isn't all works does this spell the end for one country 2 systems people in power investigates hong kong and. on a because he. was . tears of joy in venezuela as president material pardons more than $100.00 political opponents his government calls it a move to reconciliation. elam's the rommany or jobs or life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes hong kong launches a massive coronavirus testing program that is china may use it to crack down on activists keep many away. israel and hamas reach an agreement to end weeks of violence along the israel gaza border adding that it includes opening

a main crossing. from a basket or to prime minister lebanon picks mr adam to leave the country which is recovering from a major explosion and facing a severe economic crisis. welcome to the program dozens of detained opposition politicians of walk free from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by president nicolas maduro some are being accused of attempting to overthrow the government now they've been released ahead of elections in december or latin america editor lucien human has more. after months and in many cases years of imprisonment opponents of president nicolas maduro were reunited with loved ones after receiving an unexpected pardon neuer in the league in a deal would had a stroke in jail thanked the government for letting him be reunited with his fan.

while and bunya told by argued she'd been unjustly imprisoned. that i told him until i was blue in the face that i had nothing to do with the cues to me of that my only crime was being the neighbor of someone of interest pardons before elections aren't new but the magnitude of these work the was they included scores of prominent government foes like robert the marital opposition leader idols chief of staff. for any give out who's been in the chilean embassy for nearly 2 years was he going to be several he'd been battle all political prisoners or opposition deputies in hiding or in exile all of them accused of treason and more. as a warm up to the pardons venezuela's most emblematic political prisoner of one click a sense was released late friday and put under house arrest still accused of plotting to kill president nicolas maduro which he denies that the list of pardons

is long but excludes opposition leader one by the all and milk bottle opus both of whom a little has vowed to put behind bars for alleged crimes against the state the government strategy is obvious to all that he will middle. number one objective is to gain legitimacy for december's parliamentary elections it's essential even his russian and chinese emmas are demanding some sort of recognition of the poles so for that to happen there has to be participation in the elections from at least part of the internationally recognized opposition feliks a has says the pardons may be just a 1st major step was another concession could be to allow major parties and candidates barred from taking part in elections to run after all that could include twice presidential candidate and a good capitalist who believes that boycotting the poll would be even worse the competing. in an uneven playing field was one why though who is recognized by more

than 50 countries as venezuela's interim president has given opposition parties until the end of the week to publicly joined in a united front to boycott an election that is widely considered uncompetitive not to be outdone the government has extended the period from registering candidates until friday is completely than israel into waiting to see what more concessions mughal may be willing to make to try to solve the general election that he may win at the polls but not in legitimacy unless his foes take part you see in human al-jazeera the 2 u.s. presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence at protests across the country donald trump has accused left wing protest as for the unrest and claimed his democratic rival joe biden has given aid to vandals but biden says trump is poisoning the nation's values and creating an atmosphere of hate and division by color reports from washington d.c. . reaction to the nationwide protests has defined the massive gap between the

policies of president trump and his democratic party opponent now that the president has described elements among the protesters of the black lives matter movement as looters and that has and has encouraged his supporters to hold counter demonstrations in a mob contrast joe biden tweeted a picture of himself taking a me with those protesting police brutality and racism and at a campaign meeting in pittsburgh by didn't painted a picture of an incumbent president seeking to foment violence for political game rather than exploring ways to end it because donald trump adds fuel to every fire because he refuses to even acknowledge that there's a racial justice problem in america because he won't stand up to any form of violence. he's got no problem with right wing militia white supremacist vigilantes

with assault weapons often better armed with the police the president trumps reaction was predictable claiming again that joe biden is weak on law and order. and has given moral aid and comfort to the veil those repeating the mantra that these were peaceful protests in a peaceful protest. this anarchy joe biden has spoken to the mother of jacob blake the 29 year old african american who was shot and paralyzed by police in can osha wisconsin last week she said she was praying for sun that she says something. that surprised she was prayed for all police officers. she was already been praying for america even before her son was shot president trump explained why he has not spoken to the family. with the pastor wonderful man the family's pastor and i thought it would be better not to do anything with their lawyers and they wanted me

to speak but they wanted to have lawyers involved and i thought that was inappropriate so i didn't do that the governor of wisconsin sent a letter to president trump asking him to cancel his proposed visit to connote should this week in the letter the governor says and i quote i am concerned your presence will not only hinder our healing i am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together president trump has brushed aside these concerns and confirmed that he will be traveling to connote as planned mike hanna al jazeera washington. president donald trump has made another attempt to block the manhattan district attorney from getting his tax returns he filed a motion as a federal appeals court saying the handover would cause him irreparable harm it'll hear arguments on tuesday if the appeals court does reject the delay trump will take his fight to the supreme court which is already denied him immunity to

criminal prosecution the district attorney is seeking 8 years of trump's financial records as part of a criminal investigation into his business practices. state of victoria has recorded its lowest rise in corona virus deaths in 2 weeks amid hopes that the outbreak has been brought under control 5 people died while 70 others tested positive 7 week low the state capital melbourne is beginning its 4th week in lockdown on wednesday economic figures will confirm australia's 1st recession in almost 30 years. the home kong has begun a mass coronavirus testing campaign but activists and some health workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the initiative because of the involvement of mainland chinese firms and doctors there's also concern that china will use it as a way to collect d.n.a. as it cracks down on the city's pro democracy movement sarah clarke has more from hong kong. well one of the 114 centers that have been set up across an 18 districts

in hong kong where one child is a queens college testing center we do know that at least 100 of those centers are fully booked up on the 1st day of mass testing the government had hoped to get around 5000000 people registered 600000 people have signed up so far but the testing will continue for about 2 or so weeks this is a basically to deal with a 3rd wave of infections of the crowd that we've had here in hong kong program is being led by a team of medical staff and china around 60 staff of come down from the one province to drive this particular campaign in the specimen collection the processing will be done by 3 mainland based and that's where some concerns have been raised the critics of health care workers have suggested that the do and i could be transferred to mainland china they've also said it could be used for other purposes not just for identifying cases and it's also some criticism that there's concern that this increased fees of surveillance by beijing own hong kong as well

as a breach in your privacy no government has defended this program and they've said it's voluntary it's a one off and says it's people's civic duty to go and get tested while this mass screening program is on the way up and certainly do expect look at the registration numbers that will be needed certainly a barometer of and sentiment. china has warned india over the disputed border saying that severe military losses both countries accuse each other's troops of crossing the line of actual control india says disrupted what it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the east in the dark region overnight on sunday china counters that indian forces violated its territory sovereignty during an operation on monday more on this from katrina your correspondent in beijing obviously. in terms of the diplomatic splats from beijing in new delhi but was trying to saying about india statements. well

china's foreign ministry and its military are flatly denied any wrongdoing on the china india borders saying it was indian troops who in fact crossed the line of control and are starting tensions by undertaking these provocative acts alone china's foreign ministry have said that they're continuing negotiations with the indian side however we have had a much more aggressive response from chinese state media but the global times newspaper here which is the english language version and we've got a headline saying that the indian side has made an illegal crossing into chinese territory and it got a quite aggressive editorial inside this newspaper with the global times urging the indian side to withdraw its troops to maintain the peace saying that the chinese side will not hesitate to protect its sovereignty and to repel any indian to attacks and also it was saying that india should be under no illusions that the chinese side is weaker that the chinese side will be easy is easily able to take on

the indian side and according to the global times they said they've also conducted their own survey of the readers in china saying that the majority of chinese readers are tired of what it's described as hostile behavior from india against china saying that up to 90 percent would support any military action that the chinese government says. they may undertake if the indian side indeed agitates china enough but there is also an acknowledgement that india is still an important neighbor for china and certainly its big trading partner and the chinese side has said that india and beijing have been undertaking some negotiation and some talks lower admittedly they've been able to achieve very limited progress for the update on so much between the u.s. force beijing. well still ahead here on al-jazeera we talk to 2 deejays who fled by the recent trouble because of the song they played. the push for its former

president supporters back in exile ivory coast leader was acquitted of war crimes. hello that mostly wholesome dry throughout much of the middle east very warm it has been as well even through the eastern end of the mediterranean well simplicity skies meanwhile across the south in the southwest of yemen we have seen yet more showers and thunderstorms you can see has some rather dramatic pictures coming from the capital of santa and there's lightning flashes really lighting up the sky now there's a chance of a few more of those thunderstorms to choose a can say quite a rash of the muslims across the south and quite a lot of cloud as well throughout much of saudi but the temperatures are still pretty warm in baghdad and q 845 celsius but the temperature comes come down really quite noticeably in doha 39 degrees and possibly even lower than that on wednesday

however that also comes with an easterly wind and a very light breeze as well so feeling particularly humid the still the showers will continue across into yemen meanwhile into jerusalem temperatures have come down but yes well they are set to rise again so well above the average and by friday we could be back up to about 39 degrees celsius then down into central and southern africa again have seen some fairly active weather over the last few days and this long line of cloud has been producing some very well scattered but very widespread thunderstorms throughout she's day is really going to be much of the south africa zimbabwe mozambique that's where the heaviest shows are and then wednesday stormy conditions across the cave. in 2008. al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities 'd. we return to see how the

students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super 30 announces era. last. what about your job as a release the whole robin a reminder of our top stories dozens of detained opposition politicians are being released from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by the president the government says it's a goodwill gesture but it's widely seen as an attempt to boost participation in upcoming elections the 2 u.s. presidential candidates are blaming each other to violence of protests across the

country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls left wing is civil unrest biden says trump is poisoning the nation's values hong kong has begun a mass coronavirus testing campaign but activists and some health workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the initiative because it involves chinese firms and doctors. a check opposition led delegation is in taiwan for a 6 day visit despite threats of retaliation from china it's headed by the senate leader who's been addressing taiwan's parliament he isn't barred by government policy so. to not send elevations to the island which china considers part of its territory beijing says a politician will pay a high price for what it calls provocation in return praga sub and the chinese envoy for must says it has reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal of brokered by

qatar comes as garza struggles a drug ban on fuel deliveries which have led to power cuts are a force that has more from west jerusalem. 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 nighttime 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 the question is whether the infrastructure projects that hamas also says have been agreed to with some qatari funding whether they will now get off the ground. french president manuel macro says a new government needs to be formed quickly in lebanon to tackle its political and

economic crisis. but was named prime minister just hours before micron landed in beirut but before he met on to visit a ruse one of the arab balls was famous singers and the rest symbol of unity in lebanon it's his 2nd trip to the city since an explosion killed almost $200.00 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless with her other biz the former ambassador to germany and one broad support from across the political divide but winning the public's trust won't be easy as they know how to reports now from beirut. he was not well known to the public until now most of the deep 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. 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 to how d.d. o. had the largest sun the block 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 ports 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. 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 regaining 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 had done yeah well resigned in the aftermath of the others before explosion has the support from the majority of political forces but like yeah a db could be held hostage by a political establishment that has been reluctant to carry out a 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 lebanon doesn't have time and this may be its last opportunity to save itself. beirut saudi arabia's king salonen sunk to royals and several military officers over alleged corruption in the royal decree of the king fired prince turkey he was the commander of the saudi u.a.e. coalition that's been fighting in yemen his son was also removed being investigated for suspicious financial transactions at the defense ministry over the past 3 years of rolls and other officials have been detained for graft as part of probe prince mohammed bin someone's anticorruption campaign. russia says it will not send troops into batteries because it believes the political crisis is under control and that's despite protests against the president which is now in the 4th week alexander lukashenko is accused of rigging elections and demonstrate as

a calling for him to resign baltic countries have imposed travel sanctions on the shank and other by the russian officials burnet smith reports are moving with the way they are on some protesters who sought refuge there. 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 you're 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 carol of state sound engineers who've 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 them in your soup or more to 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 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 unfair. i 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 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 it

didn't have any other way out so my 1st one was a car following all of them say they want to go back home to belarus but not while alexander lukashenko is there these are dr vest's or politicians just 4 of the hundreds of thousands of people who have dared to dispute the president's claim that he wanted 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. police in russia have launched a criminal inquiry after an opposition interest and blogger was assaulted yeah goes to cough was attacked by 2 people outside his apartment in moscow last court banned him from using the internet for 2 years after he took part in protests calling for

elections russian authorities of seize $460000.00 from bank accounts belonging to an activist libya office is a lawyer for the anti corruption foundation set up by opposition leader alexina valley who's in a coma with suspected poisoning in a hospital in germany called to order damages from her last year following an investigation into activities by a business been closely linked to president putin. supporters of ivory coast exiled former president laurent gbagbo have put his name forward as a candidate in next month's election along with the former rebel leader. he's taking on president. and his bid for a controversial 3rd term and that address reports. for the supporters of former president laurent gbagbo nothing short of his candidacy will do dozens of them are here now be sure you find a ban on public gathering to prevent complete 19. inside the headquarters of the

election commission senior opposition figures submit an application on his behalf of larkana with all the. what we have done today signifies our will to reject the exclusion of our candidate in the next election the election commission has a historic responsibility to the people of ivory coast to make it stand clear and make sure that whatever it does doesn't negate the constitution of our country. lost the clinton presidential election to incumbent president alassane ouattara but his refusal to leave office led to a civil war that killed more than 3004 years. without a valid passport to return home is still stuck in belgium after he was acquitted of war crimes by the international criminal court the other candidate is. a formidable leader and parliament speaker was a close ally and coalition partner of president ouattara until the 2 fell apart of

a succession plans he's now in europe after his plane was denied landing rights in ivory coast. on august 6th president ouattara announced he's running for 13. his decision followed the sudden death of his chosen successor former prime minister i want to conclude by the opposition says it's unconstitutional his supporters say a 2016 constitutional amendment approved by 60 percent of the population peeve the way for his candidacy in this election this. new one. is allowed. to be needed. for the fact of. the union of 8 as in. office and. a lot. want to be counted and each. creature area. has already laid 2 men did during the next.

2 shall do so. now. that that's what. our election dozens of people have died in protest across ivory coast since that constitutional amendment of 2060 that our fears of more violence as a tool but the 21 presidential election grows near a comedy grease al-jazeera. gillies ruling party has confirmed the present alpha condé will run for a 3rd term despite months of violent protests against him from the push through constitutional change in march that critics say was designed to allow him to run against next month previously presidents could only serve 2 terms in office protesters say the 82 year old has become increasingly authoritarian since coming into power in 2010. an investigation into witness tampering by colombia's former

president alvaro uribe is being handed over to the attorney general's office the 68 year old is suspected of trying to silence allegations that he had links to paramilitary groups really resigned from his senate seat this month after becoming the 1st x. president to be put under house arrest his defense team successfully argued his case shouldn't be handled by the supreme court. your job is 0 times that whole round with a reminder of our top stories dozens of detained opposition politicians have been released from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by the president the government says it's a goodwill gesture but it's widely seen as an attempt to boost participation in upcoming elections. the 2 u.s. presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls

a left wing to civil unrest biden says trump is poisoning the nation's values. it's a writers these are dangerous people these are killers they kill a lot of people and they don't even think about it they wake up the next morning they don't even think about it this is the extreme left agenda for america they want to appoint radical prosecutors judges and verrall of a shows who will set criminals free the job of the president is to tell it straight from the shoulder tell the truth to be candid to face facts to lead not to incite that's why i'm speaking to you today you come a president is incapable of telling us the truth capable of facing the facts and capable of healing he doesn't want to shed light he wants to generate heat and drunken violence in our cities. hong kong has begun

a mask rotavirus testing campaign but activists and some health workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the initiative because it involves chinese firms and doctors feel strongly in states of it toria has recorded its lowest rising crowed about its deaths in 2 weeks amid hopes that the break is being brought under control 5 people died while a 70 others tested positive face 7 week low the state capital melbourne is beginning its 4th week in lockdown. hamas says it's reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by qatar comes as gaza struggles under a ban on fuel deliveries which have led to power cuts. for the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's the stream to stay with us. talk to old. school is the government not to take the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that

air travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. i am for the ok welcome to the stream home edition in the upcoming us at u.s. elections both republicans and democrats democrats have said the sights and security intriguing diverse community indian americans he is being. senator kamel harris will be the 1st person of the indian era tinge to be nominated for vice president on a major party ticket my grandparents were phenomenal we would go back to india like every other here my grandfather fought for and was a defender of the freedom of india when i was a young girl being the eldest grandchild.