frank assessments what are you seeing in the 76 percent of the group local population are facing like the coming through of these 2 and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. everyone i'm felicity barr and welcome to news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes venezuela's president pardons more than 100 opposition figures in the interests of national reconciliation. a former ambassador and political unknown is appointed lebanon's new prime minister with stuff a deep promises to put the country on the path to recovery. guard choppers below

toxic presence in the nation for 4 years. how we talk to one. in his 1st campaign event since accepting the democratic nomination joe biden takes aim at president donald trump. and a historic day sudan's transitional government and rebel groups signed a peace deal aimed at ending nearly 20 years of conflict. with news including coronavirus confusion on day one of the u.s. open tennis several players have had close contact with infected french when ben was put in a power. all being allowed to play new york. hello venezuela's president is pardoning more than 100 political opponents in what the

government is calling a move to further national reconciliation ahead of parliamentary elections in december many of those included in nicolas maduro his decree participated in a failed rebellion last year which ultimately lacks military support those pardoned includes roberta mateo rare o. the right hand man and former chief of staff of the opposition. well move is being seen as an attempt to boost participation in the vote which opponents including white ows say they will boycott human rights groups in venezuela say around $330.00 political prisoners are being held in the country a latin america editor lucien newman is following the story from santiago still you see here we're seeing this large number of prisoners being pardoned what is actually expected. we actually were not expecting anything of this magnitude i spoke a short while ago to an analyst in could act as was said that everybody was

expecting some kind of a concession to the opposition on the part of the government but nothing this this broad and in fact the people who are being released affective immediately according to the statement issued by the communications minister include not only why those right hand man or of the man who was his right hand man but about 25 deputies from the national assembly many of them who are living in exile at this point others who have been staying in embassies where they had sought political asylum some for you have been there for years in fact and so really all of the most important members of the opposition including those considered political prisoners have been released except on that list does not. he will he is still being considered a traded to the nation and his another very very important opposition leader who is now in in either in colombia or in the united states he goes back and forth so

practically everyone is free now and this has been one of the conditions that the opposition had been making in order to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections that are shared jeweled for december but that is certainly not all of the conditions that were made it's a would be only the beginning. so you see if the idea is to actually have the opposition supporters take part in the vote is that a strategy but slightly to work do you think. well there are 2 strategies one of them is the old the tried and true divide and conquer if president my little can get some of the people of from the opposition to to back off on their threat to boycott the elections then that would certainly divide the opposition which would be a plus for his side and as well it would try the other part of the strategy is to try to get people alike in the we get that but he lives who is his former competitor at the last presidential elections for the board actually the 1st time.

around as a presidential elections because in the last elections the opposition boycotted that that told. it to get somebody with a big name was recognized universally around the world as well as in venezuela as an opposition leader to take part and that is something that is apparently being negotiated as i speak in fact a short while ago i understand that the one guy though was meeting with and we kick up really is who has broken with why the strategy of unifying the opposition in order to boycott those polls but on the contrary he believes that it's better to take part even if they don't win or rather if they lose the majority that the opposition once had in the national assembly but he is arguing that the top freaking part it all is just handing it all over for free to the government and that according to the side of the sources i haven't got access to believe that if somebody like that i like a pretty list can take part and then maybe there will be further concessions on the part of the government to try to make this as the jimmied of an election as

possible under circumstances that are still considered far from ideal. or at least in human with the latest on those developments in venezuela thank you. now lebanon's major political parties and they the diplomats mr diva's prime minister designate a day was appointed hours before the french president arrived in beirut or macro is expected to push for more reform in the country which was so devastated by last month's port explosion so who is the man now in charge of leading the recovery or must suffer a db is an academic who's not well known among the lebanese public he's been lebanon's ambassador in germany since 2013 he does have close ties to the former prime minister najib mikati serving as his advisor from 2000 to 2004 he was also part of the committee in charge of writing lebanon's new electoral law in 20052006 he acted as chief of staff of chief of cabinets in 2011 said ahead of reports from

beirut. he was not well known to the public until now most of a db has been chosen to form lebanon's next government the former ambassador to germany is promising change at a time of deep crisis where we will choose a ministerial team with expertise and competency will also carry out quick reforms that will put the country on the path to recovery and end the dangerous financial economic and social bleeding was the 1st got the majority of votes during parliamentary consultations the post is reserved for a son a muslim and the country secretary and based governing system that is why support from former prime ministers had had 80 who had the largest sunny bloc was essential to maintain national unity factions from a divided political landscape came together before the arrival of french president a man while mccall. the country needs to embrace the initiative of president macron

because the french president is working with the international community to lift lebanon from underneath the rubble mccall returns to beirut less than a month after visiting the lebanese capital 2 days after the devastating port explosion he has become a main power broker in the political crisis leading efforts to persuade politicians to fight state corruption and push through reforms needed for an international monetary fund bailout plan. for the ship or by france. or has. for the next. in his 1st act in office the new prime minister did what no lebanese official has done visited the neighborhoods damaged in the explosion we gaining the trust of the people won't be easy many accuse the political class who a. pointed

a deep for decades of corruption and unsafely storing explosive material after port . unlike his predecessor has. resigned in the aftermath of the august before explosion has the support from the majority of political forces but like a db could be held hostage by a political establishment that has been reluctant to carry out state reforms that could threaten their interests but this time they may have little choice the state is close to collapse and the international community says there won't be blank checks in the words of the new prime minister doesn't have time and this may be its last opportunity to save itself. boot. amasses announced it has reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence in the region the cattery brokered deal follows more than 3 weeks of cross border exchanges of fire israel has bombed gaza almost daily since august the 6th in

response to airborne incendiary devices and rockets launched from the palestinian territory sorry for say she's in west jerusalem would be wider effects of the stale . well it's all coming from the hamas side which is typical in these sorts of situations israel tends not to say anything about these announcements of the escalations or cease fires but according to israeli media there are israeli defense sources who are confirming what hamas is saying at least to the extent that there is an agreement what hamas says about this agreement is that it will stop its in century balloon launches an explosive balloon launches as well as that the what it calls its night time confusion operations where groups go along the border fence and throw explosives and cause disruption and in return it says that israel is undertaking to go back to the previous collation situation which means allowing fisherman out into the mediterranean again from gaza's ports easing the

restrictions of goods coming in which had been closed down just to humanitarian goods and food and medicine and also presumably the recent restoration of fuel supplies to gaza only power station which has been lying idle for some 10 days now since the fuel supplies were cut off meaning that gaza only has about 3 to 4 hours of electricity per day and as you say they are also battling this corona virus outbreak the 1st community coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic so these various things seem to have conspired to try to quell the situation as it stands with the mediation of the qatari envoy. i still ahead on this news hour a hero whose story was the basis of the film hotel rwanda now paraded in cuffs off being arrested on charges. hong kong accidents urged people to boycott some mosque coronavirus testing program if the privacy concerns. symbol of hope to

be a limp explain display ahead of the delays tokyo games. now the republican controlled wisconsin senate has taken no action in a special session called by the state democratic governor to pass a package of police reform well the session follows the shooting of an unarmed black man by police just over a week ago 2 people were killed in protests in the city after jacob lake was left power lies when he was shot 7 times in the back by police. john 100 joins us live now from the session was. but it didn't actually go ahead. as right it's been 8 days since a police officer shot jacob blake 7 times in the back and you can see the tail end

of the wisconsin is trying to get back to normal that store in a couple others are open but the plywood is still up they've painted it because it looks like it's going to be out for a while and jacob likes father had called for a legislative action and the governor of wisconsin tony even called the special session of the wisconsin senate. and the deal is that the democratic governor has the right to call a special session but the republicans who control the senate they don't have to do anything so what they did was gavel in that session and less than 30 seconds later they called a recess and didn't do as a thing so there will be no action on gov eve. police reform measures that included no chokeholds and included reporting of any incident where police use force a statewide use of force rule for the police and also a no knock warrant rule none of that will be acted on the republicans say they've

got their own measure in the main measure they've got would actually cut state funding to any city that reduced its police funding so they're taking a completely different approach here their the republican legislature is following the lead of donald trump the president of the united states who will be here in konoha sure we are told on tuesday that is despite the fact that the democratic governor here has asked him to stay away saying that trump is likely only to exacerbate tensions here well if you want donald trump to come somewhere the best way to do it is to uninvite him so he says he is still going to be coming here wisconsin is a key swing state the city voted for trump and then voted for the democratic governor 2 years later and that is why it is such an important state that's why it has become a focus of international attention with this killing of this young man and that's also why it's drawn political battle lines between the democrats and the republicans both parties want to win wisconsin in november.

well and has cooled donald trump a toxic presence in the us and his campaign events since accepting the democratic nomination for president he asked americans to remove poison from politics in an election. we've arrived at a moment in this campaign we all know including the press in front of me knew we'd get to. the moment when donald trump would be so desperate he'd do anything to hold on to power. dollars trump has been a toxic presence in our nation for 4 years. poor his need how we talk to one another poison how we treat one another poisoned the values this nation has always held dear. poison in our very democracy. now is a little over 60 days we have

a decision to make. will we rid ourselves of this toxin or will we make a permanent part we make it a permanent part of our nation's character more or less cost as mike hanna in washington d.c. for a semite some pretty strong words there from bite and he was also came with me to reject the idea that trump is actually a law and order president. yes that was a central theme of joe biden's campaign speech there rebutting president trump's repeated claims that he believes in law and order and is the most effective person to exercise law and order biden made joking reference to president trump's repeated law and order in all caps that he tweets out several times a day biden once again getting ahead of what has been a trump criticism of him that he is soft on law and order that he attends to defund the police is one of the claims that donald trump has made which has no factual

basis whatsoever but joe biden also looking at other aspects of what he sees as trump's failures as president in particular his inability to deal with that pandemic joe biden making his point very clear that president trump has accentuated the problem rather than found ways in which to end it and that issue as well of the national protests that are happening joe biden saying very strongly that far from attempting to end the violence president is in fact fermenting it by continuing to offer support to armed militia groups who support him and who are as joe biden says sometimes better armed than the police so a very hard hitting speech there from joe biden who has largely inquired on the issue of president trump in recent weeks but now clearly now he's getting his campaign underway that is all going to change here pretty strong attack there by

joe biden so how we had a response from the president yet. well no response directly to the speech yet we have had a spokesman for the president repeating that claim that joe biden is soft on law and order and during biden's speech there was no direct condemnation of and an extreme left wing movement to which the trump people contend is a part of the protests that we are seeing once again very little evidence to support such a claim but we will be hearing from president trompe is should thrilled to give a news conference beginning in the next hour and he's likely to address the criticism of joe biden head on mike hanna with the latest in washington thank you. lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed sanctions on dozens of better racine officials including president alexander lukashenko in total 30 belarusians have

been targeted with travel bans all are accused of vote rigging and playing a role in violence against protesters since the disputed election on august the 9th because shanker an ally of russia denies electoral forward and said the protesters are backs from abroad his inclusion on the list sends a message to european countries or 3 baltic states have led calls for the west to take firm action against the belarussians president who's been in power for 26 years and is dubbed europe's last dictator well as those protests against because they could continue many of its critics have had to seek refuge in neighboring countries but as smith medic root her now in the lift away me and capital the only us because of one small act of resistance. a few seconds of defiance against the government of russian president alexander lukashenko cost kirill got a lot of lost their jobs and their freedom i thought we'd play the song $1.00 of the bosses would come in and say what the hell are you doing and we would turn it

off no problem and it would just be something irritating but we would be honest to ourselves and when in the future i look back i wouldn't feel any shame for taking part in this event with. state sound engineers who'd been forced to play music at a government concert just before the presidential election. but they slipped in a famous song from 1986 used by anti soviet groups. i still have the hang of super want to do that the next moment there was this explosion of emotions people were singing along and i realized it would have risen and i knew i'd be arrested and one journalist ran up to me and said give me the number of one of your relatives because you know now you'll be arrested and asked to measure the kirill and vladislav were tried and found guilty of resisting arrest despite video released by minsk police showing engineers complying with the

arresting officers they were jailed for 10 days they have a deal of credit for it and for all that's over. a spent 5 days in jail in a small cell that stank of chlorine made your eyes water it was so strong it was really hard to breathe properly and i didn't sleep at all now they've been given visas by neighboring lithuania and they're here with their girlfriends who wanted to come with them yeah yeah. i'm happy that my friends and family can sleep well knowing that i was safe and no longer in danger i left the country because they didn't have any other way out so my 1st one was a kind of song all of them say they want to go back home to belarus but not while alexander lukashenko is there these are activists or politicians just 4 of the hundreds of thousands of people who. dared to dispute the president's claim that he want to 80 percent of the vote in the election in early august the baltic states of introduce largely symbolic travel bans on alexander lukashenko and other senior members of his administration the 66 year old leader is continuing to resist calls

to step down and he seems to have the backing of the kremlin which on monday said the situation in belarus seems to be under control bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius . on alaina could scale is director of the globe sect policy institute a think tank in slovakia's capital data slava and joins us from there via skype thanks for being with us on the program so we've got these 3 baltic states announcing those travel sanctions on officials in batteries including the president of course the e.u. has been considering some form of sanctions but in reality will sanctions actually have any impacts on lukashenko do you think this is their time here very good question because the sanctions so mainly symbolic currently they are sending every strong from the european union to look about where they use stands and what course of action is that they're meant to take but arguably i it is not going to have the

sanctions by themselves are not going to have a long lasting change the regime survival i mean is there a fear within the e.u. do you think about carrying our any form of sanctions because of the risk of provoking russia which has said obviously it's backing looking shanker but so far has resisted actually taking any direct action. russia has definitely been a very important factor for the european union to consider when you know it's on the example for that from the sanctions in the past that were you has always been think in how far it can look at shank in terms of sanctions exactly because the european union has always been afraid that look. entirely in the corner in this situation is rather different today because arguably look that is already so far including scorner that there's not that much further that the sanctions can flip him we know for example that there are media advisers that work in it all original question could meet him himself and they said lars is up from her kremlin will know

that there is a political cordon nation going on between the 2 countries who didn't open yet said that he is ready to provide some military support if the situation requires so look is already so much indebted to put him in a way that there is not that much further that he can be pushed interesting developments in the last couple in the couple of the opposition leaders of announce that actually going to form this new political party what you make of thought. this is definitely a perp or a shoo in for a very long term battle has been refusing to recognize protests as a legitimate negotiation force and this is definitely an attempt to prepare to not give any excuse to go out to a conversation with the protesters that's unclear that position has been preparing for the it's a definitely a they did not expect them to resign in a very short period of time i what is look a shank has game plan now i mean when they started after the disputed election

there was a rounding up of many many protest is that seems to have ended there seems to be more of a target it's. just detention all people like strike leaders and particular opposition leaders is that the way he's going to play now. right i think at the beginning look a sham to really try to use the same scenario that he used in the bus he hoped that there is going to be 2 days of protests there it's rather brutal crackdown and the protesters dissipated themselves but this is that finitely not happening so the question car and trying unsuccessfully am i say he's switching to this tactics were and tear and definitely as mentioned with the support of the russian green portsmouth's so he is trying to wait out the protesters is trying to recoup and consolidate the power and the power vertical to support him in the longer term all right great to get your thoughts. joining us there via skype thank you thank you for having me. also micros ruling party has won the most seats in the country's

parliamentary election but not enough to govern the prior western party a president made a joke out of it which secured 35 percent of the vote is worse results since the country when independence from serbia 15 years ago the proserpina opposition party trialled with 32 percent that could take power if it can form a coalition with another 2 opposition parties that this is. for all the results all good for montenegro there is peace and the situation is solved and we have come to reconciliation because we were on the edge of conflict maybe channel said the slow board we're few more free better after 30 years the most important thing is that all people have equal rights in this country and nobody should be afraid yes all right still ahead this news hour brazil's government introduces measures to make it harder for brain victims to get an abortion angering women's

rights activists plus. i'm catherine sawyer at lake boreal in kenya where the water level has been rising for the last 7 years led by room for several kilometers from here is also rising abhi telling you why this is a potential ecological disaster. and a thrilling finish to the gulf spill w championship he will be hare it with all the details in school. and in europe there's a real east and west place across the east it's all about the hate in the dividing line is a cloud thunderstorms and some heavy amounts of rain but across in the east southeast sunny skies in athens look at that beautiful clear sunny skies nice and warm however there is a downside in the southwest of spain these fires are continuing to burn this one has been raging. since the thursday and then he had been all that without some

tremendous thunderstorms and there has been a huge a hail storm that came down on him back into the north east of milan and then a sudden switzerland again some ferocious storms a flash flood it raged through here and this is the damage that is left behind that is the heat across the east and that is why we're seeing these very strong thunderstorms as they cool air kalash is with this whole to dry arrowhead and look at the time which is quite a difference 17 in vienna on tuesday 37 in book or essay you begin to get the idea now that rain will move across into the north pushing through much of poland throughout wednesday but there's the next mass of rain here pushing in across the u.k. across and but it should feel a bit milder woman the winds are coming from the mild southwest so some improvement not learned of the next few days it is dry and tom ridge is not doing too badly but it's rather cloudy and delta midges really in the low 20 celsius paris however does warm up slightly by thursday good kiss on these guys and it never really cools down a book arrest.

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welcome back under a minute at the top stories on al-jazeera venezuela's president is hardening more than 100 political opponents thank you 3 people involved in last year's failed rebellion and people close to the opposition leader one. has been named lebanon's prime minister designate and tasked with forming a government before ambassador to germany now faces calls to tackle corruption after the devastating beirut ports explosion. and a massive as it has reached a deal to end the recent escalation in violence with israel the country brokered

deal comes after exchanges of bombs rockets in century leaves. the 1st official flight from israel to the u.a.e. has landed in abu dhabi the trip follows a u.s. brokered deal between the 2 countries a high ranking delegation of american and israeli officials was on board including president trump's advisor and son in law krishna they'll meet their amorality counterparts to discuss economic trade and cultural corp the flight was allowed to cross saudi arabian airspace which is normally blocked to israeli air traffic palestinians oppose the pax in syria israeli strikes have killed 2 soldiers and wounded 7 others according to syrian state media airstrikes damaged a number of military targets south of the capital damascus syria's military said its air defense system intercepted most of the israeli missiles.

sudan's transitional government has signed a peace deal aimed at ending the 20 years of conflict agreement was reached with various rebel groups neighboring south saddam mediated the tail of a morgan reports from the capital cutting. a historic day for sadam as its transitional government and the opposition coalition the sudan revolutionary front find a peace deal the agreement was reached after nearly a year of negotiations and aims to end fighting across different regions a goal sudan's government says is its top priority. the deal we signed today is a commitment from us and the armed groups that signed it to the sudanese people who have suffered from the consequences of war such as destruction displacement and then looking for stability and better living it's also a commitment to get through the crucial times the country is currently going through the country is facing times which need real commitment to the post revolution needs and we hope sudan and its people have reaped the benefits of real

change in this suffering various groups that make up the sudan revolutionary front signed the deal each representing a different region the groups some armed had opposed the previous government of ahmed bashir who was overthrown in april last year they say their regions have long been marginalized the new deal will give the groups 3 seats in the sovereignty council and a quarter of the seats in the executive council of the transitional government it also grants more power to local governments and autonomy to the southern states of blue nile and south kordofan the resources of the states will be shared between the local and federal governments it also paves the way for the formation of a transitional legislative assembly with the sudan revolutionary front getting 25 percent of the seats. today we presume that rudy is today and he will i distinguish he's already done resist i don't resist the roots of the crisis and hopefully you sit down and providing basic decisions and just kind of want to

share and was to sit here and we didn't really forms and this is all governance the war in the western region of darfur has been going on for 17 years it's killed 300000 and displaced 2000000 from their homes amid reports of burning of villages and human rights atrocities the deal paves way for compensations to those affected mediated by south sudan it will also restart the 39 month transitional period and it will allow for the rebels to be integrated into the sudanese army during this period but some rebel groups have yet to sign a deal with the government we family believe. that military solution. to sudan's internal conflict is no to a viable option. as. the leader of it country it made you. for i'm going for you. i must we have.

our good you've got a country volatile. rejection of do no use of force in resulting. in resolving disputes the deal is not the 1st attempt at peace in sudan's conflict zones but the transitional government and the rebel groups say this time there's a political will to make it to work people morgan all does their own heart. a man who protected hundreds of people during the rwandan genocide has been arrested on terror charges will recess a beginner whose story was made into the hollywood film hotel rwanda was paraded in front of cameras in handcuffs he's been living in exile it is known to be a fierce critic of president paul kagame his government's authority say he's being held for forming and leading what they call terrorist movements he won multiple human rights awards for saving the lives of tutsis who were fleeing hutu led ethnic militias mark webb's in nairobi and says the rift with the president has been long running. while you were does is a betrayed him as

a hero but ruin his investigation bureau has said today that he's been arrested and he's been charged with funding terrorist groups and organizing attacks within rwanda from abroad once made these kinds of allegations against him for many years was back in there during the genocide in 1904 when he was widely reported to have protected hundreds of ethnic to seize in an international hotel where he was the manager at the time 12 years after that he published a book criticizing the government of president paul kagame in rwanda saying that it favored the small ethnic tutsi elite and was marginalizing the hutu majority the kinds of ethnic divisions and marginalization that with the events in the previous decades to the genocide he said these kind of things were still going on and that led to a public feud between him and president paul kagame he also accused wonder's

government of denying and covering up the massacres of athletes who too that took place at the same time said that no one's been held to account for these events now is certainly not uncommon for all these kinds of views are very rarely tolerated really tolerated in rwanda or it's. earlier this month there was white a widespread outcry in brazil when a 10 year old girl sought an abortion after allegedly being raped by her uncle well the case became a flashpoint for anti-abortion activists and those fighting for women's rights now brazil's government has added to the debate by expanding the requirements for rape victims seeking a terminations the new regulations stipulate that the right must be reported to the police regardless of the woman's wishes the patient must give the doctors a quote detailed account of what happens medical staff are also required to tell the woman she can see the embryo or fetus fire ultrasound for sale only allows abortion in cases of rape danger to the woman's life or the severe birth defects

and 70. kelly wallace has aria al there is a leak a consultant at the center for reproductive rights and she joins me now via skype from rio de janeiro thanks for being with us on the program give us a bit of background about why it is so difficult for rape victims to get an abortion in brazil or well there are many obstacles there is the legislation of course we have a 940 criminal code that is very restrictive regarding abortion and we also have these conservative environment in brazil right now and that is for sure reflected in set backs in the field of reproductive rights and we have practical obstacles for example are there are some hospitals that have an altar ization to provide a safe and legal abortion and not all of them or not have then actually

provides for duce to seniors are so many many obstacles so given it is so difficult to get a legal term a nation what to women who want an abortion do purcel well mostly they have they go under and say the illegal abortion so every year is made point out a $1600.00 legal in-state abortions per year why all this needs is to made so $500000.00 illegal or unsafe abortions every year. given that there has been an outcry over this particular case of the 10 year old girl are you seeing an increase in the number of women's rights activists who are prepared to come out and say that these laws should be changed. while we were watching very important movement in support in this current you support

reproductive and sexual rights who are women in general but we are also seen a very strong counter movement and. this also being responsible for this kind of measures so we have an important movement but also a very well organized counter movement against him so i'm getting the impression that the chances of any of those abortion laws actually being relaxed any time soon suddenly obviously under bolton are right but any time soon is simply not going to happen unfortunately probably not in brazil has one of the most restrictive abortion laws not only means we want to reach and unite in american soil and it's not of course just in brazil it's right across parts of latin america the laws are particularly strict is that right yes that's right but countries are

such as colombia argentina would look like i have less restrictive laws than for example brazil. and of the influence of those countries is not there's no influence from those countries particularly on the abortion laws in brazil i mean it's i guess it's so entrenched in society particularly a catholic society that it's going to take maybe decades to change. you know maybe we had this and then stand in 2000 well when the supreme court expanded sections are who are. doing an instant panic to do those but since then we didn't have any real and. these who are who serve in the movement really get to get a thought such giuliana's as our album joining us there from rio de janeiro thank you chinese authorities have detained an australian citizen who is a television anchor on a state owned news channel in beijing china has been held for at least 2 weeks

australia's foreign minister says she received formal notification of the present on cd t.n. was being held on the 14th of august relations between the 2 countries have deteriorated with australia calling for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus china responded by imposing tariffs on australian products india's economy shrank by nearly a quarter between april and june as it struggles to recover from a coronavirus lock down g.d.p. fell by a record 23.9 percent compared with the same period a year ago analysts say it's now heading for its 1st full year contraction in 40 years india and pose the world's largest and strictest lock down in late march causing huge disruption to economic activity it ended in may but cases have continued to climb with the country now home to the 3rd highest number of cases globally. hong kong's government says half

a 1000000 people have already signed up for a free coronavirus testing program that's 2 to launch on tuesday but a pro democracy union of health care workers has called for a boycott because of the program being supported by man 9 and chinese authorities and they fear it's more about controlling the city than the virus itself reports from hong kong. in a city still struggling with a 3rd wave of corona virus infection the government says mass testing is the best way to put hong kong on a course for recovery. the universal community testing program is running from september 1st the government is heavily promoting the campaign which has been funded by mainland china central government at a cost of $20000000.00 the offer was presented as a favor to the city government has released this video thanking my mental storage fees for the hilt odd choice let me reiterate that this is a 100 percent voluntary universal testing program the aim is to ensure those who

want to get tested can get tested more than 140 centers have now been set up with voluntary testing to start on tuesday the hong kong government says it's responsible for sample collection but a team of 60 medical staff from china will lead the screening and 3 mine land based bird trees will process the results china's involvement is being viewed with skepticism by some who fear the genetic data could be used for other purposes we do not know how the data will be stored how long they are going to retain or if they are collecting the data for testing so what they use it for comparison for this takes we we don't know despite a recent outbreak hong kong has seen a downward trend of fewer than 100 cases for more than 20 days the government says this screening programme imes to address a recent. bike in community transmissions and also do people peace of mind

opposition groups and some in the medical community so messed testing is not the most cost effective solution i don't go against testing but i really think that testing should be targeted testing should be targeted to those who have symptoms testing should be targeted to doze with cross contact with the convent cases hong kong has reported more than 4 and a half 1000 coronavirus cases so far this mess testing program may identify more infections but at the moment of thora these leading the campaign it will also be a barometer of the moment sentiment in his former british territory sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong australia has recorded its deadliest single day of the pandemic so far 41 new deaths were reported on monday all of them in the state of victoria only 8 of those deaths were in the past 24 hours with 33 more dating back

to july. added due to tighten the reporting restrictions a total of $73.00 new cases coronavirus also confirmed the lowest one day total for 2 months authorities say they're confident the outbreak is being brought under control promising an easing of restrictions soon rising water levels in kenya as a great river valley have forced thousands of people from their homes now there are also fears of a looming ecological disaster like the korea is slowly getting closer to lake baringo further north and as katherine sawyer ports could contaminate it with alkaline water. this is lake but korea in kenya's rift valley an alkaline lake which is home to some of the largest colonies of flamingoes in the world and this eases and hot springs but something has been changing in the last few years the water level has been rising causing the lake to expand about 8 kilometers since

2013 it has covered most of the keys as and submerged territory that once had homes hospitals and roads and james kim are a game warden shows us how far the lake has come and tells us how worried he is. used to be that the formula but. for the. the lake gets most of its water from a river whose main source of forests in the central highlands environmental climate change deforestation and unusually heavy rains have made things worse this is one of the rivers that feed local korea and our game warden says the big problem is right here because if the water from the lake which is rising gets to this point then it cooled reverse the cause of the river mix up with swamps downstream which connect with burying a freshwater lake they facts to the ecosystem will be disastrous lake variant of 13

kilometers to the north has freshwater the 2 lakes were 20 kilometers apart not too long ago lake baringo is rising at about 2 and a half centimeters a day its water has increased by up to 12 meters in the last 7 years where we are running past and used to be driving around dr lizabeth my horse has lived here for 40 years she and her husband run a program 3 habitate. are a gland she says even water from the 2 lakes makes their contaminate each other and affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people deforestation really has to be looked at so that the flash flooding is stopped and catchment areas are preserved. another thing very important is that this leg fluctuates it goes down it comes up so who knows given climate change how it will fluctuate seeing lin a point is one of thousands here who are in trouble now live by ringo has reached

his doorstep the water was far when i was coming here my previous house is now submerged now i'm trying to figure out where to move next only god can help us. he doesn't know it yet but even late but gloria contaminates baringo all the water life including the fish she depends on for food and money will die the suggestions by some scientists and government workers to build a barrier between the 2 people who've been watching the lakes well for years say enough of talk a solution needs to be found quickly catherine soy al-jazeera lead but gloria kenya or fires have hit greece putting the ancient citadel at my scene a at risk for water dropping planes into helicopters help dozens of firefighters to contain the blaze greece's culture minister says monuments at the archaeological site have not been damaged there in southwest of athens are some of the most important in the country and should reopen on tuesday grace i'm merely grapples

with wildfires cheering the dry summer season. or i still ahead. for the u.s. open tennis is underway behind closed doors in new york but it's not what i want control to say.

again as police force and his lee christie thank you very much the u.s. open tennis has started in new york but there's confusion surrounding the tournament's coronavirus walls we told you on standby that french player ben one

pair had tested positive in the bubble in new york and was subsequently withdrawn but 7 other players have been confirmed as having had close contact with pat and will not be removed as things stand in a departure from the original rules which should they should isolate for 14 days they would instead be kept away from others regularly tested but crucially still allowed to compete and train some of them have been on calls already without knowing whether they're positive or not one of the players who had contact with pat is france's christina doesn't know which the number 30 states vary from term confirmed she is now quote inside a bubble within a bubble she's not allowed to do anything really except play her matches this is not gone down well with some australians doubles player alan paris said the new protocols are misleading disrespectful of wrong if any of those close contacts turned back a positive test i hope everyone takes action upon these reckless and dangerous protocols this isn't a guy several top players have opted out of the tournament including the top 2

women party and so now hallett that means caroline pushed over is the top seed and she reached around with a win and helena. once again there was no sign of lino messi as barcelona began their training for the season fans waited to get a glimpse of the players but as their wives but when it came to their mind star replica shirts was as good as it got messi has told the cabbie wants to leave for free but they insist that interested james must pay at $133000000.00 buyout as he continues to send a clear message though then he also skipped a caldwell in a virus test on sunday. pastoral beginning a new iran to ronald koeman who left his job as netherlands coach the dutch squad have been training ahead of their upcoming nations league matches against poland and italy kept him virgil van dyke understands coleman's decision to leave. the call to do almost. i'm not disappointed in him at all i know that job was his big dream with cope at 19 we still don't know if the euros is going to happen i want

a chance like this comes along i understand that he took it it's a pity for us but we wish him all the best i should tell you that your wife has confirmed that hypothetically tames could end up forfeiting nations league games if they're struck down by 19 and can't food enough players if neither team is deemed responsible for an outbreak the result would be decided by the draw of lots and it's going to confirm that the italian football league season will start on september 9th veteran forward him of which has extended his contract with milan for another year the 38 year old swede returned for a 2nd stint at the italian club in january on a 6 month contract and i finished 6th in sorry after a 13 match our baiting streak in all competitions it was enough to secure them a you've opened the spot i've read lots here another prolific scorer cheero in moberly has extended his contract until 2025 it had been due to expire in 2023 to

mobilise gold 36 goals in sorry all this season matching an italian league record. the former head of european football michel platini has been questioned by swiss prosecutors over $2000000.00 payment of a safer world governing body for the payment in 2011 led to his removal as u.i. for president but cheney is officially a suspect in a 5 year long investigation into criminal mismanagement misappropriation and forgery sepp blatter the former head of fifa who authorized the payment is due to be questioned on tuesday by platini blatter deny own doing. frenchman julie analyse leap of retained they told her france leaders yellow jersey but the day belonged to australian water. sorry who won stage 3 after more than 5 hours in the saddle he overtook 5 or it is in the last 100 metres so when a sprint finish other philip leads over all bar 4 seconds. and goes b.m.w.

championship had a thrilling finish on sunday world number one dustin johnson now to an incredible $43.00 foot birdie part of the final hole to force a play off against spain's john rome. if you think it was good this was rum on the 1st extra hole he had 2 parts for a birdie to just stay in the playoff but he made the hole from 66 feet a while here it comes. missed his chance handing numbered so vonn the victory and won takes over $2300000.00 when his check but johnson stays just ahead of him in the world rankings. if you going to tell me i'm going to make a 66 footer to win a tournament i'll take it any day you know i think we all want the flashy finish maybe not the stress that comes with it but i you know i said i myself will enjoy even the uncomfortable moment that we have out there to the. man i would fight it was fun i will finish with shots from tokyo where the olympic flame has gone on

display at the japanese olympic museum it's right next to the national stadium which was built for the 2020 games which have been delayed a year because of coronavirus it's home to 10000 who carry the fly next year as a low key ceremony officials reiterated their desire for the olympics to act as a symbol of hug. your parent athletes aiming to participate in the olympics and paralympics are training hard every day while having great anxiety about covert 19 i'm confident that this flame which is displayed today will be a moral support for such athletes. and let's hope that any problems that she has a lot of press around the world i think particularly in tokyo leigh thanks very much. that's about it for me. in london like a far away though i'm back with more the day's news for you a couple of minutes time off even watch.

china's new national security role has tightened beijing's grip on hong kong and stifled protests that rocked the city a year ago. with pro-democracy counter that's now disqualified from running elections and octopuses fearing imprisonment or worse does this spell the end for one country 2 systems people in power investigates hong kong and. on

a busy day. another early morning another ceremony to bit health workers by well. 29000 to cuban doctors and nurses working in 59 countries around the world as confirmed cases of coronavirus increase such as demand for cuban medics medical services at the island's main export while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the other's health system draw a different conclusion you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go but they end up because there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not just and right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this rice is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as

a capital artist we are trying to pave the road smaller i'm smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing on al-jazeera. venezuela's president pardons more than $100.00 opposition figures in the interests of national reconciliation. and again on felicity barr and you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up a former ambassador and political unknown is appointed lebanon's new prime minister stuff a deep promises to put the country on the path to recovery. dollar choppers going to toxic presence in the nation for 4 years.