journey to me leading left wing figures to understand why their politics have lost ground so dramatically. latin america a giant in turmoil on al-jazeera. president announces his resignation on state television hours after soldiers detained him and the prime minister in a coup. the whole robin you want yard is their life my headquarters here in doha are also coming up. thank you very very much from the bottom of my heart thank you. joe biden is formally confirmed as the democratic candidate in the race for the u.s. presidency. also has member is found guilty over the 2005 killing of

lebanon's former leader rafi careering in the 1st terrorism trial by an international court. and south africa is easing its long but months of restrictions may have already cost hundreds of thousands of tourism jobs. welcome to the program ali's president. has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he appeared on state television saying you had no choice but to step down as he didn't want any bloodshed west african bloc echo assholes close borders with mali suspended financial flows and called for sanctions charlotte dallas how small . the bamako residence of president abraham. secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in he and prime minister abu says say we detained here on tuesday confusion prevailed today with no

explanation by the military or government until president cases appeared on state television announcing his resignation. i will 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 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 his supporters but many millions welcomed the coup as would spirit of amusingly crowds frustrated with the president and his government spurred the soldiers on some ransacked and burns 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 order for the jury we are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government. added up on the eve of the soldiers began using native 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. we're very happy because this is a liberation for the people of mali all of these people waiting for this day all of mali's people 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 armed insurgency that's claimed thousands of lives now the military has forced president

cater to step down and son clear what their plan is for mali and its leadership. dallas and jazeera william lawrence is an expert on north africa the professor of political science at the american university in washington d.c. now he says the problem somali have a wide implication on the region it's a problem that steadily worse over the last 4 years. by some estimates or 10 will increase. it's a terrorism the problem ali has led and you know i detect or is a regional issue which has to do with order losers other nations that are going out and there's full dissatisfaction among those that want terrorism horror and those who want to make peace with certain terrorist groups like the leader when i mentioned to us dial up north and so there's a real frustration with this worsening problem leading to more quietly which is

also missing makes sense but no consensus on how to best handle it with their heart or. the us democratic party has formally nominated joe biden as its 2020 presidential candidate and it happened on the 2nd night of its national convention which is being held virtually because of the current virus by the support with some big names including the former u.s. president bill clinton the former secretary of state john kerry addressing party supporters all official as we know from the white house in washington d.c. so he has the job so to speak allan now he has to persuade the american public that he's the man for well the building behind you. that's right 22 years

since he 1st ran for the presidency didn't succeed then then says see the 2nd time he is now convinced the democratic party that he is the man to win back the white house he's got 76 days to convince the american people 'd that he can do a better job than donald trump and that was certainly the theme of the 2nd night of this virtual convention we saw a lot of the speakers essentially tweak donald trump challenge him on his record but also see things that they know will get under his skin we had joined kerry a former democratic presidential nominee himself and also a former secretary of state saying that every time donald trump went abroad it wasn't a goodwill mission it was a blooper reel and said that the world wanted an american president they could look up to rather than one they would laugh and of course that recalls the famous incident at the united nations when don't trump was delivering a speech and many people in the audience laughed when he talked about the

a quote economic achievements of his government there's also comments too from republicans who are throwing their support behind joe biden and not just high profile but the number of ordinary republicans who this time around are going to vote for joe biden but interestingly enough they got support from cindy mccain the wife of former senator john mccain who of course died in office and run for president himself and famously disagreed with donald trump on a number of issues and then from colin powell former republican secretary of state the big surprise that really because the last 3 democratic candidates he has actually endorsed as well so this was a night of success i suspect they will say for joe biden particularly given that there was a broad swathe of support from all sections of the party and this is the message that the. democrats are trying to push this isn't just joe biden and his normal

group of supporters but he's getting support from across the democratic party including the progressive wing but also from independents and republicans as well and the key and indeed it's those endorsements isn't it alan that means so much really to those swing voters perhaps including the big names the big hitters like the former president bill clinton he was speaking as well that's right and jimmy carter to remember he was president back in 1906 it's interesting that a republican commentator went on to twitter immediately and said who wants to be reminded of double digit unemployment figures so why have jimmy carter until someone pointed out that the highest unemployment rate under jimmy carter was 7.8 percent it's currently more than 10 percent that's what's known in social media as a sell forward but yes bill clinton was there he spoke in an 11 democratic conventions and he was kept to just 5 minutes really a support for joe biden who was the keynote speaker on tuesday but when he spoke he

made the point that he doesn't believe the current incumbent of $1600.00 pennsylvania avenue is up to the job we have just 4 percent of the world's population 25 percent of the world's code cases are on employment rate is more than twice as high as south korea's to have turned the united kingdom's more than 3 times your parents. trump says we're leaving the world where we are the only major north through economy to humans unemployment rate triple. at a time like this the oval office should be a command center instead of 2 storms and there's only chaos just one for the new rich or huge is the term an ocean to learn our responsibility and shift the ball on the berg never stops there joe biden was the keynote speaker on tuesday she told that the country what she thought her husband would bring to the your office on thursday joe biden will have his big night when he formally accept the nomination

and on wednesday just a few hours from know how to harness the vice presidential pick she will attack donald trump and mike pence and their record in office people see she's got a lot of material to work with elevation in washington d.c. thank you. know you as democrats say they'll present her with a bill to prevent changes to the postal service despite assurances that cost cutting plans are being suspended the postmaster general has halted some changes following a public outcry about the potential impact on the presidential election president trumpeters warned of a vote by mail fraud last week he admitted blocking postal service funding that would allow it to deal with a surge in ballots democrats say legislation is still needed though an international tribunal backed by the u.n. has found a member of hezbollah are guilty of the 2005 bombing that killed the former prime minister rafik hariri it took 15 years and

a $1000000000.00 for the judges to reach their conclusion but none of the suspects have ever been arrested zain hard a reporter 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 a figurehead e.t. and $21.00 others. yash 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.d. months before his death that went silent following his murder. how did he 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 leader's 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 for justice to be served to be clear that 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 had called 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. well. the saud 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 abolished leadership 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 xenophobe be able to well still ahead here on al-jazeera a search for peace government an armed groups trying to bring an end to decades of conflict but story after the break.

hello there's still more sure and enough to just rocky the heavy insula otherwise clouds aren't producing very much in the way of showers you know man or yemen or even south or saudi but there's still a possibility what is fairly obvious still is the sheer miles been blowing strongly for a couple days from iraq for the dust down towards qatar and beyond africa q 8 in bahrain in qatar that's a dry wind recently good feeling this time of year but as we can it will be the next couple days the motion picture of it be humid in qatar. we are seeing an increase in the amount of rain that's falling niecy opiate to some degree in somalia and around the coast of kenya is an increase to say the whole of africa is rather worse than it was but not extensively so there's still flood threat sudan and south sudan the rains are carrying on so that's if anything go to top them up and every day that victoria produces thunderstorms in the morning which are slowly west they're still doing that to the south we're still looking at wintry weather

really it's all relative i know but if you look at what's coming in across the cape that is wet and windy temporarily the wettest and windy as well probably through the eastern cape and disappearing on wednesday leaving sunshine behind which of course is pretty universal but not to zimbabwe. jump into the street and join our global community this generation will have to create its own park or sleep with social media on air or online be part of the debate let me put some comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on the systemic islands that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way we could see it business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on out is there. more.

book about to watch al-jazeera with me so rob a reminder of our top stories mali's president abraham loop of our character has resigned and dissolved parliament just hours after newton a soldier's detained him and top members of his government also the west african regional bloc echo us has ordered the closure of borders with mali the african union and the e.u. are condemning the action and the un security council has called for an emergency meeting. of the us democratic party has formally nominated joe biden as its 2020 presidential candidate it happened on the 2nd night of its national convention which is being carried out virtually because of the corona virus. that south korea

is reporting its highest number of crowed virus infections since march close to $300.00 new cases were detected on wednesday taking the total number past $16000.00 new camps are in place on gatherings after a week of 3 digit daily rises in cases at least 4. 150 infections have been linked to the chart laying church whose members took part in a mass rally against restrictions at the weekend but bryant is in seoul with the very latest these are really worrying numbers for the authorities rob. it's very alarming for south korea to have watched this for the past week or so we have for 7 days now been seeing increases in the number of cases in the triple digits the vast majority of them being local community transmission and in fact the latest figures we have are nearly 300 cases so it is led to your thirty's to

reintroduce the kind of social distancing that had been in place back at phase 2 on a 3 level scale this means for example that a number of venue's which had been open and now told to close again public venues like museums galleries other high risk establishment like nightclubs book faced restaurants they are having to close also restrictions on gatherings be they indoor gatherings or outdoor gatherings we've recently just seen spectators being allowed back to watch for example baseball matches in small numbers well those baseball matches will still go on but without spectators most significantly perhaps are the restrictions on congregations of churches in the metropolitan areas services will now have to be held online and this is because of course there is real concern about this one particular controversial church here in the soul metropolitan area where where more than 500 of these now case of cases have been linked back to so

there's a real concern especially about the cooperation of this church it is led by a controversial pastor who claims that covert 19 is all a conspiracy from north korea to get his congregation so there's been a lack of. cooperation there's been allegations that some of the lists that the church has been providing of members have been partially bogus that people aren't presenting themselves to be tested and that some people who even do go to church go to the hospitals are tested their lips gondek again so there's a certain lack of cooperation and the concern is of course that this all is happening in the northwest corner of the country the greater metropolitan area around seoul than in show which is home to her off of south korea's $50000000.00 plus population so there's a real concern that they have to get this under control for the update. there our correspondent in seoul south korea. colombia has restarted domestic lines after 5

months and then the restrictions are relaxed present even decay says that it's important to help revive the economy when he was at the airport to greet arriving passengers a relatively small number of people who are waiting to travel the international air transport association is estimating losses for airlines in latin america at 4000000000 dollars this year. well south africa's government is warning that the coronavirus crisis could cost the jobs of $400000.00 workers and that's just in the tourism industry 5 months of lockdown restrictions are being eased but tourism could take 5 years to revive for me to miller her small from johannesburg. relies on tourists to villa because the street in so we're told to make a living a car park attendant still comes to work during one of the world's longest lock downs but business is quiet he applied to the government's covert relief fund for a grant of $20.00 a month but says he's not received anything he's done thousands of people who say.

it's quiet. fairly quiet and i'm thinking about as people new to us have been there they're also home late in the. for the street was once home to former president nelson mandela and archbishop emeritus desmond tutu the area usually bustles with tourists and students and school twas 5 months into south africa's lock down its deserted before the covert 1000 pandemic up to $400.00 customers a day from all over the world would visit this restaurant which specializes in traditional food now its owner says he's lucky if he sees a handful of customers a day he hopes the easing of lockdown restrictions and the resumption of alcohol sales even if limited to certain hours will boost business for us it's been difficult because we used to sell buffy before and for us to change from there

buffalo set up to be in a locker or of sales plays adjustment was quite difficult and made as tool of about 1000 people to stay at home instead of the 100 and would normally have south africa's revenue service is the ban on cigarettes and alcohol sales cost the economy almost $600000000.00 in tax revenue and affected thousands of jobs so that ruka has an official unemployment rate of about 30 percent the government had hoped to use the tourism industry to boost the economy and create jobs but with tourist attractions deserted for months more job losses are feared the government says about $400000.00 jobs in the tourist industry alone could be lost as of africa's borders remain closed its hopes domestic tourism will pick up.

while many are celebrating the easing of the months of restrictions others don't know when they'll be busy again for me to milan al-jazeera johannesburg. another round of peace negotiations is underway between the government of groups in me and more violence has flared for decades with more than 20 groups demanding independence it's resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being forced to flee their homes while the conference has been held thrice previously but many are staying away this year because of coronavirus wayne hay more from china mine thailand where many of mia miles i think groups have representatives base there. well it's been more than 2 years now since the last union peace conference and you know i think everyone would agree that progress through those 3 peace conferences

so far has not been satisfactory of course it's a long and complicated process involving many different groups and actors and no one expected a quick fix but then we come to this year and of course we've had delays because of coronavirus attending this 4th round of formal peace talks the numbers of delegates there will be limited because of coronavirus again the talks being held in myanmar capital naypyidaw and then we have 7 ethnic organizations who haven't signed that nationwide cease fire agreement they were invited to attend the talks still they have declined that invitation partly again because of concern about the spread of coronavirus but also as a show of solidarity to their ally the our economy as mentioned the our economy involved in some very heavy fighting in the west of the country in rakhine state also in parts of chin state. was not invited to the talks because the government declared it a terrorist organization so i think this round of peace talks will be seen as

largely symbolic procedural in substance and a way for the government to go into that election in november with the knowledge or the weapon if you like that they can go to the people and say look we've had 4 rounds of formal peace talks we've got the process back on track and we are the ones who can carry it forward. in belarus the president is trying to quash opposition rallies after 10 days of protests demanding his resignation speaking to the belorussian security council alexander lukashenko accuse nato of intent and increasing its military presence along the border the new numpad give the word process on the other side and demand nor less then to hand them power we consider it clearly an attempt to seize power with all the aid in the consequences western countries including some leaders are not even aware where the beatles is located however they make some statements to prove that the president was right disgusted

with the defense ministry and god we have reacted deployed and brought to combat readiness to combat units of our army and the western borders today we have problems from board inside and outside. that lead actions are completely coordinated and it is not even the peak the eventual development certainly but we understand in which direction. palestinian president mahmoud abbas says palestinians are not concerned about the normalization deal between israel and the u.a.e. referring to the accord as nonsense about accuse the gulf arab state of turning its back on palestinians 1st part of the u.s. brokered agreement israel will suspend but not scrap plans to annex palestinian territory that. they have turned their backs on everything the rights of the palestinian people the palestinian state the 2 state solution and holy jerusalem which has been annexed and they announced its annexation they have turned their

backs on all of this and came to tell us that they came to suspend annexation for us palestinians and we should be happy about it this is deception it is rejected and it is a stab in the back of the palestinian cause. bream has more from ramallah. this is the 1st time we hear president about speak against the normalization deal since the announcement was made on thursday but the palestinian position has been clear of rejecting in condemning the u.a.e. move and we've heard words from palestinian officials over the past few days that include the word betrayal a stab in the back so the palestinian position has been clear in that regard and while it was very important to hear the president about speak against this deal what is more important in the meeting is that it was attended by different palestinian factions hamas and islamic jihad where a part of the leadership meeting and it's very rare for them to attend such

meetings or to be even invited to them and the message was clear that they are united against. and against normalization between arab states and israel and they wanted to convey a message that no one has the right to speak on palestinians behalf this is the 1st time for hamas and islamic jihad to attend the leadership meeting after a press conference that was joined by a top hamas and a top leader in july in which both to work together against annexation and while the u.a.e. is saying that its deal with israel is the reason why annexation has stopped palestinians argue that annexation is still on the table and it has only been shelved for a while for different reasons and not a result of the u.s. deal they say that there has been

a lot of international pressure against the deal as well as other internal israeli and american issues that kind of put the story on hold for a while. the governor of california has declared a state wide emergency because of hundreds of wildfires evacuation orders are in effect in the napa county wine region north of san francisco residents are being asked to conserve energy to avoid rolling blackouts. they want you all to 0 with means the whole romney a reminder of our top stories molly's president ibrahim boubacar cantor has resigned and dissolved parliament just hours after mutinous soldiers detained him and top members of his government he said he wanted no blood to be spilled to keep him in power the west african regional bloc awhile says order the closure of borders with mali the african union and the e.u.

are condemning the action and the un security council has called an emergency meeting. the us democratic party has formally nominated joe biden as its 2020 presidential candidate it happened on the 2nd night of its national convention which is being carried out virtually because of the coronavirus biden and the support of some big names with the former u.s. president bill clinton and former secretary of state john kerry addressing party supporters when this president goes overseas it isn't a goodwill mission it's a blooper reel he breaks up with our allies and writes love letters to dictators america deserves a president who is looked up to not laughed at donald trump pretends russia didn't attack our elections and now he does nothing about russia putting a bally on our troops so he won't defend our country he doesn't know how to defend our troops the only person he's interested in defending is himself. south korea is reporting its highest number of krona virus infections since march close to 300 new

cases were detected on wednesday taking the total number past 16000 new caps are in place on gatherings after a week of 3 digit daily rises in cases at least $450.00 infections have been linked to a church in colombia has restarted domestic flights after 5 months during the pandemic restrictions present even duke a says it's an important step to help revive the economy. another round of peace negotiations is underway between the government groups in me and more violence has followed for decades with more than 20 groups demanding independence the conference has been hell 3 other times but many are staying away this year because of coronavirus those weather headlines about with more news in half an hour but next on al-jazeera it's the stream to stay with us. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get a feel that others cannot fires and then i'm going on the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference every generation has

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