to oversee latin america's recovering from the pandemic blast the company awarded billions for a gas plant that wasn't even tipped. counting the cost on al-jazeera. the batteries president tells striking workers he won't hold new elections and his opponents would have to kill him to get them. the main opposition leader is calling on security forces to switch sides saying she's ready to help lead a transition. out of their armor karl this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up india sees a spike in coronavirus deaths 50000 people have died the prime minister says it's

one of the lowest rates in the world. government forces in mozambique are on the offensive to retake the strategic port held by eisel linked fighters. the belorussian president has told striking workers there won't be new elections until they kill him but i think on the lucas has suggested he may be willing to redistribute power after a week of massive protests he said changes could be made to the constitution but he wouldn't do it under pressure his speech came just hours after opposition leader skier said she was willing to help lead the country during a transition period she sent a video message from exile in neighboring lithuania now protesters across the country have made it clear they want out and thousands of workers at state and factories and the state t.v.

channel have joined a national strike correspondent so vasant joins us live from the state media headquarters in minsk where striking workers have converged and said the state t.v. is not be broadcasting any pictures today these are extraordinary displays of defiance by all state media employees. absolutely we keep seeing unprecedented scenes here in ballarat never before there was this strike of state television workers 130 of them have walked outside it was no use this morning nobody to call for president look at shanghai which they always been doing for so many years and they these workers here will be joined by factory workers who are marching towards the television station as we speak there's also ordinary people here who are calling the state television as liars they say they should stop airing propaganda they finally want to hear the truth one woman was

speaking earlier she sat for many years i've been listening to you i was watching you last night there was nothing about this largest rally ever in belorussian history she said it's a it's a. it's a shame and now you should stop lying to us and the president did actually visit workers from one striking factory what happened via. yeah that was another very unprecedented scene and the the one that everyone has been talking about since this morning when i was addressing workers inside the factory normally of course these workers are well instructed and supposed to follow a certain canario but workers actually stood up and shouted leave leave. and his face was just frozen and it seems this was definitely a moment of truth for him when he realized how much resentment there is among the population and among the workers towards him. and meanwhile some of the opposition

leaders has kind of saying that she's ready to lead a transition also calling for security forces in valerie's to switch sides of a showing any signs of doing so. well to kind of scios more and more are stepping up as the new president of the country so we have a sort of 2 had a leadership right now with her in exile and it's the way we are saying she's ready to be the national leader and. help with this transition to new elections free and free elections that's what she's always been saying and that's what also all these people on the street want they want fair elections but then there's again the battle president who refuses to resign despite all the pressure on him he's even said no new election even until you should be or kill me i won't have new elections so it is a very jewel situation right now so to say in absolutely ok at the moment step

thanks very much sebastian joining us there from those protests in minsk. because the president of the scientific research mrs senter that's an independent think tank was a presidential candidate themself in 2010 he says he does not trust is willing to redistribute power. well the only strat that ticks that has is to somehow shut down the protests to disperse crowds to lure people into a negotiation process and this kind of statement that he is ready for reforms i can tell you like i heard that 10 years ago if you can years ago 5 years ago and no change happened in the question came there his presidential election program promised to come back to thaw that style of land economy so i do not see any evidence any reason any personal like decision to do our trust him in this critical i think that right now we need some people of authority who can talk to look

directly probably religious leaders ex-president show presidents people who are in this way one way or another have good relations with them presenting him with the real alternatives because remember yesterday when he had this rally and he didn't even notice millions of people are rallying in the streets of all cities of men's or pro a bowler that's why it's a matter of negotiation he still did not come to terms with the very simple conclusion that he has lost presidential election campaign even in this situation of our lack of democracy transparency and accountability. maybe on some other news now in the u.s. house of representatives is being recalled to vote on legislation to protect the postal service and the postmaster general louis de joy has been summoned to testify to congressional committee democrats accused of trying to sabotage postal voting in the run up to november's election michaela 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 voters suppression he had never heard before have the 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 a maneuver. to. to improve his chances in the election. it's all it's all about he and mr george there. poem the strings here

democrats in congress of mounds summoned to joy 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 the droid has made since taking over in may be using clued into over time the firing or 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. and saddam protesters are on the streets of khartoum to mark the 1st anniversary of the signing of power sharing deal that followed the overthrow of longtime leader share many sudanese complain the promise transition to democracy is too slow to morgan reports from khartoum when sudan's military and protest leaders signed

a power sharing agreement in august last year millions of sudanese saw it as a new start after months of political turmoil but a year on mohammed abdul says not enough has changed what more could be sort of cologne on when we started the revolution it was because of the economy and when the 1st massive fell the goal became justice for those who had lost their lives in this revolution we promise to hold those who kill civilians to account their main demand is not yet means they can be no moving forward if the main demand of those who took to the street is not achieved. his friend muhammad ali says the power sharing agreement between the military and civilian leaders is flawed several of your reader the political parties did not have a long term vision they were in a rush to reach a deal they lacked a national spirit and went into negotiations based on the interests of their own respective parties and leaders now it's difficult for them to lead in the interest

of the people at heart of the signing of the power sharing agreement known as the constitutional declaration came after months of negotiations following the fall of president already the coalition known as the forces of freedom and change which led anti-government protests demanded a say on how the country would be governed the deal with the army paved the way for the creation of a transitional sovereignty council with the military leading for the 1st 21 month and a civilian for the remaining 18 months it included articles to ground sudanese more freedom and prioritized ending conflicts in various parts of the country it also included steps to its democratic governance and stipulates that the executive power be granted to the prime minister and his cabinet and the formation of a legislative assembly there's still time to 7 months to go in the transitional period before elections are due but many of the provisions of the power sharing agreement are yet to be implemented a peace deal is it to be signed and there were still no legislative assembly that is supposed to oversee the transitional government. the military has ruled sudan

for more than 50 years of the country 64 years of independence some analysts say it's up to the international community to make sure sudan completes a transition to democracy the story of the constitution declaration was a settlement to reach a political stability in this country it's been a year since it was signed in the people who protested are still guarding their revolution and the international community is one of the important factors that can make sure that no one hindrances this transition the us has sanctioned people it deems him during the transition the international community should now act as a safeguard to the deal that was signed last year despite how slow the 1st year of transition has been mohamed el galle says they still reason for. optimism shabu a seat back to the people have shown that they will have the final say in how they want to be ruled no external or internal force can compete with the will of the people a will that has brought an end to 30 years of president bush years rule those who protest that say they'll continue campaigning and filter down becomes a democracy people morgan alter their hearts on. still ahead here on al-jazeera

a race to save the soul of beirut will look at the scale of devastation the explosion brought to historic sites in the lebanese capital. hello there weather conditions haven't been too bad across south korea and much of japan for the last few days if not the same plenty of clear sunny skies to much is on the high side actually in the mid thirty's celsius of people enjoying the shoals here at down just to the south of tokyo and hong sure plenty more of that of course over the next couple days will be want to see scattered showers and thunderstorms around the tokyo area but again not a bad day generate cross the korean peninsula but those razed to the north of there and they extend right the way down into the central and south western areas of china not

a great deal of less of as we go through wednesday but much of central eastern china is fine and dry warm as well time which is typically in the made that rain is a beginning to push into northern sections of north korea that we had down across into india and bangladesh has also seen some very persistent rains over the last few days the winds have been strong as well funneling that the rain aap into those areas and as you can see here the has now caused a more flooding across into dhaka in the streets in the city also more rain in the fall cause as we go through choose to read it could be quite heavy as well as the day progresses in a can say these winds as they following this northern section of the bengal and then widespread rains across much of maharashtra and all the while extending west across into. history has called it the great war in the 2nd episode of the declining onto an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war. gives

birth to 3 nationalist was the determined the future world war one. on a legacy we understand the differences similarities the cultures across the world so no matter what we use in calendar for that matter to you. hello again you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories this hour the better russian president insists there will be no new elections until he's killed but alexander lukashenko says he may be willing to redistribute power thousands of state workers are on strike and say the

president must go. and crowds in sudan's capital are protesting on the 1st anniversary of the landmark power sharing deal over throat of longtime leader of al bashir they say the transition to democracy under the current government has been too slow. another day of bleak reports from around the world as the krone virus pandemic rages on the number of deaths in india has now passed 50000 is the 3rd worst affected country with more than 2 and a half 1000000 people infected as also having a devastating economic effect japan's economy shrank 7.8 percent in the last quarter and the outbreak has forced new zealand's prime minister to postpone next month's election the country has seen a resurgence of cases after more than 3 months without any infections the random has more from new delhi on that situation in india. in the across the 50000 mark

of deaths the recorded and confirmed number. of remains the worst affected state 20000 media half of the deaths in the state of maharashtra bash 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 posse week but if you look closer 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 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 of the record antigen 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. bride reports now on the pandemic causing japan to suffer its worst economic contraction in its modern history. the scale of japan's contraction is worse than even the most pessimistic forecasts it would translate into an annualized decline of more than 27 percent for an economy that was already in recession 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 exports like costs have fallen by more than a quarter around a year ago while in band tourists have virtually disappeared it's a personal setback for japan's prime minister shinzo who has made the economy one of his priorities and who will be hoping the only way for the economy to go now is up she has a lot of. what we will continue to make the optimists afford to put the economy on the growth path after it bottomed out in april and may has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic and abbate sale to any leadership he did not establish early on a control tower for posses dealing with contain it in $1000.00 al creek in japan critics say he delayed an effective response to save the tokyo

summer olympics which had to be postponed anyway at huge economic cost and businesses have not adapted well to changed working practices 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 japan's experience is in stark contrast to neighboring south korea which of all the developed nations is predicted to come out best from the pandemic with an economic contraction of less than one percent this yeah seoul has been widely applauded for an effective early response to the outbreak without shutting down major parts of the economy it's also credited with being nimbler in adapting its economy for a world altered forever by the pandemic brabant bride al-jazeera soul. spaniards are speaking out against new coronavirus rules which makes the wearing of masks in public mandatory hundreds marched in the capital madrid 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. 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 449 new cases and 6 deaths were confirmed over the past 24 hours daily cases had already been on the rise and the damage caused by the blasts have made social distancing more difficult only 60 historically important buildings in beirut off threatening threatened with collapse heritage homes museums and religious sites are amongst the buildings damaged stephanie decker has the story. so now we're really entering the areas that were really the most damage. jim asr 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 the prefer to destroy them and sell the land which is highly lucrative we spend. 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 or just 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. and possible to have it because the land is very expensive and i collect all the parts that i love which i saw the original house columns. when those. first. roof. 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 can be done as a puzzle his message is of preserving the roots heritage of retaining its beauty if it's not the old one can be replaced with a new one similar. nobody will notice. if they know

they will know this was the period of the explosion. always 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 troops are surrounding a port in mozambique after it was captured by isolate fighters last week is the 3rd time much of the prior a key town in a province has been attacked this year issue is expected to be discussed during a meeting of the southern african development community which is just getting underway. 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 eisel 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 do to look at what insurgents from there in. mozambique's president philippe nusi 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 our a to decide what to do about the and raised in mozambique but after all of 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 there are concerns 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 in the horn of africa. and horrors enters this update from harare in neighboring zimbabwe. they want to know if murtha is going to the region to help and what kind of help is that actually going to be the area i've been it's been for about 3 years and you've seen the groups come in take more villages and towns and after a while go up and forth and come back remove these and not become a back and forth in that part of the area is very remote we were there last covering it and you drive and drive for hours and hours more belligerent more town . and the people paying a no running water no electricity and nothing of anything that it could be one

reason why leave able to finish of crute some people in these areas who feel that despite all the gas in the area despite all the big international herm's making billions of dollars they're the ones who are not been affected from it and that's why some say the comp it could take a while. claiming responsibility for the latest bomb and gun attack in somalia a 5 hour siege at a hotel in the capital mogadishu killed at least 16 people and injured 40 a shootout followed a suspected car bomb explosion 5 attackers government officials and a police officer are among the dead so. a car full of explosives was rammed into the front gate of the hotel then attack is from al-shabaab stormed into the hotel and started shooting everyone they came across are so many did bodies on the ground the situation in there is really miserable. talk but serve begun moving the japanese cargo ship that's leaking oil off the coast some rushes as meant to be

drawing to a ship graveyard in india the japanese owned carrier has split apart 3 weeks after plowing into a coral reef and a 1000 tons of fuel has already leaks into the indian ocean and a massive cleanup operation is underway involving thousands of volunteers. millions ingalls are facing electricity blackouts in israel close the main crossing to import diesel for the only power plant israel says it's responding to hamas rocket attacks and fire bomb balloons from gaza and egypt and delegation is in the besieged palestinian territory to meet leaders of hamas and islamic jihad's. has reportedly recorded the highest global temperature in more than a century almost 55 degrees celsius that's yet to be verified but the heat wave is fueling more wildfires fire crews are battling a blaze in malibu creek state park several smaller fires were sparked by lightning

from a rare some a thunderstorm a much larger forest fires forced hundreds of americans from their homes north of los angeles rescue teams in southwest china have saved dozens dozens of villages trapped by flash flooding days of heavy rains have flooded homes roads and farmlands in parts of sichuan province firefighters worked through the night to move more than 50 people from their flooded community in district. these are our top stories the belarusian president insists there will be no new elections until he's killed but eyes on the he may be willing to redistribute power thousands of state workers are on strike and say the president must go. president bush saying here address striking factory employees elves are a step vasant was their. normally of course these workers are well instructed and supposed to follow a certain askin aereo but workers actually stood up and shouted leif leif. and his

face rose and it seems this was definitely a moment of truth for him when you realize how much resentment there is among the population and among the workers towards. his house of representatives is being recalled vote on legislation to protect the postal service the postmaster general has been summoned to testify at a congressional committee crowds in sudan's capital protesting on the 1st anniversary of the landmark power sharing deal following the overthrow of longtime need. they say the transition to democracy under the current government has been too slow efficient number of coronavirus deaths in india past $50000.00 some experts suspect the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing in the world's worst affected country. japan has reported its worst economic contraction in modern history mainly because of the coronavirus 3rd

largest economy shrank almost 8 percent in the 2nd quarter spaniards are speaking out against new coronavirus rules which makes the wearing of masks in public mandatory hundreds marched in the capital with dread they chanted slogans denying the existence of the pandemic and accusing the government of violating their rights spain has the highest number of infections in western europe. and lebanon has reported a wreck or daily number of new corona virus infections while still struggling with the aftermath of a massive explosion in beirut at least 439 new cases and 6 deaths were confirmed in the past 24 hours daily cases had already been on the rise with damage caused by the blast has made social distancing more difficult state now with all the headlines more news continuing here on al-jazeera after inside story.

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 welcome to the program on iran call on the u.s. president is vowing retaliate.