every. under pressure to resign the embattled president of bella ruse seeks russia's help . you want your job is there a market for headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes. you ever hear the expression you want to make the post office great again donald trump defends his postmaster general despite allegations that he's trying to sabotage mailing votes ahead of november's election. also demonstrators in israel rally

outside the prime minister's residence demanding benjamin netanyahu quit over corruption allegations and the response to covert 19. plus the japanese ship that spilled tons of oil off the russian coast has broken up past. welcome to the program the president of bella ruse has sought help from russia as protests grow calling for him to step down alexander lukashenko says his russian counterpart vladimir putin has agreed to help to ensure the security of the country if needed there's been a 7th day of mass protests against his rule with members of the state media now joining the ranks step vassal reports now from the capital minsk. euphoria instead of fear under streets of minsk after security forces stayed away from large rallies. which right around the capitol in the past 2 days where the. 2

former military man came out to denounce the violence used by security forces in the past week where. have come to show that the army in reality is with the nation it always has been thousands held the minute of silence at a metro station where 34 year old. was killed during protests last monday in the morial house with the funeral quickly turned into a mass rally. i understand i could have been detained and beaten or dead like this one i consider the president of belarus to kind of. is an illegitimate president this president must be judged he should get the strongest sentence possible women voters of injured detainees who were beaten and tortured by riot police during protests it could be your son this banner rates. running high here in

this crowd frustration but also fear and sadness. because. with protests and strikes spreading around the country president. vladimir putin asking for help in a significant turnaround employees of state television networks joint in as well this information. i just want to say defending valorous is no less important than defending this holds. for the rest. don't stand strong the way. but analysts don't expect put in to go out of his way to help to remain in power. he has a relationship with. badly shaped at the.

some people say that look africa has a bit of a. touch of reality of that here a learned both of the east and the west so now he is the spirit a put in is his last hope a but putin has an old acted in a way that give a signal that he is quoting to rescue will question cut any cost so far a possible russian intervention is not in the minds of these protesting by the russians who are increasingly dominating the country streets their immediate concern is to get rid of look at shankar and to have free and fair elections step fastened al-jazeera mints. the u.s. postal service has warned that millions of mail in votes may not arrive in time to be counted or presidential election day there's a specter to be a huge rise in mail in ballots as a result of the pandemic but the service says it can't guarantee all posted votes will arrive counting on november the 3rd how to construct how small from silver

spring in maryland. this is not the scene u.s. public health officials want repeated on november 3rd when americans elect their next president amid a pandemic. but the alternative to have large numbers of people vote by mail may also be risky that's the warning the u.s. postal service has issued to 46 states and the district of columbia a government run agencies as states must require voters to request mail in ballots at least 15 days before the election or those ballots may not be counted on time we could see a dramatic increase in the volume of mail of people returning their ballots which we were absolutely determined has to be done in a timely fashion so here ruins vote is counted historically mail in voting has turned out more democrats than republicans and polls show president trump trailing behind his challenger for the white house joe biden that's led to allegations from

democrats that trump's battle against mail in voting is for political gain there is a collapse of trust broadly in america right now in government in these institutions in the white house in congress those that are opponents of. president trump who are going to turn out at polls and are going to turn out and mail in ballots and those that support president trump are going to support him enormously. in washington protesters accusing trump of voter suppression gathered outside the home of lewiston joy the former republican fundraiser appointed by try. to be u.s. postmaster general in may their joy has removed some mail processing machines and cut workers' hours citing the need to slash costs the post office inspector general is now investigating and lawmakers of both parties have voiced alarm there's no

doubt that the postal service has a long term financial challenge and those who need to be dealt with but now it's not the time to be cutting back services earlier this week trump said he wanted to withhold funding from the postal service because he didn't want to see the money used for mail in voting now the president has backtracked saying he will agree to fund the agency but despite requesting a mail in ballot for himself trump continues to claim without evidence that mail in ballots will lead to massive voter fraud in november. castro al jazeera maryland. the president has continued to back his pick for the post bus to juggle despite the protests against him you know he's a fantastic man he wants to he wants to make the post office great again you ever hear the expression he wants to make the post office great again i don't know what he's doing i can only tell you he's a very smart man he'll be

a great postmaster general and he needs obviously if you're going to do these millions of ballots out of nowhere he's going to obviously need funding but the democrats aren't willing to provide other things and therefore they're not going to get the funding for that but you're going to have a catastrophic situation with universal mail and votes and on top of it the democrats aren't willing to give the people the money and the post office the money . well there have been protests in west jerusalem in the official residence of the israeli prime minister calling for him to resign demonstrations against benjamin netanyahu have been held on saturday evenings for several weeks now and this anger over the government's handling of the crow tomorrow is pandemic and netanyahu says ongoing trial for corruption well how do you force it has the latest from west jerusalem once again this is another major protest not far from his residence at a square in west jerusalem thousands of gathered again the local reports suggest

it's a little bit smaller than the last 2 weekends when the numbers are well in excess of 10000 and the majority of those there are concerned with the coronavirus pandemic response and that in yahoo's corruption trial which is due to start in earnest the evidentiary phase in january but there are others there as well. not just from from if we were going to zation if there is a group of doctors there there are groups representing self employed people who've been hit very hard by the economic fallout of the pandemic and for all of the of the diplomatic coup that has been trying to push this week in terms of the deal signed with the u.a.e. there are people here saying that that doesn't matter for those who've been hit so hard by what's happened during the pandemic israel has launched an strikes into the gaza strip for a 5th consecutive night the attacks in retaliation for israel described as arson and balloons that hamas affiliated groups sent across kansas border fence on

saturday dozens of palestinians took part in nighttime protests along the gaza israel border guards as health authorities say 2 demonstrators were wounded by israeli gunfire. equitorial guinea's prime minister and his cabinet have resigned in the wake of a deepening economic crisis triggered by the pandemic president theodore says the government hasn't fulfilled its policy objectives he had also dissolved the cabinet back in 2018 a new government is expected to be revealed in the coming days. or japanese ship that ran into a coal reef off the coast of militias has split apart spilling more than more oil into the sea declared an environmental emergency and many are said the spill will do irreversible damage to local wildlife or bird magni has more. seawater flooding in oil using out. the japanese own vessel and the rock a share has split apart and the oil is there spreading along the pristine coastline

of eastern russia says the ball carrier ran into a reef that point does need 3 weeks ago a 1000 tons of oil spilled into the ocean presenting a huge danger to marine wildlife some unique to the country the area both colorful reefs mangrove forests protected wetlands and pristine beaches and environmental emergency was declared last week we are facing another threat of another 50 tons of fuel against billing in the logo and in the long term we're also looking at the in the longer term impacts of toxic elements containing the ship like the batteries toxic paints and other elements counting the ship which we see been to see and contaminate further will go and so the damage of the work actually is not a short term damage it's a very long term damage the japanese ship big company has issued an apology on its website saying it's willing to pay compensation for damages japan am france

responded to calls for assistance joining thousands of local volunteers who are bracing against the clock to protect the wildlife and some have got creative. using booms made from human hair and husks from sugarcane to soak up as much of the oil and sludge as possible the island of 1300000 people relies heavily on tourism many are angry the government did not act quickly enough it blamed bad weather for the slow response and is investigating why the ship came so close to the shore it was supposed to say at least 16 kilometers away. many fear the spill could impact the local economy for decades and do irreversible damage to the local wildlife. a man the al-jazeera. well still ahead here although it is no longer made in hong kong how increasing tensions between the u.s. and china are affecting the city's schools businesses close. to $150.00 days of

lockdown argentina's infection rate and death toll continue to rise those stories after the break. hello there yes more hot and dry weather across much of the middle east some cloud just bubbling up across areas of the south maybe wanted to like that really nothing more than that temperatures a cool civically in the mid to high forty's so this is what you do in dubai you had in those a 3 kilometers snow and $46.00 nationalities took part to actually do this race of course homages were below freezing so it must've felt very nice indeed typically we've got the the winds are strong coming from the north blowing that sundin just really quite a long way south across much of the cats all time which is in the mid to high forty's celsius similar story on monday but we could also see more of those shows on monday across these western areas of yemen but they are generally fairly light

in temperature wise just $29.00 degrees in santa that we had down into central and southern africa the usual showers and thunderstorms across those central areas as we go through sunday quite a few coastal quite heavy at times into the southern section of tons of air and also plenty of showers and gusty winds working their way along that south and east coast of the south africa those rains in tanzania becoming more widespread as we head through monday and then to the south as i say it is a few days a fairly unsettled condition so rain for cape town on monday then it clears up time is not too bad a little bit below the average for this time of year and sunny funny but quite important is the showers for the next few days and cool winds from the west. stories and life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wilds that celebrate the human spirit against the

odds. al-jazeera selects gangs. i am. not about to watch al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top news stories the president of bella ruse or sought help from russia as protests grow calling for him to step down thousands gathered at the spot where a man died on monday during a violent crackdown on demonstrators. the u.s. postal service is warning it can't guarantee all ballots cast by mail in the event

this presidential election will arrive in time to be counted president trump has continued to bag his pick for postmaster general despite protests against him. and there have been more demonstrations there the official residence of the israeli prime minister calling on him to resign the testers are angry and then even though you know he's handling a pandemic and his ongoing trial for corruption. protesters in thailand are planning another large rally on sunday as they continue their push to remove the government and reform the mall the key the mainly student led protesters are calling for significant changes to the royal family's role in society which is considered a to boost subject in thailand when he reports and his report does contain some flash photography. 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'm being 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 anymore along with calling for elections and a new constitution have 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 however 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 were 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 map and for. if i'm arrested i won't ask for bail because that would prevent me from talking about politics i'd rather spend a few years in prison and come out swinging thailand has a history of political upheaval and violence and given the unprecedented nature of

these protests more could be on the way when hey al jazeera bangkok long awaited talks between afghanistan's government and the taliban to to start on sunday have been delayed government officials have confirmed it's because 1000 taliban prisoners haven't been released last week president bush of garnier agreed to free 400 so-called hardcore prisoners in what was seen as a final hurdle to launching talks but only 18 of them have been released so far all fronts has asked the government not to release any taliban prisoners convicted of killing french citizens hundreds of fighters are due to be released as a precondition for the beginning of those peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban the french foreign ministry says among them were fighters who killed french soldiers and humanitarian workers. the u.s. secretary of state has signed a deal with the polish defense minister to redeploy troops from germany to poland my pompei is in warsaw at the end of a 4 nation tour of central and eastern europe around 4500 u.s.

troops a company based in poland and 1000 more are being added the pentagon announced last month that 12000 soldiers are being withdrawn from germany then the heart of those are set to be moved to other countries in europe donald trump says he's considering imposing a ban on chinese tech giant alibaba the move would the e-commerce company to a growing list of chinese firms facing punitive actions in the u.s. on friday trump gave the chinese owner of popular video to talk 90 days to sell its assets in the u.s. the u.s. president says chinese own tech firms pose a threat to national security deeply hostility between china and the u.s. is hurting hong kong on several fronts many in the city are worried about beijing's new security law as well as the economic retaliate from washington adrian brown reports. joining 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 i was pretty angry of the so on i mean it's all very disappointing because. i spend my last 4 to 6 years trying to create a brand of. bring to the world what i believe is the quality side of it all 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 comma secretary as a deliberate tend to sort of undermine hong kong's 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 know all on c.c.p. is an evil party and we also want them to hear on people's voice. died. the reason for us sanctioning hong kong is because china has

a problem they are intervening in hong kong's internal affairs if u.s. is not sanctioning china who else is going to do 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. sunday is argentina's 150th day in lockdown but with one of the highest infection rates in the world it's causing many to question the effectiveness of the shutdown . it doesn't look much like a quarantine these residents of one osiris enjoying the glorious winter sunshine and escaping one of the world's longest lock downs since march their movements of in restricted of the essential businesses have remained open and schools have been closed it seems to be working for the going to be done as a ticket to avoid contagion when people can't sit on the grass at the benches they can enjoy the public spaces with

a mask on and always respecting other people's distance. covered 19 infections are now surging more than $6000.00 new cases reported on friday alone in manhattan found the world is the truth is the only medicine we have is to limit as far as possible the circulation in the meeting of people. the president blames the setbacks on those who don't respect the rules he has extended the lockdown until the end of august. because the number of infections is rising and the already struggling economy is feeling the strain signs are increasingly question in the effectiveness of the restrictions on the source of do so holding the current teen was used as the only measure it was not accompanied as it could have been done by a strategy of early detection isolation and blocking of brigs that was a big mistake that we're paying for today. many are simply bored staying indoors

and frustrated that when they are allowed out there's nowhere to go yes and we think. it's very difficult since it affects every aspect of life the social the human the economic and some of the health measures i too much. there are many things we can't do a lot of customs but it's what we've got to come to terms with and we have to let those who make the decisions get on with it. a study released this week by the university of one osiris also found that the consumption of alcohol the medication for stress during the pandemic has increased dramatically the author it is of found that for the lock down measures to work effectively they need the support of the majority of the population easier while the figures alone but more difficult to impose at the infection rates rise and more and more people decide to leave their homes. and there are 201 osiris. well workers in colombia's capital have promised to protect protested against the quarantine rules ordered by the city's mayor 7

neighborhoods in bogota have been placed under a strict 2 we quarantine where only one person household can leave each day for essential retailers say the restrictions are bankrupting their businesses and they're calling for an end to the quarantine and demanding to go back to work. well brazil's famous christ the redeemer statue has reopened after months of closure juta the pandemic and that's despite the country failing to control the spread of the virus with around 526-0000 new cases each day it's the world's 2nd worst affected country with almost 3300000 cases. south africa is beginning to lift restrictions after confirming a drop in the rate of new credit virus cases the country is moving to a lower level to which removes nearly all restrictions on economic activity a month long battle cigarette sales and alcohol will also be lifted over the past 3 weeks the number of new cases fell from a peak of over 12000 today to around 5000. now 3rd of

the world's languages come from africa but the un's cultural organization unesco says as many as $200.00 of the languages spoken in african countries may disappear within the next century some were already classified as extinct including ken years a language malcolm webb went to meet some of its last surviving speakers well by the order of barca and on about that there are fewer than 10 people in the world who can speak the language. to reduce hackery is one of them he doesn't know exactly how old he is but when we met him before the global pandemic all of the remaining speakers were over 70. were you. now in an angle of it as does the.

language of the yard an ethnic group of about 4000 people most now speak other languages they live in the hills of central kenya near the town of dull dull this nearby building used to be a center for yahoo culture and language it was built about 20 years ago with charitable donations people used to sit around the fire here and sing songs but about 7 years ago it was abandoned during a conflict between some borough and messiah a neighboring ethnic group both more populous and both with their own language still in use so the cultural artifacts and books that were kept inside were taken away and put in storage and the gathering stopped but about the our people used to be hunter gatherers living in a nearby forest to read you now heard livestock instead of the messiah a larger ethnic group of herders moved into the area about a 100 years ago these people realized if we embrace must say we able to even try to

transact easily with these people we can own the cattle and capture economy came with the language the rest of to reduce family don't know how to speak yark. they speak the messiah language mark home his daughter when you speak swahili with her friends. of israel and i would like 10 to speak younger with school she can learn it at home because i don't know it if she learned in school then she can teach us and i was all over the past when jiro school so that we can see it's mostly english it's been the language of education and business in kenya ever since british colonize ation and it was white british settlers who displaced the messiah into the ark is home. this traditional yaku song about living in caves and hunting in the forest. it's a way of life that is long gone. and the language and the culture and identity that

come with it gone to. where al-jazeera can yeah. 'd what you all deserve because the whole rob and a reminder of our top news stories the president of bella ruse to sought help from russia as protests grow calling for him to step down thousands gathered at the spot where a man died on monday jury a violent crackdown on demonstrators president trump has continued to back his pick for the postmaster general despite accusations that he's purposely trying to sabotage mail in voting ahead of november's presidential election the u.s. postal service is warning that it can't guarantee all ballots will arrive in time to be counted. yes he's a fantastic man he wants to he wants to make the post office great again you ever

hear the expression you want to make the post office great again i don't know what he's doing i can only tell you he's a very smart man he'll be a great postmaster general and he needs obviously if you're going to do these millions of dollars out of nowhere he's going to obviously need funding but the democrats aren't willing to provide other things and therefore they're not going to get the funding for that but you're going to have a catastrophic situation with universal mail in ballots and on top of it the democrats aren't willing to give the people the money and the post office the money and all trance younger brother robert has died from an undisclosed illness the us president visited him at a new york hospital on saturday before he headed to his golf club in bedminster in a statement to donald trump describe 71 year old robert is not just his brother but his best friend there will be more protests in west jerusalem near the official residence of israeli prime minister calling on him to resign but testers are angry

at benjamin netanyahu is handling of the pandemic and his ongoing trial for corruption. tauriel getting his prime minister and his cabinet are resigned in the wake of a deepening economic crisis triggered by the pandemic president theodore obiang says the government hasn't fulfilled its policy objectives it also dissolved the cabinet back in 2018 the japanese ship that plowed into a coral reef off the coast of militia suspicion part spilling oil into the pristine waters earlier japan promised to send specialists to the island to assess the damage from the spill the rishis declared an environmental emergency after what scientists are calling the island's worst ecological disaster or she followed those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com about with more news in half an hour next on jazeera a.j. selects to stay with us. it began as a dream holiday been turned into a public health disaster one o one east investigates how a cruise ship became the source of one of the strain is largest coded 19 outbreaks

on al-jazeera. because in the new video from the movie. theater a. lot of the world lot are already late night nor. would anyone really like a whole lot of oil was going out about things. like. that any one little. box or mathematical.