japan's governing party has a new leader so you're sure he is on track to become the next prime minister. from doha everyone come out santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera protests of turn violent again in bella ruse so head of a meeting between president lukashenko and russia's vladimir putin. also in the news the future of social media at tick tock remains uncertain but there are reports of a deal that could satisfy the u.s. government. and as aid starts to come into sudan we're looking at the staggering

economic impact of the flooding. so some changes in japan where the governing party has now elected its new leader to succeed. is a longtime ally of the outgoing prime minister this leadership vote within the liberal democratic party paves the way for sugar to replace him in a parliamentary vote this week. hands longest serving prime minister he resigned last month for health reasons. as we face the nationwide crisis of the corona virus outbreak we cannot have a political gap we need to overcome this challenge in order for every single person in japan to have a safe and stable life i need to proceed with what prime minister has been working on and move it forward i believe this is my mission. broad following this one from

seoul today rob something of a a coronation almost wasn't it a succession in place here rather than an actual vote. absolutely i mean this was a foregone conclusion for your shahid a suit ever since are they announced that he was standing down he has been the heir apparent he has always been right hand man serving for nearly 8 years as the chief cabinet secretary very loyal and so this was an obvious choice and he does share the same conservative beliefs as shinzo are they in particular things like the nomics this conservative fiscal policy to try to revitalize the japanese economy also the view of trying to change japan's position on the world stage to become more assertive so he is expected to faithfully carry forward those policies. there is a real difference in style between the 2 men because of course he was far more

charismatic he's from a political dynasty going back generations in japan by contrast. although he's been a fixture on the political landscape for years he is far more low key far more pragmatic as he said in himself in his acceptance speech his background is an agricultural one he is from a family of strong brief farmers but saying that he has now. risen to the highest political position in the land which is likely to be confirmed on wednesday with a special meeting of the lower house of the diet japanese parliament not an easy time to be taking the reins in japan though is that i mean look a lot of countries have got problems given the situation all over the world but japan's economy what sort of state is it in. they are really plagued by problems you almost realize and sympathize with abbe why he would want to give up the possession especially with his health issues there is the

problems with the cratering economy the worst they've had in decades compounded by coded 19 which remains a public health crisis you have diplomatic problems a spat with south korea getting caught in the diplomacy and the increasing tensions between china and the united states in theory suger only should take over this job for one year he's almost like an interim prime minister just seeing things through a nice safe pair of hands before they go to the polls again a year from now but from supers point of view looking at all these problems and the fact that they may well get worse in the next 12 months not better when you take into a fact for example the olympics that are coming up delayed from this year with the possibility they could be cancelled or scaled down altogether an extremely unpopular on the home front he might almost be tempted to call a snap election that's what a lot of speculation is at the moment that you would trade in this one year for the chance of maybe having a quick victory and getting a premiership of your own for you and your party to last 4 years of mcbride but the

update on the political changes in japan thank you. hunter the news center is president alexander lukashenko is heading to the russian city of sochi for talks with out of the a person following a 5th weekend of protests hundreds of people rested during the latest demonstrations demanding look at his resignation and as a report now from minsk. this is how look i 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 any more never and nowhere i can see that this is kidnapping they abandon it and then you. after the ordeal she managed to catch up with tens of thousands of protesters who gathered despite mas detentions and roadblocks. in this protest last month she has exhausted all her tools he used to apply in the previous year here which are star use a large scale repressions to reach people who will get beaten detained and then this would protest this time this doesn't work ahead of an important meeting with russian president vladimir putin on monday because shankar was 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 putin 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 never encountered to be involved in our internal problems. after the frightening and 10 scenes from earlier in the day the protests turned into a dance festival after marching for more than 2 hours the rally has now arrived at one of the residences of alex on the lookout shack here right in this park but it was just a courtesy call of the thousands of protesters are 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 he remains in office chances are that a decision about the future of look i shan't come might not be decided here on the

streets of belarus but in neighboring russia according to observers since he has put his fate increasingly into put in tents. we'll get an update from step now in minsk 1st of all step the i mean clearly you are out amongst very large protests yesterday what's been the the latest word on the numbers that were out there in the number of people arrested. well the interior ministry has just announced that they have detained $774.00 people yesterday and many of them were detained even before the rally started or people were just heading towards the rally and also i afterwards finished what happens is when the large crowds this this 1st then policeman march policeman go back onto the streets having people here in beer they're all being that taken to different places we know that some have gone to the famous christina the tension center but also several police

stations people i have been detained to right now what normally happens is that the family relatives won't find out. where they are until they are released many will be released possibly soon but they will face trial for attending the sanctioned rally and then will have to go to court and possibly also will be faced with another prison term or with a penalty let's look ahead then step 2 this missing president heading to sochi to meet each russian president vladimir putin the russians a voice said willing to bend if we have to if it becomes necessary after 5 weeks i wonder is it getting closer to that. well that's what the lot of people are wondering of course a look at shanghai has left belarus for the 1st time since the political crisis has started and his bargaining position has definitely not improved last after this

mass rally on sunday of course he was hoping to keep the numbers low to show to president puts in that he has everything under control which obviously didn't work so he needs more support from president putin then ever before and the person is willing to give this a 4 to him because put them really wants to prevent valorous to fall in the hands of the west and possibly name 2 but this support will come as a prize and there are different scenarios being discussed right now among observers what will come out of this meeting both was possibly we won't even find out the kremlin has said that there will be no statements given after the meeting of these 2 ringback men but of course the most far reaching possible scenario is this integration of balad loose into the russian federation far reaching integration political integration but that's of course a stricken area that will lead to even more anger here on the streets of belarus so

i'm not arsed canario is more economic integration and that's something observers say is more likely because by the rules has a very large foreign that's right now so there are canonical already very much tied to russia so it's possible that what it wants to help better was economically but also again against the high price getting a large stake into the economy here getting a large stake into state companies here possibly by oligarchs in russia so whatever the outcome will be today it will not be the outcome the opposition is aiming for because they are not on the table they're not being discussed by the 2 men start she today we'll talk to you again later in our get some up that step. the beijing based company bite downs is reported to have abandoned the sale of its video app to talk in the united states to pursue a partnership instead but the u.s. from oracle this is coming from u.s.

state television but dumps have been pressured to sell off to president donald trump threatened to ban the app on security grounds analysts say the decision will avoid a u.s. ban while still satisfying beijing microsoft earlier announced by had refused its offer bit of background if you're not familiar with tick tock it launched 3 years ago is the international version of the chinese at the un and has since racked up 2000000000 downloads but it's had problems with regulators in several countries india bandits in june amid border tensions with china and the e.u. has raised privacy concerns and in july donald trump announced he'd shut down to talk over national security concerns but latest suggested it could keep operating if it was bought by an american company and it's all going with us now from bangkok a technology analyst and co-host of the china tech invest a pub sometimes i find it incredible that this is become such a big story and it's such a big issue is it i mean because it seems like a fairly innocuous. social media videos dancing in the sort of thing and it's

turned into this mess of issues. well it's massive little and it's a massive business and it's a massive tech story so it's the intersection of so many different issues right now with the story is still coming together so when there's been some recent signals that beijing it is not particularly happy or will deal with either and right now we does seem as though they're the 2 main players here are not oracle or microsoft or by hand but it is beijing and it is washington and that is where. the decision will be made and right now they seem to be playing a game of chicken. the oracle i mean even if it isn't maybe being viewed by beijing is that i'm trying to understand what our cool would get out of it something that microsoft is a it's a it's a personal computing company it's for the use of oracle's business software.

well here i mean it's is a wildly popular platform so regardless of what company is behind it they'll still be able to have those users but one of the cops here and then that beijing has export controls the algorithms on really the recipes that make take time though i mean it's like you know you can buy the rights to a mcdonald's logo and you can make your own fast food but it's not going to like mcdonald's and i think that's kind of the issue of rushing out with is that if you don't have that special sauce behind it then you know you're not going to have the same kind of growth retention probably and it's going to be far more easier for us to grab the regionals or a trailer or one of these many many other short video apps overtake them. forgive the wording of this question given we are talking about and i'm joined talking to you about it but why should we care why should the average person care about this sort of thing if they were to talk use it they're probably just doing it because

they want to share videos and get likes and if they're not they're probably sitting there wondering what is to talk and why does it seem to matter so much. well if you want one if you are a tick tock user it's going to it's going to matter for you so whether you're an advertiser or an implementor there are people that have built a 1000000 plus dollar businesses on that platform and if that platforms shut down their business and shut down i think that's one very very big big issue perk for a lot of the business the business issue i think the other side of it when it comes to business is that by beijing keeps beijing and washington both going to keep forcing this to be eventually shut down if they don't allow a sale to happen essentially what's going to happen is that it'll make this success story and by standing in the united states centrally meaningless in that every other chinese tech platform that might want to go global is going to have to think about ok well you know are we going to get shut down you know beijing seems to be

throwing bands under the bus here you know even if think the tube or or microsoft or any of these companies they're at least really sweeping their investment you know this has happened many times for american companies in china yahoo i think was a great example where essentially they got a signal. last decade that they would not be able to you know go as far as they would like to there would be a ceiling on their growth in china due to china's own internet and so they ended up making a deal to get a share of ali baba and that was the man to think that's all investment yes to talk is just outright banned and shut down that means that they're not going to be able to reach that investment and that signals to every other big chinese tech company that you should probably say within china's borders or at the risk i'm not a tick tock uses so i am thankful for you giving us a bit of context to this story galleons i've been in bangkok thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera a new camp is being set up but still it's

a dire situation for the refugees trapped on the greek island of let's false and a new depth of discovery a lost world in mexico where humans have invented for more than 10000 years. and their pension nice warm sunshine across much of central europe you can see barely any cloud on the satellite and that's because high pressure is very much in control what it's doing of course there is forcing a system so that all of that keeping the skies clear across much of the u.k. so the south coast people have been flocking to the beaches enjoying the warm sunny weather and it's not done just yet as i say high pressure is in control it'll stay there for the next few days so lots of clear skies and the rain is doing its best to had across the atlantic it won't make a great deal of progress it'll tend to stay out and eventually head further towards the south towards the pyramid incident but as you can see still fine and dry some

rain showers through scotland and on again towards noice there london for the next few days sunny and bright warm as well it does begin to cool off but how much is just coming down to the average for september paris a similar scenario plenty of sunshine for the next few days how much is still above the average and berlin as well cooler by quite a bit acad rob even so way we should be for this time of year now northern africa there is a system sitting in the central med this will continue to sit across as the chin is here and eventually take that rain as well across into areas of libya some heavy downpours at times we could have some localized flooding and cools a little bit cooler just $25.00 inches palais. if you have to choose between your site and feeding your family what do you do that happens because we don't keep ourselves healthy when your son could face death from

a dog fights what do you do every year to cut the cost of living take choice can you afford them. films an inspiring solution to. a juicy legs on al-jazeera. mule. oh. top stories this hour on al-jazeera. has been chosen as the new leader of japan's governing party is a longtime ally of the outgoing prime minister shinzo he is expected to formally replace up in a parliamentary vote this week. but a recent president alexander lukashenko is expected to meet the russian president

vladimir putin within the hour for talks following a 5th weekend approach just hundreds of people were arrested during the latest demonstrations demanding the question of his resignation and chinese state t.v. is reporting the beijing based company has dropped the sale of its video app tick-tock in the u.s. to pursue a partnership with oracle but dance had been under pressure to sell after president trump threatened to ban the app on security grounds. it's going to greece now where refugees are being moved to a new site on the island of last boss after their camp burned down last week but many are demanding to be allowed to travel to the mainland and then on to other european countries stephanie decker reports from this bus. there is anonymity in mass human misery but everyone here has a broken dream. problem is this. calm here. one of hope. around one of.

messages from afghanistan he says he worries about the effect the lack of hope is having on his mental health. is not about my stomach. it's about emotional it's the most outbrain 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 thread fiji's of largely been left to fend for themselves the problem as a lot of people has like. health condition or they have like a problem with heart with. all of us in the sense 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 that'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 is spreading among the refugees most still 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 are. 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 or yanni. 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 your biggest refugee camp has done is reignited the debate and turned the international spotlight back on these forgotten people stephanie decker bus island greece. the u.s. special representative for afghanistan reconciliation. program talked about a 0 describing how much is at stake if afghan leaders squander their opportunity to achieve peace in the talks and. serious error was made.

de end of the soviet. period one more than one error but one was not to try to do what we're doing now with afghan forces the mujahideen fought the soviets and the afghan other afghans to get to a political agreement to have negotiations like the one that started here yesterday . among afghans so that is that the withdrawal was. being carried out by the soviet forces there was an order there. and agreement and a political process among the forces in play so the and. that was because of lack of trust between the united states and the soviet union at that time many people didn't think the soviets were serious about would draw but also the afghans made the. sacrifice so much to push the soviets

out to force them out and the world benefited from that. soviet departure and what followed that departure was the disintegration of the soviet union but the afghans were one great victory at huge cost. politically by going to civil war against each other i hope the afghans are paying attention learning the lessons of that period we do certainly ever learn that. and that's why we've started this peace process to get the afghans to negotiate that's that's why i call it the start of opportunity to avoid another story from state. now the world health organization has reported record single day surge in new coronavirus cases global infections increased more than 300000 on sunday the biggest numbers in india the united states and brazil which are the worst affected

countries are now in the 38000000 recorded cases worldwide with more than 900000 deaths last week the veteran u.s. journalist bob woodward revealed u.s. president donald trump knew of the severity of the coronavirus in february but downplayed it to the american people and mission that was made in a series of recorded interviews with trump well now woodward has spoken to us channel c.b.s. about his new book on the trump presidency this is the tragedy the president of the united states has a duty to warn the public will understand that 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 march i asked exactly that question you know what's going on and the president said well i think really to be honest here i want you to

i want you. i want to show you a slave 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. 2020 has been a big year for archeologists in mexico but the most significant discovery has been evidence that humans reached the americans 15000 years earlier than we previously thought and such as now hope more investigations will help paint a clearer picture of human history in the americas i'm a rapper reports from mexico city. these are some of the 1st images of an ancient mineral mine where no human being has set foot since the last ice age the discovery was made by a team of cave divers in mexico's yucatan peninsula and thanks to modern 3 d. mapping technology scientists and explorers have been able to paint a clear picture of this lost world unseen for more than 10000 years and never in my

wildest dreams i think. what it is or mine. and of course what this does is it makes our imagination. what else is out there that we haven't discovered yet and i think that's really the most thing. but the mine is only one of several discoveries made by scientists in mexico over the past year in cheek here to keep and researchers say it pales in comparison to what archaeologists recently uncovered on a hillside in the state of such a big us radio cop and inside a cave cold scientists have recovered more than 900 stone tools and other evidence suggesting early people may have arrived on the american continent more than 30000 years ago that's 15000 years earlier than previously thought of all these discoveries in mexico and a slowly across the continent begin to fit together and allow for

a greater understanding of the 1st humans of the american continent as well as that the bedlam and of their cultures and. scientists say it's hardly surprising that so many important science are being uncovered in mexico they say the country has sat on the nexus of human and animal migration for tens of thousands of years. even beneath mexico city's bustling historic district new discoveries are not uncommon like the 15th century ass tech palace floor uncovered by researchers in july only blocks from the city's central plaza. in many cases these fines happen by accident as was the case when construction workers came across dozens of giant skeletons of animals long extinct under a new airport being built in the mexican capital because on the other thought we have extracted different specimens funner the live here 25000 years ago we have mostly found remains of months. mexico is home to some 29000 or

theological sites many of them or designated you nasco world heritage sites meaning they're recognized for bearing clues to the origins and evolution of mankind. al-jazeera mexico city just a bit of sport few world number 3 dominant team has won the u.s. open is the newest men's grand slam singles tennis champion and 10 defeated to alexander's better in the final on sunday to win his 1st major title lost the 1st 2 sets then fought back to win it in fact. they are and these are the top stories you know she has been chosen as the new leader of japan's governing party is a longtime ally of the outgoing prime minister shinzo r.b.i. and is expected to formally replace him in a parliamentary vote this week. as we face the nationwide crisis of the krona virus

outbreak we cannot have a political gap we need to overcome this challenge in order for every single person in japan to have a safe and stable life i need to proceed with what prime minister has been working on and move it forward i believe this is my mission more in this update from rob mcbride. this 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. having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in the so-called conservative economics that were meant to revitalize the economy also adhering to base belief in trying to reinvent japan on the world stage but

a ruthless president alexander lukashenko is in russia to hold talks with president vladimir putin it follows a 5th weekend of protests on the bill a recent syrian minister says there were more than 770 people arrested across the country on sunday chinese state t.v. is reporting the beijing based dance company has dropped the sale of its video app to talk in the us to pursue a partnership with oracle dons have been under pressure to sell love to president trump threaten to ban the app on security grounds and germany says 3 labs have now confirmed the kremlin critic alexina valmy was poisoned with a nerve agent novacek his findings from labs in france and sweden support the earlier results in germany itself. those are the headlines on al-jazeera ajay selects his next. to he not global community we are are because obviously you know a boat that's how the whole crew says they were responsible it looks like be part of the debate if you need to you can jump into the conversation right away when no

topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking power we just point what is loose in the world you see the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer it's not kill destroy the system it's just to look at the system and i dabbed it to the modern world this street on out is there. in the subway you see my family we're not going out who want to bring our. yard are saying you. cannot only learn. and learn a good then.