and right in the slot on al-jazeera. the biggest rally in belarus's history more than 200000 marching meant to demand the resignation of president alexander look at anchor. dogs the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera lines one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes japan suffers its worst economic contraction in decades as the grown a virus pandemic batters business and exports. also u.s. politicians are being recalled from their summer break to vote on morals to protect the postal service amid controversy over mail in voting. and troubled waters why

garza's fishermen are caught up in cross border fighting between palestine and israel. welcome to the program fronts is calling on the e.u. to back antigovernment demonstrators in belo bruce a week of protests against president alexander lukashenko culminated in a huge rally in the capital minsk on sunday now the opposition accuses look at shanker of rigging the election and want him to face justice for alleged torture but he's not backing down step bassam reports. they went from fear to defiance and from sadness to anger in just one week. never before have so many people in bellicose taken to the streets to protest hundreds of thousands marched through the main avenues of minsk to demand the president look up to step

down. we won't forgive you a day chant the account of torture and abuse of thousands of detainees has also angered look to supporters and people who were never interested in politics here i guess the violence is just happening as doris and we acknowledge that people can have different political views and preferences. yes but under no condition can people be beaten up and raised in the police station as it. must go our way we don't need and as a blood and just me and peace and we. want justice honestly election whilst the planet the kind of guy the woman many voted for in last weekend's election has gone into exile campaign among kolesnik over addresses the crowd. she was she would. the more we go on expressing out to satisfy the sooner change will come. for the 1st time in

26 years we feel that we are free european nation and we are together together we shall win. i said see the men's room change and finally find me fighting for our tribe to the side thank god that we are the sake i'm. in a desperate attempt to show he still has support because shankar organized a pro-government rally earlier in the day a few 1000 people were brought in on buses and trains i need to bring you much though they don't understand they're tearing the country apart there will be no below rooms the embattled president sounded emotional and once again that foreign forces are trying to destabilize belarus one to somebody who don't know the tanks and jets are on standby within 15 minutes reach of our border this is not for

nothing nato forces a rattling tank tracks at our doors military power is building up on the western border of our country. his words were lost on these protesters they called for a strike and to continue demonstrating for as long as the president clings to power staff last and al jazeera. the crowd of ours pandemic has had a huge impact on the world's 3rd largest economy japan has just announced its worst contraction in decades and its economy has shrunk by historic 7.8 percent in the 2nd quarter or so now your rate of 27.8 percent analysts say the pandemic has caused a slump in personal consumption including in restaurants tourism and other sectors is also resulting in a sharp drop in exports of cars and car parts michael pan is president of the shin good suit news agency he says it'll take some time for japan's economy to recover. japan seen nothing like it since the country was destroyed in world war 2 so yeah

i'd say you very much fits within the the bounds of what's historic and in the case of japan it's not simply a function of the corona virus so though this last quarter clearly was relayed that japan's recession actually began in october of last year when the when the government raised the consumption tax rate from 8 to 10 percent so essentially it took a big hit in the last quarter of 2019 and then the coronavirus effect began to come in in 2020 so the japanese economy is in a world of hurt yeah japan does seem to have had some particularly i would say somewhat unique features that make it harder for it to recover than perhaps some other advanced g 7 countries so for example you know the japanese business technologies were generally although japan you know you have an image of japan's and high tech country probably in terms of the way that it functions in its daily

business practices it's actually been very low tech you know some decades behind you know uses of fax machines and and all face to face there was never really a chance a move towards digitization that was done here in a serious way and so i think that one of the major problems they faced is that when people had to move to teleworking and people had to move to more digital solutions japan was pretty unprepared for that compared to other advanced economies the new zealand's prime minister has delayed its election for weeks as the country looks to contain a 2nd krone virus outbreak just as that she made the decision to push back september's election after consulting with rival political parties and the electoral commission if it comes to new zealand's largest city old plans went back into lockdown following a new outbreak of cases and says the election won't be delayed a 2nd tell you mary. was the quote a virus continues to spread across latin america. renewed restriction orders have

sparked protests in the colombian capital. from bogota. streets have been cordoned off in this commercial area of central as another 2 weeks long lockdown comes into effect in 7 neighborhoods of the city shops are closed but hundreds of informal vendors are still trying to sell their products. police on foot and motorcycles pushing them away. we haven't received any help from the mayor we were promised $20.00 a month and food aid i haven't seen it we need to be outside working because hunger doesn't wait. on saturday dozens of shop owners took to the streets to protest against the new measures they dressed in mourning saying they were staging a funeral for the dying retail business in the city. the retail trade dies every day the corn team is killing off the retailers the retailers can't take it anymore

we have to pay rent. growing in this in other countries in latin america as a struggle to deal with persistent high levels of infection or well. as mayor said she hoped this will be the last lockdown before cases start to decrease in september she asked people to be patient as the city goes through the peak of the outbreak. also reinstated some stay at home orders mandatory lock downs are being imposed on sundays and family reunions have been banned as cases soar once again you know a country with one of the highest number of deaths per capita and where people advocate nor the rules. on mrs fine but people don't listen they say sanction people but do you think those. you have family gatherings being sanctioned no nothing happens that in america has accounted for almost half of all the corona

virus related deaths in the world in the past 7 days an alarming trend that has left most governments with few options but to remain pose restrictions which have become increasingly difficult to enforce alison that i'm just you know but what. the u.s. house of representatives is being recalled to vote on legislation to protect the postal service the postmaster general an ally of president trump has made cutbacks to the department and has been summoned to testify before congressional committee it comes as protesters accuse louis de joy of trying to sabotage the well that work ahead of november's presidential election my kind of has more washington d.c. . for the 2nd straight day protesters gathered outside the postmaster general's home they accuse him of sabotaging the postal service with a view to restricting mail in ballots in the election essentially backing president

trump in what many view as naked voter suppression the american people have a right you know where we're not frogs slowly boiling in a pot we see what's happening and we're going to fight against it we're going to exercise our vote and we're going to get rid of this corrupt or the story of a president created this situation and then my estimation and many others i mean this is it's a maneuver by. 2. to improve his chances in the election and it's all it's all about he and mr joy there. poem the strings here democrats in congress of mt summoned louis detroit to appear before an oversight committee in a week's time and if mr joy refuses to appear. he should be stamped return

to sender he shouldn't be allowed to be the postmaster general if there are all this destruction he can answer to the american people what he is doing the oversight committee chairperson carolyn maloney has also proposed to pull that would reverse the changes detroit has made since taking over in may be using clude an end to overtime the firing all reassignment of senior managers the decommissioning of at least 10 percent of automatic mail sorting machines and even the removal of large numbers of mail boxes all this he has maintained in the interest of cost cutting. house speaker nancy pelosi says she's calling house members to interrupt this summer recess later in the week to vote on the bill the postal service is the only government department with a public approval rate of over 90 percent and pelosi has move puts immense pressure

on the republican controlled senate to also return from recess and consider the bull or face a massive public backlash if passed by the senate the final question will be whether it would be signed into law by president trump who has expressed full support and confidence in a postmaster general who is both a major donor and friend mike hanna al-jazeera washington. still ahead here on al-jazeera the traditions of god as the u.s. prepares for a democratic national convention like never before. disposable protective gear saves lives but it's also to our environment the stories after the break.

hello there are more of the same across much of the middle east hot and dry and also fairly dusty the winds have been fairly strong well into basin base the cloud to streaming along these a southern coastal areas across into oman and down across into yemen could just see wanted to shout is developing as the day progresses on monday and the winds as a fairly strong and really blowing that sand and dust a long way south as you can see pushing on towards the u.a.e. and even those northern sections of oman over the next couple of days but the winds are fairly strong all the time it is on too bad $43.00 in doha on choose a still the mid to high forty's elsewhere 47 in kuwait city but damage is not too bad for the eastern end of the madrigal is nice on shore flow so 29 is the high in jerusalem then down into africa central regions the usual showers and thunderstorms and we will see some heavy spells of rain through tanzania and also across into uganda as we go through monday but also want to showers through central as the mozambican crossing across the into zimbabwe as well but all the while rather

unsettled through much of south africa these coastal areas in particular this front is sliding by air of low pressure just to the south of there the winds a fairly strong say it'll feel cool certainly in cape town for the next few days time a little bit below the average and certainly feeling queen portal is both with showers for the next few days. in 2008. 0 documented a groundbreaking ski. preparing some of india's children. into its toughest universities. we return to see how the students. helping change the face of india. soup authority on his iraq.

looking back i want you all deservedly so rob a reminder of our top stories below reuss has seen the largest protests yet against president alexander lukashenko 7 days after an election in which he declared an overwhelming victory which the opposition says was rigged but the longtime leader told supporters he won't be calling a new election and accused nato of mobilizing forces at the border. to quote a virus pandemic is not a huge impact on the world's 3rd largest economy japan's gross domestic product shrank by record 7.8 percent in the 2nd quarter and the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says the chamber will vote later this week on legislation to protect the postal service it's a bit claims that president trump is using it to suppress mail in voting.

the u.s. democratic national convention begins on monday normally thousands of delegates would be gathered in person to chair the candidate but because of the pandemic is being held remotely john hendren has more from chicago. it will be the convention that was not it least not in person it was supposed to happen in milwaukee but for the 1st time ever due to the global pandemic the democratic national convention will be virtual the event that has had democrats meeting in person by the thousands every 4 years even in wartime i say to this great convention tonight and to this great nation of ours i am ready to lead our country is not to beat but with some are calling the democrats revolution will be televised the convention itself will take place in dozens of locations unified only on screen which might or might not set a precedent for future conventions i have

a hard time believing that this will be the death knell for political conventions the political conventions have amassed over time soon many deferent purposes. this year there will be no traditional balloon drop over a crowd of thousands. no thunderous applause. no delegates lined up behind 57 state and territorial signs pennsylvania the state that will help to reelect obama and the inevitable protests. this year and many will likely be posted online it was here in chicago in 1968 the hubert humphrey accepted the democratic nomination for president but what most people remember is anti vietnam protesters clashing with police here in grant park

but this time protesters will have no single place to gather the party standard bearer joe biden is expected to accept from a venue in delaware as always there will be big names just on the small screen there will be a keynote speaker i'm honored to. here tonight a job that can carry an exceptional orator to the nomination at the next convention all of the family in the united states of america but there's something about all those people cheering together for their leader something infectious that will be missing this time. really for the day. but it's also parents are cheering in the surrounding area a particularly for people who may not know who they are who went to the well like so much else in this unique year filled with the presidential impeachment a global pandemic in protests across the u.s. this democratic national convention will look less familiar john hendren al-jazeera

chicago. reported a record daily number of new corona virus infections while still struggling with the aftermath of a massive explosion in the capital at least 439 new cases 6 deaths are confirmed over the past 24 ounce daily cases of already being on the rise of the blast in beirut made social distancing even more difficult for many well the united nations says it's $200000000.00 short of donations to help lebanon repair the catastrophic damage to beirut port after that blast earlier this month well before the explosion the people of lebanon were already battling an economic crisis lisburn that smith reports from the company many of those left homeless overlying all volunteers charities and friends. like many other lebanese and want to 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 something going. down. and there are new areas ion 70 year old antoine eventually found a hospital to treat the injuries to his head and arm now he relies on free help and volunteers stress that woods after the explosion the whole story has changed ok as if the middle class has gone with explorers there's normally a class at all so people are coming seeking medical 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 for rebuilding. mañana dam blood it from me from my head and one worked 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 time from the government do it today what happened in iraq what. do you want what do you have what nothing i bought near here in lebanon. i have 70 years on where i go and how to rebuild and twine and tens of thousands of

others need foreign donor help that 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 burnitz with our jazeera beirut. at least 11 people were killed during a 5 hour siege at a hotel in the somali capital mogadishu a suspected car bomb and shoot out of the elite hotel in lido beach indeed 40 others government officials and a police officer were amongst the dirt armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attorney. well leaders from south africa are holding a virtual summit on monday to discuss regional issues a recent increase in violence in mozambique is expected to be high on the agenda. has more from neighboring zimbabwe. for 3 years people living in parts of northern most and baek have lived with violence and destruction attacks in kabul delgado

province have rapidly gathered pace this year with fighters seizing towns for brief periods and increasingly hitting military or other important targets the government says local fighters affiliated to eisele are responsible leaders from southern africa a meeting on monday to decide what the region can and should do to help those in the exam. there's been a lot of issues that are on the cup abilities of the muslim we can military. from our from the strength and from the military intel and side of things. is this story . became military has not really been able to to to look at what insurgents from there in. mozambique's president. visited the area and promised to do more to help people affected by the violence there is speculation some southern african leaders could send in troops to help mozambique's army it's happened before in the democratic republic of congo listened to and mozambique back when fighters from the

group or normal were raiding towns and villages in gorham was a dozen now that's from a militant and in any event it is coming from a process and produced it was already undergoing military civil war and again was international assistance to come to a peace agreement with the former military movement as well as to try to integrate the armies within was a me so it's a very fragile sort of loose from a good muslim because at the moment. southern african leaders under pressure to come up with a plan to help in may some reason leaders made here in there are a to decide what to do about the and raced in mozambique but after the talks the meeting ended without any concrete agreement and many people have died thousands have been displaced by the violence which seems to be getting worse. northern missouri is rich in natural gas some projects to be worth more than $60000000000.00 analysts say that could be one reason fueling the violence they are concerned

attacks by armed groups could spill over into neighboring countries that's already been seen in other parts of the continent such as the way since the hell region and the horn of africa. are out there. but israel has strikes against hamas positions in gaza's border towns over the past week israeli forces have carried out repeated nighttime betimes which it says are in response to rocket attacks and disks plosive balloons sent into its territories. well israel also close the fishing zone off the coast of gaza in response and reports that means many fishermen are now unable to make a living. at dunkirk barger has been working the next on gaza city's harbor the years. he says people here rely on fishing as an important source of income. but israel has their shot of the fishing zone off the coast of gaza after cross border fighting with palestinian activists. says fisherman here

a bearing the brunt of the. official. nor the quality of the fresh fish has been limited for a long time the seas closed borders are closed everything is closed it means we don't have any alternative to work. gaza has a population of about 2000000 people or more than half of them live in poverty that's because for more than 30 years they lived under an israeli egyptian imposed blockade that severely limits travel trade with a devastating impact. of the. 4200 fishermen lost work 1000 fishing boats were also stopped working there are 50000 palestinians who depend on fishing sick does as the only source of income which is also important for food security doesn't exist anymore because of the

siege. many say the blockade of gaza is making a living conditions impossible. for us the name can only up well if the siege continues things will escalate because the palestinian news cannot accept that the slow death continues the sea just more dangerous than the war. the fishing zone is patrolled by the israeli navy those who defy the band risk being shot i don't know about the do what i would where they are we work on a daily basis to get food for children if we don't work there's no food. something of an adventure into the mediterranean in search of a catch they say that's a risk they're willing to take. out just iraq. environmentalists are warning that. the waterways during the pandemic or reasons for celebration a study in italy says despite 10 percent less rubbish being produced since locked

out the increased use of disposable covert $900.00 protective gear is adding to the mountain of waste the sabbath iraq's reports. it's a scene we've all become familiar with no matter where we are in the world wearing a mask is our new normal. but all single use protective gear might be saving lives it's also polluting our environment dragging up on them yet them obviously during the pandering racin an increase in the usage of individual protective gear such as face mask and gloves very often made out of plastic and. the tiny an institute for environmental research found that in just 2 months of lockdown during march and april the amount of general way. by 10 percent or 500000 tons that's the good news the research is say there is bad news in what is now being thrown away so tell us what we were there we started 6 to 9 glove models and more than 30 facemask models all very different from each other they have different structures some have false

some have filters in their 4 different weights we made an assumption on the average wage and they found out that at the end of 2020 this production will create 300000 tons of additional waste and that's just masks and gloves alone. by the end of the year the total amount of waste produced is likely to be similar to before the pandemic. environmentalist are also concerned that the pandemic is rolled back global efforts to curb single use plastic. we have also seen an increase in consumption of packaged foods and e-commerce that uses a lot of single use plastic packaging we don't have an estimate yet of how much of those objects were dumped into the environment but what is sure is that all of those that have been abandoned sooner or later will reach the sea. here in trade body u.n.c. t.a.d.s. to mates global marcel's have doubled since last year. plastic pollution was

already one of the greatest threats to our planet's before the outbreak now around 75 percent of use masks as well as other pandemic related waste will end up in landfills or floating in the seas. sort of played at al-jazeera. what you have to serve me is the whole problem of our top news stories by the roots has seen the largest protests yet against alexander lukashenko 7 days after an election in which he was declared the winner and which the opposition says it was rigged but the long time leader told supporters he won't be calling a new election and accuse nato of mobilizing forces of the border. the coronavirus pandemic is not a huge impact on the world's 3rd largest economy japan's gross domestic product shrunk by a record 7.8 percent in the 2nd quarter and let's say the pandemic has caused

a slump in personal consumption including restaurants tourism and other sectors u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says the chamber will vote later this week on legislation to protect the postal service it's a bit claims that president trump is using it to suppress mail in voting signs the postmaster general trump is summoned to testify before a congressional committee mike hanna has more from washington d.c. this what effectively reverse all the changes that have been made by louis joy in the months since he has been head of the postal service changes which many are arguing particularly democrats in congress could impact really heavily on the election later this year in particular on the mail in voting which many people are going to turn in turn to because of the ongoing pandemic new zealand's prime minister has delayed september's election by 4 weeks as the country looks to contain the 2nd krone virus outbreak that comes after the largest city or plant

went back into lockdown and following a new break of cases renewed lockdown orders of come into effect in bogota despite protests against 5 months of lockdown business owners rallied in the colombian capital against 2 more weeks of strict measures in 7 districts they want. to find ways to revive the struggling local economy. reported a record daily number of new crowd virus infections while still struggling with the aftermath of a massive explosion in beirut earlier this month at least 439 new cases and 6 deaths were confirmed over the past 24 hours the u.n. says it's $200000000.00 short of donations to help loving on repack catastrophic damage to beirut support those with a headline super 30 is up next to stay with us here on al-jazeera. they call them c days large property subdivided into small quarters where one or more families live crammed together is the only option for many haitian migrants in

chile and it's public knowledge that there are exploited by unscrupulous landlords and now with the coronavirus pandemic they're being discriminated further. a few weeks ago this day with 88 rooms became nationwide news because the hard news moved the haitian residents to a special her teen area with better facilities but 1st the results of their control of virus test were published on the municipalities web page violating the patient's right to confidentiality. the neighbors began throwing rocks and whirling insults at the haitians because a few of them had been confirmed to be carrying coronavirus now they tell us that they feel even more discriminating and vulnerable.

me. the homes in northern india beautiful impoverished over the well.