it's together that's why al jazeera is so important we make those connections. tens of thousands defy warnings to rally against the venerable esteemed president alexander lukashenko russia calls for national dialogue. play you watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to bore also ahead libyan warlord khalifa haftar rejects calls for a ceasefire by the un recognized government. protesters are back on the streets in southern iraq as debt deadline for the local governors resignation expires plus.

i'm waiting for a reporting from showing my in northern thailand we will tell you why an old protest movement may be about to hit the streets again. thank you very much for joining us tens of thousands of demonstrators in bella defying warnings to rally against president alexander lukashenko is the latest wave of protests against his disputed reelection earlier this month sonia gago has the latest. united in one cause they gathered in the streets and in the squares of the by the recent capital minsk since the disputed presidential vote in august 9th protesters have defied the authorities and have been gathering every day calling for an end to present the question because 26 year old despite the continued threats of a violent crackdown opposition supporters say they won't. give up ahead of sunday's

rally the bellary song rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching any unrest monuments and statues would not be tolerated and they not the police would see to that on saturday in the city of good old no in the west so the man at the center of this wave of discontent alexandr look at shankar railed against the opposition supporters queues nato of deliberately positioning its forces by the country's western border and the army to defend its territory but there you were not the nato forces are approaching we understood this last year when they announced drills coronaviruses slowed them down a bit now the situation from their point of view has become unstable and they've switched back to operation and they've deployed all their troops we can see this. nato has dismissed the question because accusations as baseless only a few days ago strikes and protests to take place here but

a heavy handed response from the authorities provoked further outrage along with threats of job losses if state employees the president's traditional support base go on strike again the belarus is opposition leaders for atlanta to cut off sky his flight to laboring lithuania this is not a movement that is disappearing and she's urged her supporters to keep up the momentum what they know is that the russian people don't want this president president anymore and it's our people and authorities has to go this year this in and listen and has to hear what the russian people want. this is a protest that has taken root across the country may be clinging on to power by any means rejecting any talk of voter fraud in his electoral win but it is unlikely that he will be able to cultivate support for his leadership in

a country where many say they have had enough of his leadership so you go out his era. and protesters have begun forming a human chain aiming to link bella rules and lithuania opposition candidates atlanta taken off and the lithuanian president are taking part in the 40 kilometer demonstration they can ask a affray to neighboring lithuania after the election saying she fears for her safety in bella rules and this comes 31 years after millions formed a human chain through the 3 baltic states of lithuania latvia and estonia to express their desire for independence from the soviet union now alexandra steele janowicz god why is a journalist based in moscow and has been following the russian government's response to the unrest in bellows she says officials have been encouraging president look i shan't go to negotiate. mr overall is saying that the way out is wired in broad genuinely broad national dialogue with doctor the trade unions and

that moscow would be ok with whatever he agrees with the opposition at the same time he's a suspect in this coronation or council of a position was formed in a strange way saying there is a lot of people there they're actually on good russian he went further saying that the her north korea when she came abroad was apparently under some pressure and started again doing political statements supporting and calling for a 4 protests and he also said there is a certain program of the colonel in which he is written in belorussia and said that the us should go out of your asian consulate should they should go out of the a collective security treaty and of the union state of belarus and instead go towards e.u. and eventually nato he even says that it's over there that the russian language should be pushed out on the account of belarusian language calling the kind of

artificial language and this kind of rhetorical we heard before and we heard it in the case of ukraine all together with the foreign factor with the foreign interference which is unacceptable. russia is pointing out and saying that it is a parts of opposition that wants to violence on the streets of minsk and in belarus and they are calling for the bloodshed and that it should be up to belorussian people to decide what to do next in other world news libyan warlord highly for have time has rejected calls for a ceasefire by the un recognized government spokesman called it a publicity stunt then says the tripoli administration is planning a turkish back to offensive on these are teaching city of sirte. including egypt and the rival parliament in eastern libya had supported the ceasefire there's been no significant. the past 2 months. therefore we believe the ceasefire is

false and meant only as propaganda it is simply to throw dust in the eyes this is the reality on the ground and this is what was confirmed by our air and land recon all the intelligence we gathered proves they intend to attack our forces in syria and. well i speak to al-jazeera as my trainer in misrata eastern libya for asthmatic so what does this statement by spokesman mean for the ceasefire. well i mean this isn't the 1st time that have to or has refused to a cease fire agreement back in january. and moscow tried to support a cease fire agreement and the g.n.a.s. signed that agreement in moscow and have to refuse so this isn't the 1st time that have to or has refused a cease fire agreement but notably this is i get us all out the speaker of the to progress parliament has signed the ceasefire agreement and i think after is feeling a little bit left out previously in any negotiations or any peace talks in libya have to it was

a very significant member and very involved in these kinds of talks and he's sort of feeling sidelined now and does this mean that after his foreign backers including egypt and russia and the u.a.e. are they transitioning towards. who you know from this ceasefire agreement is willing to move forward and come to some kind of political solution now that's yet to be seen now in may we saw that in tripoli after have 2 years after how was not able to take control militarily when the russian mercenaries belonging to the wagner group we treat it the genie was able to very rapidly take control of western libya so if foreign backers stop supporting him does this mean that the gene a will be able to make advances does this mean that. and the g.n.a.t. phases will be able to come to some kind of peaceful agreement and bring about

a lasting peace in libya that remains to be seen thank you very much for that malik train ally for instance in misrata. last month's fire at iran's not tons nuclear facility was an act of sabotage says its atomic energy organization a spokesman for the government agency says security authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast in due time the announcement comes a day before the head of the un's atomic watchdog agency arise in tehran in an attempt to get access to sites believed to be storing undeclared nuclear material. protesters in southern iraq have called on a local governor to resign or risk more unrest rallies have been swamped by a number of killings of prominent activists and people are demanding those responsible be held accountable iraqi prime minister he has visited basra to help find a solution to the crisis he has more from baghdad. prime minister mustafa qadri arrived

in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d.c. he met local politicians late on saturday night with the hopes of calming the anger on the streets but he had a warning for those looking to cause trouble out of this early could would you believe this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that is working to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish security and prevent crime i'd like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the government's law they would escape punishment and the killers will be brought to justice very soon i'd like to tell the criminals who us in $87.00 hashimi cutscene and the young female doctor that your blog will be a title for justice yet on the 33 year old $300.00 coupe is the young female dr prime minister called to me refer to she was a prominent activist investor and let several woman's marches she was killed on wednesday when gunmen with assault rifles riding

a motorcycle opened fire on her car. days earlier godman had shot dead activists seen osama their deaths sparked days of protests and on rest fueled by anger protestors set fire to local government buildings in the southern iraqi city demanding those responsible be brought to justice and calling for the resignation of the provincial governor danny the recent rise in targeted killings poses a challenge for the new prime minister there have been nearly a dozen attempts on the lives of well known activists this month and 4 have been killed 3 of them in by. the prime minister dismissed the local police chief last week after osama's death in response a number of senior tribal leaders issued a statement saying the armed themselves if the government fails to protect the people this is the worst andress the city has seen since last year's protests which led to the resignation of prime minister the law. is known as the wealthiest

province in iraq it's home to most of the country's oil reserves yet it has some of the worst facilities of public services years of mismanagement and corruption have led to protests on a regular basis this mural of tossing osama the father of 4 who was killed in basra in august 14th quickly went up in tahrir square in the capital shortly after his death and that death is a constant reminder of the risks that activists and protesters face in iraq on a regular basis as the new government tries to bring some stability to an increasingly volatile region door search of al-jazeera baghdad negotiations are underway in mali between members of the west african bloc echo us and the mali and coup leader is that the delegation is trying to find a way forward after a group of soldiers seize power on tuesday early echo us negotiate is met former president. of the barracks where he's being detained kater was forced to resign

after the takeover. still ahead on al-jazeera we ask if the u.s. president could be laying the groundwork to dispute november's election results. hello heaviest monsoon rain is just visible across the arabian sea and is coming out of india just approaching the south of pakistan and the cloud will probably spill into a man eventually otherwise it's a hot dry picture of course very light breeze at the moment coming out of iraq that's due to strengthen something of a mean the air becomes drier over doha our it's been humid fairly recently along the coast of our mom it's still the southwest breeze has been in a hurry if which could i think see a bit of a break come wednesday when it's sunny rather than cloudy and drizzly in say might

be true for thursday's stuttering travel if big showers develop at this time the year in central africa where north africa and this is the development area of nigeria come monday so drifting slowly northwards into kenya faster by the time you get to choose to and of course that can result in the last one just leaving the coast just west of guinea more or less might develop into a tropical storm then a hurrican this one might do the same thing but in the meantime it's affecting just africa in southern africa where it's a state of course winter is the southern ocean south atlantic where you drag story with us or stop to please tell me at the moment there is rain there all along the cape. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to manage as

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a ceasefire by the un recognized government is spokesman called it a publicity stunt then says the chippie administration is planning a turkish baths offensive on the strategic city of servants and at last month's fire iran's nocturnes nuclear facility was an act of sabotage according is to it to its atomic energy organization a spokesman for the government agency says security authorities will reveal the reason behind the blasts in due time. german doctors are running tests on russian opposition leader alexei me for suspected poisoning he was flown to berlin in an induced coma on saturday from a facility siberian city of russian doctors initially considered too sick to be flown out of the country but they change their position late on friday dominic kane is in berlin with more on these conditions. mr novelli is going through the process

of having a thorough going diagnostic series of tests performed on him by the doctors and nurses in the shallow hospital behind me here in central l.a. and no statement given from the hospital so far as to what's the have found all we know is that on saturday they said that they would be performing this battery of tests and until they were in a position to inform his family of what their conclusions were they would be making no statement we know that they do not anticipate any news conference taking place on sunday one development to report today is that mr have on these wife is with him that she has gone into the hospital and is therefore with him and is able to ask the doctors what their findings have been and that sort of thing but nothing is being made public remember she is the one who alleges that those russian doctors who 1st treated mr navarre need didn't lay the release of mr vanney for long enough

in her words for whatever was in his system to degrade making it harder for it to be detected clearly if there is something in his system which has made him so poorly and it will be the staff here in the hospital who will discover it so as i say you really another night that's his wife yulia. ledges that the delay was to allow what was in his system to become degraded hard to find the problem for all of us here is that we know it's unlikely they'll be any kind of statement from any party in this affair today. and it's see the governor of sicily has ordered all migrants to leave the island by midnight on monday citing coronavirus fears but it's unclear how the decree can be implemented since those follow caesar decided by the taliban government the order also bans the arrival of any new migrants or refugees at least 70 migrants have tested positive in recent weeks india has now

confirmed more than 3000000 cases of corona virus after recording over 70000 new infections in a single day the country's leading the world in numbers of new cases covered 1000 is spreading through rural areas across india especially in the north india has the 3rd highest number of infections after the united states and brazil. is from the center of social medicine and community health at gela how narrow university he says is a need for an improved plan to care of the spread of the virus underside of concern to take is one that it's increasingly spreading moloto nz and villages where the public and services certainly recur relatively speaking. as well as the fact that go on the angry good tests have shown up. in terms of tests a 1000000 population india is still a lot behind comparable countries such as the brics nations all they're testing

grace of u.s. and u.k. india is certainly putting in a lot of emphasis on testing however what is also true is that. the info infrastructure and resources need to be augmented a lot more to make testing available to instill greater confidence in the public and system so that people who come forward with even relatively minor symptoms and get tested and the other thing that's really crucial for containing from here on is the extent to which people. practice and certainly enhance preventive behavior such as masses such as distancing as unlock gets into new are newer areas in other words as newer newer sectors of the economy open up that the indian health authorities both central state as well as local health authorities certainly and hunts the risk

going to negotiate strategies and greater degrees of very sensitive community engagement in peru at least 13 people have been killed in a stampede during a party held in defiance of covered 1000 restrictions more than 120 people try to flee the thomas rest in the capital lima as it was raided by police hero is latin america's 2nd worst affected country. to thailand now where anti-government protesters have gathered again calling for elections and a new constitution for weeks students held rallies have defied a state of emergency to control the spread of coronavirus and a crackdown on critics and there is a police arrest had 8 more activists including 2 popular rappers for defying a ban on public gatherings everything. calling for political change is coming at a cost for many protest leaders in thailand here in the northern city of lump on

$2.00 students were among the latest to be ordered to report to police charges against them for their part in organizing a peaceful rally for most of our but i feel like thailand is becoming a country that takes away people's rights it's honestly shocking what's concerning about this situation is the fact that a country that claims to be democratic is trying to stop students expressing their opinions. this student led anti-government movement has spread to many parts of the country including the north and northeast the traditional strongholds of a group known as the red shirts that staged large rallies in the capital bangkok in 2010 that ended in a violent military crackdown that been largely quiet in recent years but as the momentum of the current protests grows redshirt leaders in the north of fixing their loudspeakers and entering the fray power with the direction students are going these protests have more power than before because everyone is coming together it isn't just redshirts or adults or people who follow politics. the

protesters want a different more democratic political system from the one that allowed the army general who led a coup in 2014 to stay on as prime minister after last year's election but they also want to change an economic system that has helped to make thailand one of the most unequal countries in the world which is being highlighted and made worse by the corona virus pandemic. the city of chiang mai in the north relies heavily on international tourism and is being hit harder than most the protest movement is already showing signs of spreading way beyond just students and the city probably encapsulates the threat that poses to the government most people here have never supported this government and now many are hurting economically despite all the arrests and charges against proteus leaders they say they won't be deterred and will continue fighting for a better future from home and i just had a hung fear can only be used once or twice there's been many cases where they tried

to report the protestors but at the end of the day after everyone is over that fear it becomes a catalyst to come out more and go against the government. apart from arresting and charging lead is the government and police haven't tried to stop the protests yet but as the movement grows and becomes more diverse intensifying the pressure on the government that approach may change soon wayne hay al jazeera chiangmai thailand's . protests have broken out in the u.s. city of louisiana after police shot and killed a black man on friday but he say trey ford pattering was carrying a knife and had been trying to enter a convenience store in the city of lafayette videos appears to video appears to show penner in walking away from officers whole event shot the 31 year old. son gun failed to work or burn manny reports i'm not here to get everybody motivated to come out. on the streets of lafayette this is them. as of now we can have

a black man by us police oh on saturday more than 150 people block traffic and the infantryman highway. the site of where hoffa dozen police had surrounded and then shot 31 year old trafford padron on friday the incident was captured on video by a bystander become a minute. then made a. legal shooting no you've got to wait we've got to wait oh no you got to. get on the ground. make me do i'm not. even. taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead louisiana state police say he was walking towards a stool with a knife they shot stun guns at him but say they were ineffective but activists here

see it as another form of police violence against black people and i think one of the things that when i got here they took the side discussed it with the back of the store is still open a man got on the doorsteps of it but circle k. continues to launch a business. and allow people to come out here and purchase like nothing else a likable black man was less than that of anyone else the american civil liberties union of louisiana is demanding a thorough investigation saying triffitt pellerin should be alive today instead a family is mourning in a community is grieving none of the communities is safe when the police can murder people with impunity all when routine encounters escalate into deadly shooting sprees. one of the protesters were to shoot on. a reference to slammed by police in minnesota in. that killing

spot close to defund police departments and galvanized the black lives months of protests across the us which is still continuing in some states palin's mother has spoken out about her son saying he was an intelligent man who suffered from social anxiety one civil rights attorney said instead of giving him a helping hand they gave him bullets but to people here a quantity of to be dismissed his latest shooting spree at the height of their anger at the. trust. me i have to say ok and violent confrontations between rival protest groups led to a riot being declared in the u.s. city of portland early on sunday a rally being held by armed wing groups quickly drew counter demonstrations by anti-racism protesters 14 people were arrested more than 80 straight days of

demonstrations in portland following the police killing of george floyd. now for months u.s. present donald trump has sought to create dollops about the legitimacy of november's election and as his republican convention gets underway at questions about what he might do if he's defeated rob reynolds reports. president donald trump appears to be laying the groundwork for disputing the election results the only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged remember the trailing democratic nominee joe biden in the polls trump is hinting he may declare the election invalid be narrowed down the president from the spinning the elections are going to be rigged. and therefore are you mean goal when is it make 10 surely more credible for him to say i won to some scholars of authoritarian regimes trump's moves are right out of the

strong man's playbook is trying to say that democracy is corrupt democracy the mechanisms of the don't work. the mechanisms of democracy and and this is classic. trump has told over 20000 lives since he's been in office so it would be hard to imagine him. that abrogating idea that there's been widespread well proof tampering or you know false ballots has been constantly tweeting about the danger of dead people voting. and he's really. a very skilled propagandist in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic trump and senior officials stand accused of trying to hobble mail in voting because by trump's own admission he thinks it would hurt biden. this kind of politics while you're

accusing your opponent of trying to break the law. you yourself are making me a large public outcry and pushback from congress forced trump's postmaster general to backtrack promising lawmakers that mail in ballots would be prioritized and delivered on time but trump has also suggested delaying the election doing it over if he loses and sending police out in force to polling places what he's aiming to do here is create a sense of uncertainty and suspension so that he wouldn't have to concede defeat based on his words and deeds one thing seems clear trump doesn't want to leave office without a fight rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera and other major

anti-government rallies underway in band of horses capital this in a wave of protests against the disputed re-election of president. has more from that. there was a large rally at the independence square it was actually not enough space for everyone so that's why i did this side to move elsewhere in the city so that's where i'm moving towards right now tens of thousands of people even say it's a similar size of crowd that we saw last sunday which was more than 200000 people on the straight and the worst quite a festive atmosphere families bringing their children small children while people shouting out to resign and singing songs while at the authorities kept urging them ordering them to leave the square repeatedly. maybe in 125 tom has rejected calls for a ceasefire by the un recognized government spokesman called it a publicity stunt and says the chippie administration is planning

a turkish back to offensive on the strategic city of sirte iran's atomic energy organization says last month's fire at the natanz nuclear facility was an act of sabotage a spokesman for the government agency says security authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast in due time protesters in southern iraq have called on a local governor to resign old risk more on rest demonstrators are calling for justice over the killing of a number of prominent activists the governor of sr he has altered all migrants in leave the island by midnight on monday citing coronavirus fears but it's not clear how the decree can be implemented since those policies are decided by the taliban government the order also bans the arrival of any new migrants or refugees coming up next on inside story.

what's behind the recall draw is in global code with 19 infections several countries are reporting so well the biggest numbers since the pandemic began should we be worried a more look. this is it's a story. hello welcome to the program on the wrong nearly 9 months since coded 9 from the chinese city of the virus appears.