and face it will just give them one minute to do. it took the found me months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see if. the french presidency money will knock home once lebanese leaders they risk sanctions if reforms don't come quickly on his 2nd visit since the deadly port explosion. come about this and this is all to syria live from doha also coming up reaching a new understanding israel and hamas agreed to hold weeks of aggression along the gaza border. the. pardoned by the president and as well as nicolas will do it will freeze political opponents critics say it's

a legitimate is the next election. a pledge to resolve divisive policies from the get out of mugabe's zimbabwe office to give back the land seized from former white farmers. french president emmanuel mccall is urging the quick from ation of a new lebanese government to steer the country out of its deep political and economic crisis is calling it the last chance for lebanon system mccall is visiting the beirut port for a 2nd time since the explosion killed almost $200.00 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless most of the bill was named prime minister just hours before macro landed on monday zanuck all those in beirut with more on moscow's visit. the 2nd visit in the us than a month's mccrone really projecting influence and power the political message. we

are the main power brokers in this country a very symbolic visit as well because my son chose the date of his return september 1 which coincides with the 100 anniversary of the creation of the greater state of death was announced by french mandate authorities back in 1920 france of course being the former colonial power the france ministry now on board that aircraft carrier behind us he's been meeting and children present this is the united nations this morning that the treaty to mark levin on station hood. the singer who is the unifying figure in this country all that before sitting down with a politician so the message from across is we will push for radical change in this country not many believe him people welcomed him in the streets last night a few protesters told him that you are accepting the political class to create

a new government we want a new system of government we want the ruling class to leave power altogether but my response is these are elected leaders what do you want us to do but i think the current is making it very very clear in the next 3 months if the political class this is not an act much needed reforms then they face the threat of sanctions hamas says it's reached agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal was brokered by qatar and this comes as people in gaza continue to struggle under severe coronavirus restrictions a ban on fuel deliveries and lengthy power cuts are a force of has more from western. there are 2 phases to it from what we're hearing from the homicide israel is traditionally much more tight lipped about this kind of thing but what we're hearing is that the situation from before the escalation which is seen in century balloons and some rocket fire and israeli air strikes coming the

other way so we will see a full extension back to 15 nautical miles of the fishing zone inside gaza although the coded lockdown means that currently fishermen aren't allowed to move and go out into the sea we will see the cargo deliveries restored they have been reduced to just humanitarian goods such as food and medicine and crucially a restoration of fuel deliveries for the sole power station inside gaza valid been lying idle for some 2 weeks it's due to restart later on on tuesday as that diesel fuel comes in again the electricity situation had been really bad some 3 to 4 hours per day or at least for the majority of the day. to go back to something like 8 hours on 8 hours off but the situation in terms of humanitarian straits inside gaza is exceptionally bad at the moment with nearly 300 active cases of community

transmitted coded 19 and a lockdown throughout the gaza strip israel's prime minister is encouraging a visit by a delegation from the united arab emirates that's after the 1st flight by israel's national airline landed in abu dhabi on monday v.i.p.'s on board including white house advisers out a cushion on a u.s. brokered deal for relations between israel and the u.a.e. was announced 3 weeks ago. in his 1st reaction to the deal iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei called it a betrayal to muslim nations and one but won't last it went on to accuse the u.a.e. of normalizing israel's occupation of palestinian land the king of saudi arabia has sacked the commander of coalition forces in yemen in a royal decree prince father had been turkey and his son are being investigated for suspicious financial transactions at the defense ministry they are the latest

members of the royal family to be detained as part of an anti corruption campaign by crown prince muhammad bin son china and india are trading accusations that troops have crossed the he disputed himalayan border and india says it disrupted what it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the eastern luxury june overnight on sunday china accuses indian forces of violating its territorial sovereignty during an operation on monday centered on the southern shore of pung link between the use following developments from beijing and has more on china's reaction. 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 attacks 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 as are closer to friends on the list in india and says the situation's been escalating for some months. starting from the beginning of me chinese troops started crossing the line of actual control it's called the elite people short into indian territory and occupying indian territory the indian troops are not in their positions because been taking prove it 90 because it's been pushed back from the border suffice to say that china and india are at them into dialogue process to negotiate a chinese withdrawal but since then the chinese have been talking but only in pressing further and further into india and its new points of interest as well so there's a certain sort of build up that has been carried out from the indian military side as well both all means are now poised. to constructing each other on the border

it's an extremely volatile and dangerous situation out there but china does not seem prepared to withdraw from indian territory and instead it is accusing the indian side of aggression which is a bit ironic considering that china has 5 times the size of india why would india not one aggression against china so that's the situation that stands today. but having tears in chairs in venezuela as dozens of opposition politicians are freed from prison and a surprise pardon by the president their release is seen as an attempt to boost participation in december's parliamentary election america at a tennesseean 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 league in a deal would had a stroke in jail thanked the government for letting him be reunited with his family

while and by argued she'd been unjustly imprisoned. yeah 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 were. the main clue did scores of prominent government foes like program tonight a little opposition leader one by bill's 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 mill blogger lobbyist both of whom a google has vowed to put behind bars for alleged crimes against the state the government strategy is obvious the school if you 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. 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 the who is recognized by more than 50 countries has been as well as interim president has given opposition parties until the end of the week to publicly join him in a united front to boycott an election that is widely considered uncompetitive not to be outdone the government has extended the period for registering candidates until friday as complement the news wayland's are waiting 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. still ahead on al-jazeera we talk to 2 sound engineers who fled belarus in trouble because of the song they played. and why a 10 year old brazilian girl has reignited the country's debate on abortion.

and a typhoon maze that has strengthened in the last 12 hours or sochi is always expected cause some wind damage knock an hour which you can see it's now away from the small japanese islands in open water at the moment it's where it's going that's the problem it's over opened. water probably for the whole of daylight hours a wednesday then when you get to the evening increasing amount of wind rain and huge waves catching the western side of the main islands of japan and south korea and this is where it's potentially pretty dangerous when it makes landfall that's when the army makes landfall it will be the hours a dark spent all night going up to then during thursday were in north korea and beyond where it starts to fall apart they might recognise that path but the path of his predecessor was to the west so this is right over land potentially very damaging let's get back to the monsoon rains which of course should be retreating

they are almost entirely retreating we've got the remains of one western trough going up through northern pakistan and catching the hindu kush in east africa and the next mass is just back from the north east of india into the middle of india and that's going to be around for a day or so curiously moving slowly west towards. more than 7 decades ago a country was split into the big picture but did anything and now with the time comment we needed enough attention only told it was a pan a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled it is 7200 have been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these meekly and neighbors partition borders of blood.

route. i've. top stories this hour french president emmanuel marks says lebanon must form a new government quickly to get out of its political and economic crisis he's making his 2nd visit since a devastating explosion at beirut's port. was named as prime minister hours before my own survival. china has warned india over wising tensions there disputed border india says it destructed what it calls provocative military movements for chinese troops in the eastern region china accuses indian forces of violating its

territorial sovereignty during an operation. it's reached agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza a deal brokered by qatar and comes as gaza struggles and fuel deliveries which have led to power cuts. white farmers in zimbabwe can now apply to get back to london seized when robert mugabe was president more than 4000 farmers were forced from the land almost 20 years ago said its policy was to undo the racist inheritance of colonial era land grabs the defections provoked international sanctions which are blamed for destroying the economy. has more from. president. robert mugabe 2017 he was under a lot of pressure from a new way in government to implement reforms it canonical forms human rights reforms in terms of making the right to protection of property and the rule of law and to deal with the issue of land government is not trying to raise more than

$3000000000.00 to compensate white. doing the land reform program the. 100 of them they are going to be. 99 year leases and in. and white farmers who were here because of bilateral trade agreements for example if they lost their land they have the right to apply for that land and if it cannot be a way black people have been you stated on that land those people will then be moved to other parts of the country not with the divisive issue a lot of people a very emotional bond in some black people have a unhappy about the government of the argument is that why i think his came to this part of africa and the ninety's they call this kind of a d.j. they forced thousands of black people to move all they thought thailand into land which is hard to cultivate and you i think those were given tracts of land by the bin government to that led to liberation war and 980 this country they became zimbabwe with black majority rule but still most of the good land was still in the

hands of white minority farmers so that in lake the land reform program after the war between forced to give black people land so all of this playing out and going on all the time of the government if you think these people remember in 2013 the bobbins participated in a rental arraigned and that referendum people us should the rights of property be respected should rule of law be respected white family compensated and the jockey people at that time voted yes and that clause is not in the current constitution. the un is warning that the coronavirus pandemic has reversed decades of progress on women's rights and worsened inequality between the sexes it's too frontin and tony says women are playing a disproportionate role responding to the virus in roles including frontline health care workers and home commuters and he says it's also taking its toll on young girls we're all going to. make even generations.

you know from the us. leave school they may never return. they millions of girls around the world got out of school and there are a lot of mean reports of anything that is in phoenix pregnancies. each of these issues is a crises we get it right the government spending in south korea is being boosted to try to repair the economic damage inflicted by coronavirus exports from ages a 4th largest economy have fallen for the last 6 months and the struggle to contain another surge uncovered $1000.00 infections the finance ministry says spending will increase annually by 8 and a half percent it's a must coronavirus testing campaign has begun in hong kong despite activists and some health workers urging a boycott and many a skeptical because of the involvement on mainland chinese testing companies sarah clarke reports. hong kong's chief executive was one of the 1st to take the krajina

virus test alongside members of the government's executive council on day one of the city's universal screening program most of the community testing centers were fully booked as the city battles a 3rd wave of code 19 infections carry lances mess testing is a crucial step to identify the silent carriers who are spreading the disease games have this testing program is safe and convenient to flush the new perth a community testing scheme have to fight against the fires and benefit society 3rd away and combat the fire if and help the economy to recover the injury scheme is being paid for by china's government in beijing the testing programs led by a team of 60 health experts from province with remind them by slobber trees processing d.n.a. samples so far less than 10 percent of hong kong's 7000000 people have registered for the free tests before i have confidence in the government and i'm not requiring

that my personal information will be disclosed or used for other purposes yet i want to check if i got infected i'm not worried the government will destroy the data the hong kong government says no personal data will be released and specimen samples will be destroyed pro-democracy political groups aren't convinced and suggest the d.n.a. harvest could be part of beijing's crackdown on the city's democracy movement. it seems that the pandemic can be used as the most politically convenient excuse for anything to crack down on any political protest this program has been highly politicized driven by distrust in the hong kong government and china's involvement despite calls for a boycott the city's latest a hoping that up to 5000000 people will start up in the next 2 weeks sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. russia says the political crisis in bellow's is under control and it won't be sending troops protests demanding the resignation of president

alexander lukashenko or into their 4th week demonstrators accuse him of rigging his last election last month to continue his 26 years in power baltic neighbors have imposed travel sanctions on him and other fellow russian government leaders but in smith reports from neighboring lithuania where he met 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 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. state sound engineers have 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 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 over. i spent 5 days in jail in the 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 have been given visas by neighboring lithuania and they are 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 some way. 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. dead 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. was staying in belarus and the leader of a factory strike there has been jailed until the balkan was convicted of organizing

an unauthorized demonstration and sentenced to 15 days in prison booking told media that workers had been bullied and threatened for taking part in the protests. so being called judges in colombia are hunting over an investigation into witness tampering by former president. the attorney general's office is taking control of the case after a reeves resigned from the senate however critics say libby's attempting to get a more co-operative hearing over allegations of links to power military groups the 68 year old became the 1st former president to be put under house arrest last month on a central ramp yet he has more in the capital bogota. once for only confirm this will be another surprising twist in the legal saga of colombia's most powerful divisive in until recently seemingly untouchable politician former president would even the country's supreme court is expected to transfer a case involving he's being investigated for with

a mistrial tampering and fraud to the country's attorney general's office and that's because earlier in the man who is currently under home detention has resigned from his senate seat to the supreme court hearing vestey gates criminal cases that involve lawmakers being the fact that the who is not anymore a lawmaker then he's saying the case has to move to the attorney general's office to critics ever even though this is a ploy for trying to move this case to what they perceive as a friendlier court that's because the current attorney general francisco better border is a very close ally even a childhood friend current president a protege would you be as it may there's no doubt that this case will continue to provoke control over seeing the country deeply divided on the legacy of.

brazil has imposed new rules for rape victims sicking an abortion 'd requiring them to look at the fetus before the procedure doctors also have 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 terminating her pregnancy why can you not have reports from rio de janeiro. 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 murder. 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. are made by. 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 a 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 over the news of the top stories french president among your mocker says lebanon must form a new government quickly or get out of its political and economic crisis is making his 2nd visit since a devastating explosion a beirut's port most of idea has been named prime minister hours before my calls are reliable. these are pictures for charlie we're showing the story from beirut jervis there's a body on the back on the fly past as you can see there is in

a corridor is in beirut with more. the message from across is we will push for radical change in this country not many believe him people welcomed him in the streets last night a few protesters told him that you are accepting the political class to create a new government we want i new system of government we want the ruling class to leave our all together but of course response is these our elected leaders what do you want us to do but i think micron is making it very very clear in the next 3 months if the political class this is not an act much needed reforms then they face the threat of sanctions colossus says it's reached agreements with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by khattala comes as gaza struggles under a ban on fuel deliveries which have led to power cuts israel's prime minister has encouraged a visit by a delegation from the united arab emirates the 1st flight by israel's national

airline landed in abu dhabi on monday v.i.p.'s on board included white house advisers out of caution a u.s. brokered deal for relations between israel and the u.a.e. was announced 3 weeks ago. china has warned india over rising tensions that their disputed border india says it's disrupted what it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the eastern ludacris region china accuses indian forces of violating its territorial sovereignty during an operation white farmers in zimbabwe can apply to get back the land seized when robert mugabe was president more than 4000 farmers were forced off their land almost 20 years ago gabi said he'd been undoing the racist inhabitants of colonial era the land grabs and those are the headlines coming up next it's inside story goodbye.

25000000 people have now tested positive for covert 19 along the world but health officials are also battling against online conspiracy theories and untested planes so how do we fight a pandemic of misinformation this is inside story. hello and welcome to this special edition of inside story in collaboration with the doha forum and unesco i'm fully bottle the coronavirus fund that make us forced all of us to take a step back.