to the voiceless it's like you're going to war zone every time you want programs that open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on his iraq. thousands of factory workers in belarus defy the president and join protesters as calls grow for even bigger demonstrations at the weekend. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the united states says it sees tankers carrying iranian oil to venezuela to iran accuses the u.s. of fabricating lies. fears that beirut's hospitals are running out of medicines after last week's report last we report from

a damaged child cancer treatment center. packing up and shutting up shop devastating impact of the coronavirus on the columbia and the economy. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the bellows capital minsk for a 6th night of protests of last week's disputed presidential elections despite a ruthless crackdown in which heavily armed police were deployed against peaceful protesters and thousands were arrested workers from some of the biggest state run factories of walked off the job just hours after hundreds of people arrested over the past few days was suddenly released from prison president alexander lukashenko school for people to return to work but made little reference to the protests opposition to that on a ticket off scalia has called on the international community to help organize

talks she's also asking supporters to join mass demonstrations this weekend. and. we need to stop the violence on the streets of valor russian cities i call on the government to stop this and to come to the negotiation table i ask all town mayors to act as organizers of peaceful mass events in each town on the 15th and 16th of august. people must be told that they have the only chance to save the enterprise that feeds them only saving their factory will feed their families they can take to the streets there are thousands of them walking but there is no money or they will be paid for just $2.00 days. vast has been reporting on the story from the capital men's consensus the slightest up day peaceful protest that's exactly exactly what's happening here right at the independence square in minsk and the crowds are swelling here by the minute this all started because workers from a truck to

a factory in the outskirts of minsk left their factory when they were on strike marched through the city center and then asked others to join in which they did so they ended up here which and initially led to quite a tense situation because they were marching towards the building then certainly military police came out so people were really scared what they were going to do but then very surprisingly soldiers put down their shields which led to very emotional scenes with women having them and people really crying because you have to remember of course that many here have been living under syrian rule for more than 2 decades so where this is going to lead nobody knows but it's getting getting bigger and bigger many here at the square considers for the planet a kind of sky as the new president and the kind of sky herself has now offered to government to have a dialogue about this transitional government as she says because she considers herself a winner with 60 to 70 percent of the vote but so far has not responded to this

offer. well skier has fled to lithuania which is now considering welcoming better russians as refugees on humanitarian grounds the lithuanian foreign minister told al-jazeera that there needs to be collective action for political dialogue in belarus. we decided to step in since very beginning basically we cannot take watch employees to the events in the neighborhood but since it's neighborhood we cannot speak indifferent and that's always this dialogue with neighbors very complicated i would say our approach also quite collected there i think months where we can find added value and progress and there are issues where you can physically and now we see this crisis and crisis was because of the actions of boyce's and holistic 'd beyond any borders because they are baalei violations of human rights to both politic welfare and forcibly even crimes committed against the

civilian population that's something we cannot say finally we are demanding credit simple things to release those detained also also to stop violence and to start some quite deep but to stop this violence with only people who own citizens and they need much by the way they were not aggressive they were not rushing windows so burning cars but the force used against them was really extraordinary and that would remain some races in the future and that's. very difficult when you have no intention whatsoever of getting that right in the region for domestic affairs of that sense that what we what we are talking here has no borders and there's a tension and at the same time happening in europe in the continent and that's why we discussed this issue also today the foreign ministers of european union having this extraordinary meeting it's not just with union prepared to go we have to go

collectively international community european union so therefore we are here actions to collective actions sent here we are about to prepare possible targets that individual measures against those responsible for little little short of those so for the succession of course. one point also we discussed the opportunity to establish special fund for the victims of oppression. the moral back up but also maybe some of them to support those who suffered because of the suppression. so we discussed politically measures not just assessing the situation and i think this election. and on the more i think but also not enough we have to it is visiting our relations that. well any of our ministers have agreed to stop airing new sanctions against the government of belarus and those behind the violence and attention of peaceful protest as need banca has more on that. well the meeting of

e.u. foreign ministers happened remotely they all dialed into a central hub and brussels and basically shared their ideas on how to pile the pressure on alexander look at shank oh there's no shortage of solidarity for the better russian people and no shortage of criticism in condemnation for alexander lukashenko according to a spokesperson for the german chancellor angela merkel was shocked. seen scenes of violence on the streets of minsk and other cities over the course of the past few days and also has live on the lam the european commission president said that there had been a brutal violation of human rights that warranted immediate sanctions and sanctions does appear to be the direction of travel the e.u. foreign ministers together in a unified way are prepared to take that could take the form of 'd asset freezes or travel bans on senior figures who then look at leadership we could well see other

forms of pina's have measures been imposed but let's not forget the e.u. is already imposed a raft of sanctions on the country already imposed restrictions on certain officials we know the nimble arms embargo has been in place for some time now so the e.u. is also under pressure to see exactly what it can do to force alexander lukashenko into line we've had poland with other baltic states already come forth and volunteer as mediators in any forthcoming dialogue between look at shanker and the opposition the opposition of welcome that but look at shank oh is far from it he remains defiant so the role now for the e.u. is to pile on the pressure and to try and open a corridor of communication. developing

story even for. the u.s. department of justice saying that it seized iranian fuel from 4 tankers that were headed to venezuela it says it's the biggest ever such seizure both iran and venezuela are under u.s. sanctions well alan fisher is live for us at the white house now and any more information then allan about how and why this cargo was seized. well it would seem that the americans were aware of a convoy that was traveling to venezuela carrying what the allege was really an oil they managed to peel off 4 of those vessels from this convoy 4 private ships 3 with iranian state vessels they went to a court here in washington d.c. on the 2nd of july and asked for the seizure order which was granted they allege that the person who had arranged this deal was connected to the republican guard was in breach of international sanctions and of course you'll remember that the republican guard has been designated by the trumpet ministration as

a terrorist organization and they managed to get there was 4 ships they're heading currently on their way to texas they will be met there by officials at the plan is that they will seize the oil on board there's 1160000 barrels of oil this fits in with the trumpet ministration plan of maximum pressure on the iranians 1st of all it stops oil getting to venezuela a regime they've also been odds with over recent years but also it stops the iranians getting any revenues from the a sale of oil or we should see at this stage the alleged sale of oil the donald trump was asked about that when he was in the briefing room just over an hour or so ago he said that this was something that they really should not be doing and that is why they acted what are the iranians saying well the iranian ambassador to venezuela has been speaking and he said look this was an oil we're not selling it to the venezuelans at the moment. no for our north and then with no right now

there's nothing planned because we haven't had a request from our venezuelan friends as they are reactivating their own refineries u.s. officials are experts in fabricating lies and carrying out shows in the media and i ask you who is the bigger victim of terrorism the u.s. or iraq. so this isn't over yet the u.s. government still has to go back to court to assure that the allegations that they're making are true and then if a judge agrees with them they will be able to seize the oil and sell it with the proceeds going to the fund which is set up to support the victims of state terrorism because they say that has still got to go to court so this is still got to play out there's another date in court somewhere in the united states coming up very soon. thank you with the latest from the white house alan fischer palestinians have protested against the u.s. brokered agreement between israel and the united arab emirates normalize relations

hundreds gathered in occupied east jerusalem at the last after friday prayers demonstrators say israeli promises to suspend not scrap plans to annex palestinian territory is a betrayal some trampled on pictures of the abu dhabi crown prince mohammed bin zeid in the amorality flag israeli troops have tightened security in the area i foresee it is in western us and with more on the protests. it was an expression of anger and repudiation of the u.s. part in carrying out this deal with israel which obviously is something that goes in contravention of the 2 adhere to at least publicly if not in the background policy having a resolution in the israeli palestinian conflict. with other arab states there was this protest at the al aqsa mosque compound there was a smaller protest as well and hebron and the south of the occupied west bank but the real pushback even comes from the palestinian leadership itself saying that

this is a betrayal this is a stab in the back of palestinians according to some senior officials and they say that the u.s. should not have gone along with us from the u.a.e. perspective what they're saying is that they have acted in a way which has rescued the occupied west bank from the threat of imminent an extension of at least 30 percent of it and that is the that the prize that they have won from israel that's seen very differently of course in ramallah which is where the policy leadership is headquartered they see this is israel gaining something very valuable merely for not having done anything not having sacrificed any land not having given any major concessions it's all to the palestinians without is there are live from london more still ahead a sign of angola's former president is sentenced to 5 years in prison for embezzlement and ford and fears of a deadly explosion in india after the government relocate hundreds of tons of the

same chemical that devastated over the. we've got hot and humid weather now spilling across northwestern year just nodding through the low countries heading towards germany in the form of thundery downpours breaking that a strain hate that we have seen recently said areas of light pressure areas to fundraise showers will continue across the southern half of the u.k. down across the low countries because they have a spreading their way towards austria towards the balkans as we go through the next couple days it's trying to freshen up behind it will tell you some time that 24 celsius in london with those storms in place behind another system just making its way into the by of biscay 31 celsius the 4 border for the south lawrence of the the

mid to high twenty's across by and so too bad here it's all some of the temperatures there it's scandinavia a little colder i would too as that eastern side of you have the fabulous of cloud into western russia with one or 2 showers here but not as heavy as the showers that we have down swards the black sea towards the balkan plain just pushing up across central parts up towards the northwest $25.00 celsius there in london for much of the med here it is fine and dry lots of sunshine in play over the next few days family showers continue just around the sun held a little further north and they should be heavy downpours there for nigeria that making the way for the west. the slums of mindanao home to an extraordinary community. on the frontline rémy south towards me to life. delivering new life into some of the tough place to living conditions in the world. in

a unique 6 part series al-jazeera follows the knives of the remarkable people who work. and ride in the salon on al-jazeera. the all the world the world. can back look at the headlines now factory workers have gone on strike and tens of thousands of people have rallied in the heart of better research capital minsk and show of anger over a brutal police crackdown thousands have been detained and hundreds injured since protests broke out after sunday's disputed election iran's foreign minister has criticised western countries for demanding political change as

a condition for financial aid ramaj of odds are if is visiting the capital beirut following last week's deadly explosion and palestinians of protests against the u.s. brokered between them between israel of the united arab emirates to normalize relations demonstrators say israel's promise to suspend or not scrap plans to expand its new territory is a betrayal of the course. and warn those comments from iran's foreign minister now mohammad javad zarif saying the world must not play politics with lebanon's pain he is visiting the lebanese capital beirut following last week's port explosion he lashed out at western countries saying they shouldn't make political shouldn't make aid contingent on political change in the country iran backs the powerful hezbollah group which is part of lebanon's coalition government western leaders have said that aid will go directly to the lebanese people and not to the government unless reforms take place well 3 major hospitals and a half of the clinics in the lebanese capital is still not functioning hundreds of

patients who need a treatment phyllis's before the blast now can't get the care that they need but it smith reports from george hospital for a new life to near death in the blink of an eye. this is the maternity unit of said george's hospital in beirut was the shock wave from the port explosion hit we flew directly in london over here. on the 9th floor. 7 year old son yuri was having chemotherapy when i woke up when i open my eyes and he looked at u.t. at 1st eye he was screaming his heart out. had been recording the 1st explosion on his phone i don't want but. i'm here don't be afraid omar says . get out i'm scared that you are. still had his tubes stuck with them in and his entire cycle was still running at

that point the very next thing i wanted to do was just put some shoes on because there's debris everywhere there's glass shards everywhere i could feel them in my feet and i was looking at your receipt and he was barefoot as well and with standing on glass there were a dozen children with their families up here at the time of the explosion unfortunately one of the parents died 2 parents in the very critical case of the i.c.u. and this was seen by the patients you can imagine how tough it is for the patients they have cancer they are afraid from the explosion and from the noise and they see their parents or dying or in the very particular case dr noone has 110 child cancer patients with his unit damaged he's been driving across lebanon trying to find space in other facilities 3 beirut hospitals are out of action and around another $25.00 health facilities are not functional according to the world health organization there's also been a surge in corona virus and that's

a particular risk for child cancer patients with compromised immune a-t. lebanon's hospitals were in a crisis before the explosion and economic collapse and a shortage of dollars has left them without cash to buy foreign medicines and pay stuff and to this day it's been very difficult we try to hold it together in front of our kids but i mean even they come and speak to us about it's everywhere everybody's thought. about it's on t.v. it's everywhere so as much as we can try to shield them from this horrible nightmare that happens we still get our own time where we are very very. and it's very painful. yuri has been found a place in a different hospital to continue his chemotherapy he's getting close to the end of his treatment his prognosis is very good the cuts on his head from the explosion will soon he'll burn its myth al-jazeera beirut and other stories are following a son of angola's for president chose eduardo to santos has been sentenced to 5

years in prison joseph aminah dissent else has been found guilty of embezzlement and fraud he'd been put in charge of the country's $5000000000.00 wealth fund tearing his father's rule the verdict was linked to a $500000000.00 transfer that had been sent to an overseas account in 2017 this is a massive turnaround of events luckily no one of across the african continent it's . the same thing is it one which confines that i think the president is serious about 5 years is that it's not a bad example. for a fast son. in the chair population and a.p.c. rules on most of those are going to countries you know going to this case it's a huge country that they're it's about iraq it is a group of war and a country that is reeking of oil reserves of the swamp lou should it come to the

city for a bit but thanks to the do some to his brother sister perhaps those of economies around in the super house done rather well so i think this is a little bit less than 2 not really bad and you know what about i think it was across the arctic with all of ours what. i'm out of mozambique where the president has visited the northern province of delgado off to fight off days after fighters linked to i still seized a key port town there for the pain you see vowed to create jobs in an effort to prevent young people from joining them mozambique's army is still trying to regain control of the port town of pryor in the gas rich area which has been seized by armed groups 3 times already this year or armored tasso is a neighboring zimbabwe and says that regional leaders are under increasing pressure to do something to help mozambique. in may meet here to discuss the crisis in mozambique but after talking there was no concrete one region

can do to assist mozambique he does not meet again on monday and save this time then the increasing pressure to actually do some one of the expectations that one would be of. from our leadership. i live or fact finding mission that would be pretty same tool to mozambique and this is an intelligence military intelligence political. experts trying to establish the extent and the gravity of the situation in. another mozambique mozambique's president felipe a news feed visited the area fitted by the violence and he promised to do more to assist people there this speculation some other countries in southern africa could send in troops to assist mozambique's army it's happened before in the democratic republic of congo in the city and in mozambique back when a number of fighters were causing problems there most of these governments this fight is the theory 82 i saw are responsible for the violence the area in northern

rich in natural gas and some projects are worth more than $60000000000.00 is a concern for the 5 to spill over into other countries in the region similar to what's been seen currently on the continent in the sahara region and the horn of africa. officials in the indian city of chennai of moved out hundreds of tonnes of the chemical that exploded in lebanon's capital last week and explosives company in the city of hyderabad has taken control of the ammonium nitrate but people who live near its new location are afraid of the consequences elizabeth branham reports from new delhi. making its way through a village on the outskirts of the southern city of hi there a truck carrying the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate the last batch of around $700.00 tons is being moved from chennai to an explosives manufacturer and the state of talon goner. but some people living near its new location didn't know about the huge blast in lebanon's capital or the chemical being stored just 3

kilometers from their homes back on a convent and there were strict precautionary measures should be taken to avoid any unfortunate incident and have village or the factory should be shifted to some other deserted place. as was the ammonium nitrate explosion in beirut on august 4th that prompted customs offices in chennai to move the 700 tons of the explosive chemical being stored in a container freight yard on the outskirts of the city and then. this information would be the police. or not it was not a safer place to keep the only media taken to. a designated store or whatever and bidding process customs was a lady undertaking. a hyderabad based company bought the material months ago that its relocation has been fast tracked after the lebanon blast the explosive grade

ammonium nitrate was seized at the chennai portion 2015 experts say it shouldn't have been stored in the area for so many years this one in order to be stored in a place specifically that was strong if i wanted it for that is abroad give me any other products and you know that but here in the border area they have stored the many other things but it is very very dangerous you know luckily this is not explored the nagar fire or anything else but you know you cannot depend on luck or you enough to ensure that all started when one died the company that now owns the ammonium nitrate says it's been handling up to 2000 tons of the material every month without incident but environmentalists say no amount of ammonium nitrate is safe when stored in large quantities elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. now australian health officials made unjustifiable and inexcusable mistakes when they allowed passengers with covert 19 to disembark a cruise ship in sydney in march this is according to

a scathing new report by an independent commission 120 of the 2700 passengers were feeling unwell when they left the ruby princess helping spread the virus around the country a public inquiry says new south wales health failed to get quick test results before passengers disembarked at the time it was australia's single biggest source of infection with more than 600 cases and 20 deaths linked directly to that ship well now colombia has registered the worst economic contraction in its history caused by the longest coronavirus restrictions anywhere in the world unemployment has more than doubled since nost year economists say the pandemic has devastated thousands of businesses across the country erasing gains made over the past 2 decades. the reports now from bogota. it's the end of the line for the poise hair salon until recently a successful endeavor of hairdressers and breasts in his partner but almost 5

months of coronavirus restrictions and the lack of promise government assistance left them with no other option but to close its doors. we were doing very well i sold a car and a motorcycle to further invest in the shop we built it with much effort savings and especially love it's very sad to see your dreams come to an end like many other countries the pandemic a stake in the heavy toll in colombia but it's hitting particularly hard in a country that has seen a steady economic growth for 2 decades and where more than 5000000 people had risen from poverty to enter into the middle class we are facing the most. strongest recession that we have in the history of. data and we are getting basically an economy. and. one employed in terms of firms that are just closing down. this is something that

has never happened in the country before. many shops that have reopened are struggling to get back into gear and normal times this more would be teeming with people that this time but as you can see there's barely anybody here and more than 10 percent of its shop have already closed for good. others are striving to keep the doors open like you've. raised in a low income family through hard work he was able to open a successful restaurant in an up and coming neighborhood. with the pandemic he has reduced his staff from 16 to 4 people and there's been operating at a loss hoping things will turn around soon but he's pessimistic. i fear the country will go back to the eighty's and we're seeing it already with the streets emptied out and colonized by the pool it's showing us how fragile a new middle class really is this pandemic arrived and it's destroying it

a lot of people are falling through the cracks is. the government has announced a series of measures to deal with the crisis pumping billions into the country's central bank and promising debt relief in economic assistance but for many it has already been too little too late to keep the lights on i listen to him. every camp of the headlines now factory workers have gone on strike and tens of thousands of people have rallied in the heart of belarus as compliments and a show of anger over a brutal police crackdown around 7000 people were detained and hundreds injured since protests broke out after sunday's disputed election at least 2000 people have now been released as authorities try to ease public theory opposition leader taken

off skier has called for talks and. we need to stop the violence on the streets of by the russian cities i call on the government to stop this and to come to the negotiation table i ask all town mayors to act as organizers of peaceful mass invest in each town on the 15th and 16th of august this is the rules of the parcel of what people must be told that they have the only chance to save the enterprise that feeds them only saving their factory will feed their families they can take to the streets there are thousands of them walking but there is no money or they will be paid for just $2.00 days. the u.s. says it seized iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed to venezuela washington says it's the biggest ever such seizure to have taken place president donald trump says the fuel is being taken to houston a major oil shipping america's impose sanctions on both venezuela and iran to choke oil exports and deprive them of their main source of revenue meanwhile iran's

foreign minister has lashed out at western countries saying that they shouldn't demand political change in lebanon as a condition for providing aid jet mama jobs or if is visiting beirut after last week's deadly explosion in iran backs the powerful hezbollah group which is part of lebanon's government. and palestinians have protested against the u.s. brokered agreement between israel and the united arab emirates to normalize relations hundreds gathered at the mosque in occupied east jerusalem after friday prayers demonstrators say israel's promise to suspend plans to an explicit in territory is a betrayal of that of course. those are the headlines this hour a.j. select is coming up next looking at the gang wars and global hotspots and the people fighting for peace.

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