channel that color world news likely to revisit places take al-jazeera really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. lebanon's prime minister proposes early elections as protesters clashed with police following the port explosion that devastated beirut. i'm rob matheson this is a real live from doha also coming up the main opposition candidate in bello who scores into hiding amid a government crackdown against aids a day before the presidential election. donald trump it signs executive orders offering financial relief as talks on a new coronavirus rescue package collapse. and brazil passes

a grim coronavirus milestone as the number of covert 19 deaths exceeds 100000. outrage over tuesday's explosion in lebanon's capital has spilled on to the streets of beirut thousands of people have rallied furious at the government the protests descended into hours the street battles between demonstrators and security forces one policeman is dead dozens of people have been injured he's in a hot reports 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 explosion but part of. i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all the people. i know 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 i mean we are not leaving if either of them are us in this country and you know what the people always prevails 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 dustbins 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 levanon since the 2 sions are controlled by political parties and there is a parallel state run by the iranian backed hezbollah the prime minister has sandy who took office earlier this year is now offering a way out of the crisis 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 aperient 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 oppositions

demands but there are concerns the sectarian based political system and electoral law won't give independent candidates a chance. to early elections as good 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 and 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. but shambo shelley is a political activist

a filmmaker and he says the explosion in beirut has added momentum to the protest movement this amount of people in the streets were angry at the whole establishment 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. that was trying to get into the parliament building and that was the main focus of the protesters i was there busy on the frontline and we saw what happened we saw how the how much violence. the protesting was dented. we have more than $170.00 injured protesters. we have people who have been shot and that i bet had so many people know of the hospital so there's so much we decided to be. compared to also what we have witnessed the telecine during this whole week we have witnessed so much to tell you

see from this corruption explosion that happened the least i expect to go on because the anger is not finished here. the demands are not met the people are demanding for the nation and holding accountable all the political class that what response was what happened and that is ignition 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. the main opposition candidate in presidential elections and has gone into hiding in the past few hours after 2 of her top aides were detained by police so long it's a kind of sky is running against alexander lukashenko who's been called europe's last dictator is expected to declare victory after sunday's election for the 6th

time in 26 years service and reports from minsk. election observation belorussian style. 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 elections. 39 people why are we even protocol. nation so there where 89 so they added 50 people is the mood of the sunni 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 fair how many percent of the vote would you get i suppose $65.00 said. he would be a big winner then. i would be here 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. elections we'll be. i don't think he will. be. i don't know how can a person. country people softly speaking like him just. most of them. and. but

will he go quietly. the talk 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 me has gone down and society is not happy and basically all levels of society are united against looking despite their ideological position 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 i shan't i will remain in power the moment of truth for look i shan't go will not be on election day but on the days after that if as announced large crowds protest what they believe will be another fraudulent election here at this

square the threat of violence can then become reality a scenario most valid russians want to avoid step fasten al-jazeera menthe. u.s. president donald trump has bypassed congress signing 4 executive orders that he says will provide economic relief to millions of americans including extending unemployment benefits but a lower weekly amount as well as eviction protections and student loan relief signed the order after talks between congressional republicans and democrats broke down on friday the presidents accuse democrats of trying to load up the rescue bill with things unrelated to coronavirus. under the cares act i proudly cerned expanded unemployment benefits into law congressional democrats have stonewalled our efforts to extend this relieve 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. and like canada has more from washington d.c. before even these executive orders were signed to many legal scholars who are questioning whether the president has the constitutional authority to bypass congress in this particular matter when negotiations in congress have been stalled for weeks in terms of getting a new relief bill the situation was is that the massive relief bill passed by on a bipartisan basis back in march expired at the end of last month so many of those provisions expired as well along with them for example the unemployment benefits the fiction from. rental properties and the for going off student loans the repayment of student loans but certainly the whole issue of unemployment is going to be one of these very controversial factors states have been pleading

for more money the pandemic has literally bankrupt many of the country states now they are put in a position where they are going to have to pay part of the unemployment benefits that are normally paid by the federal government that is going to be a contentious point another exceedingly contentious point is the suspension of payroll taxes now these taxes are used to fund social security and medicare very unclear exactly what is going to happen to these programs now that these payroll taxes have been suspended by executive order so there's a lot of controversy here and there's certainly going to be a lot of legal action in the days ahead. still ahead on al-jazeera ridiculous and barbarous china condemns u.s. sanctions and phone calls leader of its police chief and other officials. an appeal for help for russia's bottles to contain an oil leak from a grounded ship. hello

the notes about picture generally across much of the united states we have got some areas of rains and scattered thunderstorms you can see quite a cluster there working their way across the northern plains on towards the upper midwest but really it is just those 2 areas this one here the upper midwest of pushing towards the great lakes and sunday becoming quite widespread that rain it could be quite heavy at times as well and there's always the chance of course of a thunderstorms possibly severe with the chance of a tornado a few more scattered showers and thunderstorms across the southeast and really the bulk of the west and read the bulk of the country is fine and dry a similar story on monday warming up again in seattle 27 degrees 28 down in los angeles and still those scattered showers through the central plains the southeast and again the line of all the heavy rain and thunderstorms working away for the north pushing on into quite back in canada then down across into the caribbean and

central america in the full cost across of the leeward and windward on sunday and then you can see once again this heavy rain back in the forecast really all the way from costa rica up towards the yucatan peninsula and some or all the heavy downpours into southern areas of mexico so a very wet day in mexico city on sunday monday we could see a shot at the rain generally further to the south but again those rains becoming very heavy through the central regions and scattered showers in cuba and florida. for. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right. washington.

you're watching out is here a reminder of our top stories this hour protests over tuesday's explosion in beirut have descended into street battles between demonstrators and security forces one policeman is dead dozens of people have been injured by mr haas in the absence the only way out now is to hold elections. on the eve of pelosi the election the main opposition candidate has gone into hiding after 2 of her top aides were detained by police said one of the kind of sky is running against alexander lukashenko who's

been in power 26 years. as president donald trump has bypassed congress signing for executive orders that he says will provide economic relief to millions of americans including extending unemployment benefits but at a lower weekly amount as well as eviction protections and student loan relief. the number of people who have died from covert 19 in brazil has now passed 100000 according to a brazilian the media consortium it's only the 2nd country to reach that tragic milestone after the united states activists have mocked it with an event on rio's famous copacabana beach they set out $100.00 black crosses and released a 1000 red balloons that's one for every $100.00 people who died since may brazil's reported an average of 1000 deaths a day from the pandemic but president jabil scenario has consistently downplayed the crisis despite getting covered 1000 himself.

100000 deaths milestone represents what brazil is to the world while we in 2nd place kind of opposite can we give to this question here we have me have one percent of the number of deaths 100000 when will this take us. reports from rio de janeiro. one time bus driver id shown the depression 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 song the 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. i'll be shown the works in the cove in 1900 designed especially for the victims of the virus. the most painful 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 lida dylon who does her morning exercises in front of the emblematic modicum a football stadium now converted into a field hospital you know he will be man to the side i never saw anyone coming in or out of this hospital so i don't know if the story was made up or of politicians have just been using the pandemic to steal money this is one of the 5 field

hospitals of rio de janeiro that are being dismantled some of them were 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 and. gives the impression that nothing is going on but i think very and 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 monica al-jazeera rio de janeiro. followthrough 4 is a professor of medicine and director of the center for financial and epidemiology research at the university of south paolo he's joining us live by skype thank you very much indeed for being with us on al-jazeera there seem to be such a variety of different reasons why brazil is now in the situation it is in talk us through your opinion about why the spread has been so big. although it's a very sad story. because here in brazil. the virus came to the set up some paolo and the series after richard nero because both are not yet received in

a lot of flights every day. we presume that the virus. begins in brazil in our early marsh so you have some time to have the necessary social distance and there's. multiple logical actions to have wide spread of the of these 19 so you're in the 1st. 2 weeks after marsh and saying and. the whole. month of march brazil. was doing a good there are well work to contend that beyond that however and the end of marsh the presidents. aligned to the.

point claiming his supporters and the aussie accent soul will not accept the decision from the minister of health and the governors of the states because it's a one of a bet sink it for the council and dole stopped. the economy and the bread. that the wanted it to happen serious problems with the column let me interrupt because i want to ask you about that so that's an interesting point that you're you're making that we've had a lot of comment and criticism of the government of paper. didn't know in this in the his attitude towards it particularly how much responsibility do you think the brazilians themselves carry in this for not maintaining social distancing and taking precautions because they knew the situation was bad. yes.

the complement of the coronation to not follow the social distance matters was not the most important. problem. provoked by post on are the most important of all was that. the congress had the house and they said they'd approve of. chancellor in the budget to have cash transfers for the bar people because for our part people living in slums and bad conditions they won't think. conditions look at be. safe the estate won't we will be receiving these can ship transfers so the federal government delay and delay for more than one month so they leave very cash transfers so during this time

a lot of people was walking one very heavy seas looking for a drop as a look and far off their. economic activities to get money so it was the most important. action. from the government in and the consequences was very terrible because today you have in the affluent areas water off the debts from parents with the poorest areas here in sao paulo or in religion there are father to 4 where appreciate your time and thank you for joining us on al-jazeera thank you lynn. hong kong is condemning the u.s. for imposing sanctions on its leaders calling the decision despicable and shameless sheet music of carol lam and the current and former police chief said among 11

officials whose u.s. assets will be frozen sarah clarke reports from hong kong. 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 my palm pilot says the sweeping legislation is unacceptable and cartels political freedom in the city pro-democracy activist joshua wall was quick to applaud the decision if high for the world to realize that they need to reassess their foreign policy to hold call and try to otherwise the situation in hong kong with the escalate is high for the world because that would

cause 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 kerry land 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 fight any sort of valid reason for this blatant if you're an 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 has ruled out targeting american companies and individuals. operating here that move could be nixed sirrah clock al-jazeera hong kong thousands of people in west jerusalem have staged another protest against and really prime minister benjamin netanyahu for weeks demonstrators have demanded netanyahu should step down he stands trial over corruption charges they've also voiced frustration about the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak afghanistan's highest consultative body the loya jirga has recommended that the government should release of $400.00 taliban prisoners but it says they should only be freed if they promise not to return to fighting militias has declared a state of environmental emergency after a japanese own ship began spending tons of oil the islands appealing for help from france but a volunteer cleanup operation is already underway elements you reports aereo and

satellite photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. the japanese owned ball carrier was she oh ran aground late last month and began leaking its 4000 tons of fuel into the indian ocean all 20 crew were taken to sure 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 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. some some 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 the. one unless you are sure we can see the situation is getting worse this spill is affecting so many sectors tourism the economy ecology. but also 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 and the 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 logical economical because many people who ride their livelihoods from the fish to fish in the area there are a lot of hotels also in the area who market which market place. in order to get clients and you have

a lot of people only reliably who is also on the land leader say as to 1st time the 1300000 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. this is al jazeera these are the top stories outrage over tuesday's explosion in lebanon's capital has spilled on to the streets of beirut thousands of people have rallied furious at the government the protests descended into hours of street battles between demonstrators and security forces one policeman is dead dozens of people have been injured by mr hayes and you have offered a way out of the crisis. when you know we. we cannot face these problems unless we have elections to elect new politicians and

a new parliament we need a new political elite and a new parliament we need to work together to overcome this difficult period 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 might stay forever. on the eve of presidential elections in bello reuss the main opposition candidate has gone into hiding after 2 of her top aides were detained by police so it. is running against the man who's been called europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko. u.s. president donald trump has bypass congress signing 4 executive orders that he says will provide economic relief to millions of americans include extending unemployment benefits but a lower weekly amount as well as eviction protections and student loan relief. the number of people who died from covered 1000 in brazil has now passed 100000 according to brazilian media consortium activists have mocked it with an event on rio's famous copacabana beach they set out 100 black crosses and released

a 1000 red balloons one for every 100 people have died. dozens in west jerusalem have staged another protest against israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu for weeks demonstrators are demanded netanyahu should step down what he stands trial on corruption charges have also voiced frustration about the government's handling of the corona virus outbreak afghanistan's highest consultative body has recommended that the government release 400 taliban prisoners but it says they should only be freed if they promise not to return to fighting the release is seen is the last hurdle before peace talks of the taliban can begin and those are the headlines the news continues here on our dizzier in about half an hour after the bottom line by. counting the cost russia war planes and that's mr scenes from the fold of libya's biggest oil field last lebanon's economic analysis of the devastating explosion is

it time from awful fun. weaponize and data information to manipulate elections. counting the costs of. an image can change the way we see the wound if we had not seen that we would be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created this longing for a photo opportunity that can obscure the truth he says only do can make new story but this play on the talking points are pretty intense because it can forge narratives all right through the listening post gives you the full picture. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question about america's elections what would lincoln do let's get to the bottom line.