how much money does a refugee get those people you would think that has been direct and german and american the new germans on al-jazeera. a showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al-jazeera. 'd through lanka's governing party gets the victory it was looking for a majority for the rajapaksa brothers to push through sweeping constitutional changes. the whole romany watching al-jazeera lives more headquarters here in doha also coming up frustration in lebanon and calls for political change as people left to clean up themselves after tuesday's port explosion. accused of sending

a hit squad to canada the saudi crown prince faces a lawsuit in washington d.c. . and donald trump signs an executive order banning americans from doing business with the chinese odor to talk and we chant. welcome to the program it's an election victory that's expected to cement the power of the rajapaksa brothers in strength for their governing party has recorded an overwhelming victory with nearly 60 percent of the votes the sri lankan people's front is led by god to buy and mahinda rajapaksa who served as president and prime minister along with that allies it has secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to make sweeping changes to the constitution. parliament is expected to convene for another 2 weeks nelson and desist from the strong can come for the colombo. 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 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 mandate a strong sort of a support of 2 thirds which now with all of their own votes and their allies they haven't 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 he said he's confident that he can build a strong parliament to take forward he's a vis stars of prosperity that's his kind of mandate and program that he put forward for his presidential bid and that this government is taking forward by consulting. an executive director the thing telling the center for policy alternatives and joins me now from colombo good to have you with us on the program are you surprised at the size of the victory. well we're not surprised at the victory but i think it was clear that the victory is somewhat surprised that it has been given such a post a mandate from the people is somewhat surprising and that the united national party has been disadvantaged just one suit in parliament as our supports right i mean as you say it's a huge mandate perhaps potentially for the country to seeds see

a major shift in the constitution i mean how soon do you think this is all going to start happening well i mean part of the current year we detect a speaker and i think things will start there is sort of there after we because in addition to all that the key challenge i think the president and the new government is going to be the economy in terms of dealing with the consequence of this article 'd with banks in virus you know we see now has something like us started as full 1000000000 a year from now until 202025 we have a foreign exchange earners very badly hit just close by the wires the back to the middle east the apparently industry and hospitality. do you think that resonates with us or to study estimates as well indeed i mean to which of these issues do you think was the spare head for the electorate was it sort of stable safe government

with sinhalese you might say thinking prime minister and president all were issues of covert 19 of the economy. what actually got them into power i mean where do you think the electorate stands all on these issues . i think what's got out there are 2 parts of succeeded in doing was looking out for firing a strong stable government in comparison to the gulf and the to come before in the sort of good governance which the prime minister right and the president of the parties agree weekend vacillating adams to organize it so strong stable government also the assertion of the identity of the majority community so it's also a strong signal that lucas with a strong sense of you know centralized leadership authoritarianism perhaps an

emphasis on law and order and on discipline. what happened to the opposition where did they go wrong i think the opposition went wrong it particularly active national party because of this whole question of mr baker the sick man who was the prime minister giving not the leadership of handing over to a new generation and as a consequence of but greens that a lot of them took away and saw something bold to somebody john about that which has taken most of you in people i've had to come up with 'd some kooky or close to 60 seats in the result of a close because of that with 82 kyra with that clear coherent path and come up with strong decisive leadership i think that's the opposition here but it was only with the sort of thanks very much for joining us from colombo. thank

you. 16 people have been arrested in lebanon destruction grows over the government's response to tuesday's port explosion among those who've been taken into custody or officials from beirut port now the cleanup is still underway search and rescue teams scour the rubble for any survivors there were protests against the government on thursday as french president toured the damage streets but he's backing calls for a new political order in lebanon and ben smith has the latest from beirut 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 to the right of those is where the explosion happened as 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 debris shattered glass by destroyed buildings everywhere that was in the way in the proper buckshot way of the food in the few seconds. beirut looks like it's been involved in the conflict 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 the 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 to stay calm 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 these people how you can really house people in this government is just not set up to do that the saudi crown prince is being sued accused of sending a group of hitmen to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the report targeted assad he filed the lawsuit in the us media reporting that interpol rejected a request from riyadh to extradite him because it was politically motivated my kind of explains the. crown prince mohammed bin solomon has been defeated in the white house but now in papers before 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 japery who alleges the crown prince sent

a team called the tiger 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. basically a run away from sort of area because there. are questions from the government which is. 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 side algebra he argues that the hit squad assembled in the united states before attempting to enter canada saddle japanese children now aged $20.21 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 mohammed bin salman remains a valued ally and friend. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. india has become the 3rd country in the world to record 2000000 coronavirus cases the coded 900 count has doubled in 3 weeks faster than the u.s. or brazil which have higher numbers epidemiologists say india is still months away from hitting its peak but the country's health system is already feeling the strain from the pandemic well still ahead here on al-jazeera cheering for an empty stage find out why the opposition leader in bella ruse was barred from attending her final election rally. and battling the bulge a state in mexico bans the sale of junk food to children to stay with us.

hello the heat is building again in central western europe you probably have heard about the glass here that's about to lose its from tendin nicole meyer as a result of these are temperatures and there's nothing to stop it big area of high pressure just one front going through the british isles that'll stop stocking being too warm nor indeed ireland but as you see tempers elsewhere in the high thirty's and forty's in bordeaux there's a northerly wind picking up some effect on the rest of showers floating around places like northern greece remain dia both gary they'll keep going as well but the general picture is one of rising temperatures to near but not quite record values i've covered the whole of the year playing european plane with the color background whereas deep red is a pretty high temperatures london is a case in point not a record but at $35.00 are not far off it is still 31 come the end of the weekend and there's the picture for saturday still flirting shows around in southern italy

and in greece is a big problem relieving thunderstorms if you don't like the heat and the northerly breeze helps to bring a bit of cloud a few showers to the plain of spying the temperature in madrid status $36.00 in gibraltar never particularly warm is about $27.00. but. frank assessment it's. like being sort of informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in many pots or the only every 10 are actually under a democratic state of imagine seeing critical debate after is a proxy he does not preserve the interest of the if you feel in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

i. look like your child is there with me as a whole rom the reminder of our top stories the governing party in sri lanka has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections the sri lankan people's front is led by the rajapaksa brothers got the by and mahinda who serve as president and prime minister. 16 port officials have been detained in beirut as frustration grows over the lebanese government's response to the explosion there were protests into the night. and the saudi crown prince is being sued he's accused of sending hit men to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the alleged targets. is filed a lawsuit in washington d.c. . 2 chinese tech giant tech giants have seen their shares plunge after the u.s.

president issued an executive order banning business with them the decision blocks any transaction with the parent company of social media app to talk and the owner of messenger app we chat the sweeping restrictions come into effect in $45.00 days now trump says the chinese and ups are gathering users data at the beijing and they pose a threat to u.s. national security jim anderson is the c.e.o. of social flow a tech firm which helps media companies and he says it was a lack of trust between the u.s. and china that led to trump's decision. well i think the big concern has been the chinese ownership by dances a chinese company and to talk has gone to great lengths to try to assure people that the chinese government has never requested dance provide or to 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 end of the front between the u.s. and china and that leaves us where we are right now but the big news of course is that microsoft has reached at least a tentative accord to acquire some of the assets of tick tock the u.s. application canada australia new k i believe was the domain the financial times today just reported that they're actually talking about binding and application 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 i dance is going to want to displace 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 could could happen in the next 40 days you know hundreds of afghan leaders scholars and el

design meeting in kabul to negotiate a peace deal with the taliban the loya jirgah talks all the last hurdles to the start of the goshi asians between the afghan government and the taliban the main issue is whether the government should meet the armed groups demand to release $400.00 prisoners u.s. a true statement is urging support for the move saying it will be an important step towards peace. spain's former king of one carlos reportedly been staying in abu dhabi since he left spain on monday spanish newspaper a.b.c. says carlos flew to the u.a.e. in a private jet spain's courts are investigating him for money laundering and tax evasion tied to a business deal with saudi arabia thousands of dollars have been taking part of the banned opposition rally in the capital minsk ahead of a presidential election that with the final day of voting on sunday another race is proving to be the strongest challenge yet to the 26 year rule of president

alexander lukashenko step bassam has more from the capital minsk. ignoring a government ban they shouted leave look i shan't go we will win thousands of supporters of opposition leaders but 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 all 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 shanker also lost support our family called a covert 19 crisis so psychosis despite thousands polling ill thank god really has been full force around the park people from all walks of life all ages have

gathered here risking arrest they are beyond fear. the authorities had banned a scheduled opposition rally 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 stepladders and al jazeera. now the governing partying guinea has asked for the alpha condé to seek a 3rd term in office if follows months of protests against extending the 82 year

old's time in position now after weeks of speculation ivory coast's president alasania tata has also announced that he too is seeking a 3rd term and that address explains. i am in effect a candidate in the presidential election of october 31st 2020 and it also meant that many believe will have serious repercussions but for some ivorians the declaration was not completely unexpected one former prime minister. and chosen successor suddenly died on july 8th the ivory coast and the ruling party were thrown into political uncertainty in office history and president ouattara said although he had planned to retire after 2 terms the death of bali has changed everything he says his party are asked him to run again and he has 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 were interested me with but also the tight 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 2nd phase and with the consent of the people would be compromised. thursday supporters of the former president and what us 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 by bo 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 had 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 he had chosen somebody else he should up in this moment gone ahead and showed some state statesmanship and told his 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 set to run in his country's delayed presidential election for the 3rd time his party selected him on thursday to be like bera. today you have all spoken allies parties and others i take note. pointers attempt 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 uppity priests al-jazeera

researchers in the usa the number of people who die from the crowd of ours could double 230-0005 december that's as politicians have once again failed to agree on unemployment benefits for those who lost their jobs because of the pandemic millions of americans had been receiving $600.00 a week but that expired earlier this month when they said a skinny proposal was anorexic and it was not to meet the needs of the american people what you know what what is a negotiation about it's not about who gets more what in the halls of congress it's about what a chance late into the lives of the american people and that's why i kept asking why why won't you do this why won't you do this why i want you to nonetheless we've had some further exchange of paper to be clarified to see if we can find some further common ground but we're very far apart as is most unfortunate. new york

state's attorney general is suing the influential gun lobby group the national rifle association several executives are accused of siphoning off millions of dollars to fund luxury lifestyles it's very general says the organization should be dissolved altogether she had returns he has more from new york new york's attorney general had promised to shine a light on the national rifle association when she was elected after 18 months of investigation leticia james no they're just c.e.o. wayne lapierre and 3 other former and current executives use the n.r.a. as their personal piggy banks specifically mr la pierre spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the n.r.a. his charitable assets for personal private plane trips for himself in his stamp including extended family when he was not present. he visited the bahamas by private eric's charter at least 8 times in approximate 3 year period with his

family the suit claims that $64000000.00 was siphoned off over 3 years money the attorney general once paid back in addition james says there is no alternative but to dissolve the n.r.a. as a nonprofit organization transit in new york the n.r.a. was founded 148 years ago but only began lobbying as a gun rights organization in the late seventy's since then it successfully blocked gun control legislation however its power lies not so much in its financial clout but its ability to mobilize its supporters at elections to vote for candidates who reject gun control something reflected in its response to the challenges this was a baseless premeditated attack on our organization the n.r.a. said you could have set your watch but the investigation was going to reach its crescendo as we move in to the 2020 alexion cycle the filing of the lawsuit may have an impact the major donors to the n.r.a. we draw in the hours court and the n.r.a.

has been very active. courting. that it could make something of a difference to various races going on around possibly. even the presidential race whatever the implications for the n.r.a. itself the trump campaign is hoping that this lawsuit will address the n.r.a. is conservative base just as republicans have been worrying about turnout the president began campaigning on the attorney general's announcement soon after it was made just like the radical left new york is trying to destroy the n.r.a. he tweeted if biden becomes president your great 2nd amendment doesn't have a charmes your guns will be taken away immediately and without notice no police no guns and at the white house he suggested the organization should simply relocate i think the n.r.a. should move to texas. i believe that very good of you to feel like the n.r.a. has filed a counter suit against new york state which means this will be

a very long drawn out process litigation that may take years even if the n.r.a. loses donors or is dissolved as a nonprofit in new york as the president suggests that would be the end of a gun lobby in the united states. new york. no states in mexico has banned the sale of sugary drinks and junk food to children to reduce high levels of obesity health experts say the cave in 1000. killed more than 50000 people in mexico has highlighted the risks of being overweight most of the public has more from mexico city. state legislators in one haka mexico or taking measures to reduce childhood obesity. the newly adopted initiative will ban the sale distribution and advertisement of junk foods to minors i'm only one of them and it's a 1st of its kind law for mexico which is a world leader when it comes to childhood obesity and diabetes no problem also yes

but i'm at the end we can't continue to allow an increase in childhood obesity and we're haka this is the moment to act everyone needs to know how damaging all of these junk foods really are. the new junk food ban in what was announced as coronavirus deaths nationwide continue to soar mexico has the 3rd highest death toll from coburg 19 in the world international health experts warn that obesity and the many chronic ailments like diabetes hypertension and cancer that often come with it increase the risk of death when a person contracts cope at 19 a frightening warning to a country where nearly 3 quarters of the population is either obese or overweight. legislators and health policy experts in mexico see the pandemic has made it clearer than ever that fighting obesity requires a higher priority from the federal government about it all now concept. that's been the perpetuation of this perception that obesity is an individual's pop them and

that in no way does the state share the responsibility but we know today and the evidence shows that obesity is a public health problem and. while the ban on overprocessed junk food and should read drinks applies only to the state of war how can it is being applauded by many health leaders across the country including mexico's deputy health minister has got this who also heads the country's coronavirus containment strategy in. mexico is one of the few countries that has produced life expectancy at birth among other factors because of obesity and diabetes the evidence is very clear that. street sellers and shop owners in one haka have protested the new initiative the law makers who support the plan say vendors may continue to sell junk food just not to kids. follow al jazeera mexico city.

your child is there with means the whole romney 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 that by the rajapaksa brothers and the hindu as president and prime minister along with its allies it has secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to enact sweeping constitutional changes nelson and as in colombo with more 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 there is that confidence with this result of the election in fact present go to abi 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 vis 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 people have

been arrested in lebanon as frustration grows over the government's response to choose days port explosions those detained include officials from beirut port the cleanup is still underway and search and rescue teams are the rubble for any survivors. the saudi crown prince is being sued he's accused of sending hit men to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the alleged targets filed a lawsuit in the united states. with 19 infections of past 2000000 in india it's the 3rd nation after the u.s. and brazil to reach the milestone epidemiologists say it hasn't yet reached its peak hundreds of afghan leaders callers and elders are meeting in kabul to negotiate a peace deal with the taliban the loya jirgah talks are the last hurdle to the start of the game between the afghan government and the group as the headlines more news in the stream is next. a global pandemic

mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. their welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in today for femi ok now if you're watching this live on the you tube see that box over there that's of live you tube chat jump in there share your comments your questions with us because we have a producer waiting to get those to me so i can get on to our experts on the panel today and in fact we've already got people in there look this is a cheat a man 42 the says prison is just another layer of voter suppression no surprise minorities are targeted and here's michael riley the says it's

a big no you kind of give up your right to vote when you go to jail in my opinion there are so many people in jail that could sway the vote and people in.