if you want to help save the world's. sneeze into your own. protesters clashed with police in belarus south to state exit polls predict another victory for president alexander lukashenko. from doha santa maria with the world news from al jazeera hong kong media baron jimmy law is arrested under a controversial security law for allegedly colluding with foreign forces also anti-government protests continue for a 2nd day in beirut just 2 ministers have resigned as well public anger grows up to

choose days blast in pakistan is easing coronavirus restrictions for a 2nd time in months despite warnings from health weapons over the pandemic. so protesters have been out on the streets across bellary soul nights after the latest election results showed president alexander looking with 81 percent of the vote that would mean look at shanghai could extend his quarter century and power the opposition say the ballot was a fraud lower birdman the reports. are pushing with the shouting the police to go away and then scenes of violence reflected across spend who says kept . dancing

a few hours after polls have closed and continuing into the night opposition supporters came out in the thousands to contest the initial election results. right police blocked the entrance to a large square and fight stun grenades into the crowd and police trucks drive into protesters the 2 i mean insists rushed to take the injured into hospital. protesters a push up barricades on to the main roads to prevent police cars from guessing that was. earlier in the day that candidate set learned ticking off scott has come out of hiding to costs have that she had left her apartment on the eve of the election fearing arrest at 1st a reluctant presidential candidate that she had grown into the biggest hope many palin missions have for change to enough sky and election rallies attracted the largest crowds by lisa in decades are you worried about your safety

was. all to cost him his votes president alexander lukashenko put the opposition yesterday. brought you stephanie if you're going to go against our country or even in the smallest way try to plunge the country into chaos and stabilize it you will receive an immediate response from me for decades enjoyed solid support in the former soviet country lately facing criticism for downplaying the call that $900.00 prices and worsening economy criticism that is rapidly growing to the largest practiced 26 year rule for some of the most credible reports suggest it looks like a support the country may be well below 10 percent so i think there is a real shot that some some security officials a will not be willing to fire on protesters if that's something that looks shank that warders them to do and we all really hope and pray that he doesn't but even so potentially even go over to the side of the protesters. while the school

authorities may have been able to control the opposition using force this time people say and show they have beyond the. sure that money and. more from our correspondents at boston in minsk now she was on the phone early because there was an internet blackout but she told us the support from the cassandras lips so too does the backing from the police. the key question here is of course where the security forces are going to stand the protesters and also the opposition has been trying to persuade the military and police to join their side at least look at sanka but others are saying that his power base especially within the military is still very strong but of course ability is going to watch this and if they're going to see more and more people going onto the streets protesting what people say is very much an observer election result look at genco claiming more

than 80 percent of the vote so they're going to want to help people are going to respond in the days ahead. on to other news now in the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lyons been detained the most high profile arrests yet under the beijing imposed national security law he is among 7 people arrested under the law on monday and executive in lyons media group says he's been arrested on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers more on this with sarah clarke in hong kong now tell us a little bit more about well not just the arrests but jimmy lie himself i've been reading about his apple daily website very popular and i'll go. look it is it is a sweeping police operation is currently underway in hong kong and as you mentioned 7 people have been arrested not just to me live but jimmy life is the founder of the tabloid media operation known as apple he was the founder and also the owner he's also well known for being a critic of the chinese communist party and he was detained earlier on monday

morning at his home in the charges he potentially could face or of collusion with a foreign country or foreign forces now his 2 sons we can confirm have also been arrested they are not affiliated with apple daily but we believe they might be a sweeping or a larger investigation into the likes of his investments and therefore those 2 have been arrested his sons as a result the other people we include in the 7 arrested so far on monday they also include senior staff at his apple daily media network this chief executive officer as well as the chief financial officer that search is currently underway we believe there are about $200.00 police there searching devices interviewing staff and the pay of the people they are with the employees have been told they can't leave is also police searching some of jimmy lives restaurants in central which is just where we are now so we do expect this to be ongoing throughout the day and as a result we do expect more people to be taken into custody as a result all are under suspicion of violating these new national security rules. i see that jimmy law has been arrested before i think it even goes back as far as you

know 2014 umbrella movement times those were different times though weren't they now that the national security law is in place this could be a very different arrest for them. very much so the national security laws involve much heavier penalties some of those acts under the national security or could be in life in prison he was arrested in february this year with results of a being accused of being involved in what was deemed an illegal assembly last year he's also facing charges of being involved in this year's june $400.00 square anniversary but these national security laws as i mentioned much tougher penalties than they target the acts of subversion terrorism collusion with foreign forces as well as suspicion has previously said he does expect to be targeted under these new laws in the state run of the chinese run organizational media known as global times it's previously quoted media experts on the mainland suggesting that some of the tweets from jimmy lie do suggest or evidence of actives versions are clearly the

police are acting on that today and 7 people have been arrested so far in hong kong thank you for those updates that is in hong kong. and here is emily lau chairperson of the international affairs committee of the hong kong democratic party who told us this development involving jimmy lie is having a chilling effect on the city's journalists. well of course many hong kong people woke up this morning to learn of the news and many are shocked and horrified including myself and i think this is sent out a very very negative message and of course it must have a chilling effect on people who want to speak out and particularly on the news media so this is a very very disturbing development although maybe maybe not unexpected but i and people say that hong kong no longer has the rule of law so i hope that jimmy lie and those of the people who have been arrested will be able to have their

rights protected and of course if the authorities have evidence i hope they will come out with it because such allegations have been made for a long time and up to now they have to do with no evidence i think that we have seen quite a increasing amount of self-censorship amongst the news media some local media even say that that maybe there are some foreign politicians that they may not or should not interview and there are stories they should not write and also they're educated may be telling them what to do and what not to do and also with academics with political commentators with people in political circle and professional circle so there is this you know reign of terror people are very very wary and don't know when they will be next. egyptian authorities have extended the detention

of al-jazeera journalist ahmed hussein by 45 days remember he has already been held for more than 1300 days without trial after arriving in egypt on a personal visit in 2016 authorities of investigation against him with unspecified charges and his incarceration actually breaches egypt's own penal code which sets the maximum pretrial detention at $620.00 days both al-jazeera and the united nations of call for an end to his arbitrary detention. tensions are boiled over for a 2nd day in lebanon after that massive explosion which tore through the capital beirut there were more clashes near the parliament after protesters gathered demanding an end to rampant corruption riot police fired tear gas while demonstrators hold rocks and shot fireworks into the air 158 people died in tuesday's explosion 21 are still missing and the army says there is little hope of

finding any more survivors or protesters are calling for a complete overhaul of the political system but they have so far those 2 government ministers have responded by resigning it is the environment minister damiano scattered has confirmed he's out that follows the information minister. in the one . this is the point of no return people are starving the economy has deteriorated the economic crisis is heightening our families children friends have just been left behind fear and disappointments lives within them in this fateful moments we cannot just sit behind we have to stand in dignity together as a nation i feel that i need to send an apology to the lebanese people because we failed to achieve their ambitions due to the difficulties. also on sunday the french president emmanuel markram led a video conference of international donors trying to get aid into lebanon as quickly as possible while parts of pledged to help the recovery but they're also

demanding transparency over how that money is used and smith. here there are all the skills the talent and the enthusiasm this is this this is the nasa. that has been issued yesterday but these people will not be able to rebuild beirut on their own we have an engineering team i did not think team working in sync together we sent scouts little school teachers and their job is to basically go and examine a building and say hey this structure is no longer safe to enter they're doing all this because the government isn't. food is given out to people who never have to ask for handouts in their life. volunteers are given a safety briefing before heading out with cleanup teams there are hundreds of these camps across beirut hastily set up in the shadows of the buildings ripped open by chews days explosion of 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the pool.

for international donors one of the hardest questions is how do they get aid to people who want to get off the top when they have to deal with a political elite that's been doing exactly that for decades. this is really the lebanese authorities now have to put in place the political and economic reforms which are being called for by the lebanese people it's the only thing which will allow the international community to act efficiently side by side with lebanon in its reconstruction it could cost up to $15000000000.00 to rebuild beirut says the city's governor its residents want to make sure that money goes where it should the government of lebanon is a criminal government this is a criminal state. these are people who were. responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the lebanese civil war and we're expecting that a few extra bodies is going to make them bring that's not going to happen on monday lebanon's prime minister will ask his cabinet to agree to early elections they'd be

held within 2 months and lebanon's electoral system candidates must stand according to their religious sect it makes it very difficult for nonaffiliated individuals or groups to emerge and that is what these people will tell you is constantly frustrating that calls for radical political change. al-jazeera beirut. there's been violent outbreaks in cities across bolivia as rival political factions confronted each other via a leftist group set up roadblocks in the city of culture in protests against the government postponing elections until october and other groups fired projectiles and sought to break the blockades the tensions been mounting in bolivia between the socialist party and a fragmented conservative flank. will check whether in just a moment and then paving the way for peace talks in afghanistan the president agrees to set 300 taliban prisoners and more vulnerable than ever the united nation

warns the coronavirus pandemic is a grave health threat to the world's indigenous people. of. hellas about to be a resurgence of the stride just a breeze a come down here because this clan which may be of wood interrupted is more as full and pop apart from producing a shower or 2 of the among the mountains there's nothing driving it so we will see it increase in the hot weather $45.00 in baghdad in the dust and $44.00 in doha without too much dust there's an increase in that breeze once more the heat is still blowing across a lot it's been raining or drizzling now for days and she's what it should do. back towards where the shots being generated of the high ground are ethiopia they just

saw us which means that most of the horn of africa though catching the breeze is a morse breeze is a dry picture at the moment the showers really from the victoria westward or ethiopia westward and everything south of this is likely to be pretty dry even gaskin you don't see much in the way of showers we do wait for winter fronts to go through cape town the western cape and beyond on the wind direction changing makes cross significant difference the temperatures but portland misses back down to normal at 17 degrees and the breeze is picking up on its way into cape town bringing with it rain rain for tuesday and a 15 degrees the forecast the cape down in the specially wet but it does get quite windy. cold in 19 as seen a war of words escalate between the u.s. and china all challenge u.s. 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 ban on china to match the muslims are quite stop proposal we need a strict vetting process is that tight 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. oh. so the headlines this hour on al-jazeera protests have erupted in cities across bitter ruthless president alexander lukashenko looks set to claim another election victory the electoral commission says he so far gained 81 percent of the phone but the main opposition candidate spent lot of the kind of sky on just 8 this. hong

kong media baron jimmy la is been detained in what is the most high profile arrest yet under the beijing imposed national security law an executive in lies media group says he's been arrested on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and protesters in lebanon have gathered near the parliament for a 2nd night his anger grows over tuesday's port explosion tear gas was fired to disperse demonstrators who were hurling rocks they say government corruption is to blame and demanding a political overhaul. pakistan is allowing restaurants cylons and cinemas to reopen as part of a phased easing of coronavirus restrictions the country partially lifted its lockdown in may but the number of new infections surged in the weeks afterwards numbers of new cases have been falling recently but health workers say this is because this testing is being carried out so let's talk to come on harder now in islamabad about this so history dictates kemal that there could be another surge in

cases here especially if you're thinking about things like cinemas and salons being reopened. absolutely the apprehension of the medical community and by. the government and to an end to their stage of their career or not why it is emerging. as you mentioned restaurants and reading all the tourist boards. and of course a large number of people are now getting their. watch they're traveling across the country which of course were raised the alarm but the prime minister brown khan said that it was the government's policy of the downs that in fact that situation when they identified certain. number of infections would re high and then decided to import

a 15 day log down and specific areas so while the government data. may be 0 the feared dead. weight range and the educational institutions of course will remain in the 15th of september a decision and that regard will be made the government had already opened the economy because it said that. it could not make crises and roy grilling to live up and make so indeed cautious optimism by not warning from the medical community that if people are not following the. smart. thing and washing hands that you may see another spike or perhaps a 2nd wave and what about this concern is welcome all that not enough tests or that fewer tests at least are being carried out at the moment is there any response to the us. where there has been criticism on dad however. and. even.

for to go for large scale. thing most of the people rate. for. numbered water contained but we have not seen that kind of emergency that people fear. card dead the. government will have to catch up with. warden again dad of god did not happen so did room for optimism however. how did it play out it seems that bug may be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel thank you come on harder with that corona virus update from islamabad. meanwhile the official number of infections across the u.s. is now past 5000000 there is concern the actual figure may be much higher health officials are urging the use of face masks and social distancing but and you have

scenes like this in south dakota over the weekend around 400000 people gathering for a 10 day motorcycle rally in the city is still just as of this week 40 percent of us infections are in just 5 states florida california texas new york and georgia. also hearing from the u.n. how the coronavirus pandemic poses a grave health threat to the world's indigenous peoples for example in brazil over 19 is already kill hundreds of people in its vulnerable indigenous communities supporters from. indigenous peoples have suffered from devastating viruses since their 1st contact with outsiders covered 19 is simply the latest and the sitting particularly hard when so many communities already struggling against environmental damage and economic hardship. in the amazon territories have been ravaged by mining illegal deforestation forest fires unlawful occupation of

indigenous lands in this settlement in brazil with the alleged collusion of the authorities. we're meeting here and we will prepare a document to take brazil's congress from there ask president both sonora why he speaks so badly about native people. indigenous people live in 90 countries around the walled often in remote locations without adequate health facilities clean water and sanitation. the u.n. says the communal way of life can also increase the threat of contagion in the americas more than 1000 indigenous deaths from covered 19 have been recorded and more than 70000 people have been infected there already i mean just you know it's very worrying we don't have the infrastructure to protect ourselves against the virus we don't have what we need to protect ourselves the u.n. says the pandemic emphasizes the importance of indigenous peoples being allowed to exercise their right to self-determination for their particular needs to be

recognised this hospital in brazil for instance has a separate ward for indigenous patients so much but would you tell us yeah this email yes we are different even if the system doesn't recognize that we speak a traditional language we have our own medicinal plants so. you want respect to say that you know. the u.n. war that indigenous lives must be saved to protect the precious web of cultures languages and traditional knowledge that connect all of us to the deep roots of humanity. that al-jazeera. afghanistan's president has agreed to release 400 taliban prisoners ashraf ghani made that decision on the recommendation of the loya jirga a traditional assembly of tribal elders the release there was a precondition for the taliban to agree to hold peace talks with the government some of binge of it has more information thank you for centuries of understands traditional ground assemblies known as legitimate as solve problems by

confrontation within 3000 elders and community leaders joint politicians to decide on the final stumbling block for the negotiations with the taliban with some reluctance president danny has honored the agreement between the us government and the armed group decided 5000 prisoners must be released before incra of one dialogue can begin most inmates have been released the ago was called to decide about the final 400 prisoners your prime government says these 400 are wanted for immediate crimes and some even face the death penalty they want to ensure that these men do not return to the battlefield the ben. groom today i will sign the decree that i did not have the authority to sign before now i will sign the decree to authorize the release of the 400 taliban prisoners based on the request of the loya jirga and they will be released. in a complex power sharing structure is the chairman of the loya jirga as he leads the

high council for national reconciliation. hi sally after an army the declaration of the loya jirga has removed all the obstacles to start the entrance afghan talks we are on the cusp of starting the negotiation we do have respect for all your decisions and the afghan government will be committed to implementing all of them. despite temporary cease fires 3 and a half 1000 afghan security personnel have been killed since february when the deal was signed between leaders and the us government us troops are supposed to leave of want to stand by april 2021 and remain divided over the u.s. could draw. it would be better that the u.s. does stay here that will also help our security and reconstruction of our country. the withdrawal of foreign troops is good for us as they were against our culture. it will definitely have positive impact. for almost all of the security remains

there foremost concern. regarding the release of prisoners we need peace in afghanistan and we will need to pay a price for that therefore we are obliged to release the taliban prisoners of them and say their rights and safety is non-negotiable regardless of who wields power there did it as. i continued my university studies despite losing many of my classmates to suicide attacks we still have faith stands government will need to bring security in all the places where we do not have security at the moment. the us government has acknowledged the release of prisoners is unpopular president danny's government to hold direct talks to facilitate a peace agreement the release of prisoners is a 1st step for all of the factions to sit across the table but they remain multiple challenges and wide ranging differences to overcome for peace can be achieved.

there. the u.s. health secretary alex has met taiwan's president signing when i surprised taiwan success in tackling the coronavirus and said he brought a strong message of support from president donald trump he is the highest level u.s. official to visit taiwan in decades said the visit was a significant step and the fight against the pandemic but china was warning trip poses a threat to regional peace and stability. the operators of a japanese ship leaking tons of oil off the coast of militias have apologized and said they will help to clean up the spill has declared an environmental state of emergency the prime minister also says cracks in the hull of the vessel have grown and there is a risk the ship could break in half the walk a shell was carrying $4000.00 tons of fuel when it ran aground last month 2 and a half 1000 tons are still on board and experts say the slick will cause

catastrophic damage to the coral reefs around mirages. ready we will do everything possible to contain the damages going forward and minimize the impact we will sincerely take any and all measures possible to deal with this situation ready. we've also heard from greenpeace which says actually the buyers and sellers of the fuel on board the ground that ship should be the ones compensating those impacted by the oil spill. to be read for the community or the community being in it's been affected so those who were part of the transaction to ship this oil need to compensate the community and deal with the biodiversity damage and that really means that you're changing the rules of transporting and. of using fossil fuels for the transaction whatever it was between the cargo ship

company between the people who are the sellers and the buys me to come into the for the held accountable for the fact that the atlantic in his name to the type of thing. plenty more on line few at al jazeera dot com of course keeping an eye on developments in hong kong where the media tycoon jimmy lie is arrested today. with the top stories right now though and protests have erupted in cities across the room president alexander lukashenko except to claim another election victory the electoral commission says the sofa taken 81 percent of the vote for the main opposition candidates taken of sky is just 8. step fastens in minsk with more on the protests. when they try to write their police was already blocking the road saving people so the people were sort of trying to get together but they were

all separated by police then there was a clash police were firing as when they said to the crowd a police to our right. and one protester with. ambulances were taking away the injured people around the city the police have been blocking off roads trying to stop people from gather wait in other news the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lives been detained in the most high profile arrest yet under beijing's new security law and executive in lies media group says he's been arrested on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces dozens of police are now searching the offices of lies used by the egyptian authorities have extended the detention of al-jazeera journalist and hussein by 45 days he's already been held for more than 1300 days without trial after arriving in egypt on

a personal visit back in 2016 united nations and al-jazeera both called for an end to his opera treat detention. protesters in lebanon have gathered near the parliament for a 2nd grows over tuesday's port explosion tear gas was fired to disperse the demonstrators have been hurling rocks they say government corruption is to blame and they're demanding a political the whole pakistan is allowing restaurants and cinemas to reopen as part of a phased easing of coronavirus restrictions partially lifted its lockdown in may but the number of new infections in the weeks afterwards numbers of new cases have been falling recently but health workers say this is because fewer tests are being carried. up to date with the headlines on our. one on one east is next. russia. to seize control of libya because.

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