virtually all. u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden is set to make his 1st appearance with carla harris is a stark choice for running mate. i'm going with al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up waiting for news in belo roosts thousands are still imprisoned after protests against sunday's disputed election. homes and schools damaged beyond repair

a severe shortage of hospital beds when we call in from the beirut blast cleanup efforts reveal the extent of the devastation. and a rise in child labor in syria as the war forces more children to money their families. and historic moment in american politics will play out in just a few hours from now the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden will make his 1st joint appearance with his pick for vice president senator come our house she's the 1st black woman to be included on a major party's presidential ticket the 2 are expected to deliver remarks in wilmington delaware that's biden's home town just ahead of the event the biden harris campaign released its 1st ad since the announcement. i was raised to take action my mother knew that she was raising 2 black daughters who would be treated

differently because of how they learned growing up whenever i got upset about something my mother would look me in the eye and ask so what are you going to do about it we are in a battle for the soul of this nation but together it's a battle we can win we just have to take action. us president donald trump took aim at harris in a tweet he said karma has started strong in the democrat primaries could not hold on to support he went on to say that makes her the kind of opponent everyone dreams of well and fisher joins us now live from washington d.c. alan so a few hours time but i didn't harris will take the stage together for the 1st time post announcement once we expect. well it's going to be a low key event it's not the thing that we normally see when these announcements are made simply because coverage changes the whole definition of it there won't be huge crowds there won't be cheering supporters they won't be the hierarchy of the

democratic party behind them it will be very small very low key because that's what they need to do but it will get the message out and of course it means that joe biden and his democratic nominee for vice president dominate the news cycle for another 24 hours it's difficult for the republicans to watch this because they would have an announcement like that we know that mike pence is almost certainly going to be donald trump's vice presidential pick he was talking about and very if use of terms yesterday even though there has been some speculation that he might replace the former indiana governor joe biden will say that he's delighted to pick camelot harris campbell harris will say that she's delighted to be on the ticket critics will point to some of the comments that camelot hardass made during the election campaign particularly in the primaries when she said that the way that joe biden talked about the segregation of buses back in the 1970 s. how upset tara had offended her but then supporters will point out that it showed

strength of character that joe biden is willing to have someone who is critical of him in the very heart of his inner circle something they see that donald trump hasn't been willing to do so it will be a different sort of event but there's no doubt of its political importance as you see and historic moment when a black woman who has heritage as well will be on the ticket for one of the major parties as we move towards the election on november the 3rd tell us that allen is scholar as someone to unite the democrats what does she bring to the ticket. i think she brings enthusiasm the republicans have been saying looked. no one's terribly enthusiastic about this but the biden campaign says that between 4 and 5 yesterday afternoon just after the announcement was made here in the united states they had their best fund raising ever from the people i've spoken to they seem to

think that this is a very good choice on social media people see that this is very important people like audi fleischer i mean you may remember he was the spokesperson the white house spokesman when george bush was in the white house he went on fox news last night and saying this is a very exciting choice i don't think he really speaks for the communities of color in the united states because most people i speak to think that this is a big when she raises money she's raised about $5000000.00 for the biden campaign she is an enthusiastic campaigner she is very good at connecting with ordinary people she's very good at taking complex issues and explaining them and she has been vetted vetted very closely by the biden campaign you'll know that when you pick a vice president the one thing that the try to be in in mind is do nor harm obviously joe biden doesn't think that campbell harris will do any harm to his campaign but one fight will bring more votes here's the thing the republicans have tried to

sites that we black votes from the biden campaign they saw how it worked in 2016 when they managed to do that with hillary clinton they think that this is a way of doing it in 2028 is why there are senior republican people who are involved in can you west's election campaign that he announced it is to try and siphon black votes away well kamelot hardass will stop that because she will know people of color she will turn know women she will get the voters that joe biden thinks he needs it's whether or not he can take the momentum he's got no in august all the way to november election races normally this one will be no different thank you that alan fischer there live from washington d.c. . the idea is president says he and the leaders of latvia and poland are ready to mediate in the bellows crisis but e.u. sanctions may be imposed if it refuses the offer hundreds of women in the capital minsk have marched to protest against police brutality government demonstrators

showed no signs of easing around 6000 people are detained they were arrested during violence with security forces over the past 3 nights began after president alexander lukashenko was declared the winner of a vote that his opponents say was rigged the family members of those detained say they still don't have any news on their whereabouts. he went for a bike ride in the evening at 8 o'clock i called him and said my son have pity on me don't go anywhere. i don't know where my grandson is he was taken away on the night we've been searching for him for 3 days and could not find him his father searches for him and i search for him stefan's and has more now from and. 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 they're all waving flowers they are also saying stop

beating us and they get an enormous response from people around this area who see them there honking their horns as a sign of opposition and also they're all waving 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 i think the government is completely confused what to do with this out poor of anger and this opposition force has reached unprecedented heights he 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

a whole families women children men everyone has been hit by this so this has created even more anger and we see these women they may not want to accept this so you will need to find another solution there have been talks about negotiations with the opposition but the last comment we got from president was that he wants to create jobs because he says all these protests protesters are criminals and they simply have nothing else to do. the world health organization says more than half of the hospitals in beirut and not functional as a launching military an effort underway just over a week since the port explosion that killed more than 200 people on the scale of the devastation is increasing pressure on lebanon's leaders than it smith reports from beirut. rich or poor. the beirut explosion didn't discriminate 10 people died in the luxury seaview apartments that overlook the port and alice assads 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 i now must have learned the most important thing is for the kids to have a place to sleep comfortably with food they 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 sentence currency into freefall i don't know if you if you will be able to put more money into it i don't know we need help not only also earlier 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 the dishy 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 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 a political elite that's been running the country for decades so the pressure is on parliament to appoint a new prime minister and a new cabinet and it's been made clear to them that they'll be no international

funds for the city's reconstruction until the parliament ends the dominance of iran backed hezbollah and its allies french president emanuel micron's as he wants to see progress by september the 1st bernard smith al-jazeera beirut the german health minister says he's skeptical of russia's coronavirus vaccine on tuesday russia became the 1st country in the world to give regulatory approval to a covert 19 vaccine president vladimir putin even said his daughter was an ocular germany's sponsors the vaccine has not been sufficiently tested in could be dangerous for mccain has more 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 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 caution with which they are viewing what's going on in moscow. still ahead on al-jazeera around the clock half to 3 days of violence in eastern sudan leads to heavy restrictions. and considered offensive to islam how is social media posts funded violent protests in southern india. hello once again welcome to another cat the international forecast it has something of a little bit of a break across japan in terms of the wet and the windy weather but cloud of the rain now starting to push its way across northern china that will make its way

towards the korean peninsula seasonal rain says that organized band of rain that is sinking for the south was a nice was moving through the low c. north korea will see more heavy rain but the potential for flooding as we go through stays still in place as we go on through friday sinking a little further south was knotting over towards the northern parts of japan northern areas of honshu season heavy right along with a cod a ship dry in tokyo if a little on the human side of a very hot recently still pretty hot 34 celsius hotter still in the socket around 36 celsius a similar temperature into central china for shanghai and we have some showers there around southern china into vietnam and beyond plenty of showers there into myanmar will be down post coming into the northeast of india lot of wet weather there just around the northern plains of india actually in that wetter weather funny thing will push further showers battles northern and southern pakistan over the next day or 2 the cane southwesterly wind will submit more heavy rain for

western india. capturing a moment in time. not shocks about. yes. other stories. people are pretty calm and there is no check against dividing into someone else's what do i pursue the dream of your life inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. the. the old.

gorging al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden will soon make his 1st of joint to parents with his pick for vice president senator coleman harris she's the 1st woman of color to be included in the major parties presidential ticket. more than 6000 opposition supporters have now been detained abella roussel to sunday's disputed presidential election e.u. foreign ministers are considering sanctions but the way dia and poland are offering to mediate. is ation says more than half of all hospitals in the lebanese capital and not functioning a massive humanitarian effort continues just over a week since the explosion which killed more than $200.00 people. at least 127 people have been killed in south sudan during fighting between government troops and civilians the army was carrying out an operation to disarm civilians in

a while up states when the violence began reports say do you see in the grated tall nj area attack security forces an investigation is underway. in sudan around the clock curfew has been imposed in the eastern city of port sudan after 3 days of violence medical sources say least 25 people have been killed since fighting broke out between members of rival ethnic groups sense of emergency was imposed last year after fighting between the 2 sides ever morgan in khartoum has more details. first of all let's look at how this has been unfolding this is not the 1st time we see travel clashes between the beni armor and the nuba 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 a state of emergency imposed their will that was eventually lifted but it 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 port sudan started between 2 individuals from opposing tribes from the bay area and the move across that eventually pulled 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 on the they've called for calm the newly appointed civilian governor has imposed. a curfew in the eastern city so they are trying to mitigate the tribal clashes between the 2 sides but this needs to be addressed at the root 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 idea an issue of who actually deserves to be in port sudan who deserves to

be identified as part of the east and who is actually somebody who is overstepping on a territory that is not various 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. police in mali have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters in the capital bamako hundreds of demonstrators spent the night on the streets before security forces came to break them up in the morning for weeks they've been calling on the president to step down accusing him of failing to deal with insecurity and corruption the bail hearing for a prominent zimbabwe journalist and government critic has been adjourned until thursday hope was arrested alongside an opposition politician last month and charged with incitement head of anti-government protests president emerson and has been accused of cracking down on dissent as calls grow for his resignation is the

3rd time she has appeared in court for questing bail. 3 people have died in the indian city of bengal and violence sparked by reportedly anti muslim social media post dozens were injured when protesters 4th police who fired on the crowd the facebook post was made by a relative of a local politician and this but the problem has that i exist. the charred remains of a violent protest burned out vehicles are strewn on the streets of bengal police say that's after 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 or that a lot of. muslim men came from there between 930 to 10 there were around 20 of them getting beaten so they brought the idiom and came here the only targeted our

street and in our street they destroyed at least 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 then a little 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 police are also asking people to cooperate and maintain peace. 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 go. the ring throughout the city elisabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi. the growth of our spend to make its plunge 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 there are already some signs of recovery g.d.p. recovered slightly in june as restrictions were eased. 3 people have been killed in a train derailment in scotland the driver is among the dead 6 others were taken to hospital following the incident near stonehaven in aberdeen ship emergency service is a still on the scene and an investigation has been launched. taiwan's president has called on china to use dialogue instead of oppression in hong kong on monday hong kong police arrested 10 people including a newspaper owner and

a high profile pro-democracy activist under the new beijing imposed national security law citing when a promised her government would support the hong kong people when they do they even go once again solemnly called in 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 and can hong kong society return to occur as your own brand has more now from hong kong. when you are leader of taiwan you have to do what you can to raise your international profile because of course there are just 15 countries that recognize taiwan was dying when on wednesday was addressing the hudson institute that's a conservative think tank in washington and she had many themes to her addressed but i think the central one were her comments about hong kong she said that the

world had been saddened to see that the beacon of freedom of being extinguished in hong kong she said that the ties between hong kong and taiwan go back many years and she also said and this was her only real reference to china without naming china she said that while some countries well the world has been distracted by covert 19 other countries have been targeting democracies around the world now why does all this matter well you know at the moment taiwan is a country which is basically regarded by china as a breakaway province to be taken back from by force if necessary president xi jinping had warned just a year ago that the people of taiwan had better accept that one day sooner rather than later they will be reunified with the motherland and the premier of china leak a chunk addressed the national people's congress just a few months ago and he didn't refer to a peaceful reunification with taiwan he simply referred to

a reunification so that is led to increasing speculation that eventually china will resort to force to take back this renegade province and in fact many analysts will tell you that the chances of that happening a greater now than they were 5 years ago the u.s. secretary of state says his department complied with the law on arms sales to saudi arabia and 29000 a government watchdog from the state department did not properly evaluate the risk of civilian casualties in yemen members of congress asked for the investigation after the trump administration pressed ahead with the sale without the usual congressional review. we had united states senators imputed into a foreign service officer suggesting that done something unlawful it was outrageous that to arrange for them to continue to make those claims we did everything by the book to comply with the laws what the state department why do you count it well and i'm proud of the work that my team did and we got to a really good outcome we prevented the loss of civilian lives demonstrators in

yemen have burned tires and set up road blocks to protest against a terrorizing water and electricity services office being cut off for days in the city of aden the very day blackouts protesters say essential services must be protected from rival powers vying for control because one soldier has been killed in an explosion in the game in the city of ties 9 others were injured when a bomb was detonated inside a national army vehicle in the area it is the 2nd front incident in tires in less than 2 weeks. barely 5000000 children have been born in syria since the civil war began 9 years ago the conflict has had a devastating impact on the lives of many forced to drop out of school to support their families now aid agencies are warning a deepening economic crisis could push even more children into work crack a good to reports. abbott madeira should be school.

instead he spent a justi at a car repair shop in your 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 and its 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 lord. 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 of people living in the war torn country are reportedly living under $2.00 a day which is basically nothing and with the 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 for children 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. here. or challenges there are these are the top stories the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden will soon make his 1st try to parents with his pick for vice president senator carper her as she's the 1st woman of color to be included on a major party's presidential ticket all official has more from washington d.c. critics will point to some of the comments that camelot harris made during the election campaign particularly in the primaries when she said that the way that joe biden talked about the segregation of buses back in the 1970 s.

had upset her had offended her but then supporters will point out that it showed strength of character that joe biden is willing to have someone who is critical of him in the very heart of his inner circle something they see that donald trump hasn't been willing to do so it will be a different sort of event but there's no doubt of its political importance as you see an historic moment when a black woman who has heritage as well will be on the ticket for one of the major parties as we move towards the election on november the 3rd more than 6000 opposition supporters have now been detained after sunday's disputed presidential election e.u. foreign ministers are considering sanctions that the way he and poland are offering to mediate. the world health organization says more than half of all hospitals in the lebanese capital and not functioning a massive humanitarian effort continues just over a week since the explosion which killed more than $200.00 people. donna round

the clock curfew has been imposed in the eastern city of port sudan after 3 days of violence medical sources say at least 25 people have been killed since fighting broke out between members of rival ethnic groups police in mali have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse and the government protestors in the capital bamako hundreds of demonstrators spent the night on the streets before security forces came to break them up in the morning. 3 people have been killed in a train derailment in scotland the driver is among the dead 6 others were taken to hospital following the incident stonehaven aberdeenshire. was the headline news continues here on al-jazeera right after witness which is coming up next.

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