taking up the farce against the military star white let's go to radical surgery one o one a steve instigates as the chinese battle to get in shape on al-jazeera really understand the differences in the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we've been losing calendars that matter to you. that violence that our authorities showed the russian people i considered to be their greatest mistake about a russian election challenger tells al-jazeera people won't forget the law and crackdown as we hear evidence of torture by police. a lot of i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera and so coming up on

the program russian dissident alexina valley arrives in germany for treatment tests for poison are on the way. u.s. house of representatives set to pass protections for the postal service and mail in ballots. what could a german pop concert and some science tell us about how to get life back on track with coronavirus. hello welcome to the program the exiled leader of bellaver says opposition has told al jazeera the people of her country will never forgive the police for their violent crackdown we've been hearing evidence of brutal beatings at the hands of the authorities following that disputed presidential election i have a report on that shortly but 1st that line of chicken off sky

a tells us that protests will continue until president alexander lukashenko steps down she's currently in exile in lithuania for her safety but she told my colleague followed by a temple she wants to return home. you know i'm going back to paris i want to go back to bill who say adore my country and i will go there now when i feel safe. do you not feel safe where you are today no i am see here in the green year but i don't feel safe in their wrists now do you fear for your husband who is back in balad rules. the show i do here for my husband the same is i i'm wondering about all the bill russian people who are struggling for their rights

you are urging your supporters now to step up strike despite intimidation i mean you yourself led by the rules because you didn't feel safe as you've said president look at shankar right now shows no sign of backing down nearly 2 weeks after this election was held he's even vata quassia unrest in the coming days are you not concerned that they could be more violence and more bloodshed if the movement continues. you know. that violence that our authorities showed the russian people i consider to be their greatest mistake and i call for. authorities not to repeat this mistake because our people the real never never forget and will give these to our president but what about your movement what's your

message to the people who are still taking to the streets even if in smaller numbers if the protests turned violent again will you order them to stop. you know i can't order and you thin to the russian people it's only the wrong decision. meanwhile in the better russian capital men's conference of women had for formed human chains to protest against the crackdown on demonstrators almost 7000 people were arrested during the 1st 4 days of post-election protests human rights groups say the violence was systematically planned by top leadership and they've compiled 500 cases of torture step vasant is inside belarus has been to meet detainees in minsk. worse than a horror movie that's how to family describe their ordeal inside a detention center the entire family was detained on august 10th the evening after

protests started against a disputed presidential election police responded with violence and detained nearly 7000 people across ballarat it's very situation and these are guys who are beating and. they have. have. they can do whatever they want so they have like the hearth permission. 16 year old me or most of her family member to be detained he was walking with his mother when police grabbed him there was no protest at a time when christina a marketing analyst and her husband and a doctor went to a police station to look for him and they too were detained they were taken to a christina detention center in minsk where many detainees have said they were tortured. this time no doubt as devotes a paulist to all the women were forced to completely undress and they were filming us on their phones then we moved to the floor where naked men when kneeling hands

behind their backs i could only think about my son's friend who saw her father naked in this position when she turned her head away she was beaten christina who is a diabetic says she lost consciousness after being refused medication she was kept with 34 women for 3 nights in a cell meant to hold 4 people. we should look at china mama men were screaming for their mothers there with the sounds of electroshocks sons of horus sounds of beatings and there were women in our cell who knew their children were among them and their husbands too it was horrifying it was more horrible than being beaten ourselves we were afraid that they had captured the whole city and they would kill everybody they were shouting at us that they would do that. martyrs outside little attention santa kept shouting their children's names mitterrand was released after 6 hours i have no illusions. of the state.

just experienced and faced with the worst experience of looking for my parents and where they were it was terrible and i just found the. salary this people being in power after looking around the country for his parents miron found them after 3 anxious days the discover family and others who have been detained here at this detention center in minsk of ours their lawyers to file cases for on lawful the attention of human rights groups don't believe their cases will ever go to court because bellows has not signed the rome statute there's no international court to try to either human rights groups are now preparing hundreds of testimonies to be sent to the un committee against torture so they are not protect people from the state the state can do everything with the people will have more and more political motivated cases and more and more political prisoners but. you know people not like him anymore. that's

a reality like many others who were detained and abused after the election of the family sas that fear has now been replaced by anger and this anger they say has now united to balance people like never before stop france and al-jazeera minsk. russian opposition leader alexina valley has been transferred to a hospital in the german capital to receive emergency treatment for suspected poisoning russian doctors had initially said he was too sick to be moved from a hospital in the siberian city of aunts but they changed their position late on friday after he was seen by german doctors dominic kane reports this is where these journey has brought him berlin's world renowned chef hospital and the start of treatment his supporters hope will save the life of one of russia's most

prominent dissidents he was brought here on board a special flight from siberia the man whose group arranged the journey says now than his condition remains paul insists if someone falls on promises that was basically it's very worrying we're all happy that he's landed safely here in berlin but it doesn't mean anything in itself because his physical condition is still of concern it's clear that if his original flight hadn't made the emergency landing in arms when it did he would have died of staff here have immediate relevant recent experience of treating patients with the sorts of symptoms that alexy now than any has come here with now they get the chance to find out what exactly is in his system and how they go about removing it but how it got there in the 1st place remains unclear now families friends and family believe he drank tea that had been poisoned just before he boarded a flight to moscow from thompson they say officials in russia then deliberately

delayed his transfer to berlin to allow time for what ever was in his system to degrade making it harder to identify. the authorities at the russian hospital where he was treated deny this. we have come to the conclusion that judging by the fact that there were no poisons found in his blood or other biological materials he has a metabolic disorder lowering of blood sugar levels to be specific due to a rapid change of pressure everyone thinks it was during takeoff but if you ask move but i see my legs you know vani is well known for his fight against corruption in his country but right now his fight is just to survive dominant cain al-jazeera bulletin. now in our top stories today the u.s. house of representatives is meeting in a rare saturday session to discuss funding for the postal service which has become a key issue in the run up to this year's presidential election the democratic

controlled house is set to approve $25000000000.00 of extra funding and blocked changes to the system before november's election representatives have cut their holiday short over concerns the cost cutting measures planned by the service his boss a trump donor could slow down the delivery of ballots the postmaster general is saying we're going to have not do any of this until after the election our legislation is not just about the election it's about surprise surprise mr postmaster general the coronavirus coded 19 which has a big impact on the election as well as 1st and foremost on the health of the american people so this isn't just about until after the election if there can be trusted it's about the length as we say in the bill the end of january or the end of coronavirus which other takes longer. so that's going to

call him now he joins us from capitol hill and patty in terms of this photo it's expected to pass the democratic controlled house but it looks more in the senate it does the because the republican leader mitch mcconnell has said he doesn't favor bringing up this bill on its own that though could change in the house speaker nancy pelosi is saying that she thinks he'll change his mind and here's why constituents have been flooding in the offices not just here in washington but back at home for these members of the house and senate both political parties because this is a widespread problem it's not just about the election the u.s. postal service is sort of the backbone of the u.s. economy especially during a pandemic it's not only small businesses that need their goods to arrive on time and that's not happening the vast majority of veterans in this country get their prescriptions through the mail and they've been telling harrowing stories about having to skip their medicine or drive for hours after hours to try and get it in

person and it's also in a large part how social security checks get said to the american people and what you're seeing now is pretty much across the board people are calling to complain and say look i sent out my rent check it was late and i'm being charged late fees so this could be a widespread problem now mitch mcconnell has said he doesn't want to bring it up but if enough members of his own party say that they are taking the political heat for this back home he could bring it up but right now the senate is back home where the house was supposed to be they're not usually here on a saturday and they're never here in august really there has to be a recess but the democrats say this is an emergency and has to be handled right now so potentially depending on what happens in the senate 25000000000 for the postal service so what happens with that money will actually make its way to the service to i suppose mitigate any damage that might have already been done. well if stuff

is really even about the money as much as basically what this inspector general postmaster general has done as you mentioned lucerne joy is a trump loyalist he's a mega donor and since he's come in he's instituted major changes to the post office which is in bad financial shape but he's done things like get rid of high speed stores hundreds of them just pulled out of sorting centers gotten rid of overtime for some people changed the procedures basically taken mailboxes just off the street hundreds of them are just been removed and these are put mailboxes that have been there for decades so that's what democrats say is causing this delay and in this bill they would say you have to get back and change those procedures now after this was found out in the complaints started piling up he said he wouldn't put any more changes into place until after the election the democrats are saying that's not good enough you need to put all those machines back in the sorting centers you need to let people have over time so that's in this bill that would

have the bridge broader consequences because it would have the force of congress and he would really be forced to do that but then again it's not clear that this is going to come up remember this is all become very political because the u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly said without any evidence that if there is mail in ballot mail in voting they'll never be another republican president he said that there's voter fraud although there's literally no evidence of widespread voter fraud in this situation but the president has made it clear that he is opposed to this and so what you see on the floor right now as they continue to bait a lot of republicans coming out and saying this is a made up issue again the 2 sides are very much entrenched this matters not just because people's lives are being impacted but because because of the pandemic for the 1st time more than 3 quarters of americans are going to be allowed to cast their ballot in the upcoming election by mail the postal service has said if nothing changes the vast majority of states many ballots will not arrive in time to be counted in. many states if it's not there by november 3rd by election day then

the those votes simply get thrown out so this matters not just for people but for the upcoming elections political and of public health issue thank you very much patty calling and capitol hill. and watching out is there a life from london still ahead thousands of lightning strikes ignite some of the largest wildfires in california history and then we look at the syrian migrants who were injured in beirut's deadly explosion have been left to fend for themselves. but. how we got more wet time windy weather spilling into northwestern parts of europe because of an area of low pressure still very much in place a blustery showers rattling across all and then the u.k. got some cooler air behind this cold fronts here just to the northwest ahead of

that still getting up to some decent temperatures getting up to around 35 in bucharest and in belgrade but the temperatures for the vienna for warsaw they're going to be falling away as we go on through the next couple of days still some showers there across the northwest and possibly down across the low countries and on towards scandinavia temperatures about where they should be for the time if you're in a similar picture as we go on into a monday perhaps a little more cloud around for england and wales perhaps want to havea showers in the process the heavier showers will be a little further south than a some heavy downpours there just around the else then that law in of wet weather that's going to continue pushing its way further east with best of the sunshine is into southern parts of the robber few showers there in sioux italy one to 2 shows to the eastern parts of spain heavy showers meanwhile continue across central parts of africa they are still a little further than they should be creeping up into the sun help us see some wet weather there even into new ship with some cloud and right all the way up into western parts of africa with big downpours for sierra leone and guinea.

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come back and look at the headlines now better russian opposition leaders fat on ticking off skier's told al-jazeera that a country's people will never fit to give police for a crackdown on protesters it's been nearly 2 weeks in stemming straightest started rallying against president alexander lukashenko has disputed election victory. a russian opposition leader alexina valmy is being treated at a german hospital for suspected poisoning he was airlifted overnight from russia after doctors who had initially delayed his evacuation allowed him to leave. and the u.s. house of representatives is preparing to vote on $25000000000.00 in support of the postal service head of november's election but critics say cost cutting plans that would favor president trump by slowing the to live free of ballots. now west african envoys are holding talks with mali's new military leaders with a push to return to civilian rule a jury as for president goodluck jonathan is leading the delegation from the

economic community of west african states the eco last president who was ousted in a coup on tuesday rebel soldiers say they plan to appoint a transitional leader they haven't given any timeframe for that but there is. appreciate what is happening in mali and they will have to work the best. way here to disperse or that you stick with it live at the end of the come up with some to face with the people and wait. that's not. ahmed idris is following developments from a budget and says the aim from the envoys the aims don't necessarily match those from the coup leaders realistically to achieve in what they would like to have been but marco it's hard to say however one key thing is the. indication that the course is somehow softening its initial stance and rhetoric about the coup in

mali 1st day 2nd day after the coup was executed of course and i want a rough tough measures thing to land and air blockade of mali. sort of restricting trade and money inflow from member countries into mali as well as other measures that include suspending the country from membership of the organization decision making bodies so right now mild their course also said it wants a swift return of biblical cater to power which of course is becoming more and more difficult to achieve so when goodluck jonathan arrived this small itself to be his statement points to the phrase that the course realize the situation they're in and both sides has what the other ones 1st of all because it's key to get brian borcherdt kater and members of his cabinet out of out of the military detention and the military want some form of recognition an easing of tough sanctions against them by of course and the international community. the president of ivory coast

will go for a controversial term after formally accepting the ruling party's nomination for his election allison what tara argues his term limit was we set when a new constitution was adopted in 2016 the opposition accuses him of attempting to violate the limits of 2 terms he was asked to consider running again after the death of his party's chosen successor prime minister ahmed to. july. now thousands of people are protesting near the israeli prime minister's office in west jerusalem demanding that he be that he step down demonstrations against benjamin netanyahu has been taking place for a while now each weekend protesters are angry at the economic fallout from a quote a virus pandemic in the way in which the government has handled that but they're also not happy expressing their discontent over these corruption charges national

is ongoing trial for corruption of course the prime minister denies the allegations all of this is a fair bit of tension within the governing coalition that's been a long running story as well but here we have protesters who've gathered in west jerusalem. is recorded more than a 1000 new coronavirus case in the last 24 hours the worse daily figure since the lockdown was lifted in may health officials are blaming people who are returning from holidays many of whom are young and asymptomatic more than $35000.00 people have died in italy once the epicenter of europe's outbreak daily infections in spain and france are also at their highest level for months this is all causing concern that the region is seeing the start of a 2nd wave. now a governor of california has appealed to australia and canada for help to fight hundreds of wildfires early 565 now burning across the state after that now but doubled in a single day at least 6 people have been killed dozens of others have been entered

but manley has the latest. stunning pictures of what was like a terrifying drive through the hennessey area of northern california. that these claims are part of a series of wildfires sweeping across the region the largest the state has seen in nearly 2 decades. tool in 2000 square kilometers torching homes structures and trees a series nearly 12000 lightning strikes this week sparked the fires california's governor says all 5 pounds of those is a being used to mine and i'll scream for help we now are gage formally with mutual aid from 10 different states we've been on the phone with governors all throughout the united states not just the western states trying to reach out as far as the east coast to see if we can get resources here into the state of california address

the stress that we placed on the 12000 plus firefighters that are on the lines as we speak trying to suppress these wildfires all up and down the state of california wildfires is a battling day and night from the air and land in an attempt to limit the destruction as the fire spreads reduces the becoming gas california has struggled with the largest number of covert 900 cases in the u.s. and the state is known still if it can deployed to tackle the fires and its residents suffering. tens of thousands have been forced to leave the home many are afraid of what they'll find when they come by tomorrow maybe you know no more but pretty much and i'm thinking we're going to go out. i'm really worried. there were birds down there she gave. pollution monitors show this week the san francisco bay area is having the worst. world people here choking

i can't get enough air oxygen and especially with this mask you have to keep an eye on the lightning strikes the couth the fires along with the high winds have created the perfect conditions for these flames and with similar weather predicted in the coming days the mighty continue to. lure about a man the al-jazeera. wildfires while devastating are to be expected at this time of year but snow in australia that's much rarer people in new south wales came out to enjoy the novelty weather winds blowing north from antarctica triggering triggering is a rare phenomenon across the southeast asia ologist say over a meter of snow has fallen in some mountain regions and the cold weather is likely to remain for several days some areas covered in snow was suffering bushfires just earlier this year. now the massive explosion in beirut earlier this month killed

more than $200.00 people and injured thousands of others it's not just lebanese citizens who are affected by this hundreds of syrian ally grants were also among the victims united nations and aid agencies are providing help but they haven't been able to reach everyone saying a hunter a pause from payer it. 2 weeks after he was injured and where most of us pain hasn't eased knocked unconscious from the blast at beirut port he spent a few days in hospital and is now left to deal with his injuries alone the father of 6 is a syrian migrant worker who are among the worst hit being left out of an already struggling system is not hard. can i go for a check up these no one to take me someone was supposed to pick me up 5 days ago to scan my heed and i'm very dizzy i can't get up. hundreds of syrians were injured in the explosion many worked and lived near the

port there were also 30 percent of the more than 180 people confirmed dead and they too are among those unaccounted for. who is truly when my daughter died it was pretty thick from. the. tuesday on everybody wife broke her buck and she needs leg surgery and cannot move my other daughter or broken bones on her neck. the cato family lived here for 13 years like so many others they had no idea the smoke that was billowing from the port less than a kilometer away would trigger such a devastating explosion that is why the family was outside when it happened. falling debris killed allie kino's 16 year old daughter sidra the family has since moved in with the eldest son mahmoud whose home is too small and income too little to care for them in an unwelcoming country. the hospital where my father

was treated demanded money even though the ministry of health said a cup of the cost for all the victims hospital management insisted syrians had to pay we managed to discharge him after a journalist who was at the hospital brought attention to our case. the nearly bankrupt state has been largely absent in relief efforts but even before the blast human rights groups have documented how syrian refugees and migrants are discriminated against the keno family hopes they will receive support from the un which is helping 100000 lebanese and syrians rebuild their homes. i don't know where i will be in the near future i'm at my son's right you know i don't know what is next to the world with. the explosion destroyed neighborhoods devastated lives and people's livelihoods but for those who already live on the margins of society the road to recovery has to start. beirut.

many countries are now a cow to get a bit of normality back to spite the continuing spread of the corona virus and in germany that means a pop concert authorities put on this show in a light big to try and learn more about how a crowd could transmit the virus around 1500 volunteers were given medical grade facemasks disinfectant and tracking gadgets mean scientists can follow their movements and highlight which surfaces are touched most frequently. quick recap of the headlines now but the russian opposition leaders felt on a taken off sky has told al-jazeera the country's people will never forgive the police for cracking down on protesters it's been nearly 2 weeks since president alexander lukashenko declared victory in a disputed election sparking nationwide protests on saturday demonstrations formed

human chains to rally against the police's violent response to kind of sky fled to lithuania after fearing for her own safety but has called for the demonstrations to continue. that violence that our 3rd has showed to the russian people i considered to be greatest mistake and i cool for. authorities not to repeat this mistake because our people the real near are unable to get and will give these to our own president. or a russian opposition leader alexina valley is being treated in a german hospital for suspected poisoning he was airlifted from the siberian city of homs after russian doctors allowed him to leave the valley supporters believe he drank a cup of tea laced with poison on thursday hospital in the german capital says the doctors are carrying out extensive tests. the u.s.

house of representatives is preparing to vote on $25000000000.00 in support of the postal service ahead of november's election critics say cost cutting plans would favor president charm by slowing the delivery of. also along democrats by claiming without evidence that made in ballots could be used for electoral fraud. west african envoys are holding talks with mali's new military leaders pushing for a return to civilian rule nigeria's for president goodluck jonathan is leading the delegation from the economic community of west african states. mali's president because he was ousted in a coup on tuesday rebel soldiers say they plan to appoint a transitional lead up but they've not given any specific time frame for that. next looking at the poor students fighting for a place at one of india's most prestigious universities i have more news for you off to that in about half an hour.