the way people pick a book on here now does it is very good to bring in the news to the world from here 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. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes searching through the rubble of lebanon's port disaster the u.n. calls the situation in beirut really dire the people call for political change. sri lanka's governing party gets the victory it was looking for

a majority for the rajapaksa brothers to push through sweeping constitutional changes. the number of coronavirus cases in india hits 2000000 as a struggles to bring the pandemic under control. and pitching in to help we visit a city in the u.k. where it's taking a community effort to combat coronavirus. us with your sport jason day shares the lead at golf's 1st major in 13 months the p.g.a. championship. emergency food shipments are being prepared the u.n. is describing the need for shelter as massive $120.00 schools have been damaged the full effect of tuesday night's port explosion in the lebanese capital is now becoming much clearer. it's just gone 1 pm in beirut where the death toll has been

updated to $154.00 but the search goes on in the rubble and around the port the number of injured is more than 5000 the world health organization says the city is now facing a shortage of hospital beds because of the number of damaged facilities amid all the frustration grows 16 port workers and officials have been arrested but the people's anger is being directed at the government the french president emanuel micro ended his visit saying that the no blank checks unless there is political reform bennett smith is our correspondent in beirut so bernard give us a sense of where you are what you've been seeing and what you've been hearing. everywhere. since i arrived in barrel yesterday and today. this is a building right across the street. which took the whole blast of the shock wave of

the sea you really see you cross the water going as far as 3 kilometers in all of these buildings as you see another pane of glass. all of them destroyed by the explosion on the other side we can just show. the names of the grain silo it was next to the warehouse walls that exploded and we've actually been told now that but grain silo because it withstood the blast on the outside but the western half of beirut was not as badly affected in the eastern half of i mean there was still broken windows in the west but not quite as much destruction as you've seen. so as far as the residents of beirut are concerned their priorities are food clothing water medicine are they getting that provided for them by the local authorities or are they doing it all to themselves. people are relying on

here of themselves and n.g.o.s and seeing the lebanese red cross out to work as a small army of n.g.o.s trying to fill the gaps left by extremely way poor states provision of supports also small armies of volunteers out to get on the streets this morning young people with that with pickaxes and shovels and brushes sweeping up and clearing up as best they can conspicuous by their absence again today is the army and the police or any other indication that the state is in some way involved in directing operations i am not a problem there is little direction ok burn it will leave it there thank you very much ben smith our correspondent reporting live from beirut let's talk now to a. member of parliament and part of the national pantry otic movement founded by the

president michel he joins us live from. welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera how do you rebuild the city from now and over the coming immediate few days what's the government's top priority. of course at the top here just to continue that rescue efforts in order to. to 1st find the missing people and continue providing. health care for the wounded people and of course remove the wreckage of destruction that has kept so many people sounds of people displaced so i think on top of that the other purity of course is to go on with the investigation as fast as possible and get answers for the people about what happened to day to day humid day and age is most important one is try to

find whatever is missing and continue giving. ola sciri care for the wounded. and give priority also for a need for giving back shelters and homes for those who lost this is i see the top european cities where all the efforts and the international efforts are focused also was all the. rescue teams coming from abroad from different friends country is sending sending them to get on as far as the people who are suffering and have suffered so much after the events on tuesday you've got the aid operation up and running are you giving them a guarantee that you can sustain that and that you can maintain it and keep it going for as long as it takes and you will be able to get the aid and some money to the people who need it most. when for the time being we really

had the elementary and basic gates whether it's has. missiles would be required better health care and hospitals etc and of course food and shelters. rebuilding the old what's what was destroyed. would require a financial means that. lebanon has a problem to secure and state because it was already going through a very acute and severe financial crisis and lebanon went on the field on in steps and you all and it's already on negotiation was i am sure a program it sets a lid on it happened at a very very bad time where it and was already running out of need so we definitely need lots of aid in order to. who all it was destroyed and this of course will be made into a national have also because and let alone of course the port that was completely

destroyed and would require huge investment in order to rebuild it again so. besides of course giving the elementary aid at this point. this is that can be sustained of course especially with all of what is the also sent out and the scotch from abroad from lots of countries and certain order to help the bennies i think that the most important part which is reconstruction of houses of the story and. repairing the damage of houses that are out of service and buildings of course and of course later on that the port also this will require a little bit more than much more than that many scripts it's ok to actually cover us ok when you talk about capacity it's all about literally not having enough money to do that kind of thing so when emmanuel macro gets a very good reception the french president and he says no blank checks until there is political reform do you understand why he said that and do you comprehend what

he is signaling to the lebanese government because we've seen months and months of anti-government demonstrations and protests on the streets because of these allegations of systemic corruption. yes and the standard this and this was anyway the speech that the foreign minister french foreign minister has been given on during is that because a 10 days ago or it could be before the blast and this is also the speech if being had could have been he's authorities by the imam thing that they're not informed and not be any financial aid what about so we all understand that clinton is still beyond what is required in terms of reforms in terms of really from within the system whether in fighting corruption whether it. be forming its finances in forming its it services it just it gets at the old everything so and

definitely we have to acknowledge that. extensive government building this one actually one or not up to expectations at this level and are still not doing enough and it's useless to sustain a state of denial from politicians are doing and saying it's enough but we're doing no absolutely not and the tragedy of tuesday came on the top of the iceberg of failures and a complete. ok but when you say they're talking about political reform talking about financial correct accurate financial management if i extracted from what you've just said talking about the port explosion from the rest of what you just said you could have said that to assert 3 months ago or 6 months ago or 12 months ago nothing has changed in the past year it would appear so why why should people in lebanon trust the government to change now. actually there

are a lot of not enough not of the people trust the government actually you know because exactly because of what you're saying because we have been both you can look and be said been vocal even from the big who are considered as from the majority as being vocal about the government critical because i can the government for its base of 3 forms and of and also lack of. confidence and lack of that's a willingness to do the the forms the system is already complicated i know that this is consensual is a complicated system to take any decision to make the decision making process is very complicated living on but this is not. enough as excuse but should be that we have reached really the limits and we are in the fold and we are in and deep. financial crisis and social crisis that is affecting lebanese and their and their

well being and their finances and they're. there. and they're with the weather and everything and actually it's not being ok the government is already started the process of negotiation with the i.m.f. this is good but it's still not enough and then the base of negotiations is very slow and we have been very vocal starting the government about that and people have the right to be angry about that and actually there is no immediate reaction it's what's already quiet before this tragedy and it's now it's even much it's multiplied by a by a by the by multiple factors ok terms of. which is acting very quickly in order to put them on track again and start to see company process that will take time but at least we have started correctly ok many thanks.

for here. ok let's move on to our other top story here on the news of the election victory in sri lanka that's expected to cement the power of the rajapaksa brothers the governing party has taken nearly 60 percent of the vote the sri lanka people's front is led by go to by and by hindu rajapaksa who serve as president and prime minister along with their own eyes that secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to make sweeping changes to the constitution let's bring in our correspondent in colombo minal fernando of the rajapakse has done well because a year ago people were feeling so insecure so unsafe fast forward 12 months and they feel safer than they used to. absolutely that is one of the key factors of this massive victory for the p.p. led by the large boxes essentially a feeling of confidence in their government that they are going to be taken care of

that the government their leaders are in charge of national security this was a huge hit that the sri lankan population as a whole took after these to bombings in 2019 and the shambles that the last government basically the way they handled it that led to those bombings now the coronavirus pandemic the contrasts the government led by president go top it rajapaksa how he has handled it we've had just 11 deaths with sort of infections being kept to a minimum so all of these things for the people seem to be what's sort of crucial that they have a government that seems to be in control and can get their act together again one of the reasons is is the contrast that they have with the previous government the promise to bring good governance but failed so miserably peter these constitutional changes that people are now engaging with what does that mean for the people of sri lanka. c

a so far in terms of the government the p.p. that has won this massive manned their key cried during the campaign was give us the mandate to change the constitution they said that the current constitution with the weight was changed by the previous government kind of 9 was opposed obstacles to the way they wanted to deal with the problems that sri lanka had that it didn't give them the kind of flexibility and the room to make the necessary changes and bring in their vision and program now for the people of this country if you look talk about sort of brass tacks of constitutional changes procedures to be really honest it doesn't matter and that's what you see translated at the polling booth the fact that the bigger majority of this country at the end of the day shores the rajapakse is because they felt that they do a better job of leading this country and taking it forward so in terms of

constitutions when you do talk to people like sort of civil rights activist human rights defenders there are concerns that there might be a reversal in terms of some of the positive changes of that last amendment which strengthened institutions which reduced and diluted to a little bit to a certain extent the powers of the president in favor of the building behind me and those who sit in it parliament that they had bigger you know better powers but what is envisioned by the rajapaksa is from what we've heard from them on the campaign trail is that they want changes they want a whole new constitution which will allow them a centrally put to put forward their program so those are some concerns but to the average sri lankan on the street obviously it doesn't seem to matter he wants safety he wants a cutie and he wants the confidence that he's leaders are in control and that's what seems to be the main sort of. sition when they cost that boy

a ballot at the polling booth peter minal thank you so much mental phenomena as our correspondent reporting live from the sri lankan capital let's bring in the sort of on the move through executive director of the think tank the center for policy alternatives he says the opposition is weak and divided and there are big challenges ahead i think what's what average marks is sort of enduring was reaching out that he would require a strong stable government in comparison to what happened to him before him the sort of governance which the prime minister and the president if part is really weak and vacillating and not store united so strong stable government also the assertion of the identity of the majority community so it's also a strong signal the biggest star with a strong sense of you know centralized leadership authoritarianism perhaps and emphasis on law and order and on discipline out of the can we can continue them if

we do that to speak and i think things will start there is never after because in addition to that the key challenge i think all president and the new government is going to be going on in terms of dealing with the consequence of this article with bank inquiries you know we see knocked her house to something right eunice startles full 1000000000 a year from now until the 202020 and we have our foreign exchange ermine's very bad because of course by the virus be by going to to the middle east the apparently industry and hospitality. so their essence which is that he has to it's well. well small ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including salvaging whatever they can and flooding is not the only threat facing hundreds of families in sudan. and formula one sergio perez woman trace this week after testing

positive again for corona virus that's coming up with peter in the sports. corona virus is spreading faster in india than the 2 worst affected countries in the world in just 3 weeks the number of cases has doubled to 2000000 india sits behind the u.s. and brazil with the most infections health volunteers have gone on strike in rural areas saying they're not getting enough protection it's also getting worse across africa where there are now more than a 1000000 cases of south africa alone accounts for more than half of those and mexico has become the 1st country in the world to record more than $50000.00 deaths it's feared the number could be much worse because there's been a low rate of testing start in india elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi the worst hit states are seeking help she says from the government there. india

recorded the single highest day rise in cases more than 62000 cases and the worst hit state remains in maharashtra it recorded more than 11000 new cases on thursday the chief minister of the state asking the central government to pay for more treatment centers there are already around $37000.00 people either in hospitals or 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 cases are rising by around 10000 of those have been saved by. the government there says that's because they're testing more people than anywhere else in the country they're 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 really difficult if not impossible right now if you know how many of the deaths in the country are from coronavirus. a city in the u.k. is becoming a success story and how it can help build virus there's been a surge of local cases in the city of liverpool but instead of a blanket lockdown is just shut down small pockets of the city are playing a big part in ensuring people looked after. 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 and our ball and see is 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 wife still there so straight on the phone to family to let them know what was happening could she not might not have let them know and then i told the mash so you know sometime today they'll be in contact with them to to see i hope you can 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 shop is contrast with a situation just down the road in manchester where the government insisted 4 and a half 1000000 people have 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 for 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 courts they still continue to amaze as with the innovation with

the compassion that they have been dealing with vulnerable individuals who. to shield 3rd dozens of nationalities doing this while acting as one units 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 asleep al-jazeera in liverpool the japanese cargo ship that ran aground off the coast of moorish in late july has now started leaking oil the panama flag. has about $4000.00 tons of it on board that is enough to threaten nearby coral reefs earlier efforts to stabilize the ship and pump out the oil failed because of rough seas rescuers have gone to extreme lengths to save people trapped by flooding in eastern china the emergency workers trek through dangerous terrain just to reach those

stuck in a car in jang province all 3 were pulled to safety the area's been hit by torrential rain from typhoon hit. hundreds of families left homeless by flooding in sudan are facing new threats now there are concerns they'll be exposed to water borne diseases such as malaria and cholera have a morgan reports from alga taina in west nile state where at least 5 people have died. this is how ash may be doing and his family have been living for the past 4 days during the day he and his family sit on any dry patch of land they can find and at night he says this leap on a road to not too far away the floods have destroyed his home and much of what was in it and there isn't enough aid distributed by the government to his village of course our love for everyone remember tony rains came on surges in flash floods flowed on sundays the rains continued the water has gone down and we still don't have any drug spots most of the villages have moved to higher ground we've given to

the tents distributed enough for all of us 15 families have been left out in the open some families are still trying to salvage what they can from their homes more than 1500 people have been displaced in goes out with a lot most have moved to the west of the village and now live in tents but the stagnant water is raising concerns amongst the villagers over water borne diseases such as malaria and cholera and the villagers also have other concerns. and them to iran if we want more tents and blankets because the rains keep coming and we don't know how we'll survive here there are snakes there are scorpions we need antivenom serums and 1st aid supplies. dozens of areas in sudan have been affected by flooding having lost so much already people here say they're concerned about the coming few months because this is just the start of the rainy season but this is not the 1st time this has happened during every remey season and so that there is often a loss of lives and properties more than 70 people died and thousands were displaced

during last year's rainy season and sudan's government is now warning of not just flash floods but floods from the nile river which runs through the country a comic's he was set up to prepare for this year's season but members say some things are out of their control. then of course. the area is of course problem sometimes because the drainage is difficult. so you need the bombs who need a special. means to drain the flow to the. loyalists. with news that more flooding could be on its way and ashley is worried he says he and his family don't know how they'll survive if more heavy rains to come people morgan al-jazeera right now. ok let's stay in that region where he was reporting from time for the weather his role it takes surprisingly

little rain to cause flooding on hot days as you know this this part of world is typical of that so even though it is wet season doesn't need to be very much rain it has been a particularly active rainy season throughout the world actually this is the northern limit more or less and august is indeed the wettest month for sudan as you can see is not a great deal comes along in clumps in fact 2 which is more or less where you just look in just the south seas $48.00 millimeters as an average in this month not just isn't very much rain so this is has been active season and the house as a result been these funny word for it because both south sudan i remember that from a month ago is pretty widespread there and they're in sudan itself and the line extends east was through ethiopia towards the bottom half of the middle east as you can see the forecast for problem itself got 2 more days of thunderstorms so a ban to exceed the average if it hasn't already happened then it dries up for a while but as you say wet. weather all hard as it just sits there for ages if you

line up to the middle east and the northern arabian sea another massive cloud has recently given a month's worth of rain to karate another place which doesn't seem much for this time of the year and that circulation going to continue and drift back towards muscat to give a 2 or 3 for pretty wet days for the problem on as well peter rob many thanks we'll talk to you later still to come here on the al-jazeera news are accused of sending a hit squad to canada the saudi crown prince faces a lawsuit in washington d.c. . and cheering for an empty stage where the opposition leader and bill rood's was barred from attending her final election rally also ahead social distancing is given a new angle in major league baseball peter we'll have that story in sport. once

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera news with you today these are your top stories 16 port officials have been detained in beirut as frustration grows over the lebanese government's response to the explosion on tuesday there were protests into the night on thursday. 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 go to by and by hinder who serve as president and prime minister. 1000 infractions of past 2000000 in india with more than 62000 cases reported in the past 24 hours and has the 1st highest number of infections after

the u.s. and brazil. hundreds of afghan leaders scholars and elders are meeting in kabul today to negotiate a peace deal with the taliban it's the loya jirga the loya jirga talks are the last hurdle to the start of negotiations between the afghan government and the taliban the main issue is whether the government should meet the armed groups demand to release 400 prisoners the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o is urging support for the move saying it will be an important step towards peace let's bring in most hardcore him from kabul he's the founding member of a think tank the afghanistan affairs units which tackle him what are the chances that these $400.00 taliban fighters will be released. well a very good chances expectation is that big guy. would be favored over the needs of these prisoners because the public opinion has mainly been focused on facilitating and helping the peace process to proceed ahead and as

this has been the only hurdle. the start off into. which is a very important part of the process so. expect it is ready much of the government can be given to go ahead in order to proceed with the president. should be more discussions on how the peace process should look like and what are the issues that the government should be considering while engaging in the peace negotiation with the taliban if the government decides to do this what is the taliban in the. what is nothing at this moment of time except joining the end of one talks that's off the pred amount of barton's for the time being what you have one peace process the taliban have been very much a demo and that they're not going to join the negotiation good but until they have all of your 5000 prisoners released you have led government duties full of 1600 and

in addition to what any about 500 more business but then there was. 400 people there were 400 people on the is that the government was not comfortable there leasing them mainly because they have been either extortionist are there have been cases of individuals against them where they have while a good rights of the individuals they have not been captured or imprisoned on the back of the end but rather to have been engaged in a few 100 individual. that was the major hurdle with this the mean thing is there. are very important and more probably the beginning they hold or hope for peace process there. ok if this does mutate into being in direct talks between the taliban and the government and if the taliban accept the release of 400 of the

people which clearly they would who is on top he was driving that process is it the government or is it the town about him. well i left thank you speaking for a good new fresh start when did go through the negotiation table particularly at a time when the jury is well to predict this off course discussion on 400 prisoners really is what good are the issues discussed give the government demanded 14 good men did the peace negotiations so that may be a fresh start but by the looks of things for the last 3 months one can realize that the power about have been boarding the is because this signed agreement with the americans that the afghan government was not part of the process secondly. the mando but it leaves a $5000.00 prisoners would have been met which means that. this precondition for the beginning of the most important part of the peace talks so although we will be heading into

a fresh start as far as the negotiation and bargaining is concerned but looking at or peace process for the last 18 months one can easily say the taliban have been on top 'd for at least for the time being ok we will continue of course to watch it with interest much talk about him great to talk to great to get your opinion again thank you so much the saudi crown prince is being sued accused of sending a group of hit men to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the reported target sadal jobbery filed the lawsuit in the united states in washington media there are reporting that interpol rejected a request from riyadh to extradite japery because it was quote politically motivated mike hanna has more. crown prince muhammad than solomon has painted in the white house but now in papers were full of 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 saad our 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 in france somebody notice character. basic 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 going back to europe for a 2nd screens for mccain one carlos has reportedly been staying in abu dhabi since he left spain on monday the spanish newspaper a.b.c. says carlos flew to the u.a.e. you in a private jet spain's courts are investigating him for money laundering and tax evasion tied to a business deal with saudi arabia let's bring in a given back as a professor of constitutional law at barcelona university marget back as welcome to the news are leaving the country in this way king or not is it legal where he is it's not the only. right now because he's not the curator for anything right now in a spain. catered. only could be charged in part

of the spanish supreme court a privilege to be only charge there so right now it's not only are illegal because there is the presidential not you know sent old or but he is a concession so politically it's not the good move because it will be who will poor poor all the. spanish crown why do you think he chose abu dabi well i think he didn't want to be traced when he was living like he 1st left to spain and then we knew about so maybe this is the reason then of course that we can be suspicious whereas he went to i would be for before going through all the many country public but clearly i cannot know which were the reasons that right up to the moment of his. he could not be charged for any reason

in a spanking he had thought of and nearly piano violently so he had all these protection but he wasn't happy to anymore the only perfect talky cop according to the law that gave him gave the crowd to his farm ok i'm going to draw our conversation to a close. for the moment which i apologize that the line to you in spain is coming and going and it's making it kind of a tough listen we will come back to you in a few minutes or hours if we possibly can. the president of democratic republic of congo is due to appeal against his 20 year prison sentence for fraud detail committee and 2 others were jailed in june after being convicted of embezzling more than $50000000.00 of public money his supporters are gathering to demand his release they say the case is politically motivated malcolm webb joins us live from nairobi malcolm what can we expect in court today.

supporters of marched to ward the mccullough high security prison in the capital kinshasa that is where mary's being detained that's where the court hearing is expected to take place those supporters reached a roadblock police have brought the road there right now they're standing there but as you said the supporters say this is a politically motivated conviction corruption is widespread in congo it's common but corruption trials are not and few people believe that this is really about holding anyone to account for stealing public funds the supporters say that it could possibly be because of an alliance between could marry and president felix to see katie who run together mary was backing she said katie in the last election just over one and a half years ago she said he was announced the winner part of their deal to to to run together was that camilla it was meant to have a chance to run at the president in the next election which is in do you in 2023 so

people believe that this is an attempt by president kennedy to try and stop somebody taking over from him in just a few years time but this all comes on a greater power struggle which is happening in congo at the moment between president kennedy and the former president joseph kabila now when he was announced the winner of that election just over one and a half years ago documents were leaked which showed the election was rigged and his announcement as the winner was seen widely seen as part of a deal between him and outgoing president joe. could be or was intended to keep could be the most powerful man in congo how their fragile alliance has come under greater strain in recent months this is also part of what's going on behind the scenes at the moment as well now today the court hearing i mean congress judiciary is widely criticized for lacking independence so if there is any outcome that will tell us rather more about what's going on in terms of the much nations behind the

scenes to mean the most powerful political figures in congress. thank you very much malcolm we're reporting from nairobi. former finance minister has been charged with corruption in pleaded not guilty to demanding a 10 percent cut from $1500000000.00 infrastructure project he was part of the cabinet took over in 20 after the former prime minister najib razak was ousted because of a separate corruption case were sentenced to 12 years in prison last week thousands of other russians have taken part in a burned 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 the president alexander lukashenko steadfast in reports from minsk. ignoring a government ban they shouted leave look at shanghai we will win thousands of supporters of opposition leaders 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. do not hear anymore so all we have less fear 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 told a covert 19 crisis of psychosis despite thousands polling ill. has been forced to round the people from all walks of life all ages have gathered here risking arrest they are. the authorities had banned 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 will happen for sure on 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. mauritania's prime minister ismail. and his government have stepped down president mohamed replace the leader with a veteran public administrator didn't give a reason for. his resignation but he is under parliamentary investigation over allegations of corruption the leaders of 2 west african nations are expected to run for controversial 3rd terms in october in ivory coast the president alison ouattara

formally accepted the ruling party's nomination on thursday but his opponents say it violates the constitution watera has governed since 2011 and said he would not run again but his preferred successor died in july zimbabwe's high court has dismissed an appeal from the journalist hope for bail you know who was arrested last month and charged with incitement ahead of anti-government protests a magistrate denied bail for him and the opposition politician jacob. prompting the appeal the president emerson and gaga has been accused of cracking down on dissent as calls grow for his resignation. from harare. after more than 2 weeks in detention felines jealous hope what's been going on was denied bail easy keys of using social media to encourage people to protest over the economy and corruption in government opposition to the jayco god of roma is still behind bars he's accused of organizing last week's anti-government protests his bail ruling is

on friday human rights lawyers say the bodies government is trying to silence voices of dissent what happens in zimbabwe how those rules say they're fighting corruption. are walking the streets with the beach in their pockets and those saying well you should be seen to be fighting corruption a getting more and more basic you to i think everybody knows that the guilty ones are walking the streets and the innocent ones i've being exposed to for victim to prison human rights groups say they want the regional body set and the african union to publicly speak out against what they say is an increase in the ricin abuses in zimbabwe the president emerson and i will say is there is no crisis in the country he says doc forces inside and outside of the baba trying to undermine his government and he says he's going to flush those elements out he blames the reason why standing to turn around the economy on sanctions imposed by the european

union and the united states on hears of drought and other coronavirus pandemic and government officials deny allegations of human rights abuses still to come here on al-jazeera breaking point for this goal for the 1st major since the pandemic that's coming up with peter in sport when we come back.

from. before we bring you the sports news with my colleague peter stammered let's just

get your cross the very latest developing aspect to what's going on in beirut in the aftermath of the events of tuesday 154 people 5000 injured 300000 homeless in a country with a terrible appalling back story anyway well in the last few minutes the lebanese president has said according to the reuters news agency the cause of the blast is still unknown and he's also being quoted as saying there is a possibility of external interference via a rocket bomb or other act that's the presidential office being quoted by the reuter news agency if you've been following the story and of course everyone has you will know that very quickly the local authorities the local investigators zeroed in on the way that it had been a store for ammonium nitrate in effect highly combustible fertilizer very dangerous it had been stored on that the location for at least 6 years and somebody someplace or a group of people someplace had got round all the permits all the legislation covering

the storage of such a dangerous substance donald trump the u.s. president 36 hours ago kind of doubled down on what he'd said earlier saying it had been quotes bomb attack he then moderated that and stepped back from that as did the u.s. defense secretary mark esper saying we don't know that nobody knows yet but we're now hearing from the lebanese president mr saying the blast cause is still unknown and there is a possibility of external interference via a rocket bomb or other act we'll get more on that for you just as soon as we can. as promised time for sport is peter peter thank you so much jason day and brandon todd holder one stroke lead going into the 2nd round of golds p.g.a. championship on friday defending champion brooks kepcher go to bed for a 3rd straight victory off to a solid start to join together of scares the action. 13 months have gone by without

a major because of the coronavirus pandemic australian jason day says he'd spent that time soul searching after losing confidence in his game and it paid off the 2015 champion finish the opening round at the top of the leaderboard alongside brendan todd's on 5 under par i finally had enough of you know feeling sorry for myself and it's very easy to do that especially in this game because it is so mentally tough you can stop blaming everything else but yourself and. sometimes just go prepare something to move on you know defending champion brooks kepcher is hoping to move on to a 3rd straight title at the p.g.a. championship he's in a group of 9 players just a stroke behind the leaders while tiger woods is 3 shots off the pace playing in just his 2nd p.g.a. tour event since february the 15 time major champion struggled off the tee but a longer potter got him out of trouble you know most of the guys on the champions tour have gone along a potters' or they gone older because you know easier to bend over her and not bend

over and so this part is a little longer and that i've been able to spend a little more time putting. but it was a card that let bryson to shambo down on the 7th the world number 7 he's put on 9 kilos of muscle over the last 6 months accidently snapped his driver into on the team he'll return with a replacement on friday just 3 strikes back joining us are oscar al-jazeera. mexican formula one driver sergio perez will not race at this weekend's 70th anniversary grand prix after returning another positive coronavirus test on thursday he's racing point team said that english health officials were satisfied parries had completed his quarantine but despite feeling well a test was carried out before he could return to the paddock which showed he was still carrying the virus the team has again drafted in former driver nicole holcomb berg as a replacement the german stood in for paris at last week's british grand prix but failed to start the race because of car trouble be

a bad day for racing point all round they've also been fined $470000.00 and docked 15 points after the sport's governing body the f.i.a. ruled they had copied part of last year's miss avies cart follows a protest from rivals ran a race in point can still appeal after a nearly 5 month break because of the coronavirus the european champions league returns on friday recalled 13 times when israel madrid travel to manchester city rail have it all to do that $21.00 down after the 1st leg and welsh forward gareth bale is not in the match day squad coach than the incident only explanation is that bale does not want to play no one on the west because i'm not going to explain many things have been said but this is a matter between coach and player that should be clear it's a personal conversation the only thing i can tell you is that he would prefer not to play in this match nothing else the rest is between him and myself. meanwhile italian champions eventis trail on one knows they host the french side in the 2nd

leg on friday the winners of both of these last 16 games will advance to the single a quarter finals in the portuguese capital lisbon. orlando said he had qualified for the m.l.s. is back tournament final of the a 31 win over minnesota united on thursday former manchester united midfielder nanny school to 1st off goals to handle landed the advantage at disney world and despite minnesota pulling one back with 7 minutes to go benji michel put the result beyond doubt in the closing seconds orlando will play the portland timbers on tuesday in the final. the n.b.a. is also at disney world where the league season resumed in a bubble of coronavirus and force to break the mold walky bucs clinched top spot in the eastern conference on thursday but they had to do it the hard way milwaukee was 6849 down against the miami heat at one stage but you had a sense of the compo and chris middleton's 33 points each as the bucs recovered to win 13116 of the 7 st louis cardinals players tested

positive for corona virus their manager insists it was not because these players were breaking any safety protocols that came just days after the miami marlins games canceled because of several covered $1000.00 cases in their squad for the atlanta braves took social distancing to another level after they $43.00 when ever the toronto blue jays non-contact celebrations for atlanta who are 2nd in the national league east in ice hockey the n.h.l. because grief flames are through to the stanley cup playoffs on thursday they face the winnipeg jets in edmonton it was game 4 of a best of 5 series but the flames were made a 5th game calgary sealing the series with a 4 nothing when. cricketers have some work to do to catch pakistan in the 1st test in manchester the hosts continued to trail on day 3 england are now 106 for 4. most false news later peter peter thanks very much lots more news on the web site

it's always there for you the address al jazeera dot com so he'll is in the seat at the top of the hour i suspect we'll be getting more on those comments from mr you and out of beirut i will see you have another new stuff like. i care about how the u.s. engages with the growth of the world we're willing and fit in taking you into a place you might not visit otherwise and feel that you were there frank assessments seeing that. there's. life being served is what's an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of

a breakdown many calls of the old will meet region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy he does nothing to preserve the interest of the if you people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. colvin daintiness see the war of words escalate between the u.s. and china i'll challenge u.s. general robert spaulding and british diplomat and author 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 to match the muslim proposals we need a strict vetting process is the tide finally turning against beijing we have a china centric world and then a world which is not china centric head to head on out his iraq 'd. searching through the rubble of lebanon support disaster the u.n. calls the situation in beirut really dire the people call for political change. welcome to the program sri lanka's governing party gets the victory it was looking for a majority for the rajapaksa brothers to push through sweeping constitutional changes

. also the number of kind of virus cases in india hits 2000000 as it struggles to bring the pandemic under control. and trying to.