ron says reveals there are often 2 sides to even the darkest of stories witness the color of the chameleon announces there 'd. republicans begin the process of formally nominating donald trump as their 2020 presidential nominee. but times democratic rival joe biden is indorsed by more than 2 dozen republican former members of congress. come about this and this is all to see a live from doha also coming up 3 leading opposition activists are detained in belarus a day after one of the biggest protests against president look has schenck up. i can't. get yourself out. of 51 and.

their only crime. relatives and survivors recount the horror of last year's massacre of the 2 mosques in new zealand prosecutors say the white supremacist gunman planned to cause maximum carnage. republicans are gathered to formally nominate president donald trump for reelection as a scaled down convention in the city of charlotte north carolina the 4 day long event is crucial for trump's bid to reverse his slump in opinion polls as he struggles to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic woes trump's been trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the swing states expected to determine the outcome our white house correspondent kimberly hawkers reports. for president march political rallies the 2020 republican national convention was supposed to be

donald trump's campaign crescendo helping cruz toward reelection in november. but covert 19 and social distancing dash trump's plan to accept his party nomination of thousands of bag a hat wearing supporters. drops claim of creating jobs has also disappeared thousands of businesses have closed permanently millions of people are out of work and the stock market has seen historic gains wiped out. we did it we built the greatest economy of this to the world and now i have to do it again. you know that is. that's right that's god testing me trump blames china for not halting the virus but a majority of americans blame him for a mismanaged coronavirus response that hurt trump in the polls with weeks until the

election he trails his democratic rival joe biden. problem is after 4 years in office people now know what to expect from a donald trump administration and it's really tough for people to not think about a reelection campaign or as anything other than incision about the incumbent and so i'm not sure that the playbook that works for trump and 2016 is going to work this year in 2020 with a few new ideas some people are accusing the president of employing scare tactics to round up votes at campaign stops trump says if biden is elected taxes and crime will go up the stock market will go down but when it comes to his own campaign promises his vision is a clear what are your top priority items for a 2nd term but one of the things that will be really great you know the word experience is still good i always say talent is more important than experience i've

always said that due to the pandemic most states will allow voters to mail in ballots instead of in person voting trumps arguing with little evidence that mail in ballots are open to fraud democrats say trump's insistence people vote in person during the pandemic is an attempt to suppress the vote with both sides accusing each other of breaking the election results of the 2020 vote are uncertain will tropics if he loses as he has always said he'll see what happens on and make a determination aftermath donald trump is counting on the republican convention to inject new life into his lagging reelection bid he's planning multiple appearances before pared down crowds of supporters at a week long event that kicks off in charlotte north carolina and culminates here at the white house on thursday when trump will officially accept the republican

party's presidential nomination kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house. more than 2 dozen republicans all former members of congress have endorsed democrat joe biden for president they include former our resume the senator jeff flake who decided not to seek reelection in 2018 after being critical of trump he and 26 others joined the republicans for biden initiative it's the latest rebuke of president jiang by members of his own party last week 73 former republican national security officials indorsed by calling trump corrupt and unfit to serve. well ahead of the convention police arrested several people at a rally. dallas traders have been voicing their anger against president of trump's official nomination officers used pepper spray to disperse the crowds they say protesters blocked several streets and accuse some of them of assaulting police. and postmaster general lose to join his accused by

democrats of doing president trump's bidding by deliberately slowing down mail deliveries is due to testify at the u.s. house shortly now early on friday he testified before the senate u.s. secretary of state mike pump ayos in west jerusalem where he's given his support to a deal between israel and the united arab emirates the 2 nations agreed to normalize relations earlier this month compares says the move is a step towards the top administration's plan in bringing prosperity into the region i want to come here today in part to congratulate the prime minister will travel to the emirates to meet with them and congratulate them to what's taking place here is deeply consistent with what president drum set out to do create a more stable more prosperous middle east this is a really good step in that direction economic relationship between the emirates opportunities for innovation and science travel between these 2 places will now be

open and that's important it's important to create between israel and this arab state this opportunity. several members of the opposition coordination council have been detained in bello reuss but the group say they're still committed to their goal of forming a transitional government comes a day after one of the biggest anti-government protests in the country's modern history despite a military deployment in the streets of the capital around 200000 people turned out to demand president alex are not example of a sanka resigns they say he rigs the election and in this month mario kolesnikov is a member of the coordination council she says the group is not afraid the fun it was then that. we constantly experience this kind of pressure but it doesn't scare me or make me stop doing what i'm doing now on the contrary it unites us more the fact that there are more applications to become members after the opening of the criminal case on charges of undermining national security shows that bella russians are united we are now stronger than ever in our will to express the people's will.

us deputy secretary of state stephen begun has been in lithuania as capital vilnius and he's met belorussian opposition politician so i've learned to kind of scalia who fled there after the election so i did have a chance to meet with mrs signal. she's a very impressive person and i can see why she is so popular in her country the purpose of the meeting was to listen to hear what the thinking is of the bell racine people and to see what they what they are doing to obtain the right to self-determination ok let's cross over to moscow alexandra starting over is called is a journalist based in the russian capital she's joining us live alexandra's talk us through what's been happening with the leadership of the opposition in belarus. well to day 2 of the members of the court national council of the belarusian

opposition were detained we're talking about one of the leaders of strikes in the main structure factory and a companion manager of. scare also the 3rd one. who was fired is there at that of a theater because he supported the brothers he has got a note to report tomorrow to the police allegedly as a witness in the case of forming the coordination council in the meantime also to prominence activists and their leaders of 2 other effect 3 strikes were also detained 4 members of the belarus and philharmonie we're told also to report to the police as witnesses being told that they were spotted in front of the philharmonia as we remember that was when they were supporting the protests against what they say a rigged vote is in belarus so apparently 'd it is in belarus are from the saying of carrots and sticks chosing a stick and they're using it's a cordon ational council says this is arresting their members detaining their

members to criminalize their work which is basically to secure peaceful transition of power and then to have fair elections what they're saying is that makes this makes the dialogue actually more difficult but they are sure that the authorities that president lukashenko will have to engage this dialogue as there are no other options as when it comes to show of muscle which we could see yesterday evening look at schenkel walking armed with his son in full gear armed in front of their residence being cheered up by the belarussian special forces they are not afraid of that they didn't get scared they are actually saying this shows that the belarus and president is afraid of the protesters on the streets now as we've just been reporting the u.s. temperature the deputy secretary of state has met the bell. russian opposition leaders have learned to kind of sky apart and he's also going to be traveling to moscow on tuesday are we beginning to see

a certain amount of pressure being put on the countries a round belarus and also by loose itself by external forces do you think. well there is something that is the line of moscow the events in belarus syrian situation in the us is directed directly or indirectly as they say from abroad they think that unacceptable of but at the same time they themselves are clearly supporting local schenkel and are on his side from what all the things we could hear by now saying that whilst the police violence and brutality against the protesters is met or eternal matter of belarus there. schenkel should have a dialogue a broad dialogue with the nation at the same time questioning the the creation of the coordination council of develop us

a position and saying that there is many people there that are against the good relations between russia and belarus that there are other belarusian politics politicians who are more appealing to moscow because they are for discord relations though the spokesperson of russian president refused to name the question and call as such yes the u.s. deputy secretary is going to come to moscow and he is going to talk exactly about belarus and the situation and what's going on and today he repeated after a meeting because of scared that united states is not meddling in belarus a situation they're not influencing it saying that is the development of the situation is the right of people of belarus and that he wanted to hear how and what of these people doing in order to regain their right to choose their political leadership and so examines the non-visual ranbir use the update on the situation in belarus but also russia and the us as well thanks very much indeed. a gunman who

murdered 51 people to mosques in new zealand last year has faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom day one of brenton tarrant sentencing hearing has begun with how to win accounts from survivors and families of some of the victims tarrant has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges he could be handed new zealand's 1st life sentence without parole when he reports under heavy security brinton terence was flown by the new zealand air force back to christchurch the city where he inflicted so much pain on so many since the attack the australian has been held in a maximum security prison in oakland where once the sentences handed down he's likely to spend the rest of his life there was also tight security at the court where terence will sit for the next few days facing and listening to the victims and their family members i did go on but. he will always be in the lives of our lives. and we will. use

his son was one of 44 people killed during friday prayers at the el nor mosque where terence began his assault armed with 6 high powered guns he then drove across town to the lynwood mosque and killed 7 more before he was arrested he streamed the attacks on the internet and did early uploaded a manifesto detailing his obsession with white supremacy and his hatred of muslims the court heard he wanted to inflict as many fatalities as possible and burn down the mosques afterwards he'd studied the floor plans in advance and targeted the mosques when he knew they would be busy the planes time for entry was to ensure the mix of the number of wishes would be present if in that analyze the mosque layouts to the tune likely exit routes fleeing wish has. survivors spoke of his failure to achieve his goal of spreading hate and sowing divisions.

become more united. well you make the fact that. after a surprise guilty plea in march terence sentencing was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions despite the lack of a trial the judge said he wanted those affected to have their say in court to help bring finale and closure that painful process is underway and a sentence is likely to be handed down on thursday when hey al jazeera. still ahead an al-jazeera citizenship for officials and politicians classified by the e.u. as high risk for money laundering and corruption and al jazeera investigation on the sale of possible routes by cyprus plus i make like a ton of funding for the scenery striking out looking at how horrifying quite a lot of pain is according right to probably the nation feeling indelibly very.

hello we have a typhoon in the area bovee has strengthened recently is affecting the real cute chain of japanese islands that's moving almost directly north so for most of its life is going to be really over water affecting shipping for example but it will throw off but of course a big swell and showers in shanghai and then in japan and eventually in south korea and it's actually in hans in the amount of rain likely in southern china as the seasonal rains a sort of top back in on their way south leaving sunshine behind late wednesday looks pretty unpleasant in the yellow sea or to the south and so south korea in particular is going to get the buffeting from this well strong winds of course an awful lot of rain nasty looking picture that hong kong reflects the increased

likelihood of showers scored thunderstorm numbers wednesday and thursday there are friday they're probably gone again. so waltz is active up here is a big gap of interaction around the south china sea the southern philippines a peninsula malaysia also sees no showers the rain belting it out the goes all the way around the world is now on its way slowly south but it is a slow procession as you can see monsoon rains to strengthen again both good euro in the west and south of india i mean bangladesh. this edition of the al jazeera we'll take you on a journey with us to qatar as diverse wildlife will be joined by i'm reading by mentioning that and also a conservationist will be discussing the impact the potential uncontrolled development putting on these diverse ones like species living here if i'm protecting.

much al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the process of formally nominating donald trump as republican candidate for u.s. president is underway in charlotte north carolina is currently trailing his rival joe biden in the polls has been boosted by the support of dozens of former republicans. members of the opposition coordination council have been detained in belo loose it comes a day after one of the biggest anti-government protests in the country's modern history the gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand last year has

faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom families recounted how do we experience is a brenton town sentencing hearing. syria's warring sides are meeting again for un backed talks in geneva to find a way to end the country's devastating 9 years civil war the weeklong gathering will host delegations from the syrian government opposition and civil society iran russia turkey and the u.s. are expected to be on the sidelines in meetings the 1st of its kind in 9 months after the coronavirus pandemic derailed previous talks to power is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity firefighters have now put out the blaze on the out of gas line northeast of the capital damascus this was the scene a few hours ago there are no details yet on what may have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror. well talks are again

underway aimed at solving mollies coup crisis after months of anti-government protests soldiers seized power on tuesday and arrested president evil him. after 2 days of meetings between crew leaders and west african mediators military commanders are reported to be considering allowing him to return home the army also wants a transitional role in mali the president a viable a coast has submitted his application to contest for a 3rd term in october as election was despite a weekend protest against allison ouattara demonstrators in his bed violates the constitutional to limit what i said in march he wouldn't run but his chosen successor died and his party asked him to stand again the constitutional court will make a final decision on his application. the russian doctors who 1st treated opposition leader alexina volunteers say they're responsible for saving his life is being

treated in germany after being flown from a siberian hospital in an induced coma on saturday doctors there say they gave me the correct treatment and no poison was found in his system upon poisons have killed or severely sickened many from the traffic's coli and after for dust this the suspicion is not that mr novotny seriously poisoned themself but that someone seriously poisoned mr know boney which unfortunately there are some serious examples of in recent russian history so the world takes the suspicion very seriously odysseys investigative unit has found the government of cyprus sold possible its to senior officials and politicians were classified as high risk for money laundering and corruption by the european union the findings are in the cyprus papers a large scale leak of documents obtained by al-jazeera and a 2nd reporter deborah davies reveals the country made millions of dollars selling citizenship violating e.u. anti corruption roles. fighting in the afghan parliament that began after the

narrow election victory of may rahman romani a speaker of the lower house he's a former general who became a businessman. what's not been public until now is that 2 years earlier romani paid 2 and a half $1000000.00 to buy himself and his family so-called golden passports from cyprus that among 2 enough 1000 names we've seen in confidential government papers many new cypriot citizens hold official positions in countries where the original citizenship makes it difficult for them and their money to move freely around the world mohammed jimmy ill c.e.o. of his family's business empire is a member of saudi arabia's general investment authority. it's his family company and sits on the saudi arabian monetary authority as an elected or appointed

state representative they defined as politically exposed persons or peps on the international financial regulations definition includes relatives said tom mccarty is a pep as brother of the former lebanese prime minister najib mikati even if an individual is honest being a pet is considered a legal liability a risk of being corrupt or corrupting others you have to. sitting on a government contract and. mission to make decisions in that sense. and. we've identified more than 2 dozen high level political figures from russia ukraine kazakhstan china and vietnam as well as the middle east who've already paid for citizenship hussein el no wastes represented the united arab emirates in foreign trade deals and moved in influential circles as

a pap he'd now be banned from buying a cypriot passport under tighter rules on who is fit to be a citizen nicholas norris the interior minister said cyprus was functioning in absolute transparency but he didn't explain why pep super already bought passports would be allowed to keep them separate davis al-jazeera london. or findings from the cyprus papers will be revealed through the week here and on al-jazeera dot com down part 3 will be looking at how more than a 1000 russians have bought separate pos boards in the last 3 years that includes business leaders close to the president vladimir putin rondo's wanted for corruption fraud and money laundering that's on tuesday from $10.00 g.m.t. here on all to syria. let me bring you some breaking news from germany the german hospital treating alexy no vonnie that's the russian opposition leader says tests

show evidence of poisoning but his life is not in danger it's being reported that the hospital says a specific substance found in the vani is not yet known but findings suggest it is what they're calling some kind of called an s.t.d. inhibitor no let me remind you also the russian doctors who 1st treated opposition leader alexina vonnie said they're responsible for saving his life they say they gave no vonnie the correct treatment and no poison was found in his system he's being treated in germany because he was flown from a siberian hospital in an induced coma on saturday of course we'll have more on that story as it develops 2 explosions in the southern philippines have killed at least 10 people several others injured in the town a hollow in sulu province initial reports say a homemade bomb on a motorbike exploded close to a military vehicles there's been no claim of responsibility and organs in manila with the latest. these particular explosions today happened just as cheap away from

hollow cathedral which was also attacked early last year by armed groups which left at least 20 people dead now that attack last year was claimed by a group linked to icily which pledged allegiance to i so though this particular attack there's been no claim of responsibility or any group owning up to this attack but local militia officers say that the 2nd bomb was actually detonated by a female suicide bomber this happens at a very difficult time at a time when just a few months ago for intel officers who were reportedly going after suspected bombers were killed at point blank range by local police officers but there is a question as to whether the killing of in the officers actually left a vacuum of critical intel operation or information needed to prevent these particular attacks today in this area of the law has a very high level of insurgency and at this week as well many are questioning the

timing because this week there are also several change of command of the local military officers on the ground here internet censors in china are removing complaints against coronavirus restrictions in jang province videos and photos of front doors sealed by crowbars and residents being publicly shamed for violating the lockdown drills we shared on social media before being removed china's government has provided little information about the break in but says a cluster of more than $900.00 in factions in is contained sheep farmers in australia are hoping the price of wool rises before they go bankrupt covered $900.00 restrictions in just the latest designs of the multi-billion dollar wool industry and to lead to the problems that are $68000000.00 sheep and not enough workers to share them nicola gage has the story from rural new south wales. leming season isn't far off on this sheep and cattle

farm on the plains bringing a small sense of normality to an anything but normal few years for david gergen he's been tested by prolonged drought then bushfires in january soon followed by coated 19 it's certainly having an impact on on everything especially the the wall . that is is collapsing as well so no one knows where we're heading. border and trade route closures during the penn demick have devastated process here with the markets down about 40 percent on this time last year it's also leading to a workforce shortage when millions of shape need to be she had hundreds of seasonal shears normally fly in mainly from new zealand the spam outside goldman is using local but in other parts of the country there aren't enough the government is trying to find solutions with rising unemployment to stymie adjudicated montane the

logical thing to do would be to try to move people locally to work in that he's happening but it's not that simple post training takes time to get a job that requires skill and if the process is so light then it becomes an animal welfare problem and a financial problem to the process have led to a growing stockpile of wool in storage but this shearing contractor says for many whiting for high a processes isn't an option then i'd have money coming in i cheated by the bill. and that's one of the river on the low i don't have any place that's i'm either one of their wives or incomes as trade tensions between australia and china increase with the restrictions imposed on australian beef imports as well as high tariffs on bali about 90 percent of the strike is foolish currently export to china for stage processing hughson everything from clothing to cop it. we've got have very

strong and constructive relationship and also not rosen that chimes in the new year old the dispute but the industry is also looking at diversifying with some experts concerned it relies too heavily on chinese bias for david goldman his focus is on producing wolde qualls will to keep his foam in business. regional new south wales. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the berlin hospital treating russian opposition leader alexina vonnie says test results do indicate poisoning it says the substance has not yet been identified but the findings suggest what they're calling some kind of a colony as to raise inhibitor it says his life is not in danger but it cannot rule out any long term effects he's being treated in germany after being flown from my

side being in hospital in an induced coma on saturday doctors in russia earlier said that they gave him the correct treatment and claimed no poison was found in his system and that they are responsible for saving his life the process of formally nominating donald trump as the republican candidate for president is underway in charlotte is currently trailing his rival joe biden in the polls biden has just been boosted by the support of dozens of republicans who are former members of congress several members of the opposition coordination council have been detained in the bell loose but the group says it's still committed to its goal of forming a transitional government comes a day after one of the biggest anti-government protests in the country's modern history despite a military deployment in the streets of the capital around 200000 people turned out to demand president alexander lukashenko resigns. money is a member of the coordination council and she says the group is not afraid.

we constantly experience this kind of pressure but it doesn't scare me or make me stop doing what i'm doing now on the contrary it unites us more the fact that there are more applications to become members after the opening of the criminal case on charges of undermining national security shows that russians are united we are now stronger than ever in our will to express the people's will. the gunman who murdered $51.00 people or 2 mosques in new zealand last year has faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom families recounted how do we experiences a brunton tolerance and sentencing hearing and could be handed a life sentence with no chance of parole the 1st in new zealand those are the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera off to talk to all dizzy or goodbye . if you want to help save the world.

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