well as a monster thrived. a chilean politician goes on a journey to me leading left wing figures to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. latin america a giant in time while on al-jazeera. unprecedented popular pressure on the government and better roost as crowds gather for the largest demonstration the country has seen president lukashenko continues to resist calls for his resignation. i know i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program demanding a new election and constitutional reform how students are leading the call for

change in thailand. lockdown restrictions are tightened in colombia's capital but the government is under pressure to do more to protect small businesses and 3 weeks after running aground memory a japanese ship begins to break apart spilling more fuel on to the pristine coastline. we begin in belarus were to mulch 1st week of protest and the government crackdown has now culminated in the largest demonstrations yet against president alexander lukashenko a week after he declared an overwhelming victory in the presidential election is government is facing its greatest challenge since he came to power nearly 3 decades ago speaking at a pro-government rally looking shanker rejected calls for his resignation or a rerun of the vote he. accuse nato of sending tanks and planes the country's

western border claim promptly rejected by the military alliance across minsk a larger crowd gathered for they called a day of freedom longstanding grievances over the economy and the government's response to the coronavirus have contributed to a growing anger over last week's vote which was allegedly regs and calls for lukashenko to step down all now coming from within his own government the ambassador to slovakia has become the 1st high level official to publicly back the opposition protests or a challenge has our report 7 days after the contentious election and finally the embattled president of the roost organized a rally of support state employees were brought by bus and train to the capital minsk from all over the country the intention to show that alexander because shanker still has a popular base after a week of anti-government protests unprecedented in their size and the august heat told the crowd better or is being threatened from outside. the

subjects are on standby within 15 minutes reach of a border this is not for nothing and nato forces are rattling tank tracks at our doors military power is building up on the western border of our country lithuania latvia poland and unfortunately our brother ukraine its leadership are telling us to hold a new election. nato has denied the accusations of a military buildup in the region. just a short distance across the capital a much bigger demonstration followed perhaps the largest of the antigovernment movement so far better russians repeating the call they've been making since what they say was the rigged election on august the 9th that the man who's ruled batteries for 26 years has no legitimacy he should leave and there should be a new and free vote. i was earlier that the russian ambassador to slovakia became the 1st senior official to back the protest in

a video posted online. i stand in solidarity with those who have taken to the streets of belorussian cities would peaceful marches so that their voices could be heard yes. i sincerely hope that the future of my country will be based on the positions of all sectors of society in representatives of various political forces . have suffered for this right since his plea on saturday that russian president vladimir putin should help him quell the protests they've had to phone calls the kremlin says it's willing to assist batteries militarily in accordance with a collective security pact. for the moments to protesters are much concerned with possible russian intervention nor are they obviously pro western this is an emotional uprising spurred on by the beatings and alleged torture inflicted by state security their focus is getting out and writing a new chapter of

a batteries. al-jazeera. well al-jazeera step lawson is inside belarus has been an opposition protests and mends she sent us this update from the. bello's is a different country than it was just a week ago when elections took place and people took to the streets in protest against these elections then there was fighting to police crackdown thousands of the thieves and that led to enormous anger and this are now unprecedented scenes here in the capital of min's up to a 100000 people are here at the independence square angry about the torture and abuse what happened today is the chinese but also very angry at the elections. they say history is in the making we're not going to leave until the president us. well thousands of people have joined student led rallies in thailand's capital calling for political reform in the biggest protests there in recent months and demanding a new election and an amended constitution and is why in haiti now reports from

bangkok some ties a touching a sensitive subject with calls for reform of the monarchy. in big numbers they came to the center of bangkok to escalate their call to change protesters gathered around democracy monument a symbol of what they say thailand doesn't have. accomplished the fact that the government is so corrupt has been in power for far too long and things on getting any better after weeks of peaceful protests led mainly by students was by far the largest and most diverse attracting ties from different sectors of society including other groups who staged mass rallies in the past. more people have come out today the pair of young people and students alone can't force change we need everyone to work together. the protesters say thailand's entire political system needs to change including the monarchy it's a dangerous and sensitive issue to take on because the royal family is protected by

strict laws designed to prevent criticism demonstrators also want the government gone and on thursday thailand's prime minister the army general who led the military coup in 2014 addressed the nation he urged unity at a time when the economy is being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic only. right now we must focus on the economic survival of the 10s of millions of people here let's get the economy going 1st get that done by working together then we can look at fixing the other issues collaboratively later but the protesters say the pen demick is proving and highlighting one of their points that thailand is an economically unequal society and must change tires that are well accustomed to political protests but there is a sense that this is something different a move been centered around a new generation making unprecedented demands and wanting something profoundly different for thailand the law in recent weeks the government has warned the

protesters to be careful what they say and arrested 3 protest leaders but if that was a tactic to try to scare them and bring an end to the movement it hasn't worked and judging by the size of this crowd it may be having the opposite effect when hey al jazeera bangkok. well now one of the story we've been following an armed attack is taking place in a hotel in somalia's capital mogadishu at least 10 people were killed after a suspected car a car bomb blew up outside the elite hotel in lighter beach dozens of people have also been injured security forces say 2 gunmen are among the dead government officials often stay at this facility is well known in the area. well now the head of the u.s. postal service has been summoned to testify at a congressional committee later this month joy was appointed postmaster general by

president donald trump and now facing accusations of trying to sabotage the mail network ahead of november's election by withholding funding and limiting its operations on saturday the postal service warned millions of mail in ballots might go to arrive in time to be counted on election day. also heidi joins us live now from maryland what i mean obviously so the democrats led house is now. a postal service leaders to testify in this emergency hearing what are they hoping to accomplish with this. all they will likely be dragging across the coals the u.s. postmaster general lewis to joy in a strongly worded statement released by top democrats today from congress they said that detroit is an accomplice who is helping the president in his campaign to steal the upcoming election now we saw about $100.00 protesters demonstrating outside the

home of detroit over the weekend and there accusation is that after being installed as u.s. postmaster general being a trump mega donor that he then went on to carry on what they say is the president's plan to suppress mail in ballots they're accusing to joy of intentionally cutting back on workers our worst slowing down the mail processing time in order to so so on a lack of confidence in the results of the election out of joy denies that he says he's doing these measures to cut costs in the struggling agency but now a federal watchdog is investigating whether detroit is acting on be. half of the president's attack on mail in ballots we know president trump has said many times without evidence that expanded or universal mail in voting can cause can lead to massive voter fraud and we know that polls show that democrats tend to tend tend to

turn out in greater numbers with expanded voter access trump is trailing his democratic challenger to the white house joe biden and so the question is whether the president is intentionally sabotaging the postal service in order to suppress the vote and help him stay in office also than is anything being done to address this one from the from the postal service that it might not be able to deliver ballots on time for counting. this warning was received with outrage across the country and sensually the u.s. postal service saying that millions of votes may be uncounted in the upcoming election which is unprecedented in u.s. history we seen the president himself earlier this week saying that he wanted to not give money to the post office in order to deny its ability to respond to expanded mail in voting he walked back those statements later and this morning we saw his white house chief of staff saying that the president would sign legislation

that funds the post service whether it's part of a comprehensive krone virus relief measure or as a standalone bill what we're seeing of course is the president and the white house seeming to backtrack on these very controversial statements even as democrats continue to accuse them of trying to suppress the vote thank you very much. now renewed coronavirus measures have come into effect in the colombian capital despite protests against the country's 5 month lock down business owners rallied in bogota or after 2 weeks of strict measures were imposed in 7 of the city's neighborhoods protesters want mayor claudia lopez to find ways to revive the struggling local economy colombia has more than 450000 confirmed cases of covert 1000 and almost 15000 people have died. the retail trade dies every day the corn team is killing off retailers the retailers can't take it anymore we have to pay rent i margaret more than $80000.00 people depend directly

and indirectly on our work many families depend on us. let's go live now to alessandro in bogota really we've seen latin america becoming something of a really the epicenter for the pandemic with the number of infections in the region continuing to rise what is the situation there in colombia. yes mariyam that is the case but at the same time we are seeing growing fatigue so as the position of restrictive measures not only here in the capital bogota but in a number of cities across colombia we went on a short ride. through a commercial area near downtown the police have cordoned off the entire area but there were dozens if not hundreds of informal workers in the streets surrounding that area trying to sell stuff stuff to the people on the streets

despite the fact that the that's one of the neighborhoods that are under a strict quarantine again there were also a lot of people walking around people running all these activities are not allowed to right now the people are telling us they're tired of what's going on and they're asking the mayor to find different ways to revive the economy and just let them go about their life this spite the fact that we still haven't reached the peak of infections. believe that will happen at some point towards the end of the month beginning of this september and they're asking people to be patient saying that we're very close to reaching this for speak and then hopefully we can see what they're calling here the new normality we're going to have to see if people go will abide these new restrictions for the next 2 weeks and as you as you can see by these protests more and more people are angry about. right yes people protesting

against the lockdown how how then do the restrictions that are in colombia compare with quarantine measures we've seen elsewhere in the region. what we're seeing a number of countries remain posing measures in a similar way to what we're seeing here in colombia one clear example is peer to one of the countries that have had the longest quarantine in place and yet has seen a very very high number of dates they are seeing another outbreak in different parts of the country and the government there as the site of the 2 pows a number of stay at home orders and different parts of the country starting also today they also said that what they're going to try to do is to increase the number of testing and for example the government said they want to test the entire prison population in the country by the end of september because that's one situation

where they had a number of outbreaks in the past weeks from bogota. you're watching out there are live from london much more still to bring you on the program battling to rebuild beirut status stating explosion people relying on handouts then as the before. we meet the kenyan tribal elders who are the last of that traditional language. and there's still plenty of woman sunshine across much of europe but the cloud and those showers and thunderstorms becoming a little bit more widespread in the next couple days you can see plenty of cloud here the last as and those flashes of yellow indicating the funnel stalled very

nice still up into northern germany along the baltic sea coast as you can see that people flocking to the beaches not quite as warm across into belgium but even so that sea is inviting and so in also a good day the 3rd day of course the test match the 2nd test match and in pakistan and england fall down into southampton has once again of course that had rain delays aplenty mores ago through monday becoming quite widespread through much of the u.k. still to warnings in place for a from the storms which will be quite heavy at times plenty of rain through france low countries pushing on into germany and sunny train right there down into more northern areas of it but also fairly heavy amounts of rain the beginning just to slide in into northern areas of portugal and spain this again will continue to go through tuesday and as you can see really quite a lot of rain cloud and it will extend further east is through areas of poland down across into the balkans when it comes to the actual conditions for the next few days in london but a bad couple of days shall is likely on thursday temperatures not too bad of paris

meanwhile we'll see showers for the next 2 days on a sunny jail day. history has called it the great war in the 2nd episode the declining autumn an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to 3 new nationalist movements the will determine the future world war one through arab eyes on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze and hero.

welcome back a look at the headlines now. in its largest protests yet against president alexander lukashenko 7 days after an election in which he declared an overwhelming victory but the opposition says it was wrecked the longtime leader told supporters he won't be calling a new election and accuse nato of mobilizing forces of the country's western border . thousands of people have joined a student led rally in thailand's capital calling for political reform and curbs to the morning protest in bangkok was the largest anti-government demonstration seen since the 2013 crew. and the head of the u.s. postal service has been summoned to testify in front of a congressional committee over widespread cost cuts used to joy is accused of trying to sabotage the mail network ahead of november's presidential election. well now to south africa the government is easing coronavirus restrictions that because of fewer new infections president cyril ramaphosa says the country has passed the

peak of its outbreak new cases fall into around $5000.00 per day from a high of 12000 so from monday travel will be allowed between the provinces and a ban on the sale of alcohol and cigarettes will be lifted but south africa's borders will remain closed to visitors for me to miller sent us this update from johannesburg. south africa has howard one of the world's longest and most strict lock downs and while some of the restrictions have been eased very slowly over recent weeks it's industries like the us the hospitality and the restaurants sick that has suffered there's been concern that up 240-0000 jobs could be lost and now that restrictions are being eased further this hope that this will bring change in general it is being carted with the team to see what damage was done but you know what we've done as rich. had to stick to very strict protocols on what we allowed

to do social distancing at least 1.5 everybody that comes into our a stance has to be monitored with temperature and they have to register pages of our health department contacting us it has had a quite a different fear like this been a bit of fear from the customer side of portland part as well so people have actually stopped coming out but in the recent week funny enough an odyssey in the recent weeks people have started to come out and start enjoying the old way of life with the new restrictions that we've got experts say south africa may have reached the peak in the number of covert 19 infections in fact numbers are now dropping from an average of about 12000 new infections every day to 5000 and this is renewed confidence that the economy can be reopened but the relief may have come a little too late for some. the japanese ship that ran into a coral reef off the coast of mirages last month has broken up its also leaked fuel into a marine reserve and on to beaches popular with tourists vessels owner is saying

they'll consider paying for damages lower manly small sea water flooding in oil boosting out the japanese investor end the rockies share has split apart and the oil is there spreading along the pristine cursorily of east and richest. the ballcarrier running to refit pointis the 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 boosts colorful reefs mangrove forests protected wetlands and pristine beaches. an environmental emergency was declared last week we are facing another threat of an over 50 tons of fuel against building in the logo and in the long term we're also looking at the in the longer term impact of toxic elements containing the ship like the batteries toxic paints and other elements going to the ship which we see been

to see and contaminate further. so the damage of the work actually is not a short term damage it's a very long term damage japan and 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 boobs 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 his vest why the ship came so close to the sure it was supposed to stay at least 16 kilometers away many there fear the spill could impact the local economy for decades i do irreversible damage to the local wildlife nervous about the outer

sierra. israel has closed the fishing zone off the coast of gaza overnight as strikes have been launched against hamas positions in southern gaza israeli say they are responding to make sure fire bombs attached to balloons being sent over from the border palestinians are infuriated by the deal signed by iranian i said i am at earlier on when out the united nations say that it's $200000000.00 short of donations to help lebanon repair catastrophic damage to beirut support that mini's are counting on international aid to a build many made homeless by a huge explosion of relying on volunteers charities and friends president michel aoun says all aid will go to the people who need it or as lebanese politically and go straight to new prime minister and cabinet more and more people are falling into poverty or relying on handouts from charities for the 1st time in their lives and it's myth reports from beirut. like many other lebanese and one by seal has always

managed to get by no matter what was thrown at him being conflict or economic crisis but now it's different measures should benefit all mad i walked around 8 kilometers he says as he describes trying to get medical treatment in the aftermath of the port explosion that sent a devastating shockwave through beirut i think he has 78. pounds. and there are new areas eyeing a 70 year old antoine eventually found a hospital to treat the injuries to his hand and arm now he relies on free help and volunteers to dress the woods after the explosion the whole story has to. ok as if the middle class has gone with explorers there's normally a class at all so people are coming seeking what they can support food clothes house cleanups whatever you think they need just

got bigger the blast destroyed or damaged around $50000.00 homes affecting 300000 documents lebanon's currency has lost 80 percent of its value against the dollar and there are tight restrictions on how much people can take out of the banks and inflation is running at almost 90 percent so what little money there is people need to spend it on daily necessities there is no spare cash rebuilding. getting a girl in the. mañana blood it from me from my head i'm gonna work 35 years in a bank he saved and bought his own home this is what's left of it a dream of a quiet retirement with his wife andrea and their 2 daughters is in tatters nobody . this dime from the government do it today what happened in iraq what. do you want what do you have what nothing i bought i bought near here in lebanon.

i have 70 years old where i go now to rebuild i'm 12 and tens of thousands of others need foreign donor help but cash will only likely be released when this country has a cabinet and prime minister acceptable to the international community talks on who make up that government continue between the political elites who control this country. now united nations as one as many as $200.00 languages spoken in africa might disappear within the next century one of them is. so ready classified as extinct but still spoken by a small number of people in kenya malcolm webb went to dull dull to meet some of the last surviving speakers of the language or by the order about a robot or about that there are fewer than 10 people in the world who can speak the language. to reduce 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. who. now were you. now in the. in the womb. is 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 told all. 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 about 7 years ago it was abandoned during a conflict between some group and messiah a neighboring ethnic group both more populous and both with their own language

still in use and so the cultural artifacts and books that were kept inside were taken away and put in storage and the gathering stopped but about in the novel the ark people used to be hunter gatherers living in a nearby forest was not possible to redo now heard livestock instead. the massai a larger ethnic group of herders moved into the area about a 100 years ago these people realized if we embrace masai we're able. to trust with these people we can look cattle and the coral became with the language the rest of to reduce family don't know how to speak. they speak the messiah language home his daughter one who speak swahili with her friends. i would like one juror to speak at school she can't learn it at home because i don't know it if she learned in school then she can teach us. but one school

so that we can see it's mostly english it's been the language of education and business in kenya ever since british colonise ation and it was white british settlers who displaced the messiah into the ark is homeland. this traditional yaku song about living in caves and hunting in the forests. it's a way of life that's long gone. and soon the language and the culture and identity that come with it gone to. where al-jazeera told of kenya. 'd headlines now. in its largest anti-government protests yet 7 days after the disputed election of president alexander lukashenko across many tens of thousands

of people gathered what they called a day of freedom opposition supporters say last week's vote was rage and demanding look at shanghai stand down after 26 years in power. or was it a different country than it was just a week ago. and why is happening on the street a police crackdown. torture beatings and now these unprecedented scenes are happening here tens of thousands up to $100000.00 people here on the square the independent square not only the now to the violence but also asking for change. history is a live making we are. going we want. to. meanwhile a separate rally in the capital the longtime leader told his supporters he won't be calling the new election and accuse nato of mobilizing forces at the border and was quickly dismissed by the military alliance russian president vladimir putin has offered assistance to look at shanker as part of a collective military pacts in our other headlines thousands of people have joined

a student led rally in thailand's capital calling for political reform and curbs to the monarchy and students have been leading near daily protests for the past month but sunday's was the largest seen since the coup in 2014 an armed attack has been taking place at a hotel in somalia's capital mogadishu at least 10 people were killed after a suspected car bomb blew up at the elite hotel in light of beach security forces say 2 gunmen are among the dead and the head of the u.s. postal service has been summoned to testify at a congressional committee later this month louise to join was appointed postmaster general by president trump and now facing accusations of trying to sabotage the mail network ahead of november's election by withholding funding and limiting its operations on saturday the postal service won millions of mail in ballots mine all right in time to be counted for election day those the headlines talked to al jazeera is coming up next.

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