if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elbow. by the roots a country at the crossroads opposition against president lukashenko grows stronger and international pressure continues to build. my. honor and tell you this is our jazeera live from london also coming up the democratic national convention is due to kick off soon a virtual event which will see joe biden formally named the party's candidate for president. the trumpet ministration greenlights a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in what's been called america's last great

wilderness. and tension on the streets of khartoum a year to the day after sudan's landmark power sharing deal was signed. my. father the protest against last week's disputed election in better roosts showed no sign of ending with people marching through the streets of the capital minsk yet again they say president alexander lukashenko rigged the poll to cling on to power he came face to face with protesters when workers at a state run track to factory heckled him with chants of go away he told them there would be no new elections unless he was killed his opponents for atlanta taken a skier has released a video from exile in neighboring if you when you say she's ready to step up as the country's temporary leader all the while international pressure is mounting the e.u. says it stands with the protesters calling for those behind abuses of demonstrators

to be held to account step fasten reports from minsk. strikes are now snowballing around better lease one after the other factory workers joining in truck tractor a matter of fact with most of the country strategic industries and now experiencing large scale strikes i was. like what we don't agree with in justice the people in power haven't listened to him for 26 years they run away they don't want to listen to your voice they don't want to know anything about your problems. but the workers chanting no more fear assigned it out to 26 years of living under look or shank us auto repair in rule they are ready for change the markets have not had the factory arjen i doubt was to try and guess right going to the next city or people coming out from inside the factory routes also president bush and that was in his face by workers who resigned in an unprecedented move workers started shouting at

the president a man who has long been referred to as the father of the nation. he was it is a thank you i said everything you can shout go away. even previously most loyal media like balanced television went on strike broadcasting an empty studio in the morning protesters gathered to pressure the station to stop airing government propaganda and stop telling the truth including about a violent police crackdown last week during election protests if. the recent television national television will start covering this information like what was actually done on the streets i think that the regime will fall soon or you have gave me palin resigned last week from his job as one of the main anchors to interact in our country started what can we see so many information about. people

who prisons. and we. we didn't. show this information on our t.v. channel so or there's a reason it's a possible work make these possible see the offer of truth not even hard but a small part of the truth look at shankar who initially refused new elections is now keeping options open but only he sat after the constitution has been changed a process which could take years protesters see this as a way for the president to buy time and trying to cling onto power they say they want him out now stop class and al-jazeera minsk. the european union's top diplomat josep burrell has joined in the criticism saying the sheer numbers clearly show that the better russian population wants change and wants it now the e.u. stands by them with more and more shocking reports of inhumane conditions and treatment in places of detention the european union expects

a sora and transparent investigation into all alleged abuses in order to hold those responsible to account when a unit is will convene an emergency summit on batteries on wednesday for mccain has more from berlin. there's been a chorus of condemnation from across europe capitals to the events that have unfolded in men's ski and in barrow a wider level in the last few days in the last week or so and in this capital city in berlin the government pressing for strong measures to be taken part of a raft of ideas that are coming from europe right now the polish government a view from the being that the european and damage for democracy should be enacted to help the situation in ghettos and then it a pan-european level from brussels the president of the european council calling a special summit video conference of heads of state heads of government for wednesday to discuss what more can be done given the fact that the european union's

clout as it were is political and economic not military so the european union looking to try to ratchet up the pressure it can put in yellow rose to help the situation there remembering that one head of state the french president emanuel makkal has said that the views of the protesters in the other risk must be respected if you view things from that prism it explains how the european union reaction is unfolding at the summit to be held on wednesday to discuss what more can be done. the democratic national convention begins in a few hours time when joe biden will be formally named as the party's candidate for u.s. president of the pandemic means the event is be held virtually an official reports were how the former vice president finally managed to clinch the nomination.

back before covered just as the primary process got underway if you would have banked on joe biden winning the democratic presidential nomination the idea he would be in a position to unveil a vice presidential pick as he did last week would almost have been laughable he lost heavily in iowa had little better in the next 2 contests but was saved by a win in south carolina a diverse electorate was just there to go to the press in the final it's a declared this candidacy yes that was a key moment when the democratic party saw him rather than bernie sanders as the man to beat donald trump when i'm sure his convey was that there's no way that you're going to be able to get most of the american or burning and as we saw that happen in the primaries the people that's a rarity and war is just they do not show up at the polls before super

tuesday when several states hold nominating contests key rivals dropped out in the club a short step to citing gave their support he won several states enough to make victory look inevitable and so closest rivals elizabeth warren and bernie sanders dropped out to joe biden had all but secured the presidential nomination i think joe biden won with experience also because they coalesced around joe biden because they realize donald trump didn't want to face joe biden joe biden has already spent 8 years in the white house as barack obama's vice president he's been around politics for almost half a century but he's never had to campaign like this is a pandemic changes the face of presidential politics there are no big rallies no crisscrossing the country to speak with supporters it's no virtually all virtual got on like democratic senate small gatherings lisi help joe biden to excel and the crisis has allowed him to highlight the president's actions something one expert

believes helps the challenger. he doesn't have to travel to 50 cities and travel to 4 and 5 cities and in one day he's able to kind of you know lay back and rest as a 77 year old man so i think it does help so in addition you know all the mistakes and joe that president trump is making you know that of course you know close 216-5000 lives i think and counting i think that you know that helps joe biden 3 decades after his 1st presidential bid joe biden has arrived when he wants to be he's finally convinced his party he's the man for the job no he has 11 weeks to convince the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington what kind of his life for a sin washington d.c. might still a couple of hours until that convention gets underway soon and meantime bring us up to date with what president trump is doing. well president trump has

gone on a campaign to or today he's at the setting of wisconsin at the moment talking to a large crowd there earlier he was at minnesota what he's basically doing is arriving at airports in each of those states and then addressing a crowd of supporters have been bussed in to hear him have very critical of joe biden obviously this is full on election campaigning he was dismissive of biden's chances critical of joe biden's running make harris as well but this is all taking the spotlight away and president comes to mind from what is happening in the democratic party convention which as you say gets under way in a few hours time and in the meantime he's been dismissing claims that he's sabotaging the postal service but why is this issue so important. well it's so important because mail in voting is going to be a crucial part in an election during a pandemic people will either want to mail in their votes well struck them or

specified places to avoid standing in queues at election booths this has been deeply disconcerting to marry many americans the idea up standing in election lines we've seen it happen in primaries that have been happening in recent months and there the vast majority of americans were in fact voting by post or dropping off their ballots at collection centers so the postal service would be absolutely crucial in terms of the smooth running of an election now president trump has done something on a somersault in the last few hours he now says that he's instructed his administration to speed up the postal service he insists that the man that he supports as postmaster general lewis to joy is a great businessman who's doing a good job in terms of improving the post office or as he says making the postal service great again but there's been massive criticism of that postmaster general who will be appearing before an oversight committee in congress on monday along

with the chairman of the board of directors of the postal service an interesting development in that as well is that a number of democratic congress people have actually written a letter to that board of governors which appoints or could even fire a postmaster general saying that detroit should be immediately dismissed by their board of governors the problem here is that there are supposed to be 9 members of the board at the moment president trump has only appointed 65 of whom are republicans so in all likelihood there's going to be no response from the board of directors to calls for lewis to joy's dismissal mike hanna thank you very much. tear gas and stun grenades have been fired at protesters in sudan's capital on the 1st anniversary of a landmark power sharing deal demonstrators say the transition to democracy has been too slow for him there were 3 of longtime leader allowed bashir the morgan

reports were carted. venting their frustration on the 1st anniversary of the signing of sudan's power sharing agreement but a planned 3 and a half hour rally in her tone was cut short when police fired stun grenades and tear gas many people had hoped the deal which followed months of political turmoil and protest or killings would be a new start for the country but they see they have not seen enough change. 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 says the power sharing agreement between military and civilian leaders is flawed total of all your anybody to 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 the deal known as the constitutional declaration came after months of negotiations following the overthrow of president obama and the forces of freedom and change which led anti-government protests demanded as the government and ended up with a plan for the military to lead for the 1st 21 months and a civilian for the remaining 18 months until elections also included were more freedoms and ending conflicts such as in dar for was made a priority the transitional government admits that changes the low but says it takes time and there are challenges. there's still time for 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 was still no legislative assembly that is supposed to oversee the transitional government. the military has ruled for them

for more than 50 of the 64 years of independence some analysts say it's up to the international community to ensure the transition to democracy is completed but also of 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 hindrance this transition the u.s. has sanctioned people it deems hindering the transition the international community should now act as a safeguard to the deal that was signed last year. we've demonstrated the they'll continue campaigning until they achieve their democratic goals for sudan people morgan al-jazeera bottom. still to come. angry and exhausted by months down argentinians take over the streets of paris. and mozambique's fight against i still get support from across southern africa.

the great australian bite is a big area of low pressure at the moment there's an unraveling from the system going straight that soaring cloud right across the tory new south wales the last ones on its way towards you zealand and the back has showers in the last things left to blow into western australia including purpose so the rain won't be necessarily heavy we will be fairly extensive dropping some victoria new south wales and some but not much in tasmania as you can see and it bunches up against the west coast of new zealand that's going to be rather work for there's a warning out for that very reason this is hopefully welcome rain in new south wales and that's its limit sydney market if you shout out of it otherwise it was $21.00 degrees. northwards in the seas no rain here has changed its. angle of

attack has done that for the last week so the heaviest rain is forming back in sichuan down through your 9 there will be more flooding here and than slides most likely but the line stretches out through beijing as well with probably some flash flooding here with useful rightness creeping down through the yellow sea probably towards north korea at the same time south korea and or japan to be enjoying quite high temperatures in fact there has been a heat wave warning out for honshu and the very reason to stop where. it starts in call rule communities with the promise of a prosperous nanny. but countless young indian women find themselves gee commodifying sol and sold again. to toil by day. only to be violated by night. slavery

a 21st century evil continues with bridal strangers an al-jazeera. move. and one of the top stories here now jazeera about the russian president has told striking state factory workers there won't be new elections until opponents kill him thousands of people walked off the job in the 9th straight day of demonstrations calling for alexander lukashenko to step down. the democratic party in the u.s. is gathering to name joe biden formally as the party's candidate for president the convention would normally bring together thousands of supporters but this year is

being held virtually because of the pandemic. tear gas has been fond of protesters in sudan's capital on the 1st anniversary of a landmark power sharing deal demonstrators say the transition to democracy has been too slow following the overthrow of former leader rather share. countries across southern africa have voiced their support for mozambique in its fight against the group government troops are surrounding a key port in the gas rich north that was captured last week by fighters linked to the group which also has this update from neighboring zimbabwe. the annual say they've heads of state meeting ended with leaders saying they going to collectively assist mozambique deal with the violence in the north but they didn't say what that assistance is going to be they speculation a fact finding mission could be saints in the other option is military intervention it's happened before in the democratic republic of congo to add mozambique back

when fighters from the group are normal well raiding villages and towns in go towards us so if this time around a military intervention was to happen which countries could send troops in and where will the money come from some and this really something is that being planned before security reasons leaders can say what that plan is. the trumpet ministration is finalized a plan to allow oil and gas training in alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge the $19000000.00 a coastal plain is home to one black populations including the pokey pine caribou and pony bez the pristine wilderness has been off limits for joining for decades but republicans have been lobbying to change that decades long leases could be sold to oil and gas companies before the end of the it nor mental activists have promised to challenge the decision in court and i'm colton is the executive director of alaska wilderness league in a recession fighting to protect the state's landscape and wildlife explains what

could be at stake the arctic national wildlife refuge is home to one of the the longest land migrations left on the planet 200000 plus there are travel hundreds of miles to give birth there each and every year it's most important i'm sure to get a habitat for polar bears the united states homes where boss got sent millions of marks for birds that nest in stage and feed there or fly into or through 5 continents so this is often called american serengeti and the vast majority of america's arctic coastline is already unfortunately valuable for oil and gas exploration well this is been the one area that had been set aside more than half a century as a wildlife refuge now it's being proposed by the trump ministration is to turn this area into a dust up once full of of pipelines roads does the sillies landing strip for

planes there's just simply no way you can have back hundreds scale development of a horror while this place left in america. parts of argentina's capital have been brought to a standstill by protesters calling for an end to months of coronavirus restrictions sunday mock the latin american nations 150th day knock down still has one of the highest infection rates in the world in 280000 cases have been confirmed with least 5600 deaths there is a bonus at the protests in what is ours she says most of the demonstration is a middle class and they're worried about the economic fallout from the pandemic. here right in the center of. thousands of people that have come here to protest against the government. by car in order to respect social distances others by walking their home. carrying. the death

of. people who are taking advantage of this. to protest against the government. imposed. months ago and people are. happening yet. heard that magically and even though the government has not slowed down the rate of infection compared to other countries he didn't. many here are becoming increasingly frustrated those who we have spoken to are saying that much more needs to be done than preventing people from being on the streets the government announced that they're extending that until the end of the month and people are becoming. their shops with their businesses most of those who came here to day. is becoming increasingly difficult. well chile has become

a phased lifting of the world's longest knockdown restrictions being eased in santiago country county after $150.00 days of measures had already been lifted in other parts of the country but strict rules were enforced in the capital due to its population density residents are now allowed to leave the house between 6 am and 10 pm and go to work on america to do so in human has more from santiago and this is the 1st day since the world's longest lockdown until erupted lockdown according to the mayor of downtown santiago was lifted and we've seen huge amounts of people out onto the streets many of them and not respecting soul shall distancing whatsoever huge crowds of people in shops in front of banks government offices those are all located here downtown this is an area with a very very dense population and so it's been a sort of a mixed bag in terms of success lots of people thrilled to be filing aloud out of

their houses we've seen children. very small children with their parents out looking around as though they had seen the world for the 1st time actually after imagine more than 5 months being locked in their houses but the mare has also told us that many people are not really being responsible and that he will not hesitate to reinforce a total lockdown again if necessary 19 countries in europe now have a coronavirus infection rate which raises bells for health experts the nations of recorded more than 20 cases per 100000 people every day for the past 2 weeks the figure is a key indicator of the viruses spread spain oxenberg malta and belgium are among the countries of high concern spain has recorded more than 59000 cases in the past 14 days which is more than 100 cases 100000 people. a south korean pastor who took part in a mass and to government rally at the weekend has tested positive for grown

a virus well the 300 infections in are linked to his church the government is warning it could be the worst outbreak there for months i release you ports. the salang cherry church is the epicenter of the country's 2nd largest cluster of corona virus infections since the pandemic began government workers sealed off the house of worship in the capital seoul on the same day its leading pastor tested positive wherever in june 1 who is one of more than 300 infections linked to his church he helped to lead an anti-government rally on saturday where thousands of protesters expressed anger at president moon j is decision to be imposed tough social distancing rules congregation members say health workers try to stop that rally with fake test results. one could argue diminutive of all we had 4 people who tested positive then the number became 30 but just before the august 15th protest

the number suddenly rose to 300 this shows the government is trying to stop us from protesting. the government denied the allegation june is an outspoken critic of moon's policies the 63 year old pastor is now being charged with this rocketing disease control after allegedly discouraging worshipers from getting tested and underreporting church membership to avoid corn teen health workers say half of the church's 4000 members have been tested but more than 600 who should be isolated could not be reached but until i do you know it was as if the child long child church was the only organization subject to creep in 1000 tests in the whole country the government exaggerated to the number of newly infected cases to spark nationwide fair i have strong suspicions that this is a gimmick to rest reverend john kwang hoon the church also accuses the government of planning to provide false test results for all of its members. didn't we're very

concerned because there were rumors among the child and child church members that they would taste positive regardless which is impossible because we cannot fabricate tears to results the ship earlier this year at the secretive church of jesus was identified as south korea's biggest virus cluster more than 5000 cases are linked to the group based in the southeastern city of daegu its leader lehman he was arrested 2 weeks ago accused of hiding crucial information from contact tracers south korea has been widely hailed as a success story in the global fight against corona virus but with nearly 200 new cases reported for the 4th consecutive day doctors warn that story may be changing and these 2 al-jazeera. lebanon's health minister says the country is being overwhelmed by new coronavirus infections after the deadly explosion in beirut sport caused a spike in cases a record $456.00 new infections were diagnosed on monday edging the nationwide

total closer 210000 the health minister says a new to it lockdown is needed after the blast but some hospitals out of action a lockdown had been planned but then perspire and when thousands of people were left homeless by the explosion. work has begun to remove a grounded japanese ship that's been leaking oil onto the coast of marriages environmental experts on the island say the power of the work issue will be pulled out to sea and allowed to sink but larger part of the ship will be dragged to a ship's graveyard in india the bulk carrier ran aground on a coral reef 3 weeks ago and broke up in rough seas. portugal's president was enjoying a day at the beach when he found himself part of a rescue drama 2 young girls had been dragged out to sea on a kayak strong currents had to drive them away from the beach before their boat overturned so if you own your own law center or below d'souza happened to be swimming at the beach at the time. it was out there but if order they were dragged

away from another beach to this beach and they swallowed a lot of water they couldn't turn the boats up norse with no get back on to the boat and the current was very strong so it was possible to push them and help them get away from the currents. are one of the top stories now jazeera the better russian president has told striking state factory workers there won't be new elections until opponents kill him thousands of people walked off the job in the 9th straight day of demonstrations against alexander lukashenko protesters accuse the longtime leader of rigging an election earlier this month and they're demanding he step down they rejected his offer to redistribute power through a constitutional referendum the main opposition leader who fled to lithuania has offered to leave the country through

a transition period. when. we all want to leave this loop that we found ourselves in 26 years ago i am ready to take on the responsibility and become the national leader in this period with the goal of calming the situation and entering into a normal p.d. it freeing political prisoners and in the shortest time creating the conditions and legislative base to organize new presidential elections real honest and transparent elections that will be unequivocally accepted by the international community. the european union will hold an emergency summit on the disputed election and violent crackdown on protesters on wednesday blocks top diplomats just a bureau has called for a thorough and transparent investigation into reports of abuse against detained demonstrators. the democratic party in the u.s. is gathering to name joe biden formally as the party's candidate for president the

convention would normally bring together thousands of supporters but this year is being held virtually because of the pandemic. take gas and stun grenades have been fired at the testers in sudan's capital on the 1st anniversary of a landmark power sharing deal demonstrators say the transition to democracy has been too slow for in the overthrow of longtime leader omar bashir. trump administration has finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in alaska as arctic national wildlife refuge the $19000000.00 acre coastal plain is home to wildlife populations in treating the porcupine caribou and polar bear as the pristine wilderness has been off limits to drilling for decades republicans have been lobbying to change that to stay with us slavery a 21st century evil is up next. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical 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. we know what's happening in our region we know have them get the plate is that others cannot i wasn't done but only if you're a guy by the footy the only purpose i did the iraq at that time any programming to go live on the amazon to go live to work another boy that may not be mainstream is happening at firestone are going to give you. that. by. the way that you kaldis story is what can make a difference. for 300 years the most powerful nations on a screw rich or on strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children were forcibly transported from africa on slave ships like this

to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever. india is one of the world's fastest growing economies. an economic boom has grooves with it new wealth and consumers.