can you just just tell you. prime minister imran khan talks to al jazeera. better rush mystify heavy security and a new wave of protests against president alexander lukashenko. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up trying to end a decade of fighting libya's rival factions hold talks in morocco ahead of the u.n. back because here sions in geneva. police fired pepper balls of protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was due to be held. and medics rally on the streets of baghdad as

the coronavirus threatens to break the country's health system. better russian security forces have detained dozens of protesters at a massive anti-government rally in the capital mid-scale president alexander lukashenko has repeatedly issued threats of violence against the demonstrators who in turn are defying those warnings zeros bernard smith has the latest now from neighboring lithuania. there is still some safety in numbers for the 10s of thousands of protesters on the streets of minutes the ministry of interior valorous has warned them that demonstrations are illegal closing off city squares and streets but that hasn't stopped people descending on the capital for a 4th week of protests against the continued leadership of president alexander lukashenko he claims he was. election with 80 percent of the vote the opposition

say the police report and they want to read. there's been intimidation of protestors across the bell and loose these people were trying to march in the western city of brest human rights experts from the united nations say they've received hundreds of reports of cases of torture and beatings by police this is all over of the opposition coordination council sentenced to 10 days in jail she appeared in poland on saturday after she says she was forcibly taken to the border . they came to the center where i was isolated they gave me a had a mosque and took me out of prison they made me lie on the back seat and they drove me away from the isolation center. at the presidential palace in minsk that was tight security to protect luka shanker from his own people. we won't forgive we won't forget their shouted. the way is foreign minister says in an interview

that the european union's lack of action over belarus undermines the credibility of its foreign policy and opposition leaders fat lot of chicken of sky she wants the un to condemn the crackdown by lucas shanker on the protesters in belarus. but it's an al-jazeera vilnius so how has it come to this where president alexander lukashenko has maintained a tight grip on power since 1904 silencing nearly all forms of dissent but he faced unprecedented opposition earlier this year over a worsening economy and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic because she has disputed reelection in early august then triggered weeks of protests out a tough response from police 2 days after the vote opposition leaders for atlanta kind of skier fled to lithuania and has been calling for more peaceful rallies from there and president vladimir putin as back as response saying that he is ready to send russian forces in to assist the arab door is an expert on eastern europe and

russia he said but his says that russia's financial support is of huge importance as the by the russian economy is on the brink. if you look at the situation domestically internally within deloris 1st off the country is rapidly running out of money $1.00 of the few grow sectors of the irish economy is the i.t. sector that's been. hugely undermined by the repeated internets us which asked to destroy the protesters plus a lot of the people involved in the protests are from the i.t. industry themselves that's just the kind of person that that sector tends to attract we've also seen a lot of strikes in the state sector as well so the dealer asian economy really is on the brink there's a question of whether they will resurface its loans coming up later in the year so russian financial support of huge importance there but equally we've seen you know people have lost their fear of he's lost

a lot of his authority and however many right troops he's been able to deploy to the streets this just hasn't kept people from continuing to come out and that's where this russian reserve really comes into place this is the kind of last throw the dice really that if you can hold on with his own people this is cavalry will come in and basically serve as an exhilarating police force to keep him in power efforts to end the war in libya or on the way in morocco his capital delegations from tripoli as u.n. backed government in the eastern base to brooke parliament a meeting south of robots to find a political settlement talks come ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday where countries supporting the rival sides will be possible of the talks the edits to we urge you to be pragmatic and practical to reshape and find an ultimate solution the libyan people are eager for peace and i'm hopeful that within a couple of days the delegations will bring the people positive developments. up to

what had this following developments from tripoli. morricone foreign minister spoke and both of the legations also spoke it seems that there is a positive atmosphere apparently bought this is only this seems to be only the beginning of a series of meetings to be hostage by morrocco it seems that workers are also keen to invite both rival leaders the head of the tripoli based high council of the state of the missionary and the speaker of the pro have to eastern parliament ag. later there is no definite time for that to be meeting but as you know that morocco is also in a way or another tries to make sure and to stress on the fact that the

agreement that was sealed in morocco in 2015 known as the libyan political agreement is the main bases for any political settlement to the crises in libya now this invitation to the rival delegations by america is a whole moral can initiative and it paddling with other international efforts to sustain or to make sure that the seas fire dick aeration is being implemented on the ground will rival factions in the allied fighters have been battling over libya since the overthrow of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago the un recognized government controls the areas in blue here it's seat of power is the capital tripoli award for hafter who form the self declared libyan national army controls the areas in red and the administration that

sides with him is based in the eastern city of to broke after his forces have been trying to capture tripoli from g.l.a. forces for more than a year peter miller is a former british ambassador to libya he says that while the talks are a good 1st step and number of important important players are absent. if this is to gather momentum and succeed 1st of all it needs to buy in from a much broader group of political players the tribal leaders this society leaders the municipal leaders and so forth secondly it needs the buy in from the military factions particularly have to are there has to be a genuine ceasefire you can't really have a peace agreement if there is still fighting going on and thirdly it needs to buy in from the entire international community and with the leadership of the united nations but we can't have what we've seen over the last couple of years which is

different groups being supported politically and then armed military by different international players so it needs it it's good that there is a meeting and it's good that these leaders whatever agreement they reached but to gather and maintain that momentum it needs to buy in from a much broader group of players i would like to ensure that it is united nations who are in the lead here but that it has a much broader a group of players and sets in train a road map leading to elections sometime next year at the moment i'm seeing momentum i'm seeing an international and domestic political will there and i hope it leads to further progress or while delegates meet in morocco the leader of the tripoli based government is in istanbul meeting one of his most important allies president richard i want. turkey is expected to play a major role in the geneva talks starting on monday. police in hong kong

a 5 pepper balls of arrested at least 90 protesters during pro-democracy demonstrations the protests are against beijing's new security law which was imposed on the territory earlier this year but people are also angry about a delay to local elections and zeros adrian brown reports. hong kong independence they chose was beyond small groups of peaceful protesters openly flouting a new national security law. there were also individual acts of defiance. the demonstrators were also disobeying social distancing rules the ban mass gatherings they were angry because sunday was supposed to be hong kong's election day the government citing code 19 for the moment are of course have been silenced by the government yet every time you want to apply for like

a protest or marsh they always bend than us so this time we didn't apply for a. march or protest to the police chase here we are sitting by their decision to cancel the election has nothing to do with covert 19 i think the government is here to suppress the people's demands and what the future should look like there was a heavy police presence across the county in peninsular as officers moved quickly to shut down any opportunities for large gatherings. at one stage firing pebbles at a group that refused to disperse bootable shocking image was that of a young girl being thrown to the ground. but in spite of what happened here on sunday protests in hong kong have been largely cattail by this new national security law but the voice of dissent has not been silenced entirely. a number of political activists were arrested on sunday including tam tacked chee who

was detained at his home by officers from the new security department he's accused of uttering seditious words i thought one thing you might still trying to talk to the media as he was bundled into a car adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. health workers in iraq's capital baghdad have protested of a pate and a shortage of equipment needed to protect them from covert 19 coronavirus cases have risen with a record 5000 new infections reported on friday the health ministry says that hospitals are overwhelmed by the rising number of cases of 0 is still such a blurry reports from baghdad. despite the sweltering heat in baghdad and a pandemic aliya at non traveled almost 200 kilometers from to crete to demand a job graduated from medical school over a year ago and she has yet to get work that i'm not progressives that sent a lot of you started all our lives not just for the past 6 years now i've been

sitting at home doing nothing when the country needs medical professionals i feel useless now why did we study all our lives we demand the government gives jobs especially during this condemning according to the iraqi medical association aliya is one of 31000 people who have graduated in the health care field but have new jobs this at a time when iraq is facing a sharp increase in the number of covert $1000.00 cases iraq has one of the lowest number of doctors and nurses per capita in the world for every 1255 people there is one doctor and there are only around 30000 working in the country critics say that figure could be doubled if the government did more this is another issue doctors face in iraq being attacked by family members of patients who pass away their often accuse of not doing enough to save lives the issue of safety is one of the main reasons these doctors have gathered here not only with those the market but the iraqis have suffered from a deteriorating health care system which hasn't been looked after for decades more

than $400.00 doctors have been the victims of attacks or targeted killings since 2003 now more than a 1300 doctors have contracted covert nineteen's these conditions are not acceptable in july the government formed a committee to find ways to employ medical graduates but the finance ministry refused to fund more jobs citing a lack of money and the prime minister criticised the increase in violence against doctors. and. the assault against medical stuff will be 1st with severe legal punishment we are calling on tribal leaders know to allow these assaults to be commuted under their names that's them to placate health workers doctors across iraq say they will start a partial strike and by the end of the week the government has failed to address their demands they will expand that and pull one has covered 900 cases are rising that could have disastrous consequences and it's something everyone wants to avoid

dorsetshire pari al jazeera back to. india has once again reported the world's highest single day tally of new corona virus infections on sunday there were more than 1000 cases the death toll has now surpassed 70000 the government says the rise is due to increased testing more than 4000000 people tested positive for coven. well the weather update next year i was 0 then serious accusations of human rights abuses against the security forces after the battle i saw linked fighters to come to the crunch gregg's it talks receiving this week off so little progress so far the u.k. warns the e.u. we won't break 1st.

hello the heat wave remains in place across much of the nor the middle east and across the levant you can see have already in the last 2 as i look at these temperatures all monday fed 5 celsius in a jerusalem the temperature has really not dropped below this now for several days but also it will begin to warm up across much of the east as well but for jerusalem for the next few days really no sign a toll of this heat wave easing 36 the forecast high by wednesday all of these thomases against an average of 28 degrees say it is going to warm up elsewhere that hasa really extending across much of iraq 47 in baghdad and 48 celsius in kuwait not as holt to the south. but feeling quite humid without a high of 38 degrees celsius central africa and thunderstorms and again we've seen quite a lot of working their way across more eastern areas of south africa now through monday it does really begin to clear up some want to shout just lingering to the east of course and is about the usual shows further to the north some scattered

showers along coastal areas the towns and i also on the mozambique and there's a move on into cheese day it really does warm up sun into the fall south into cape town it stays fairly warm for the next few days and we should have some my sunshine to go the high of 25 on tuesday. from fossil fuels. to modern day renewable as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to moms as a global power developed into the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stick around us we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and fire mentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy.

oh. hello again this is our desire and it's for much of the main news this security forces attain dozens of protesters a massive anti-government rally in the capital bits tens of thousands of people rallied to mounting the resignation of president alexander who push income. efforts to end the war in libya or on the way in morocco factions from tripoli's internationally recognized government and the eastern based to book parliament a meeting ahead of un backed talks in geneva on monday. and police in hong kong have 5 pepper balls and the rest of the least 90 antigovernment protests as the demonstrations are against beijing's new security law on the one year delay to local elections. the jazz army has been accused of murder and the false

disappearance of civilians during operations against armed groups the campaign in december followed that an attack by armed groups on the military that killed at least $71.00 soldiers now does here as i would address is in neighboring nigeria where security forces of also faced serious accusations over their conduct. we've seen this scene play out across the region over the last 10 years remember in the early days of boko haram in nigeria we've seen how security forces react angrily to local residents following attacks on their convoy on their own troops so it needs yeah it's all. painful episode in december last year when i saw linked fighters attacked the army barracks or in octaves or ambush the army convoy in august more than 71 people officially or deported to have been killed and then

a month later in general. dozens at least $25.00 officially have been confront of been killed but families of the victims say dozens more have been unaccounted for so civilian populations in all these region from faso mali in nigeria and usually cameroon are actually in a very difficult position they are placed between a rock and hard place. the security forces on one hand accuse them of not cooperating with the government soldiers in fighting these armed insurgents and on the other hand the fighters the arm fighters are accusing them of call operating with the security forces the u.k. will not blink starts the fighting talk from britain's chief negotiator the tension mounts of the brakes at trade negotiations with europe david frost says that the u.k. has prepared to leave without a deal britain left the e.u. in january but is currently in a transition period which expires on december 31st talks are due to resume in

london on tuesday al-jazeera sania gago reports. the e.u. has to negotiate as a block where is the u.k. has to understand is having to understand this and is already putting plans in place all scrambling really to put pounds in place to try and prevent those and of course this is taking a lot of currency away from an already pandemic hate economy here in the u.k. the u.k. is having some been one of the worst. hits to the economy during the coronavirus pandemic it's having to prepare massive lorry parks it is having to scramble around for paperwork it's it's really putting an awful lot of pressure on all the businesses here as well as not to mention of course the issues with northern ireland to northern ireland because in effect northern ireland is going to have. is going to be not really part it's going to part of the u.k.'s customs area but it's also in it is going to have the same rights as the neighbor in the republic of

ireland of course boris johnson folded on that as the last minute when he signed the northern ireland protocol but it really does really going to make it very tricky for the u.k. if they do decide to walk away without a deal and you know there have been reports that it could hope to cover some of that mess up with this whole pound the whole recession that it is facing but the likelihood of that in the middle of winter this happening and having a bare supermarkets and of course you know other sectors affected it will hit the u.k. a lot harder than it really would hope it would. more than 800000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in southwestern japan as typhoon close up it's the 2nd powerful storm to hit the region in a week for costs predict record rainfall and precedented wind speeds warnings have been issued to 5 and a half 1000000 people brought mcbride reports now from the south korean city of

behind. the city of pohanka is the most easterly in the south korean part of the penciler and expecting to bear the full brunt of this typhoon when it passes through here monday at the moment typhoon is gradually working its way north moving past the main southern japanese island of q shoe and giving that part of japan an absolute pounding sunday through into the early hours of monday morning an evacuation order is in place for hundreds of thousands of people in queue shoot to get out of the way to seek shelter and a recommendation for several 1000000 more people to leave their homes and to seek shelter now there is a problem of course in the middle of a pandemic doing that safely some shelters evacuation centers are limiting the numbers of people who can't get in there so some of those centers have been filling up quickly this is the 3rd storm to impact the korean peninsula and just about 2

weeks a few days ago it was typhoon my sack which hit the korean peninsula and haitian is taking pretty much the same course working up the eastern side of the korean peninsula before again making landfall in north korea eventually reaching northern china itself before it gradually fades away but this is the korean peninsula with all of these storms and excessive summer rains have taken an absolute soaking so the land is already incredibly wet so we are expecting again from this typhoon. the flooding and further landslides north korea's leader kim jong un has visited areas hit by typhoon may sock state media say that more than 1000 homes were destroyed in the ham provinces when the storm struck overnight on wednesday kim called on people from the capital to help with recovery efforts the u.n.

is warning that flood levels not seen in a century in sudan a likely to get worse in coming weeks with above average rain predicted for the rest of september weeks of flooding have led to the deaths of more than 100 people the government's declared a 3 month state of emergency 100000 homes have been badly damaged al-jazeera is heavily morgan reports now from consular. scientists are saying that the current level of the standing at 17.61 meters is the highs that they've seen in at least a century and they're attributing that to the number of them that have been built. over the past few decades now the ground if you can as arms them could be one of the contributing factors they say that having a dam build and storing water in the reservoir of the dam can lead to more condensation and heavier clouds and therefore more rainfall for the alterations of the ground if you can renaissance that is not clear and nobody knows how this europeans are dealing with the dam that they are still building but that they have

partially filled let's go back to a few a couple of months ago when the ethiopians and islands that they have began the partial feeling of the ground if you're in a zones them now that's happened during rounds of negotiations and talks between sudan and downstream countries and egypt and if you appear to have been saying that it will filter down by mid july whether there was a deal or no deal sudan has been calling for a deal to be to be reached before the feeling of the dam and egypt has been concerned about the impact of that dam on the nile river especially because more than 90 percent of its population depends on it but there has been no clarity from diffused inside on how this dam is being operated when it was filled how long it took to be field how how will the gates be opened so all of that is raising questions about what rule this dam is currently playing in terms of the rise of levels right now in the country. for the 1st time since being shot in the back by police and left paralyzed from the waist down we've heard a message directly from jacob blake from his hospital bed is shooting at the state

of wisconsin is added to the anger right across the united states of a racial inequality and police brutality protests which are still ongoing. reports say it will stand back state was speaking from a hospital bed jacob blake described his constant agony 24 hours every 24 hours is pain is not. hers to breathe or hers. to move from side to side has to eat. blake was shot in the back by a konoha wisconsin policeman in august he's had numerous surgeries and is paralyzed the state's department of justice is investigating the shooting i just want to save my daughter yeah ok and even all of them to me it's a lot more life to live. in rochester new york protesters clashed with heavily armed police. police used chemical irritants

against protesters who had launched fireworks out there. was some protesters formed a human chain and there were several arrests the demonstrators were demanding justice for daniel prude who died in march after police restrained him held him on the pavement and put a mash hood over his head prudes death was ruled a homicide. the new york attorney general announced she would empanel a grand jury as part of what she termed an exhaustive investigation into prudes death. 7 rochester police officers involved in the killing have been suspended. in louisville kentucky black lives matter demonstrators continue their protests over the death of briana taylor shot by police in her home in march the protesters

gathered outside a racetrack where the prestigious kentucky derby horse race was run armed counter protesters calling themselves pro police patriots confronted them black lives matter marchers there was arguing and yelling but no violence as the patriot group eventually withdrew and in portland oregon more protests over police misconduct and systemic racism continued for the 100th consecutive night. cortlandt has come to symbolize the most extensive nationwide protests the us has seen in decades over racial injustice and as the summer season draws to its close the u.s. faces a long hot holiday weekend of protest rob reynolds al-jazeera the campaign for new zealand's general election is underway off of the dissolution of

parliament it was mock with a brief ceremony in the capital wellington prime minister just send had delayed the election by a month off the 1st new coronavirus of cases that over $100.00 days election day is now october 17th. terry with us hello adrian so to get to here in doha the headlines and i was 0 ben a russian security forces have detained dozens of protesters at a massive rally massive anti-government rally in the capital minsk president alexander lukashenko has repeatedly issued threats of violence against demonstrators tens of thousands of people rallied on sunday defying those warnings because shanker is refusing to quit weeks after the disputed elections smith is monitoring protests from neighboring lithuania. there are still those tens of

thousands descending on the streets and there are protests in other cities across as well the government had closed off a couple of main square to put barbed wire around one of. the square was supposed to be where the protesters were meeting today but that still wasn't enough people carried on protesting again to the presidential palace where there was heavy security to protect from the. efforts to end the war in libya are underway in morocco as capital factions from tripoli as u.n. backed government to the east and base to brooke parliament a meeting to find a political settlement talks come ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday meanwhile the head of the tripoli based government is in istanbul basing one of his most important allies president to one . of turkey who's expected to play a major role in talks in geneva on monday. police in hong kong have fired pepper balls and the rest of the least 90 antigovernment protesters with demonstrations

are against beijing's new security law and a one year delay to local elections. the u.s. is warning flood levels not seen in a century and sudan are likely to get worse in coming weeks above average rain is predicted for the rest of september weeks of flooding have led to the deaths of over 100 people the government's declared a 3 month state of emergency 100000 homes have been badly damaged all the 800000 people have been ordered to leave homes in southwestern japan typhoon high shen draws closer it's the 2nd powerful storm to hit the region in a week one exhibit issued to 5 and a half 1000000 people. there's the headlines more news for you here on al-jazeera of the inside story next.

100 days of protests and counting rallies against police brutality and racism in the us showed signs of ending supporters and opponents of the demonstrations are hardening restaurants and anything bridge the developed this is inside. hello welcome to the program can be no just over 3 months ago a black american george floyd suffocated his offices in minneapolis tried to arrest him his death triggered protests across the u.s. against police brutality and racism the rallies have been.