our election. coverage. people. feel is gently sent from around the world following reports that officials were aware of the presence of highly explosive material there are plans for mass demonstrations. pardoned by the president venezuela's nicolas maduro for use dozens of political opponents but critics say it's to legitimize the next election. robots and this is all just a live from doha also coming up calling for reforms french president emanuel is in lebanon

a day after most of the biz named the new prime minister. on kong launches a massive covert testing program but many are staying away because they're worried china may use it to crackdown on activists. plus we talked to 2 deejays who fled in trouble because of a song they played. there's an jubilation in venezuela that dozens of opposition politicians have walked free from prison after being pardoned by president nicolas maduro some have been accused of attempting to overthrow the government critics say it's all done to the elections in december american editor of the sea and human has more. after months and in many cases years of imprisonment opponents of president last month were reunited with. loved ones after receiving an unexpected pardon lawyer in

greek in a deal would had a stroke in jail thanked the government for letting him be reunited with his family 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 accused 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 were the the main clue did 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 revealed to be several he'd been battling 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 the stool if you will middle. number one objective is to gain legitimacy for december's parliamentary elections it's essential even as russian and chinese yellows 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 candidates in the league capitalists 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 has been israel as interim president has given opposition parties until the end of the week to publicly join him in a united front to boycotted election that is widely considered uncompetitive not to be outdone the government has extended the period from registering candidates until friday is completely the news wailings awaiting to see what more concessions mughal may be willing to make to try to salvage an election that he may win at the polls but not in legitimacy unless his foes take part you see in human al-jazeera vice president emmanuel mccrone says lebanon needs to form a new government quickly to get out of its deep political and economic crisis is on the 2nd day of a visit to lebanon most of id was named prime minister just hours before maccarone

landed in beirut but before he met a db mccrone visited fairuz she's one of the arab world's most famous singers and a rare symbol of unity in lebanon it's a 2nd trip to the city since an explosion killed almost $200.00 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless most of i.d.b. is the former ambassador to germany and he's one broad support from across the political divide but winning the public's trust won't be easy as in a heart 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. 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 porth 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. support. for. france.

or has. 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 safely storing explosive material after port. unlike his predecessor has. resigned in the aftermath of the war explosion has the support from the majority of political forces but like. 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 will 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 senator there also is the into beirut. china has warned india about rising tension there disputed border saying it will inflict severe military losses both countries accuse each other's troops of crossing the line of actual control india says it disrupted what it called provocative military movements by chinese troops in the eastern ladakh region overnight on sunday china counters that indian forces violated its a territorial sovereignty joining an operation on monday centered on the southern shore of punggol lake between a hughes following developments from beijing. we have had a more aggressive response from chinese state media got here the global news the global times which is the english language newspaper of the global times and the headline is about india saying that indian troops have made in

a legal crossing in the area and quite aggressive editorial in this paper today on tuesday saying that india should. withdraw its troops to to make sure that these tensions are escalating saying that china will not hesitate to protect its sovereignty and will do everything to repel india and attack if there is any agitation made by new delhi and also saying that india should be under no illusion that the chinese military is not willing and ready to take on india that china india simply nor much for the chinese side and according to the global timetables undertaken a survey of its readers saying the vast majority of chinese readers say that they're tired of what it's called hostile behavior from the indian side and that 90 percent would support military action should the chinese government think about it is fair to do so but of course there's also been an acknowledgement from china that

media is also a very important neighbor a lot of trade is done with india and they would like to maintain peace and analysts say india and china have been conducting talks for the last few months for every week almost but these talks seem to have been very limited in the amount of progress they've been able to achieve so far sterling is government says it's no closer to finding out why one of its citizens has been detained in china single i works as a television presenter the state owned channel c g t n she's not been charged but she's being held under what's called residential surveillance this german embassy was able to speak with chains for a video link last week it comes at a time of growing tension between china and australia over the coronavirus pandemic . a delegation led by the czech republic's opposition is in taiwan for a 6 day visit despite threats of retaliation from china it's headed by the senate leader who addressed taiwan's parliament and he's not bound by czech government's policy which is not to send delegations to the island which china considers part of

its territory beijing says the politician will pay a high price for what it calls a provocation in return to prague has summoned the chinese and boy. hong kong has started a must coronavirus testing campaign but activists and some health workers are calling for a boycott many people say they're skeptical because firms and doctors from mainland china are involved there's also concern that china will use it as a way to collect d.n.a. is it cracks down in the city's pro-democracy movement so the clock has more from hong kong. where one of the 114 santa is that have been set up across and 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 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 bicycling to deal with

a 3rd wave of infections of the crime that we've had here in hong kong programme is being led by a team of medical staff in mainland china around 60 staff of come down from the guangdong 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 the critics some healthcare workers have suggested that the d.n.i. could be transferred to mainland china they've also said it could be used for other purposes not just for identifying cases in there's also some criticism that the concern that this increased fees of surveillance by beijing own hong kong as was a breach of 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 that we do expect look at the registration numbers that will be needed certainly a barometer of anti mine and sentiment. this syrian state of victoria has recorded

its lowest rise in deaths from corona virus in 2 weeks from that's raised hopes that the outbreak is being brought under control 5 people died while 70 others tested positive but that's the lowest level in 7 weeks the state capital melbourne's beginning its 4th week in lockdown on wednesday economic figures will confirm australia's 1st recession in almost 30 years. still had an al-jazeera israel and hamas reached an agreement to reduce weeks of violence along the israel gaza border which includes opening a main crossing. plus a 10 year old. brazilian child seeking a fortune has reignited the debate on the controversial question.

and in europe there's a real east and west nation 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 a since the thursday and then he had up until that actually without some tremendous thunderstorms and that has been a huge a hail storm that came down on him back in may to the northeast of milan and then a sudden switzerland again some ferocious storms a flash flood 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 with this halt to dry air ahead and look at the time which is quite a difference 17 in vienna on tuesday 37 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. but it should feel a bit milder woman at the winds are coming from the mild southwest so some

improvement not learned of the next few days it is dry and to much is not doing too badly but it's for all the cloudy and delta which is really in the low twenty's celsius paris however it does warm up slightly by thursday a good kiss on the skies and it never really cools down a book arrest. but . the 2000 mile trip across europe seems impossible. as the balkans route begins to close for refugee miss it has become a race against time for one syrian family. it's a perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning bank to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera.

watching al-jazeera in mind of our top stories this hour more than $100.00 people including opposition politicians have walked free from prison in venezuela after being pardoned by president a nicolas maduro parliamentary elections a shadow for december the move is widely seen as an attempt to boost participation in the vote. french president emmanuel mccrone says lebanon needs to form a new government quickly to get out of its deep political and economic crises is on the 2nd day of a visit to lebanon was named as prime minister just hours before microphones a vital. chinese state media is warning india over rising tension there disputed borders saying it will inflict severe military losses india says it disrupted what

it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the eastern lot and china counters that indian forces violated its territorial sovereignty during an operation. the us presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence at protests across the country donald trump has accused left wing protesters and the democrats for creating the unrest but his rival joe biden says trump is poisoning the nation's values and creating an atmosphere of hate and division mike hanna reports from washington. 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 as 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 dollar troop 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. president trance reaction was predictable claiming again that joe biden is weak on law and order. 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 trained for son that she says simply be surprised she was prayed for all police officers. says she was already been trained 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 can osha as planned mike hanna al-jazeera washington. president donald trump has made another attempt to stop the manhattan district attorney from getting his tax returns if adda motion of the federal appeals court saying the handover would cause him irreparable harm it will hear arguments on tuesday the district attorney seeking 8 years of trump's financial records as part of a criminal investigation into his business practices. hamas says it's reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal was brokered by qatar and comes as gaza struggles under a fuel delivery ban 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 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 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. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has did invited a delegation from the united arab emirates to visit israel that's after the 1st flight by its national airline touched down in with white house advisers out of question and other u.s. and israeli officials on board a u.s. brokered deal to open up relations between israel and the u.a.e. was announced 3 weeks ago palestinians have called the pact a betrayal. saudi arabia's king solomon has sacked 2 royals and several military

officers over alleged corruption and overall decree the king fahd prince fahd been turkey he was commander of the saudi u.a.e. coalition that's fighting in yemen his son was also removed over the past 3 years several royals and other officials have been detained for graft as part of crown prince mohammed bin solomons anticorruption campaign russia says it will not send troops into bellows because it believes the political crisis is under control that's despite protests against the president which are now in their 4th week alexander lukashenko is accused of rigging elections and demonstrators are calling for him to resign baltic countries have imposed travel sanctions on the bush ankara and other belorussian officials been smith reports from neighboring lithuania we met 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 then you're 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 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 the national the general 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 if that's all there. 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 hit with their girlfriends who wanted to come with them and 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 they didn't have any other way out some members of california all of them say they want to go back home to belarus but not while xander is there these are dark to restore politicians just 4 of the hundreds of thousands of people who have 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 but it's made al-jazeera vilnius. guinea's ruling party has confirmed the president african day will run for a 3rd term despite months of violent protests against him on they pushed through constitutional change in march that critics say was designed to allow him to run again next month previously presidents could only serve 2 terms in office. an investigation into witness tampering by colombia's former president of liberty is being handed over to the attorney general's office the 68 year old is suspected of trying to silence allegations he had links to power to military groups already

resigned from his senate seat this month after becoming the 1st former president to be put under house arrest his defense team successfully argued his case shouldn't be handled by the supreme court. brazil has imposed new rules for rape victims seeking an abortion requiring them to look at the fetus before the procedure doctors are also obligated to report their cases to the police this comes 2 weeks after anti-abortion activists surrounded a hospital to stop a 10 year old girl from time in 18 her pregnancy on a communiqué of reports we had to snail. images of anti abortion activists trying to barge into this hospital in the northeastern state of phantom boko still sparking outrage in brazil inside a pregnant 10 year old girl who had been raped by her uncle since she was 6 was having an abortion the hospital in the girl's home state refused to take her in

forcing the child to travel more than 1400 kilometers to get medical help that was why this week. we have several units in the country that do not have the capacity to take care of woman in these circumstances so the situation is dire in brazil. after finding a clinic the girl had to be smuggled into the building in the trunk of a car to avoid a near riot the girl's name and the place where she was having the procedure were revealed on social media by an anti-abortion activist who encouraged her followers to surround a hospital and call the child murderer. 2 weeks after the girl's ordeal the government of jailable so now to which opposes abortion has adopted a new protocol critics say the ministerial ordinance makes it more difficult for rape victims to come forward and legally terminate their pregnancies especially those of young age brazil allows women to terminate pregnancies resulting from rape

or which put their lives at risk the new norm forces doctors to inform the police about the rape or before starting the procedure it also states that they should offer the victim the chance to see the life fetus before its removal. women's organizations are mobilizing the international community and congress to have it and no. the health ministry says the protocol was introduced to protect rape victims by denouncing their abusers but congresswoman. who's leading a movement to overturn the ordinance says the government's real intention is to curb women's rights to them. or made. the new norm violates the medical code of ethics because it forces the doctor to reveal information about the patient to the police it also violates the victim's right to privacy she may not want to report the abuse and it also inflicts further distress on the rape victim by

ingesting doctors to show the women images of the fetus in her womb to me that amounts to torture but another women activists have just made that argument in the letter to the united nations human rights commission denouncing the new protocol the debate has just been brazil's stark reality center stage every hour for girls up to 13 years are raped and domestic violence has been on the rise with the pandemic monica al-jazeera rio de janeiro. this is all just here these are the top stories opposition politicians are among more than 100 venezuelans freed from prison after being pardoned by president nicolas maduro someone accused of attempting to overthrow the government their release is being seen as an attempt to boost participation in december's parliamentary elections french president around your mark rolls says lebanon needs

to form a new government quickly to get out of its deep political and economic crisis is on the 2nd day of a visit to lebanon most of the boys named as prime minister just hours before a manual buchholz arrival. chinese state media is warning india over rising tension at their disputed border saying it will inflict severe military losses india says it's destructive what it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the eastern ladakh region china accuses indian forces of violating its territorial sovereignty during an operation on 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. 2 u.s. presidential candidates are blaming each other for violence at protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls

leftwing civil unrest biden says trump is poison in the nation's values this. is a rioters 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 there are 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 sit criminals free. so the arabia's king solomon has signed 2 royals and several military officers over alleged corruption in a royal decree the king fired prince for had been so came he was the commander of the saudi u.a.e. coalition that's fighting in yemen his son was also removed over the past 3 years several royals and other officials have been detained for graft as part of crown prince mohammed bin solomons anticorruption campaign those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story goodbye. image can change the

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