now jazeera selects palestinians. be the hero the world needs. washing. we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and falsification of the results of the election tough talk from the e.u. a clear message to those in power for free and fair elections in belarus. logan peace it will be here global headquarters in doha you're without a 0 also coming up mali isolated and now suspended from the african union after

soldiers removed the president in a coup. u.s. vice presidential candidate carmel heresies heritage is becoming a strength for her campaign and a target for her opponents. relentless rain bring severe flooding to southwestern china washing away crops and hope. the e.u. says is standing by the people of belarus centers called violence against anti-government protesters the shocking and unacceptable leaders held an emergency meeting today where they agreed on sanctions against those responsible for the crackdown they have rejected the outcome of this month's disputed elections on the cold front end of president alexander lukashenko has 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 repression and falsification of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows. well in the embattled president mr lucas has ordered the police to stop more demonstrations against his leadership he's asked his intelligence agencies to look for organizers of the street protests he's also stepping up security along the borders to prevent what he calls fighters and arms from entering the country star vastness following those developments out of minsk with the mood on the streets does seem to be 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. instead of euphoria it's

now fear again. 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 of her 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 head of 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 russia meanwhile is

accusing foreign powers of trying to meddle not in barbara has been following those reactions. from statements from the kremlin saying that there is no need for outside involvement they have strongly rejected what they call meddling so a gay lover of the russian foreign minister on wednesday said that the e.u. leaders statements were driven by geopolitics and the basically he said they vest dance was being driven by their own interests rather than the interests of the country of bellerose he did say interesting lee that he thought the election could have been run better and that he hoped that the opposition in belarus could enter into dialogue with the ruling powers there but he said that really what happens now is nobody else's business but with the sport we are concerned with the attempts from the outside to use the internal difficulties in bill reuss which the people

and the leadership are facing in order to meddle in these events they're imposing rules until russians which external players only see as beneficial for themselves so after the talks broke up in fact we've heard from alexander lukashenko about how he plans to go after the protesters and people who've been on strike now there was there were reports of a secret service his plane arriving from russia earlier on wednesday it makes it likely or at least possible that the russian government for the time being is saying to lucas schenker we are going to back you up we're certainly not going to call for new elections let alone talk about who will be replacing you so lots of fear on the streets given those are warnings about what will happen to protesters from alexander lukashenko for the moment russia saying we're not involved we're not meddling but behind the scenes like they certainly are talking to people in minsk.

ok let's just show you some the latest pictures coming to us out of mali because the african union has now suspended the country from the block after tuesday's military coup that forced the president abraham akita to step down military leaders have just wrapped up a news conference happening there it happened at the last 30 minutes or so outside the military barracks where the coup began in the town of carty 15 kilometers from the capital bamako earlier they said they would help aid the countries transition to a new government and organize what they called credible elections ecowas along with the united states condemning the military takeover has charles stratford. soldiers gone the residents of mali's president. in the capital bamako. prime minister bruce a say detained here and choose day as rumors of a coup spread president kater appeared on state television announcing his resignation this would. lead to this bill to keep me in power and that's why i

would like to think a 1000000 people for their warmth i am telling you know it i'm resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced the dissolution of the assembly and the governor. to us responded forcefully to the coup isolating mali through 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. we are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government out of. the soldiers began living to me at a base on the outskirts of bamako the same base that sword 2012 uprising would open the way to cater his presidency heavily armed troops willing to seen a school sing 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. ok to his face 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 struggled to contain an armed insurgency that's claimed thousands of lives. so it is a member of mali's opposition coalition known as the m 5 r.f.p. he says the coup leaders will have to honor their promise to hold an election. at least once i don't think they have a choice you know nice popular movement that started few months ago and for about 2 months now we've 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 that minister the people who run us on this with 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 done so it's too early for us to say whether they will expect that wars or not but i can guarantee you that we are fighting just like was simply this weekend to make sure that 40 and

back government would be a thing the peace for we got together because we made it an addition that bad governance has taken some some very very dangerous steps and as you said we lost 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 have confidence that we'll be working on some of the issues but the main sticking point would be the role of immediately and if we go on a spot for democratic government and with you doing so and i think that's with them our or what role they would like to play in. in nigeria the group boko haram has launched an attack on koala town that's in borno state there are reports of kidnapping looting and awsome. the un 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 an epidemic

of cholera and a conference in june raised just half of the $2400000000.00 required to cover operations until the end of this year the bloomberg news agency is reporting a twitter 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 or acting as spies for saudi arabia the information was then reportedly used to harris or arrest critical voices the arabic network for human rights informations as the timing of the twitter breach and the arrests indicate they are linked. hundreds of palestinians in the gaza strip again protested against the u.a.e. normalizing its relationship with israel the 2 nations agreed to normalize ties under u.s. brokered deal hamas which controls gaza is accusing the u.a.e. of stopping palestinians in the back crowds in the occupied west bank are also protesting against the deal the rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah have shown

a rare united front by holding joint rallies al-jazeera snigger abraham has more now from the occupied west bank. this is the 1st translation of the joint work both the house and hamas about to do again but it's really expected in an exaggeration hundreds have gathered here in response to an invitation by biello the national and islamic factions against an exemption and the u.a.e. is a plan to normalize with israel on tuesday those amassing an islamic jihad there is at the end of the leadership meeting in which the message was clear no one has the right to speak on behalf of the palestinian people and that the p.l.o. is the sole and legitimate representative of the palestinian people so this is a message of unity and while it will junction you ease deal.

that's what happened in the leadership meeting on tuesday should have happened years ago it's time for us to know that we have no one else to support us but our own unity. the argument that if you got a vision is a betrayal for palestinian cause and for the arab and muslim nations we came to send a message to out of nations and to our immediate brothers to repudiate the israeli him or not the agreement because it is a patrician for the palestinian cause rerouted here and will continue all kinds of resistance and you confirm that such normalization will not grant legitimacy doesn't list and. the same sense of unity was reflected in the gaza strip. hundreds from different palestinian factions have also participated in protest denouncing normalization some of the signs held in the protests read that palestine is not for sale while the iraqis are saying that their agreement with israel has managed to stop the next ation palestinians say that annexation is

a reality to illegal israeli settlements are built here on the lands of village where the protest is being held and they are expanding just like other settlements in different areas in the occupied west bank and the fear here is that more arab states are going to be normalizing relations with israel leaving palestinians alone in their fight still to come here on al-jazeera the man to take on donald trump joe biden is formally confirmed as the democratic nominee in the race for the white house. we should say things turning a little quieter 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

stone the wet weather will be farther north long line of cloud and right here this weather front here is the meyer front the stationary front which will make it swell little further southwards as we go into thursday slipping down into the allies say on parts of china seas and heavy right send in the case to into north korea and we go on into friday sings a little further still just south of the border into south korea but for good part a career should be largely 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

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come back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour the european union has rejected the election of president alexander lukashenko and bellows is also in and sanctions against those behind a crackdown on protestors that. mali's military leaders say they'll hold new elections after i was to the president abraham but the key to the african union has suspended mali from the lawn and ecowas has condemned the place yesterday palestinians in both gaza and the occupied west bank are protesting against the u.a.e. normalizing relations with israel wyvil groups hamas and fatah showing a rare front of unity by jointly holding a rally. oil producing nations say the market is recovering slower than was expected because of the growing risks of a 2nd wave of covert 19 infections ministers from opec and its allies held a virtual summit sort of you compliance with oil cuts the group theory agreed in

april to slash output by about 10 percent after a fall in demand because of the pandemic. iraq's prime minister is on his 1st official visit to the u.s. army is expected to meet donald trump on thursday he's pushing for continued u.s. assistance to counter the threat posed by isis but no longer in the form of military support on the ground more than $5000.00 u.s. troops are still stationed inside iraq i will add to. the united states of america and iraq are both in the same train when it comes to fighting eisel and we are still in the same drainage we will work together to defeat the terrorist elements factions and groups in iraq. the united states is committed to supporting iraqi security forces including through the nato mission and the global coalition to defeat isis to curb the power of militias that have for far too long terrorized the iraqi people and undermined iraq's national sovereignty a judge in lebanon has ordered several arrests of the explosion in beirut on august

the 4th the blast killed more than $200.00 people and left parts of the city in ruins earlier this month 25 people in total and facing charges but many are calling for more accountability is in a small. inconsolable the families of firefighters killed in the port explosion say their goodbyes. they were among the 1st responders as the disaster unfolded 2 weeks there are still more questions than answers on what caused the blast that destroyed lives and many areas of the lebanese capital which aren't most when they arrived they saw the whole of the smoke and they thought they needed more help from the fire department they called the operation room again and told them we need backup. before the biggest blast firefighters were pictured trying to enter a burning warehouse. they weren't warned about the thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. initial investigations so just maintenance work could have triggered

several explosions before the massive one. it's emerged that everyone at the highest levels of government including the president were aware that the chemicals were stored in the warehouse for years without proper safety precautions journalists such as riyadh could basically who have been physically attacked over the years for investigating corruption at beirut port have documents that show years of in action and negligence failed to dispose of the explosive chemicals on my person experience while you. say because they didn't see any danger and they only. want $1500000.00 these are appointed by mafias elected via democratic process the state is weak and its institutions are controlled by political parties who have been in power for decades the case is now in the hands of the judiciary to determine where the ammonium nitrate came from who shipped it and who was responsible for handling and securing

it police have sealed off the area around warehouse 12 investigators are at the site of the blast which has come to symbolize the decades of corruption and mismanagement plaguing the country's institutions the caretaker prime minister has . who resigned under public pressure following the explosion didn't mince his words when he said corruption is bigger than the state french an f.b.i. agents are helping forensic teams but the lebanese government is refusing an international investigation many lebanese have little faith in a judiciary that is appointed by politicians in your investigative judge was. it was a search or worse 1st choice exclude the ones you hired. also just because they. stop. because they aren't that's done little to calm public anger many fear those responsible will get away with the crime lebanon's leaders who 1st promised

a swift and transparent investigation are now saying it's complex and may take time . beirut the former lebanese prime minister hariri has been to his father's grave the day after the u.n. by tribunals delivered a verdict on his assassination mr hariri was at the hague on tuesday with a court found one of 4 hezbollah members guilty over a freak murder in 2005 all the men were tried in absentia. joe biden is now the official democratic nominee to take on donald trump in 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 covert 19 from washington ellen fisher. 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 raise the world in me and my family and i'll see you on thursday thank you thank you thank you rhode island the oceans stay in a traditional convention the roll call is an important set piece and doing it virtually this time they made it slick and polished showed sound 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 a keshia 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 his message across at a time 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 spoke 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 outlined what she thought her husband would deliver for america leadership to re matches what our nation will be that's joe he and kaamelott 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 type will be no different alan fischer al-jazeera washington well the v.p. nominee speech at the convention is expected to focus on her groundbreaking role she is just the 4th woman to appear on a major party election ticket and she's the 1st woman of color particle hain reports. when former vice president joe biden announced the person who wanted to take his old job the campaign made it clear that they saw senator kemal her says heritage as a major strength my mother and father they came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in america. one from india and the other from jamaica that makes her the 1st woman of color on a major party's presidential ticket and the 1st of asian descent and it didn't look

at this fight for her it has we're not used to seeing black women in these roles she is a temp black woman elected to the u.s. senate we have never seen a black woman on the court even before her selection her race was a target for the trump family the president's son don jr retreated and then deleted an argument that she isn't african-american because her father is jamaican political analysts doubt that will have an impact i think that it's important or people to drown out that kind of noise i think once you have had young african-american experience in this country you're an african-american you know her parents her all that was generated when she was an african-american much like rock obama's father was african reason african american but her selection and ancestry could help the campaign in a new way asian americans are the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in the electorate accounting for 5 percent of people eligible to vote. trump could have

been trying to reach those voters over the years he has made a big deal of his relationship with the indian prime minister but some activists don't think that will sway you many voters of asian descent there are people who came here recently or in the past whose predominant singular focus is how is the u.s. behavior towards india is there. and everywhere or has. very few of those who born and brought up here it's a. second generation. quite frankly as the nominee she now receives protection from the secret service she's reportedly picked a very appropriate call sign they will now refer to her ex as paneer. al-jazeera. in an industrial area in the u.s. state of texas firefighters wrote the scene in the city of grand prairie the blaze

appears to be burning close to power lines and what looks like several explosions can be seen spain's reported the highest number of daily coronavirus infection since it came out of a strict law only june 3750 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours madrid saw the highest increase in the number of cases regional governments of started reimposing restriction from nightlife and public transport they were lifted weeks ago now. the world's biggest hydro power project china's 3 gorges dam 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 rain and poison dozens of people have died or they're still missing as a result katrina you know 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 with being a safe range relieving pressure on the middle in the lower reaches of the river president xi jinping told flood affected areas in adelaide province one choose day meeting residents and calling for better natural disaster response measures we must abide by and know the laws 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 year severe flooding has wiped out so much time is most important farming regions the extreme weather combined with slow recovery after the coronavirus pandemic has prompted fear is over since its 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 katrina al-jazeera beijing. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories the european union has rejected the reelection of president alexander lukashenko reducing the vote was in free or fair is also sanctioning those it deems responsible for cracking down on protests against the result. today here we gave them 3 clear

messages. firstly we stand by the people of belarus one fundamental freedoms and democracy. secondly we will sanction all those responsible for violence repression and force if occasion of the results of the election and thirdly we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and bellows. in minsk mr lucas incurs all of the police to stop more demonstrations against his leadership he's asked his intelligence agencies to look for organizers of street protests is also stepping up security along the borders to prevent what he calls fighters and arms from entering mali's military leaders say will hold new elections after ousting president ibrahim booker into the african union has suspended mali from the block and ecowas the u.s.

and the e.u. have all condemned the coup on tuesday palestinians in gaza and the occupied west bank are protesting against the u.a.e. normalizing relations with israel rival groups hamas and fatah are showing a rare unified front by jointly holding a rally the u.n. says his 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 spain has reported the highest number of daily coronavirus infection since it came out of a strict lock down in late june 3750 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours more than 100000 people in the south west of china been moved to higher ground after the worst flooding in decades the young see as burst its banks in one province and one city but sit up next witness by.

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