive order banning business with them the decision blocks any transaction with the parent company of social media to talk on the messenger after we chant the sweeping restrictions come into effect in 45 days trump says the chinese own doubts are gathering that uses data from beijing and they pose a threat to u.s. national security joe madison is the c.e.o. of social flow a tech firm which helps media companies he says it was a lack of trust between the u.s. and china which led to trying to decision. well i think the big concern has been the chinese ownership by dance it's a chinese company and to talk has gone to great lengths to try to assure people that the chinese government has never requested that i dance provide provide information certainly not on u.s. citizens i think the real concern though is the fact that they haven't done that

yet doesn't mean they won't do that in the future and if the company is owned by a chinese company they're really not going to be able to refuse a request like that from the chinese government so actually i think you combine that with the escalating tensions that's been going on on the trade front and other fronts between the u.s. and china and that leaves us where we are right now but the big news of course is that microsoft reached at least a tentative accord to acquire some of the assets of tick tock the u.s. application canada australia new. domain the financial times today just reported that they're actually talking about buying. applications globally which in some ways would make a lot more sense microsoft is certainly a big enough company to be able to fund that kind of acquisition and to support that kind of acquisition globally you know the question is whether right dance is going to want to slice off the u.s. and some other markets from the global you know application and that obviously presents tremendous technical challenges and there's no way that that had could

happen in the next 40 days. well still ahead here on al-jazeera accused of sending a hit squad to canada the saudi crown prince faces a little suit in washington d.c. . and doing things differently find out how one sitting in the u.k. is using community volunteers to help control the coronavirus. however got some lovely summer heat spilling across much of year it now largely 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 like heat wave into the northwest of here we'll see temperatures in london getting up to 34 celsius on friday staying well above 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 average constitutes a heat wave in that you can see it's going to be with us for much of the week ahead that warm sunshine extends across much of europe as i said we do still have those showers down towards the southeast just around the balkan southern parts of italy greece seeing some rather lively showers as we go on through the next couple of days but else there as you can see was very hot sunshine coming through some absolutely lovely conditions there full value for the organs temperatures then we're going to see fine and dry weather too across northern parts of africa still got those life showers 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 with a few showers but largely fine and dry for many. frank assessments seeing that. 60 percent of the.

life we see this informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the old immediate region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the use of proxy because look at everything the enters the bill of your people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. i am. a book about what you all deserve it means the whole robin a reminder of our top stories the governing party in sri lanka has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections the sri lanka people's front is led

by the rajapaksa brothers got a buyer of mahinda who served as prime minister and president 16 poured visuals have been detained in beirut as frustration grows over the lebanese government's response to the explosion there were protests into the night on thursday uncovered 19 factions across cross to believe that india with more than 62000 cases reported in the last 24 hours is the 3rd nation after the u.s. and brazil to reach that milestone. the saudi crown prince is being sued her cuse of sending a group of hit men to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the alleged target aside but he filed a lawsuit in the u.s. media are reporting that interpol rejected a request from riyadh to extradite as it was politically motivated what kind of reports. crown prince mohammed bin solomon has been feted in the white house but

now in papers before a washington d.c. court he's alleged to have ordered death squads to torture and assessed an 8 opponents the case is being brought by a former saudi intelligence officer sardar japery who alleges the crown prince sent a team called the tigers squad to canada to kill him the court papers say the men were denied entry by suspicious canadian border guards. this detailed flow chart submitted to the court identifies key members of the assassination squad and others involved including what are described as forensic technicians skilled in criminal evidence removal and their image of the hit squad that is believed to have murdered and dismembered journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in 2018 i know that there are women. all over the world in germany and france and be noticing character. run away from sort of because there. are questions from the government which is.

totally in the hands of margaret that's one of them is omar up the legacy is also resident in canada mentioned in the court filing as another potential target of assassination and who posted this video in reaction to the news the case has been brought in terms of legislation that allows non us citizens to take action in federal courts against foreign individuals who have committed torture and or extra judicial killings in addition sod algebra he argues that the hit squad assembled in the united states before attempting to enter canada saddle japanese children now aged 20 and 21 are being held at an undisclosed location in saudi arabia as what he describes as human bait to draw him out of hiding last month 4 senators sent

a letter to president trump saying the u.s. had a moral obligation to press saudi authorities for their release the president in the past has made clear that regardless of the allegations of human rights violations against the saudi crown prince problem mohammed when someone remains a valued ally and friend. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. hundreds of afghan leaders scholars and elders are meeting in kabul to try and negotiate a peace deal with the taliban the loya jirgah talks are the last hurdle to the start of the goshi asians between garbles political leadership and the taliban the key issue is whether the government should meet the armed groups demand to release $400.00 prisoners u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is urging support for the move saying it will be an important step towards peace thousands of belorussians have taken part in a band opposition rally in the capital minsk ahead of the presidential elections final

day of voting on sunday the race is proving to be the strongest challenge yet to the 26 year rule of president alexander lukashenko step bason reports from the capital minsk. ignoring a government ban they shouted leave look i shan't go we will win thousands of supporters of opposition leader that lana to kind of sky rally for hours in front of an empty stage after the candidate and her team was barred from entering we all work but we do not here anymore so all we have less fear as as before because it's not possible to have so much fear in our country. for i'm here to support the next generation our children i'm 51 years old and to be honest i can't watch how my mother is forced to count every cent because of her small pension because shankar also lost support after he called the covert 19 crisis of psychosis despite thousands polling ill more leaks has been forced out

the people from all walks of life all ages have gathered here risking arrest they are. the authorities had banned opposition rallies saying a celebration for troops was held in the same park so atlanta. joined forces with 2 other women has attracted the largest crowd seen and bellows in decades describing herself as an ordinary housewife revival jailed blogger sent the panel ski has quickly become a symbol for change of many belorussians and change to happen for sure what we want change in a peaceful way but not many are hopeful that the elections on sunday will be free and clear with foreign observers banned and independent better russian observers already taking the opposition has announced they will take to the streets again as soon as the polls close on sunday stepladder al jazeera. the governing party

in guinea has asked the president as a cold day to seek term in office it follows months of protests against extending the 82 year old rule after weeks of speculation ivory coast president. has announced that he's seeking a 3rd term as well it would address a small. candied that i am in a fake to candidate in the presidential election of october 31st 2020 announcement that many believe will have serious repercussions but for some ivorians the declaration was not completely unexpected one former prime minister. and water chosen successor suddenly died on july 8th the ivory coast and the ruling party was thrown into political uncertainty in office since trying to gen president ouattara said although he had planned to retire after 2 terms the death of ahmed ali has changed everything he says his party ostap to run again and he is accepted there is

sars and then my tragic the recent tragic events with the death of prime minister coulibaly have lifted a void in the team that i had put in place to continue and consolidate economic and social programs which you interested me with but also the thai calendar on the 3 months before the elections the challenge of maintaining peace national security as well as regional security and the necessity to could the health crisis the risk is that everything that was gained with so much sec refined and with the consent of the people would be compromised. thursday supporters of the former president archrival. demonstrated outside the headquarters of the election commission in. they demanded that their leader be put on the ballot as well as the voters' register babo is kind of glee in the netherlands after he was acquitted by the international criminal court of crimes during the ivory coast civil war when he refused to relinquish power after losing the presidential election to mr ouattara

because as people let him know that they were not happy with him running for a 3rd term and he had gone ahead and said that yes he will not run and you have chosen somebody else. in this moment. gone ahead and showed some state statesmanship and told the people in the ivory coast even though my party wants me to run i am not going to. cross the border in guinea it's octogenarian leader of a country is also said to run in his country's delayed presidential election for the 3rd time his party selected him on thursday to be whereas. today you have all spoken allies parties and others i take note. partners attempt to change the constitution to keep yourself in power resulted in several violent demonstrations in which dozens of opposition supporters were killed by security forces there are concerns that thursday's event may throw both give me an ivory

coast into father political tom or maybe priest al jazeera. in brazil corona virus infections and unemployment are surging with more than 13 percent of brazilians out of a job nearly 9000000 rolls were lost between april and june and at least 13000000 people are now looking for work infections are nearing 3000000 and there's been almost 100000 deaths in the country a common criticism of the u.k. is tracking a tackling of the coronavirus crisis has been a clear lack of decisive leadership not one city's being held up as an example of how to coordinate community efforts and how they can work there's been a surge of localized cases in liverpool but instead of a blanket lockdown is just shut down small pockets of the city and volunteers are playing a large part in taking care of people laurence leamer reports from the north west of england. these are the streets where the virus is thriving it's been moving

house to house often transmitted by children to their parents or grandparents or living under the same roof in other places this would have led to the city being locked down but here they refuse to instead they localized the lock down to the smallest possible area we are doing this with and through our community rather than to our community and that way we're building trust and relationships with the funtastic community leaders committee champions faith leaders in our ballance years that we've got in the area much of it is about making sure vulnerable people don't run out of basics like food or medicines that delivering sewer lead he's not allowed to leave home but in turn he's keeping an eye out on his neighbors and reporting back to the violence he is the 'd brother across the road each 80 years old he was taken away in an ambulance this morning and it wife still there so straight on the phone to family to let them know what was happening he she not might not have let them know and then i told the mashhad so you know sometime today

they'll be in contact with them to to see i have been to get the supplies the data from local supermarkets all restaurants or cooks far more volunteers from all sorts of backgrounds this somali center has delivered $10000.00 meals since march and when they visit someone who's ill they get them to the doctor yes we spreading the word and in the end because it's not only incumbent to the relevant authorities but it's incumbent with us to save the community our community and the wider community as well. it's all the sharpest contrast with a situation just down the road in manchester where the government insisted 4 and a half 1000000 people that had to lock down because of localized outbreaks in liverpool by contrast the testing center in the affected area has access to the most local knowledge quite apart from the obvious benefits of not having to lock down an entire city the other advantage of liverpool's model is of the volunteers come up with a really specific. information about individuals on dozens and dozens of streets

and that sort of highly granular data is absolute gold dust the public health professionals. the whole response has become a source of enormous local pride among the volunteer groups despite them being pressured financially due to a lot of costs they still continue to amaze as with the innovation with the compassion that they have been dealing with vulnerable individuals who. to shield their dozens of nationalities doing this while acting as one unit in the better interests of the whole community they say anyone in the world could do what they're doing certainly the level of commitment and organization is quite the contrast to the u.k.'s disjointed national response to the virus or asli al-jazeera in liverpool.

you want your deserve with me said i'll run a reminder of our top stories the governing party in sri lanka has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections the sri lanka people's front is led by the rajapaksa brothers got a bye and the hindu who served as president and prime minister along with its allies it has a secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to annex sweeping constitutional changes but also manders has more from colombo on the victory. the key thing that they had said was that the amended constitution does not allow them to carry forward their program but now that is that confidence with this result of the election in fact president gore tabi rajapaksa responding to the results as they came through yesterday said he's confident that he can build a strong parliament to take forward he's a vicious stars of prosperity that he's kind of mandate and program that he put

forward for his presidential bid and that this government is taking forward 16 port officials have been detained in beirut as frustration grows over the lebanese government's response to choose days explosion there were protests into the night on thursday over 19 in sections of past 2000000 in india it's the 3rd nation after the u.s. and brazil to reach the milestone and epidemiologists say it hasn't reached its peak yet. 2 chinese tech giants have seen their shares plunged the u.s. president issued an executive order banning businesses with them the decision blocks and the transaction with the parent company of social media to talk and the owner of messenger app we chant the saudi crown prince is being sued accused of sending hit men to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the alleged targets. the lawsuit in the u.s. those were the headlines more news in half an hour next its inside story stay with

us. in russia. if you bring the same food and. one of what he did best take on al jazeera. or the beirut explosion lead to political change in lebanon people left to clean up the streets vent their anger what they say is a corrupt system in a dysfunctional state. and the country rebuild and rise from this destruction this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran kong lebanon deserves better it's one of the main messages coming out of beirut after tuesday's devastating explosion the blast killed at least 138 people made 300000 residents homeless and destroyed much

of the city center many lebanese are blaming government corruption for allowing the disaster.