an apology for this appalling chapter in history. the apology on al-jazeera. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the playfield that others can off the fires are still going on the way they tell the story is what can make a difference. al-jazeera. hello you're watching the news hour live from london i'm maryam namazie coming up in the next 60 minutes. lebanese security forces clashed with protesters expressing their fury with the government after the explosion that devastated beirut. main opposition counters and better rusco is into hiding after 2

of her aides are among dozens of arrested ahead of a tense presidential election. and balloons are released in rio is the number of people killed by cove at 19 in brazil cost is 100000 baht the plaza still packed armley well into the sports news as you ventas waste no time in appointing a replacement for the sox manager margaret c.-o. sorry for the point it's the former player. who outside give a different ball of a club just a few days ago the full story coming up later this hour. have been hours of clashes in central beirut today where thousands of lebanese were out voicing their fury at the government and its role in tuesday's explosion police fired tear gas and live ammunition as some protesters threw stones and all of those stormed a number of government ministries one policeman died and dozens of people were

injured beirut residents are angry that they've been left to pick up the pieces of their shattered homes and neighborhoods using shovels and human chains with no help from the state and more m.p.'s have resigned from parliament in their own protest 3 m.p.'s from a christian opposition party announce their resignation at the funeral of one of their senior officials who died in the blast lebanon's prime minister has responded to the anger by calling for early elections algis. to reports now from beirut. they stood their ground in the face of power. relentless tear gas by security forces at times live ammunition. but protesters didn't leave too angry at a political class they blame for tuesday's blast that killed dozens and destroyed and damaged many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the authorities were aware

that thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the beirut port for years we have survived the explosion but part of all of us has died to be honest but what can we do i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all these people cannot so what can we do what they did was return to the streets they have been demanding a new leadership for months many were injured in running battles that lasted for hours but this time they say they won't be silenced they want justice and revenge for the victims of the explosion and believe a government led inquiry into the disaster won't hold senior officials accountable . we are not leaving if you go to them or us in this country and you know what the people always do things and we will fight we want revenge and all revenge is by putting all the political class either either on the huygens to see over there or in the dust but we want them out. protesters also storm 3 ministries state

institutions people say are run by corrupt politicians who they blame for draining the state's treasury they say they want the state and a competent government currently lebanon's institutions are controlled by political parties and there is a parallel state run by the iranian backed hezbollah the prime minister has sandip who took office early this year is now offering a way out of the crisis loom conclusion as making ability when you know we we cannot face these problems unless we have a really elections to elect a new politicians and a new parliament we need a new political elite and a new parliament we need to work together to overcome the stiff it will carry it we know and i know the people have questions about the catastrophe and how the government plans to handle it the catastrophe is way bigger than anyone could imagine the impact my stay forever. over. early elections have been one of the opposition's demands but there are concerns the sectarian based political system

and electoral law won't give independent candidates a chance. to early a little chill stood as a good step but i'm afraid that the political parties although they still have the power over the people and a soul about the system like i'm afraid that they will have just we will have the same people again i thought the 1st time central beirut turns into a battleground between the people and the establishment the struggle for change is not new the anger has been building for years many feel those in power caved in by proposing early elections the governing alliance is not just facing pressure from the street the state is nearly bankrupt and the international community won't help unless politicians fight state corruption for now many people here feel they won a round in what is likely to be a long battle. beirut. and he is one of the 3 m.p.'s who resigned earlier from the opposition christian party explained why i was

elected to make a change. in training with my. fellow. one of them in the cubicle and we've been trying to make this against this corrupted regime that has proven its failure we've been trying. this muscle. that is the result of. corruption. and. we decided. that. we need to be clear i guess the. morning. we. are joined now via skype from beirut by political activists and filmmaker. so some

of the images we've been seeing from beirut today it really looks as though that the center of the city was transformed into a battleground now how would you you out on the streets how would you describe the way people are feeling. even the hundreds of thousands so this amount of people in the streets who are angry at the whole establishment there is a very clear political message to all the people in power that something needs to be changed. there is a lot of anger of course this did was to get into the apartment building and that was the main focus of the protesters i was there 'd on the front lines we saw what happened we saw how do or how much violence. the protests were dealt with the we have more than $170.00 injured protesters.

we have people who have been shot in their eyes and in that had so many people are in the hospitals so there is so much neutrality. compared to also what we have witnessed as little itty during this whole week we have witnessed so much brutality from this corruption weeks the notion that happened. you're mentioning the response because we saw clashes between security forces and demonstrators with tear gas being deployed and the use of live ammunition and in some cases will will people be deterred by this or a determined to continue making their presence felt on the streets while the protests go on. i expect the protests to go on because the anger is not finished here we have the demands are not met the people are demanding for there's a commission and the holding accountable all of the political class that would have

sponsible for what happened and the resignation 1st because to be able to hold them accountable by law they need to resign because it's so complicated to be holding them accountable if they are still in office it's almost impossible we have not seen a minister put to trial in the last 20 years we have the same for parliament members or for presidents so for this to happen we need them for student zine for a certain kind of accountability to happen if it's going to happen and this is what the protesters are demanding. so their efforts i mean can you tell us about any efforts that are going on behind the scenes are you in touch with politicians about forming some sort of transitional government i mean if we are if we are to see a whole scale resignation across the board and of course it's not clear that that would happen but if that's your ideal scenario what would you have in its place are

you looking at is not for. as for the constitution there will be more for you elections can be whole can be even if the council of ministers is resigning so it's not something that will affect. actions if this is what you are going to go for so does that mean that print protest says like yourself satisfied with the suggestion today from prime minister has an idea that there should be early elections. well yes but at the same time who's going to be holding this election is this government who is totally biased for certain for certain political parties we know that in the past what happened is that elections were rigged rigged in so many ways. the people who were holding the elections were also. being members like 200 as candidates at the same time they made

a law that really suited them the most they bought votes they. intimidated people to vote for them and also we know that more than 51 percent of the people didn't vote because of all this. pressure scenario in the election so to have a really independent and independent election we need another government we need a government that really is independent from everyone. and also it should be was kind of. independent. committee to oversee the election because well who's overseeing the elections the ministers interior ministers and then to be a minister is also part of the political system that we are fighting against. so in a way what we hope for and what we would demand for at the beginning is having an

independent cabinet that would run this transitional period until we get an early election all right thank you for sharing your thoughts with us appreciatively sandburg really joining us there from beirut it well it's been estimated the blast cost $10.00 to $15000000000.00 worth of damage to the port and the wider area and its message been getting another perspective of the wreckage. it's not until you move away from the beirut shoreline that you get a real impression of the scale of the devastation just over my shoulder the orient queen boat that was capsized by the force of the blast and every building you see along the skyline has been impacted there isn't a single pane of glass left and damaged over there just on the other side is the remains of the grain silo and the grain silos. was most

of the grain supply for lebanon there is no strategic reserve and all around the grain silos the remains twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in their food included all the goats were destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd border but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. with the news hour live from london much more still ahead. protesters are back out in west jerusalem calling for israel's prime minister 6 to step down. afghanistan's highest consultative body recommends the government release $400.00 taliban prisoners but only if they promise not to return to fighting. and the controversial car being dubbed the pinkness sadie's creates

a big surprise in qualifying the sunday school no one grand prix. the main opposition candidate in belarus his election has gone into hiding in the past few hours after 2 of her top aides for the. by police so that lynette to kind of skye is running against the man who's been called europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko her supporters have been taking part in a car protest on the streets of the capital minsk making the opposition hand gesture out of their windows dozens of them were also arrested despite a show of support the president is expected to declare victory after the final day of polling on sunday. is running for his 6th term in office he's held the post for 26 years having changed the constitution to allow him to keep running and he's the favorite to win again and his 3 main opponents were all barred from running but

larry kudlow was forced to flee the country after security concerns. was arrested over bribery claims the blogger said a gate taken off skier was charged with preparing a grave breach of public order instead the opposition has united around taken off skase wife svetlana despite having no political experience she has drawn massive crowds to rallies and says she wants to return justice to the country well geezer step vos and spoke to her actually before she went into hiding and brings us this report now from minsk. election observation belorussian style. i. independent observers have not only been detained but also been barred from entering polling stations nonetheless they have found irregularities in the voting process that started on tuesday and will have its peak on sunday the 1st day of the

actions. 39 people go out in the evening protocol. mission said there where 'd 89 so they added 50 people is the president alexander lukashenko has been accused of stealing previous elections but this time he's facing an opposition on a scale has not witnessed before led by this woman 37 year olds but learn at the hand of sky she reluctantly decided to run for president after her husband a popular blogger was jailed suppose the elections were going to be free and free or how many percent of the vote would you get i suppose $6.00 to $5.00 said. he would be a big winner then. i would be yes who would. but the woman who attracted large crowds does not expect this to be the official

election result she has promised that if she becomes president the 1st thing she will do is call for free elections even if this doesn't happen now. of course elections will be. i don't think that he will. i don't know how can a person. country where people. softly speaking don't like him just. most of them. and. but will he go quietly. the fact of this guy has accused the opposition of trying to cause a bloodbath and russia of provoking violence but analysts say these accusations are made to hide the country's real problems. in the last 10 years they call them has gone down and society is not happy and basically society are united against look at

this by their ideological position of their values and their political priorities all of them think are the main obstacle for development. but as long as the president is still backed by the military and high ranking officials he believes look as shanker will remain in power the moment of truth for a look at shango will not be on election day but on the days after that if as announced large crowds protests what they believe will be another fraudulent election here at this square the thread the file and scanned them become reality a scenario most belorussians want to avoid step fasten al-jazeera menthe and other stories we're following anti-government protesters have rallied in the far east of russia for the 5th weekend in a row thousands of people gathered in her borowski on the border with china to voice their anger over the arrest of that popular governor daily demonstrations have been held peaking on weekends since ok for

a girl was detained and taken to the capital moscow is being held in connection with a murder investigation the protesters are saying that the arrest was politically motivated and they want him to either be freed or tried in their own city. a venezuelan court is sentenced to former u.s. soldiers to 20 years in prison for what authorities called an attempt to overthrow president dura the denman erin barry were found guilty of conspiracy terrorism and illicit weapons trafficking over the attempt to topple the government in may the men's lawyer says their legal team wasn't allowed in the courtroom during the proceedings a florida based security firm has claimed responsibility for the raid which left 8 people dead and dozens injured it a number of people have died of covert 19 and purcell has now passed 100000 according to a brazilian media consortium it's only the 2nd country to reach that tragic milestone after the united states activists have marked the moment with a striking event on rio's famous copacabana beach they set out 100 black crosses

and released a 1000 red balloons one for every 100 people who have died since may brazil has reported an average of a 1000 deaths a day from the pandemic but president. has consistently played down the crisis despite getting covert 19 him self that's a marker to say milwaukee is. the 100000 deaths milestone represents what brazil is to the world why we in 2nd place can we give to this question here we are only have one percent of the number of deaths 100000 where will this take us. i'm on a chaotic you joins us live now from rio de janeiro what's been the reaction there to the this milestone of 100000 deaths in brazil and it's likely to increase. well yes there are mixed feelings i mean the country is very divided president also matter has always also always downplayed the situation so of course those that saw

him tested positive for colvin and get well in a week believe what he says that it's just a small flu and that you know you can get over it and life must continue those that have the wost the family or friends 100000 which are many people they really feel the pain and people are wearing masks and everything but there's this mix feeling but if you talk to people almost 90 people know somebody that has had it that has survived or that has died and we went to a cemetery to see that. one time bus driver id shown that crash on the was one of brazil's 12000000 unemployed that is until the soaring death toll caused by the coronavirus pandemic landed him a job as a grave digger at the simple solve a cemetery on the outskirts of rio de janeiro. we had to recruit

30 undertakers to cope with the growing amount of boroughs and build a separate area just for infected bodies. and shun the works in the cove in 1900 designed especially for the victims of the virus. part is witnessing the farewell which is different from many other people want to say goodbye to their loved ones but we can't allow them to get near. brazil's cova death toll keeps growing in part because the government is encouraging brazilians not to stay home while failing to take measures to stop the virus from reaching even remote parts of the amazon. despite evidence to the contrary president. continues questioning the seriousness of the pandemic and scorns w.h.o. guidelines such as the need for widespread testing and using face masks as

a result many here are skeptical about the official number of deaths like leader dylon who does her morning exercises in front of the emblematic football stadium now converted into a field hospital you know. i never saw anyone coming in or out of this hospital so i don't know if this story was made up or if politicians have been using this pandemic to steal money this is one of the 5 field hospitals of rio de janeiro that are being dismantled some of them not even completed the state health secretary and his deputy are in jail for allegedly misusing the funds that were given to fight the covert 19 pandemic and the governor is about to be impeached on corruption charges. back at the cemetery 53 year old moyes says the colonel is about to be buried. his family is obliged to stay far

away almost unable to see the casket being sealed off some of the few from sympathetic to signal unfortunately my brother in law has just become more and more statistic buried in a 5 minute ceremony. gives the impression that nothing is going on but i think very good numbers of this are even higher than the official statistics and although the president and a 3rd of his cabinet have tested positive for corona virus critics say a deadly combination of corruption and a refusal to come from the pandemic head on will continue filling brazil's graveyards. so as the number of deaths continues to climb what's happening in in cities of people social distancing because we're seeing these images earlier of attacks restaurants and bars exactly well people are wearing masks where they're using alcohol all that but the

social distancing hat does not really happening a lot because they're opening bars on the outside people are sitting next to each other and without their masks because they have to eat of course also here on the beach we were just saying you're not allowed to sit on the sand you can go in and do outdoor sports but people sometimes are sitting too close together and not keeping the social distancing that they should and we should think about this because brazil hasn't reached its peak yet they're talking about the possibility of having 200000 deaths by october so that would be double of what exists now. thank you very much monica q in rio de janeiro. well under a bone is an infectious disease doctor who's been working in 3 different hospitals across brasilia he joins me now via skype what can you tell us about the situation in the conditions in the hospitals what have you been what have you been seeing

with your patience. well it's been terrible right now here in resilient the numbers are are rising. we started our lockdown 5 months ago with 6 cases and the governor it's decided to reopen this city right now when we are getting higher and higher in the curve with the peak of cases coming so. our ice use are full we have no place to put the patients for intensive care in this moment and it's getting really difficult right now what are you doing with those patients if you don't have the intensive care capacity for them we're actually right now we are being able to discharge some patients they're getting well to do it the ones who need i.c.u.

. i.c.u. beds but we're getting to a limit where we're probably going to need to share some materials as ventilators so. we're in to pick up the crisis right now and what about no surprise do you have a hospital beds and bottled particularly the ventilators for the more serious patients. well in the in the private sector yes we actually are doing well this for these supplies but in the public sector in the for loop poor part of the population we're having some constraints especially with drugs not with bags of ventilators right now it could come to a shorter ventilators but especially with jurors to sustain. the pressure of the patients. who said they the patients we're just speaking to our reporter an area

who is saying that the streets of pack there isn't much social distancing going on what are you seeing there in percentage in terms of well lockdown restrictions being eased do you see much social distancing there. there is no more social distance rhona now x.t.s. was started the lockdown. much earlier than we should after 3 months of everything closed people could not stand anymore and the the crisis was far away from its peak so for the last month everybody was going out. people do not stay at home anymore they're going to public places sometimes 2 parties getting crowded so social distance even is of far distance dream right now in brasilia and i mean how does that make you feel because you're

obviously on the front line you're treating patients is saying the lockdown started too early now people of bored with it and i mean there's also this fair about what . restrictions on law and lockdown will do and that it will be an economic calm. well from the public health point of view. it's it's getting harder and harder. being in the front line and see that the resources are being in our ending. it's been really sad we see people die because other people cannot stay at home so it's been really difficult. at the same time we're leaving the place here in brasilia it's not that big of a problem but around brasilia there are smaller series that depend on brasilia to survive and with

a lockdown that. has been so so so long the poor are getting poorer and at this time they could not stand anymore and need to go work and this is getting really difficult thank you very much dr appreciate your time and dr andre on joining us there from percent on cue. and with the news ally from london also ahead. president trump signs or does he says will help americans suffering financially but a quarter of a 1000000 bikers be the next infections freitas. residents in militias scramble to stop oil leaking into that pristine waters from a crown to chip. and then it's but we've got cricket cricket action as england pull off an unlikely victory against pakistan.

hello the plains he will halt on dry weather across much of europe the heat wave is still very much in place across most areas one of the thunderstorms again across the southeast in the last begins we can of the next couple of days and also the sunny skies of this bryson on the south coast of england bournemouth along the coast thousands of people flocking to the beaches same story of course as well across into france is fine if you can get with beach in the cool water of the city but this is what they've done in the town of she said of a cool sprinkling system but it has an even better idea had to vary it to the mountains and this is what greets you clear sunny skies 10 inches around 9 celsius plenty of snow plenty of ice that is what people are seeing me wild on is about in germany 33 celsius on sunday thank you want to london even hotter than last in paris will begin to see some scattered showers and thunderstorms that become a little bit more prevalent on monday generally it's really about the heat is

setting off a lot of these showers and thunderstorms and you can just see here by the amount of red just how warm it is these the time which is in london over the next 3 days still well above the average 32 expected on monday again against the average of 23 little bit cool out there all the chance i want to showers maybe a stray thunderstorm cinna story in paris it stays hot with a chance of scattered thunderstorms. in russia mixed martial arts didn't just pull it. if you bring fame fortune and power by folks one when he investigated on al-jazeera. every generation has a higher purpose. ours is. progress

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wounded in lebanon's capital during clashes between demonstrators and security forces thousands were voicing their fury at the government after tuesday's explosion in beirut prime minister says the only way out of the crisis is to hold early elections. and other headlines on the eve of his election the main opposition candidate has gone into hiding after 2 of our top aides were detained by police so that line a taken off sky is running against the man who's been called europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko. and the number of people who've died of covert 19 in brazil has now passed 100000 according to a brazilian media consortium activists mark the tragic milestone by releasing a 1000 red balloons on rio's copacabana beach. u.s. president donald trump has bypassed congress and signed for executive orders that he says will provide economic relief to millions of americans they include extending unemployment benefits at a low

a weekly amount as well as eviction protections and student loan relief trump signed your does after talks with congressional democrats broke down on friday he cues them of trying to load up the rescue bill with things that were not related to the coronavirus meanwhile hundreds of thousands of motorbike has from across the u.s. are descending on a small city in south dakota it's one of the largest gathering since the pandemic began a quarter of a 1000000 bikers are expected in sturgis which has a population of only $7000.00 for the a.t.f. annual motorcycle rally that's around half the usual attendance but it's still sparking fears of what's been called a super spider event south dakota has no restrictions on indoor events and no requirements to wear any mosques. well mike hanna joins us live now from washington 1st of all tell us what president trump did today. ok the context to this is that a major coronavirus relief bill was passed back in march but a number of those provisions expired at the end of last month with no agreement in

congress on what is going to replace it so now president trump has issued these 4 executive orders now these are dealing with a number of items the suspension of payroll taxes the hold on student loan programs and forcing a freeze on of victuals and also new unemployment benefit which ended at the end of july he is proposing $400.00 a month for unemployment benefit of this is what he had to say. under the cares act i proudly signed expanded unemployment benefits into law congressional democrats have stonewalled our efforts to extend this relief they even opposed measures that would give bonuses to workers returning to the job they were totally opposed to for this reason i'm taking action to provide an additional or an extra $400.00

per week of expanded benefits $400.00. right said the negotiations to reach a deal with democrats on that package of obviously broken down which is why it's doing this and is laying all the blame on the democrats for that. well once again let's put a context on this back in may the democrats in the house passed a relief bill designed to replace the one that was going to expire at the end of july the republicans in congress particularly in the senate actually continued to block at they didn't even discuss the elements of the bill for a long period of time the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell would not allow it to come to the senate floor in recent weeks there's been these ongoing negotiations to try and find some kind of compromise but there you have president trump saying that it was all the democrats' fault however one must take a look at some of the provisions for example the democrats wanted to use extend the unemployment benefit the $600.00 as it has been in recent months president trump

now in the executive order making it only $400.00 but there's a lot of controversial content to these executive orders which he continue to call bills which of course they are not because of bills of congress not executive order signed by a president but certainly for example the issue of payroll taxes which he wants to cancel this is something is we wanted to do for a period of time and there's been great opposition in congress not only from democrats to this particular issue mainly because those payroll taxes fund social security and medicare now it's rather clear where the money for those programs is going to come from should these taxes be suspended the issue for example of fictions that is something that congress would want to do all of these issues are actually acts that should be passed in congress and there are going to be legal actions without a doubt against several of these moves in particular the suspension of payroll

taxes all right thank you from washington mike hanna. mosque wiring will be compulsory in many outdoor areas in the french capital for monday after a spike in coded $1000.00 there the high and the high in southern tourists resort of central prey has also made compulsory in its busiest outdoor areas as well as cities including must say to lose and leave new restrictions in paris covered busy areas such as markets in the banks of the river saying but not major tourist attractions like the eiffel tower and the sean sea say hundreds of thousands of kenyans have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic government has put funding schemes in place to help the poorest but many say they fall in through the cracks there also accusations of corruption and mismanagement of government money catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. antonio chang has just received his weekly $10.00 payment from the government the money is

a lifeline to him and thousands of other kenyans in auburn areas who have lost their jobs because of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown measures. a chain is a casual labor in the western town of q. and has 3 children. under 500 we use 500 shillings for a banana hoping business so we don't use the other 500 to buy food but of other basic things. in another part of the town has a callow tells us this is a fast time she's receiving food since march when the 1st case of the disease was confirmed on advance i'm in no message to go alone i have only heard about the government money i have not seen it i've just received this food store from well wishers. national treasury has so far dispatched about a $100000000.00 with more on the way the money adds to an existing welfare program that helps the elderly oftens and the disabled while the $300000.00 people have

lost their jobs because of the pandemic government money is helping the poorest back to the fans are limited the number of those who need it is growing and some analysts are concerned about the lack of transparency on how it's being distributed i. worry about. the lack of transparency. or corruption and you've already started. to want to go. to new york to. march adapting their reports here that say much of the money sent to different government offices is being mismanaged through fraudulent procurement processes and inflated costs of medical equipment. we put this concerns to the treasury cabinet secretary giving money to those 2 issues that. even demand it. and how that money is if you know political. you know which is in.

all 'd of the markets you know succumbed to all of. this will be enormous you know the treasury secretary is expected to release and that the tional $500000000.00 soon to provide father assistance to those who need it many like her cattle were struggling to survive i hope in the money we'll get to them this time cathy zoi al jazeera i ruby now thousands of people have been out on the streets in israel again calling for the prime minister to stand down a bit outside benjamin netanyahu his residence in west jerusalem for several hours and they're now being dispersed by police these are live pictures obviously from west jerusalem the words your time is up for projected onto the side of a building anger at his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic is added to existing tensions caused by his impending trial over corruption charges.

founders there is how a force that was at the protests and says problems are stacking up for the embattled leader. all other very noisy very substantial protest here in west cirrus one just a few 100 meters from the prime minister's residence benjamin a residence just beyond the square behind me once again very much dominated it seems by the israeli political left we see the black flags of the pro-democracy had seen as you know movement and others good long been protesting against his premiership saying that he should resign because of the fact that he is on trial in 3 separate corruption cases but as well as that these are very much being fueled these protests by those who've been angered and disappointed by the government's performance in dealing with the coronavirus home damage away from what's happening on the street though it's worth noting there are other major political developments going on every week every sunday israeli government has a cabinet meeting it seems that this one could be canceled this sunday because of

a disagreement between the 2 sides the likud party of benjamin netanyahu and the blue and white party of benny gantz his former rival and also the prime minister they have been deep in argument over the passage of a budget that yahoo wants a one year budget to allow the free and potentially in calling fresh elections and staying in office up until those elections dance wants to see the deal they signed off on it being a 2 year budget giving him more security in himself taking office on time in the event been next year so this is only fueling which is already very rampant speculation that this coalition could break up and israel could be facing a forefront of election within months. now afghanistan's highest consultative body has recommended that the government release 400 taliban prisoners but only if they promise not to return to fighting the group of some 3200 leaders scholars and elders held what is called a lawyer jirga which is

a special assembly in the capital kabul the release of the prisoners is seen as the final hurdle before peace talks can begin between the government and the af and the taliban is out to president musharraf's gani to make the final decision. well the chairman of afghanistan's high council of national reconciliation abdullah abdullah says the majority were in favor of the release much oh there's you know we don't you know but i saw that none of the committees were against the release but they would different views and opinions about it some of them were saying that the release should be a precondition some of them were saying that a ceasefire should be the priority some of them were asking for local and international guarantees there were some individuals who was saying that with the release of 5100 prisoners the level of violence is still high they were against the release. hong kong and chinese officials have condemned the u.s. for imposing sanctions on the territories top leaders quoting the measures unreasonable and barbarous chief executive kerry lamb in the current and former

police chiefs are among 11 officials will have any u.s. assets frozen sarah clarke reports. the united states went directly to the top singling out hong kong chief executive kerry land and imposing sanctions on any american assets she has also targeted is hong kong's police chief chris tang his predecessor and other officials americans and u.s. businesses are banned from dealing with them the u.s. secretary of state said the sanctions target individuals responsible for imposing a national security law in hong kong might compare this is the sweeping legislation is unacceptable and cartels political freedom in the city pro-democracy activist joshua wall was quick to applaud the decision if tried for the world to realize that they need to reassess their foreign policy toehold call and try to do why the situation in hong kong with the escalate is high for the world those that were

caught the sanctions were prompted by president donald trump's executive order last month denouncing china's imposition of the law which criminalizes acts of suspicion terrorism and subversion hong kong's chief executive says the lower is crucial to restore order in the special administrative region where there's been months of political unrest carolan described the sanctions as despicable and barbarous and says the government will not be intimidated her response was echoed by commerce secretary i don't buy any sort of valid reason for this blatant if you're in on call affairs by phone country by i don't think this is necessary for the civilized man to do so china's response was also swift with his top official in hong kong ridiculing sanctions who are claiming who's also on the list says he doesn't have any assets in the united states sanctions are a wasted effort this latest round of sanctions is a dramatic escalation in tensions between beijing and the united states the hong

kong government hasn't ruled out targeting american companies and individuals. operating here that move could be nixed 0 o'clock al-jazeera hong kong a citizen that cleanup operation is underway in the richest where tons of fuel a leaking from a grounded ship into the island's pristine waters country has declared a state of environmental emergency and is appealing for help from france and its nearby territories and many sewer ports aereo and satellite photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. the japanese owned ball-carrier waka sheol ran aground late last month and began leaking its $4000.00 tons of fuel into the indian ocean all 20 crew were taken to shore but rough seas hampered attempts to stabilize the ship and pump the fuel off after declaring a state of environmental emergency prime minister pravin juggernaut appealed for

help from france he says islanders don't have the expertise to clean up the spill president emanuel qualm promised to send teams and equipment from the nearby french island off. while the government's waiting for french help to arrive some volunteers have started their own cleanup effort building sea booms with straw to soak up the spill. he says i'm still movies with we are here to see what we can save everyone here is trying to save what they can of our ocean which gives us so much and which supports us the border this is our heritage. who are going to see as your village we can see the situation is going to last this spill is affecting so many sectors tourism the economy ecology. it was some salons are offering free haircuts this weekend as hair can also be used to soak up oil. while 4000 tons of fuel may seem like

a relatively small amount compared to major oil leaks its impact on the riches is huge. islands are surrounded by some of the world's most valuable coral reefs and tourism is crucial to the economy the impact will not only be taken because logical appeal equally be economical because many people erode their livelihoods from the fish to fish in the area there are a lot of hotels also in the area who market which market these place runs are sites in order to get clients and you have a lot of people owning their livelihoods also on the land leader say is to 1st time the $1300000.00 islanders have been faced with an environmental crisis of this kind experts fear the ship could break up causing an even greater fuel leak and inflicting catastrophic damage to marine life at least 2 out to 0. concerns that a huge chunk of glass here could collapse in the italian alps of easing slightly residents of ca my only

a mile long where evacuated from their homes on friday after experts want a 500000 cubic meter block of ice could fall off the mayor of the village says situation is now better but the area will remain closed climate change has been slowly melting the class is still ahead. event has sacked that coach but have already appointed his replacement details coming out with lee wellings. history has called it the great in the 1st episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our troops troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told what had a huge impact on the course of the war world war 3 our open mind all knowledge is here understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world

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he's here now on the spot or in fine q. tonight's champions league news on the pitch coming up but 1st to an eventful day at u. ventus who sacked their manager moritz you know sorry and then appointed former player under your pillow as his replacement pillow was a much loved player of events as he left the club in 2015 but returned only a few days ago as they're under $23.00 team coach and hadn't even taken charge of a game yet the italian world cup winner has been given a 2 year contract he won the title 6 times as a par 4 times with eventis as for sorry he was suddenly let go after you face exit from the champions league on friday that's the trophy the card haven't won since the mid ninety's that desperate to do so he had led them to a 9th straight italian league title in his very 1st season in charge just 9 days ago sorry spoke about pillows appointment under 23 coach carolyn i had to do it coaching a player like i would have liked it and i think that he would have enjoyed my style

of playing football ideas. another italian side have been dumped out of the champions league in the last hour i'm dates napoli were beaten 3 goals to one away or barcelona it was 11 and i got from the 1st leg but basso put the tie beyond doubt with 3 1st half goals they know messi luis suarez on the score as possible played by a mere nick in the quarter finals the german champions cruised through with a 71 i got win over chelsea. doc shot crystal and groan of a can is given an emotional interview and apologized for causing the crash which seriously injured a fellow competitor on the tour of poland fabio yacob said so in here was sprinting to the line when going to vegas deviated from his line and sent jakobsen crashing through the roadside barras arifin crushing 23 year old yacob said needed 5 hours of facial surgery but is now out of an induced coma and expected to make a full recovery going of a can in self suffered a dislocated shoulder. you know see the explorer from far below me started i could

immediately see that it was very bad then i saw fabio's teammates standing around him and then i knew it was very bad now i can only hope for the best outcome i feel sorry for my mistake if i could turn back time it would be very easy it's a sprint and my mistake was to leave my line i could never have imagined that it would end like this but the pricing point formula one table in the spotlight head of the 70th anniversary drawing pretty they're standing driver if you hold. tight in 3rd place for sunday's price now why is that controversial well on friday they were fined nearly half a $1000000.00 and docked 15 points because the governing body felt that it illegally copied part of last year's most cited is car several teams including ferrari are unhappy that they're still allowed to rice in the car they're doubling the pinkness id's and will appeal the punishment but as things stand only the dominant besides joe head of how can bargain buy some point we bought us is on pole

ahead of championship play detain might lewis hamilton. hits me which is head down beans whatever i had been surprised to be honest to stand here but obviously a big smile on my face i just love qualifying so specially when it goes well it says a good feeling and really nice to get everything on out of myself and out of the car i wasn't great. but he did a good job and there's a lesson for me this wasn't a perfect last up. england's cricketers have pulled off an unlikely victory in the 1st test against pakistan unlikely because it will be pakistan on top for most of this match in an empty old trafford because of coronavirus restrictions in the 15 race when pakistan set them 277 for victory but they got there with 3 wickets to spare in what was a gripping much the 2nd and 3rd test will be played in southampton starting next. tiger woods has dropped way back on day 3 of the page a championship finishing his round 12 shots off the lead and that's still being

held by china's height only who surged to the top of the leaderboard on friday he's in the early part of the stud round and remains 8 under par in san francisco that's 2 shots clear of his nearest challengers the n.f.l. and its players association of further tweets there coronavirus protocols the day after the deadline passed for players to notify their teams whether they be playing or not they say these are the latest amendment means that if someone test positive but is asymptomatic the player or staff member can return to work after returning to negative tests within the 24 hour period in total $66.00 players have opted out of the season. and finally things looking up for the miami marlins baseball team after a really difficult period they were shot down a missed 10 you guys because of a covert 19 out by you know scored since then have won 6 games in a row the most recent is 43 victory over the new york mets that's so for me for now by tomorrow thank you so much that wraps up the news hour but i'll be back in

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want to see. every. lebanese security forces clashed with protesters expressing their fury with the government after the explosion that devastated beirut. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the main opposition candidate in baton rouge goes into hiding after 2 of

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