world moonwalk through my own knowledge is evil play an important role protecting human. ringback face. the highest profile arrest yet on the hong kong's controversial security law the media tycoon jimmy law is accused of colluding with foreign forces. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up pakistan eases restrictions for a 2nd time in months despite warnings about the coronavirus pandemic.

reacting to growing anger over beirut standing in court last lebanon's prime minister considers reforms and early elections. and also ahead cracking down on dissent in the roof's disputed election results show long time president alexander lukashenko on course for an overwhelming victory . top story the police in hong kong have made their highest profile arrest yet under a controversial national security law imposed by beijing the media tycoon and activist jimmy law is among 7 people detained in raids on monday an executive in his media group says he's been held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers sarah clarke joins us live now from outside the apple daily newspaper headquarters

in hong kong where those raids are taking place sara what do we think is going to happen to him next. well at the moment her paper we have a hive of activity behind us as you mentioned we are at the headquarters and are at least 200 police here now searching this particular building you see the vans on my right hand side we've also got a large media contingent is one nice high profile arrests yes made under these national security laws. early on monday morning arrested at his home and the potential charges he faces or collusion with a foreign force or foreign country and i should also start 2 of his sons have also been arrested in this particular sweep on monday morning now they are not affiliated with the likes of apple daily but we believe they may be part of a wider investigation into the likes of jimmy lise investments about 7 people arrested so far and we also believe 2 of the quite high profile senior executives within the company that includes the c.f.o. the chief financial officer as well as the chief executive officer they've also

been detained as a result so the police have said the operation is going smoothly and they're continuing behind us as they're searching devices investigating and talking to interviewing some of the staff here but we also expect more arrests to be made as the day goes on and more people to be taken into custody as a result will leave it there many thanks. pakistan's alone restaurants and cinemas to reopen as part of a phased easing of coronavirus restrictions the country partially lifted in may but the number of new infections surged in the following weeks. have been falling recently but health workers say that's because less testing is being carried out joins us live from islamabad what does this mean for pakistanis. let's not forget people have been in their homes for over 5 months we've seen.

people. very bad. day we're going to go back to their restaurants but they will be. included. they will be in 60 minutes in between that. and. then the medical. warning that may be. followed. by. the pakistani prime minister.

specific. number of. however that. warning that. i'm not. a big point ok kimo many thanks to the correspondent in pakistan. the official number of corona virus infections across the united states is now past 1000000 but there are concerns the actual figure could be much higher health officials are urging the use of face masks and social distancing but this was the scene in south dakota this weekend around 400 people gathered for a 10 day motorbike rally in the city of sturgis this week 40 percent of u.s. infections are in 5 states florida california texas new york and georgia. lebanon's cabinet is due to meet in the coming hours to discuss possibly early elections anger at the government has been boiling over after that catastrophic

explosion in the beirut port area last week there have been 2 days of violent protests in the capital with more planned for monday 158 people died in the blast 21 are still missing the army says there's little hope of finding any more survivors. well protesters say they want a complete overhaul of the political system to government ministers responded to public pressure and resigned the environment minister. has confirmed he is out following the information minister manal abdel summit 9 m.p.'s in all have also quit parliament. 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. correspondence. first in march to square beirut when mr done with his ministers today is he going to try and convince them to stay or do we think this is a chance you might say look we've got to go we've got to have elections. well what we understand is that he's been trying to convince them since yesterday he held an emergency meeting late in the afternoon after 2 ministers resigned there were reports that other ministers wanted to attend the resignation but after intense negotiations behind closed doors a minister emerged he belongs to the camp and he said we are not resigning the government is still standing and we will continue to carry out our duties and responsibilities towards the people of lebanon so it seems that those in power the

political parties that really control the government they do not want this government to resign or to be toppled at least for the time being but the government is under a lot of pressure in fact the ruling alliance you have pressure from the street people keep taking to the streets demanding change demanding justice and then you have the international community which has made it very very clear that they have very little faith in this government which was able really to deal with the dire economic situation before the blast destroyed many neighborhoods in beirut and then you have the opposition in lebanon which is. trying its very best to to bring about change but they're up against a very difficult very difficult task why political change to state institutions is almost impossible because the ruling alliance those in power they control the presidency they control the government and they control the parliament so even if enough m.p.'s quit that you're unable to hold

a quorum you don't have the quorum in order to hold a session in parliament you are not able to dissolve the parliament all you can do is create political paralysis but definitely that is a pressure on the governing alliance so a lot a lot of pressure we're going to have to wait to see the outcome of that cabinet meeting later today and as far as the protesters are concerns in a do you get the feeling that they are not prepared to budge one inch because clearly they don't want political reform they don't really want elections if all the existing government ministers and m.p.'s if their names are on the ballot papers they won't a lot more than just root and branch reform they want the political system kind of eradicates and they want to do it they want it restarted from a standing start. yes but they're not under any illusion that changing or getting rid of the political and security establishment that has been in place for decades is going to be easy we were at the square when

those running battles were taking place and then the prime minister addressing the nation saying that he's going to hold early elections now for many that was significant that shows that those in power understand that this time around they're going to have to cave in they're going to have to get make some sort of of a concession but the people are asking under what alec torah law the electoral law that the governing governing political parties agreed on ensures that the political elites return to power any independent this is an uphill battle to be able to be elected in parliament simply because of this electoral law. so people are disillusioned because they're up against a militarized state yesterday the way the security forces dealt with the protesters it was quite violent excessive amounts of tear gas they're really giving a message that we're not going to allow you to make any change or topple topple the system from the street and in the interim many of them are trying to survive you can see everywhere volunteers in the street just distributing bread buying bread

buying medicine is now an affordable for so so many people before the blast nearly 50 percent of the population was below the poverty line so people losing face in the government losing face and the politicians but really they don't have much that they can do so they are relying on the international community which has made it very very clear in the statements over the past few days that they are standing on the side of the lebanese people so you know thank you very much in all the reporting live for us there from beirut egyptians head to the polls soon to choose members of a newly formed senate voting begins on tuesday with results due on august 19th the government says voters living overseas are casting ballots in more than 140 countries imran khan has more. 60000000 egyptians are eligible to vote and have a say in who represents them in the newly reconstituted senate votes will be counted from both citizens home and abroad the 1st change 6 years follows the introduction of the new constitution last year. the old constitution was suspended

in 2014 when president mohammed morsi was deposed and replaced by military chiefs. who took the 2 spot the new senate has 300 men 100 directly appointed by sisi critics say it's another power grab by him the government says a senate seat gives minorities a voice. the last election in egypt was 2 years ago when president sisi won reelection with 97 percent of the vote the exact same margin is a killed in 2013 he faced only one of the challenges in 2814 international human rights organizations criticize the election human rights watch said it was neither free nor fair. egypt's election commission declared cc's victory met the highest international standards of integrity and transparency various human rights groups also criticized last year's constitutional changes that

concentrating our interests he sees and egypt's government says the center election proves to the world and egyptians that the country is a fully functioning democracy in iraq is it. still to come here on al-jazeera more vulnerable than ever the u.n. warns the coronavirus pandemic is posing a serious threat to the health of indigenous peoples. it is still hot struck most of europe not breaking records but well above the average and stockings through the ass an injection of bit more moisture and slightly cooler out frontal system there but not doing much to be honest said generating some lightning storms and not contempt by the greater was still 26 not as low as 36 in revenue between the 2 anyway but he could generate enough for sure

enough of a cloud for thunderstorm or both monday and tuesday it's rather dry now than of late in greece turkey and the balkans and his truck crossed the military into north africa as well the prison term should drop is what represents a slow leakage of heat as you generate more and more showers or thunderstorms every day and it's those thunderstorms are in the story struck north africa and this is about the northernmost line that runs through sudan and west was towards mali if you get clumps of thunderstorms there of interest a turn sometimes turn into a revolving storm in the atlantic nothing too obvious at the moment then jumping south of all the rain we watched for winter fronts coming through into the western cape and this one is way to cape town at the moment takes a couple of days to get in but it looks like it'll rain in cape town come tuesday with an increasingly strong wind.

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media tycoon jimmy lying has been arrested under china's new national security or his company says he's being held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers. pakistan is reopening after months of lockdown and more than 280000 corona virus infections the government says its efforts to contain the virus have been a success but the world health organization says more testing is still required. lebanon's cabinet is due to meet to discuss the possibility of early elections anger at the government has been boiling over on the streets after a catastrophic explosion in beirut in the port last week. protesters have taken to the streets in belarus after early official election results pointed to a landslide victory for president alexander lukashenko one person was killed and dozens were injured in the armrest the national election commission says the president is on course to win 80 percent of the vote and extend his 26 years in power to the opposition says the ballot was rigged and is low roberton many.

protesters shouting the police to go away and then scenes of violence reflected across belushi's capital was. was. starting a few hours after porthos closed and continuing into the night opposition supporters came out in their thousands to contest the initial election results. right beneath block the entrance to a lots where fights stun grenades into the crowds and police trucks drove into protesters. amulets is the worst take the injured into hospital. protesters have put up their. it's on to the main roads to prevent police cars from guessing that. earlier in the day the town does it 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 a wrath at 1st a reluctant presidential candidate that she had grown into the biggest hope many palin missions have for change to enough going election rallies attracted the largest crowds by lisa in the decade i was the microphone was. off the coast in his boots president alexander lukashenko called the opposition group yes he did but i'm not sure what you stood in the us 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 has enjoyed solid support in the former soviet country lately facing criticism for downplaying the covert $900.00 crisis and worsening economy criticism that is rapidly growing to the largest practiced 26 year rule or 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 say will not be willing to fire on protesters if that's something that leadership 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 food this time people say and show they have beyond. the orbit of money and to say. well internet services in belarus have been cut so well to see those correspondents that boston joins us now on the telephone from minsk step the statistics official statistics are really stacking up and mr lucas and his favor can we believed them. i think nobody believes those figures that that judge also being officially announced by the election commission that the

president lukashenko got more than 80 percent of the vote nobody had any doubt that he would declare victory again for a 6th time but nobody believed that he would say that he would get more than 80 percent to devote so that even added to the anger that people already had because they didn't believe that the elections would be fair from the start so 2 hours after the polls closed last night they already took to the streets before even any operational results were in the us but when they heard that the the figures would go up into the 80 percent for the president they even got more angry there was an enormous frustration and heated the atmosphere on the streets i was there all night at one on until the early hours of the morning people of all walks of life because it wasn't only young people but also older people i saw children everyone was on the street shouting may go away look at shango and an angry at police because

police really had that car they saw with their own eyes that one person was in the belief truck ran into a cliff but then one person was carried by that truck for a few 100 meters and now there are this these records that this person has died and briefly step if mr lucas saying good decides to adopt a line which is i've officially won and he stays with that position does he then carry on kind of leaking political capital. it's very clear that this has reached the point of no return for people who have been dead and don't look at frankly it's near as couldn't it could possibly be to weeks months or even years but this was the beginning of the end that's what everyone here believes and the opposition has now called for calm they don't really don't want any bloodshed on the street so they're going to fight with the dog of socially

in court and they ask everyone to back up this so that the legal battle but it's very clear that everyone here believes that this political capital will really really reduced in the last couple of months ok step will leave it there thank you very much to us in reporting live for us there from minsk the u.s. health secretary alex has met taiwan's president signing when he is the highest level u.s. official to visit the island in decades mr as upraised taiwan success in tackling coronavirus and said he brought a strong message of support from the us president donald trump china had one last trip poses a threat to regional peace and stability president size courage and vision and leading taiwan's vibrant democracy are an inspiration to the region and to the world taiwan's response to covert 19 has been among the most successful in the world and that is a tribute to the transparent democratic nature of taiwan society and

culture i am grateful to president side for welcoming us to taiwan and i look forward to using this visit to convey our admiration for a time for taiwan and to learn about how our shared democratic values have driven success in health. 8 people including 6 french aid workers have been killed by a gunman in southern asia it happened whilst a group was on a tour in the west african giraffe reserve east of the tunnel quarry the germs defense minister says men on motorbike shot at the group the french president emmanuel micro finance the attackers cowardly it's not yet known who was behind it . the human rights inquiry in chad is accusing the authorities of negligence over the deaths of 44 prisoners in april the government previously said they were suspected boko haram fighters who poisoned themselves however the national human rights commission says there were civilians in an overcrowded cell who died from

thirst and hunger in heat 46 degrees militarists has more now from neighboring nigeria the commission's report disputed government claims that the victims were members of the full quote on the report insisted that these are farmers mostly who have been arrested after an operation by the child and forces in the lake chad region had ended during that operation chad and government claim that it killed more than $1000.00 books out on fighters and imprisoned many of them in charge in prisons the report said that the prisoners were allowed to suffocate deliberately in their cells and that despite calls for help prison officials did not let them out remember that on march an approach temperatures in the south and elected area can go beyond 40 degrees celsius and that's the condition these prisoners were in people living close to the prisons admitted that they heard the cries for help by these prisoners or one night the government did not issue a formal statement but i justice ministry official said that they have noted the

report by the commission now this is not the 1st time our security forces in the left child region fighting boko haram have been accused of troubling or human rights or even extra judicial killings a lot of analysts believe that such actions by security forces could lead to none corporation and therefore making the fight against boko haram and other extremist groups in the region very difficult. supporters of rival political factions in bolivia have confronted each other one left wing groups set up roadblocks in the city of cochabamba they're angry at the government for spawning elections until october another group fired projectiles as they tried to break the blockades tensions are high between the socialist party and the divided conservative movement . police in the czech republic are questioning a suspect after a fire in an apartment block killed 11 people 5 of them died when they jumped out of windows on the 12th floor 3 children among 6 others. on the floor below. the operators of a japanese ship leaking oil on to the coast of malicious of apologized and they

promised to help clean up the oil spill an environmental state of emergency has been declared in the pacific ocean islands because of the threat of catastrophic damage to coral reefs the prime minister says cracks in the ball carriers hole have widened and there's a risk it could break in half the work was carrying $4000.00 tons of fuel when it ran aground last month. 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 the situation ready. greenpeace says buyers and sellers of the fuel on board the ship should compensate those impacted by the oil spill. need to be read that for the community right or the community being in has been affected so are those who were in part of the transaction to shift this oil need to compensate the community and deer with the biodiversity damage and that

really means that you're changing the rules of transporting and. of using the fossil fuel for the transaction whatever it was between the cargo ship company between the people who are the seller than the buy you need to come into the for he held accountable for the fact that the atlantic in his name to being the egyptian authorities have extended the detention of the al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein by $45.00 days he's already been held for more than 3 and a half he is without trial after arriving in egypt on a personal visit in 2016 the authorities have opened an investigation against him with unspecified charges his incarceration does breach egypt's own penal code which sets the maximum pretrial detention at 620 days the united nations and al-jazeera a cold front end to his operate detention. the united nations is warning indigenous communities around the world are facing a grave health threat because of corona virus and the pandemic now in brazil 19 has

killed hundreds of vulnerable indigenous people. explains. 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 the settlement of 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. as un says the communal way of life can also increase the threat of contagion in the americas more than 1000 indigenous deaths and 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 we want respect to do that go outside that you know. the u.n. war that indigenous lives must be saved to protect the precious web of cultures

languages and traditional knowledge the connect all of us to the deep roots of humanity. that al-jazeera. run our schools is always there for you 247 on the website the address you. can also check out the news. as well. ok updating the top stories for you this half hour the hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested on the china's new national security law his company says he's being held on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers several other people have also been arrested sara clague reports. 7 people arrested so far and we also believe 2 of quite high profile senior executives within the company that includes the c.f.o. the chief financial officer as well as the chief executive officer they've also

been detained as a result so the police have said the operation is going smoothly and that continuing behind. searching devices and talking to interviewing some of the staff here but we also expect more arrests to be made as the day goes on and more people to be taken into custody as a result pakistan is reopening after months of lockdown and more than 280000 coronavirus infections the government says its efforts to contain the virus have been a success however the world health organization says more testing is still required lebanon's cabinet is due to meet today to discuss the possibility of early elections anger at the government has been boiling over on the streets africa explosion in beirut last week there have been 2 days of protests in the capital with more planned on monday. protests have erupted in cities across the president and xander look looks set to claim yet another election victory at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in the unrest the electoral commission says the

president is on course to win 80 percent of the vote the opposition says the ballot was rigged. the u.s. health secretary alex as a has met the taiwanese president cia and when he's the highest level u.s. official to visit the island in decades mr praise taiwan's success in tackling coronavirus and said he brought a strong message of support from the u.s. president will trump china has warned that mr tripp poses a threat to regional peace and stability. 8 people including 6 french aid workers have been killed by gunmen at a while drive wildlife reserve in southern asia the defense minister says men on motorbike shot at the group the french president emmanuel mak wrong denounce the attack as cowardly there's been no claim of responsibility those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera the inside story you can also follow us on twitter at peter told me one more news in 30 minutes i'll see that.

this is the government the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that the safest mode of travel and we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. will the very root explosions caused a humanitarian disaster the devastation leaves hundreds of thousands of lebanese homeless hungry and fending for themselves with no help from the government can aid organizations cope with the immense challenge this is inside. hello and welcome to the program. lebanon was in a dire state even before the enormous explosions which shattered beirut on tuesday

many couldn't make ends meet as a 3rd of almost 7000000 lebanese don't have a job.