and i. predict. 0. point 0 there i missed on the attack and this is the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes lebanon's president raises the possibility of a rocket attack to choose days blast as an angry public blames political divisions and corruption. the u.s. imposes sanctions on hong kong me to carry lamb and 10 other officials. a big electoral win for the rajapaksa brothers cements their power and sri lanka and their plan to change the constitution. and militias battles a huge oil spill from

a japanese ship that ran aground near the island of greenpeace is warning of devastating consequences. if you disturb it with your sports jason day she is the leader of gold soused major. the p.g.a. championship. now lebanon's president has raised the possibility of external interference and she has days porque last in beirut michel aoun addressed the nation just a short time ago vowing an investigation into whether the blast was caused by negligence an accident or even a rocket or bomb but the government is facing widespread anger amid accusations of mismanagement and corruption 157 people have now been confirmed dead but it smith reports from beirut. or on the streets of beirut.

sweeping clearing digging. they're filling the gap left by the state. which is conspicuous by its absence. we had an i.t. company here times were tough before tuesday's explosion now she says she can't see any future here. i am in. los angeles. i see i'm 30. and both come to me from my 25 years. i work here i'll fight this is the 1st time i. i see something like that. lebanon's president michel aoun says an investigation into the explosion will look at whether it was caused by negligence or external interference through a rocket or bomb or other act whatever it was in beirut they want to know why 2700

tons of ammonium nitrate was stored in an urban area. when the ammonium nitrate ignited the shock wave instantly crossed the city leaving beirut looking like a place but after just 5 seconds has suffered from years of conflict. frustration and anger boiled over on thursday night and there were some small protests near lebanon's parliament. but most people here have been focused on cleaning up for now . the government says reconstruction costs will run to at least $15000000000.00. this is a country that was already on its knees because of a deep economic crisis and a currency that has lost 80 percent of its value in less than a year we don't have a government to look after us and doing the least either we donate food oaklawn or blood even our abutment. we're trying to see people if they need help within our

street that's the least we can do the government is in capital and capable of helping us so we the people are coming here to do to help are our comrades and love and on and we're coming from the north all of us were like 78 people were coming from 90 kilometers north north of beirut and we're here just to stand by the people the blast has left at least 300000 people homeless many will rely on relatives or friends to take them in. more than 150 people have been killed and there are many missing foreign search teams are leading the delicate task of trying to find survivors under the rubble. more than 5000 people have been injured. 19 people have been arrested in the investigation into the warehouse explosion including the beirut port manager but for many in this city the finger of blame is pointed at the very top of government. bernard smith al-jazeera favorites well

let's not take a listen to just one president michel aoun had to say. this accident is a wakeup call as i said it could be an act of negligence all we have another possibility it could be a rocket attack or a bomb attack i personally requested from the french president if they were in possession of any aerial footage to kindly provide us with it in order to identify any aerial attack or missile attack if any at all we can now speak to the correspondence and acosta who's on the ground in beirut for us then and we've already seen so much anger over the last few days directed at the government by those who feel they've been abandoned betrayed we just saw some of that in bennett story i imagine there are incredulous now about the president's insinuations. oh yes lebanese authorities doing their best to try to convince the public that they're serious about this investigation that it will be transparent and that it will be swift the president saying that they're not ruling out any option this

could be negligence this could be an accident even raising the possibility that this could be a rocket or a bomb attack it's not clear if the authorities do have any information that this indeed was an attack but since the beginning investigators said what happened was there was a fire in one of the warehouses and firefighters were called in to try to put off put out the flames and that fire spread to warehouse 12 were tons of explosive highly explosive material was stored what the lebanese people want answers to is how that this material into the country who is responsible for storing it for so many years but they have no faith in those in power because the committee that was formed by the government to investigate this disaster is made up of security officials and politicians people that should be questioned not those not them you know carrying out the questioning. you know we are also right now i believe hearing from the leader of hezbollah hassan nasrallah and he does seem to be suggesting

that right now this is an opportunity for change what does that mean for the leadership. well hezbollah this is a lebanese armed group the only lebanese group that remained armed since the end of the civil war it also controls political power in lebanon it controls the government and parliament along with its allies but it is also under u.s. sanctions the west and the arab league they consider it a terrorist organization and many believe the very fact that hezbollah in many ways controls political power it has isolated the lebanese government the lebanese government has very little friends hezbollah is in a very very difficult position he went out of his way to tell the lebanese public this warehouse the explosive material does not belong to the group we are not in control of the ports because many believe that the very fact that hezbollah wield so much influence in the states it is able to smuggle in weapons either through the poor it's either through the airport or either along the borders with syria there

are a lot of illegal smuggling routes along that border so hezbollah really is under a lot of pressure from the international community the international community is conditioning aid to reform structural reforms in the state but some of the reforms will mean hezbollah weakening its hold of the state so that is why he's in a very difficult position he will be accused of holding this country hostage and running the economy in the ground not allowing much needed international assistance to come in if his group is it doesn't cave in to the demands of the international community and then a year on the streets there right now we are now 3 days and from this blast just how to rescue operations going. well to my right in the distance is a beirut port that was what remains of the grain silo close to it was the warehouse that that stored explosive material of the beirut port totally destroyed search operations are continuing we understand international teams are on the ground and

they have managed to retrieve 4 bodies from underneath the rubble and as time passes really the hope of finding any survivors become less likely and to my right as you can see the clean up operation is continuing it is the people who are sweeping the streets it is the people who are cleaning the debris there's a lot of anger people do not know how they are going to continue they've lost their homes they've lost their shops their livelihoods of people were already poor people were struggling unemployment was on the rise the local currency devalued 80 percent and this is a cash strapped government who is unable to help these people and that's why the role of the international community is so important but those in power are afraid of internationalizing this crisis because they believe the international community will exploit the situation in order to weaken their hold on power so the lebanese

again caught in the middle really of a power struggle much bigger. a power struggle a regional and international power struggle because some believe it is costly caught between the u.s. and iranian conflict by the very presence that hezbollah you know holds military and political power in this country need a very complicated situations and that our correspondent on the ground in beirut thank you very much. poorer you could be in is a lebanese m.p. and also a member of the opposition coalition she says president michel aoun is only paying lip service and it's time for the entire government to. beirut needs this government to go away and to lead this country not only the government the government is representing. a small part of the political system it's the political parties we need to say to step out and say we have created you have failed to

succumb to the mercenaries ruling this country needs to stay in their homes right now needs to be held accountable and we need to have early elections as soon as possible and go and vote for a new put it if it got in the matter of what they should vote for independence or vote for the opposition but we cannot continue it was the same but it's just that it's been ruling this country for years and years and they take us from failure to another faith in this country even before this huge blast. it's already we have spent like $300000000000.00 on infrastructure christiane but that. $300000000000.00 on a tiny country and nothing was done nothing was it based on all the money they stole a bonus money in their. and. everyone

knows. everyone has that in mind that the good ones the good ones it's the other side. we are one unit you. live in the city. goes by. well moving on now and the u.s. is imposing sanctions against 11 officials from mainland china and hong kong including the territories leader kerry lamb trump signed an executive order last month seeking to punish china of a sweeping national security know that it's imposed in hong kong now beijing insists the door is needed to criminalize acts of secession subversion and terrorism but critics say it's being used to silence dissent of more now let's go live to our white house correspondent committee how that can be i know this has happened very recently just what do we know at this stage about how these sanctions might be rolled out. well what we know is that they haven't been put in place by the treasury department so the treasury secretary steven you should saying that

essentially this is yet another tool that this administration is going to use to target those that they believe are undermining the tother me. the hong kong so many of those individuals those 11 individuals including the chief executive carry they will have any u.s. property or assets that they have in the united states frozen now we know that kerry left has scoffed at the suggestion say she doesn't have any assets here but. we know that often the case is that there is a very wide ranging. when it comes to financial institutions dispersement to a fund so perhaps while she can scoff at this this may not be the case so that's how it will be carried out again it is very clear is that this is in response to that sweeping national security law that was put in place that the u.s. is standing in strong opposition to say the standing with the people of hong kong

kimberly also relations between beijing and washington haven't exactly been rosy where does all of this leave that now especially heading towards the election in november. there's no question that much of this is politically motivated but at the same time the u.s. president has always taken a very strong stance against china from 2016 he said to rebalance the trade relationship but while things were moving in the right direction there are things took a turn once cope with 19 was unleashed on the world the united states blaming china for that the u.s. president saying in fact that china concealed the virus so what we've seen since then is a string of punitive actions that have been taken against china i mean just yesterday we had these sweeping restrictions on the chinese social media networks to talk we chat that was done through executive order so long list bear with me because the same day yesterday there was an executive order that now the u.s.

government can only buy drugs from u.s. companies and previously a lot of that was coming from china the united states has rejected the territorial claims of china in the south china sea they've ended the special preferential trading status of hong kong because they say china was benefiting from that and they've also say top members of the chinese communist party for the treatment of chinese muslims so this is just another in a string of punitive actions that are being taken the u.s. secretary of state in just the last hour releasing a statement saying beijing has made it clear hong kong will never enjoy the high degree of autonomy that beijing has promised as a result that is why this action is being taken a white house correspondent can be how can they with all the nations thank you very much campbell. well as candy was just saying there is also tension between the u.s. and china over the battle of some very popular chinese social media apps now beijing is accusing washington of using national security as an excuse to suppress

foreign firms on thursday president issued an executive order to block tech talk and which out of $45.00 days a trainee reports from the chinese capital. job news videos have 1400000 followers on video sharing. the chinese version of talks. the 25 year old uses the app every day and isn't surprised it's become so popular in the us all to the washer we're very proud of anything that originated in china is not just a video sharing platform it's an example of chinese in january. she's a loved by donald trump's executive order to bad tick tocks use there unless the app to sold to an american company. i'm not sure how the company would develop if the owner changes i believe every company has this also if you replace that something the core will be lost the u.s.

government says it's cracking down on chinese apps which it says spread propaganda and pose a security risk to americans beijing says the move is a pretext for suppressing chinese tech companies move on you when it's all over the relevant u.s. approach has no fracture basis at all it's clearly malicious smearing on a political many people the point of it all is to maintain the ovaries high tech industry. doesn't tick tocks parent company is in talks to sell the app to microsoft washington has given it 45 days to confirm the sale tick-tock denies sharing data with the communist party and is threatening legal action against the us government it isn't the only chinese in the firing line messenger we chat which has $1.00. the news is wide is also facing a ban the banning of which that is likely to cause problems for chinese users and businesses dealing with china from the us here the platform is more than

a social media it's used to buy products invest in shares travel and even check a person's covert 19 health status washington is expanding its so-called clean network initiative which aims to root out major chinese tech products from the u.s. system analysts say the move is part of donald trump's tough on china campaign ahead of the u.s. election in november. for the master chinese people especially those who have very fond memories of the us this came as a surprise and many people are pissed off because it just seems that chinese people chinese companies are bullied in a way i don't think is a good sign because we have seen the anti china sentiment going on around the world the chinese government is urging the u.s. to back the move or face retaliation trump executive order deep in the digital divide between china and the u.s. adding to diplomatic tensions and a growing list of disagreements over geopolitics and trade treaty you.

well there is plenty more ahead here this news hour including the lines for the jobless are getting longer in cities around the wild we take a look at the global unemployment crisis next and formula one soldier perez won't race this week after testing positive again for the crowd a virus that's coming up with peace at least for. now sri lanka's ruling party has secured a landslide win and parliamentary elections cementing the power of the rajapaksa brothers the sri lanka people's front is led by god and the hindu rajapaksa who serve as president and prime minister along with their allies it is secured a 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to make sweeping changes to the constitution a parliament is an expected to convene for another 2 weeks correspondent often and

as has moved from the capital colombo. we're waiting to hear sort of details of how the rajapaksa want to take this forward north to 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 present go out of the 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's his kind of mandate and program that he put forward for his presidential bid and that this government is taking forward. well moving on now to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and unemployment is still above 10 percent in the united states the government has released its figures for july a showing that it dropped from 11 point one percent in june but millions of people are still without jobs because of this pandemic and a stalemate in congress is holding up benefits republicans and democrats are at odds over a new emergency package after federal payments to keep people afloat expired john hendren reports from chicago. for more than 30000000 unemployed americans warm

summer days fade to sleepless nights i never anticipated being on unemployment period i think that that was never something that i thought would happen to me in my life among the newly unemployed since march is sira guard who lost a human resources job in fears losing her identity what's at stake for my family is . being able to stay who we are being able to maintain the life that we have when u.s. job losses begin to accelerate dramatically early in the cove in crisis congress took the unusual step of creating a 600 dollar weekly subsidy for the jobless in addition to state unemployment insurance that averages a little over $300.00 but that funding expired last week. since the coronavirus shut down much of the united states in march the u.s. economy has shrunk by one 3rd the fastest drop in u.s. history according to a new study by the associated press and the university of chicago's national

opinion research center about half of americans believe the jobs that have disappeared are gone forever. as congress debates renewing jobless payments the virus is resurging spreading to tens of thousands more americans every day this thing is coming back around and it's traveling from other states and if we had gotten it under control earlier we might not be in this position right now as washington struggles to respond to the virus and the unemployment crisis americans face insolvency and hunger thousands of them hourly at this los angeles food bank alone when covert happened i couldn't there was no i had no money no money and now for millions coping with unemployment often for the 1st time dwindling hope john hendren al jazeera chicago well this pandemic is also crippling south america's biggest economy leaving millions out of work brazil is facing its highest unemployment rate in 3 years between april and june nearly 9000000 people lost

their jobs monica yanick your reports from rio de janeiro. times are hard for p.c. like to be covert 1000 close the shop where she used to sell children's clothes and the beauty salon where her mother was a hairdresser. we couldn't work but still had to pay our rent and bills i started selling masks on the street and applied for government to march and see it every day millions of brazilians lined up in front of the banks to receive the $120.00 monthly handout which now benefits half of the population. the government will probably maintain it until the end of the year but wants to significantly reduce the amount for 17 year old denise was gone yes that means he'll have to beg for food. you know after my sister lost a job as

a cleaning lady we had to move from the slum to the streets of. according to the brazilian institute of geography and statistics from april to june the unemployment rate rose to 13 comma 3 percent the highest in the last 3 years economists modest said about a seattle says that this is just the tip of the iceberg to maintain it would mean besides the almost $30000000.00 unemployed there are an additional $5000000.00 who have stopped looking for a job in $40000000.00 and for more workers some businesses like this popular all you can eat restaurant have lower wages and prices but they still have many more waiters than customers here in rio de janeiro and them to be is usually a sight for sore eyes but these days it's yet another sign that brazil is facing its worst economic crisis ever thanks to colbert 1000. naïve the figure here too is one of hundreds of vendors peddling their goods on the

beach. i walk back and forth 10 kilometers a day selling grilled cheese but there's nobody to buy it and there's no indication that will change anytime soon even rios famous carnival that pumps millions of dollars into the economy is in danger of being postponed monica i'll just sirrah rio de janeiro. and now british airways has also begun letting thousands of workers go because of the impact of this pandemic and many of those who remain will face steep pay cuts and lose bit benefits thousands of employees that also expected to be dismissed british airways says more than $6000.00 workers have applied for voluntary redundancy the company lost more than $900000000.00 between april and june well we can now speak to kathy fine gold she's the director of the international department at the american federation of labor and congress of industrial canal is ations also known as the a.f.l.-cio that's the largest

federation of unions in the united states and she joins us now from washington d.c. cathy thank you for being with us i do want to ask you about the u.s. labor market but let's start with what's happening globally we've seen these huge job losses huge pay cuts from many of those who've managed to keep their jobs is there any kind of recourse for workers here. well absolutely i mean workers are trying their best to you know and the labor movement is working in europe you just talked about what's happening with british airways they're the unions are are pushing back against these layoffs that are happening they're working with the european commission to shape policy short term work arrangements so the labor movement is really active in cheap policies to protect workers but were too many companies are taking advantage of because of it 19 to. weaken the contracts that negotiate with unions and to really shed way too many of their workers kathy during

this pandemic we've also seen the converse i guess people being forced to walk as well as workers being rounded up for protesting about their conditions in bangladesh india the maldives has there been a crackdown by with already has to get that sense. absolutely we are seeing in the garment supply chain in particular yesterday there was a report released showing how many of the major brands produced in countries like me and mark bangladesh in cambodia the suppliers are using this opportunity to fire workers especially workers who've been speaking out about the lack of health and safety protection in these factories the lack of the wages that are owed to them so this is a real crisis it's really important that major companies respect worker rights make sure the respect in union contracts ensure there are state workplaces for workers cathy moving now to the u.s. how should i put it less bad news this month when it comes to jobs numbers i mean these figures are still huge now when you look at the small recovery because of

reopening as and then that coupled with the ongoing spread that we're seeing of the virus where do you see the trajectory going from here i would say workers are on a cliff as we did as we stated a friday we're looking towards congress we're looking to the republicans to respond to. that was the proposal put forward by the house over 80 days ago that was going to extend some of the unemployment benefits really address some of the health and safety concerns deal with our aviation industry right now there is no answer for working people and working people are frightened you have just covered stories from around the world when american workers are in the same situation they're going back to unsafe workplaces we have no national standards for health and safety protection so it's a process in this country and workers are free will you talk about workplace protection i do want to ask you about that because there's been so much talk during

this pandemic of essential wacko's the people who are working meat packing plants delivering groceries have been at more risk of catching the virus and who have caught the virus has there been enough protection for those sorts of industries throughout this period. absolutely not we're seeing it with the workers for example insta car workers the ones who are delivering groceries baby not have proper protection we saw workers being forced back in california for tests in the auto industry they did not have proper protections we have all of the people in the meat packing plants who didn't have proper protections so this is a serious issue to lift drivers you know we had we were giving protections only to their office worker but not to their drivers we must have one single standard that the federal government releases so that all workers know they can return to a safe workplace and that's not happening right now especially as we're seeing more and more states reopen cathy feingold there the director of the international department at the cia thank you for being with us on al-jazeera great to get your

thoughts kathy nick so much. law and breaking news now in india express flight with about 190 passengers from dubai has skidded off the runway while landing. and carola stays now the plane reportedly split into 3 local media reports say the pilot has died more than $100.00 passengers injured we are currently hearing there was no fire but we will be bringing you all the latest as we get it here on al-jazeera. now still ahead on this bus we'll tell you why beliefs in the u.s. as a portland according anti-racism demonstrators attempted madder at us and social distancing is given a new angle and major league baseball piece that will have that story in its.

ally one of the circulation is showing itself in the northern arabian sea this massive cloud has already given more than a month's worth of rain in caracas it's not a very wet city as pianist but as more rain to come and that drifts across the short waterway in towards amounts of mascots got a wet forecast as well as along with having the reef of course car went monsoon this year after say mascots forecast the next 2 days or sunday mondays showery then we drop again by tuesday beyond that of course the picture is a largely hoss and dry one as it is through most of north africa but the rains come a long way north maybe further north than is normal in most years is in the flooding in sudan and south sudan but little clumps of showers are the ones to watch now there's one here there's been one further west certainly on me for example and they keep disappearing off the west coast of africa against the

atlantic sometimes there's a one to develop into hearkens subtlest it's relatively quiet as it should be i mean down again you get winter storms running through the cape and the moment is a bit of a dog lee drift coming down to his cape town which suggests a bit of warmth is 23 in port elizabeth but cape town's weather is not warm and does turn shari. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the world. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. al-jazeera selects hunted. there's

a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and report on the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice and one of the child might that's never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think that's what i observe and does he ask the questions to people who should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. hello again i'm just on the attainder on that's from mind you about top stories this hour. lebanon's president says an investigation into the beirut airport

explosion look at whether it was caused by negligence an accident or external interference 19 porton government officials have been detained. the u.s. is imposing sanctions against hong kong's me to carry on and 10 other officials there and in mainland china donald trump signed an executive order 2 weeks ago to punish beijing over its national security law in hong kong. and an air india express flight with about 190 passengers and crew from dubai has skidded off the runway while landing in quake in carola state the painful should be split into 3 local media reports say the pilots with diet more than $100.00 passengers the engine. a japanese carrier that ran aground off the coast of morrison late july has started leaking oil the panama flag. has about $4000.00 tons of it on board abouts enough to threaten nearby valuable coral reefs are attempts to stabilize the ship

and pump out the oil failed because of rough seas but we can now speak to vets and paid more to he is an environmental engineer and a national griffen he joins us now from near that spill and black river. and as we've been saying the ship ran aground back in july it's been breaking up by my understanding into pieces since then why has nothing more been done to deal with this. you know that's a big question that you know having co-parenting marisha as. people turn it into stone only until yesterday that the solving approach salvaging operation started and the removal of the oil from the ship has started in fact the situation has deteriorated a lot since the 18th of july resulting in the ship cracking and being spilled in the logo and in moderation and that's a major issue currently in marriages all by my understanding is that this is an area that's been designated as a wetland of international importance it's also a near and marine park just how much damage could the sting. you know this is

unfortunate that this spill occurred in an area which is a site where you have to run saw internationally recognized wetlands you have the booby marine park which is of in excess of 35053 actors with 38 coral species and 72 face pieces you've got the point this new wetland which is subject to a lot of mangroves you've got right which is also a place where you have a lot of conservation so all the oil is now spilling into those very very sensitive areas frightening marine bad ever city in unique area and this would cause a lot of damage according to me to mine by the city interest really bad of a city in the area well beyond biodiversity people also depend on the state after their livelihoods what could be the impact on then. the impact will not only be taken ecological it will equally be economical because many people who are their livelihoods from the fish they fish in the area there are a lot of hotels also in the area who market which market this place sites in order

to get clients and you have a lot of people owning their livelihoods also on the land on the coastline where you have people dealing with tourists or people getting and visiting the marine park so that destruction is not only ecological it's also economical in terms of tourism attractiveness of marine around the world and there is also a health hazard in as much as you have also now the odor of the hydrocarbons which is now in the town of my book and also the risk of fire so it's a multiple crisis which is a karate occurring in motions and which is could causing a lot of trouble and he's a 1st of its kind in fact in moriches was that he met some numbers bassinet and by some estimates i believe russia's gets almost a quarter of its g.d.p. from tourism you're talking about the impact on hotels mean that the economy is or even passage by this pandemic could this damage that even further and does the government have the resources to deal with something like this right now. you know

the tourism sector is already crippled with the current situation and i think that this episode which is affecting a large part of the priest timelike ruins in the southeast of moshe's is just going to nail down again the sector and bring it to 2 to rick and that's in fact the current situation and it's going to have affect a lot the tourism sector and maybe put it in an end in specially in this part of the area because if there is no fish to see if there is no tourism activity ochre ring in this part of the island all the hotels would lose their livelihoods so i think that's also a major issue vasant to pay much of an environmental engineer and i shall give a speaking to us from russia great to get your thoughts and your insight thanks for being with us on al-jazeera vassal thank you very much. now about $75.00 residents and tourists and it is a austin valley have been relocated after warnings that a huge portion of a month long last year as at risk of collapse the plan considered last year so it's

now today about 2800 meters and is roughly the size of a large building a recent heat wave has created a layer of water under the ice causing it to slide about 80 centimeters a day experts say this means that could soon break apart police have set up roadblocks to prevent people from entering that area now a belgian court has rejected a demand by spain to extradite a high ranking politician from the region of catalonia former culture minister louis pre-guess one of several catalan politicians who went into exile in belgium over fears of being prosecuted for their roles and holding an independence referendum it's a setback for spain's attempts to return politicians to face trial over this is session as a vote that spain continues to insist was illegal and protesters who targeted a police precinct in the u.s. city of portland have been labeled attempted murder is police accuse demonstrators of trying to set fire to the building while people with still inside rallies

against police brutality and racism have been held in the city now for more than 2 months some of them have turned violent. when you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people that you have intentionally trapped inside and you are not demonstrating you were attempting to commit murder this is not the 1st time that people have tried to set fire to city building with people intentionally trapped inside. rescue teams have recovered the bodies of at least 12 people killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in southern india crews are working to free 70 others thought to be buried on the mound in their homes on a tip foundation and carola state flooding caused power lines to snap and washed away a bridge in the area too and meteorologists are warning more rain is on the way while there are also growing fears that north korea could be facing a hunger crisis after flooding there destroyed crops days of heavy rain on the

korean peninsula have left dozens of houses and farmland underwater during harvest season north korean leader kim jong un ordered officials to provide food and shelter for thousands who've lost their homes no casualties have been reported the governing party in guinea has asked president alpha condé to seek a 3rd term as follows months of protests against extending the 82 year olds term in office and after weeks of speculation ivory coast's president alassane ouattara has announced that he too is seeking a 3rd term amid interest reports. that i am in effect to cain did it in the presidential election of october 31st 2020 and it also meant that many believe will have serious repercussions but for some the declaration was not completely unexpected what former prime minister about the good of what sort of student success and suddenly died would you like 8 the ivory coast of the ruling

party were thrown into political uncertainty in offices trying to jam president water said although you plan to retire after 2 terms the death of our body going to bali 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 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 but their leader would 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 have 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 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 a degenerate leader of a country is also set to run in this 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

to change the constitution and 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 turmoil but the priest al jazeera now the number of corona virus infections in africa has passed 1000000 the world health organization is warning the surge could overwhelm hospitals now south africa accounts for more than half of all the cases across the continent and critics there say government corruption has had the country's response after minimal reports from johannesburg. south africa's public health sector has for years been overwhelmed and now with a global pandemic infecting more than 500000 people here public hospitals are under more pressure.

more than $24000.00 health workers have contracted kovac $1181.00 have died since march unions and workers say corruption is contributing to push service delivery and is putting lives at risk while the government's given contracts to service providers for personal protective equipment or p.p. e the prices have been inflated in other instances people has not been delivered at all well contracts have been given to companies and people connected to the government and the ruling african national congress party.

presidents a little more force i know we can use that as promised to deal with the croft corruption during a national disaster is a particularly heinous type of crime those found to have broken the law to enrich themselves through this crisis will not get to enjoy the spoils regardless of who they are with whom they may be connected but drum up was as chief spokeswoman is embroiled in a scandal involving her husband tendencies a way he's companies been accused of winning a $7000000.00 contract to supply p. p. e. through his political connections decodes taken special leave and she and her husband deny breaking any laws the province of halting stop health official bundle a must to go and his wife to have. implicated when the 1st infections were recorded back in march the government declared a state of disaster which meant that the normal tender procedure for government contracts was abandoned within days of the announcement

a number of questionable contracts were awarded now the finance minister tetum but when he says the process has to be more transparent a government agency the special investigative unit says $102.00 companies know how to get a loan and investigation while in other provinces officials have been suspended and investigations have begun but no one's yet been charged prosecuted corruption during this health crisis is estimated to have cost the country more than $116000000.00 at a time when south africa is dealing with the 5th worst outbreak of culvert 19 in the world for me to miller al-jazeera johannesburg. now a reminder of the breaking news we are getting right now from india an air india express flight with more than 180 passengers and crew from dubai has skidded off the runway by landing in heavy rain in quake hoed in kara less days and the plane split into 2 but there was reportedly no fire local media reports say the pilot has

died more than $100.00 passengers are injured we will continue to bring you more on that story as we get it. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. breaking point and this golf fans may just sense the pandemic that's coming up with sports.

it is now time for sports and his piece in the style the thank you so much they're on the way on day 2 of gold's p.g.a. championship jason day and brandon told hold

a one stroke lead defending champ and brooks kept also goto to a solid start in round one here's john against roscoe with the action. 30 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 finished the opening round at the top of the leaderboard alongside brendan todd 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. you know sometimes just go pull your pants up and just move on 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 or potters are they gonna 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 has 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 for oscar al-jazeera. mexican formula one driver sergio perez will not race at this weekend's 70th anniversary grand prix of the returning another positive coronavirus test on thursday he's racing point team said their 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 it showed he was still carrying the virus the team has again drafted in former renault driver nicole holcomb berg as

a replacement the german stood in for paris after last week's british grand prix but failed to start the race because of car trouble. well it's been a bad day for racing point all around 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 car it follows a process from rivals renault racing point can still appeal but we now know there is postpone t 20 cricket world cup in australia will be delayed by 2 years until 2022 the tournament was thwarted by the pandemic but cannot be held next year because there was already another one planned in india which is still going ahead it's also been confirmed the women's 50 over world cup in new zealand has been moved from next year to 2022. pakistan's cricketers are building a 2nd innings lead on day 3 of their 1st taste against england pakistan or 33 for 2 that's an overall lead of 140 in manchester dutch cyclist fabby yakob son has woken

from his induced coma and his condition is described as good following his horrific crash on the tour of poland the 23 year old went into the barriers at the finish line on stage one of the collided with fellow dutchman dylan. who was disqualified and could face further sanctions for innovation has since apologized jakobsen underwent 5 hours of facial surgery police are investigating the crash the head of world football journey and from tino says the criminal investigation against him has damaged his reputation as well as their fee for the future presidents have written to all member associations claiming that the case was opened because of anonymous complaints about meetings he had with the swiss attorney general infant who will carry on in his role inserts the meetings were not secret or really go and hopes the facts emerge as trying hard to clean up his reputation in the wake of the

corruption that existed under the previous president sepp blatter. 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 it to one down after the 1st leg and welsh forward gareth bale is not in the match day squad coach than it seems the dens only explanation is that bale does not want to play. 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 you ventas trail leon one know as 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 league quarter finals in the portuguese capital lisbon. will lead a city of qualified for the m.l.s.

is back tournament final after a $31.00 win over minnesota united on thursday former manchester united midfielder nannies schooled to 1st half goals to handle end of the advantage it does he will just take a look at this one. yeah that's beautiful isn't it and despite minnesota 21 back with 7 minutes to go benji michelle foote the result beyond doubt in the closing seconds is easy if you like colin though will play the portland timbers on tuesday in the final. not a bad celebration either and the n.b.a. is also at disney world where the league season resumed in a bubble of to record a virus enforced break the movie box clinched top spot in the eastern conference on thursday but they had to do it the hard way well we're ok with 6849 down against the miami heat at one stage but you have a central city called paul and chris middleton school 33.3 each of the bucs recovered to win $15160.00. of the 7 st louis cardinals players tested positive for corona virus their manager insisted was not

because he's players were breaking any safety protocols that came just days after the miami marlins had games canceled because of several covered $1000.00 cases in their squad of the atlanta braves took social distancing to another level after they fall 3 winner of the toronto blue jays there it is non-contact celebrations for atlanta who are 2nd in the national league east. to more top tennis players have announced they will not play at this year's u.s. open in new york starting on august 31st well there were 5 alienists fit to alina and 7th ranked kiki persons have withdrawn over coronavirus fields will the one ashley bought he said last week she would not play at flushing meadows and maine's a world number 2 and defending champion rafa nadal has also pulled out that's what will leave it most sports news on the way again later in a 1000 thanks very much place that well that is it for me in a standard time for the best news amadan go way back in this chair in just a couple of minutes with more of

a dove just never last. kovan daintiness you know war of words escalate between the u.s. and china challenge us general robert spaulding and british diplomat and also kerry brown on whether the west is entering into a new cold war with china in a special edition of head to head you want to travel about on china for much of the muslim to point stock proposal we need a strict vetting process is to 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 another early

morning another ceremony to bed health workers by well. 29000 to cuban doctors and nurses working in 59 countries around the world has confirmed cases of coronavirus increase such as demand for cuban medics medical services at the on its main export while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the other's health system draw a different conclusion you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. because there are other people that need many people that is sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them riyad an image can change the way we see the womb if we had not seen this week with me talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created this moment for a fellow opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story but this play and it can cause for pretty intense people it

can forge narratives or rewrite through the listening post gives you the full picture on a jersey and. an india express passenger jet with 190 people onboard overshoots the runway and carolina at least 2 are dead dozens injured. there i missed on the attack a this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up lebanon's president raises the possibility of a rocket attack for tuesday's blast as an angry.