ssion and geo political tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. 0. hello there i'm the saudi attack and this is the news hour live from our headquarters here and coming up in the next 60 minutes. the better russian president has had goals by striking factory workers after he says they'll be no new elections under. the main opposition leader is calling on security forces to switch sides saying she's ready to help lead a transition in better routes. the protests against the government in sudan

demonstrates is there one change to come foster a year on since a power sharing deal was signed. and reeling from the effects of the current virus pandemic japan's economy suffers the west contraction on. the traditions of god as the u.s. prepares for a democratic national convention like never before. and i'm santa all the sports barcelona are expected to officially announce the sacking of kiki sits down as head coach of the club rebuild after their humiliating champions league exit. now the belorussian president has told striking workers they will not be new elections in the country until opponents kill him but alexander lucas shanker has suggested he may be willing to redistribute power after a week of mass protests over the election he said changes to the constitution could

be made but he wouldn't do it under pressure that speech came hours after opposition leader donna to kind of sky said she was ready to help lead the country jury in a transitional period she sent a video message from exile in neighboring lithuania while protesters across the country have made it clear that they want to. out thousands of workers at stage one factories and the state broadcaster have joined a national strike while our correspondent step back in is outside state media headquarters in minsk step i understand state t.v. is now doing reruns today these extraordinary scenes of defiance from state employees. absolutely these are unprecedented scenes here in minsk a state television work a small 130 of them are on strike and they're now joined also by workers from different factories around to the capital and they're all shouting in front of the building they are asking for truce they want the state television to stop airing

propaganda and lies and they also i've spoken to one of the important anchors here in the program he actually resigned just a few days ago because he said i can't work for a company any longer who's just spreading lies so this is a snowballing strike going around belarus right now one after the other factory also very strategic factories one of them is producing a rocket launcher that's a factory press and look. at that this morning they're also now on strike well step you are at that factory that lucas visited this morning and he gave that speech to to the striking workers how was he received. well there was definitely a moment of shock for president alexander look i shan't go considers himself as a father of the nation and they always so refer to him as bob guy here in the

ballot which means fodder but and suddenly this factory workers who normally just obey orders specially when the president is visiting started shouting that he should leave his face was just froze and that was definitely a moment of truth for looking shango might have thought it was not as bad but now starts to realize that a large part of the population wants him to leave well as those protests continue we are now hearing potential talk of power sharing both from and to kind of skier how is that all being interpreted over there i don't think the kind of sky as off of any power sharing agreement what shankar has said that he wants to redistribute power that that needs work on situational change i think people here just see that that's buying time now the pressure is increasing on him to kind of scalia has said she willing to step up as a national leader to have a trance transitional government having to work really elections free and fair

elections where the population of actually really decide who is going to be the new leader so that's on the table there's no word of look you should look at the working together with kind of sky i don't think anyone here believes that that could happen thank you very much step by step faster now with all the latest from the belorussian capital minsk thanks well as that massive movement continues in bellerose the european union leaders have called for an emergency summit on wednesday that they'll be discussing the disputed election as well as the violent crackdown that followed on protesters well it's now speak to dominick cain who joins me from berlin dominic germany has really come out very strongly on this. very strongly on this a clear condemnation from this capital city from the government here about what's taking place not that far away taking place in belarus and germany leading calls

a chorus of condemnation from european capital cities and from the e.u. itself the germans looking for sanctions looking for a way of targeting those it holds responsible for the events that have been unfolding in belarus these past days and weeks but then from an institutional perspective in brussels at least we know that sharma share the president of the european council calling for an emergency summit on wednesday talks on on wednesday at a pan e.u. institutional level to discuss what it can do that's the e.u. in so far as concerned we know that there have been certain ideas floated by different countries the poles talking about the use the use of a european in damage for democracy to help belarus and we know that and others at the e.u. institutional level talking about the sorts of material assistance that can be provided to this to people in belarus given the condemnation that it is

leading against mr rickard yet in his government dominic i believe air leaders there wanting to cause a deescalation attention over all of this but i understand they are also going to ask moscow not to get involved. well the interesting thing is the element of rail quality in so far as this is concerned at a european level because clearly he you does not have a military entity so the e.u. is not in a position to make any kind of threat as it were from a military perspective the military situation in europe is clearly something under the auspices of nato some from the e.u. perspective there's only so much leverage so much influence that it can exert its influence the influence it can exert is clearly at the political and at the economic level now there must be a question in the minds of some people both in this capital city in berlin but also

in brussels about what effect. that sort of idea that so floating that sort of sort of idea to the government in moscow might have but one thing is for certain they have see the people in charge of the institutions in brussels the people in charge of government here in berlin and elsewhere in other european capitals have taken a look at what's happening in minsk what's happening in vienna rose as a whole and have decided to be very condom nature and the question will be what exactly do they really think they can achieve given the control of the situation in generous is not in their hands dominick hang in there with all the latest for us from berlin thank you very much dominick. we can now speak to richard bites he's a security and defense analyst at wiki strat that's a global risk in felton say and he joins us now from allington virginia richard there appears to be a bit of posturing going on now when it comes to potential military intervention here from batteries if you weigh me a potentially russia to what do you make of it is anyone at all with serious about

this but we haven't seen any unusual military maneuvers outside the country we know that within bellerose the government security forces been very active. i mean forcing their borders but also suppressing the protesters but in terms of what russia or the neighboring nato countries are doing there's been no major change in their forced deployments which i believe that bellerive says now wanting to run the military trails near the border is this an attempt at show of strength. well what the the the when way that. president live kish and co could escape from what looks to be his little likely downfall is to get the russians to intervene on his behalf and there's not a lot of and a lot of a for loop go in the kremlin so he has to sell this as look you know belarus is

under threat from from nato if i fall the nato will take over the contrie and i think that's why you see the belorussians forces moving to the border because it helps them develop this narrative of what western powers are seeking are behind these protests they're trying to overthrow me moscow you need to save us you're going to end up with another ukraine so shueisha well in terms of whether or not moscow is going to get involved in this i instantly if you any has already said that that if they did would constitute an invasion can you talk us through the calculus of the kremlin and for a person here how would they decide how far they might go. right it's actually very a difficult situation for russia so they don't like live christian and co but they clearly fear that if he falls you're going to end up with a government that's much more pro western we have a history of countries nearby such as the baltic states lithuania and so on leaving

the russian orbit and moving to back to nato so they don't want to lose control over belarus but there's not an ethnic russian population in dollars they can appeal to most of the people in belarus as far as we can tell including the dollar ocean protesters are not anti russian rushing dade's militarily they will be would be the same scenario as ukraine so i think the kremlin's preferred option is what happened recently in armenia there was a popular revolution it overthrew the government but the new government they came in though led by a pro western leaders was being careful not to move the country towards nato not to distance themselves from moscow so i think that would be their preferred solution and find somebody else to replace lucas shankar but not this something that could happen internally without requiring russian military intervention well clearly wants nato to be viewed as

a threat where is nato on all of this. right well nato will defend any member countries such as with the wanita and that is attacked by russian forces by the alliance going back to the protests during the cold war in hungary and the czech republic and poland will not intervene to to on behalf of a social revolution in a foreign a nonmember government so nato position is to warn russia against intervention to prepare for any spillover of conflict and so on but it's basically a defensive posture trying to deal with possible contingencies mitigate think we could see the escalation of all of this without any kind of military intervention is that likely yeah i think that the most likely solution and a good one would be if local genco leaves office and then somebody else takes power

who enjoys the more popular support and can perform make the necessary domestic reforms but without really causing a major threat to russia in the short term i think in the long term bella ruth will end up looking like the other baltic countries and poland and so on it really should be part of the west but the timing is not good with president putin in power richard bias there speaking to us from where he stratton the defense and security analyst thanks so much appeal inside here on out of there richard. sure any time. well crowds in sudan's capital khartoum are protesting on the 1st anniversary of the country's landmark power sharing deal they say the transition to democracy has been slow following the overthrow of longtime leader of al bashir in the current transitional government is made up of civilian and military leaders who are slated to govern until democratic elections are held in 2 years well we can now speak to our correspondent there is him morgan she's in khartoum for us and joins us now on

the line here but i understand that you've been having to deal with some tear gas that more frustration on the streets today caylee. yes indeed not we believe didn't take a gathering in front of the office of the prime minister where they were planning to submit a memo with their demand for sedition over what they say has been a very slow current session their main demand being justice and accountability for the life of the boat that they see that is not achieving peace which the government has promised will be achieved within the 1st 6 months of the transition period that has not been either many conditions before. that we took to the streets today say that those demands those form i'm kind of this is that we're going to move them to democracy has been very slow down nodding to and places around 430 local time which is about 40 feet that has been cut short and people and their protests. and i would have to hear guys being fired by police as

a matter of fact within the vicinity of the prime minister's office and we have seen police firing tear gas the one that they're being carried away by police in most cases also to be taken to a local medical care and with the protesters who are running away still continuing to run away. that have been fired by the position a that because something they find acceptable they want to go to and they want to make sure that their demands are heard of course and that we're watching these live pictures now from the sudanese capital khartoum and it does look fairly chaotic on the streets that i want to mean the frustration here is nothing new we've been hearing bits and pieces of it over the last few weeks and months have we heard anything from government in terms of how they're actually going to respond to these issues. will be also the prime minister did issue a statement early this morning to commemorate the 1st anniversary all this power sharing agreement and they. point out some of what they see as an achievement

including the appointment of prevailing governors that has been a major ignorant of the most traders over the past few months but we have 2 people they considered 3 that they had the biggest. over the top the same back they should be going double as insulators as the militants. holding much more power than it should and the government responded this morning saying that. they view this as. you guys the civilian government but it's also acknowledged shortcomings that made it very clear that they understand if you are accountable it is something that people have been waiting for more than a year now and that's because something they haven't achieved that they say that this is something they're working on and it's a matter of time before they actually achieve that. and have that i'd like to remind our viewers of just what that power sharing deal and votes because it only really came after a series of huge protests that we saw much larger than the ones that we're seeing right now huge protests the ousting of our mouths share and then this power sharing deal can you remind our viewers just what that actually looked like when it was

agreed. yes indeed if when this peace agreement was on goal in the park sharing agreement between the civilian the military there were lots of high hopes people very optimistic that there were some people as well who criticized the deal saying that it was to fall back on putting the fact that the military is going to be a part share in. what should be how the country should be governed and what should be happening in the country it's called short of a demand so there were people who were optimistic on one side the people who criticize us on the other side. the mass and there are people who say that political parties have put their agenda and their impact ahead of an angel so there was a mixture of people around that but it all became of the result of the political turmoil in the saga. that there will be months and months of protests in december up until april when president some of that year was overthrown by the military then came to run that negotiation with the hope that several times. that the building component

in order to be called mission of the course of the freedom and change the military component the congress can military council then could have groups be able. because in the country a lot but the bulk of money from people that you will eventually refute. with the word put it in. that short of that. have been morgan our correspondent in khartoum contextualizing what we're seeing for us on the streets thanks very much and please do stay safe. now we can speak to do a terrific social activist and also a member of the gear if no movement a non violent resistance movement that was very involved in these protests she joins us now via skype from khartoum the sudanese capital do let me start by asking what's top of your mind today as you look back over what's happened over the last year what are the priorities for you and your movement going forward. b. the priority now for thank you for having me 1st priority at this period now is to

build the early months because the revolution is now came to a point that we now have civilian governance but we don't have the money. which is good which which made the decision making in the in the hands of the ring council and the ministers the council of ministers so people are really angry now because we've been promised to like form the burning man for over a year now. because today's quite a few. are because the the passing of when you know the signing of the institutional document. and to also to be correct the course is there for evolution . and also to meet any month now we we handle the the the council of ministers on doing $31.00. 2 and like. to mention

back that that holds 5 major demands show and those demands what into really because we don't need peace trying to tell just the. removal of the b.b. state and be completely complete the complete of the government the structure of the only we only have the civilian governments now but we don't have a very limited and we also going going out again because of the economy crisis we want big government to come up with the economy. policies to try to give to the farm and address the economic crisis and also to lay a foundation for this but a sustainable development and. in order to contribute to the optimal use of the country's resources and also because of the also the freedom we demanded for the. this revolution was didn't really provided because there is still violations trond

the 20 years against the activists again is the citizens think to have been really changed what. i expected from this great show lucian do i do want to ask you more about that because as our correspondent has been mentioned there there have been these demands for accountability and terms of what happened during the initial protests do you feel that it's been sufficiently harassed know the government is not really being transparent only the. own the 6 the the the the the stuff that you have this committee is being being made and knows but we have been to the scene as a result of these committees on the investigations and the violation and the killing has been the unity of the old regime period or the december revolution we have been to really really seen. leaders of the old regime walking freely in our industry doing their normal living normal life that they are supposed to be in

prison when that being the government doing thing about that this is what really makes this really going to like i said we're just revolution and we are certainly seeing that prostration come out on the streets today to a tory a social actually out with karishma a nonviolent resistance movement thank you for being with us here on al-jazeera. thank you. i'm moving on now to the corona virus pandemic and another day of billy proport from around the wild as the pandemic rages on the number of deaths in india has now passed 50000 it's the fed west affected country with more than 2 and a half 1000000 people infected but it's also having a devastating economic effect japan's economy shrank a 7.8 percent in the last quarter and the outbreak has also forced new zealand's

prime minister to postpone next month's election the country has seen a resurgence of cases after posting more than 3 months without any infections while our correspondent elizabeth pradhan is in new delhi with more 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 in the state of maharashtra bosh 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 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 somewhere like delhi for example with the number of cases have been coming down over the past month well the supreme court asked the delhi government weeks ago to explain why it was conducting twice the number of the rapid antigen tests as it was the more accurate test known as the p.c.i. there's been no real explanation and 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. and ironic pride also takes a closer look at japan's economic slowdown. 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 bound tourists have virtually disappeared it's a personal setback for japan's prime minister shinzo ave who has made the economy one of his priorities and he will be hoping the only way for the economy to go now is up she has a lot of. which 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 policies dealing with contain it in $1000.00

raked 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 year soul 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 sold. now tug

boats have begun towing the japanese ball carrier that's been leaking oil off the coast of morris the workers she oh is now heading to a ship's graveyard in india 3 weeks after running aground and breaking up in rough seas and leaves behind a massive cleanup operation to stop more pollution of coral reefs and tourist beaches california may have recorded the highest global temperature in more than a century 54.4 degrees celsius the reading from death death valley's furnace creek appropriately named as being verified by the u.s. national weather service and it comes as firefighters tackle several wildfires across the state. well it is now time for the weather jenny is going to tell us about a rather stormy europe yes and thankfully not as warm of course across in europe as it is there and still pretty woman does not see bad this is the satellite you can see where we've got this very unsettled weather we've had quite a few storms over the last few days and some fairly persistent rain across the

northwest but sunny skies throughout much of the mediterranean but to say the thunderstorms have been quite ferocious at times an amazing view here that can cross lake geneva the storms of course across the lake in the distance but really by day many people just to heading off to the beach this is actually the lakes in the fall southwest of switzerland so again some very nice warm weather temperatures typically in the high twenty's the low to mid thirty's but as you can see as a go through the rest of monday it is a fairly unsettled picture lots of rain really all the way from the northwest evens out across into northern areas a spade in portugal and extending through much of italy on towards the balkans now that does move east was and once it clears away again we've got a child's area but there's another system really just beginning to work its way here in from the atlantic this will bring some very heavy amounts of rain it becomes very widespread but it doesn't make a great deal of headway across western europe because we have the high pressure in control so guess where it goes northern france on up to the u.k. we could see some very heavy downpours here and it could actually in some cases lead to some localized flooding but so much is not really firing too badly it has

been cooler it is cooler than it was but even so temperatures are close to the average in fact the next few days in berlin very nice weather will see much the in the way over a bit as you can see all the more unsettled in london but even so when the sun comes out and it's nice and warm again time of just a little bit above the average and quite the change in the heat wave thanks so much jenny well still ahead here on al-jazeera no stamp of approval for the head of the u.s. christophe sat us we're live in washington d.c. where protesters are demanding his resignation. there's gold in these hills and i'm standing on perhaps $3800000000.00 worth of armory talents in northern are going to keep watching to find out why some people here want to stop comedians from. monikers. and in florida after a 6 month wait at the mine out when the 2nd straight test type of all they teach out very shortly. place. frank assessments

saying that in yemen 6 percent of the duple relation what it means to look at this it's an informed opinion which is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the old will meet region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the use of proxy because look at a recent big interest of the libyan people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. one half scottish and half lebanese so diversity is really important to me and al-jazeera is the most diverse place i've ever worked we have so many different nationalities and this is east brought together in this one news organization and this diversity of perspectives is reflected in our coverage giving a more accurate representation of the world we report on and that's a key strength of al-jazeera.

the. you are the earth. and again i'm the star that's remind you about top stories here this hour about the russian president insists there will be no new elections until he's killed but alexander lukashenko says he may be willing to redistribute talent thousands of state workers are on strike and say the president must go. for crowds and through don's capital also protesting on the 1st anniversary of the signing of the deal to share power there demonstrators in khartoum complain the transition to democracy is too slow following the overthrow of longtime leader and alistair. and the official

number of coronavirus death and india has passed $50000.00 some ex-pat suspects the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing in the wilds of western factor country. on our government troops and mozambique are surrounding an important port captured last week by fighters linked to eisele their attack on a gas rich province in the north is expected to be discussed at a meeting of southern african leaders the has more from neighboring zimbabwe. for 3 years people living in parts of northern mozambique have lived with violence death 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 mozambique sammy. we know a lot of issues are on the couple of the. for from our from

the strength and from the military intelligence side of things. this story. became military has not really been able to to 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 lissa 2 and mozambique back when fighters from the group are normal operating towns and villages. it doesn't now that strong 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 and 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 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. outta there. well the u.s. presidential primaries now event and the democratic party is gathering to formally nominated official candidates and november's election its national convention

begins on monday and normally thousands of delegates would gather in person to chair the counted it but because of the coronavirus pandemic it's 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 barack obama and the inevitable protests. this year and 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 over the fact that 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 partly because it's a really or debate. but it's also on parents are cheering in the rally their base particularly for. may not know who they're going to go 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. white house correspondent candy how cut joins us now from washington d.c.

kimberly or i is tonight as i imagine will be on the dynamic between harris and biden after all that tension during the primaries. well what the attention will be on is some of the keynote speeches that will be made and among them will be former 1st lady michelle obama who is enormously popular in the democratic party as well as senator bernie sanders who of course has run for president twice himself and who has really allowed for his policies to shift the democratic party in some cases and on some issues further to the left attracting some of those progressive supporters so these are some of the themes that will be discussed in terms of the speeches that are being made but not to be outdone the u.s. president donald trump will be offering his own alternative message and this is a little bit unusual presidents usually don't campaign so vigorously during the other party's national convention but donald trump is he's going to be offering

a counter punch if you will he'll be hitting the road in a matter of under an hour he'll be leaving here from the white house he'll be going to wisconsin as well as minnesota we understand that he will be trying to all this week in battleground states offer a message of alternative drawing a contrast between himself and in the democratic presidential nominee joe biden so some of the themes that we understand he'll be talking about will be law and order also talking about health care and also the response to cope with 191 the president defends he's going to have some work cut out for him because the latest poll numbers showing that donald trump is still trailing his rival by at least 9 points and can be looking ahead to november the democrats also now mounting a defense for the postal service can use will go through the context of that and how that's likely to play out. yeah well in the context of coded many americans

don't feel safe going to a polling station standing in line for long hours and putting their health everest that's why so many states are now looking at mail in voting something that the u.s. president is opposed to because he says it's wrought with fraud that many people if they mail in their ballot could be impersonating someone he wants people to physically go in show their id well the problem in all of this is that the postal service as it has been streamlined and is under the process of being streamlined because he has got a poll it has a postmaster general now that has been appointed by president trump they say they can't handle the sheer volume of ballots that may need to be processed in time for not only getting an election result but even getting those ballots out and so this has the democratic party gravely concerned they are alleging that there is in fact voter suppression that is taking place that's why we're seeing a highly unusual

a calling back of the house of representatives later this week by the house speaker nancy pelosi they want to try and prevent this streamlining of the postal service but the white house is defending it they say look at this is about trying to make sure that it works more efficiently and they're not opposed to even moving the voting date out a little bit to give people more time to vote fact the u.s. president saying that in just the last hour of so so this is a very heated controversy whether many people are questioning the timing of any sort of reorganization so close to the u.s. election and control as they will continue watching very closely here on out of there and white house correspondent can be how can they for us thanks very much committee. now the spare and mountains of northern ireland are thought to be hiding around $3800000000.00 worth of gold and that's attracted the interest of a canadian mining company but many people there say they want the metal to stay underground despite high gold prices and the prospect of new jobs or a challenge as the story. there's nothing to leave you could do that would ease my

maint and i don't leasing the can do is go away go back to canada pack up and go away for doma o'kane is literally sitting on a gold mine all rather what will be a gold mine if a canadian company gets its way to years ago this small protest camp sprang up to oppose it and we are absolutely determined there are people here who have said they are prepared to sacrifice ole fs for the land and for the air and for the water here to keep it for their children and for their grandchildren concerned for the gift of nature the spin given to us leaves the gold what is there is no useful value to humanity in gold which is shining metal that's what you get and that's a small bar of real gold. let's see $20000.00 for that's $20000.00 worth a go yeah very heavy. box with gold prices soaring in recent years there could be considerable value for dow radian gold and northern island 2 with 10 years of

exploring it del radian says the spare and mountains of county tyrone is one of the most promising undeveloped gold deposits in the world peter mckenna is spare in born and bred and it's his job to convince people that dal radians gold mine will be small and discreet and it's clean and modern as they come and it'll bring work in building it but there's a construction project that will employ you know true 300 people and then when we're open on them we'll be able to provide 350 direct jobs we would have a supply chain that will push 750000000 times into our local area across the lake for them and many don't believe this or don't care northern islands government has called a public inquiry into the proposed mine after a planning application received 40000 responses 37000 of them objections but this is by no means a simple story of local saying no to an international company it's

a common place with mining that it often takes place in remote or rural areas with few other sources of income here in the spare and hills most people either work in small scale farming or trades like carpentry in construction it's by no means a rich area. and it wasn't hard to find people here who want the mine mechanic terry kelly says they're actually the majority that bring back a lot of the old large losses that's left here after what they're going to see what the stadium the main stadium but leaving them out as experience they wouldn't like that yankee job here neighbor against neighbor brother against brother in this small rural community one of the few things either side can agree on is that this mine has divided them rory chalons how does era county tyrone. northern ireland well that's peter alison mccleod he's the head of a sad gold money an online platform to patches precious metals and he joins us now from exeter and the united kingdom watching borys report that these divisions

clearly run very deep how soon do you think could this issue be decided in northern ireland. well the problem with public inquiry since you have no idea how long that take. it is a problem and i thought your your clip actually captured the problem very well it a place like all the knowledge that it did in scotland where this. all body continues. in facts you've got a lot of people protesting on environmental grounds and politicians are very sensitive to those environmental issues so it's actually quite a difficult one now if they can get over that then there is potentially a major industry here i mean we're looking at this green castle because it it's roughly one and a half 1000000 ounces of gold the silver that's copper as well but it's got the full other prospective mines and there is

a further one actually operating near press corps korean loric so it's a belt of about 400 to 450 miles long of which some not it is just the southern tip so it's an interesting situation but we've got to get over the environmental concerns and that's is not easy well as you say this is become such have politicized is there a way then for politicians to make sure that the community sees more benefits beyond just jobs. well. that will be a bit of negotiation. that basis but it's difficult to say given the work that this mining company radio has already put into it is difficult to see rarely how they can improve sufficiently on that we have to accept that the protest has basically. dug in and they will protest what ever comes up with so you know only time will

tell whether they're successful but they have a problem with sorry i'm sorry to interrupt you and with us i'm sorry for interrupting you alastair but i do want to ask you about the major environmental consent you touched on that area is there actually a way to dig a hole in the ground and mine gold without damaging things. well sort of i mean if you look at the at the plant site actually it blends in ready pretty well now as long as this is underground that shouldn't be too much of a problem in one sense the real problem comes loken cost mining where you literally change the the appearance of the landscape but with this i would have thought that there shouldn't be too much destruction. but you know we're up against this environmentalist i mean the 1st application they were talking about. removing the gold from the or using a process known as cyanide leaching and of course you mentioned cyanide poisoning. that is a no no so they take about

a house and they're going to use other mates but you know it really is you've got environmentalist really dug in on one side and that's what they've got to get out alice i do want to ask you briefly we have seen the gold price shoots up as a safe commodity during these uncertain times do you think that's providing more impetus if a company's today. well. not really i mean the problem is that it takes so long to plant one of these mines and to get it into operation you know what you've overcome all these public interest objections and so on and so forth the drilling you've just got to sort of assume that the go price will make it economics and i see looking at the greatness which reportedly up to $10.00. grams per $100.00. 10 grams per tonne they the grades actually are quite respectable so this should be profitable i think one of the problems is that if you look at why

the gold price has risen it's really reflecting the basement of paper currencies to countries government currencies what that will mean is that in a little time and probably not in very much time given the scale of they have 19 problems and the way the global economy is really been hit very very hard central banks of printing money i mean you could find that the cost of an operation like this starts really getting in becomes the terms quite rapidly and that could have a major impact on daily billeted also mines like this very interesting indeed alison mccoy mcleod there and from gold money thanks so much for sharing your insights here on out is there my question and the millions of people who live in gaza are facing a possible palish shortage the only power plant that could be shut down on tuesday acute when lack of developed by israel closes the main goods crossing with gaza

making it impossible for field shipments to actually get in israel says it's in response to rocket attacks and fire buttons by her math for that is then them with more on those 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 and 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 gaza gets about $169.00 votes 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 over no 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 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. stella had in for the latest on the m.s.e. is hitch and bossa lenna comes with a crushing italian thing. business

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the the or the only. about it is time for sports and sun a plenty of news from barcelona well it's not official yet but barcelona expected to announce ronald koeman as their new manager this week the dutchman is in line it to replace. the club's president just. told a spanish radio station on sunday the city has already been removed an official announcement is unlikely to be made on monday the move follows a bar says humiliating 82 defeat against by munich in the champions league quarter finals and the club's failure to retain the league title there are also reports on sunday that elin almes he wants to leave barcelona argentinians

a contract expires next year and if he doesn't read new hill be available on a free transfer at the end of the coming season messi has been at the club since 2001. spoke to barcelona based at football writer ben haywood who says fixing the club's problems goes way beyond just replacing the manager. i think it's being gradually going wrong the boss and i race not just a case of one bad night against by munich a to of course a humiliating result but i think we look back over the last you know 2 or 3 years last season was going to last for neil to liverpool i don't feel the previous season the last 3 no out romantic rush out the champions may even go back to lewis and reconsidering in the last season you know possible or not lost our sense of monaco's that came back to win it out but then they crashed out losing 3 now and you venza so they have problems the big teams champions league for a long time and i think we're just saying now that the full extent of those issues

plus i don't have much money this summer like many clubs use of a situation because of the $19.00 and you know what needs an overhaul it's amazing what you know what it's like louis what it's. even messi 33 years old now but if you go through the team it's a site that meets and that's in need of you know young blount that's you can come in and press and run like we saw it from buying munich on friday night so i think there's a lot of work to be done and you know change you coach in the middle of this season ultimately didn't so the issues change in coach now i think it's that it goes beyond the coaching thing and it's. a whole and a look at many many things the recruitment policy the economy at nasiriyah and you know changes through the 12 as. well as much interview tonight i meant to say knighted had been down tout of the open league and the semifinals by savannah the

spanish club that came from behind to win to once again the competitions most successful side and now have the chance to win a 6th title. interval and come booked their spot in the final later on monday they faced the ta in the 2nd semifinal the syria side are looking to win europe's 2nd club competition for a 4th time indian premier league side the super kings say dani will play for the team for as long as he wants to the world cup when a announce his retirement from international cricket on saturday however he is set to play in this season's delay the i.p.l. which kicks off next month in the u.a.e. with the shanghai super king saying they've received no indication that the 39 year old is planning to quit the team. simona halep has become the 6 top 10 women's fled to pull out of the u.s. open which is set to begin 2 weeks behind closed doors in new york iranians

announcement came in just a day after beating 80 samaritans at 2 in the progress hallett says she doesn't want to take any risks with her health given the situation in the us which has recorded over 5000000 covert 19 cases. and i hope this kabul blackhawks that beat the vegas goldeneye is set to keep their n.f.l. playoff campaign alive tracon and matthew highmore both schools goals for the blackhawks and alex did bring added an empty netter late to seal the 31 victory in edmonton but the star of the night it was the hawks goalie protocol fred he made 48 saves a spot the last vegas lead the series 31. and that's it for me we'll have a more for you later on including the new manager of barcelona but for now i hand you back to the stars yeah very exciting news indeed thanks very much donna that is it for me for this news hour but don't go away i'll be back in just

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