does it. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so much allie take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you to. chase to solve it and rounded up the crackdown against protesters gets increasingly violent in bellerose as anger rises toward the president. hello there i'm having a hissy and this is sound as a real live from doha and also coming up. hungry and homeless refugees burned out of a camp on the greek island of laos balls face more difficult days ahead. u.k. leader boris johnson is accused of embarrassing the nation over breaks it by 2

former prime ministers. last sun appetite for plant based substitute meets with look at how the pandemic is changing the way people think about food in thailand. where we started in belarus where there's been an escalation of violence against protesters the government has no shot down the internet. i know this is tens of thousands of protesters flooded the center of the capital some of them made their way to one of the presidential compounds police say they've detained at least 250 people there into balance for president alexander lukashenko resignation ever since he was declared the winner of last month's disputed election let's get the latest from step bason who joins us now on the phone from men's

because of that internet shutdown as step you've been with protesters on the streets what's have they been saying. yes they have been marching out for our 3rd through the city streets today despite the fact that many of them were detained at the start of this rally even before the rally started people simply being snatched off the street by a masked man driving around in stands and quickly if not can people wherever they can but despite. this increasing repression and also the block crates of all main roads here in the city a large group of people thousands of them managed to gather together and marched towards one of the residence of the president look at shankar they've sort of stopped by showing to him that they're still here that all the threats and intimidation and violence it's not working * for him and that they will continue to

to protest on the streets of long as he's still in office with a sense of feeling from the protesters is evident for all to see over the past 4 or 5 weeks really i have protests is the reaction those who. look at shank and will be traveling to moscow to meet with one to me a prison. well at the moment their main goal is to get rid of the president they they feel that he is illegitimate that he has lost the election and they have been asking for new elections for the last couple of weeks and the president has simply know too that at least for the moment but their main aim is what's going to happen here in battle their focus is not so much on russia at the moment but they also have been telling me today that they trust the person is making the right decision that's basically how they put it they say the belorussians and the russian people

are brothers and sisters and that's the way it's supposed to stay they don't want to be part of russia they don't want to be integrated fully into russia but they want to have a good relation with russia but if the outcome of the meeting between look at shankar and putin will lead to more integration between the 2 nations then the belorussian people are very clearly against this so that clinton will have another 1 he will have a population here and bellows which in the majority is not looking positive at this kind of integration but that's something that's on the table for tomorrow during these talks between the 2 presidents and said we've seen these violent pictures really coming out of minsk with protesters being brought into the pinta van. how are people feeling about this because the same throughout the stalemate really and the only progress is happening is happening is

the police and the belarusian government appear more determined than ever to course this process. absolutely i'm very scary we were with a small group of protesters where we were also being really latched onto the street by a van full of mass policeman our cameraman was actually already really taken in by the way we were already there were holding him already nearly dragging him into the van and then they like to go over the last minute the protesters who were without a partner were really upset and very emotional it was very scary and intimidating but they were also telling us that this is exactly the reason that they will continue to approach that's exactly what they are against they don't want to live in a society where people are being snatched off the street they thought they were right and they had to live in fear. case that vast and they're bringing us the latest live from men's thank you very much indeed millions of

russians are voicing in local elections there widely being seen as a test for the governing united russia party bunts the horses being overshadowed by the poisoning of opposition leader alexey the phone the authorities in greece have started moving refugees to a new sites on the island of less force after their camp burnt down earlier this week thousands of people have been sleeping rough since the maria camp europe's largest was reduced to ash when the refugees there are asking for humanitarian assistance and they're resisting attempts to relocate them greek police fired tear gas at protesters on saturday stephanie decker has more now from lesbos for she's been speaking to some of the displaced. there is no coherent aid operation happening at all then we're almost you know 4 or 5 days since that fire

that you camp that's right behind us there's been a drip of people coming here around $500.00 now have been moved here over the last 2 days so they've been testing everyone for corona coming in to the camp from what we understand 10 nor do we have more specific numbers about the 10s have tested positive of course this started with 35 refugees having tested positive and they then mingled with the rest of the population so this is of course a concern but yes i think more importantly how are you going to provide shelter food water and a future for these people going to bring in our guest. and she works for the ngo stand by me. you've been here for a very long time you've seen the situation you saw the fire yourself tell me a little bit about now what are the issues now how difficult is it what are they facing exactly like you're saying still a lot of people are missing food they're missing woodard missing shelter and also

they're missing medical treatment and psychological treatment which is also highly important in this situation i mean we're talking about people who are dealing with no minimum of 4 traumas being their home country to join in the fire on top of right now i think this is the fault of everyone and people need to find new solutions in regards to providing aid like for example ourselves we were able to provide aid already today after despite not being able to enter them we just meant . people the people who couldn't get out they met those stairs so we met in between we found new solutions to provide aid we've been talking to the refugees they want they've been here for years many of the waiting for papers to be processed waiting for an answer one of them told us we just want an all star yes or no and then you know whether that means we have to go back but it's this limbo that has taken a huge toll you do have tens of thousands of people in refugee camps. with their lives on hold with their cases pending with question marks of what's going to

happen so i think you know in that sense at least it's an important debate but certainly nothing has been resolved the greek authorities have made it very clear to the people here who want to leave the island that the moment they were believing any time soon. that circus vessel sent to map possible oil and gas drilling prospects in the disputed parts of the eastern mediterranean has returned home tensions flared last month after ankara sent the ship along with a naval escorts both turkey and greece claim energy resources in the region turkey's defense minister says the ship's return was shared jewels and does not mean korea has given up on its rights in the eastern mediterranean but the greek prime minister has welcomes the ship's departure from disputed waters. to quote the return of or trace an ontology is a positive 1st step i sincerely hope that this will continue i said yesterday that the end of the provocations should be the beginning of

a conversation we never hid the fact that we want to talk with turkey but in a peaceful atmosphere without provocations and without unilateral actions. after a day of ceremony and statements of hope the taliban and the afghan government when i get so into the hard work of trying to end decades of war but as the talks scott underway in katter's capital there were multiple attacks back in afghanistan the government says there were taliban attacks on 18 provinces on saturday and the taliban says there were 10 government assaults despite these accusations both sides are being urged to seize an opportunity to secure peace for future generations and some a bit of it is following those talks in doha. we spoke to the taliban spokesman here from the political office and he said he does not have details of these attacks but he also said that this could be part of the government tactics to try and pressure the taliban ahead of the talks there is a large trust deficit on both sides remember that it is taken 20 years for them to

come to this table so far there's no meeting which is being shared you and yet there has been informal interactions between some members of the government led delegation and the taliban but they're still waiting to formalize how will this go forward is there going to be a 5 member committee from each side will that be acceptable to both sides who are the members going to be right now behind me a. head of the afghan delegation is meeting his team members they are trying to devise a they're trying to come up with their strategy on what they're going to do going forward and some similar is happening in another corner of doha where the taliban are meeting so yes it has been a landmark day for the taliban and the afghan government where they have come together but the real work begins now in a guerrilla tactics have been this way in most of the conflicts that we've covered i remember in syria remember in yemen remember in afghanistan that whenever you

were going to words negotiations each side would try to up the ante so the 'd so that it has the upper hand going into the negotiation then i asked of the lobdell of this last night when i spoke to him and he told me that yes it is going to be difficult the road is going to be bumpy but he is hopeful of a resolution if he does run listen how tough the peace and to see if afghanistan recent past for dicky's that's that the it does no military solution and our hope is that both sides have flicked nice this message to send a desisted each will be late the message to the in this conference that we want we have different views we have different. pushing for their country but we want to make peace but one that in order to help our own people and also look at the suffering of the people look at the losses of the people look at the pain that the

people of of. tolerating referred to the numbers in the past few months only since the signing of the agreement reached between the taliban in the united states which was. which was the main fundamental reason. that lead to calland situation that we were talking to an address that is still there when i when i am talking about the number of casualties it's high on both sides it's not just one side and to be billeted 2. to 2 coup their wounds of the people to recover will be sign of strength not inflicting casualties on the lot of people so there you have it from the leader of the delegation saying that we need to put the afghan people 1st but both sides have differing views of the afghan taliban want a set up which is inclusive and have them. at the table which controls power in

afghanistan the afghan government wants an immediate cease fire still to come on al-jazeera we will hear from the families in hong kong pleading for the release of their children and tension on the mainland. we still got some rather heavy rain in the full cost for japan although merriest still seeing some lively showers longer spells of rain the sweater weather will grassy push through northern parts of honshu into whole cotta very active federals system him making its way through the city japan swirling away blustery showers longer spells of frank making its way across the open water brightest guys come back in behind to cease and clear skies there across the korean peninsula northern

china on the other hand will see cloud and right as this band of wet weather makes its way across speccing sinks further eastwards and south which towards the yellow sea and it is likely to cause some flooding at times we are looking at heavy showers long spells of rain through to central china from shanghai to one hand and beyond in russia showers down towards the southeast in kona meanwhile quite an area of showers across much of south asia the monsoon rains popping up once again on the western side off and they were saying some rather heavy rain recently into nepal enough to cause flooding here and a landslide on a friday that west of weather is set to continue more heavy showers for the pole for bangladesh a full final feast of india along with me and ma heavy rain right up the western ghats and also affecting the southeast pakistan. one of the strategies most not make it out of the one that is under threat is

probably agonizing to say but 111 campaigner he's dedicating a lot to say what i want to east makes the woman who want to do the right. play an important role. the on the air. this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the headlines for you know there's been a violent crackdown against protesters in bella ruse 250 people have been detained

in the capital minsk the country wants internet blackouts has been in calls for testers wants president alexander lukashenko to resign over last month's disputed election. over to shake up will be heading to russia on monday to meet with vladimir putin russia said it could send its forces in sabella greece if needed. and refugees on the greek island of less force are being moved to enter a new site after their camp current last week refugees are requesting humanitarian assistance and are resisting attempts to relocate them. there in the u.k. to former prime ministers have urged m.p.'s to reject a government bill that will conflicts with an earlier withdrawal agreements with the e.u. tony blair and john major say that boris johnson has proposed bill is quote embarrassing

the nation they say the damage they say will damage the peace process in northern ireland no johnson is proposing changes to the agreements on the movements of people and goods between northern ireland and the republic of violence which was spread and police to prevent a sore coral's hard border arlen's foreign minister says the move has eroded trust between the u.k. and ireland. the british government in my view is behaving in an extraordinary way and british people need to know the us because outside of britain. where this issue is being discussed know the reputation of the u.k. and britain as a trusted negotiating partner on important issues like this is being damaged in a very serious way. well years house speaker nancy pelosi has warned there will be no trade deal with washington if the british government undermines the 1998 good

friday agreements which ended the conflicts in northern arment good friday accords are very high priority for us democrats and republicans house and senate so that if the u.k. if anything to undermine the good friday accord they should not as i told them in the u.k. for different elements of but as a patient there they should not even think about having a u.s. u.k. i lateral trade agreement well earlier we spoke to alastair campbell who served as a spokesman for former prime minister tony blair he thinks it's extraordinary that polarizations from across party lines are united in their criticism of boris johnson. the country i'm afraid elected a complete charlatan as prime minister and i think the country is beginning to see that perhaps more clearly i think both tony blair and john major tony blair he said

i used the word wrong sometimes tells me that i go to over the top in my criticisms of boris johnson and he was held back i think in terms of some of his rhetoric about johnson but john major. a conservative prime minister who was doing trees amaze time although he had very different views on some issues pretty much kept his head down i think to him to come out today and combine with a labor prime minister and say what they have said together about the current prime minister about the current government's handling of the brits in the damage they're doing to u.k. standing around the world i think is extraordinary and the worry for me however is that a lot of these m.p. and you have tory m.p.'s i suspect that their vision and their version of what the jury party is in 2020 doesn't bear sufficient relation to what john major's jury

parts of it and i think that the 2 big points that they're making really one the damage done to our reputation in the world when he openly have a prime minister and a cabinet saying that they see nothing wrong in breaking an international treaty breaking their word it was as you say negotiated a few months ago under which he won a general election and secondly the direct and significant threat that this poses to the good friday agreement a what it shows is that john major and tony blair care about that and boris johnson doesn't. beijing has rejected u.s. criticism over the detention of 12 hong kong activists on mainland china the families of the detainees are calling on the hong kong government to bring them home pollan reports. a plea from a mother who doesn't know when she will see her child again. i hope the government can help bring them back to hong kong then at least i can see my son we don't even

know if he is dead or alive her 30 year old son is one of 12 activists from hong kong detained in mainland china the group includes this man 17 year old son. my son left home with a fishing rod and 2 buckets i really believed he was going fishing but then i was notified by mainline officials that he's been arrested i still haven't seen him a few days after they were arrested on august 23rd the chinese coast guards gave the coordinates of where they were stopped close to international waters local media outlets reported the group left from a quiet fishing village on the east side of hong kong it's believed they were hoping to reach taiwan to seek asylum the 12 plan to travel more than 700 kilometers but just 70 kilometers from hong kong's coast they were intercepted by chinese coast guards their detention is the 1st such confirmed case of activists being caught by mainland authorities at sea they were arrested on suspicion of illegal border crossing the group are being held in

a detention center in the southern chinese city of shenzhen a mainland based human rights lawyer appointed by the relatives send this video outside the detention center saying he's been turned away several times reporter lawyer refused entry but as i said to check their clothes and suddenly after several hours they sort of visual or circular ponder so that this worried to the family are very worried about the legal rights or will be not be respected some of the group have been accused by hong. on authorities of offenses related to last year's pro-democracy and anti-government protests one of them was arrested on august 10th in one of hong kong's most high profile police operations under the national security law he's accused of violating the law by campaigning with an online group for international cooperation for hong kong's democracy movement on friday the u.s. secretary of state sent out a tweet calling on the hong kong government to safeguard the rights of the 12 young

people detained the hong kong immigration department released a statement saying it is following up on the case and could help deliver letters to the detained from their families all the way it must be very tough in jail there are babies i cannot bear to imagine what they must be going through chinese authorities have yet to provide any information about the group's welfare or the charges they face the bigger palin are jazeera hong kong. several protesters have been injured by police in eastern libya it happens in the marsh region which is under the control of warlords or have there the protesters were calling for the resignation of one of have 2 security officials who they blame the breaking up an earlier rally has been widespread on breasts in the area and demands for improve living conditions and an end to corruption. bahrain's top shia cleric is rejecting relations with israel and is calling on people across the

region to resist grand ayatollah. spoke as small scale process took place inside bahrain the kingdom became the latest arab nations to recognize israel on friday follows a similar u.s. brokered deal with the united arab emirates 6. there's wins over british iranian charity workers serving a 5 year sentence for espionage in iran has told al-jazeera that's a hearing on new charges against her has been perspire on there's been no immediate comments from iran's judiciary and in zakari ratcliffe faces accusations of spreading propaganda against state of iran while the announcement was made she's close to completing her original sentence after being released early because of the corona virus pandemic. was arrested in 2016 when visiting her parents and

charged with working for organizations trying to overthrow the government her family deny all charges well as a big is in teheran and says if the new charges stay in the us an interest in jail for another year. we've spoken to her lawyer who told us that the hearing has been postponed the session will take place at a later date now these are new charges as you said which is propaganda against the republican national already serving a 5 year jail term for espionage and working to topple the iranian government now she was arrested in 2016 here into her own as she was at a month from any airport she was arrested by iran's revolutionary guard and she was with her 222 month old daughter at the time now at the time we weren't certain what prompted those arrests for amnesty international believe it was in connection with other arrest are taking place in 2014 employees of

a technology company they were charged with working on projects to do with the b.b.c. and receiving funding from london now she has denied all charges she was released to her parents' home back in march because of the krona virus pandemic but she still had to wear an electronic ankle tag now her husband has said that the iranians are holding the hostage because they want the u.k. to pay a debt that's decades old that goes back to pre islamic revolution in 1709 so under the rule of the shark in the early seventy's iran had ordered some tanks from the united kingdom and iran had paid for those after the revolution britain didn't deliver those tanks and iran has been trying to get that money back to the summer of around 400000000 pounds now iran says the 2 cases are not linked but the lawyer has told us that if these charges stick if he is found guilty it could add another year on to a sentence. now the coronavirus pandemic is driving

a surge in demand for plans based meats across asia and thailand's one of the world's cohen are in capitals sales are soaring as many tyner's focus on making healthier choices could hide the reports from bangkok. i hope you're healthy and stay healthy are common greetings in the era of covert 19 with the immune boosting benefits of a healthy diet and reports of covert contamination at meat processing plants millions in asia are taking those greetings seriously and controlling their health by eating less meat the plant based meat industry across asia pacific is seeing an increase in demand one projection sees a 12 percent expansion putting the 2020 industry valued at more than $17000000000.00 in thailand imports of plant based meat have been on the rise but industry analysts see it as a growth industry for the few companies now producing it here in kids all of the

international plan base me the food. we can see that many many. restore all of us that plant based meat to to make that motor but in thailand and i think the market is not only to boca one plant based meat company here in thailand has seen a surge in consumer demand because of cove it 19 their understanding of the thai culture and just how seriously food is taken here they have a design their product so that it can incorporate the unique type flavors more meat started as a direct supplier to restaurants just as the covert 900 pandemic started. but consumer interest in their plant based meat was so big they had to rethink their distribution their share for the corker. 10 to. one day i think we indians like like like hawk like mommy. without any any seasoning at

all since they have to add you know that on this. fish sauce so his product unlike imported ones has no seasoning at all but in hot cuisine taste is paramount and seasoning is viewed as an art form executive chef dominic boneyard has been leading 5 star hotel kitchens for decades he's also seeing a shift to plant me as a chef especially in french i'm very close to them that this what is very nice with this little bit meat you can have diversity of your process of the meat we have a covert 19 coming and also think about people change you know you shan't your man use and you're also your beat potentially healthier habits will be one of the few positives in our lives to come out of the pandemic and it cooks take care in the kitchen it might not be that much of a sacrifice it's got either al-jazeera thank us.

color and how the markets you know with the headlines on al-jazeera there's been a violent crackdown against protesters in belo roofs 250 people were detained in the capital minsk this is a country wide internet blackouts has been imposed protestors are calling for president alexander lukashenko to resign over last month's disputed election that fasten has all the latest from minsk. they have been marching for hours for prudent city streets today despite the fact that many of them were detained at the start of the rally even before the rally started people since we've been laughed off the street by masked man driving around in france and quickly it's matching people wherever they can but the wife if the the they've been craving a question and also the plot of all main roads here in the city

a large group of people fountains of them managed to gather together and march toward one of the residents of president of the santa. refugees on the greek islands of last boss a ping moved into a new site staff to their camp burned down last week and after is a of ceremony and statements of hope the taliban and the afghan government are getting turns in the hard work trying to end decades of war but as the talks got under way in qatar there were multiple attacks back in afghanistan the government says there were taliban attacks in 18 provinces on saturday while the taliban say there were 10 government assaults and that is she says 8 stay with us on al-jazeera one east is up next.

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