tree into its toughest universities. we return to see other students and the skiing helping change the face of india. super 30 amount as they are. i am . this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian from again this is the news i live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes thousands to tell you did better reuss in protests against the disputed election the e.u. foreign ministers call an emergency meeting to discuss possible sanctions. many homes and schools damaged beyond repair one week on from the beirut blast cleanup

efforts reveal the extent of the devastation. growing concern over russia's corona virus vaccine germany says the product must be tested safely before being made public. reports of a social media 1st considered offensive to islam sparked violent protests in southern india. and the european champions league returns to action with an all new formats 8 seems on portugal for a knockout tournament it will decide this season's once. we begin this news hour with the latest fallout from sunday's disputed presidential election in belarus state media reporting that several protest organizers have been arrested in minsk it brings the total number of opposition supporters detained to more than $6000.00 protesters have rallied for 3 nights now since president

alexander lukashenko was declared the winner of the vote his opposition is opponents say was fortunate the country could now face sanctions because of suspected vote rigging a violent crackdown on demonstrators e.u. foreign ministers are expected to meet on friday to discuss what action to take that's go live out of minsk al-jazeera step is there step where are you what's happening. on the i'm here at the rally in that the central. hundreds of women wearing white clothes and waving flowers have been walking around the city center for hours already to show their anger and also they are concerned about the police crackdown that has been happening here for days it's a very different tactic than what we saw in the last couple of nights when the people came out at night protesting not knowing really what to do so there were different parts of the city now this is one group of women as you can see the old

waving flowers they are also saying stop beating us and they get an enormous response from people around this area who see them there. their horns as a sign of opposition and also they always think people are crying people are really emotional to see this act of defiance because these women are very brave if we consider what violence has been happening in the last couple of nights around 6000 people have been detained already of course they are now also risking arrest but so far police has left them alone. outside a detention center in the city what was happening there very different mood. definitely a fairy emotional also very sad also lots of people crying there they were waiting for news about their loved ones who have been detained very randomly been detained

just by walking through the city streets that sitting on a bench people were picked up by police and brought to detention centers and then mass nothing was heard from them ever since we've spoken to a very young 17 year old boy who was detained and very badly beaten so that's basically the tactic by police in the last couple of things very very strong be things also shootings with rubber bullets so there is a very strong message cheer for him to govern. to scare people off the streets but this is a yeah this is a very grand act of defiance i would say any security presence that to try to stop this particular demonstration i mean. why is the government clamping down as it is what is it saying about its heavy handed response. to be honest i think the government looked at shanghai is completely confused what to do with this out poor of anger and this opposition force that has reached

unprecedented heights has never seen such a thing during his 26 years rule and the only answer he has found so far is to crack down on the ferry badly and he's been hitting our whole family women children men everyone has been hit by this so this has created even more anger and we see these women they're not going to accept this so he will need to find another solution there have been talks about negotiations with the opposition but the last comments we got from my present look i shan't go was that he wants to create jobs because he says all these protests protesters are criminals and they simply have nothing else to do stephanie thanks dana reporting live from minsk let's speak to childish is an assistant professor of political science at the massachusetts institute of technology she joins us now live via skype from boston

what do you make of what's going on in bene risk right now. so main developments as i say are the unprecedented mobilization of the population bellerose has seen some electoral process before but this is by far the largest response so there is widespread feeling in belarus of disillusionment with the regime anger and finally a willingness. to act on it so the situation is still developing it's very difficult to predict how it will go by you know the important things are people going in the streets massive response by the state lights bread internet shutdowns which are meant to stop ordination among the protesters. and even in small regions and villages all around people are going in the street and

some of the state on factories have organized strikes in response will the heavy handed government crackdown quell these demonstrations will simply galvanize the protesters and bring more of them out onto the streets. my sense is that eventually the correct down will reduce the number of people in the streets but in the long run it probably will backfire because the people are increasingly angry so. you know it's a short round solution that just abolitionists the situation in the long run what about the threats of sanctions will that impact the government and its behavior in any way. so bellamy's has been under sanctions for a very long time. starting 2008 or so or so there have

been a new round after cost electoral violence in the 2010 elections there's been a round of sanctions myself the sanctions are having a symbolic in fact. they need not necessarily change the behavior of the regime which is already very much isolated from the west or so ready elects economic ties to abroad but i do believe it's an effective measure to signal opposition to the police brutality. and to what is happening in belarus right now even if if it even if sanctions will not have an immediate result for many thanks indeed for the childish that. speaking from boston. now to lebanon where cleanup efforts are continuing with tens of thousands of homes damaged and more than

a dozen schools destroyed by last week's blast to the city's poorest the scale of the devastation is heaping pressure on the country's leaders talks on the way to try to form a new government but politicians have been warned that any foreign aid will be dependent upon change and reform let's go live to beirut now to serious but it's worth is that where are you what's happening. this is the neighborhood of beirut behind me like everywhere else every flaw of every building is glass smushed door smashed in so the far left all the cloud being smashed up there are deco building in the middle destroyed it's very hard to give you an idea of the scale of the damage we hope that the different locations we've shown you since we've been here this last week has give you an indication of how widespread this sort of damage is the challenge now is to

prioritize where and how to effect and. how to find the funds to do that. rich or poor the beirut explosion didn't discriminate 10 people died in the luxury seaview apartments that overlooked the port and alice assad's house she and her 2 children had left home half an hour before the blast they raced back to find this alice pays a rent fixed in the 1960 s. the common practice here if the landlord can't afford the repairs or release the funds home will probably stay like this. the most important thing is for the kids to have a place to sleep comfortably with food we will not starve but we need our home back businesses too must find the money to rebuild if they think it's worth it. this country was already enjoying an economic crisis after a shortage of foreign currency last year sent its currency into freefall i have to

go through it if you will be able to put more money into it i don't know we need help not only us. everybody. needs someone. 70000 homes and a so far uncalculated number of businesses were destroyed or damaged when 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded at beirut port last tuesday. a dozen schools also need rebuilding this is the city's oldest the school of the 3 doctors voted this in on the challenges huge an explosion of the scale is exceptional before rebuilding you have to appraise the structure see if everything can hold up sometimes you have to consolidate sometimes you have to destroy to rebuild it so it will take real building expertise. every homeowner every business every institution needs glass and building materials and nearly all of that is imported. so they need

dollars. but their money is locked in inaccessible bank accounts for many here it's effectively stolen by political elite that's been running the country for decades. so the pressure is on the parliament to appoint a new cabinet and a new prime minister and he's been made clear to them that they'll be no international funds for this city's reconstruction unless the parliament approves of a cabinet and a prime minister but he's not dominated by iran back hezbollah and its allies and the french president emanuel has given them until september the 1st to come up with some sort of solution. many thanks indeed i was there has been a smith there reporting live from beirut. this is the news hour from out 0 still to come on the program a historic choice democratic presidential hopeful joe biden names. this as his running mate. an all night curfew 3 days of violence in

a city in eastern sudan leads to heavy restrictions. and in sport back with a win serena williams placed her 1st competitive match in 6 months. at least one person has been killed and several seriously injured in a train derailment in scotland it happened near stonehaven and aberdeen show 1st minister nicola sturgeon has declared a major instance the cause of the drill mount is unclear at the moment but heavy rain caused flooding and travel disruption in the area overnight germany's health minister says that he's skeptical of russia's coronavirus vaccine on tuesday russia became the 1st country in the world to give regulator e approval to a covert 19 vaccine president vladimir putin even said his daughter had received it

germany's in spawn says the vaccine hasn't been sufficiently sufficiently tested and could be dangerous dominic kane reports now from berlin. mr spann saying that the problem with rushing a vaccine out which hasn't been shown openly to be safe and to be effective against the corona virus is something which he fears he fears could kill off the efficacy of vaccines generally going forward the point they're making therefore is that they need to be able to see the data upon which the russian government has based its assertions that this vaccine is good to go as it were contrast what the german government is saying with what certain other governments are saying a suggestion that the governor of a large state in brazil is going to be in meetings on wednesday with the ambassador the russian ambassador in brazil about what might be able to be done there but even in brazil there are certain senior officials who have expressed grave reservations

as i say about the haste with which the russian government is proceeding to marketing this vaccine as something that large chunks of society will be able to use any time soon as i say the most important thing here is the germans are being very cautious they themselves have their own research into vaccines they've put a lot of money in into wards but they are saying what needs to be done here is proper peer research and open research where other scientists are able to analyze what the germans have done what anything to victim has done that says it's found a vaccine so that it can be verified and falsified and because they say they haven't been able to do that that explains the the caution with which they are viewing what's going on in moscow. and zimbabwe a prominent journalist and government critic is back in court to ask for bail hopewell. was arrested alongside an opposition politician last month and charged with incitement ahead of anti-government protests president. sorry

has been accused of cracking down on dissent as calls grew for his resignation. speak to a p.s.p. jew who's a senior consultant for the international crisis group the southern african nations good to have you with us so what do you make of what's going on in this case is he likely to get bail having been having it been denied to him in the past. while i was just communicating with some colleagues in zimbabwe about the hearing is ongoing and i understand that the state's case to hold part of the state's case is not being heard in camera in front of the magistrate this is a renewed bella occasion given his previous bad luck the question was refused in the magistrate's court and then that refusal upheld in the high court controversially last week so this is an attempt to say there are new circumstances

and i hope what you know should be granted well my sense is that he's likely to be granted. with some pretty severe restrictions on his social media and his public communications this will be used by the zimbabwean government to illustrate judicial independence and so forth. they would necessarily expect in the kind of negative feedback that they have received in the last couple of weeks around this case and related matters. i think that this may be an opportunity to to release him now but they may be concerned also about the details that he will provide about fissions inside prison and the concerns about the spread of covert in prison as well so we will hear this so the noon but my sense is that it's like he will be granted this is the government becoming more authoritarian and. does it really care how it treats the country's journalists and political leaders.

well i think it what we see adrian is is a selective engagement around these issues yes there is some concern in some quarters about external perceptions but only in as much as this interferes with plans around reintegration and so forth we've seen in the last few days south africa stepping up to the plate the african national congress for the 1st time saying how politically that they feel that there's a political crisis with within the government and zanu p.f. roth at the border and these kinds all this kind of messaging is really being responded to in in a very hard nosed way by the zimbabwean government and the ruling party who are hunkering down there and very very defensive. so that shows you that they are sensitive at one level but they're also

a party in government that have demonstrated in the past a propensity to adopt high risk and sometimes dangerous bylane strategies so i think you know this is a very sensitive time just coming at the time of the statics summit that is running this week not that this issue will be mentioned i'm sure it will be sidestepped completely by the summit but certainly there are real concerns arising about what's going on it's a bump with the african union commission chair says he's worried about the the disproportionate use of force in zimbabwe president when on guard for his from his his pot insists that there there is no crisis merely what he describes as a western backed smear campaign was he mean by that. well we've heard this narrative before mainly in the time that president mugabe was president and certainly for the 1st year of president moment god was. ruled as president this kind of and us the narrative was parked away it was resuscitated following the

protests and the bile and clamp down in general last year where a number of people were killed many were tortured and beaten in the security round up that that followed that and we've seen this now now unfolding over the last 18 months and getting harder and harder again so it's not new and it shows really it demonstrates that some of the continuity is that we see between the old government and what president managua calls the 2nd republic the new administration and you know this is really worrying see these kind of authoritarian street actions in play but those of us that have been watching for a very long time i'm not particularly surprised by this given the role and the dominance of the security forces and political decision making in zimbabwe really good to talk to you piers many thanks indeed. at least 127

people have been killed in south sudan in fighting between government forces and civilians the army was carrying out an operation to disarm civilians in what upstate when the violence began reports say that on dudes in the greater tonge area sank security forces an investigation is underway and in sudan an all night curfew has been imposed in the eastern city of port sudan after 3 days of violence there medical sources say that at least 25 people have been killed since fighting broke out between members of rival ethnic groups a state of emergency was imposed last year after fighting between the 2 sides more now from al-jazeera morgan in car too. first of all let's look at how this has been unfolding this is not the 1st time we see tribal clashes between the benny amr and the new but tribes it's been going on for years now and has escalated over the past 12 months for the last year we've seen fighting resulting in the deaths of dozens

and injuries of hundreds we've seen state of emergency impose their will that will eventually lifted but it's kind of gives you an idea of the wider context of not just the eastern part of sudan but really the whole country tribal identities and ethnic identities do play a role in how things unfold on the ground now in fort hood it's a sort of between 2 individuals from of causing tribes from the benyamin and the new but tribes that eventually pulls in members of the same tribe so we've seen the government responding by sending more troops yesterday the prime minister is due to brief the security and defense committee tomorrow to try to figure out a solution and they've called for calm the newly appointed civilian governor has imposed a state curfew in the eastern city so they are trying to mitigate the tribal clashes between the 2 sides but this needs to be addressed as the roots the root causes of this conflict needs to be addressed now those 2 sides as i said have been clashing

for several years now which has escalated over the past few months no solution no deep rooted solution has been found yet and for many they think that it's an issue of who actually deserves to be imports and who deserves to be identified as part of the east and who is actually somebody who is overstepping on a territory that is not very so a lot of issues right now at stake mostly the issue of ethnic identity and tribal identity and who belongs and who doesn't and it looks like every government does not step in which is something that activists have been called for then this violence will continue. 3 people have died in the indian city of bangalore violence sparked by an allegedly offensive social media post about the prophet muhammad dozens were injured when protesters clashed with police who fired on a crowd facebook post was made by a relative of a local politician. elizabeth broderick reports. the charred remains of a violent protest burnt out vehicles a strewn on the streets of bengal police say that saf to

a 1000 people went to the home of a politician on tuesday night angry about an alleged facebook post by his relative which insulted as labs prophet muhammad they said vehicles on fire outside the home and destroyed property in the neighborhood well that's a lot of. muslim men came from there between 930 to 10 there were around 20 of them getting beaten and. the only targeted our street and in our street they destroyed at least 2 or 3 cars and 22 they also broke all the windows of our house and. the protesters then went to 2 police stations and set at least $200.00 motorbikes on fire police say they were forced to shoot at the crowds of people who wouldn't disperse when charged with battens or tear gassed several people were killed and 60 police officers were injured. police have a rest of the bad accused of writing the facebook post but he says his account was

hacked there were also arrested one of the leaders of a muslim political group called the social democratic party of india in connection with the violence 145 others have been detained the police are also asking people to cooperate and maintain peace oh. this group of muslim men formed a human chain around a hindu temple to protect it from protesters police say the situation is under control but there is a curfew in place in 3 neighborhoods and a ban on more than 4 people gathering throughout the city elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. sri lanka's new cabinet has been sworn in a week off to the governing party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections in a 1st for the country the ceremony was held at an ancient buddhist temple in the central city of candy the election when paves the way for prime minister and the rajapaksa and his brother president rajapaksa to amend the constitution now for

that as is in the capital colombo and reports that concern is growing over the future of minorities under the new government everyone is trying to. walk this government. in the future the fact that we've had essentially a government that's not had to rely on minority votes for the massive victory is something that is a little bit of a concern because they've proved to the presidential election in november 29th even now at the parliamentary elections that they can pretty much go into lord and. essentially to give them a 2 thirds majority a controlling stake in parliament so how that impacts on the. the mechanism of government takes place in terms of the actual cabinet that's. 8 relatively few minority to represent the very much supporters being included. as to how

inclusive it's going to be or they feel this is dated to be something that will have to wait and see taiwan's president has called on china to use dialogue instead of oppression in hong kong on monday on kong police arrested 10 people including a newspaper and a high profile pro-democracy activist under the new beijing imposed national security law saying when promised the government would support the people of hong kong. thank you they even go once again solemnly calling the beijing authorities that when the people are taking a stand together and fighting for something the government should find ways to resolve disputes instead of oppressing the people and depriving them of freedom and human rights only by having a sincere dialogue with the people of hong kong can dispute speed result in can hong kong society return to come out as is a very and brown in hong kong says that size comments a part of

a wider diplomatic strategy. i think president zine when has been doing her very best to raise her international profile during the past few months of course in january she was reelected for a 2nd term and almost immediately she started weighing in to the situation here in hong kong she's been highly critical of the national security law that's been imposed on hong kong she's even gone so far as to offer sanctuary to people in hong kong who might want to go to taiwan so in a sense president zaya is on a bit of a role right now and she wants to keep that momentum going because calls taiwan is only recognized by 15 countries and this week taiwan had something of a diplomatic coup when the u.s. health secretary visited taipei now he became the most high profile u.s. official to go to taiwan is in decades so zion when is a leader who wants to keep the spotlight shining on her why well of course we have

the presidential election in the united states in just a few months time and she wants to ensure the taiwan remains a sort of foreign policy priority no matter which candidate is successful in that election and the reason is that of course the united states has a defense pact with taiwan it's obligated to come to taiwan's defense if it's attacked by china and she wants to make sure that no matter who wins will stick to that pledge now the u.k. is currently enjoying if that's the word a bit of a heat wave but don't worry normal service is about to resume it's tell us more make sure we're just have some folks yeah thanks very much and that pretty much sums it up it's been extreme heat of course temperatures getting well up into the thirty's i find we get above about 28 degrees it gets a little bit too close to here we need a good old summer storm to break the heat and we've seen some of that recently lots of clout there across parts of england northern england pushing up into wells or up into scotland in the course we had that durham and unfortunately the northeast

discussion in that. may well have been j.t. one of these severe storms just rumbling away up towards the far north of the u.k. causing a landslide let's believe it was of low pressure currently located just around the bay of biscay southern parts of france northern areas of spain and that's been swirling away that's going to bring our wetter weather as stormy weather could see some huge storms coming in here possibility of some flash flooding some wetter weather grassy coming from but when it does come 3 fastballs kind of break the hates at the moment today is looking at the last hot day 33 celsius in london 35 there for paris and then we'll see that he grew actually just get squeezed a little further east which is we go on through thursday on through friday going on into the weekend i hate getting pushed over towards poland towards the boat states cooler weather more comfortable weather gravity coming back in behind for the here and now we have got those showers making the way across that western side if you are swirling across the northwest as we go through thursday and be back to normal

next week. thanks. still to come here on the news now. the deepest economic slump on record the u.k. plunges into recession because of a coronavirus. mexico's former president is the latest to be implicated in a major bribery scandal. and in sport the one man show that resulted in a record breaking performance in the n.b.a. .

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news out from out of syria the headlines will than 6000 opposition supporters have been detained by the reuss following sunday's disputed presidential election e.u. foreign ministers of the hold an emergency meeting to consider possible sanctions. the german health minister says that russia's russia's corona virus vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and could be dangerous for tuesday russia became the 1st country to give regulate free approval to a covert 19 vaccine. 70000 homes have been left uninhabitable in lebanese capital beirut following last week's explosions tens of thousands of businesses have been damaged or destroyed adding to the country's economic crisis. hardliners in iran's parliament have rejected the president's nominee for trade minister it's the latest setback to ass on rouhani as authority he had named hossein madonnas to bonnie to the position after sacking the previous minister

early this year conservatives in parliament moved to impeach rouhani the plan was dropped off the supreme leader ayatollah ali how many intervenes let's go live that attack iran to syria's assad bake can that tell us more why have they rejected the president's nobody asset. well this cited a lot of reasons of partly they said that his previous experience in different fields was adequate enough and one parliamentarian actually said that he wasn't strong enough to take on the mafia also in the country now when parliamentarians talk about the mafia in the country they're talking about influential and powerful figures in the country that have control over certain industries such as manufacturing nevertheless it's not been a very good day for president hassan rouhani this is a conservative parliament the most conservative party in the country has seen since the revolution in 198940 mph voted against his appointment and 100 for 4 that

means that president rouhani would have to go back to parliament and present a different candidate or even the same candidate again for a vote of confidence now president rouhani was expected to turn up at parliament but the krona virus task force advised against it because of the pandemic now some say that's quite convenient considering the treatment foreign minister devolves reef last month that he was repeatedly heckled interrupted and even called a liar that prompted the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei the political and spiritual leader of the country to come out and ask and peace to be respectful and not to insult so we understand that this is very difficult for president hassan rouhani he does face a conservative parliament but there's also plans to impeach his oil minister and interior minister if that happens that will force president rouhani to go back to this parliament and present his government for a vote of confidence all this is taking place while iran is trying to back to the united states at the united nations not to have this arms embargo extended the economy is in great shape the currency is losing value this united states sanctions

against the country why is this interior internal battle is taking place between these different political factions. live in terror from the. at least one soldier has been killed in an explosion in the yemeni city of ties 9 others were injured when a bomb was detonated inside a national army vehicle in the. area it's the 2nd such incident in less than 2 weeks demonstrators any amount of burned tires and set up roadblocks to protest against deteriorating water and electricity services water has been cut off for days in the city of aden and there are daily blackouts protests to say essential services must be protected from rival powers vying for control let's go back to the fallout from that devastating explosion last week in beirut christopher neda is

a hotel owner in the city he's been housing people who've lost their homes because of the blast as well as aid workers helping with the relief efforts and he joins us now via skype christopher good to have you with us how many people at the moment are you putting up at the moment we have 60 people who lost their houses. up to 30 minutes of the me my father and they're not that the 15 we have that didn't start the posting on social media that you are offering help to people in need and i'm grateful that my name voice has been and that for now 60 people are saved. because we took the initiative but no one and i mean no one is going to sleep without a roof over their heads tonight how long do you envisage having them to stay there in the hotel with you. actually 45 people have left. because only their houses but less in their houses has been shuttered and the other

15 people currently staying at the don't have they have their house completely shut so i'm gonna accept them in my own with my open hearts and open doors until they can safely go back to their house what about the hotel itself did it survive largely on a scale from the effects of the explosion ok so actually the 15 minutes drive away from the explosion some have been shut other than nothing major has been done ok so you're helping or 5 families are going to giving them free rooms for a month which is pretty good of you and i am prepared to take it anymore people who find themselves homeless yes i currently have people calling me from the hospital but have been saying for the hospital for a week and they still have not realized that their houses destroyed and i am still

accepting everyone on that situation is ok so how do people get in touch with you if they do need a roof over their heads tonight 1st of all so like i shared on social media my phone number and everyone is calling me asking for help and. yeah that's all right christopher many thanks indeed for coming on to tell us about it and i would like to share a message it's possible to go it's gone. i want to see what the who no matter what does your religion no matter what is your skin color or what is your nationality think that this is humanity and you die because at the end of the day god this is of love is always the answer for christopher neda the owner of the even hotel in beirut when he thanks the crest of the. thank you for having me the. u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden is to meet his running mates of the harris his

hometown of wilmington delaware in the coming hours it will be their 1st appearance together since by named as vice presidential contender on tuesday and they're expected to host a virtual fundraiser for their campaign i was there as alan fischer joins us now live from washington d.c. a virtual fundraiser alan how's that going to work. well the way that a lot of the campaign events have been working the moment they'll go online they'll get people to join and then the last them to contribute what is interesting is that the biden campaign says that between $4.00 and $5.00 yesterday just after the united front of camelot hardass was made she is going to be the v.p. pick they say they had the best of fundraising that would certainly but against the idea that many republicans have been floating in the morning shows here in the united states and late last night that there is a great deal of enthusiasm for camelot as the v.p. pick and it certainly wouldn't play out on social media where i'm seeing a lot of people are very excited in

a campaign that really hasn't ignited because of them because really the candidates were not exciting there was no great movement that we saw particularly when you compare it to the republican campaign in 2016 there was no great moment but this was perhaps the biggest standout moment so far when camelot hardass was announced double trump of course he's had his say this morning on twitter he said that campbell has started her presidential campaign pulled about 2 percent and then pulled out said that's the sort of opponent we like to face what is interesting of course is that camelot is has been fundraising she's written about $5000000.00 for the biden campaign she is fairly popular among the democrats and it's also interesting to note that joe biden picked someone who was always going to be near the top of the v.p. picks anyway the fact that she is away. and of color of which they help given that he committed to picking a woman early in the process but she really fits the mold of former v.p.

candidates you really only go outside the mall when you think you're far behind and don't have a chance of winning geraldine ferraro syria appeal and there are 2 examples of that coming our house doesn't fit into that mold a tall she is what many people would regard as a safe pick and that 55 will certainly help liberals who are looking at joe biden and think you're pretty old me think well could she do the job well speaking diffuse independent voters last night the are certainly reassured that the choice was can't allow us to what extent is is she the catalysts that will set this campaign a light for both sides both campaigns. i'm not entirely sure it's good to campaign to share is that she sets the campaign a light again it's interesting to see what the republicans are seeing and in my twitter feed today back to back there was one who's saying the choice of camelot

harness will certainly please wall street types that means that will kowtow to china trade deals will be will be abandoned this is a really bad pick for the country and right below it from another senior republican was saying all this is the choice that the anarchists wanted the people who are bringing trouble into a street and it sure is the difficulty that republicans have in framing camelot harness and that's always important to donald trump he was able to frame his primary opponents fairly well why in ted cruz he's tried it with sleepy joe biden it doesn't quite work he's know trying to find a frame where he can attack camelot harness and the republican party still hasn't phoned yet it's august it may well happen but the fact that there are flailing around sure is that they have a problem too with messaging and the fact of those 2 tweets shows that they're not quite sure how to attack camelot. i there so it seems like a good pick for joe biden he will undoubtedly get a bounce in the opinion polls that's what happens when you pick your v.p.

but the republicans are more concerned that donald trump is behind even though he has tweeted this morning that he's got 96 percent approval rating the problem party that's probably true but he says we're also ahead in many swing states not in any of the polls that i've seen to be honest i was there as alan fischer reporting live from the white house in washington one of many things investigators in new zealand say that imported freight may have been the source of the 1st locally transmitted corona virus cases in more than 3 months the country's largest city or clint is now back in lockdown after 4 cases were diagnosed this week 4 other suspected cases are being monitored and the government is considering delaying next month's general election now well our primary focus of course is on the response in these immediate stages over the next few days we do need to ensure that we're giving ourselves as much flexibility as possible to deal with what we luna over the next 72 hours

callum and dissolving doesn't mean that if we needed to convene power meant for any reason we wouldn't be able to do so we've before decided it would be prudent to defer the dissolution of parliament by at least a few days to preserve all options for if if needed reconvening comment or if needed for that this is of the date of the general election strayer has recorded its worst of the pandemic 21 people are reported to have died in the past 24 hours in the state of victoria. hong kong's biggest ag carrier says that its recorded a loss of 1270000000 dollars in the 1st half of this year a pacific has been badly hit by political and economic turbulence over the past year a slump in passenger the mound caused by the pandemic has grounded its international

flights cargo business is now generating more revenue than passenger flights. the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the u.k. into its deepest economic slump on record gross domestic product collapsed by more than 20 percent between april and june the height of the lockdown the british 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. recovered slight the in june restrictions were eased we're talking about this a few months ago i said the hard times were coming and today's figures show the hard times the here hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs and sadly many more will but i will say to people all the tough decisions lie ahead for all of us no one will be left without hope or opportunity mexico's former president enrico perry paid

a nato nato has been the accused of funneling millions of dollars in bribes to fund his election campaign and to buy votes didn't fluence in congress he's accused of taking money from a brick to brazilian construction that's admitted paying bribes in $12.00 countries including mexico the former head of mexico state run oil company emilio. who is facing corruption charges says panetta demanded that the money be given to his team . in the case of voter braced 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 story to give this money to various election advisors from abroad singapore is destroying at least 9 tons of confiscated elephant ivory it's the largest haul in recent years as part of its efforts against the illegal trade in wildlife industrial rock crushers

will need at least 5 days to destroy the entire contraband worth up to $13000000.00 there are $5000000.00 children have been born in syria since the civil war began there 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 now aid agencies are warning the deepening economic crisis could push even more children into work priyanka gupta reports. amad men do or should be school. instead he spent a justi at a car repair shop in your province trying to scrape a living the house tether. 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's carried the scars into an uncertain future. of our law. 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 bruised into child labor the war has killed maimed and traumatized serious children it's also 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. just ahead on the news staying safe while playing to win

europe's top club football competition it's all new territory. business leaders as well to buy no bra spot. from.

business leaders as well to buy no bras paul. or. rather a good time to support his family thank you so much more the winners of this season's european champions league will be decided over the next 12 days in portugal a final 8 not councilman's in lisbon is replacing the competitions traditional format french champions paris sanj man play it's hell in sight as a lancer in wednesday's 1st quarter final one of knockout matches of replies to you

like it's always because of the disruption in delays caused by coverage 19 all of the games it's taking place behind closed doors is the full quarter final lineup of less committed playing. on thursday than it's barcelona munich now but also say an unnamed squad member has tested positive for coverage one same but that he hasn't been in contact with any of the senior players will be shoveling to lisbon on thursday then on saturday we have man city plainly on full rights a row paris is in portugal he told us about some of the precautions that are in place for these games. where even is media restricted in terms of our access to the players because there will be regulars tested for 90 and they have to produce those negative findings to be allowed to enter the stadium and the was that stark reminder of the ongoing threat from the trainer virus hanging over this tournament when 2 athletico players tested positive at the weekend and they've not been able to make the trip how you behave to lisbon the bayshore trip and even delayed their

planning to lay training the competition is going to get underway athletico game will go ahead against leipzig. going forward whether this actually is the forerunner to a potential template to something like a super league but all the big clubs across europe won't like real madrid you venters liverpool is about they're not here and teams like atalanta are in the quarterfinals so while leipzig and they've earned their place here on merit but the fact we're playing the single game is rather than too late to let the new sort of spice a new i think sense of importance to each of the games there's no 2nd chances once the game is being played you've got to complete the job on the day but i think a big success for your wife will be actually complete in this tournament because i think there are times when the champions league might look like it wouldn't finish because these games should have been played originally course in april. or coronaviruses causing yet more disruptions the international football calendar

asian world cup qualifiers that were due to take place in october and november have now been pushed back into 2021 matches in march and june also postponed due to the pandemic. all the fallen symbols of one major league soccer's come back for a moment. scoring the winning goal missy one victory over orlando city the m.l.s. is back to what i meant was played in a fiery secure location in florida with no spectators the timbers did their best after the final whistle celebrating with fans for a big screen on the side of the pitch. serena williams has returned to tennis with a win the 23 time grand slam champion at last played a competitive match back in february the 38 year old beating but not a para at the top seed open in kentucky williams though they have to recover from being a set and 3 points down sure next play sister venus. honestly i mean like i've been practicing really well and i wasn't getting

a good rhythm out here and i just kept thinking so you are play like even practicing so i knew that i could. i knew that i could play a little bit better if i just hung in there. damian lillard scored a career high 61 points to lead the portland trail blazers to a win against the dallas mavericks last night 93 points in the game here it is now only the 2nd player in m.b.a. history to school 60 points 3 times in a season when he stands out last 3 miles 1304131 the blazes have moved into 8th place in the western conference. and yana standards cooper says he regrets headbutting mar wagner's journey in a walk is one of the washington wizards 29 sainz my valuable player was ejected from the gang. so. i. go back to him back in the. play in our will to do it with him on the day not. human or make mistakes not so the biggest college football competitions in the

united states are delayed this season's jujutsu coronavirus the big 10 and the pac $122.00 the so-called power 5 announced their postponing all college sports they do their hearts beat by playing early next year the move came after a vote by university presidents was a decision not universally supported by coaches and players that. just we just believe collectively there's too much uncertainty at this point in time in our country to really encourage our student athletes to purchase appearance all sports and the tampa bay lightning in the columbus blue jackets of just played out the 4th longest game in n.h.l. history big jackets goalie jenna's copy so i made a c. 5 say setting a new league all right on point score the winner in the 5th overtime period left tampa bay to a 3 so we. ok plenty most for coming out throughout the day that is if an album

entered anybody thanks indeed. i'll be back to update you on the day's top stories in just a few moments see that. that's going to do it is on the cusp of a new chapter in its history. after the u.s. on the telephone signed an agreement to pave the way for the withdrawal of the national troops. the high cost was paid to get to this point. over the past few years the u.s. has increasingly conducted its part of the war from the sky was more bombs dropped last year than any other year in the past decade. but with that came a rise in civilian casualties. this is all accidents to happen at mistakes do happen and that this is about owning our mistakes says about things are in this about accountability in the in the laws be on account of war for families we

interviewed not receiving adult humans from the u.s. left without closure. they told us that they so look what happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice and answers something war too often do not see. one swell come now fear. of dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more gentle and syrian. a much money does a richer get those people who don't think it's been done it's one german and i'm rocking the new germans on al-jazeera. it began as a dream holiday been turned into a public health disaster one o one east investigates how a cruise ship became the source of. one of the strain is largest coded 19 outbreaks

on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right. washing. an act of defiance anger in belarus over the detention of thousands of people after a controversial presidential election. well again i may very unforgiving this is a 0 a live from doha also coming out homes and schools damaged beyond repair one week on the beirut blast cleanup efforts reveal the extent of the devastation. growing

concern over russia's corona virus vaccine germany says it must be tested properly before being made pump.