3 years. everyone. reports of a social media post considered offensive to islam sparks violence and protest in southern india. alone malcolm i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up swearing in sri lanka's new cabinet in a departure from tradition the president holds the ceremony at a buddhist temple. mourning blast victims in beirut a vigil has been held one week after the devastating ports explosion. and

a historic choice the democratic presidential hopeful joe biden named senator conrad harris as his running mate. our top story 3 people have died in violence in the indian city of bungalow sparked by an allegedly offensive social media post about the prophet mohammed dozens were injured when protesters clashed with police who fired on the crowd the facebook post was made by a relative of a local politician our correspondent elizabeth around them joins us live from new delhi hi there liz let's just explain to us what happened here. police are saying that there was what they're calling a mall but of people went to this congress politician a politician belonging to the congress party to his home late on tuesday evening and started trying to attack his home that they say it to vehicles on fire now this

is because those who want to be angry about a facebook post a village facebook post made by the politicians nephew which insulted as prophet muhammad police say that this group of very large groups of people then broke off into 2 groups that they went around the neighborhood shopkeepers to close this stalls damaging property setting vehicles on fire before going to 2 different police stations and police say that this is when they sit many vehicles and the police station on fire that's what led to the station itself catching fire and that they were throwing stones at police and demanding the rest of the person who made the facebook post but he said that they tried to charge the protesters with bastards when that didn't stop them they were fools to open fire and that is what led to those 3 deaths and 60 police officers being injured and the politicians family is saying the account in question was so what's being done to calm tensions

. so police have arrested this man by the name of pain of being the politicians nephew over this alleged facebook post and he's saying that his account was hacked he sensed in the to the post he's put up a new post saying let's not fight among ourselves because of something that some troublemakers have done the politician himself has come out and said the same things that this is the work of you know what they're calling troublemakers he said on the member of the legislative assembly for this constituency you are all my family is appealing to. everyone in this area to remain calm police have arrested more than 100 people in relation to the violence there is a very strict curfew in place in the 3 areas where the violence took place on tuesday night and the entire city. there's now

a ban on more than 5 people gathering all over the city to try and stop any further acts of violence ok we'll leave it there are many things wrong and a correspondent there reporting live from new delhi. sri lanka's new cabinet has been sworn in a week after the governing party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections in a 1st for the country the ceremony was held as an ancient buddhist temple in the central city of candy the election windows pave the way for the prime minister. and his brother president go to buy a rajapaksa to amend the constitution for more on this line to the capital colombo and al jazeera is correspondent. why did they choose this particular venue. preserve the p.p. and the road approx have this sort of thing go around the posts of the sri lankan politic at the moment the mindset the fact that that needs a landslide victory that came to the party at the recent elections. mainly

from the sinkhole the buddhist majority something they're not going to forget at this wedding in being held at the historic temple of the 2 think can be very much a nod to that knowledge isn't that very much the representative of the majority and that's where we see this bet in mind that it comes it's the 3rd swearing in essentially to take place at. no one famous buddhist monument the president took over in the one. the central part of the country last november the prime minister just on sunday again at another historic buddhist temple and now we see the cabinet peter does this mean moving forward we might see a cabinet or a government that is i guess more inclusive than perhaps what we've seen before.

who were the west still at a very early stages everyone is trying to heed what this government calls for sri lanka in the future now the fact that we've had essentially a government that's not had to rely on minority votes for that massive victory is something that is a little bit of a concern because they've proved 1st of the presidential elections in november 29000 and now at the parliamentary elections that they can pretty much go it alone and go it alone essentially to give them a 2 thirds majority a controlling stake in parliament so how that impacts on the way the mechanism of government takes place in terms of the actual cabinet that's the name that out 8 of relatively few minority representatives very much their supporters being included

so as to how inclusive it's going to be or this field this is it it to be is something that we'll have to wait and see peter understood you'll keep us posted i'm sure you know thanks very much milton mondays there in columbus. at least 20 people are still missing more than a week after a huge blast in beirut 200 others confirmed that 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the devastating and already suffering city on tuesday the community held a vigil to honor lives lost so in order as more from beirut. a moment of silence for the dead the wounded and the missing church bells rang alongside the muslim call to prayer for

a few moments at least this deeply divided and broken nation came together. lebanon remembered a moment that changed the lives of so many people it's been a week since the explosion of beirut port destroyed lives and homes just meters from the blast site people gathered to demand justice and accountability so all those in power knew about the explosives that reports on the risk the lives of the people the should be an international investigation because we don't trust the lebanese investigations lebanese authorities including the president knew there was a large stockpile of ammonium nitrate at the port. but the 10 firefighters who died in the blast were not aware of the risks when they were sent to put out a fire of unknown origin we're up against a competence we're all up against corruption we're up against all that system that got us where we are today and it's the whole system that is wrong it's the whole

system that is flawed and we want bury our dead before we bury their corruption before we bury them the blast deep in then already dire economic crisis which pushed half of lebanon's 5000000 people into poverty aid agencies are distributing food and medicine filling the void left by a government that has long fail. to provide basic services the state is close to bankruptcy this is all that it got from the doctor and the hospital no one supported me. that's why. i lost my job 1st and i lost my home and i lost my god from schools private hospitals were owed billions of dollars by successive governments which left the public sector ill equipped and underfunded i just want to say to the international community if you want if you can help these situations that really. were substituting. the country and the government's role towards its people it will be very interesting step the government has now resigned

as though it will remain as a caretaker ministration until a new cabinet is formed these people want what they call an independent salvation government but there are others who still support the sectarian system that they believe protects that they want a national unity government that will bring back the same political elite. that is what people fighting for a new country fear they have the will but not the tools to bring change. french president. is leading an international initiative to solve the crisis he says lebanon needs fundamental change and a new political order he didn't elaborate. beirut. correspondent bernard smith joining us live now from a school in beirut that was like many many other buildings so badly damaged in the blast bernard you're just a few 100 meters from what was i guess ground 0 how's it looking. so we're 600 meters from where the blast happened and this is what's left of

beirut's old school the school of the 3 doctors it stood here for more than 100 years i think. 185 years i'm not a hoary is the principle here not just to explain what's behind us 1st but we're looking up behind your shoulder we are looking at the playground of the school which was completed. by the blast this is a structure that was recently added it was to the norms it was supposed to suspect and earthquake but it was completely destroyed by the blast as you see it's a historical building and now it is gravely damaged so there are damages to the structure of this historical you know when and how is the school going to reopen. it's difficult to say at this point when is this going through the open 1st they are assessing the damage we need to assess how much it will cost and more that

we need to secure the funds because the whole city of beirut is destroyed this is situation is f.e.d.'s the greek orthodox school of which most of its institutions destroyed the hospital. and for the schools so we have to secure the phone still make sure that this is the only things and what we the people that we serve we would be able to continue serving them. it would take time i don't expect so before 3 or 4 months. now we've seen a lot of buildings destroyed like the. this of course is your life as well as your job. what are your views how do you hope that this will recover i mean how do you feel about what you've seen. as i was saying earlier i feel like. i have was born and i've lived all my life this is the 3rd time this.

so we are at this point devastated but we are also resilient we have rebuilt before we have developed and served the city and i hope that this time we will also join forces parents are very supportive the parents of the learners of the school or the community to support them and all together 3rd we rebuilt for the 3rd or the 4th. thank you very much the very best of luck this is one of a dozen schools in beirut that have been damaged because of the explosion of the practical challenges of getting the money for rebuilding securing the buildings and then getting the hardware into the country the glass the masonry everything that you need to really to a stop to rebuild these institutions already the school has been closed early because of covert they were hoping to start the term but now is not going to happen peter many thanks. beirut. still to come here on al-jazeera

mexico's former president is the latest to be implicated in a major bribery scandal. plus the rise in child labor in syria how the war is forcing children to earn money for their families. hello there's still plenty of warm sunshine across much of europe but we have also seen in the last few hours quite a lot of showers and thunderstorms. it's really about you all the way from the southwest across the central and western areas now calls with good sunshine across into southern england skies are becoming a little hazy there is more cloud around similar story across into the netherlands as well but still enjoying the sunshine very different story across into greece this is about 100 kilometers northeast of athens and this of course is

a village that was just inundated with those flash floods about 5 people died at least 5 people in all this is deborah of course not speak as well as this is mother of course flowed through people's homes now the good news is it should be a lot dry in greece for the next couple days but there will be showers and maybe since got of thunderstorms erupting to the north and west of there and then you'll see here across the bay of biscay we've got a system just sitting waiting to move in already the rain through wednesday quite heavy across northern areas of france and that will sweep in bringing the rain it'll also extend up into much of the south and southwest of the u.k. also pushing across into the low countries and at times we could have some rather heavy downpours in that but the rain. the west that's keeping the temperatures a little bit lower but the central and eastern as it's still very warm but finally cooling down in london certainly by saturday and a similar story across into paris. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create

its own democracy with social media on at will online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he keeps human equating it business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on al-jazeera. heard. from. welcome back welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera this is the 7 g. bullets in the world news your top stories 3 people have died in violence in the indian city of bangalore sparked by an allegedly offensive social media post about

the prophet mohammed dozens were injured when protesters clashed with police who then fired on the crowd. sri lanka's new cabinet has been sworn in a week after the governing party won a landslide election victory it paves the way for the prime minister mahinda rajapaksa and his brother president go to by a rajapaksa to amend the constitution. some 2000 houses have been left uninhabitable in the lebanese capital beirut after the explosion last week tens of thousands of businesses have been damaged or destroyed adding to the country's economic crisis. for the 1st time ever in the united states a black woman will run for the office of vice president after much anticipation presumptive democratic nominee joe biden has chosen senator conrad harris as his running mates for the elections on november the 2nd in a tweet confirming his pick mr biden praised sen harris's record on social justice saying i have the great honor to announce that i've picked common harris as

a fearless fighter for the little guy one of the country's finest public servants as my running mate is what carla harris tweeted joe biden can unify the american people because he spent his life fighting for us and as president he will build an america that lives up to our ideals i'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief alan fischer reports now from washington. pamela harris's been the favorite to fill the democrats for some time. she brings a high national profile as a former presidential candidate a senator from california. and family connections to biden she was close friends with his late son both because this is my belief child of a mother from india and father from jamaica she takes 2 important boxes as a woman of color. such as a dynamic or and really good message right she's really good at talking about how

they came in made very clear to the audience in to the american people former attorney general of california she's used her skills as a prosecutor in senate hearings to pick apart arguments put forward by the counted ministration but that all title has also brought criticism during her tenure as attorney general there are a lot of questions raised about her willingness to intervene in a variety of types of cases including police excessive use of force allegations as well as areas around drug policy that could really become a problem. in the 1st democratic presidential candidate debate she had a tense exchange when she said joe biden's past few on the segregated schools was heart full of the modern us politics at all seems a long time ago smart and charismatic she's been the front runner for a reason and 55 more than 20 years younger than the candidate she's seen as the

next generation of democratic leaders alan fischer al-jazeera washington. mexico's former president and rica pena nieto has been accused of funneling millions of dollars in bribes to fund his election campaign and by votes and influence in the congress he's accused of taking money from ota brushed a brazilian construction firm that's admitted paying bribes and 12 countries including mexico former head of mexico state run oil company emilio who's facing corruption charges says pena nieto demanded the money be given to his team and. in the case of british lasorda said there were a series of bribes exceeding $4400000.00 that were ultimately used for the 2012 presidential campaign and the man who later became president along with his finance minister are the ones who according to these accusations order the sawyer to give this money to various election advisors from abroad. the coronavirus pandemic has

plunged the u.k. economy into its deepest economic slump that we've seen for 11 years gross domestic product collapsed by more than 20 percent between april and june the height of the lockdown in the u.k. the economy is now officially in recession for the 1st time since the 2008 financial crisis but there are already some signs of recovery g.d.p. did pick up slightly in the month of june restrictions were being eased economics editor of italy joins us live from london how bad is it compared to some of those key other e.u. states a bit. well. it's the biggest fall in quarterly g.d.p. in in history and when you compare that to europe and the g 7 the worst economic slump compared to those particular nations you may remember spain contracted 18 percent and the united states 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter so this

is really terrible for the u.k. economy it was the last into lockdown and the last out of lockdown and that may explain the reason why the slump has been so bad in the united kingdom but the bank of england now expects a recovery sometime in 2021 and we just saw that the june g.d.p. in reading came in the 8.7 percent so there is hope that things are moving and as the lockdown has been eased retailers are reporting that retail numbers are back to almost pre-code it levels not exactly there yet but people are going out there and they are boiling sensual items right at this very moment but the biggest fear has to be for jobs because once. the for the game is comes to an end.

there is real fear that the job numbers could actually roy's only get 3.9 percent and that could rise to 7.5 percent by the end by the end of the year so there's expectation that that the chancellor war have to do something to keep people in jobs current for the last game it's keeping 9600000 people in work and a real effort needs to be made to make sure that the numbers don't rise because they expected numbers are expected to rise to 3000000 which is the worst unemployment numbers since the 1980s when there was a collapse in the money in fact. and what does it mean for jobs very briefly because the numbers are still kind of filtering through to how the numbers are collated surely mean just yesterday deborah numbs a high street department store announced is going to layoff 2500 people. that's correct and most of the jobs that we are seeing that are being lost in the

tourism industry and the retail industry so it's the face to face. economy which is suffering suffering the most currently but we could see this spreading to the rest of the economy as well. remember that basically people aren't flying anymore and because of that there's. the big manufacturers. are reducing the amount of planes that making and they're looking at job cuts as well so we could see a lot more come in in various fields not just in the face to face in farm which is the most most of the retail sector ok it will be but there are many things like anomic status or reporting from london. the world health organization is warning of a new surge and injections across latin american countries that had initially controlled the pandemic the region is being badly hit and the economic impact of

long nocturnes or sparking protests and asunder m.p.'s the reports now from the colombian capital. policeman use a blanket to carry the body of a 19 victim in this morgue in the volume in capital. as ospital struggle to cope with the number of dead in the poorest country in latin america. plastic bags are used to cover workers' shoes when proper protective gear is not available bodies left out in the streets or stored in the chapel relatives say they have to wait for days to collect the body of a loved one in the. reality is that it's all collapsed when it comes to care in the clinic for patients and moderate conditions as well as in intensive care the more has collapsed in this critical situation we didn't expect it will be so many bodies . believe he has been ill prepared to cope with more than 1000 cases in almost 4000 deaths and the situation has been worsened by days of protests and roadblocks.

with people angry at the interim government of janine and yes purpose presidential elections for a 3rd time the road blocks are making it difficult for oxygen and other medicine to reach hospitals. as well a 2nd wave of 1000 infections and a growing political crisis has seen angry citizens take to the streets especially in mineral rich areas where the poor are demanding more economic aid and healthcare support at least 3 indigenous protestors have died and 17 people were injured in clashes with the police. the oil companies producing thousands and thousands of somalis a day while the coup karma communities of the poor in our basin are submerged in the greatest poverty and with this coronavirus pandemic that still does not cease we've seen their total abandonment due to the absence of medicine or medical

assistance. latin america is seeing worrisome spikes in. infections even in countries that had initially controlled the virus columbia and tuesday passed $400000.00 confirmed cases become the country with the 8 highest total the world on a per capita basis colombia's fatality number at this time among the worst in the world which has 0 tory to say you're considering an extension of a number of restrictive measures that were supposed to be this week alison that. new 5000000 children have been born in syria since the civil war began 9 years ago the conflict has had a devastating impact on their lives with many forced to drop out of school to support their families aid agencies are warning a deepening economic questions could push even more children into work is priyanka gupta. am with should be school.

instead he's spending his days at a car repair shop in a province trying to scrape a living. i work to look after my family if i don't work we won't be able to live. at home his mother attempts to offer him a sense of normal childhood amants father was arrested by government forces and 22 of the family has no idea where he is and with his only 13 but his short life has been defined by 9 years of war he carried the scars into an uncertain future. he used to go to school then leave to work and he kept doing so until the day the repair shop with bombed and he got injured seeing ahmed like this breaks my heart because he cannot rest and he will never be able to he used to go from school to work and can't take

a break due to poverty if he doesn't work we won't be able to live his younger brother also works now. half of syria's children today have only known death devastation and displacement 41 percent of those old enough to be in school are not getting education for 75 percent of families in poverty child labor has become an important source of income. there are fears that the collapse of the syrian currency and an economic crisis will force even more children like amad into work. and people living in the war torn country are reportedly living under $2.00 a day which is basically nothing and with inflation of the currency and with the economic crisis in syria with imposing sanctions it is likely that this number is under estimated which means very chilled more are going

to be pushed into child labor the war has killed maimed and traumatized serious children it's all to deny them their childhood and as the conflict drags on the future for this last generation now seems even more stark priyanka gupta is here. updating your top stories here on al-jazeera 3 people have died in violence in the indian city of bangalore sparked by an allegedly offensive social media post about the prophet muhammad dozens were injured when protesters clashed with the police who fired on the crowd and that's what the random has more now from new delhi then a lot of police are saying that there was what they're calling a mob of people went to this congress politician a politician belonging to the congress party to his home late on tuesday evening

and started trying to attack his hall and they set 2 vehicles on fire now this is the cause though thought to be angry about a facebook post a village facebook post made by the politicians nephew which insulted islam's prophet muhammad police say that this group a very large group of people then broke off into 2 groups that they went around the neighborhood shopkeepers to close this stores damaging properties setting their course on fire before going to 2 different police stations trying his new cabinet has been sworn in a week after the governing party won a landslide election victory paves the way for the prime minister but in the rajapaksa and his brother president go to buy a rajapaksa to amend the constitution 70000 houses have been left uninhabitable in the lebanese capital beirut after the explosion last week tens of thousands of businesses have been damaged or destroyed adding to the country's economic crisis.

the presumptive democratic nominee joe biden has picked senator coleman harris to be his running mate in november as u.s. presidential election she's the 1st black woman to be on a major party ticket heiress previously served as california's attorney general. mexico's former president enrique pena nieto has been accused of funneling millions of dollars in bribes to fund his election campaign and to buy votes and influence in congress he's accused of taking money from disgraced brazilian construction order brushed the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the u.k. into its deepest economic slump on record g.d.p. collapse by more than 20 percent between april and june the u.k. economy is now officially in recession for the 1st time since 2008 up next inside story more news after that i'll see that. as protests rage over police brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced

to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on a. conference defeat armed groups in the south paris vows to continue fighting in the south of legion the pledge follows the killing of french aid workers in the jack but his friends capable of confronting the fighters and how big a threat they pose to feast in west africa this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. struggle to cope with the years of attacks by armed groups that have killed thousands and forced many wars.