ricky she takes pretty never given. out using a follows the remarkable people who work and run the salon. on al-jazeera. a lord. mayor of. mali's president and prime minister all detained all government offices are ransacks soldiers appear to stage a coup. i know that i've missed it barney watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up has been our members found guilty over the killing of lebanon's former leader rafik hariri assassination that sent shock waves across the middle east.

piling on the pressure in bellary small factory workers go on strike as they join protests calling the president to step down. and gaza's only power plant shuts down leaving $2000000.00 people with only 4 hours of electricity a day. away what appears to be a coup is unfolding in one of west africa's largest country soldiers have staged a mutiny at a military base near mali's capital bamako and now say they detained the president and prime minister protesters of ransacked government offices after months of demonstrations demanding president abraham cater step down the back of reports. hundreds of anti-government protesters border to the streets of the mali and capital bamako some ransacking and burning government offices. they were responding

to reports of an army intervention in the country's trouble politics and the rest of president abraham cater a prime minister who polices say. heavily on troops were seen as scorching a vehicle believed to be carrying the president. we've come out today to call for the total resignation of president cater because we heard there were shots fired by the military and we come up to help us. soldiers get rid of the president or if. we are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government out of the company of soldiers were seen patrolling the streets of the garrison town of qatif 15 kilometers from the capital where there were earlier reports of gunfire at a military base it's believed mutinying soldiers rounded up a number of senior officials a 2012 army uprising of the cutty base open the way to cato's presidency prompting

reports of another coup attempt. but. if it's a coup de tat it's a peace thanks be to god to end this regime everything is being done peacefully as a member of the opposition movement i thank them. there were reports that a small number of the national guard had seized a military facility angered by a dispute a french military source said discussions are taking place between mali's army command of the me to me is. president kate has faced weeks of opposition protests calling for his departure after disputed parliamentary elections earlier this year so ways of the country are already outside the control of the government the struggle to contain an armed insurgency that's claimed thousands of lives the failure to end that conflict has led to growing frustration with cato's rule leave barca al-jazeera. can take you live now. that story from nigeria's capital

and all that what is the latest you're hearing about of what is happening on the ground. well felicity right now president in britain but workers are the prime minister. as well as government cabinet ministers have been taken to the gallops in town of cutty where they are held in 2 barracks there early on they have been some rest for the ministry of interior or the internal affairs ministry. as well as the defense ministry where they arrest a senior military officers we aren't understand that senior military commanders have been arrested and with these people in the hands of the mutineers or cool promoters as people now call them the decision is up to them they have all the negotiating chips in their hands whatever they want to do they have the upper hand now if it's a coup it's going to be declared a call if it's going to be

a negotiated settlement to the crisis in mali than they have they hold it for aces so basically now what we're waiting for is a formal announcement by the military on what will be the fate of. the president of his prime minister cabinet ministers and senior military officers will be arrested earlier in the day for the time being it looks like the military is in control. when we know of course they're all some international troops stationed in mali what sort of international reaction has there been so far to this. well basically it all started with the french and the norwegians are edging their citizens not to come out today it started very early in the morning when shots were fired now the french prime minister the former colonial muster for mali is condemning because also if the united states of america the united nations is also chipped in condemning the situation also the west african regional bloc of course

which has been trying to mediate between the opposition and the bramble because kids are for weeks now and also condemned and called on the soldiers to negotiate a peaceful settlement to this crisis and what it looks like. already in the afternoon it became clear that the soldiers are in control and all the statement from the regional bodies on international community coming a bit late right now we hear the president or the chairman of the african union most of flighty tweeting about he's on dysplasia be it the mutiny or the call in mali saying that it's unconstitutional and that the army should not go ahead and declare a coup so that's the situation now and we're waiting for the statement from the army to announce what they what they want to do indeed i mean just keeping an eye on events unfolding now in mali for the moment.

an international tribunal box by the un has finally reached a verdict over an assassination that sent shock waves through the middle east and transformed lebanon's political future salim i ash a member has been on has been found guilty of the 2005 bombing that killed former prime minister rafik hariri it took 15 years and a $1000000000.00 for the judges to reach that conclusion but none of the suspects was ever arrested rafik hariri son saad hariri who was also a prime minister says his family accepts the ruling. like many presidents and many from the prime ministers were killed that in office or outside office and we never had any truth of what happened i think today is. everybody's expectation was much higher than what came out but i believe that the

tribunals came out with a. 'd result that is satisfying we accepted that out as arizona hot as in beirut with more reaction to that verdict. that was a very different. from the saddle how do you do back in 2018 when he made a statement during the closing argument of the tribunals at the time he was prime minister the prime minister of a unity government that included members of hezbollah today saddam heidi is a member of the opposition a man who is like a likely candidate to be the next prime minister very strong language when you compare it with previous speeches in the past when he says we will not rest until justice is served and he adds and the verdict is implemented and he said that twice the verdict is implemented and really there's

a lack of practical means for this verdict to be implemented you have a country where hezbollah controls political power it's highly unlikely that you will find them handing over. to the court they've repeatedly said that will not happen and in fact he he even had a swipe at hezbollah secretary general hossam a few days ago house and addressed the nation and he said we are not concerned with the verdicts outcome we are not concerned with the courts what saddam had easy says no one can claim that you are not concerned now what's the next step and how these 2 main political actors are going to work together we're just going to have to wait to see how that pans out. for the story we're joined now by julie norman she's a senior teaching fellow in politics and international relations at university college london thanks for being with us on the program so a mixed verdict from the court and a verdict i guess that's not going to do you

a great deal to mend the deep divisions that they're all in lebanon. that's certainly right your eyes we heard this was a court case that was going on for 15 years cost $1000000000.00 so there was a lot of high expectations around it and as we heard you didn't really meet those expectations for definitely there hariri family as well as the families of the other 21 victims who were killed and the hundreds who were wounded in that attack so 1st we heard from the court that there just wasn't enough evidence to directly implicate either hezbollah or syria even though they were motives that were knowledge but no direct evidence and of the 4 individuals who were standing trial me one was actually convicted and as we heard from your correspondent also you even that one individual was tried in absentia is not you it whereabouts are not known so the ability to actually have a sentence served and have a sense of justice you many people feel that so going to be locking

a little bed all sorts of impacts political impacts whites this verdict have in lebanon if it. well of course has bill has a very major influence on lebanese politics right now and there will be pressure from the opposition for hezbollah to 1st to turn over this individual who people believe has been you know might might know where he is but also just further pressure on hezbollah to to own their role in the government a bit more and what we're seeing now of course is coming after the 2 weeks after the major explosion in beirut the verdict was actually postponed 2 weeks because of that event so we've already seen the pressure on hezbollah but actually on the political structure as a whole on all the parties extending out beyond just hezbollah over these last 2 weeks and indeed over the past year or so this will add to that pressure but it's it won't just be the starting point it's adding to

a lot of pressure that's already there when exactly i mean we've seen that people ordinary people in lebanon want a huge change in that country but actually realistically what would it take to ensure that change is an exit well that's the big question for lebanon right now again we've seen massive protests you know mass mobilization really since october from last year we saw one government government resign sense then though there's been the krona virus a very deep economic crisis the latest political crisis and of course the explosion so people do want very deep change they wanted to be more than cosmetic and surface level they don't just want to reshuffle wing of the same figures of the same political elites but that kind of structural change takes a very long time and also requires some kind of compliance buy in from those who are unfortunately right now profiting very much from the current system good to get

your thoughts on the latest there in lebanon let's judy norman joining us from london thank you. and an arrest warrant has been issued for the head of beirut's ports over that massive explosion which devastated the city earlier this month has some creighton was one of $25.00 officials questioned by police after the blast or than 200 people were killed and thousands injured when a stockpile of ammonium nitrate exploded at the port on august the 4th the chemicals had been stored there for 6 years investigators are trying to figure out who knew about the stockpile and why it hasn't been safely disposed off. all right still ahead so on the program the head of the u.s. postal service suspends plans to cut costs of to be accused of trying to sabotage the presidential election.

hello autumnal weather certainly made its way well into europe masterclasses you can see it you can sort of cut off this in a bit here and say we just enhanced the showers a been falling is pretty big ones in eastern europe and that's of all cross wednesday big shows all the way from the walls of the baltic coast down to the warms of the adriatic and beyond the aegean then the middle it just gets war again and then you look over the bay of biscay and that doesn't look in the least bit further than stormy frankly and that's what it will be as it heads towards ireland but it's inducing head of it as you can imagine it's drawing air out from the south which is always warmer so temperatures again are on the rise $32.00 in bordeaux 30 in zurich for example in fact that's beating burnley in $28.00 in the crowd on the forecast shows red concentrated in germany and poland but with patches elsewhere this is a bit of brief late summer if you like so the thirst degrees on thursday in paris

that it rains and it gets cooler again as you might expect it to do. the latest big clump of shout was to leave the shores of africa as this one here going out of free time free times for cost shows is where the next $2.00 or 3 days the next one those 2 stars develop in nigeria and sudden chat. selfless act human bravery 10000 precious pieces of literature rescued from being about to ashes to besiege sorry. meets the bosnian women and men who risked everything to save their roots and heritage. the love of books on al-jazeera.

the. again and remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera mali's president and prime minister reported to have been arrested by soldiers in an apparent. they were detained after personnel mutiny at a base north of the capital bamako. a member has been on his be convicted of conspiring to kill the former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri salim my ash was one of 4 suspects tried for the 2005 car bomb attack in bay ridge i really son side also a former prime minister says he will not rest until punishment is. the better a c. in government has admitted some police officers have resigned as pressure grows on

president alexander lukashenko to go as well well state workers have also walked off the job to the delight of demonstrators. protests to say this month's presidential election was rigged and the calling for the longtime leader to resign or the birthday of the jailed opposition leader taken off supporters have rallied outside the prison where he's been held since may step awesome was that. here at the k.g.b. prison in the center of minsk. you cannot presumably be held but some reports say that he was brought away from this prison to another because some people have been gathering here for his birthday which is today. is the husband of for the main opposition candidates for the planet the kind of guy who also had a message for his birthday but that message was directed at the government. this

blatant injustice and lawlessness demonstrates how this decaying system works the system where one man controls everything one man has been holding this country in fear for 26 years already one man stole from belorussians their choice my husband asks me to pass you his words he and other political prisoners are wasting their time in jail he asks you not to waste your time not to sit still but to do everything possible in order to live in a country for life happy birthday sergey while protests and strikes are still ongoing and valorous is also increasing diplomatic russia. the european leaders and manuel mcallen have been in touch with put in. interesting lead they have been calling him and not. that means that putin is increasingly turning into a mediator and even possibly a kingmaker in the situation and the future in the balance of course for russia

it's very important that the bellows is not too much under the influence of the european union or nato even so there's a key role for moscow here but it's also very questionable if putin is still willing to to back a look at shanghai was on the increasing pressure to resign and who has lost so much support in the last couple of weeks so another solution could be in the making to look at a nod or a less toxic leader here in. which is agreeable to the european union and also to moscow. now the u.s. postal service is suspending cost cutting measures amid a public outcry of the warnings that could affect the upcoming presidential election is headless to joyce said last week that the service would be able to handle the volume of mail in ballots he now says any operational changes will be made after the november election the joy is a republican donor and was appointed postmaster general by president donald trump

they've been accused of trying to sabotage the mail network the heads of the election let's take you live now to our white house correspondent kimberly how quickly that's quite some new term but is it going to be enough to stop the outcry . i don't think so and not on either side this is a highly partisan issue that has been a headline here in the united states for days that issue for democrats is even as the postmaster general has said now these reforms of the postal service will be halted until after the election there is still the concern that there is from the u.s. president this continued outcry of vote rigging of the potential for mail in voter fraud so they're going to push back on this repeatedly because as we heard from the house speaker nancy pelosi she believes this is a deliberate attempt by the president by republicans to sow confusion to undermine the legitimacy of the u.s. election so i expect that this will continue we've also not heard that the hearings

that have been called the emergency hearings on the postal service those have not been canceled as of yet so as it stands right now we know that the postmaster general is set to testify on friday in the senate on monday in the house of representatives and we also know that unless this is turned around that the house will be coming back to vote on saturday on legislation that would have put in place essentially what the postmaster general has already done and that is to try and hold these reforms until after the u.s. election so it doesn't appear this issue is likely to go away and again to point out when it comes to the issue of mail in voting the reason that so many americans are pushing for this is because they feel that it is the safest option given cope at 19 i mean we all can believe it is another big the democratic national convention it's not. yeah that's right after a party that was largely fractured in 2016 this is now

a party of democrats that is very much united around one single goal and that is defeating donald trump in november so we saw on the 1st night michelle obama the former 1st lady making a very strong compelling case for joe biden the democratic presidential nominee expect that we will hear that again from a number of headliners within the democratic party among them congresswoman alexander ocasio cortez who of course is part of the squad that donald trump has railed against repeatedly and also former president bill clinton and of course the president donald trump has not been fond of the clintons or his wife that he ran against hillary rodham clinton in the last u.s. election so the u.s. president is continuing his counter-programming tour he's in arizona right now and it's important to note that he is continuing to kind of paint an apocalyptic scenario if joe biden is elected in fact he is down on the u.s. southern border with mexico once again talking about his wall that he talked about

in 2016 we should note it's not fully constructed despite those promises but he is saying that not only will joe biden tear down that wall but he will flood the country with illegal immigrants if elected can really the white house thank you at least 3 people have been killed by rocket attacks on afghanistan's independence day at least one missile landed near the main diplomatic districts in the capital kabul one child was among the dead with injuries reported it's not yet known who fight the missiles gaza's only power station has shut down after israel cut off the supply of fuel and streets $2000000.00 residents now have as little as 4 hours of power a day he's ready restrictions one of several in response to incendiary balloon which is from gaza sorry for reports from west to receive them. even before tuesday morning in the shutdown of the only power station gaza's 2000000 people

were dealing with an acute shortage of electricity the maximum capacity was a little more than a 3rd of the 500 megawatt demand and now the shortfall has got worse and. stopping the fuel supply means losing the $63.00 mic what's that the gas a power station produces which means losing a 3rd of the power we have the previous time ty was 6 hours on and 10 hours off now we can provide 3 to 4 hours only. israel stopped delivery of the diesel fuel to generate the electricity last week as part of its latest round of tensions with hamas gaza's ruling faction. how mass is resumed its tactic of launching balloons carrying incendiary and explosive materials into israeli territory. they've also been what it calls night disturbances along the border fence and rocket launches into israel israel has carried out nightly as strikes as well as barring all but humanitarian cargo closing off the seat of fishing vessels and stopping fuel

deliveries it's a blow to economy already on its knees with unemployment surging and 55 percent of people living below the poverty line goes as oldest ice cream marie was already restricted by the power shortages to using just one of its 7 production lines now its owner says it's time to shut up shop. oh i'll send my workers home and shut down the factory 4 hours aren't enough because you need 2 hours at least to call the machines before starting the production process it also means that the distributors will stop buying my products because they don't have enough electricity to store the ice cream the power shortage brings with it an environmental cost to affecting water supplies desalination plants and treatment of waste water the worst worked out as one of the most important problems that we are facing in the gaza strip 3 men will be will be. to the lowest level discharging one of the 120000 public overalls their ways to the

sea water and the beaches of the gaza fedayeen without in the treatment that's the equivalent of 50 olympic sized pool every day at a time of year when gaza's residents look to the seaside as a place to relax and cool off an egyptian delegation traveled from gaza to israel on monday reportedly with a list of demands from hamas for the fulfillment of what it says israeli commitments on easing the blockade and allowing for improvements to the infrastructure and economy of the gaza strip such external mediation efforts have worked in the past but usually only once the situation is deteriorating more with greater levels of violence that we've seen so far this time are a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem. south korean authorities are trying to find hundreds of worshippers from the church at the center of the new virus outbreak it comes as new caps of place on outdoor and indoor gatherings after a 3 digit daily rise in new cases for 5 days in a row at least 450 infections have been linked to the charred church whose members

took part in a mass rally against restrictions on the weekend south korea's battle against the disease has been viewed as a success story the country has experienced several small case spikes france is making masks in most workplaces compulsory from next month that he measures will apply to all open plan offices and factories from the traditional end of french summer holidays next month coronavirus cases have been rising sharply in france since last month with official figures suggesting a quarter of all new clusters are formed at workplaces while swearing is already compulsory in all public transport most indoor spaces and some crowded outdoor areas including large parts of the capital paris australia's prime minister says his country has secured access to a promising potential coronavirus vaccine if trials succeeds it has signed

a deal with the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca to manufacture its vaccine which is being developed in partnership with oxford university scott morrison says it will be made available for free to the country's entire population of $25000000.00 people australia has been battling a resurgence of cope with 19 after breaches in its hotel quarantine program caused a 2nd outbreak in melbourne will study is one of several countries eager to secure a possible vaccine before it's even been developed the e.u. britain switzerland and the us of all struck preemptive deals with a world health organization is warning countries against hoarding drugs once wealthier nations join its global vaccine alliance to ensure developing countries don't miss out. as new diagnostics medicines and vaccines comes through the pipeline it's critical that countries going to repeat the same mistakes we need to prevent bugs in

nationalism and for this reason the blue jays working with governments and the private sector to read the signs through the act accelerator only sure that new innovations are available to everyone every word starting with those at highest risk environmental activists have taken over an unmanned oil platform in the north sea prompting the french company tow towel to halt outputs at the sites for greenpeace activists climbed onto the platform off the coast of denmark to protest against oil and gas exploration in a danish territorial waters but upshall of more than $5000.00 barrels of oil per day has been temporarily halted at the site denmark has some of the most ambitious climate targets in the world the government is currently considering whether to proceed with oil and gas tenderness in the north sea. and time for

a quick reminder that you can catch up with all the news the covering by going to our website that's what front page looks like at the moment leading of course on that issue in mali usually dress is out is there a dot com out there at dot com for the latest international news and sports. undermind of the top stories on al-jazeera mali's president is reported to have been arrested by soldiers in an apparent. these pictures show what's thought to be even him because of his prime minister being detained large numbers of people have been on the streets celebrating the soldiers' arrival after the rebellion began at a base north of the capital the u.s. france and other west african states have condemned the new semi a previous rebellion at the same base led to the coup which toppled

a former president 8 years ago of many dresses watching developments from nigeria. whatever they want to do they have the upper hand now if it's a cool it's going to be declared a call if it's going to be a negotiated settlement to the crisis in mali then they how they hold it for recess so basically now what we're waiting for is a formal announcement by the military on what will be the fate of the bible because kato the president of mali his prime minister cabinet ministers and senior military officers will be arrested earlier in the day for the time being it looks like the military is in control a member of has the law has been convicted of conspiring to kill the former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri who was assassinated 15 years ago salim jamil irish was one of 4 suspects tried in absentia well the 2005 car bomb attack in beirut which killed her mary and 21 other people judges in a un backed tribunals said there was insufficient evidence against the other

defendants hariri is remembered as a key figure in efforts to rebuild lebanon after the civil who and it in 91 take. more state employed workers have joined protests against belarus his presidency and the election many say was wait thousands of people have demonstrated against an example you could hope for 10 consecutive days since his reelection for the 6th time the government has now admitted some police officers have to quit in protest. the u.s. postal service is suspending cost cutting measures after a control over by early ballots for this year's presidential election the country's postmaster general had warned the changes could make postal votes late meaning they wouldn't be counted. most of his headlines hey on al jazeera more from me in about 25 minutes time stay with us though the stream is coming next.

time for me ok welcome to the home edition stream now typically in the united states and canada if there's a mental health emergency the police are caught but let me show you the worst case scenario that may well happen i'm going to take you to san diego saw years ago when the sister of alfred aline go call the police because her brother who had mental health issues was acting strangely this is what happened but for the way 1 the police there. they shot another. person a liar you are more and the lady is saying she called them for help not to.