confronting the reality of racism, religion and the struggle to be accepted, al jazeera, tells the story of what it is like to be lebanese, and color straightly at home. once upon a time and punish, go on al jazeera oh, searching for survivors. the clean up operation begins in germany and belgium, following catastrophic floods and killed 160 people. ah, mon, calling this out is their life. and also coming up searching the survivors. i came up, abrasion begins in germany and belgium, following catastrophic floods that have killed 160 people tell about enough can

government delegations meet for talks and with both sides, saying they won't peace on the looting stops. but tension remains in south africa where the military is patrolling the streets of the days of unrest. to athletes have now tested positive for current of iris and the tokyo olympic village on saturday. and i have see member who is also in the village was confirmed to have the virus that comes just 5 days before the pandemic delayed games set to officially open. now dozens of cases happened linked to be limping. since the start of july, the event has been facing opposition in japan over phase, but it will worsen the countries outright as a bottle of surge and infections. that's bringing michael pen, he's the president's i've seen gets your news agency joins is from michael where they are all. busy one case than this 2 and then this now 3 cases that seems that

might be more is the japanese all the japanese authorities where it, but this is now just the beginning. well, i think everybody's quite worried about that. you know, the, the critics of the games of which there are very many in japan. in fact it's probably the majority of the public, you know, we're afraid of hosting games for precisely this reason. i said, you know, what, why would you want to host this major event with tens of thousands of people descending from all over the world and the japan in the midst of a global pandemic? and from a lot of people's perspective, this is just manifesting the rather predictable consequences of trying to do so. and so far there's been 3 infections confirmed in the olympic village still days before the events begin. and also about 45 people who are affiliated with the olympics, who have been tested positive since arriving in japan. but often the argument is

made, it's an economic what the lim picks are good for the host city that's been proven and disproved in various different cases. but you don't even have a spectators. yeah. so there's not even an economic argument to be made. so what is the argument that the government is making to hold these well, the, the official argument is that they is that the i o c is the only ones who can cancel the games. and the guy o c has said that they'd never even consider doing so. so that's part of the argument. you know, another argument is that, is that, you know, all of this effort has gone into doing this. and so, you know, we should, we should hold them. and in terms of the economic side of things, you know, from the point of view of the i o c, you know, most surveys i've seen says they get most of their revenues from the broadcast rights. so it's really japan and tokyo that will be left holding the bag of most of

the economic losses. the fact that the games be broadcast on television will save the i o c's finances to great to large extent michael penn into care. thank you very much. thank you. so he says it was coded, $900.00 outbreak shows no sign of slowing down with more than $50000.00 cases confirmed each day in an easiest covered 1900 decimal is no more than $70000.00. but experts, a warning that the death toll is likely to be far higher. and i was jessica washington reports from jakarta authorities and are struggling to cope with a number of dead on the outskirts of the indonesian capital. yet another family has lost a relative to cope. it won't wake up, she cried. please don't sleep. it's the last time she will ever see her father. as

indonesia struggled through the surgeon covert 900 deaths, there were too many grieving families and not enough workers to help bury the dead . some communities are now relying on volunteers. you just get back to them and remember, we don't receive any payment. we do our job from the heart. he cleans the bodies and also drives coffins to the symmetry. i've got a number of this is so high here. so this is what we can do to help the families. they work from morning to night. every day they see more families in anguish. seeing the conditions of these families, i feel in my heart a need to help them. i think about them even after i get home. ah, this is just one of many covert 19 burial sites in indonesia. at all, hours,

hearses and ambulances, queue up with more bodies to be buried. as doctors, of course, away sick people. more people are dying alone in their homes, and most never had the chance to be treated in hospital. as the death toll rises, cope with 900 variable size overwhelmed, engraved is have to work well into the night to keep up with demand. indonesia cove, at 19 fatality rate is the highest in se asia. but experts warn the government state her doesn't reveal the extent of the crisis. we pray dick, that the real number of those who died from coffee 9 teens, should be treat to far as time higher than the officials. number each day, indonesia cases and deaths rise to record levels and more families come here to warn those. they've lost jessica washington al jazeera chicata. thousands of people

have been marching and france against sweeping new corona virus measures. they include mandatory vaccinations for health work and people will also have to show covered 90 negatives that have been to bars restaurant cinema front. the seen a surge in recent weeks hitting nearly 11000 cases over the weekend. emergency workers in western germany and belgium of searching, hundreds of people believe to be missing off of the devastating floods. 160 people are confirmed dead and that figure is expected to increase. german chancellor, anglo merkel has called the floods of catastrophe and will visit the region on sunday. set off and report from the germantown of stat. it was rush hour when the water quickly inundated highway number 265 near f, stop catching unexpected drivers and passengers by surprise. soldiers and rescue workers tried to reach trap cause finding out if everyone made it out in time. we

hope that they made it out of their cars, but we are not sure. and we can guarantee that the perhaps people in the cars, we could not check all cars. and if you see the quality of the water, also the check with diversity of no use looking at how challenging it is to fleet is one highway. it becomes clear as recovery will take time. it's hard to imagine the planet of people stuck in traffic when the road probably filled up with walker . reinforcements have now come from all over germany, because not only were residents completely taken by surprise by the flock. they also completely overwhelmed government services. during his visit to after the german president, frank wilder stein maya told survivors they will get help, but have to be patient. when does it have the exact this, the law config mind, and this help that has been promised should also be for the communities who in the

next days and weeks won't only have to clear up the damage, but will also have to rebuild everything. the roads that are destroyed, the bridges that have been swept away, and that's why it is good that such support has been agreed on. a landslide buried at least 3 houses in our stop and damaged others. this woman lost, her son was swept away by the much flow, his body as yet to be recovered. she and other residents are anxious to the begging authorities to allow them to return to holden monotony. alas, yet we have nothing. we were evacuated. i took a few things, i think it will take 4 to 6 weeks before i can go back. there is no electricity, no water, no gas. the whole infrastructure is down. albus flooring in from across germany for those who had to leave their homes in a hurry with only the clothes they were wearing. people were lucky enough not to be effected of volunteering to help you that we have clothes, shoes for men, women, and children. everything they need,

it's great to see how much support is coming in. the outgoing of solidarity gives hope to those who have not only lost their loved ones, homes or belongings, but also they believed that their town was a safe place to live. steadfast and al jazeera, afterward germany, and belgium. at least 27 people have died since flooding began on wednesday, over a 100 still missing waters now receding along rescues to access thousands of affected homes. natasha butler reports from the city of lias. it is not much to save her for some residence in this neighborhood of the belgian city of the age. most furniture and appliances are ruined, cause wrecked the flood waters that have caused so much damage have finally subsided. with the clean up, it has only just begun all is wanted for the water covered the cupboards. pascal is still shaken, rising waters had fought her teenage daughter to climb onto the roof where they was

stranded overnight until a neighbor helped rescue them. she says it's only once they were safe. the reality drug here, one of them is all on the we have nothing left to know home, no furniture clothes. it's so hard, but i say to myself, at least i saved my child as a mother, that's the most important. it will be some time before residence in neighbourhood like this one comes to turn with what has happened. but what is lifting spirits is the fact that so many people have come here and rallied around to help hunting out food and water, or lending a hand. or nearly every affected st. volunteers off it up. as i said, it's about solar derossi's supporting people to show they aren't along with this devastation when they see all young people coming to help them during their summer holidays. well it's just amazing and heart warming, belgium's prime minister visited the town of a hospital. he's called the floods unprecedented, but this scientist says climate change is to blame. to go to the critic the

rainfall was of course exceptional. but all of our climate data shows that it could happen again. the future emergency workers continue to move people from areas of homes considered unsafe as they reach regions that were cut off by flood waters. they say they may find more bodies, as dozens of people are missing. the hope here though, is that they'll find survivors. natasha butler al jazeera. yes, belgium said on his era, the memories of an africa were unknown. if one of the 1st mass killings happened at the start of the conflict and gripe and cube is present hills a pro government rally the fake news online helped few last weeks. unrest. ah ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways.

there is rain in the middle east in july, but it's usually confined to her mom for thunderstorms in the mountain or stella, where's the cast and drizzly for 3 months? the subsidy as a man clad is quite unusual and the results have been quite unusual to. this is denise, no man, this is what you see. a big thunderstorm. the dark underneath and, and out of it falls $200.00 many pieces of rain. okay. is that extra? yes. yeah, average for, sorry, is 3 millimeters. and then the extended the full cost sherry raise right up through the middle of saudi arabia too, was rear towards the average rainfall in doha, in july is 0. so to get any, a toll is going to be unusual. that last 3 sun, and then it sort of disappears and you get unsurprised michelle forecasts in the southwest of saudi arabia in the mountains. nothing much elsewhere apart from the edge affects the salon. it's hot and dry still in iraq. 47, nearly 15,

q 8. i was thinking the next couple of days. we've been around that for 12 or 3 weeks. that's not out of the ordinary. no wind in the gulf dough. how be she been $39.00. and again the edge of the monsoon beans, it'll be overcast. often drizzly in mogadishu on the coast of kenya with big shares seasonally so forming in ethiopia. sponsored pro, cut on airways, nuclear, god's dying. disproportionate numbers on not ever leaving behind widows who struggled to survive. one meets the ship, a women defying tradition to conquer the world's part bounced on his era. ah, ah ah, ah,

ah! the me. what you know, is there a reminder of our top story to athletes and now tested positive for creative ours and to take care of the phillips 5 days before the games officially open. critics say the events worse than the countries outbreak, as it baffles the surgeon. in fact, an emergency work has in western germany and belgium are searching for hundreds of people to lead to be missing off the devastating floods. more than 160 arkansas dead. that figure expected to increase the delegations from the african government and the taliban. a meeting for negotiations and got to the capital as violence continued to escalate. an honest on both sides have been engaged in talks

a month and a half, but they say the only solution is through dialogue. however, the taliban has taken advantage of the withdrawal of foreign troops. launching several offensive and capturing large pumps the country. that's all venge of it has more than the talks indoor as they were concluded of the talks between the taliban and representatives from the finest on the number of issues were discussed, including the release of prisoners, the listing from united nation list talk there was talk about amending the constitution and all inclusive government and political roadmap to words piece the taliban. insisting that before the talk there's a discussion about if ceasefire across the renaissance needs to be an inclusive government, which represents all segments of the gun society. not specifying how they're going to achieve it, but one thing that as the 1st step, but they've also been saying that because such a high power delegation has come to the company capital, they're willing to discuss everything that they are bringing to the tables. we hope

and we won't, and we, we expect that they should have brought something to get them in time. and on our side, we are ready to show flexibility and our aim is clear. and that is to lead me up on a crusade was meant in place in our by nissan and put an end to this phase of piping and into a new piece which will be our piece and good for us. as the taliban discuss the, the situation on the ground in afghanistan has been deteriorating. there are people who have been expressing their concerns about how taliban have been, not just the district, but provincial capital, as well as coming to word the capital capital as well. we asked the minister for peace about what his hope is from this level of talks, as they're definitely not going to be conclusive in 48 hours. but he thinks that he,

what he wants the other side to realize is that there is no, there is no solution by force to apply to sons problem. and only way ahead is through the go see ation. we have to keep the door of that is ocean open because the solution to the conflict is not violent. so the solution is actually meaningful negotiation to be very frank with you, we've been quite flexible and also tolerance since the start of the talk. so what's important is that i call upon to canada and to show the thing flexibility, the same understanding that they need to understand that to have the intention of taking that kind of course is not going to work on saturday. these talks are going to be concluded, they are being closely monitored by the united states, the european union, as well as the hosts in all sides. not directly part of the negotiations,

but doing what they can to try and persuade all sides the shorter strain to show flexibility to try and think of the gone people. because as this fight is ongoing, as the united states is all set to leave by september, the 11th the people on the ground in the gun to sign it afraid they're thinking that they might lose all of the hard for the freedom that they received in the last 20 years. busy and on the taliban side, trying to tell them that there is no forceful solution to venice on. and peace will only come when all side sit on the negotiation stable. they continue their work by talking to each other and come to a consensus on bringing peace to the daughter ernest on some bus. his pockets on has been abducted and assaulted in a slow about. the african foreign ministry says 26 year old says la ali hale was severely tortured and suffered blows to her head before being taken to the hospital . she was held for more than 5 hours. no one has been arrested. south african

imparts of the country have begun cleaning up st. smalls, and shops after a week of the worst violence since the end of apartheid. present. so rama f o says, says the rites i coordinated and well planned attack on south africa, democracy, 1200 people have been killed. the unrest with spots by the jailing, a former president of zillow and quickly developed into demonstrations against poverty and bernard smith report from devon. and they just noted and looted into the durbin, has been quieter these last couple of days. but it's a come sometimes and forced at gunpoint read one jeff m managed to protect his business. but so many others looted and burned. it was the, the more themselves that called all the destruction and called home to themselves. because we, we attacked and we had people put open fire on us and which we basically have to see have got ourselves by hiding behind walls and building. the writing was sparked by the jailing, a form of precedent jacob's duma and expanded to include wider grievances. it

unleashed racial tensions, but always sim up in the surface here about about one of them. i thought the minister of police, toward turbans, townships on saturday, promising to investigate crimes committed by all communities. kaylee's as a team of detectives is investigating the deaths of 20 black people after confrontations with a neighboring indian majority township. but it's clear, there is anger here that is hard to contain them. i know it looks difficult, but we are working together. we're working with the community, we go out to the streets, to speak to other people. we've got a problem with social media. social media is the main cause of this because people are reacting to use why the minority rule ended nearly 30 years ago. but most south africans still live in racially separated townships or suburbs that were created by the parties government. the fears of the only supermarket in a 4 kilometer radius wasn't ransacked because it was defended by the and local

businesses. south africa state insurance says its expecting claim to top $700000000.00 at night turbans different communities still closing themselves in behind their own checkpoints, outside elements that are coming here and get very upset when we have to awesome. what is the purpose? yes, people here are worried, there's more trouble to come. it's not, not lean down. no one's on and that's the concern. there it is which if g davis teams done so continuing and no one keys that just hours after south africa's president sad on friday night. but calm had been restored. this market was fireball. bernard smith, i'll just sarah durban, south africa. it's been a month since one of the worst math massacres in if you p t gray conflict and local people say there's still traumatized. hundreds of young ethnic mormon will kill by

fleeing to green fighters in the disputed town of mike. hard to grinds, who escaped to sudan accused him. our forces of similar attacks. catherine saw reports from me cover model, gabrey mighty i'm is giving us account of people. he and others buried in these. my grades are charged cemetery, giving me and they had nothing. he says they were targeted because they're kara, the 1st magical the conflict between a few p federal soldiers back by retrans troops. and i'm hire a special forces and it's malicious against the grand fighters happened here last november in the north and town of my camera. yeah, the sudanese buddha, if you appears human rights commission stays up to 600 people, walk killed. residents tell us the number is much higher. so when i had one my clothes were soaked in blood carrying the get and dead. we brought bodies

a stretch of it was shocking, the playful mailing of death. but unless, if his family can hardly look at his picture without crying, they say he has killed right before their eyes on the street outside his home. they blamed fleeing to grand forces. i'm good, sir, guy said guy, why are you killing me? my husband kept calling as he lay on the ground with a guy who gave him the final blow. it was under the administration of the great leadership, but nearly all have now fled. and the town is in the control of higher forces and the federal government. more than 200 young men lived in hospitals, the student here most labor as it came from different parts of i'm hydro region to walk and mainly owned by the grains witnesses, palace. they were hacked with mushroom. he's beaten short and hostile bands to the ground. now this woman's son barely survived on the talk. she says he has since

lost his hearing. yeah, delay. oh, there was one on his head. it was also coming out of his ears when i found him. he was soaked in blood to grants who fled to refugee camps in sudan and other internal displays. people come slither into t gray. tell a different story. they see federal government troops in the allies committed atrocities against them and force them out. but they all agree on one thing. hundreds of few pins died in my camera and many people like my mom who witnessed the killings and buried the dead, remain deeply traumatized. catching going all to 0. my camera, if you the molly, an army says 3 chinese nationals and 2 more italians were kidnapped on saturday. it happened in the maria and quad districts north of the capitol domco. the all men reportedly attacked a construction site, stealing 5 pickup trucks and taking hostages. and in the u. s. 29 people in texas

have been taken to hospital after a chemical leak at a water park, many a suffering from mine skin irritation, and respiratory issues. well, 30 say hyper chloride solution and 35 percent. so for it acid leaked into the water . the hurricane hob, a splash town investigations underway, and the remains of 10 native american children buried under a formal residential school in the us have been returned to their tribes. more than 10000 native american children are believed to have attended the school when he died from diseases at these institutions which have been criticized forcing students to assimilate to american culture. in recent weeks, hundreds of unmarked graves have been uncovered and similar residential schools. they bring canada and a huge wall fire has for hundreds of people to evacuate their homes in northern california, 55 to say they are currently unable to control the blaze. south lake tahoe, extremely dry conditions and heat waves tied to climate change have been sweeping

the region, making it harder to make it harder to fight fires. and martine lawyers, the wife of haiti's assassinated president, who was injured in july 7th attack, is returned home. she was fled to the u. s. a for treatment of him at nie omi miami hospital after being wounded by gunfire on friday. government officials announced that journal waste his funeral would be held on july 23rd and cuba present as denounced was, he's called a false narrative about anti government protests and says, footage of large rallies is false. legal diaz canal accused the us of a provoking process and spreading hate on social media. this is off to cuba, so it's biggest anti government processing decades, or been manly reports this celebratory rally in her bona is a far cry from angry protest to the grit. this caribbean nation performing cuban

sofa and waving flags. thousands of people shaped support for president miguel diaz can key says, protest against cuba, economic decline. what based on source narrative 50 morning or if you need to can be moved. they are encouraging and glorifying disrespect and destruction of property threats and harassment of citizens and families. right now, what was the sink from? is a lie. ro, castro joined the president who he had handed power to in 2019. he and his brother, the late fidel castro, had led the cuban revolution more than 6 decades ago. okay. and then, yeah, ponder mac or no from the mac, we have to defend the solution. we have to defend what is ours. you know, you're going to total get enough in the words of miguel diaz can now he made it clear to the whole world that this revolution will not be overthrown. i

have a week ago, a wave of protest hit 40 cuban cities the biggest in decades. people calling the liberty freedom and down with the dictatorship, they galvanized in the thousands of shortages of goods and the government's handling of a surgeon cove in 1900 infections. schools of people were arrested almost 2000 kilometers notes in washington. d. c. protest showed solid charity outside the cuban embassy. my grandmother left in the back sorted that opportunity among the most cuban american population in florida. u. s. president joe biden called key the affair state and showed no sign of lifting

economic sanctions. the country now seems divided between 2 count, those who blame the government of widespread shortages of food and medicine, and those who don't want to lose a socialist revolution. they blamed 60 years of crippling functions, but their economy was lower than among the out to 0. ah, those are and these are the top stories to athletes have now tested positive for current of ours and took care of them picked village 5 days before the games officially open christian faith, the event will worse than the countries outbreak as the battle of the surgeon infections, thousands of people have been marching throughout from again, sweeping current a virus measures thing clued, mandatory vaccinations to help his people will also have to show cobra 1900

negative friends above restaurants and cinema emergency workers in western germany and belgium. a searching for a 100.