the world's attention is on controlling the ball or risk for the record hopeless he didn't victims even when the pandemic passes there will be maybe in desperate need of help. the. cold reception for the better russian president protesters chance for him to go away during his visit to striking factory workers. and the main opposition leader is calling on security forces to switch sides saying he's ready to help lead a transition in bettering. hello again time to stop the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up protests against the government in sudan demonstrators there want change to come

faster a year on since a power sharing deal was signed. reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic japan's economy itself is the worst contraction on record. all the better russian president has told striking workers there will not be new elections in the country until opponents kill him but alexander lukashenko 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 now that speech came hours after opposition leaders for granted to kind of sky said she was ready to help lead the country during a transitional period she sent a video message from exile in neighboring a few ania of protesters across the country have made it clear that they want out and thousands of whack. is it stage in factories and now the state broadcaster have

joined a national strike but our correspondent stepped basons is in the capital minsk step i know we keep using the word unprecedented but state t.v. during reruns because they're all on strike that's certainly on president to. yes absolutely extraordinary scenes here all day already at ballarat t.v. and national state broadcaster who has been accused of being a propaganda mouthpiece for a look at shankar people here have been calling for the truth to be told stop airing lies they have sat there still shouting here behind me they were joined by also thousands of workers from other factories that are on strike here in. large strategic factories car factories tractor factories wheel trailer factories to look at shankar visited one of these factories this morning and he wasn't really

received as planned because the workers actually in front of him in his face which is absolutely extraordinary shouted also there for him to leave when you were there at that factory this morning stand as he spoke and can you tell us a little bit about how you responded to all of that. he was absolutely stunned his face was frozen he actually also was furious as well you could tell that this was not something he was used to he is regarded and also regards himself as the father of the father of the nation he's called the bad guy and that's a means far and suddenly to be confronted with angry workers telling him in his face that he should leave that didn't go down well with let's look at all it seems now maybe that he's slowly realizing that the tide has turned against him here when i say that the opposition leader spent on it to kind of sky is also calling for

security forces to switch sides and you've seen some of that already do we expect more. well we've seen some former security officers switching sides in the last week former paratroopers former police it's not clear what the high ranking generals are doing right now to be honest for the last maybe 4 days we haven't seen any security forces on the streets here in minsk after they were here in full force of course after the election result was presented and people went out on the streets to kind of sky has now reached out to see exactly is prepared to be a national leader to form this francis you know government and then call for free and fair elections this is something that's a look at shank is still very defiant about but as you said he is also saying things that he might want sort of a sharing or distributing redistributing of power but all only after the

constitution will be changed well does is a long process of course could take years so many people here see that as a as an african of him to buy time steadfast and there with all the latest from the better russian capital men thank you very much step well as that mass movement continues and bellerose european union leaders will meet for and imagine the summit on wednesday they'll be discussing the disputed election and the violent crackdown on protesters that follows european council presidential michelle tweeted that violence against demonstrators cannot be allowed to you is already drawing up a list of belorussian individuals to hit with factions well i spoke to richard vice he's a security and defense analyst at the global risk consultancy he says only russia can now help in a situation. the when way that delusion president live cushing co could escape from what looks to be his likely downfall is to get the russians to intervene on

his behalf and there's not a lot of and a lot of for 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 contrary and i think that's why you see the illusion of forces moving to the border because it helps them develop this narrative of western powers are seeking are behind these protests they're trying to overthrow me moscow you need to save us or you're going to end up with another ukraine's their shoe ation 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 is taking too long following the overthrow of longtime neda the share the current transitional government has made up of civilian and military leaders who will govern until democratic elections are held in 2 he is one our correspondent have

a morgan is in the sudanese capital khartoum for us head right now we spoke to earlier on the phone because of the tear gas on the streets can you describe what you've been seeing there in terms of these protests. well and we have seen demonstrators taking to the streets yet again to express their frustration this time they're saying that this whole transition process the 1st year of the transition process has gone slower than they expected now they wanted to see just as they want to see accountability they want to see a peace deal signed between the various warring factions and the transitional government and that is something the government has promised will be achieved within the 1st 6 months of the transition now it's been 12 months and they say many of their demands have not been met so we've seen protesters taking to the streets they were planning to and they're processed around 1430 g.m.t. or for $430.00 local time now that was cut short by police firing tear gas and stun grenades at protesters to disperse them from in front of the office of the prime

minister where they were handing over the memo a memo to the prime minister with their demands now protesters since then have moved away from that location the. tires and the burnt tires along the roads leading to the prime minister's office and they've been protesting but they have been very cautious not to try to engage with the police because they're worried that there will be loss of lives we've already witnessed 2 people being injured as a result of trying to get away from the tear gas and stun grenades. have we heard anything from the government in terms of response not just in terms of dispersing the protesters but actually responding to these frustrations these aren't new. yes indeed now the government issued a statement this morning to commemorate the 1st anniversary of best power sharing deal and it said that it understands that they were sure it's coming however they say that they have made in the chief and specifically appointed civilian governors that as happened about 23 weeks back but that also followed protests with people demanding that some civilian governors be appointed up until about 3 weeks ago most

of the civil most of the governors were governors appointed by former president of the shia before he was ousted in april 29th team so people are saying that. the government is saying that it understands they are sure it is still yet to achieve accountability it is still yet to form a lot of commissions it is still to sign a peace deal that says that that is about to happen within the coming few days so it's calling on the people to be patient for this transition because it says that the road to democracy is not very easy have been there for us in the sudanese capital khartoum thank you very much. government troops are surrounding a port in mozambique after chris captured by the linked fighters last week it's the 3rd time now that much about a prior a key town and a gas rich province has been attacked just this year as a meeting of the father african development community on monday regional leaders said they would support mozambique and trying to address the violence. for 3 years people living in parts of northern most and baek have lived with violence and

destruction attacks in kabul delgado province have rapidly gathered pace this year with fighters seizing towns for brief periods and increasingly hitting military or other important targets the government says local fighters affiliated to eisele are responsible leaders from southern africa are meeting on monday to decide what the region can and should do to help those in the exam. there has been a lot of issues that are on the cup abilities of them was american military. from from the strength and from the military intel and side of things. is the 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 wasn't because army it's happened

before in the democratic republic of congo listened to and mozambique back when fighters from the group or normal were raiding towns and villages in gorham was a dozen now that's from a militant and in any event it is coming from a process and produced it was already undergoing military civil war and again was international assistance to come to a peace agreement with the former military movement as well as to try 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 lead. 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 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 and the horn of africa. still ahead here on al-jazeera a race to save the soul of beirut we'll look at the scale of devastation expression for historic sites and the lebanese capital. there's gold in these hills that i'm standing on perhaps $3800000000.00 worth armory chalons in northern ireland keep watching to find out why some people here want to stop the canadians for money and .

hello there the rain still continues through most central and western areas of china plenty of case guys here as you can see in the last year as a korean peninsula improving conditions and indeed as they are across into japan but as i look at this this is a little quest in china this dramatic landslide was captured thankfully the people who captured this traveling all the robot they actually stopped they heard the warnings and there was several landslides along this particular stretch of road and just look how dangerous it is of course now trying to clear it so the highway can reopen all of this because of the rain has been extending through these northern western areas will continue to do so and choose to and really stay out across the west in the southwest and as we go through wednesday to the east of there it is wholesome and dry time which is typically in the mid thirty's the rain back in the 4 call st northern sections of north korea's to go through wednesday but fine in drive to the south and a warm fine day in much of japan as well name me one across into south asia the razor being very heavy again across into bangladesh so yes well flooding in the

streets of jack as you can see of course bringing things to something of a standstill in the villages also well under water more rain as we go through tuesday very heavy falling up through the north of both bengal and all the while heavy downfalls in central india. talk to own their own wee hours is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air 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 al-jazeera the u.s. is always of interest but people all right the world people pay attention to what we call here and al-jazeera is very good at bringing the news to the world from here.

that's remind you about top stories this hour the better russian president says a new presidential election would be held off to the country adopts a new constitution boss alexander lukashenko want to early and there will be no new elections until he's killed thousands of state workers are on strike and say the president must go. but as the mass movement continues in better recent european union leaders accord an emergency summit on wednesday they'll discuss the disputed election and the violent crackdown on protesters before that. and crowds in sudan's capital are protesting on the 1st anniversary of the signing of the power sharing deal there demonstrators in khartoum complain the transition to democracy is too slow following the overthrow of longtime leader of al bashir. well turning to the

coronavirus pandemic and india has hit another milestone and its outbreak with at least 50000 people now dead last week the country overtook the u.k. to recall the wild 4th west death toll some expenses that the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing india's counsel for medical research estimates that 28000000 tests have been carried out since january but there are over 1300000000 people in the country. on the pandemic has also led to japan suffering the west economic contraction in modern history and tranq by 7.8 percent in effect in question from april to june arab pride has the story. 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 'd 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 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 provide any leadership he did not establish early on a control tower for policies dealing with containing cold at night in japan critics say he delayed an effective response to save the tokyo summer

olympics which have to be postponed anyway a 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 pan. demick with an economic contraction of less than one percent this year sol 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 rabbit bride al-jazeera soul while lebanon is considering reimposing a lockdown there because of

a new record number of corona virus infections at least 439 new cases and 6 deaths were confirmed on sunday the damage caused by the blast in beirut is making social distancing all the more difficult well let's now go to our correspondent bennett smith who is on the ground in beirut for us but i imagine social distancing is nearly impossible given the humanitarian situation. it is in getting the clean up operation that's still in place i'm actually one of 121 schools in beirut that was severely damaged by the blast as you see every window is blown out beyond the school is is the pool where the shock wave came out from. as it's been over the last couple of weeks we all walking on what is still shuttered glass on the floor i'm joined now by ted scheibe on his unicef's regional director on his 1st visit since the blast chad what we all your 1st impressions look in terms of the scale i lived here during the civil war i'm half lebanese and

the downtown area is a story but this is just incredible you know you look up from the port you see buildings destroyed each one of those apartments is a family with children that's been severely affected this is one of $121.00 schools not just the glass the structural damage luckily there were no children in the school when the blast occurred and so where do you begin when the something on this scale how do you start getting kids back to school firstly psychosocial support from the very beginning unicef or this partner those on the ground providing individual care and counseling to individual children making sure it's all in there are separate from families are unified finding with partners again solutions in terms of relocating families that need to be relocated now that that's done there needs to be a focus on getting children back into school so they have a sense of normalcy. in the age of code of course this means some kind of blended learning but still getting these 55000 kids that are in these 120 schools into

neighboring schools so they can pursue their education. it is no secret that corruption is a massive problem in government in lebanon when somebody asks you for funds to rebuild the school for example to put all the windows but how do you make sure the money you give to put the windows back is the right price there isn't a 20 percent out on for some days back pocket how do you keep a lid on what could be a very tempting and lucrative corruption given the scale of the job. so it's important that everyone coordinates together all the organizations courtenay work with the relevant authorities in terms of court nation to make sure there's no duplications but then a lot of the work we've done to the recommendation you can directly contract the people who do the repairs you can work with a number of civil society organizations in support of an overall plan that the government pulls together but through direct implementations through our own systems of accountability so that it goes faster and i the government i think also

wants things to move as quickly as possible so there are ways of doing that and helping the the population the children in real time when speed is of the essence a huge confidence that unicef has the mechanisms to make sure all the money goes where it's supposed to go absolutely i mean we have you know financial administrative system or on the ground with over 300 staff members that's the job the job is to be able to work with all of the relevant partners but really to follow the flow of the resources and kind of keep track of the progress that's made in real time but this is not going to be overnight but the fact is we need to stay with the lebanese people and economic crisis covert and know this we can't leave these people behind and so despite the concern we've got to move forward very very quick answer the work complaints that the government was trying to make groups read just make it hard for them to deliver the aid they want to deliver this was the

complaints we can see from some groups are you getting full cooperation and access you need so we're still able to work with our partners but it's an important question you're asking what we would say we need all hands on deck there should be no bureaucracies then the way of everyone working on this operation. all right thank you very much big job ahead for unicef and its partners to try and get those children back to school as quickly as possible rebuild the city than it's meant for us and barry thank you very much. well at least 60 has start came porton buildings in beirut are also threatened with collapse heritage homes and museums and religious sites are among the buildings damaged stephanie deca 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 it's 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 one attack 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 we spent. years trying to save this line of buildings from highway projects. and we managed to stop this highway. to freeze it at least and in a matter of a few seconds. more endangered than they were then they ever were artist henry lucianne has spent the last few years salvaging history from houses that the owners have demolished buying their beautiful discarded interiors to recreate the old

within the new i wanted to have house like this. possible to have it because the land is very expensive and i collect all the parts. which i saw the origin of. columns art when those. roofs. 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 opposed to his message is of preserving the roots heritage of retaining its beauty if it's not the old worn out with a new one similar. nobody will notice. if they know they will know this one of the explosion.

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 now the u.s. democratic party is gathering to formally nominate its candidate for november's presidential election but for the fast time it's being held back chilling normally thousands of delegates were gathered in person to cheer on their nominee but that's been derailed this time around because of the coronavirus pandemic the event will see joe biden officially named as the democrats' choice for president. now

california may have recorded the highest global temperature and more than a century 54.4 degrees celsius the reading from death valley is appropriately named furnace creek is being verified by the u.s. national weather service and it comes as firefighters tackle several wildfires across the state. now asperin mountains in northern ireland are thought to be hiding around $4000000000.00 worth of gold and that's attracted the interest of a canadian mining company but many who live there say they want the precious metal to stay where it is despite the prospect of new jobs and record high prices chalons reports. there's nothing to leave you could do that would ease my maint and i don't leasing they 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 we are absolutely determined there are people here who have said they are

prepared to sacrifice or lay 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 lisa gold what is there is no useful value to commodity in this show any 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 as 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 up and running we'll be able to provide 350 direct jobs have a supply chain that will push 750000000 times into our local area across the lake for the one 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 and 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 you have to do what they're going to see and 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. hello again al-jazeera and these are the headlines the belorussian president says a new presidential election would be held after the country adopts a new constitution but alexander newco sankoh warned there will be no new elections until he's killed thousands of state workers are on strike and say the president must be a steadfast and has more from the capital needs. extraordinary scenes here all day

already at t.v. a national state broadcaster who's been accused of being a propaganda mouthpiece for look at people here have been calling for the troops to be told to stop airing lice they have sat there still shouting here behind me they were joined by also because of workers from other factories that are on strike here in. the visit at one of these factories this morning and he wasn't really received as planned because the workers are actually in front of him in his face which is absolutely extraordinary shouted also there for him to leave well crowds in sudan's capital also are protesting on the fast anniversary of the signing of the power sharing deal demonstrators in khartoum complain the transition to democracy is too slow following the overthrow of longtime leader of al bashir. government troops are surrounding important mozambique that was captured by iceland fighters last week

and it's the 3rd time much about a prior has been attached this year regional leaders have agreed to support mozambique and combating the threat they vishal number of crown of our states and india has passed $50000.00 some experts suspect the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing. the u.s. democratic party is gathering to formally nominate its candidate for new ben this presidential election but for the 1st time it's being held that surely the event will see joe biden officially named the democrats' choice for president and california may have recorded the highest global temperature and more than a century 54.4 degrees celsius the reading from death valley's furnace creek is being verified by the u.s. national weather service well those are the headlines they'll be more news here off to talk to al-jazeera. counting the. banking and political plans destroyed in the. controversy of a choice to oversee latin america's recovery from the. company awarding.

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