al-jazeera selects gangs. india sees a spike in corona virus deaths 50000 people have now died but the prime minister says it's one of the lowest rates in the world. hello there norah kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up reeling from the effects of the pandemic japan's economy suffers the worst contraction on record. a main opposition leader in valerie says she's ready to lead the country she calls on noor and forstmann to switch sides amid anti-government protests.

across the break to save the soul of beirut we visit the historic neighborhoods in the lebanese capital devastated by the port explosion. another day of bleak reports from around the world as the coronavirus pandemic rages on india is still struggling to bring it under control the number of deaths there has now passed $50000.00 it's the 3rd worst affected country with more than 2 and a half 1000000 people infected is having a devastating economic effect japan's economy has shrunk needs 7.8 in the last quarter and the outbreak has forced new zealand's prime minister to postpone next month's general election the country has seen a resurgence of cases there after boasting for 3 months without any infections.

over mourn situation in india let's speak to elizabeth purana she joins us now from new delhi and this is the launch number of deaths in india crossing the 50000 mark but how accurate all these numbers given the road to be the number of tests and the type of tests being conducted. hi laura yes so in the across the 50000 mark of deaths the recorded and confirmed number and remains the worst affected state 20000 media half of the deaths are the stage of the number of cases and deaths going down in the capital but they are growing in other parts of the state now when you look at the numbers though and you recorded one of on sunday it had nearly 58000 cases which is lower than the number of cases over the past week but if you look close it also conducted about 100000 fewer tests than it has in the last week and there's also concern about the type of tests that

are being conducted because up to 30 percent of the tests that are being done in the country are the less accurate rapid and teaching tests which are quicker to do but they report false negatives up to 50 percent of the time now if you take somewhere like delhi for example where the number of cases have been coming down over the past month where the supreme court asked the delhi government weeks ago to explain why it was conducting twice the number of directed at teaching tests as it was the more accurate test known as the p.c.l. there's been no real explanation in that time the government has continued with what it's been doing in the number of cases have been coming down and the concern is that there are people who have the infection and they are possibly add on to others because they're not being tested all because is that oh because the test is giving a false negative so despite all of this though the government remains positive. the

health minister said on the weekend he pointed to what he said was one of the lowest mortality rates in the world less than 2 percent but we have to remember that only around one 5th of all deaths in india medically certified and so it's not possible right now what the. quite a worrying situation there in india is a problem thanks very much for the update from new delhi. well the coronavirus pandemic has hit spending in japan sending its economy downwards and world's 3rd largest economy saw its gross domestic product for 7.8 percent in between the period between april and june japan slipped into recession earlier this year following 2 successive quarters of economic contraction the country is already struggling with low economic growth before the pandemic said gerrard is professor at the university of school of management and information and joins us via skype now from his in japan thanks very much for being with us japan's worst

performance on record the extent that we can blame this on the current virus. very much due to the coronavirus without a speck of doubt and i unfortunately i think things will get worse although many people are expecting that july september figure will see a comeback i can see that october own words things are probably going to get worse considering the jobless situation that's going to get worse employment situation is going to get worse and considering the very conservative nature of the japanese people that tend to run for risk avoidance i can see the private consumption is going to get worse and also unfortunately is not of the covert 19 by the corporate spending also will probably come to a halt not only because of pro consumptions and stagnation but due to the 2nd cold war that's been kicked off between the united states and china what does this mean for the people of japan i was sort of safety net is that for people who suddenly

find themselves out of jobs or struggling to pay their rent in japan losing jobs has a lot of negativity not only means of income but from societal face as well and our reemployment status isn't that good as far as environments concert meaning that there will be a very harsh situation for those people who will be jobless and that's one of the things that people are quite afraid about in japan cutting people's jobs in most companies are the last resort so if there is a fear on that i can clearly see the japanese to be jumping towards conservatism and basically holding off the spending and when the corporations see that of obviously they're not going to make a lot of investments. and certainly i think you know again the negativity of the job political tension that's rising is really putting on the appetite off the appetite of the corporations to invest further and what sort of pressure is that on the japanese government to keep the economy open up and running even as we're

saying the rate of infection is rising. unfortunately getting bigger because as you saw in the number today the contraction the economic side is very very large it is basically putting accelerator and brake at the same time because if we exceedingly close on the economy then there is obviously going to be a negative implication of a slowdown it will kill the economy so obviously we have to balance these 2 but as you point out is a very delicate operations very difficult conduct again particularly when the overseas trade is becoming very much stagnating or even being put on a halt because of this you know flugel situations the geopolitical tensions that's rising that is caused by china how well positioned is japan to bounce back from this. not much unfortunately because again private consumptions decline is i think

is going to be more acute than most people thing towards in the year because of conservatives i just explained but also the exports that's another culprit of the negative figure today and obviously export resorts to the flow of goods in the area and that's going to be stagnated because the cold war that's been kicked off they had to get money fight between chinese and the americans and i don't think chinese will be backing off or change a strategy which means that there's going to be rejuvenating a total supply chain in the area as well so you know there's a lot of negativity in homework that you know many of the nations have to do japan included very much so you know i think both time and also opportunity are being very much rob the circumstances by depressing situation and japan said she to thank you very much for bringing us the picture that thank you. now the woman who challenge bella who says president in recent elections says she's ready to lead the country in a video address that lana. called for

a new fair election she fled to neighboring lithuania after the election president xander claimed landslide victory in last week's disputed vote sparking daily mass protests calling for his resignation she kind of also called on police and security officers to switch sides many have been accused of torturing and government protesters. and france is going on the e.u. to back anti-government demonstrations in belarus a week of protests against the president culminated in a huge rally in the capital minsk on sunday i'm stuck fast and reports. they went from fear to defiance and from sadness to anger in just one week. never before have so many people in bellows taken to the street 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 de chant the accounts of torture and abuse of

thousands of detainees has also angered look at shankar supporters and people who were never interested in politics we're protesting here against the i also just happening as the recent nation we acknowledge that people can have different political views and preference us but on the no condition can people be beaten up and raised in the police station as in eyes and ears and he must go away we don't need it and as a blood with just me it's 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 or campaign amare or kolesnik over addresses the crowd. she was she was the more we go on expressing our dissatisfaction 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 when. i'm president and see say i meant that i won't change until i need to find relief items for our children but sometimes to get me up to 65. in a desperate attempt to show he still has support to crush and organized a pro-government rally earlier in the day a few 1000 people were brought in on buses and trains i need pretty much to stay 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 paris thank you for what a lot of tanks and jets are on standby within 15 minutes reachable 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 are his words were lost on these protesters they called for a strike and to continue demonstrating for as long as the president clings onto power stuff last an al-jazeera minsk. still ahead here on al-jazeera troubled waters why gaza fishermen of course up and cross the border frighting between palestine and israel. is struggling after months of lockdown thousands rally in the colombian capital demanding government support. and there's still plenty of warm sunshine across much of europe but the clouds and the 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 furnace told

a very nice tail up into northern germany long the baltic sea coast as you can see there people flocking to the beaches not quite as warm across into belgium but even so that sea is inviting and so you know it's a good day the 3rd day of course the test match the 2nd test nationally in pakistan and england fall down into southampton has once again of course that had it rain delays now plenty more raising. 3 monday becoming quite widespread through much of the u.k. still go to warnings in place for a thunderstorms which could be quite heavy at times plenty of rain through france low country is pushing on into germany and sunny train like that down into more northern areas of but also fairly heavy amounts of rain the beginning just to slide into northern as the 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 as through areas of poland and 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 showers like you say temperatures not too bad

a paris meanwhile will see showers for the next few days on a sunny day. frank assessments what are you seeing back in yemen. like the suit is going to informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in any calls or do you want to meet region are actually under a de facto state not concede critical debate have to use a proxy he does not represent the interest of the libyan people in depth analysis of the day's crew who had lines inside story on al-jazeera.

again you're watching out there his reminder of our top stories this hour the number of deaths related to corona virus has now passed 50000 in the india is the 3rd worst affected country behind the u.s. and brazil with more than a 1000000 infections but many experts say the real numbers may be far higher due to low levels of testing. japan's economy shrinks further as it battles the coronavirus pandemic is g.d.p. has fallen 7.8 percent in april to june with a decrease in domestic consumption and exports. and opposition leaders. police and security officers to switch sides many have been accused of torturing antigovernment protesters in a video address taken of skier calls for a new election she fled to neighboring lithuania after the poll.

the millions of people who live in gaza facing a possible power shortage the only power plant there could shut down on tuesday due to lack of diesel close the main goods crossing with gaza making it impossible for fuel shipments to get in israel says it's in response to rocket attacks and fire bombs by hamas as close to a correspondent hari for cities in west jerusalem for as how why are we seeing this escalation on either side right now. well i think we have to know the economic situation currently is inside gaza we spoke to one economist a couple of days ago and he said it's the worst it has ever been even after 14 years of siege from and located from israel and egypt the people living number of people living under the poverty line and gaza is about 55 percent of the population that and there are so many young unemployed people with no jobs to go to after

their education and so hamas has a real problem to deal with and a real concern about that situation and as we've seen in the past during such phases hamas tends to try to turn up the temperature and it seems that's what's happening at the moment there's been a return to the launching of incendiary balloons in kites setting fires in his ready territory close to the gaza border fence and the calculation it seems is that they want to see israel make good on some of the commitments that hamas felt that israel made or says that israel made last year when there was an understanding that was reached to try to bring some comma after a series of escalations things such as allowing more international contributions to come in to start rebuilding infrastructure to allow for the start at least in some kind of industrial zone near the crossing with israel more work on

sewage and water and increased electricity and although one of those things did happen at least in terms of people being allowed out of gaza workers allowed out of gaza several 1000 a day. early this year that ended with the coronavirus restrictions which closed off the crossing between israel and gaza so as far as hamas is concerned very little has come of the calm since the last escalation and they're also worried about the impending end of the 6 month play. it's from qatar which has been sending tens of millions of dollars every month or so into gaza that is due to run out at least for now in september so the gamble the calculation that they're making is by increasing attention they might get something back from israel and potentially other countries too so what's happened so he's saying this time to try to calm the situation now where we are seeing egyptian mediation once again delegation has just been in ramallah talking to meters of the palace and also it's either

traveling through israel to go into gaza today for talks with senior hamas officials but really in the short term what's been happening has been a pretty stark response from israel there have been a series of strikes the defense minister an alternate prime minister benny gantz who made a big show of saying during his repeated campaigns against benjamin netanyahu in the recent elections that he would take a much tougher line on gaza he has been overseeing the strikes also reducing the fishing zone to 0 no fishermen are allowed out into gaza waters and of course this closure of fuel going into the strip that will mean we are told that the plants the power plant will close on choose day that's 80 megawatts of power that will suddenly be taken out of the system guns it gets about $160.00 megawatts from israel a much smaller amount from egypt but we're talking about potentially a foot of the supply being cut off already the official 8 hours on 8 hours off it's

been less than that because of the over know during the summer so when talking about a real impact on people's daily lives and as a singer dancer is talking about being a right now being or it's own a house address every balloon launched well these measures don't just affect us obviously they affect the entire population of the gaza strip and they have a full set. from westerners then thanks very much high. government troops are taking up positions outside a port in mozambique after it was captured by fighters last week the attack in a gas rich province is the 1st target this year it comes as in southern africa a virtual summit is being held to discuss issues affecting the region 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 are meeting on monday to decide what the region can and should do to help those and examine. a lot of issues that are on the cup abilities of them was american military. from from the strength and from the military intelligence side of things. is the story of the moment wasn't because military has not really been able to do to look at what insurgents from there in. mozambique's president philippe knew 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 are normal operating towns and villages. it doesn't now that's from the 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 and integrate . 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 our it to decide what to do about the and raised 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 nor the mozambique is rich in natural gas some projects are believed 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. at least 16 people have been killed in somalia and 40 others injured during a 5 hour siege of a hotel in the capital mogadishu 5 attackers government officials and the police officer amongst the don't a suspected car bomb followed by a shootout at the elite hotel in lido beach injured 40 others armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility. he was house of representatives is being called back into session to vote on legislation to protect the postal service the postmaster general an ally of president donald trump has made cutbacks to the department and has been summoned to testify before a congressional committee have now been 2 days of protests outside limited joyce home then straight as accuse him of trying to sabotage the mail network ahead of november's election and if mr joy refuses to appear. he should be

stamped return to sender you shouldn't be allowed to be the postmaster general with a after all this destruction he can answer to the american people. new coronavirus measures making the use of face masks mandatory in public spaces across spain have sparked protests in madrid hundreds of people marched in the spanish capital they chanted slogans denying the existence of the pandemic and accusing the government of violating their rights spain recorded nearly 3000 new cases on friday bringing the total to more than 340000 the highest in western europe. and of the virus continues to spread across latin america so just quarantine fatigue when you destruction orders have sparked protests in the colombian capital. reports from bogota our. streets have been cordoned off in this commercial area of central has 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 motorcycles. but no disconnect here not that i haven't received any help from the mayor we were promised 20 dollars 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 again. the new measures they dressed in mourning saying they were staging a funeral for the dying retail business in the city where. 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. 1000 for t.v. is growing in this in other countries in latin america as authorities 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. of tory does improve 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 have ignored the rules here sunday long gone mrs fine but people don't listen they say sanction people but do you think those who have family gatherings are being sanctioned no nothing happens that in america has accounted for almost half of all the coronavirus related deaths in the world in the past 7 days an alarming trend that has left most governments with few options but to reimpose restrictions which

have become increasingly difficult to enforce i listened to. at least 60 has sorry structures are at risk of collapse in beirut after the explosion that tore through the city nearly 2 weeks ago all the homes museums and religious sites are among the buildings damaged stephanie decker reports from bury . so now we're really entering the areas that were really the most damage. jimmie's is best known for its restaurants and bars and its beautiful historic architecture it's actually one of the relatively rare cases of heritage buildings which completely collapsed the catastrophic blast has caused an imaginable damage across the city especially for these fragile old homes the soul of historic beirut and 20 is part of a group called save beirut's heritage for years it's tried to save these old

buildings from being demolished to make way for high rises many owners can't afford to maintain them prefer to destroy them and sell the land which is highly lucrative when spent. years trying to save this line of buildings from highway projects. and we managed to stop this highway. to freeze it at least and in a matter of a few seconds. more endangered than they were then they ever were artist henry lucianne has spent the last few years salvaging history from houses that the owners have demolished buying their beautiful discarded interiors to recreate the old within the new i wanted to have house like this. possible to have it because the land is very expensive and i collect all the parts. which i saw the original house columns. when those.

roofs. stairs his home escaped the blast mostly intact a few scratches here and there for example this one is can be fixed it can't be fixed again because look it's like candy than as a puzzle his message is of preserving beirut's heritage of retaining its beauty if it's not the old one can be replaced with a new one similar. nobody will notice. if then all of them they will know this was the period of the explosion. collapse and going to be born again for now it's just the start of an uphill struggle to patch up the city to heal these deep wounds the enormity of what has happened is taking time to sink in for everyone small signs of hope unscathed she remains as she

was despite the walls having crumbled the challenge now to rebuild beirut as it once was and to keep its character that is so loved by so many stephanie decker al-jazeera beirut. with al-jazeera these are our top stories a number of coronavirus deaths in india has now passed 50000 is the 3rd worst affected country behind the u.s. and brazil with more than a 1000000 infections but many experts say the real numbers may be far higher due to low levels of testing whether there's a problem has more from new delhi. india crossed the 50000 mark and steve recorded and confirmed number and master of remains the worst affected state 20. 1 half of the deaths in the state of my rational but the numbers of cases and

deaths are going down in the capital but they are growing in other parts of the state now when you look at the numbers and you recorded one of on sunday it had nearly 58000 cases which is lower than the number of cases over the past week but if you look closer it also conducted about 100000 fewer tests than it has in the last week to pan's economy has shrunk further battles the coronavirus pandemic its g.d.p. fell 7.8 percent in april to june with a decrease in domestic consumption and exports japan slipped into recession earlier this year following 2 successive quarters of economic contraction opposition leaders for. police and security officers to switch sides in bella ruse many have been accused of torturing anti-government protesters in the video address called for a new election she fled to neighboring lithuania after the poll the only power plant

in gaza could shut down on tuesday due to a lack of diesel co's the main goods crossing with gaza making it impossible for fuel shipments to get in israel says it's in response to rocket attacks and fire bombs by hamas they've been 2 days of protests outside the u.s. postmaster general to joy's home to joy an ally of president donald trump has made cutbacks the department and been summoned to testify before congressional committee demonstrators accuse him of trying to sabotage the mail network ahead of november's election. and at least 16 people have been killed in somalia 40 others injured during a 5 hour siege at a hotel in the capital mogadishu and suspected car bomb went off followed by a shootout at the elite hotel in lido beach. there's all the headlines more news here on al-jazeera of the inside story. a face can tell a story without uttering a single one. and knowing.

a simple time to. inform us. the unconventionality of light witnessed through the lens of the human eye. is what inspires scientists. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. could iran face renewed sanctions the u.s. president promises punishment after failing to convince the un to extend international arms embargo will this lead to the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on iran call on the u.s. president is vowing retaliation for the latest setback to his so-called maximum

pressure campaign on iran donald trump's threatening to reinstate international sanctions that was scrapped in 2015.