these which showcases flesh from my talent to the ground the globe find a lot of them are present. on al-jazeera. we will sanction all those responsible for the violence question and falsification of the results of the election. tough talk from the e.u. clear message to those in power for free and fair elections in belarus. this is obvious there are live from doha with so coming up a nation in crisis mollies the else it is the military takes control. more heavy rain brings severe flooding to southwest china washing away crops and homes.

the man to take on trump joe biden is formally converted as the democratic nominee in the race to the white house. the european union says it standing by the people of balad who said it's called violence against anti-government protesters there shocking and unacceptable they deserve the block held an emergency meeting with the agreed on sanctions against those responsible for the crackdown have rejected the outcome of this month's disputed elections that have called for an end to president alexander lukashenko ball roll. today we gave them 3 clear messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly

we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and false if occasion of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows. and in minsk the embattled president look has ordered the police to stop further demonstrations against his leadership he's asked his intelligence agencies to look for organizers of street protests he's also stepping up security along the borders to prevent what he calls fighters and arms from entering the country steadfastness following those developments from minsk where the mood on the street seems very different. the shrine is still here of the protester was shot by police last week but the crowds are gone there's a completely different mood here now in the capital of bellows instead of euphoria it's now fear again russian look at shankar has threatened that he will have a not a crackdown he has instructed to in the interior ministry to quell any unrest

possible and instructed also the intelligence to track down anyone who has been organizing these rallies so people are worried for repercussions in the meantime there was an interview with an employee of state television saying that she was not allowed into the building because she was joining a strike but instead she sat of her and other employees there are now russian professional staking her job so in the meantime also there were reports about the russian plane at least one flying in from moscow which is normally used by the hat of moscow the state's secret service and they have landed here and also departed again so there's a lot of speculation at the moment that moscow is slowly stepping in despite the fact that the spokesman of president putin has denied that. meanwhile russia's foreign minister has weighed in saying there is no need for mediation and is accusing foreign powers of trying to meddle and then bob is live for us in london

the damed let's talk 1st about the e.u. what else did european leaders have to say. well it was a message that came in unison from not only sort of underlying he had just been hearing from but also from the e.u. council head to show me show he said we stand firmly behind the right of the belorussian people to determine their own fate. that's a reminder that the rejects the outcome of the election and the e.u. will impose shortly sanctions on a substantial number of individuals responsible for violence repression and electoral fraud said pulling no punches without giving details of which individuals will be concerned but the e.u. is stressing that their action is designed to punish individuals within the administration in belarus without harming the general public they've also said that they will be allocating money to the chewed of $3000000.00 euros to belarus to

bolster an independent media and also to support civil society groups this all comes after. messages from the likes of the dutch prime minister mark rooter that the e.u. has to do more than just say this wasn't a free and fair election and now we are seeing this reaction from the top of the european union saying that action will be taken but at the same time they're repeating the message that they hope there can be a dialogue initiated or involving russia they're very keen not to to to to forget the crucial role that russia has always played politically and economically in belarus and they're saying we hope that russia can be involved there can be outside involvement in terms of pushing the government in belarus and the opposition together to try to get some kind of of way forward and game as we

mentioned russia's foreign minister is saying there's no need to mediation what other reaction have we had from moscow so far. you know it's it is slightly confusing is step one saying that there has been this arrival we believe of a delegation from moscow and these strong statements on wednesday from sergey lavrov the foreign minister saying that the outside world should not be meddling repeating the message from via the mir putin in phone calls made with angela merkel in germany and. france on tuesday warning against meddling. so the government in moscow very much saying that there is no need for outside involvement at the same time it seems that they have been talking to the entourage if not look at himself and then we've seen what's happened in terms of his message to this the protesters in the strikers so perhaps in fact they are saying we're

happy with you to get tough right now we're really not going to get involved we're we're going to stand by you all the way which wasn't clear before of course this is speculation we don't exactly know what conversations have been had i think that nadine barber across developments from london thank you. molly now where military leaders say they'll help the country's transition to a new government and organized what they call credible elections fails when it was made all the president abraham cato was forced to step down the west african regional bloc eco os has condemned the coup it's sending a delegation to the capital bamako the un security council is also expected to meet later but this report. soldiers guard the residents of mali's president. in the capital bamako. prime minister who say say we detained here and choose day as rumors of a coup spread president case there appeared on state television announcing his

resignation. with. 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 that i'm resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced a dissolution of the assembly and the governor. could block and could once responded forcefully to the coup isolating malise from border closures suspending financial flows and called for sanctions against organizers and their supporters. speaking on state television coup leaders say they are acting in the country's best interest money and money and people of mali we are not holding on to power but we are holding on to the stability of the country which will allow us to organize within an agreed reasonable timeframe general elections to equip mali with strong institutions which are able to better manage our everyday lives and restore confidence between the government and the government. many millions welcomed the coup 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 the total resignation of president cater because we heard there were shots fired by the military and we come up to help our soldiers get rid of the president or if we are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government at all. the soldiers began their mutiny at a base on the outskirts of bamako the same base that sword 2012 uprising would open the way to create his presidency heavily armed troops to siena schools in 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. cater has faced weeks of opposition protests calling for his departure of the disputed

parliamentary elections earlier this year much of the country is already outside the control of the government has struggled to contain an armed insurgency that's claimed thousands of lives. well so i had to gay is a member of molly's opposition coalition known as the m 5 r.f.e. he says currently this will have to honor their promise to hold elections. these points i don't think they have a choice you know we spoke about a movement that started a few months ago and for about 2 months now been out every 2 weeks asking for the president to resign in anything regime and so it would time god there are tens of thousands of people on the streets i'm not sure what it means to the people who run us on the streets again yesterday in their 1st occasion invited to join them join them whether that means you know we have our own ideas about how things should be run so it's too early for us to say whether they will expect that wars are not but i think that will fight just like it was previously gene to make sure that 40 and

bad governance would be a thing the peace for we got together because we made it an addition that by government has taken some some very very dangerous steps and as you say a lot about 80 percent of our our land and we only now have 20 percent security there where people are not afraid to go in and out so some of the issues that talk about are also issues that we'll raise so we're confident that we'll be working on some of the issues but the main sticking point would be the role of immediately in the if we call it spot for democratic government and with you doing so and discuss with them or what role they would like to play in. nigeria the group boko haram has launched an attack on col what towns and some bonus stage there are reports of kidnapping looting and often. the u.n. says its ability to tackle the world's worst humanitarian crisis in yemen has been

badly hit by a lack of funding says the shortfall has forced it to close a come back home off of its major aid programs thanks good efforts to prevent famine and such a cholera epidemic and aid conference in june raised just tough of the $2400000000.00 needed to cover operations until the end of the year. the bloomberg news agency is reporting that a twisted breach 5 years ago is connected to the arrests of numerous saudi nationals who were critical of the government to twitter employees allegedly hacked thousands of accounts acting as spies for saudi arabia information was then reportedly used to harass or arrest critical voices the arabic network for human rights information says the timing of the twitter breach and the arrests indicates they are linked. maybe as well no 105000 has lifted a blockade on oil production and will allow the un recognized government to resume exports for the 1st time in several months from misrata training reports. on

tuesday night the head of the petroleum facility guards under have their forces said that they will reopen the oil the oil closures will have to forces have been carried out since january according to the national oil corporation here in libya that has resulted in a financial loss of over $8000000000.00 to the government now oil is the is the primary source of income to the government here that's how they pay the salaries for government employees and that's how they subsidize goods so it's really important to the libyan economy also the oil closures have have caused a lot of a lack of electricity or a lack of supply to the power stations that the national or corporation says that the power because are a result of the lack of gas and diesel go. feeding the power stations so so whether or not this is

a permanent reopening of the oil is yet to be seen house or forces have in the past opened the oil but then again soon after close they put in conditions such as that the the revenue coming into libya will will go into a foreign account that that will that will be divided into both governments but whether or not this is a permanent reopening of oil is yet to be seen. still ahead on al-jazeera south korea thyssen social distancing measures after a break or to be increasing the number of coronavirus injections. and how business is in the philippines a clumsy at record rates because of government down. we

should say things to get him quater a little dry a full parts of southern china over the next couple of days little clutch of storms here that's making its way away from hong kong that's the remnants of after topical still no wet weather will be farther north long line of cloud and right here this weather front here is the mire front the stationary front which will make its well little further southwards as we go into thursday slipping down into the sea on policy china seas and heavy right and center of the case to into north korean and we go on into friday sings a little further still just south of the border into south korea but for good particular should be lousy dry not just a few showers coming into japan i suspect tokyo will stay hot and dry 36 celsius here on friday afternoon. plenty of rain coming in across much of south asia still with a very heavy rain eastern parts of india up towards bangladesh into myanmar get there

live northern india sinks in very heavy right and that's pushing all the way up into northern pakistan up towards the whole we could well see some flooding coming in here as we go on through the next couple of days notice another pulse of very heavy right pushing up towards bitterroots as we go on through friday. jumped into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and off online be part of the debate let me put some you keep coming steve when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way we could see even equating a business if we're going to adapt to climate breakdown this tree on out is there a. roof over. the

world. the world. you're watching out is there a reminder of our top stories this hour your opinion union says it will oppose sanctions on officials behind a crackdown on protesters and bell roofs allowing this month's disputed elections president alexander lukashenko who won a 6th term in office has ordered his police to stop further unrest and look for the organizers of the demonstrations. leaders in mali have pledged to hold new elections after ousting president abraham protocol cater a delegation of west african leaders is expected to arrive there in the coming hours following an international outcry. how is israel and the united arab emirates push for this normalizing their relations this growing confusion over one

key element of the deal and that's whether the u.a.e. will be able to now gain access to u.s. military hardware specifically f. $35.00 aircraft is ready prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a statement saying he opposes the sale of the warplanes to the u.a.e. but reports in an israeli newspaper suggest the deal includes language that would allow advanced weapon sales to the gulf nation. hundreds of palestinians in the occupied gaza strip are protesting against the u.a.e. israel agreement the 2 nations are great in all lies relations under a u.s. brokered deal demonstrators held placards calling it a betrayal hamas which controls gaza has accused the u.a.e. of stabbing palestinians in the back. joe biden is now the official democratic nominee to take on donald trump and

november's presidential election he was picked on the 2nd night of the party's national convention which for the 1st time was mostly virtual because of chrono virus from washington as alan fischer. this was the moment joe biden officially became the democratic party's nominee for the president of the united states thank you very very much from the bottom my heart thank you all that means the world to me and my family and i'll see you on thursday thank you thank you thank you rhode island the ocean state in a traditional convention the roll call is an important set piece and doing it virtually this time they made it slick and polished its job. this was a night to show the past and the future there were contributions from former president jimmy carter former presidential nominee john kerry and congresswoman alexandra accuser cortez an influential figure on the progressive wing of the party and considered a rising star it was also an appearance from bill clinton the former president

who's lit up conventions in the past given just 5 minutes this time but still getting its message across that a term like this the oval office should be a command center instead it's a storm center is only chaos it's 20 years since bill clinton was president on wednesday he'll celebrate his 74th birthday and he'll still be 3 years younger than the current democratic presidential nominee. former secretary of state colin powell was just one of a number of republicans who also support giving his endorsement to joe biden the values i learned growing up in the south bronx and serving in uniform with the same values that joe biden's parents instilled in him in scranton pennsylvania i support joe biden for the presidency of the united states because those values still define him i have always loved the sound keynote on tuesday was the nominee's wife jill

biden who lined what she thought her husband would deliver for america leadership to really of magic what our nation will be that's joe. he and comma will work as hard as you do every day to make this nation better wednesday will see vice presidential pick deliver her speech that role is normally to attack the opposition to hit them and hit them hard and this time will be no different alan fischer al-jazeera washington. student protesters in thailand a calling for the prime minister to stand down demonstrations have taken place nearly every day for the past month along with the departure of prime minister pray with former military leader i also want a new constitution scott hardly explains why the latest rally is happening at the ministry of education. my school students out here for the ministry of education in central bank on the road testing obviously part of the bigger project but it's been

led by students right across the aisle calling for reform in the government calling for a new constitution to be rapid now it's been peaceful for the most part over these last several weeks and it has been there ever well what their purpose here is what you call for the resignation of the minister of education that is because over the last several days the students of high school campuses are saying teachers and administrators are preventing them from protesting the one thing that may be prevented from doing some of said specifically that 3 finger salute that is no part of the funding for this protest that they are saying the teachers should stop them from doing that so they planned this protest against that move on some campuses across probably what's interesting is that the minister of education on the eve of this protest was said that they should be allowed back to. be should be allowed to express their freedom of expression but some of the students here are skeptical

. i don't think we've won yet because this is between the ministry and the students this does not include the rest of thailand in the past though it was. young man if they don't accept our demands we may come out again to show what we really need and to show we mean business. we're here to the protest the minister of education came out and sat with the protesters no overall the protest movement is not happy with the way the government has been reacting in fact today wednesday during this protest the police department issued 3 rushmore to some of the protest leaders like brigade right. now obviously that's the case and there hasn't been any movement toward those demands of this protest movement we're going to see most protests like this for people coming out to the streets right across thailand. and turning to the coronavirus pandemic and the philippines has the highest number of infections in southeast asia a strict lockdown in the capital manama is easing and many are hoping that'll help spark an economic recovery she made allan duggan reports. joe we did joyce is

checking whether his cash registers still work. you know he owns kathy eighteen's in one of the most popular districts in manila but the restaurant bar has been empty for almost 4 months because of the coronavirus pandemic. before this bar was back. here for 6 years so it's very hard to tell them that. shutting down if nothing happens until december it's a familiar scene all across the philippines businesses are closing at a pace and seen in recent years the philippine government imposed one of the world's strongest strictest lockdowns which lasted from march to june more than 50000000 filipinos were forced to stay at home in the entire region of lasagna but the soaring number of corona virus infections last month forced the government to

announce another lock down 2 weeks ago we want to ensure this. will. some say. especially. the philippine government admits it is forced to open the economy despite the growing number of corona virus infections that is because the country is now in one of its worst periods of recession in recent decades millions of filipinos have lost their jobs and more communities are expected to sink deeper in poverty in the coming months. but there is evidence the impact may be worse than the government says both are social weather station reports close to half of the $27.00 workforce have lost their jobs largely because of economic ripple effects and the closure of businesses the government says it sees the economy rebounding in 20212022 people

you know. look at our situation here for hours just to go to work there under the sun and then we go to work on the beach. although the outlook is bleak government restrictions start easing again on wednesday selected businesses are being allowed to open for 2. joey is preparing to reopen their restaurant he hopes that better days are here again. doug an al-jazeera manila. south korea is reporting nearly $300.00 new cases of coronavirus the highest in 5 months many recent cases are linked to a church group in seoul the church pastor tested positive after attending an anti-government rally at the weekend 6000 police officers who were on duty are being tested new restrictions on gatherings have been imposed in the capital and

surrounding areas so. many people were led to serang who are being tested all waiting to get tested and mentioned frictions continuously break out in other regions so we expect to see an increasing trend in the number of new patients until this week it's our priority to slow down the virus spread through quick tracing and testing and social distancing this week will mark the most critical in preventing further mess spread. airline passengers in colombia can fly nationwide again domestic flights have been grounded for 5 months because of the virus lock down president so i've a duke a who greeted some arriving passengers says the restart is an important step in reviving the economy estimated latin america airlines will lose 4000000000 dollars this year. dozens of wildfires in california have forced the state's governor to declare an emergency evacuation orders are in effect in the napa county wine region

north of san francisco and everyone's being asked to conserve electricity to avoid rolling power blackouts the 3 gorges dam in china is facing its biggest test since it opened 18 years ago record high river levels are expected on thursday morning southern china has been lashed by weeks of heavy downpours dozens of people have died or are still missing as a result katrina you reports from beijing. for more than 1200 years this giant put a statue has stood strong in china's lotion city now the world heritage site is threatened by the worst flooding in decades in southern china weeks of torrential rains have lashed the region causing devastating flooding in villages towns and cities asia's longest river the yangtze and several of its tributaries have risen to dangerous levels forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in all around 60000000 are affected by the flood disaster the 3 gorges dam the largest hydroelectric project

in the world is facing the largest flood peaks in 14 years ago engineers estimate the flow rate at the dam will be $76000.00 cubic metres per 2nd on thursday morning but they say they're confident the double hold that them can keep the water levels within a safe range relieving pressure on the middle in the lower reaches of the river president xi jinping told flood affected areas in our province one choose day meeting residents and calling for better natural disaster response measures we must abide by and know the law of nature at a we was a cowardly way our strong capability of resisting the last as last week china's leaders called on all chinese to reduce food waste this serious to verify that has wiped out so much time is more spent quarter farming regions the extreme weather combined with the slow recovery up to the coronavirus pandemic has prompted fears over the sensitives the damage to china's economy is estimated at $27000000000.00

heavy rain and flooding a common across southern china at this time of year but this year it's being described as a once in a century. al-jazeera beijing. i don't forget you can always find much more on our website the address for that is our just era dot com. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder now of the top stories european union says it will impose sanctions on officials behind a crackdown on protesters and by the roots following this month's disputed elections leaders of the bloc held an emergency meeting where they rejected the outcome of the vote and called for an end to president alexander lukashenko long rule. today we gave them 3 clear messages.

firstly we stand by the people of belarus who won fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence christian and false if occasion of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power in bellows. and in minsk president because shankar has ordered the police to stop further demonstrations against his leadership he's asked his intelligence agencies to look for organizers of street protests he's also stepping up security along the border it's to prevent what he calls fighters and arms from entering the coup leaders in mali have pledged to hold new elections after else to present it to him boubacar kater the delegation of west african b. this is expected to arrive there in the coming hours following an international outcry in nigeria the our group boko haram has launched an attack on

a kook our town that's in borno state there are reports of kidnapping boosting and awsome. the u.n. says its ability to tackle the world's worst humanitarian crisis in yemen has been badly hit by a lack of funding it says the shortfall has forced it to close or cut back half of its major aid programs they include efforts to prevent famine and fight a cholera epidemic parts of southwest china are experiencing some of their worst flooding in nearly 40 years of water from the yangtze river burst their banks in sichuan province and in the city of chongqing but i just have been submerged among the 100000 people taken to higher ground was the headline stay with us here i'll just there up next is just straight. in late august joe biden and donald trump will finally become the official presidential candidate but the ongoing coronavirus

pandemic sees the democratic national convention going virtual and the republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration follow the u.s. conventions on al-jazeera. i am for the 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 alang go call the police because her brother who had mental health issues was acting strangely this is what happens. for the ok so the police there. they shot another black person and i are you in the war and the lady is saying she called them for help and not to.