japan's governing party has a new leader you see here this is now on track to become the next prime minister. hello from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera protests of turn violent again in belarus ahead of a meeting between president lukashenko and russia's vladimir putin. also the staggering economic impact of the flooding in sudan will have a live report from khartoum and indonesia's capital goes on the lockdown with doctors warning the health care system is close to collapse.

starting with japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed shinzo. a long time ally of the outgoing prime minister this liberal democratic party leadership vote paves the way for him to be placed in a parliamentary vote later this week is japan's longest serving prime minister resigned last month for health reasons robert broads following this one from seoul today hi rob this looks like almost a succession in the end rather than election will be more of the same from a longtime ally of the prime minister. indeed this is always going to be a foregone conclusion but still an impressive margin of victory or he goes super getting nearly 3 quarters of all of the votes cast his 2 rivals coming nowhere near to challenge him but then of course he was always the anointed successor in

a way to as shinzo having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in these so-called conservative economics that were meant to revitalize the economy also at hearing to base belief in trying to reinvent japan on the world stage it's expected that he's going to carry forward these these beliefs is very much a kind of continuity prime minister but there is a very significant change in style now was in some ways far more charismatic he comes from a long line almost a political dennis de in japan by contrast suger is a far more down to earth far more pragmatic as he said in his acceptance speech his background is an agricultural one he is here as he said from a family of strong brief farmers he has promised that he will serve faithfully this

office and in passing over in congratulating him in his speech based said that he was pretty much passing on now a torch that obviously this has to be confirmed with a special session of the diet's the lower house of the japanese parliament on wednesday when it's expected to go will then be confirmed as the next prime minister and what sort of japan does he inherits rob economically socially postcode . it comes at a pretty fraught time as a lot of people who wouldn't really envy him taking on this job because of course you have the worst cratering of the japanese economy in decades as a result of that still remains and major public health crisis on the diplomatic front you have the worst relations with neighboring south korea that they've had for decades also japan continues to be caught in the wrangling between china and the united states so he's taking on all of these problems at this time of course

he's only meant to be in power for one year almost like an interim prime minister this is the year that they should have served out to the rest of his premiership before the party has to call a general election about the same time next year but there is a lot of speculation that looking at all the problems going forward that the problems he's facing now could actually get worse you have the mounting economic problems the nightmare of this olympics which was delayed which opinion polls in japan say nobody really cares about so there is speculation that he might try to call a snap election trade that one year for maybe a new term of 4 years for him self in his party never dull and japanese politics is that right mcbride with that update thank you. on to other news and the better russian president's exam to look at shankar is heading to the russian city of sochi for talks with vladimir persian following a 5th weekend of protests police arrested more than 400 people during the latest

demonstrations which are demanding the question because resignation state dawson reports now from minsk. that. this is how look at shank a strategy to stop the protests plays out on the streets of minsk people heading to a peaceful rally are randomly snatched by moscow policeman driving around at high speed those daken are aggressively thrown into a van or al jazeera cameraman was also grabbed by police shortly after filming an interview luckily they decided to let him go let him go. to. the protest to we interview to have to run to safety to escape detention and we were nearly praying. you know would read the stuff i'm so glad you are ok i was sure they'll take you so this is why i'm here. this is why all of us are

here so this could not happen anymore never and nowhere i can say that this is kidnapping they abandon us and then you see after the ordeal she managed to catch up with tens of thousands of protesters who gathered despite mas detentions and road blocks. in this protest last month she has exhausted all her tools he used to apply in the previous years we're here which are star use a large scale repressions to reach people who will get beaten detained and then this would under protest this time this doesn't work ahead of an important meeting with russian president vladimir putin on monday because shango is keen to show that the protests were under control but d.c. images show a different reality and now. these demonstrations are not only aimed against but put in as well. and worried about russia's intentions to enforce its interests here we have to be friends with russia but it's not good for neighbor encounter to

be involved in our internal problems. after the frightening and 10 scenes from earlier in the day to protest turns into a dance festival after marching for more than 2 hours the rally has now arrived at one of the residences of the look here right in this park but it was just a courtesy of the thousands of protesters turning around they just wanted to send a message. that they are still here and that they will stay on the streets as long as she remains in office chances are that a decision about the future of look at shankar might not be decided here on the streets of belarus but in neighboring russia according to observe us since he has put his fate increasingly into put intense step fasten al-jazeera minsk the refugees are being moved to a new site on the greek island of the camp burned down last week but many are

demanding to be allowed to travel to the mainland and then on to other european stephanie decker has this report from. there is anonymity in mass human misery but everyone here has a broken dream i'll probably use this. very calm here. one of hope. one of. messages from afghanistan he says he worries about the effect the lack of hope is having on his mental health. is not a both ways tell me. it's about emotional it's the most. brain future. 11 year old iman had he is too young to worry about his future but he does he is an extraordinary young boy his opportunities lost here no i don't want

to stay here any more i don't want to waste my life here and i want to get i want to go to another kind of country of my family to start a new life is not going to skill and i have a you know there were you were telling me you've never been to school i have never been to school so how is your english so incredible i learned from someone and then i started learning english from internet. there is no running water no sanitation they've been setting up tents and tarps woolens since moria camp burnt to the ground almost a week ago refugees of largely been left to fend for themselves the problem is there's a lot of people has like. health condition or they have like a problem with heart with. all of us in the sense of the waste and all of us we are lost we have no idea what to do we just we have to wait there is a new camp it's being set up but only a few 100 people have been transferred so far there are around 12000 that need to

be or get tested for the coronavirus before they get allocated a tent there is a real fear that it is spreading among the refugees most will remain on the streets in the hills of this island so off to having spent the day here talking to people we just got a phone call that the police had come to evict them because this is private property now we've been watching people throughout the day picking up tarpaulins whatever they could find some of these nets you can see a mattress here and some of the food handouts just left so again there on the streets yes there. and you can't that's been set up but by no means is it large enough to house the thousands of people that need shelter we need a group of young men trying to decide where to sleep. where shall we go now we have no idea what our fate will be if we go to the people don't want us we're not welcome we're displaced once again we will sleep in the orchards what the burning down of europe's biggest refugee camp has done is reignited the debate and turned

the international spotlight back on these forgotten people stephanie decker lesbos island greece. now the reported possible sale of chinese video sharing up to talks operations in the u.s. is in its parent company but dances been under pressure to sell after president trump threatened to ban the app for security reasons microsoft has announced by refused to sell it to them and the tech from oracle is a merge now as a possible technology partner but in the past few hours chinese state televisions reported that talks u.s. operations will not be sold to either company to talk if you don't know launched 3 years ago is the international version of the chinese app though you're in it since racked up 2000000000 downloads but it's had problems with regulators in several countries india banned it in june amid border tensions with china and the e.u. has raised privacy concerns and then in july as we said donald trump announced he

would shut down to talk of a national security concerns but later suggested it could keep operating if it was bought by an american company rob pegoraro is a freelance writer who thinks the social media app is really caught between the u.s. and china trade war. it is true that the chinese government could be using apps but on one hand the tick tock tick tock app does not actually request a whole lot of data you will get remissions of question i os and android this is a pretty mannered app or 2 of the ones on the other hand if you wanted to say get the location data means americans you could just buy it in the data brokers and collecting that's through other apps the threat is already out there and who wants to has not a whole lot to do with the secretary of state my. wants this clean network plan which would essentially try to ensure that chinese companies are not a part of internet infrastructure are not in the critical path of american social

media internet commerce what have you so yes this is not the only act in this play libyans have been demanding improved living conditions and an end to corruption in a series of protests and bank ozzy demonstrate a set fire to an administrative building here u.n. mission to maybe it says it is concerned by the reports of recent violence between security officials and protesters that have happened in the region several people have been injured and at least one person has died. in the news ahead why the mayor of colombia's capital is calling for reconciliation with the protest of this bus. please remember the words very simple forest management. u.s. president ignites controversy as high winds threaten to fan the flames of the devastating west coast while for us.

however the high pressure dominating the weather across much of europe sylar clear skies lots of lovely warm sunshine out everywhere still the showers around central parts of the med seen some dust storms just around the stamboul little area of cloud has some thunderstorms as well picking up the winds still quite a brisk wind further north just pushing across the british isles heading towards scandinavia some heavier rain just pushing into where norway as we go through monday then but for the most part you can see lots of fabulous warm sunshine 28 celsius there in london the 34 there for paris well up into the twenty's to with vienna and in 2014 there are those showers into the central med just nothing down towards malta towards the far north of africa but you push out into choose tennis a very similar picture will love the sunshine coming through for the most part lots

of sunshine see for the most part across northern parts of africa as i said we have got those showers just around this year the far north east of algeria now i was just trying to push a little further south was still there just around the house so evening to sit down south sudan central african republic for chad seeing some live showers the heavy showers continue across the gulf of guinea with some rather wet weather into a good part of west africa. roof. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera with mounting protests to against him

to step down bellew says embattled president is heading to russia to seek help alexander lukashenko will need a lot of a person in sochi to get moscow support for his crackdown on protests japan's ruling party selected. the prime minister is long time ally as its new leader is expected to replace shinzo alba in a parliamentary vote this week on the reported sale of chinese video sharing app to talks operations in the us is now in doubt parent company by dunces been under pressure to sell off the president trump threatened to ban the app for security reasons not chinese state t.v. is reporting in those u.s. operations will not be sold to other markets awful are. so damn now where thousands of people who lost everything to the floods are calling for more help aid has started to arrive over the weekend but it has not been enough at least 100 people were killed and thousands of homes are submerged softer than oliver rose to

its highest level ever recorded now though as the waters are receding there is the growing threat of waterborne diseases let's talk to mohamad who's in khartoum now that's everything isn't it mohamed floods now water borne disease threats as well and aid only just starting to get through. yes indeed come in on demand right on the banks of the nile which has been. you know a lifeline for the people of sudan but in the past few weeks has caused much diverse tension to the people of this country as is said hundreds of thousands of people have been declared homeless after their homes what that damaged or destroyed by the floods that have been caused by torrential rainfall as well as the river bunking it's been busting its bunks. what do we have seen so far is

up to a 100000 people in the tomb alone need shelter some of them are living with relatives of us are living in the open and. expressing concerns about the many numerous stockmen towards lying around in many places that this saying breeding grounds for diseases such as malaria and other water borne diseases and also these of course son about the issue of the farms getting destroyed on crops in farms that feed the inundated with walter. fears that they might not those crops might not make it to harvest and the possibility of food insecurity in that country in the next few months of course aid is slowly trickling in but not much and sudan because of the. problems it hust cannot import much from outside

so the bill for it is us saying they really need help under soon as possible. with that update on the flood situation in sudan thank you. now the mayor of colombia's capital is calling for reconciliation after days of violent protests 13 people have been killed hundreds have been injured in demonstrations against police brutality is riots followed the killing of the lawyer. who was repeatedly shot with a stun gun by offices at a. residence lit up candles and pans to remember the victims of one of the most violent weeks in their caves. i fear will get to the point that the state is going to shut every news of free expression we're already seeing in the way the security forces are acting against people. 13 people died in 2 days of protests against police brutality the

demonstrations were sparked by the killing of an unarmed man by 2 officers most of the victims were young people allegedly shot by the police. during a commemorative event broadcast on television the mayor begged for forgiveness and reconciliation. but also reiterated the need for police reform insisting that there was clear evidence of indiscriminate use of firearms is that. we are here to apologize to all the victims of police abuse all the victims and injured citizens we are here to recognize the seriousness of the facts the seriousness of what happened the solution is not so military as the city but to demilitarize the police . president has rejected the mayor's calls for reform and did not attend the event an empty chair with his name on it emphasized. family members of the victims called for an end to the violence. the heat are going to knock you down and

we are demanding justice from the national government to put an end to the killings and injuries by the police my husband wasn't killed by a stray bullet he was killed by 4 shots today the president and the head of the police should be here if the government had apologized for the killing that sparked the riots but fell short in condemning the actions committed by the police during the protest he said accusing the reminding active rebel group in the country there you know then of course the meeting attacks on police stations and public transportation the attempt to reconsider the ation of overall lowered tensity of the protests at least for now but there's real anger and frustration among many colombians that they say will not easily be silenced i listened to them yet just. coronavirus news on india's indonesia's capital i'm sorry is again on the lockdown to reduce the strain on the city's health care system doctors say it is close to

collapsing and hospital beds could be filled in weeks there's jessica washington now in jakarta jessica bring us up to that 1st of all when we say indonesia's capital is again on the lockdown how long had it been reduced for. them all perceptions came into place in april and it was around that they started to be put down and what that means they are in place many offices are closed or they've been told to limit city that stop in the office many public sites that pubs restaurants are posted the message from the government here and you can. read the news in the hospital system here on the intense strain now jakarta's governor has likened this decision to pulling an emergency break the for the situation gets out of control. this is a manifestation of how the pandemic and. crisis in the city the cemetery in jakarta

is only for patients who died from covert 19 or was suspected of having it. the grave diggers are exhausted but the bodies keep coming. indonesia has more confirmed covered 19 deaths than anywhere else in the region or than $8000.00 people are reported to have died due to low testing rates the actual death toll could be much higher. we are taught we've been working like this for 6 months we have buried so many people still we have to do our job and it's not just these workers who are under strain this cemetery is a tragic representation of the impact of the pandemic here in indonesia and it's not just a car to cemeteries that a fost filling up at hospitals as well as watch a cut as governess says the city must once again go into lockdown before the situation spirals out of control in june jakarta began to ease restrictions to

boost the economy reopening many businesses and offices at the time the government told al-jazeera he was confident the city's health care system could handle the pandemic months later he now warns that hospital beds are just weeks away from running out like this i mean you know if we let this be the hospitals won't be able to contain the situation and the result will be a high defeat writes we will reimpose the restrictions and we will work study and pray from home again around the country close to $200.00 health care workers have died from covered 19 and doctors say the national government must prioritize people's health over efforts to reopen. now. i am. hours before the restrictions began zuki fully served his last customer. now the shutdown means millions of low income

earners like him will suffer. get out of here i know we need to address the pandemic but also need income for my children. he didn't receive any government support during the last shutdown and it could be months before the salang reopens. in a city as diverse and populous as jakarta it seems there's no easy solution. to this that locked down this partial lockdown in indonesia's capital city is set to last for at least 2 weeks but that of course depends on the trajectory of the virus here if cases continue to rise if that death toll remains troublingly high then of course the restrictions will be extended jessica washington with that update from jakarta thank you the veteran u.s. journalist bob woodward has revealed u.s. president donald trump knew of the severity of the coronavirus in february but downplayed it to the american people that admission made in

a series of recorded interviews with trump but now woodward has spoken to c.b.s. about his new book on the trump presidency. this is the tragedy a president of the united states has a duty to warn the public will understand but if they get the feeling that they're not getting the truth then you're going down the path of deceit in cover did the president ever disclose to you why he wasn't telling the public what the stakes were with the coronavirus so in my her truck i asked exactly that question you know what's going on and the president said well i think really to be honest with you here i want you to i wanted to. i want to always plays i still like laying it down yes because i don't want to create a panic i think he did not understand the american public still in the u.s. and the national weather service has issued

a red flag warning for high winds conditions which are threatening to worsen the record wildfires across the west coast and 100 fires are burning across 3 states and heavy ash and smoke a hampering the firefighting president trump is due to visit california on monday his approach to the fires though is already causing controversy as patty callahan explains. all across the west spread out through several states similar yet shocking scenes walls of flames apocalyptic looking skies and seas a bash remnants of the lives lived here now just rubble for those who can return many finding their worst fears confirmed george kabul lost 5 homes in this family compound his business and cars that are not insured. you already had our stock trailer and our travel trailer hooked up to the pick up but we really didn't think it was going to come here so we just kind of like so we didn't think to grab

a lot of stuff that we should have grabbed we just more we seen the fire that close we just grab the animals more than half a 1000000 people in the state of oregon have evacuated or been told to be ready to leave many still refuse some got lucky water still works we came here. which you know like i said why it was work and there was no power though so. this was working able to put out more hot spots there was a fire all around us so. it's not as bad as it used to be with dozens missing searchers have begun sifting through the debris looking in finding more bodies this is the desperate situation as the u.s. president arrives on monday but he's already framing how he sees these historically bad wildfires spoke to the folks in oregon washington really haven't they never had anything like this but you know it is about forest management please remember the words. forest management please. but the democratic governors here strongly

disagree and we know that climate change is making the fires start easier spread faster and intensify and it is maddening right now that we have this cosmic challenge to our communities with the entire west coast of the united states on fire to have a president who did die these are not just wildfires these are. climate fires the weather did give firefighters a break over the weekend with calmer winds and cooler temperatures but that will be short lived as monday is expected to bring wind gusts of more than 60 kilometers an hour a worst case scenario for a scene that over 80 seems to be just that particular al-jazeera just a bit of sports for you now world number 3 dominic theorem is the newest men's grand slam singles tennis champion jim defeated alexander's veteran in the u.s. open final on sunday to claim his 1st major title after losing the 1st 2 sets the

austrian for back to win it in 5 this is his whole life has been dedicated to winning this champ. the past the hour these are the headlines yoshida suga has been chosen as the new leader of japan's ruling party he is a long term ally of the outgoing prime minister and so is expected to formally replace him in a parliamentary vote this week. more on the subject from robert reich. is always going to be a foregone conclusion but still an impressive margin of victory or should he do suga getting nearly 3 quarters 'd of all of the votes cast his 2 rivals coming nowhere near to challenge him but then of course he was always the anointed successor in a way to a shinzo having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet

secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in these so-called daven objects conservative economics that were meant to revitalize the economy also adhering to base belief in trying to reinvent japan on the world stage. weather headlines and with mounting protests for him to step down bill reese's president is heading to russia to seek help alexander lukashenko will need lot of improvement in sochi to get moscow's support for his crackdown on demonstrators refugees on the greek island of lesbos to be moved to a new site after their camp burned down they're still demanding humanitarian assistance and want to be taken to the mainland the reported possible sale of chinese video sharing optic talks operations in the u.s. is now in doubt microsoft had announced that its parent. its sort but dance the parent company that refused to sell to microsoft the tech from oracle emerged as a possible technology partner in a few past few hours the chinese state t.v.

reporter that talks u.s. operations will not be sold to either company libyans have been demanding improved living conditions and an end to corruption and a series of protests in benghazi demonstrators set fire to an administrative building the u.n. mission to libya says it's concerned by reports of recent violence between security officials and protesters in the region the mayor of colombia's capital bogota is calling for reconciliation after days of violent protests 10 people have been killed in demonstrations over police brutality there are plenty of the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story starts right now. counting the cost of a debt crisis and an insurgent uprising mozambique's troubled road to becoming the world full of biggest gas exporter and epic battle challenges apple's grip on its i'm still in the rising prospect of a currency war it's a mighty dollar. counting the cost on al-jazeera. frozen out

diplomatically and financially mollies coup leaders say they can't count a road map back to democracy well the plan lead to the end of regional sanctions will a skeptical opposition return to the streets this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sammy's a than nearly a month after mali's military coup agreements seem to have been reached on the transition the plan sees a return to civilian rule within 18 months.