journeys to me leading left wing figures to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. in latin america a giant in turmoil on al-jazeera. workers in bella ruth's walk off the job to protest against president alexander lukashenko as his main challenger calls on law enforcement to switch sides. and of their more kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up 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. reeling from the effects of the pandemic japan's economy suffers the worst contraction on record. and the race to

save the soul of beirut we visit the historic neighborhoods in the lebanese capital devastated by the port explosion. a national strike in belarus is piling new pressure on president alexander lukashenko workers from state owned factories have walked off the job it's just gone 11 am in the capital minsk and this was the scene at the state tractor factory than other protesters marching towards the compound where the president is expected to visit employees of the state television channel also on strike broadcasting an empty studio joined news bulletins that bastien is immense can joins us now on the phone so stephan extraordinary day of state companies strikes took us through what

we're seeing across the capital and the perhaps the country. yes i'm here in front of fitzgerald lachance great care a real and to a very few thousands want to pass the cap and here they are asking us for strike also for auto work where operation conducted strike 2 choices 6 what it's like i saw a large crowd of other work on top of factories also on the way here to join to latch a strike 'd price of the contract i was the president thing to spec 3 we just saw ahead but the thing in a highly call 1st 'd one way. because the consequence was that it was moving quite a crowd clear when they saw me leaving it's not clear what the response has been inside look at trying to hire try to work to do not a a go on a strike doing that for the last week because

a strike is up so it's one of the worst things that can you have to face right now with the economy already intact and so you need to try to find some going on the florida class to tackle state articulate so i guess while we support the most important miles all the president so i think it's quite dramatic no cooperation of to face it nobody is follows me around. d d so this is a probably yes prep it to plan for this kind of thing a over here is that balance right now step is if people are not listening in to present lucas shango how much attention and they paying to the opposition leader. to kind of sky he's been speaking to the country from outside in miscellaneous. fasten in the mint can you hear us. unfortunately bless me the last step

on the phone and we will go back to her of course as we keep an eye on the state strikes from say companies across got a raise. now 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 that has now passed $50000.00 is the 3rd worst affected country with more than 2 and a half 1000000 people infected it's having a devastating economic effect japan's economy shrank nearly 7.8 percent in the last quarter and the outbreak has forced new zealand's prime ministers to postpone next month's general election the country has seen a resurgence of cases after more than 3 months without any infection there's a problem and has more from new delhi on the situation in india. the across the 50000 mark in deaths the recorded and confirmed number. of remains the worst

affected state 20000 media half of the deaths are the state of maharashtra bus the number of the 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 though and you recorded one of on sunday it had nearly 58000 cases which is lower than the number of cases over the pos week but if you look closer it also conducted about 100000 fewer tests than it has in the last week and this also concerned 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 all quicker to do but they report false negatives up to 50 percent off the time now if you take someone like delhi for example with the number of cases have been coming down over the pos mom well the supreme court asked the delhi government weeks ago to explain why it was conducting twice the number off the record and

teaching tests as it was the more accurate test known as the. 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 possibly it on to others because they're not being tested all because it's the old because the tests is giving a false negative. well the kind of us pandemic has hit spending in japan sending its economy down went the most just economy so its gross domestic product full 7.8 percent in the period between april and june japan slipped into recession all of this year following 2 successive courses of economic contraction the country was already struggling with low economic growth before the pandemic said jerry tech a professor at the university of she's away because school of management and information he says it's hard for japan's economy to revive itself at this point

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 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 whole not only because of pro consumptions of stagnation but due to the 2nd cold war that's been kicked off between the united states and china 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 job 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. the millions of people who live in gaza facing a possible powerless whole attention any power plant that could shut down on tuesday and change for lack of diesel and clay is the main guns crossing with gaza making it impossible for a few to fit for fuel shipments to get in israel says it's of response to rocket attacks and 5 bombs by hamas high force set as in west jerusalem with more on the restrictions we are seeing egyptian mediation once again delegation has just been in ramallah talking to leaders of the palestinian authority they are 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 tuesday that's 80 megawatts of power that will suddenly be taken out of the system again as it gets about $160.00 megawatts from israel a much smaller amount from egypt but we're talking about potentially a 3rd of the supply being cut off already the official hours are 8 hours on 8 hours off it's been less than that because of the overload during the summer so we're talking about a real impact on people's daily lives and as a singer dancer is talking about being a rich being a rich and

a hamas address every balloon launched well these measures don't just affect us obviously they affect the entire population of the gaza strip. 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 3rd target this year the issue is expected to be discussed during a southern africa meeting later on monday has more from neighboring zimbabwe. for 3 years people living in parts of northern mozambique 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 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 because military has not really been able to through to 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 in. it doesn't now that strong 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 that 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 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 had their. hair on al-jazeera their business is struggling after months of lockdown thousands rally in the colombian capital demanding government support. the traditions are gone as the

u.s. prepares for a democratic national convention like never before. hello there still some very nice warm sunny weather across southern sections of europe and really across much of europe it's not cold it's just very unsettled plenty of flat there. really will continue in the fall cause for the next couple of days on this bulk of cloud here that is going to bring some heavy amounts of a bit of happiness and tremendous on the storms look at this in the southwest of switzerland some dramatic lightning lysine up the night sky meanwhile by day very nice and warm across into western germany people enjoying the warm shoals of the late now to say as we go through monday plenty of rain rain work its way through germany quite heavy at times extending southwards across the czech republic and

austria down into all the nightly and some fairly persistent rain across the central and western sections of the u.k. across as well and there's that system really heavy rain across into northern areas of the peninsula now it will just say switch the rest of monday but by cheese day it just clears the paul for the next amount of rain again fairly heavy that will also work its way across into western areas of france that is a very unsettled picture plenty of shazam plenty of thunderstorms and a drizzle in she's say and then cloudy but not cultivate is the mid to high twenty's london if you will showers over the next couple of days and then for paris again assume the scenario. stories and light. and inspiration. and series of documentaries from around the world that celebrate the human spirit against the on

. al-jazeera select gangs. the in the. the us. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour a national strike in better ruses piling new pressure on president alexander lukashenko workers from state owned factories have walked off the job employees at the state owned television channel are also on strike and. the official number of

coronavirus deaths in india has surpassed $50000.00 but some experts suspect the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing india is the 3rd worst affected country behind the u.s. and brazil. and japan's economy has shrunk 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. at least 16 people have been killed in somalia and 40 others injured during a 5 hour siege at a hotel in the capital mogadishu a suspected car bomb went off followed by a shootout at the elite hotel in lido beach 5 attackers government officials and a police officer amongst the dead the armed group has claimed responsibility. here is house of representatives is being recalled to vote on legislation to protect the postal service the postmaster general has made cutbacks to the department and been summoned to testify before

a congressional committee comes as protest is accused levied to joy of trying to sabotage the mail network head of november's election mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . for the 2nd straight day protesters gathered outside the postmaster general so. they can use him off 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 photo 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. the president created this situation and then my estimation and many others i mean this is it's it's a maneuver by him to. to improve his chances in the election and

it's all it's all about he and mr george there. poem the strings here democrats in congress of mounds 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 let them do 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 droid 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 moved 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. the u.s. presidential primary is now over and the democratic party is gathering to formally nominate its official candidate for november's election is national convention

begins on monday normally thousands of delegates would gather in person to cheer the candidates but because of the convert coronavirus 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 what 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 and have amassed over time soon many deaths rents 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 a state that will help to reelect obama in the inevitable protests. this year many will likely be posted online it was here in chicago in 1968 that 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 a moderate. here tonight a job that can carry an exceptional order to the nomination at the next convention all of the family the united states of america but there's something about all those people cheering together for their leaders something infectious that will be missing this time. really for the baby. but it's also parents are cheering in the rally their base particularly for. may not know who they're going to go forward 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 and

chicago. you can write a virus measures making the use of face man's a tram public spaces across spain have sparked protests in madrid hundreds of people marched in the capital they chanted slogans denying the existence of the pandemic and accusing the government of violating their rights spain has the highest number of infections and western europe. well as the virus continues to spread across latin america so does quarantine fatigue when you destruction orders have sparked protests in the colombian capital as reports from the. 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 the. 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 saying they were staging a funeral for the dying retail business in the city. the retail trade 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. 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. reinstated some stay at home

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. is fine but people don't listen they say sanction people but do you think those who have. family gatherings being sanctioned no nothing happens left 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 i listened to. riot police in mexico city have fired tear gas to disperse protesters as a march to end violence against women the mainly female crowd broke through barriers around monuments and landmarks and spray painted graffiti on statues 10

women on average are killed in mexico every day the murder rate has risen since 1000 stay at home measures were implemented in march. lebanon has reported a record daily number of new coronavirus infections while still struggling with the aftermath of a massive explosion in beirut at least 439 new cases and 6 deaths were confirmed over the past 24 hours daily cases have already been on the rise and damage caused by the blast has made social distancing more difficult for many. only 60 historical structures are at risk of collapse in beirut after that explosion tore through the city nearly 2 weeks ago old homes museums and religious sites are among the buildings damaged 70 deca reports from beirut. so now we're really entering the areas that were really the most damage. is best known for its restaurants and bars and it's beautiful historic architecture it's

actually one of the relatively rare cases of hurt these 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 luce 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. and possible to have it because the land is very expensive and i collect all the parts of which i saw the original house columns. windows. as. the roof. 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 its not the old one can be replaced with a new one similar. nobody will notice. if they know

they will know this is what 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. government is accusing the head of an influential group of catholic clergy of sticking divisions and promoting civil war if i was a statement from the country's bishops blaming the government for an economic collapse and human rights abuses a number of anti-government protesters have been arrested. a crackdown in recent

weeks. plenty more can be found on our website the address there at the bottom of your screens al-jazeera dot com. these are our top stories a national strike in belarus is piling new pressure on president alexander lukashenko workers from state owned factories have walked off the job employees at the state television channel are also on strike opposition leaders for. police and security officers to switch sides many have been accused of torturing anti-government protesters in a video address to called for a new election she fled to neighboring lithuania after the polls. the other thing is. this i'm prepared to take responsibility and act as

a national leader during this period so the country can get back to normality and we can release all political prisoners and prepare a legal framework and conditions to hold another round of presidential elections genuine fair and transparent elections that will be accepted without question by the international community. the official number of course of ours deaths in india has surpassed $50000.00 for some experts suspect the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing india is the 3rd worst affected country behind the united states and brazil with more than 2 and a half 1000000 reported infections. japan has reported its worst economic contraction in modern history mainly because of the coronavirus the world's 3rd largest economy shrank by 7.8 percent in the 2nd quarter from april to june that's worse than even most pessimistic forecasts for an economy already in recession

at least 16 people have been killed in somalia and 40 others injured during a 5 hour siege at a hotel in the capital mogadishu a suspected car bomb went off followed by a shootout at the elite hotel in lido beach the only power plant in gaza could shut down on tuesday due to a lack of diesel israel closed 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. and there been 2 days of protests outside the u.s. postmaster general home has made cutbacks for 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 there's i had lines i'll be back with more news after a.j. selects. talk to old is there a. is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of

travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the road to 0. 00 in new york knew. his new role given that. one was already not in the. us it would never be one of the like of all our little ones now acknowledging really we were like that but not that any one of us in our lives.