and. thousands gather in baton rouge to remember a man killed during protests against the president as demands for political change grow louder. about this and this is on syria live from doha also coming up warnings that millions of mail ballots could be missed in the u.s. as democrats accuse president trump of sabotaging the postal service. everyone should have the courage to talk about the moderate. syrian protesters push

traditional boundaries in thailand the head of a mass anti-government rally planned for sunday. and russia says it's produced the 1st batch of its coronavirus vaccine but many scientists are skeptical about its effectiveness. protesters in better routes are keeping up their pressure on the longtime leader of xander lucas shank a day of mourning has turned into a 7th consecutive day of mass protests calling for political change after a disputed presidential vote thousands of laid flowers and lit candles at the site where a man died on monday during the violent crackdown on protestors crowds have been chanting leave aimed at president look at who's facing the biggest challenge to his 26 year rule a funeral has been held for the 34 year old protester but the russian authorities say an explosive device blew up in his hand. but the opposition supporters don't

accept the official account another man died in police custody or 7000 others were detained many say they were beaten and tortured though the shank has made it clear he has no intention to step down and has rejected foreign mediation but in a call with russia's president vladimir putin the 2 leaders have agreed to problems in belarus will be resolved swiftly. vassals in minsk where demonstrators are still on the streets. i'm near. metro station where the 34 year old car mechanic was killed on monday night it's still unclear. but it's. open. night and also in the week. where a lot of remains. found in the last 6 people have been streaming in.

but also as a sign of protest and defiance thousands of people also carrying children. very euphoric atmosphere i have to say. the day when there was a one minute silence. there were a lot of people crying holding. making a peace sign. remarkable scenes here today again in minsk where protests are not stopping and only growing bigger the protests are just. waiting. around for the last 48 hours i have to say. the people were marching towards independence square. in front of house.

with women. also standing by and also reports of trucks. despite the fact that some people here have been trying to. everyone needs to be. any minute we haven't seen a sign of. this atmosphere of freedom that people haven't felt here for decades and the month for you is a visiting senior fellow at king's college london she says russian president vladimir putin has been cautious not to take sides in the situation and. puts him as very smart he is careful he was the 2nd leader holcomb of your late at the question call on the victory but you never condemned the protest he never actually said that he shared look at frankel's assessment that the this is an export of colored revolution i here expressed

a very cautious hope that the protests would to peer result through peaceful means more also more or less stepped aside watching very closely but also prepared to deal with whoever comes on the top look ushant is desperate for any lies he's relationship with moscow is a really quite badly shape of the year some people say that look africa has a bit of our mortal touch of reality of that here a learning of both of the east and the west and so now he is their spirit a put in is his last hope a but putin has an old acted in the weight without a signal that he is going to rescue me question in the course of that sounds where would come on top of it would realize that they leave someone tain friends near relationship with moscow as it happened in that me now and so. there is

a memory off. site patients. and crowds marching for the 6th weekend in russia's far east have shown solidarity with the protesters in belo roofs for weeks now and they've been rallying in gains the rest of the region's former governor who had defeated a pro crime than rival in elections 2 years ago. was detained last month and taken to jail in moscow is accused of murders 15 years ago when he was a businessman fogle supporters say the charges are politically motivated. the u.s. secretary of state has signed a deal with the polish defense minister to redeploy troops from germany to poland my campaign is in more so at the end of a 4 nation tour of central and eastern europe around $4500.00 u.s. troops are currently based in poland $1000.00 more are being added the pentagon announced last month the $12000.00 soldiers are being withdrawn from germany they only half of those are set to be moved to other countries in europe

the u.s. postal service is warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the november presidential election will arrive in time to be counted as expected to be huge rise in mail in voting as a result of the coronavirus pandemic president donald trump has tried to restrict the methods of threatening to withhold funds to the postal service it claims it's at risk of fraud without giving any evidence but trump his family and many top aides have regularly voted by mail themselves and he's requested a mail in ballot for florida's primary next week. former u.s. president barack obama has joined the criticism of the postal service is functioning he says everyone depends on the u.s.p.s. seniors for the social security veterans for their prescriptions small businesses trying to keep their doors open they can't be collateral damage for an administration of more concerned with suppressing the vote in suppressing the virus

. steve thomas is the host of al-jazeera is the bottom line he says questions over the efficiency of the postal ballots could undermine faith in the u.s. election results i think there's a collapse of trust broadly in america right now in government in these institutions in the white house in congress i think that those that are opponents of. president trump are going to turn out at polls and are going to turn out at mail in ballots and those that support president trump are going to support him enormously if the election were held tomorrow even republican pollsters and fox pollsters believe that joe biden would win barely overwhelmingly with more than $300.00 electoral college votes but as we get closer to the election we see a lot of similarities between donald trump's numbers and what hillary clinton's numbers were and the similarities to where where joe biden is so i think that if

you if you had a situation in which a dollar trump loses i think that his base is going to iraq didn't think it was fraudulent if donald trump wins i think you're going to see much of the rest of the country argue that the election was stolen so to your point yes i think there's going to be doubt on both sides and i think when you add to that that these mail in ballots are likely to create conditions where we don't know the winner the night of november 3rd as we typically do that's going to add fuel to the fire protests in thailand are planning another large rally on sunday as they continue their push to remove the government and reform the monarchy the mainly student led protests are calling for significant changes to the royal family's role in society which is considered a taboo subject in thailand when he reports. there's a new generation of protesters in thailand and they're daring to go where few others have at times they've been gathering in their thousands and speaking about

an issue that supposed to be off limits i mean i just want to say that to speak out about the marquis something that we can do the royal family is protected by laws designed to prevent criticism but these protesters who are mainly students say they won't stay silent any more along with calling for elections and a new constitution they've announced a set of demands to reform the monarchy and reduce its political power the student to announce the demands on stage is wanted by police but if it had all that i have mixed feelings i'm glad that i've started a conversation i think that i'm playing a crucial role in this movement but at the same time i feel bad because we've been suppressed for far too long and many people have been too afraid to speak up so far protests by royalist groups have been small but given the strong language from the students they could grow in the meantime they're choosing to lay complaints with police but people have the right to protest but you have to do it correctly you have to follow the rules and the laws are not criticized the monarchy that

criticism and questioning the role of the royal family has increased since the death in 2016 of king a do new day who reigned for 70 years his son king know what you are long gone spends most of his time in europe but has strengthened his position amending the constitution and taking full control of palace assets since 932 thailand has been a constitutional monarchy and the king as head of state is supposed to have limited power but in reality he is the ultimate political power and that's what the protesters say they want to change they're not looking for an overthrow of the monarchy but an overhaul of the system for gathering peacefully and calling for that the protesters are risking their freedom for the whole of the american bar. if i'm arrested i won't ask for bail because that will prevent me from talking about politics i'd rather spend a few years in prison and come out swinging in thailand has a history of political upheaval and violence and given the unprecedented nature of

these protests more could be on the way wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. one of the main student leaders organizing sunday's master planned mass rally has been released on bail has. supporters welcomed part of chibok also known as penguin as he walked out of the police station it was arrested on friday for taking part in an anti-government rally last month and faces sedition charges the 22 year old activist is vowing to continue calling for political reform in the media guy eagle county and i have a i don't regret being arrested because since i joined the movement i knew this might happen but it won't be in vain everyone should have the courage to talk about the monarchy there is a police unit trailing me so i'm not sure about my safety but tomorrow there is a big rally so i needed to get bailed to get out and to lead to protest. still ahead on al-jazeera why a small scale corona virus outbreak among children is becoming

a big concern for doctors in the room. and why hong kong export is safe they are now caught in the middle of the escalating dispute between china and the us. the. hallows seasonal rain in china has moved a long way north almost as northern extent i would think is certain even affecting the korean peninsula as more heavy rain to come for north korea than that line takes you back more or less through beijing and then towards the west south it's all pretty humid and quite stormy in places hong kong big example but the real heavy rain is probably going to reappear in places like beijing it's raining on sunday and again on tuesday in the forecast and so this plenty to go for the korean peninsula but the trend is to take its final sit can do and it's helping to dampen

down the far as not part of siberia you may be pleased to hear. as for the science well the seasonal rain here is going south so we're seeing more in sumatra and parts of born year but it's still a wide extent of potential sundress as far north as the philippines and as far south or most as java significantly one city take the forecast next because it's tight in the it's like to be sherry or sundry on each of the next 3 days or so in the monsoon rain in india is pretty widespread it's reaching pakistan and still it is in bangladesh which is no big surprise but the heaviest rain probably in somewhere like jack on. the island of sardinia a famously adelie college a spot. less well known as a proving grounds for war. investigation claims that he is

a military training and arms testing triggered cancer and birth defects amid the local population. secret sardinia people in power on al-jazeera. move. on. but you know just a reminder of our top stories this hour thousands of loose of gathered at the spot where a man died on monday journal a violent crackdown on protesters a day of mourning turned into another rally calling for president alexander lukashenko to resolve the. problem of time student activist how to achieve what are

has been released on bail the day after he was arrested on sedition charges the 22 year old says he'll lose sunday's plans. to hold for reforms of the monarchy and the military backed down. the u.s. postal service is warning it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for that event both presidential election will arrive in time to be counted as expected to be a huge rise in mainland voting as a result of the pandemic let's get more of that story with who's joining us live from the u.s. state of maryland heidi just tell us more about the letters that were sent out 1st of all. this was these are warnings delivered to 46 states and washington d.c. that basically say that voters in those states may be disenfranchised in the upcoming presidential elections if they were to rely on expanded mail in ballots now this is of course a dire warning for the states as public health experts in the u.s.

have pushed for these mail in options and this this pandemic and the u.s. postal service is a federally run agency so many are questioning whether this latest move is part of president trump's battle against mailing voting he has accused that process of being unable in widespread voter fraud that has but there's been no evidence of that happening and people are specifically pointing to president's comments earlier this week in which he brazenly it may. it to wanting to withhold funding from the postal service in order to deny it the ability to expand services to deliver all of these expected mail in ballots those are comments that person trying to walk back later on friday however he himself is still continuing to push this conspiracy theory that that mail in ballots would be fraudulent and this is of course happening at a time when his polling numbers are trailing that of his democratic challenger joe

biden and at a time when we know that mail in ballots historically tend to turn out more people who vote democrat rather than republican in the midst of all of this is seems to be a growing focus on the man at the top of the postal service heidi tell us more about what's going on. that's right lewiston joy is was appointed by president trump to be the postmaster general back in may and since that time he has implemented a series of controversial changes he says to rein in the operating costs of the federal agency but they have in effect slow down mail delivery now the joy was a republican fundraiser prior to be being appointed to to leave the u.s. postal service and here is still holds a $30000000.00 stake in a contractor the u.s. postal service and many are pointing that as a potential conflict of interest and now we know the u.s.

postal service is inspector general is investigating these very allegations how did you account for talking to us from maryland heidi thanks a lot. long awaited talks which are enough gonna sons government and the taliban jus to start on sunday being delayed a member of the government's negotiating team says it's because one foes and taliban prisoners still haven't been released last week president bush afghani agreed to free 400 so-called hardcore prisoners and what's seen as the final hurdle to launching talks but only 80 of them have been released so far. iran will be able to stop buying conventional weapons again in october after the u.s. failed to get a 13 year ban extended just one other nation back to it and a vote at the u.n. security council the dominican republic france the u.k. germany and 8 other members abstained the white house is threatening to find other ways to bring back sanctions but iran says the us has never been so isolated bad oh yeah but the us has worked for months to prepare

a resolution to his iran and it could only get one vote supporting it from a small country the dominican republic you see how they've been humiliated the recent 11 countries abstained into voted against it was because they believe the preservation of the j. c.p.o. a is essential for the interests of the region and the world yesterday was a political achievement for iran and a political failure for the u.s. i was speaking in poland u.s. secretary of state might propose that his government would not give up this was a serious mistake we regret but you know it's they simply want to extend a set of rules they've been in place since 2007 and as we have said before the united states is determined to make sure that the iranian and this regime this theocratic regime doesn't have the capacity to inflict even more harm on the world and so i will continue to work on that i think there are a lot of people on average privately on this trip that understand that it is not in the world's best interest to allow this arms or barbara to expire i hope they will find the courage to say so publicly and assist us in ensuring this is arms embargo

is extended. the u.s. is calling for a thought on transparent investigation into the port blast in lebanon's capital 2 weeks ago more than 200 people were killed when a warehouse with the money and nitrate exploded. we can never go back to an era in which anything goes out of the borders of lebanon. had to contribute to the situation and i think it's very important people how. best to do that with. every state every sovereign state control has its exports and its borders thoroughly maginot all of unease would like to see return to that and not have anything goes atmosphere that we've seen in recent years the japanese ship that plowed into a coral reef off the coast of militias has split apart spending more oil into the pristine waters japan promised to send specialists to the island to assess the damage from the oil spill has declared an environmental emergency after what some

scientists are calling the island's worst ecological disaster russia says it started manufacturing its new vaccine for covert 19 and initial batches will be rolled out within 2 weeks doctors will be the 1st to be immunized before the general public the government institute which is developed the drug says it will produce 5000000 doses by december. just like the most is director for the national center for disaster preparedness at columbia university it says it's dangerous to rely on a vaccine to end the coronavirus pandemic with any pandemic it's a global pandemic it's impacting global it's not impacting a single nation and so in addition to just the the spread of infection itself you also need to trade with these countries that would still be battling the pandemic and and the global economy would still be suffering even if there are brighter spots with less infection in nations but it's also important to note that these vaccines these 1st batches of vaccines may also not be at the high levels of

efficacy that we're used to seeing in vaccines in the u.s. the f.d.a. the federal food and drug administration is willing to approve axioms as low as 50 percent effectiveness now that'll give us leaps and bounds in terms of extending the impact of our social distancing policies masks things like that it will be a big help but it won't in another itself be a solution or an exit strategy to this pandemic so we do need to continue to think of this holistically even when a vaccine does come on the horizon that is available this is why the this sort of announcement of vaccines before there through their safety trials and efficiency trials are so incredibly dangerous because it feeds that cynicism and it feeds that suspicion and rolling out a vaccine that that doesn't work that is said to work or rolling out a vaccine that is dangerous it could severely undermined the ability to have any widespread vaccination policies in the future india has seen another record and daily corona virus infections are confirmed more than $65000.00 cases despite that

the prime minister has praised the country's handling of the outbreak but under modi said almost 1.5 trillion dollars would be injected into infrastructure projects to boost the economy he made the announcement during a ceremony is celebrating india's independence day which marks the end of british colonial rule. coronas a big crisis but it's not so big that it can stop the victory journey of self-reliant india. today it is our priority to take the lives of people the economy out of the effects of coronas soon as possible the key role will be of the national infrastructure pipeline project we will spend more than one point $46.00 trillion u.s. dollars south korea has tightened coronavirus measures following the highest number of new delhi infections in 5 months restrictions on gatherings and other activities have been rolled out in the capital seoul and surrounding areas but that didn't stop a large demonstration against president jane center left government over new real estate policies and scandals involving leaders of his administration. for the

viruses silently spreading in various places in our daily life such as churches stores work schools and cafes making us even more concerned the government believes that if we fail to overcome this crisis our country could enter the root virus resurgence that many countries around the world are undergoing. peru is one of latin america's worst hit countries health system has been pushed close to breaking point as coronavirus cases have soared now doctors at the national children's hospital are raising the alarm over a small scale but worrying new outbreak to home and reports show. some of the latest tiny. group of the national children's hospital some board. the country's case in death for 8 are among the highest in the world and while they're still very few of the seriously you did this young the number did begin rising in july and that's worrying doctors. and also. we have seen

a 2030 percent increase in the numbers of children hospitalized and in the intensive care unit. dr franklin mendoza blames it on one thing more than. parents' behavior leaving children to play together in parks in shopping malls or family this that's what's leading the increase in actions among children. serious coby cases among children still very far from widespread the most of those here already had other medical complications. as in other countries the virus is affecting children is different from the symptoms shown by older sufferers. it's not the same as the adult infection which causes lack of breath after about a month they've been developing pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome which affects several organs especially their heart. the staff are doing their best to

help them learning new techniques as they go it's tough for them to whom we don't know it's really painful having to submit a little one doing to beijing or a ventilator we know we have to do it because if not the patient could die. and see. like this make it worth it. thank you for coming and i'm so grateful to you for taking care of my baby i want to thank you thank you thank you so much god bless you all and. the team here are hoping that this sudden increase in cases doesn't go on and that there will be more patients heading than into their unit john homan 0. deepening has said that he between china and the us is hurting hong kong on several fronts many in the city a worried about beijing's new security law as well as the economic retaliation from washington adrian brown reports. during the past few weeks so much has happened so

quickly in hong kong none of it good according to more and more foreign leaders who worry about the city's future as a business hub caught in the middle of the dispute between mainland china and the united states a small exporters like this watch manufacturer from the end of next month hong kong exports destined for the united states would have to show they were instead made in china a largely symbolic move but critics say still a setback for hong kong's identity oh it's pretty end of the so i mean it's all very disappointing because. i spend my last 4 to 6 years trying to create a bradley. bring to the world what i believe is a quality side of it in hong kong president donald trump says he's ending his country's special trading relationship with hong kong retaliate for a sweeping national security law that china's government imposed on the city more

than 6 weeks ago on thursday trump warned that hong kong's days as a global financial center were finished because of china well this is a snapshot of an economy that was already in trouble before covert 19 or worsening sino u.s. relations and what worries people here is that the u.s. strategy seems to be that to hurt china you have to hurt hong kong and that's not acceptable says the city's commerce secretary as a deliberate tend to sort of undermine hong kong separate custom territory which is a very important purpose for all cause the international trading center yet some people here say the u.s. action is justified because few other countries are prepared to stand up to china's ruling communist party the same way we wish that the world can all on c.c.p. is an evil party and we also want them to hear on people's voice

a hotel that. the reason for us sanctioning hong kong is because china has a problem they intervening in hong kong's internal affairs if u.s. is not sanctioning china who else is going to do so china's leaders are accused of putting hong kong's freedoms in jeopardy and the trumpet ministration of doing the same to this city's economy adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. this is all just over these of the top stories thousands and by the roofs of gathered at the spot where a man died on monday joining a violent crackdown on protesters a day of mourning turned into another rally calling for president alexander lukashenko to resign. as more. people have been streaming in. for. car mechanics but also as a sign of protest and defiance thousands of people carrying children.

around. it's a very euphoric atmosphere i have to say. day when there was a one minute silence. there were a lot of people crying holding. making a peace sign so very remarkable scenes here today again in minsk where protests are not stopping and only growing bigger and the u.s. postal service is warning it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the november presidential election well arrive in time to be counted as expected to be a huge rise in mainland voting as a result of the pandemic prominent thai student activist has been released on bail a day after he was arrested on sedition charges the 22 year old says he'll lead sunday's planned mass ronny aimed at calling for reforms to the monarchy. iran will be able

to start buying conventional weapons again in october after the un security council overwhelmingly rejected washington's bid to indefinitely extend an arms embargo on talk around iran's president says it's a humiliation for the united states russia says it's begun manufacturing its new vaccine for covert 1990 national batches will be rolled out within 2 weeks doctors will be the 1st to be immunized before the general public the japanese ship that plowed into a call reef off the coast of militias has split apart spilling more oil into the pristine waters of japan promised to send specialists to the island to assess the damage and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people and power secret so denny and goodbye.

best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also major to make this work of locals a lot of these tests of how toxic effects health for years the authorities have refuted those playing reporter emma alberici went to investigate.