it's. a historic moment in delaware coming to harris takes the stage with joe biden she is the 1st woman of color to be named on a major presidential ticket. on our intake of this is on jazeera live from london also coming up a rare show of defiance in belarus hundreds of women protest against the brutal police crackdown that's seen thousands of protesters detained. the cost of rebuilding beirut billions of dollars in needed but with an economy in tatters where will the money come from. and more than 100 people arrested in southern india

after violence and educate sparked by a facebook post. in a past breaking moment in american history your center coming to harris says appeared alongside democratic presidential candidate joe biden after being chosen as his running mate she's the 1st black and indian american woman on a major party's presidential ticket paris tour and to the man she and biden want to unseat in november saying president donald trump had failed america and the country was crying out for leadership and the daughter of immigrants said the u.s. is experiencing a moral reckoning with racism people of every age and color and creed who are finally declaring in one voice that yes black lives matter. all across this country a whole new generation of children is growing up hearing the cries for justice

and the chants of hope on which i was raised some strapped into strollers of their own and trust me it's a song you'll never forget so everyone keeping up the fight you are doing something you are doing something great you are the heroes of our time and you are the reason i know we are going to bring our country closer to realizing its great promise let's go to mike hanna live in washington d.c. 1st historic moment as you mentioned take us through what happened. well joe biden has generally stayed fairly quiet about donald trump but that was not the case in this news conference he lashed out at the president criticizing his

lack of control leadership in terms of countering the pandemic he criticized his economic policies that have led to some 16000000 americans still being out of work and he criticized generally the lack of leadership that has come from the white house during the time of president trump's tenure as head of state the same words coming from commodore harris criticizing a donald trump very strongly indeed and also at one stage bringing recounting how as the daughter of immigrants she was taken to civil rights rallies as a young baby in a stroller and this is something that joe biden referred to in his speech about camilla harris pointing out that her position as a child of immigrants is likely to resonate with millions of americans. as a child of immigrants she knows personally how immigrant families and rich are country as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up black in indian

american in the united states of america her stories america's story. and my good will it be a tough fight against john. well it will be a very tough fight against the campaign is going to be bruising no doubt already you've had president trumpet hurling out insults in the forms of tweets but one must remark to as well as many observers have done that the republicans generally appeared to be somewhat at sea in terms of responding immediately to common the harris's nomination they've had a lot of time to do their background work on her however there was no clear republican strategy president trump himself fell back on racial stereotypes on using phrases like suburban housewives will vote for me that is american code for white house wives but this is the way that the campaign is likely to go you are going to get these ongoing insults coming from the white house throughout this

campaign but on the biden harrah's side you are going to see a movement towards establishing a common agenda they differ on a number of issues and that is something that they are going to have to work out in the days ahead to form a concrete strategy a common strategy to come to whatever president trump has to offer and one must mention as well this campaign is taking place in a pandemic it's going to be a campaign like none before we'll only see how difficult it is for candidates from both parties to build to be able to effectively campaign during this time of mitigating methods during this time where they will be no or unlikely to be any mass rallies and that is a difficult thing for a person newly in the spotlight such as coming to hire us to actually get the american people to know her at a time of social distancing i can i thank you very much indeed.

at least one detained protester has died in belarus after police brutally crackdown on demonstrations against the president the u.n. human rights chief has condemned the use of force on this un your poland and latvia have offered to mediate but they warned sanctions could be imposed if the violent crackdown continues more than $6000.00 people have been arrested in belarus during 3 nights of rallies against the landslide victory of president alexander lukashenko opposition leaders say the vote was rigged many of them have been detained or forced to flee the country including the main candidate so atlanta taken of skier lucas shanker one around 80 percent of the vote is been in power since 994 and is considered by many as europe's last dictator steadfast and has the latest from minsk. worried about the fate of their loved ones relatives and friends

outside his detention center in minsk child cries of support without knowing if they can hear it. hang in there you are our heroes they scream at us calling out her sons and daughters wives looking for their husbands after days of arrests many are still missing a 17 year old boy of us released after he was arrested while sitting on a bench in the city center he says he was severely beaten. riot police came to me with 6 men and started beating me when i grabbed the stick this started to beat me even more and sprayed something in my face it was born in when i asked for medical aid they did not help me volunteers are trying to help locate the thousands of detainees president alexander look at the has condemned those detained describing them as a criminal underclass is the way the core of these so-called protesters are people with a criminal past and those who are currently unemployed those who don't have

a job walking the. it's in our news that's why i'm kindly urging everyone who is unemployed to get a job police violence has increased and bellows during the 3rd night of protest with the best koreans and cars attacked often randomly. but that did not deter hundreds of women from protesting to condemn the violence they march for peace and fair elections president lukashenko has been in power for 26 c.s.'s he won sunday's disputed presidential poll with more than 80 percent of the vote to claim many in bellows have called observed income trust a police man wearing black all these women are wearing white carrying flowers as a sign of peace stop beating us is their main message women have been leading the growing opposition movement against look ashamed as government with 3 women dominating the election campaign now again women are defiant and are risking arrest they can come to your home they can break the door in your apartment they can cut

you anywhere when you go shopping or go to the hospital they can find you and detain you really you get much still i don't. and sounds to die for a peaceful bella roost and for fair elections under streets drivers showed their support for the protesters including bus and truck drivers but emotions running high after what have been traumatic days for many belorussians it seems unlikely to strategy of violence to government is using will work step process and al-jazeera meant. france says it will increase its military presence in the mediterranean because of a dispute between turkey and greece over energy exploration tensions rose when ankara sent an exploration vessel to a disputed area accompanied by warships days after greece signed a maritime deal with egypt greece and turkey have overlapping claims to hydrocarbon resources in the region the nato allies vowed to defend their interests but signaled a willingness to resolve the dispute on wednesday. more than half of beirut's

health care facilities are nonfunctional because of last week's devastating explosion that's according to the world health organization which says the damage were also complicate efforts to contain the corona virus outbreak at least 3 of the major hospitals in in beirut have been less nonfunctional because of that last another 3 hospitals are functioning well below their normal capacity and what that means is we've lost around $500.00 it's those 2 hospitals with clear implications for the management of covert as well as other medical conditions cleanup efforts are continuing in the nominees capital well the city mourns the deaths of more than 200 people talks are underway to try to form a new government but politicians have been warned that any foreign aid will depend on reforms than a smith has more. rich or poor the beirut explosion didn't discriminate 10

people died in the luxury seaview apartments that overlook 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 i now must lead the most important thing is for the kids to have a place to sleep comfortably where 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 hope you go through it 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 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. for 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 says he wants to see progress by september the 1st. al-jazeera beirut's still head this half hour ethnic violence flares again in eastern sudan troops are deployed and a 24 hour curfew is imposed. on a popular zimbabwean journalist appears in court after being arrested at a magistrate says the public testimony.

hello there a fairly unsettled picture across much of southern australia the southeast as well you can see here this kind of trad that's the area of the pressure and all this path ahead of it these the funds that a sweeping through the region because just a few days ago that was a lot of snow have a look at this often sue the mountains in new south wales this is captured by this wendy lindsay and she said it's very unusual to see them going at it for so long these 2 big kangaroos and i can tell you now i stopped the video that they carried on for quite a few minutes now more rain showers across as the south not snow of course it is milder it is just rain across into western australia quite a. puff and then a through friday little bit more in the way of sunshine 18 degrees there's another front just waiting in the wings getting to push in later on the day and then we'll see more of that rain becoming quite widespread throughout much of new south wales but also training up into the southern areas of queensland all the while it is fine and dry new zealand if a little bit cooler temperatures struggling really reaching double figures that we had up towards asia there's more rain in the 4 calls here this long line of this

huge swathe of cloud this is where the rain will be it is heaviest or the central areas and again pushing on towards the korean peninsula really impacting north korea as we go through thursday by friday the rain still in the forecast of pushing on into northern japan. the island of sardinia a famously a delay call it a spot. less well known as a proving ground for the. investigation claims that he's a military training and ons testing trickett cancer last effects me to the local population. secret sodomy on people in power on al-jazeera. the all the.

way at. one of the top stories here on jazeera u.s. senator come along harris has made history appearing alongside the democratic presidential candidate joe biden the 1st time since being chosen as his running mate she's the 1st black and indian american woman to be on a major party's presidential ticket said the u.s. is experiencing a moral reckoning with racism. at least one detained protester has died in baton rouge softer police ritually crackdown on demonstrations against the president hundreds of women have rallied across minsk to protest against police actions. and more than half of bay which health care facilities are nonfunctional because of last week's devastating explosion that includes 3 major hospitals

a quarter of corn to the world health organization. the mission prime minister says almost all of the oil has been removed from a damaged ship that's been leaking into the country's pristine blue waters where cars have been racing to empty the ship after it grounded off the mercian coast last month spilling a 1000 tonnes of oil into the sea dead fish show ready being pulled from the ocean and tourism operators are afraid their businesses will be hit russia says seeking compensation from the ship's japanese onus. police are patrolling the streets of the indian city of bengal after 3 people were killed in violence overnight officers clash with hundreds of muslims or attacked a police station over a facebook post considered offensive to islam or india correspondent elizabeth cohen reports from new delhi. the charred remains of a violent protest burnt out vehicles a strewn on the streets of bengal police say that staff 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 lobs prophet muhammad they said vehicles on fire outside the home and destroyed property in the neighborhood or that's a lot of. muslim men came from there between 930 to 10 there were around 20 of them getting beaten so they brought the game here the only targeted our street and in our street they destroyed at least 2 auto rickshaws 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 they 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 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 this. elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi. sure lanka's president has tightened his family's grip on power after swearing in a new cabinet which includes 2 of his brothers and a nephew in a ceremony took place at one of the most sacred but his temples in the country even shrank as minorities wondering if new government will sacked in their interests and haven't as has more from come but. messing's for

a new government at the temple of the king. sri lanka's new cabinet was sworn in by president go to the rajapaksa in the audience hall of the sacred temple of the 2 in kandy the mahdi governing candy is seen as the sort of center of both religious and secular power because the story is those who possess the tab the 2. will lead the country you know i'm the days all of that so yes a very strong symbol of the primacy of the single a buddhist majority 74 percent of sri lanka's 22000000 people a single the buddhists a large number of them voted for the sri lanka people's front party giving it 60 percent of the votes the raja boxes of work hard to get the support of the majority buddhist community after then president by the rajapaksa suffered a shock defeat in 2015 many blame minorities who voted against him in large

numbers at the decision to campaign on strong nationalist buddhist lines appears to have paid off 1st with president go to obvious election in 2019 he was sworn in at an ancient buddhist temple that represents historic singhalese of his brother mind of rajapaksa who got the highest votes of any candidate in the aug 5th the election was sworn in for his 4th time as prime minister. he too chose an important temple where the long days believed to have visited with an entourage of 570 moved to says having adopted a strong probity east approach in its campaign the issue is how the government will proceed in power they strong sort of wood historian tertian of the campaign the reaching out to that single the boot disk constituency and all of that that was very much for political purposes to reach to to reply political capital once in government and with the really secure majority that they do have the question is is

are they going to advance this to such an extent that everyone else is going to be ignored or permanently made to 2nd class citizen or whatever it is i suspect not minorities in the country will be hoping he's right i'll just ask people in colombo or to new government if they can do i don't think there is anyone who can do and fed up with a tipping anybody to seem so we can expect good things from these people going on going again in a moment made i did it i voted for this government and like me all the people who voted for them expect a better future than 28 candidate members and 40 state ministers have been sworn in there are 2 parts of knowledge the critical role of the single a buddhist majority played in their return to power and wednesday's betting in is a nod to that support but analysts say the government must serve all sri lankan

communities to take the country forward banana's al-jazeera colombo. sudan's government has deployed troops and imposed a 24 hour curfew in an eastern city after 3 days of violence at least $25.00 people have been killed since rival ethnic groups began fighting in port sudan it's not the 1st time members of the beni america a nuber tribes have attacked each other a state of emergency was imposed last year after fighting broke out between the 2 sides ever morgan has more from sudan's capital khartoum. first of all let's look at how this has been unfolding this is not the 1st time we see a tribal 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 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 to morrow to try to figure out a solution ali 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 varies 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 call for them this violence will continue. clashes between soldiers and civilians have killed at least 127 people in south sudan the army was carrying out an operation to disarm civilians in war up state on saturday when the violence broke out officials say it started when on dudes in the area attacked security forces an investigation is underway. oh zimbabwe and journalist who's accused of mobilizing anti-government protests has been barred from testifying about his harsh prison conditions in public hopewell

was arrested along side an opposition politician last month he says he's being denied adequate food and clothing but the court says his testimony can only be heard in private or it could jeopardize prison security or would toss a has more from harare. when feel hopeless and going to testify in court on thursday members of the public and media will not be allowed inside the magistrate wants to make sure whatever the journalist says about his treatment in a maximum security prison would pose a threat to prison security. as a keys of encouraging demonstrations over the economy and corruption in his government his being denied completely floored from outside get. very foods so he's been living. in water. when president muslim and i got what to mr peterson said robert mugabe 3 years ago many people hope to pieces and arrests will be a thing of the past some of these activists remember marching to remove mugabe only

to be arrested last year for attending a pro-democracy workshop in the maldives it's just for. the government for its claim to plan some form of uprising against which we thought was actually korea's. given that years citizens of with great tree of an understanding will fall choose that the government is on monday so that because president st invoiced to harare to investigate abuse allegations but this left ricans only made zimbabwe's leader not opposition or civil society groups such as mr putin's daughter is a member of the consortium used to be restored. without the kurds remember. blood on the streets of the. press. ration is also growing over the economy savings and salaries have been eroded by rising inflation which is now at nearly 800 percent basic commodities are too expensive for the poor president and as the man

and god was is there is no crisis here and criticism of human rights abuses of course his administration also believes opposition groups and some western embassies are trying to sabotage the economy. opposition leaders say more of his supporters are being arrested by state security agents a statement politicians in the governing zanu p.f. party vehemently deny. al-jazeera having. hard times are here that's the message from the u.k. finance minister as britain officially plunges into recession as a result of the coronavirus pandemic g.d.p. fell by a record 20.4 percent in the period of april to june the biggest slump reported by any major economy so far around $730000.00 jobs have been lost since lockdown began in march and the government warns more will go in the coming months the bank of england forecasts the economy is unlikely to return to their rules until the end of next year when on germany has recorded its biggest daily crease in corona virus

cases in 3 months or than 1200 new infections were confirmed on wednesday germany's health minister says the increase was due in part to people returning from holidays countries across western europe are struggling to contain a surge in cases spain has the worst infection rate in the region. spain's seville province has been hit by 2 wrench will rain and flash floods. waters not down walls and swept away vehicles in the town of a step on tuesday emergency services are reportedly struggling to clean up the area a major road in the province has been cut off and thousands of people have lost electricity. one of the most fearsome dinosaurs to walk the earth had a cousin here in the u.k. for bones discovered on a beach in the isle of wight i mean found to belong to a new species of dinosaur this is an artist's impression of what it probably looked

like in its last moments of it taro data in open otters lived 115000000 years ago and is related to the tartous orus rex scientists say the t.-rex his cousin grew up to 4 metres long and probably lived just north of what is now the seaside resort of shanklin. one of the top stories around his era u.s. senator come on our hearts says appeared alongside democratic presidential candidate joe biden for the 1st time since being chosen as his running mate she's the 1st black and indian american woman on a major party's presidential ticket harris tore into donald trump's presidency and also said the u.s. was experiencing a moral reckoning with racism people of every age and color and creed who are finally declaring in one voice that yes black lives matter all across this country

a whole new generation of children is growing up hearing the cries for justice and the chance of hope on which i was raised some strapped into strollers of their own and trust me it's a song you'll never forget. so to everyone keeping up the fight you are doing something you are doing something great you are the heroes of our time and you are the reason i know we are going to bring our country closer to realizing its great promise and these one detained protester has died in by the roofs after police crackdown on demonstrations hundreds of women have rallied across minsk to protest against the police's actions hundreds have been injured and

more than 6000 detained during protests against the election victory of president xander luka shameka more than half of beirut's health care facilities are nonfunctional because of last week's devastating explosion that's according to the world health organization which says the damage will complicate efforts to contain coronavirus 1200 people were killed in last week's blast. emersion prime minister says almost all of the oil has been removed from a ship that's been leaking into the country's pristine waters workers have been racing to empty the ship after it grounded off the mercian coast last month spilling a 1000 tonnes of oil into the sea there's the headlines next stop on al-jazeera people in power investigates the secret weapon tests on an italian are going to stay with us if you can buy for now. to own their own school is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and to

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