for everyone to have access to essential health services now more than the world needs w.h.o. making a healthy a world. for everyone. revolt ready to get to work rebuilding this nation and building a better white house hopeful joe biden i'm running mate comma harris make their campaign trail debut attacking president trump for his handling of the coronavirus and that. in just 83 days we have a chance to choose a better future for our country. hello

i'm down in jordan this is our desire at live from doha also coming up france is set to boost its military presence in the eastern mediterranean calling on turkey to hold on and gas exploration that's raised tensions with greece. has called out to their loved ones who are among thousands locked up since the disputed election in belarus. and lebanon puts a new estimate on losses from the bay will last more than $15000000000.00 as residents say they may never be able to repair their. welcome to the program joe biden then called a harris have appeared on stage together for the 1st time was running mates in the race against president trump for the white house they presented themselves as the right team to lead the u.s. through the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning over racism. as

a child of immigrants she knows personally how immigrant families and rich are our country as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up black to do to america the united states of america her stories america story the president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression and we're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change america is crying out for leadership. mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike this is a very different campaign event in the time of pandemic some strong words from both

biden and harris but how important was it that she made a good 1st impression at this event. well it's absolutely critical as strobe biden is running mate she is going to have a massive influence over this campaign manager certainly important that she came out fighting as she did during that news conference she was very very harsh on president trump making very clear the avenues on which she's going to be attacking him the economy that she blames him for the $16000000.00 out of work his handling of the pandemic which she says indicates a complete lack of leadership similar words coming from joe biden so very clearly you seeing early on an outline of how this campaign is going to go they are going to be fighting the president on his track record during his years as head of state within america very clearly to he is vulnerable to a number of these attacks giving his handling of the pandemic the once again the

difficulty facing biden and camilla harris is getting a common agenda they are part on some issues but this is something they're going to have to hammer out in the days ahead to prevent a united agenda in a campaign that is going to be different from any other because of this pandemic yes michael there was acrimony between both of them during the nomination process is this something they've now overcome and what has come of the harris bring to the ticket and to voters in the run up to the election. well there was a acrimony between them come along harris was exceedingly critical of joe biden during that to preserve race for the nomination the democratic party nomination but she supported him immediately she stepped out of that race and very importantly it would appear that by joe biden nominating her as a running mate he is showing that he wants a running mate who is prepared to criticize him he doesn't want

a lucky in that position he wants somebody who is forceful somebody who will continually keep him on his toes and that is something that the voters will notice immediately joe biden's choice to bring in somebody tough as it were and somebody who has a record of criticizing him in the past what she brings to the ticket a real feisty nature in the time that she's been the senate in the house in congress she certainly shown that she will not take a step backwards she has been highly critical of members of the trump administration and at times as lead questioning on several administration figures who have appeared in congress also of course it is very important the 1st black presidential candidate from either party in the country's history and as you heard joe biden there referred to her background as the daughter of immigrants this is something that will resonate joe biden hopes and she hopes very largely with

a large band of the population but it is in the early reaction was to his nomination there's very favorable responses from things like big industry silicon valley the technical leaders so at the stage as world it would appear that joe biden having had a rather slow start to his campaign as many would argue he suddenly got traction with this nomination and certainly it is a day on which his campaign has finally been galvanized or into my tunnel. for us there in washington d.c. mike thank you for that let's bring in derek plummer he's a form of bomb a ministration official and the democratic party strategist he joins us live now from washington d.c. derrick so this was harrison biden's 1st campaign appearance together what did you make of it and how important was this event in showcasing comma harris as the new v.p. pick. first karen thank you so much for having me i'm glad to be here so look i think

it was a good event it really lit up the narrative that what we should expect to see between now and election day i think you really put together a contrast between what we'll see between a biden harrison ministration and their leadership that we've seen under a trump pince administration i also think it was damning in terms of the indictment against donald trump and his failed leadership in this goal and in it i think the way that senator harris laid out her arguments related to the millions of jobs lost to the u.s. response inadequate response to the global pandemic compared to the rest of the advanced world i think it also was really a moment in which there could be very few moments between now and election day this day convention did beat in which you have all eyes on this ticket and i think they really use that moment very direct there except what does this all mean then for the democratic party i mean many people are already saying look paris is and fusing

the politicians exciting the party faithful but is shit politician of the moderate center left and where does this now leave the progressives in the party who attacked her initially. yeah melissa have to say that i've heard from a lot of different folks that i have worked with over the years in democratic politics and people are excited about this and this is the fact that she is a black woman of indian heritage is really exciting because we've never seen this type of diversity at the top of a national ticket and i think it one of the most powerful things are said today was and this was something that senator harris and joe biden is the one man that can say that he served with the 1st black president of the united states and he is the 1st and only person i can say he did that and he has chosen a black woman to be his vice president and this extruded powerful especially when you look at the role that black voters will play in november and so if the

democrats are going to be successful they're going to have to have a coalition if you will of the willing they're going to support joe biden i think donald trump is definitely a motivating factor but i think how my hair is brings a lot of energy and enthusiasm and as we've seen from the response from democrats moderates and independents they think she's a loop that choice derek so if if by the harris do when they didn't hear it as you know a wiring or a of crises the coronavirus pandemic you've mentioned that surging unemployment a struggling economy how they're likely to handle these issues in the run up to november because these are the big ticket issues the things that voters say look we're worried about them. you know well look i think we saw some of that today saying we have a plan and here are the things that we're going to do we're going to do the smart fundamental things when it comes a little of health we're not going to go back and forth as to whether or not people social distance are not going to go back and forth in terms of whether or not

people should wear a mask we are going to put together a plan and they actually been doing that so you know folks who've been following biden have if you go to this web site there's youtube videos you name it he's been actually laying out that plan i think we're going to see starting next week at the democratic national convention is them actually laying the framework for how they don't want to provide a very different type of united states post january 2021 than what we see today and the truth this is our top is playing from a very we can pharmacies holmes where they are people don't really trust him they don't trust that he has a plan and a strategy to address those things and so i think we're going to see over the course of the next in the days is sitter harris and former vice president joe biden really laid out that narrative as to in terms of what they're going to do ursus went down the top has not the republic right to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera thank you thank you dear. now francois

increase his military presence in the eastern mediterranean president mccraw is also pushing to the to hold oil and gas exploration in disputed waters that's heightened tensions with greece the standoff escalated this week with the arrival of a turkish research vessel accompanied by watch it. in greece have competing claims to natural gas reserves let's bring in child's cook john he's a professor of international affairs at georgetown university and senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and joins us live now from maryland. france is now saying it's going to increase its military presence in the eastern mediterranean how significant do you think this move is and what impact is it going to have on this dispute this sat between turkey and greece. and i think it's a sign event france along with other nato members is increasingly worried about the potential for a clash between the greeks and the turks they disputes between the 2 countries go

way back they've been arguing over maritime boundaries over territory over gas drilling for a long time it's escalated of late in part because air new won is pursuing a more ambitious foreign policy he showed up with forces in libya he signed an agreement with libya that demarcated numeric time batteries in the mediterranean that drove the greeks crazy so they went out and forged are going to remain with egypt now you have the ship showing up at turkish ship just off shore of the greek island and i think the french are trying to say hold on we're going to try to cool the temperature here before things get out of hand yet charles only sold those pictures yesterday of turkish naval warships escorting that research ship in the area with great ship shadowing that whole flotilla how alarming were those pictures . well you know a similar kind of thing happened a few weeks ago off the coast of libya where you had

a got an unfortunate incident between a french vessel and a turkish vessel french being there as part of an offshore effort to enforce the arms embargo so we've already seen the french and the turks mix it up at this time in libya and now it's over much closer to the to the turkish greek area and you know i think nobody nobody wants to go to war nobody wants to see 2 nato members mix it up on the other hand when you have this many naval vessels when tensions are this high when you have greek ect excuse me turkish exploration this ship that you mentioned is taking seismic soundings the 1st step in drilling for gas you know things are are in a kind of dangerous place and i think that's one of the reasons the french are trying to show up and so and and keep the forces apart yet so let's talk about the diplomacy childs i mean the european union seems to be siding with greece here the

e.u.'s cold turkey is very worrying nato set to be general has a respect for international law how important is the response here from the e.u. and nato. well i think in some ways you're seeing an all hands on deck diplomatic response because there is a conversation taking place between the u.s. secretary of state and the greek foreign minister nato is is trying to rise to the occasion the e.u. is going to hold an emergency session so that's a sign to me that people are really worried about the situation and keep in mind that you have a backdrop of tension over syrian refugees coming from turkey to greece over what heir to one has done in turning the huggy sophia into a mosque so there is a lot of fuel to fan the flames at this point between greece and turkey. great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to us my pleasure all right time for

a short break here on out is iraq when we come back and allegedly offensive facebook posts about violence in southern india. out of populism bob and journalist appears in court after being arrested at a magistrate says the public commentary is testimony during the state of the. hello there is in the 4 calls across the southeast of the united states has been very active the last you ask particular crawls into areas of florida you can see that massive cloud on that massive lightning strikes as well carry a kohl's across the west but this is where we have the heat in place and also of the critical fire danger but have a look at this because this was actually through monday this is this massive lot of storms that came through with these winds gusting to 160 kilometers an hour under a while those winds have done to these huge grain storage containers and also in

iowa this is marshalltown another one just literally flattened by the strength of those winds now that storm is on the kid out the way but we'll see more of this this was down in disney world in orlando in florida some huge lightning strikes and you can see as a sail a subtle up there plenty of lightning strikes in the last few hours more of that like you go through areas in the southeast pushing up towards of atlantic but the temperatures are improving all the time and if. conditions across much of the midwest off that line of severe storms those are clear conditions out towards the west but remember we've got this fog danger but also the heat really is in place across the south 45 in phoenix 32 in los angeles even war with these temperatures about 75 degrees above average but all the while the rain those thunderstorms continue in the southeast and still training up towards the mid atlantic. sweat tears and sometimes block but for them it's what they dreams i mean don't.

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white house they presented themselves as the right team to lead the u.s. through the pandemic and the national reckoning over racism. from some increase its military presence in the eastern mediterranean to monitor throwing dispute between turkey and greece about oil and gas exploration the standoff escalated this week with the arrival of a turkish research vessel accompanied by warships. at least one day in protest or has died in belarus after police crackdown on demonstrations against the president more than 6000 people have been arrested during 3 nights of often violent protests denouncing alexander lukashenko landslide election victory critics at home and abroad say the vote was rigged and any opposition figures have been detained or forced to flee the country including the main election rival so atlanta conical. officials say look at what about 80 percent of the vote easily extending his 26 years in power steadfast in reports from its. worried about the fate of their

loved ones relatives and friends outside this detention center in minsk cries of support without knowing if they can here in. kenya you are our heroes they scream at us calling out to their sons and daughters wives looking for their house after days of arrest many are still missing a 17 year old boy was 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 gripped this cheek there started to beat me even more and sprayed something in my face it was burning when i asked for medical aid they did not help me volunteers are trying to help located. the thousands of detainees resident alex on the look at the has condemned those detained describing them as a criminal underclass because of 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 streets and avenues 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 rians and cars attacked from randomly. but that did not deter hundreds of women from protesting to condemn the violence they march for peace and fair elections president lukashenko who 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 and can 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 at us 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 catch you anywhere when you go shopping or go to the hospital they can find you and detain

you will be you yes my child still i don't want our husbands brothers and sons 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 fastened al-jazeera meant. hard times ahead that's the message from the u.k. finance minister britain officially plunged into a coronavirus led recession gross domestic product or g.d.p. fell by 20.4 percent the. in april and june that's the biggest drop on record and is worse than most other major economies about 730000 jobs have been lost since march when lock downs were 1st imposed the government warns more will go in the coming months and the bank of england doesn't believe the economy will get anywhere

near its pretty virus performance until the end of next year. we're talking about this a few months ago i said hard times were coming and today's figures show the hard times are 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 france is seeing its highest infection numbers since restrictions were eased back in may the health ministry says it recorded more than 2500 new cases at least 18 people have died in the past 24 hours. lebanon's president has put out a new estimate of damage and losses from last week's beirut explosion more than $15000000000.00 it's a bill lebanon will be unable to pay in its current financial crisis the world health organization meanwhile says hoffman the city's health clinics and hospitals functioning well ben smith has been speaking to people who've lost their homes and

businesses. 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 a landlord can't afford the repairs or release the funds home will probably stay like this i now must learn to 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 don't know if you will be able to put more money into it i don't know we need.

not only also earlier everybody. needs some 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 in the challenge is huge an explosion of the scale is exceptional before rebuilding you have to appraise the structure see if everything can hold up. times 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 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 bernard smith al-jazeera beirut. china has won the u.s. that quote those who play with fire will get burned that follows a visit to taiwan by a senior american delegation u.s. health secretary alex as is the most high profile official to visit the island in decades it's infuriated beijing which views taiwan as a breakaway province washington insists the trip was only meant to examine taiwan successful battle against the corona virus. 3 people have died in the southern

indian city of bangalore rule out of violence over an allegedly offensive social media post over the prophet mohammed dozens were injured when protesters fought with police who fired on the crowd the facebook post was written by relatives of a local politician and as a parent reports. the charred remains of a violent protest burnt out vehicles are 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 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 $930.00 to $10.00 they were around 20 of them carrying beaton's they brought the a.t.m. and came here the only targeted our street and in our street they destroyed at least 2 auto rickshaws 3 cars and 22 windows they also broke all the windows of our

house and. the protesters then went to 2 police stations have fed 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 band accused of writing the facebook post but he says his account was hacked 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 gathering throughout the city elizabeth pradhan al

jazeera new delhi. a journalist in zimbabwe accused of mobilizing antigovernment protests has been barred from publicly testifying about his prison conditions. was arrested last month he says he's being denied food and clothing reports from iraq. when freelance journalists hope we're 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. is accused of encouraging demonstrations over the economy and corruption in his government he is being denied food from outside. so he's been living. in water. when president nixon when i got what to his predecessor 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. only to be arrested last year for attending a pro-democracy workshop in the maldives it's just for. me and the government for its claim to plan some form of uprising against which we thought was actually decreases. given that we are citizens of with great tree of an understanding will fall choose that government. on monday so that because president cyril ramaphosa state envoys to harare to investigate abuse allegations but those left ricans only made zimbabwe's leader not opposition or civil society groups the social contract mr peters stored is a middle of the conservation needs to be restored is richard richard without a 3rd a member or alternatively blood on the streets. frustration 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 to miss them when i got was this 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 a supporters are being arrested by state security agents a statement politicians in the governing zanu p.f. party vehemently deny. their. stuff a quick check of the headlines on joe biden and carla harris of appeared on stage together for the 1st time was running mates in the race against president trump for the white house and presented themselves as the right team to lead the u.s. through the coronavirus demick and the national reckoning over racism. as a child of immigrants she knows personally how immigrant families are richer our

country as well as the challenges of what it means to grow up black to do in america the united states of america her stories america story the president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression. and we're experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change. america is crying out for leadership france will increase its military presence in the eastern mediterranean to monitor a growing dispute between turkey and greece of all in gas exploration the standoff escalated this week with the arrival of a turkish research vessel accompanied by warships at least one detained protester

has died in better loose after police crackdown on demonstrations hundreds of women rallied across minsk against the police not more than 6000 people were arrested during 3 nights of often violent protests denouncing alexander lukashenko landslide election victory france's seeing its highest infection numbers since restrictions were eased in may the health ministry says it's recorded more than 2500 new cases at least 18 people have died in the past 24 hours lebanon's president has put out a new estimate of damage on losses from last week's by which explosion more than $15000000000.00 it's a bill lebanon pay in its current financial crisis the world health organization meanwhile says hoth of the city's health clinics and hospitals functioning corruption and mismanagement of being blamed for the disaster. so those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after counting the cost statement after

watching. as protests rage over police brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on. hello i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week russia seizes control of libya's biggest oil field despite losing ground moscow flounce libya with warplanes and russian. currency crisis default hyperinflation lebanon's economic paralysis.