military in the indonesian occupation decades later why don't want to join the last generation if they find it hard. on al-jazeera there are some of the media stories a critical look at the global news media spread of this on al-jazeera government shut off access to social media. the e.u. increases the sanctions pressure on belarus and warns russia against intervening in support of president looking. forward and i'm come all santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the e.u. is also threatening sanctions against turkey if no progress is made in the eastern mediterranean dispute with greets. tens of thousands of people are gathering right

now a march on washington d.c. for a renewed drive against police brutality and to mount racial justice and accusations india's police were complicit in the deadly riots there earlier this year. so the european union is edging closer to imposing sanctions on better russian officials the ones it has links to electoral fraud and the violent crackdown on protesters the blocks foreign ministers of all but agreed on a list of almost 20 high ranking people haven't said exactly who yet some a huge states want president alexander lukashenko included on that list he has faced mass demonstrations ever since winning elections which critics say were raked . there was a political agreement among ministers to designate selected individuals responsible

for their fraudulent elections in their rules and for the subsequent crackdown on that exist in the revolution sanction regime this is a nation shall include individuals at the high political level from now on to the day least and the respective illegal acts will be prepared by the competitive country a working group in the coming days with a view to be adopted as soon as possible or the mccain is in berlin for us and it is a clear demonstration of the will of the e.u. regarding bellaver situation. they have looked at the protests in the streets they have looked at the results of the election and they feel this is the right response they are trying to send a message to president lukashenko that he needs to embrace the transition to a different government that he needs to listen to the protesters on the streets of

his capital city in minsk now the problem from the european perspective will be what president has said in return he's already made very clear that the prospect of intensified sanctions targeted sanctions will not to turn him he has said that if they come when they come he is going to respond by closing off transit routes important transit routes for e.u. goods through his territory to russia but also to the baltic states very clear then that the european union is trying to send this message the interesting thing not just from what the foreign ministers were saying in berlin these past few days but angle americal the german chancellor at a different news conference earlier today was asked by media about her view of what's going on in belarus and she reminded people that she'd grown up under communism that she had seen the berlin wall toppled that the wall that divided this

city that was the icon of the cold war and she said at the time it was because the governing mindset from the soviet union would this change to happen but that now was a very different geopolitical situation a lot of tension still going on in belarus itself at the moment freelance journalist andrea invite of it she has more now from minsk. on the 20th day of fun to look at the process the president has sworn the west's he wants a canny external pressure when the e.u. sanctions same posts he says he will do the same in return for the bellerose government my duty is unclear the economy struggling there are accused money exchanged and he's getting hard to be withdraw cash from a.t.m.'s ukraine has also now cut off contact with the governments here so that location can now has only russia to rely on what they were put in has promised to send a reserve police force but also put in the military into combat ready moats i've

been told by one metro driver that he's been called up to the army in the coming days because he protested up to the election night after the rest of 50 journalists and thursday night it could be much harder for the media to cover future events sunday is a 66th birthday and protesters are planning a new rally for what they call peace and independence there are also fears of a russian invasion. there's another big talking point for those e.u. foreign ministers in berlin and that is the increasingly tense situation in the eastern mediterranean greece which is in a you members in a standoff with turkey over competing claims to maritime territory and potential oil and gas reserves just of the bloc could even sanction turkey if there is no progress in this crisis 1st you know there now we listing for sure knowledge is we can do least assets ships we can do. sanctions the participation of activities that we can shoot the illegal in the

engine related with the working. man the. usual who. will be in capacity. more on the turkish side of things here from istanbul with cynical. so far of course since this is a very 1st statement from a top diplomat we have no reactions coming from the turkish capital ankara yet but i must say that on camera has been repeating itself because they believe that it is the situation it is the same situation for decades between turkey and greece when it comes to the border dispute for instance yesterday turkish defense minister who sarkar spoke live on a t.v. show and he said that turkey is open to dialogue and they want everything to be transparently discussed that's why they have no fear about discussing the issues but to come to a solution which also turkey wants to come at the problems all of the problems must

be addressed and so this is what the turkish defense minister is that despite all those flexing the muscles in the warders military. exercises or maritime trainings with live fire these seem to be the diplomacy of the waters between the 2 countries. they want to come to come around the table for instance a couple of weeks ago turkish president said that there must be a solution in the eastern mediterranean where all parties can benefit from so basically turkey says let's negotiate let's have a win win there but we have problems with greece in the agency based on the status of the islands there are thousands of islands in the agency which basically caused the main dispute between the 2 countries when it comes to territory when it comes to the exclusive economic zones but 1st those problems must be resold this is what

turkey says but according to graze for instance the territorial water issue territorial water is not an issue it has been all of the declared to the u.n. and 2 countries have already agreed on that. germany's foreign minister says there will be diplomatic consequences for russia if it's proven the opposition leader alexei he was poisoned as part of a state initiated murder attempt russian opposition leader is still in a coma after a suspected poisoning but the berlin hospital where he's recovering says his condition is improving to the news and japan's prime minister shinzo are by has resigned because of poor health and 65 year old long been suffering from the bowel disease called ulcerative colitis is the country's longest serving leader that he has now with priyanka gupta. a chronic illness that cut short his 1st term in office 13 years ago has come back to force should be japan's longest serving prime minister to step down is then told or not america i would like to sincerely

apologize to the people of japan for leaving my post with one year left in my term of office and amid the coronavirus woes while various policies are still in the process of being implemented 'd 7. for most of the century should be has told me to japan's politics he comes from an influential political dynasty his grandfather was prime minister and his father foreign minister. the conservative politician rose through the ranks of his liberal democratic party and became japan's youngest prime minister since world war 2 in 2006 but that's didn't ended the full year due to help. 5 years later he returned if his 1st term was mauled by a political inexperience the 2nd had a renewed focus on agenda get out in the midst of what became known as oddly nomics

was a series of a vicious reforms aimed at boosting japan struck an economy his vision of a well the stronger japan came with a lifelong ambition to amend the country's pacifist constitution which bars it from hostile acts except in self-defense many japanese opposes constitutional changes but he did manage to repeatedly win elections as a result of the stability that he brought the fact that he's won 6 national elections and basically been unopposed and really has shown no sign of losing his power really up until now it is a year that japan has been well governed has been predictably and consistently govern for that period and he has managed to translate that into a much more visible role for japan in asia and globally be strained in security entry ties with the u.s. making japan one of its closest allies. and despite total disputes he warmed up to

regional superpower china and japan's wartime legacy led to renewed friction with south korea causing their worst diplomatic and create dispute for decades. the 2011 earthquake tsunami and fukushima nuclear disaster was a further test of his leadership another came in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic scuttled his plans to showcase japan on the world stage by hosting the tokyo summer olympics the world's 3rd largest economy already on the slide since 20 teen slumped to a record low abbie's resignation has set off a succession battle in the ranks of the governing liberal democratic party and their concerns about what the future holds for a country long used to stability priyanka gupta al-jazeera. in the news ahead the

trail of destruction left behind by hurricane laura now the task of cleaning up begins. and racial unrest makes for another uneasy night in the u.s. city of commotion the days though still filled with hope for unison. however caught yet more rain in the forecast for the korean peninsula we have of course same flooding here recently and the day some damage this stationary front that's going to drag its way across the yellow sea to warsaw northeast of china just running across north korea in the process this is pyongyang where that babee made its way through just a few days ago of course causing a fair bit of damage there is more wet weather in the forecast i'm afraid as we go

on through the next couple of days this is saturday's rain that's going to continue moving across the region the hay vs rain yes that will be over towards the far east of russia running over towards northern parts of japan through hokkaido i think squatting down for a time cost right to the south here we have a developing typhoon that looks like it's to make its way further north which as we go through the next couple of days and could cause problems for the korean peninsula come the middle of next week meanwhile across south asia more heavy showers there across central and northern parts of india pushing right across into the fosse south of pakistan will be down posts here around much but they're sheeting over towards the good herat will see that wetter weather just running towards southern parts of pakistan potential for further flooding more heavy rain all the way along west into. 2 years of over grazing. the damage caused to the precious grasslands of chile is

being reversed with one of the world's biggest ever conservation projects. they're pretty emblematic of the patagonia if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threats towards and that's why you're on your rewilding patagonia on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera these are the top stories this hour the european union's edging closer to imposing sanctions on better russian officials which it is linked to

electoral fraud and the violent crackdown on protests foreign ministers of all agreed almost 20 high ranking people but i haven't said that. the top diplomat also says the european union is considering sanctions against turkey that comes as tensions continue between greece and turkey over the competing claims to maritime territory and potential oil and gas reserves. japan's prime minister shinzo out there has resigned because of ill health 65 year old as long suffered an intestinal illness has been japan's longest serving leader. thousands of people are gathering in washington d.c. right now in a renewed drive for criminal justice reform and racial equality they're calling this another march on washington there at the lincoln memorial 57 years to the day after martin luther king jr i have a dream speech the us has been gripped by racial protests and i'm dressed since george floyd was killed in police custody in may for in comparison to the anger in

the violence that flared after dr king's assassination in 1968. an extradition hearing for the 17 year old charged with murder for shootings that racial equality protests in wisconsin has been postponed rittenhouse was arrested weapon state a day after 2 people were killed in kenosha he's facing 6 felony charges including reckless and intentional homicide the teenager was arrested at his home in illinois officials are now trying to get a brecht brought back to wisconsin. u.s. president donald trump has formally accepted the republican party's nomination for a 2nd term he says november's election will be a choice between saving the american dream or allowing a socialist agenda to destroy it before my white house correspondent emily how has . never in modern history has a sitting president campaign from the white house

a political symbol that supposed to be for all americans i profoundly accept this nomination for president of the united states. like joe but donald trump has again broken with precedent as he accepted the republican party's nomination and attacked his democratic rival joe biden this is the most important election in the history of our country. spoke for more than an hour painting at apocalyptic picture of a biden presidency he told voters his opponent was campaigning as a democrat but would assure in an ideology much further left than any other liberal candidate your vote will decide whether we protect law abiding americans or whether we give free rein to violent and our kids and agitators and criminals

who threaten our citizens. trump how did what he saw as some of his administration successes in foreign policy i could not sit by. as career politicians let other countries take advantage of us on trade borders foreign policy and national defense a domestic policy even as trungpa scored low marks from american voters for his pandemic response with more than 180000 americans dead trump argued biden will not make things better instead of following the science joe biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country whose shutdown would inflict unthinkable and lasting harm on our nation's children's families and citizens of all backgrounds as he spoke more than a 1000 guests most of them not wearing a mask sat shoulder to shoulder ignoring the white house's own social distancing

guidelines earlier in the day democratic vice presidential nominee camila harris hit back charging trump didn't do enough in the early days of the pandemic to protect americans all we needed was a competent president one who was willing to listen willing to lead take responsibility have a plan. do their job. paris also accused trump of stoking racial divisions absent from trump's speech was any mention of jacob blake the man shot in the back last weekend of wisconsin by a white police officer even though the incident has caused nights of protests and the shutdown of the country's biggest sports leagues and in true trump fashion his speech and the convention ended literally with a bang. but in an attempt to drown out the festivities

protesters marched through the streets around the white house demanding justice and vowing to do all they could to prevent trump's reelection but donald trump is undeterred by the push back in an effort to build momentum following his acceptance speech immediately hitting the campaign trail of friday he'll travel to the u.s. state of new hampshire to hold his 1st political rally since the republican national convention can really help at al-jazeera the white house. states along the u.s. gulf coast are bracing for more extreme weather as the cleanup from harken laura begins the storm has weakened but still tornadoes and heavy rain are expected over the weekend and laura killed at least 6 people and left hundreds of thousands without power great from n.b.c. news has been surveying the damage in the city of lake charles louisiana. everywhere you turn here there seems to be devastation and debris you can see the sheared and twisted 10 behind us here part of what used to be

a gas station i guess it still is in some sense you can see the pump there as you move across though you can see the sheer force of this storm ripping bis palm from the ground and tossing it we haven't seen it anywhere in this area and unfortunately this type of scene this type of devastation is something we're seeing across the entire region entire neighborhoods splintered by the winds are washed away by the water here most of the area still completely without power and it's going to take some time to get that power back when you talk to those who are in this area who are the rode out this horrific storm or came back in after evacuating they'll tell you they're going to come back that they're going to rebuild in that this area will make it back and they're used to storms in this area but they've never seen one this wrong and to build back is going to take some real strength some real resolve it's going to be a long and very difficult process that's the latest from here in lake charles louisiana. flash floods in afghanistan and pakistan of killed at least 200 people

now dozens more are injured and many are missing after a heavy seasonal rain swept through both countries regina mohammed has more. buildings reduced to rubble and cars overturned by the force of floodwaters not recover to get over that it is a little heavy rains and flooding have swamped 13 provinces in the east and north of afghanistan this week residents living in the mountainous area of parwan record by surprise. from. the rain started it but not with the dangerous noise we try to get out of the harm but we're stuck inside floodwater was everywhere. there are fears that many are still trapped under their destroyed homes. we are missing one family member we are searching but look at the destruction. people are trying to recover whatever they can but the floodwater and the filth it carries gets

everywhere. you go those are doing really show we are going to and i'm going to 6 houses were flooded some have lost family members because of more electricity or those tried to escape in cars but were trapped. families and rescue workers are searching through the wreckage for survivors at least 150 people were killed by buildings that collapsed some of the injured are being moved to the capital kabul for treatment. plan other than that your authorities are providing coffins to families who have lost loved ones. in the south the center. relatives have taken around 75 dead bodies from the hospital because we provided them with coffins there were more dead bodies that were not even brought to the hospital and many people trapped under the rubble. the people here are calling for help afghan president ashraf ghani has promised that emergency aid will arrive soon including ground and air support. heavy rains have also battered pakistan's financial

capital with which water floods the streets many are forced to live in makeshift tents shelters are being set up for the displaced. that could even determine what about all of villages were submerged in water. or not it shifted them to a safer place it was a school. the region struggles every year with monsoon rains made worse by poor infrastructure as rubble is cleared families anxiously awaits news about the missing while others prepare for mass burials for him home it is there. 13 civilians have died in a roadside bomb attack in southern afghanistan 2 vehicles hit by the blast were taking families to a wedding in the border district to spin boldak in kandahar province there has been no claim of responsibility for west african leaders have agreed mollies transitional government must be led by

a civilian last no longer than 12 months members of the a cause bloc held a summit on friday to discuss mali's future and whether to lift sanctions on the regional bloc suspended mali from its institutions that shut down borders and stop financial transactions following last week's removal of president abraham cater of the coup leaders released him on thursday a suspect has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of $39.00 vietnamese immigrants found in the back of a refrigerated truck near london last year with an irish run run in hughes also admitted to conspiring to assist unlawful immigration tens of the 10 of the victims were teenagers and all were from a poor region of central vietnam the autopsy results showed they died from a lack of oxygen overheating. the wearing of masks is now mandatory across paris after a surge in new coronavirus cases the estimated rate of infection is quadrupled in

the past month face coverings were already compulsory outdoors in some french cities all told france has reported nearly 300000 cases of coronavirus and at least 30000 deaths. also recording its highest value rise in corona virus infections since march south korea 441 cases confirmed on thursday most of them in seoul parliament's been shut down as well and more than a dozen politicians are in quarantine after a journalist who covered a governing party meeting tested positive nearly 4000 jobs have been cut at c.b.s. in the largest broadcaster in the philippines the television network was taken off air in may in the philippines congress refused to renew its operating license rights groups they say it's part of a broader crackdown on dissent in a country already considered one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. australia's prime minister is open to the idea of allowing a gunman imprisoned in new zealand to be sent home to serve his sentence on thursday white supremacist brinton tyrant and straight ian was jailed for life

without parole for killing $51.00 muslim worship is in christchurch last year some are calling for him to be transferred to a strange new zealand doesn't have to pay the cost of keeping him in prison all the strident and old new zealanders would want to see this character locked up for ever and never see the law to die again and i agree with that whether he's held in new zealand or australia where i've been to that discussion it obviously has a lot of implications to decisions and the prime minister of new zealand and i will talk about those issues but most of all we're concerned about what the views of the families would be affected and we want to do the right thing by them. well amnesty international is accusing delhi police of being complicit in religious violence that broke out in february 3 people were killed and more than 500 injured during fighting over these controversial citizenship and support from elizabeth purana. and on their baby sister the 5 month old is the newest member of the confidently

she was born just 3 weeks after her father made and his brother were killed in religious violence in delhi in late february. the men's father remembers when he had to identify his son's body. when they showed us the photos came crashing down our throats. can't even describe their injuries they were hit so many times. on the head their throats were slit knife or sword injuries on the head. 2 of 53 people killed in the last week of february 40 who are muslims the violence began when hindu supporting the government citizenship amendment act o.c.a. fort hood protesters who said the law discriminated against muslims. amnesty international says in a report that delhi police was complicit in violence against muslims one of the

things that they found that the police officer actually either did not intervene in their rights despite being present or intervened only to disproportionately arrest to attack protesters so there was a differential treatment of a somebodies. amnesty international and lawyers also accuse delhi police of falsely implicating muslims in the violence there are a number of examples where muslims have been shot dead and their bread was from sick as examples of it so bad do they are going to fear or fear the delhi police has actually created. delhi police didn't respond to al-jazeera as requests for an interview but the government says amnesty international has an agenda against them dealing issues that are unfounded completely. there are people who are grieved on both sides saying that police has. heard of them so to take sides does because i'm

a mistake and a question and let me just tell you about amnesty international an official fact finding committee also says police were involved in the best the delhi minorities commission said in its 135 page finding that not only was the delhi police complicit but its investigation as bright spots of calling for action against the head of the nationalists leaders the question was against protesters before the riots broke out and for an investigation into the delhi police. says he wants justice for his family for his granddaughters who still haven't been told that their father and uncle a dead elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the headlines the european union edging closer to imposing sanctions on the russian officials which is linked to electoral

fraud and a violent crackdown on protestors foreign ministers of all agreed on a list of almost 20 high ranking people but haven't said exactly yet some e.u. states want the inclusion of president alexander lukashenko there was a political agreement among ministers to designate selected individuals responsible for their fragile and elections in their rooms and for the subsequent crackdown under the existing sanctions regime this is a nation shall include individuals at the political level. from now on duty day least and for bush back to illegal acts will be prepared by a. country where a few groups and it can mean they with a view to be as good as show in response to the top diplomat says the union is also considering sanctions against turkey that says the tension continues between

greece and turkey over competing claims to maritime territory and potential oil and gas reserves in the mediterranean germany's foreign minister says there will be diplomatic consequences for russia if it's proven the opposition leader alexei navalny was poisoned as part of a state initiated murder attempt he's still in a coma in a berlin hospital japan's prime minister shinzo aba has resigned because of ill health and 65 year olds long suffered an intestinal illness he is japan's longest serving leader and thousands of people are gathering in washington d.c. right now in a renewed drive for criminal justice reform and racial equality calling it another march on washington on the 57th anniversary of dr martin luther king jr i have a dream speech the us has been gripped by racial protests since george floyd was killed by police custody in my face the headlines across is next.

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