i left searching for answers no gold for cal 2nd witness on al-jazeera. mali's president announces his resignation on state television hours after soldiers detained him and the prime minister. from doha everyone on come on santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera has been members been found guilty over the 2005 killing of lebanon's former leader rafik hariri the 1st terrorism trial by an international court. piling on the pressure in bellary small factory workers go on strike as they join

protesters calling for the president to step down and it is the 2nd night of the democratic national convention as joe biden edges closer to officially sealing the presidential candidates. the developing news in the past few hours that mali's president abraham has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he appeared on state television saying he had no choice but to step down as he didn't want any bloodshed west african bloc ico us has closed its borders with mali suspended financial flows within the country and to cope with the country i'm sorry and call for sanctions shelob else has all the details. the bamako residence of president abraham boubacar kasia secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in. he and prime minister abuses

say we detained here on tuesday confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president keisha appeared on state television announcing his resignation. i want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and that's why i would like to thank the 1000000 people for their warmth i am telling you now that i'm resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced the dissolution of the assembly and the government. african bloc ico us responded forceful into the coup isolating mali through border closures suspending financial flows and called for sanctions against who organizes and their supporters but many millions welcomes the coup as would spirit of the mutiny crowds frustrated with the president and his government spurred the soldiers on some ransacked and burned government offices. we have come out

today to call for total resignation of president cater because we heard there were shots fired by the military and we come out to help pass soldiers get rid of the president put up for you go we are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government. out of baba amr if you have the soldiers began the news you need a base on the outskirts of bamako the same base that sore 2012 uprising that opened the way to case his presidency. troops were later seen a school to me a vehicle believed to be carrying the president. but we're very happy because this is a liberation for the people of mali all of these people were waiting for this day all of mali's people were waiting for the president and his men to allow us to breathe president kasia has faced weeks of opposition protests calling for his departure after disputed parliamentary elections earlier this year swaths of the country are already outside the control of the government its struggle to contain an insurgency

has claimed thousands of lives now the military has forced president caters to step down and son clear what their plan is for mali and its leadership challenge ballasts al-jazeera. we have mohammad out how to make sure that joining us now a journalist in bamako you know it's early there 2 in the morning so we do appreciate it anything more since the president's resigned we going to hear from the army. so bob dole now we don't have any information we don't know who's in charge we do not really david we know is the army we know the big officers but since the president gave the news on the t.v. it's not thing we call this our source start raining dust off the daniels is really too much in bamako so we don't any news we do we're still watching the national t.v. hoping that we're going to have a last month but up to now we don't have any news ok but the president has resigned and he's dissolved the parliament as well absolve the government so there is officially no one in charge other than the army so today and the only constitution

was about civil war. is the court of mali of course good at station court of mali the order are the only cause to. develop but we don't have any government we don't have the national assembly nobody is in charge today and even the army who did guard we don't know who is a chart up to now they didn't talk we have few officers names but what is still a big confusion ok so how has the news been great or how do you think the news will be greeted by people who have been they have wanted this president gone for a long time now but maybe they didn't expect it to happen like this. people people would the whole day up to tonight people are very excited but one day the president talk was and the restaurant having some food and the people was very sad really there was side about the ways touched on the see how would this all men the prison

it was so tired it was so there's a you feel how disappointed he and his voice so people feel really pain for him but in the other way people are really hard because this is what the people looking like wish couple weeks couple months ago all these protests you see happen in history cauldron of color and people who protest against the constitution against the caribbean again no want for people on all those things not just in bamako bamako timbuktu and all the region and through 2 weeks is a big protest talk people are excited and the meantime they're also thought about what happened tonight and they also wish it would happen like that sorry to interrupt or they also have to think about the immediate future because eco was the regional bloc has put a lot of restrictions on the country yes to not go on to take some

decisions so we will have more reaction in the morning people will be really scared because the country is broke and now you can go anywhere you can receive nothing that is not sitting in no world no it's not a ministration not so we will come back almost at the beginning you know so it's going to be tough and tomorrow morning the people who wake up. and the biggest confusion. mohamed thank you so much for your time and ceasar know it's early there so we really do appreciate you talking to us about the situation in mali. you look . in the past 2 minutes joe biden has officially become the democrats' party's nominee for president of the united states the states have been going through the

delegates have been going through their roll call across the country and he has officially passed the 2374 which with needed to become the nominee is happening on day 2 of the virtual conference convention former u.s. president bill clinton among some of the big names on this 2nd day at the convention as i say being held virtually because of concerns for public health over the coronavirus the theme on day 2 has been leadership matters. and you can see joe biden there holding one of his. virtual discussions a little bit earlier let's go to alan fischer alan fischer is our correspondent at the white house so as i say it's official now he is the man to take on president trump in november what else come out of day 2 of the convention. actually we're not quite there yet it is going to be his home state or his new home state of delaware that's going to put him over the top and clinch that nomination he will

become the oldest person ever to run for one of the 2 major political parties in the united states for president this roll call has been different normally you're in the big hall people are there they step up to the microphone it's their moment in the spotlight it becomes quite exciting but the way they've done it this year they're taking every single state and territory they're going to recognizable landmarks in most cases their people are speaking very briefly and then a note saying who their delegates are being cast for and as a televisual moment it's actually working much better than it would in the whole self we've had from former president jimmy carter he didn't appear in vision he is in his ninety's now of course a why he believes joe biden would make a good presidential candidate we've had from 17 keynote speakers as well interesting the way they did that with little snippets being edited together to

make quite an effective message and we also had from bill clinton former president himself in fact it's 20 years since he was here at the white house and he's appeared at the last 11 democratic conventions and this time he saved some of his harshest words for the current resident of 1600 pennsylvania avenue with the goal of 19 outbreak on a bird to kill in 200000 people and destroy millions of jobs and small businesses how did donald trump respond 1st they said the virus was under control and would soon disappear when it didn't he was on t.v. every day bragging what a great job he was doing when our scientists waited to give a small little information we needed like the expert advice he was given in order. only when covert exploded in even more states that encouraged people to wear masks and then many more were gone when asked about the surgeon does he sure didn't say

that it is what it is we didn't have to be this way no coated heroes much more than an. allen the number of people speaking on day 2 john kerry former secretary of state joe biden's wife jill i was interested to see that one of the big rising names in u.s. politics alexandria cause he has got something like 60 seconds to speak. hart position was to nominate or to 2nd the nomination of bernie sanders for president there of course were 2 finalists if you want to pick a better word for the nomination for the democratic nomination and she put forward. bernie sanders never going to when we knew what the result was before there all call came so she wasn't talking about joe biden prosperous if it

leave it talking more about the movement that she is leading on the progressive side or of the democratic party the sensually don't a marker to joe biden to see the new generation wants these things this is something that you should be particularly aware of over the next 4 years should you win the white house so it's very interesting but what we're also going to see in the next. 15 minutes statements from cindy mccain who's john mccain's wife he of course was a former republican senator who died in office voted against donald trump a couple of times on the senate floor she is going to give her endorsement to joe biden is a call and poll that's not quite such a big surprise he was of course a republican secretary of state but he has endorsed the last 3 no democratic candidate is someone who was very very much in the never trumper camp even though he still describes himself as

a republican and then the final speech of the evening will come from joe biden who no doubt wall normally in these occasions it's to introduce the country to the candidate but given that joe biden's been around politics in the united states for more than 50 years i think that ships already sailed what she's going to do is sing the praises of the man that she hopes will be the next president of the united states thank you alan fischer at the white house on day 2 of the democratic national convention. now an international tribunal backed by the united nations has found a member of hezbollah are guilty over the 2005 bombing that killed former prime minister rafik hariri it took 15 years and a $1000000000.00 for the judges to reach their conclusion none of the suspects though were ever arrested so has our report now from beirut this special tribunal for lebanon reached its verdict in the trial of 4 hezbollah members charged with conspiracy to kill former prime minister if you can have e.d.

and 21 others. was found guilty the city others were acquitted because the circumstantial evidence was not strong enough to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. prosecutors have based their case on evidence of a phone network that monitored how d.t. months before his death that went silent following his murder. had a son saad himself a former prime minister was in the court in the hague for the judgement he welcomed the verdict vowing not to rest until punishment was served and calling on hezbollah to cooperate. with them in the name of the leaders family the martyr rafique hariri and in the name of all the families of martyrs and victims we accept the court's ruling and wish that justice to be served to be clear we are not giving up our blood right. judges did say there wasn't enough evidence to prove direct involvement by hezbollah's leadership or the syrian government which was in control

of lebanon at the time of the murder they did note i asked his affiliation to the group and his communication with most of a better deal in a known hezbollah commander who died in mysterious circumstances in syria in 2016 is going to be very difficult. that it. was high. well it's carried out. without any kind of green light. from the syrian regime. hezbollah secretary general has in the long denied any role in the massive bomb blast in beirut 15 years ago it's not clear how he will respond to saad call to cooperate but has repeatedly vowed never to hand over the suspects. we don't feel concerned by the tribunals decisions for us it will be as if no decision was ever announced if

our brothers are unjustly sentenced as we expect we will maintain their innocence. the former prime minister's killing tore lebanon society apart he was considered the leader of the muslims and the community whose assassin belongs to a shiite group the verdict is unlikely to heal divisions there's been political instability since killing it was also followed by a series of assassinations that targeted anti syrian government figures in the country since then the political landscape changed the balance of power favors hezbollah and its allies which control political and military power. but some see an opportunity to solve the latest political crisis. saad hariri called on hezbollah to sacrifice the same way he and his group sacrificed and this somehow opens the doors for settling political issues the court which can only accuse individuals didn't tie has

a policy to ship to the murder but it indirectly implicated it leading many to believe the verdict could either set the stage for further instability or and years of confrontation that followed the assassination that if they vote for kerry son bass spoke to us earlier and said he was disappointed the court couldn't place the blame with hezbollah's leadership the court as as you know very well that it's mandated. it can only go after individuals is very clear its mandate is limited to individuals not parties or states even if they are sponsoring terrorism it is crystal clear that they were very there they were quite limited also. they were handling the the actual. site of the of the of the explosion which made it even more difficult to have final conclusion on that but it's just

a clear in direct and shows that. that it's a political assassination and when they spoke clearly about the sort of. lesser supported. the withdrawal of syrian troops and the disarmament of the militias and at the time who was left as hezbollah and all the meeting between him and there were times when you told him you know. quote unquote you know i'm 3 quarters opposition and one quarter not and he said syria cannot go on for ever. in the news ahead we'll tell you how pakistanis are adapting their famous fairy tale weddings because of over 19 restrictions.

hello this is no reins of pappy up again list line here and also the weather down in the south china sea is peppina up with this tropical depression which will strengthen a little bit might become a proper tropical storm heads towards the coast a grand old just a bit to the west and that'll cause a great deal of rain there will be floods from that but there also be floods and this of course you notice some movement it's leaving sichuan it's going further into china it's leaving beijing heading further south so be rain also i think for north korea this is maybe the start of the return to the seasonal rain back is gone as funnels that can do it's got to go south with sun but in the meantime still nice and warm in the still with some of the heat wave in japan in fact the all time record was equal yesterday and we're pretty close anyway as a soccer $47.00 degrees so we're seeing the slow end of the weight season. and that means this should organ be going south as well well it is there are

showers now in borneo further south than they were but for the time being apart from sketching a shastri job and sort of way see it's not a particularly we're looking picture and that's true also for peninsular malaysia for the monsoon rains well they too a story coming south but it's a slow process. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on at will online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic our lives that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he keeps human way to a business if we're going to adapt to climate break out of this stream on al-jazeera. little earth

a world where. here with al-jazeera these are the top stories molly's president has resigned and dissolved parliament just hours after soldiers detained him and top members of his government. the u.n. backed court has convicted a member of hezbollah for the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafiq hariri. was one of 4 suspects tried in absentia the other 3 were acquitted. and in the last few minutes joe biden has been confirmed as the democrats' presidential nominee for the u.s. election in november this was the moment just

a few moments ago when delaware cast its delegates putting him officially as the nominee next to his wife jill biden who we speak later on today on day 2 of the democratic national convention. here is derek palmer democratic strategist and a former regional press secretary at the democratic national committee he's with us from washington d.c. so i mean it's such a strange thing isn't it going through all the process of of of making joe biden the nominee when we all knew obviously that was going to happen but i guess at least it puts on paper now in the the campaign can officially begin for the democrats. yeah i mean look as part of the whole d.n.c. process process you have to go through this whole nomination thing and you know look this year has been extremely unique in terms of how this has played out you know when it started we had you know 16 plus almost $22.00 i think one point in time democratic candidates and now we have the nominee and because of the global

pandemic we are now at a place where we know who it's going to be officially and i guess we've known to your point we know this for some time. how do you think this whole idea of a virtual convention has gone i mean we're now 40 through the still more to go but it's been a i mean these were always television events this is just taking it to the next level i guess. yeah let's be honest with you i think that you know how we see conventions held for me there will be different than what we've seen in the past. right now we've seen yesterday 26000000 people tuned into monday night. activities and that was on par with what we saw on 2060 i think also you know as they continue to work on luther king's between the transition i think we'll continue to see the smoothness that we've been seeing tonight in terms of how they've been able to really lay out the narrative that they want to win this campaign and look i think with the say unequivocally the narrative that they've laid out to this point has been really damning towards donald trump and his

ineffectiveness as as president united states is in an ability to have a capacity to have empathy as michelle obama talked about last night and so you know the democrats have done their thing in terms of being able to lay out a an indictment and trump's bad shit on why he should have another 4 years the thing is though as far as the democrats go he's kind of for anyone who speaks at this convention is kind of preaching to the choir already was thinking with michelle obama obama yesterday so much of what he said as impassioned as it was it wasn't near information it is the type of information which needs to resonate with voters who either voted for donald trump last time or who didn't vote. when you come all i think what was really interesting about last night is a couple things one i think what michelle obama talked about in terms of not just the policies it wasn't about don't don't chumps policies are bad it was about his character and his in his inability to actually have the capacity to lead this

country so we look at what's happening and i think it's really important when we look at when we think about these conventions you know you have essentially the eyes of the world all the one place here in the message from the democrats and the message from the republicans as the message that you've been hearing about donald trump is he's not capable of being oppressed you know our political institutions are crumbling as a result of his leadership our public health and economic institutions are crumbling as a result of his failed leadership as you've been hearing that and what we know historically is that coming out of these conventions and there is a bump that you'll see coming you know from one party or the next but what we've also been seeing in the polling is that there's been a real stability in terms of how people are really thinking about donald trump how they knew about joe biden and so look when you have 26000000 people tuning it it's not just about preaching to the choir i think when you look at former ohio governor john case it's the yesterday he's a republican right and so he was telling the story of what republicans who are

considered moderate from his perspective were going to be considered moderate republicans who really want to see this country in a different direction of thinking and so you know that's part of the narrative that we're seeing. good to talk to derek and their diploma their democratic strategist joining us from washington to say thank you thank you kyra. now the world health organization is warning governments against stockpiling covert 19 vaccines and treatments if and when they developed referring to back same nationalism the w.h.o. chief said it would only make the pandemic worse the e.u. britain switzerland and the u.s. are all striking deals with companies testing possible vaccines and russia and china are working on their own trials as new diagnostics medicines and vaccines comes through the pipeline it's critical that countries don't repeat the same mistakes we need to prevent bucks in

nationalism and for this reason w 2 is working with governments and the private sector to actually read the signs through the act accelerator and he shewed that new innovations are available to everyone everywhere starting with those at highest risk. i mean it's a large weddings are a traditional feature of life in pakistan but the curve in 1000 pandemic and the ban on big public gatherings as many people have had to opt for smaller ceremonies and that's put a strain on countless businesses who rely on weddings the florists the caterers for example so mr ravi has more from karachi. the coronavirus put a stop to pakistan's flamboyant fairy tale wedding tired of waiting many companies are choosing smaller family. because even a global pandemic can't stop love. the pentagon we delayed our wedding after more

time when by our presence cited we should go ahead despite the coronavirus. we waited for one months than 2 months than 3 months and the penniman just wasn't ending so we decided to invite fewer people. instead of the anticipated 800 guests there were only 250 that might still sound like a big number but in pakistan it's serious crowd control some even go so far as to say that in a country where people can go bankrupt paying for big weddings the coronavirus is a blessing in disguise because. parents who are poor and feel pressured to host a sensation weddings they've been able to save money because of a koran and i think they should be like this society should embrace it it would be better for everyone. the savings amount to shorter ceremonies fewer customs and perhaps most notably the dancing. many of them to know that. that are

events where everyone comes there's a couple floor. but this was a wedding at home so we did things on a smaller scale fewer people run frighted and there are many traditions we could not tops our. many parts of karachi are known as wedding districts where main streets are lined with party halls able to hold hundreds of guests at a time the growing trend of home weddings could put them out of business these values would normally be booked up months in advance in some cases even up doing here but they've been empty now ever since the beginning of the corona virus outbreak. pakistan's government has started reopening businesses but wedding halls are not a priority a failure owners say to understand how important they are to local economies. the nearly 650000 people working in waiting holes nationwide have been sitting at home for nearly 6 months we've tried to help giving them food rations and we've continued to pay salaries to staff employees but the day laborers who the

government said they would help right now they are the most worried and they account for nearly 500000 people. run out and mother estimates 50 percent of pakistan's industries are linked to weddings caterers and florists to benefit the agriculture sector fashion designers the textile mills jewelers the precious metals and stones industry the list goes on pakistanis say coupling up can bring good fortune in a post corona economy wedding industry leaders hope it remains true for more than just the bride and groom zain but. corruption. they are on al-jazeera these are the headlines mali's president abraham has resigned and dissolved parliament hours after soldiers detained him and top members of his government in a coup. no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and

that's why i would like to think a 1000000 people for their warmth and i'm telling you know it i'm resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced a dissolution of the assembly and the government there had been widespread international condemnation over the coup in mali the west african regional bloc ordered borders with mali to be closed and the un security council has called an emergency meeting more from an interest in a budget. apart from the border closure the course also in a statement issued this evening ordered the suspension of all financial flows between mali and other west african states it's suspending mali from its decision making bodies and also imposing sanctions on those who executed the coup so lisa some of the key decisions in that in that statement announced by of course late

this evening and if this is these decisions have been implemented mali which is largely unlocked country would be in for a very very tough time. the other headlines in a u.n. back to court has convicted a member of hezbollah for the 2005 assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri salim was one of 4 suspects tried in absentia the other 3 were acquitted it's joe biden's just been officially nominated as the democratic party candidate for november's u.s. election a roll call of delegates was taken on what is the 2nd night of the national convention news democrats say they'll press ahead with a bill to prevent changes to the postal service the postmaster general has halted some changes following a public outcry those are your headlines rewind is next. i joined al jazeera as part of the launch team in 2006 protesters have called for me. in the time i've covered wars for evolution selections to treat the crowds here

in the u.s. where remain very large and very vocal. are the stories that matter the human stories. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around i would job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. hello and welcome again to everyone and.