ah ah this is al jazeera ah hi there, kim vanelle. this has been used all law from coming up in the next 60 minutes. trinity is the biggest political party, just for testers to stay off the streets. the call for talk to preserve a decade of democracy. what i witnessed inexperienced, on january 6th, 2021 was unlike anything i had ever seen. us police officers who were attacked

during january 6, capital riots testify for an investigation committee. supposed to be charged on the hong kong fridge. national security, no one has been found guilty of inciting, secession and terrorism. 12000 years old and almost untouched by human. we look at the claim, evil beach farce. the unesco is seeking to preserve and defend the latest from the tokyo game. sam is a major blow to the us to me that 6 team is raining olympic champions to learn biles withdrawals from the teen funds within the parent leg, injury off the her 1st. both ah, to new the civil society groups have warned president k side not to extend emergency measures imposed on monday. the group, including the countries powerful labor union, called on the present,

establish roadmap out of the crisis. the made opposition and all of the party accused the president of the crew for firing the prime minister and freezing parliament for 30 days. now they've told supporters to stay off the streets as it pursues national dialog lower. but a man who has this report calm on the streets of tunis, a stark contrast to days of protests. many have not dared to face the army and security forces, which you now patrolling the streets and easiest parliament. the country's biggest political group, the enact a party has called the dialogue and the keys, the president of a qu. we reject the unconstitutional announcements and we welcome all the rejections that have come from most of the political party, as well as some of your. ready patients and we call the changes in people to the com and vigilance,

and you ready to defend the democracy. the many came to the streets in celebration and outrage at president ty sides both move firing the prime minister and freezing the parliament for a month. the president said, says his decision was taken after following the process laid out in the constitution. nothing to supper. i have taken responsibility. i am taking a historic responsibility. those who claim this matter is related to whom you need to revise the lessons in the constitution to present said who controls the armed forces made a storm warning against any one. taking up arms, saying the biggest danger a nation can face is internal explosion of the dismiss. prime minister, his sham, the, she, she says he will not be a disruptive element. he will hand power to whoever the president chooses, like this street like that. and he's in 3, the parliament is also divided today between the majority leading party in

department like and doing this and lation will cold and describe the decision of present price. i did use you know, dictatorship. why again, he's this decision democracy leaving it biggest today. there were also fears of a crackdown on the freedom of press. after security forces stormed al jazeera buildings. it's a move out there has strongly condemned the president to move had fall. i must protest with much of the anger directors at enough to party for the humbling of the economy and a raging pandemic. of this fear, it's an unconstitutional power grabbed the could lead to a dictatorship, a move that would see the end to the jasmine revolution. the paid the way to a decade of democracy lore about among the audi 0. 1 of the show is there

a senior political analyst. he joined us now by scholar from paris. 11, what happens next? the president has ordered parliament closed for 30 days. how do you foresee this playing out? well, it depends, of course, if he's with intention or in intention, if, if the last 2 years or any test of president said, i think he will probably try to transform that temporarily into permanent temporary . meaning he will try to stretch this for that. i mean, you said that he could do that stretching beyond the 30 days. because in as far as we see from his, the corporations over the past couple of years is that he has been attacking, criticizing demonizing, the entire financial system. in fact, it's 2014 constitutions, which by the way, it helped him become

a president. so there is nothing that would happen in 4 weeks to my view would satisfy the president and his plan to accumulate more power. because his whole problem would be constitution and with the present political system is that he doesn't have enough executive powers in order to rule as he wishes. so could it be just for weeks? well, that also depends on denise, in an international pressure on the news. in president, would it be more well, course also depends on how little the international community will do in order to have the vision president respect the constitution bar on and all of the of the, the strongest party in the coalition government. what was the coalition government at 1st accused the president of overturning constitutional rights, but, but at the same time is now calling for a national dialogue. what should we make of that? well, not although it's been seen in various parts of the world as

a fundamental assistant, his group has in fact, over the last decade or more moved quite to be what here in europe they would call a christian democratic party. it's basically the democratic party, it would no longer, and it has no longer insists on any of the let's call it or as it said, detractors reported chevy are like principles and it's basically accepted at the democratic rule of the games and him since then. it's basically been trying to media to play a moderate role in the country. and that's why when i hear that there is a dispute between another party and the president, i grinch because in fact i'm not that has tried that every possible way to accommodate the various sensitivities in the deeply secular tunisians things. so i think it's, it's rather mature on the part of another part of the pool formation that despite

it seeing what the president did as a cool because and then to that day to use it as a flexing democracy. it's just, you know, very fragile. and, and the idea of taking opposite positions in such a constitutional crisis is not a good thing. it does need the national dialogue. and if anything as another leader have, or the state that the parliament teach to continue to be in session almost permanently . because she does not need to brainstorm need to think through how to move forward the idea of some sort of a miracle, some sort of a national say here in the form of the presidency that's certainly have been tried elsewhere and it doesn't work on if we look at the images that we're looking at now from tunis on monday. people are on the streets to new orleans are angry, angry for different reasons, depending on who you speak to. but if we write, rewind a little bit, just explain to you is how the country got to this point. tiffany:

it's been going through a major on the crisis. it hasn't been simple, of course, inherited a ton of both the comics system from the previous dictatorship. and i think there has been also a good degree of failure on the part of the president leadership, whether it is in parliament or in the presidency. so i think some of the agree to these leaders have failed their leaders, but also the economic circumstances, of course, beyond the political system itself, to blame democracy for the economic hills of the country is of course not fed at all. it's simply difficult and it has become more difficult to compound that of course would defend demik and now receive the economy in. but alas, as we see the political system. and so i think as we've seen in various countries, the world from russia to brazil,

when certain eccentric populace. peter see that there is a major crisis, they exploited. and i think what we see today is exploding a crisis. that is true, that this fracture that exists and that the technicians are quite furious about, and they have every reason to be free. it was about not to find oxygen in order to treat patients, of course is despicable for a country that has a very good health system. not be that as me, as i said, exploiting the, the carnage if you will, into these, in order to return to the days of that impressive leadership that we seen before. 2011 is not the way forward the way back is not the way forward. so that, that has to be a national bella, that has to be national solutions and it's only up to the 2 nations. and of course they're firms here in europe and elsewhere, to help this fledgling democracy get back on it st. exploiting the anger of the people in order to move towards some sort of dictatorship,

it will improve and has proven elsewhere to be a terrible mistake. or i thank you very much for that model on the shower there. i'll just there a senior political analyst morehead omen. use all including britain's biggest warship, c h m. s. queen elizabeth course is concerned as it head to the south china sea rescue was scholars devastating parts of western india for survivors of heavy rain . cold deadly flowed making waves the 1st ever thing champions. the crowns of the games in tokyo. ah. the january 6th attack on us capitol hill was a clear plan to disrupt democracy. that's according to one police off of the prison that day. who's testifying in front of the select committee for offices will

discuss the verbal and physical abuse. they say they suffered during the insurrection. the committee was set up by how speak at nancy pelosi of efforts for a bipartisan commission failed from the president. donald trump was accused of inciting the righteous and remain suspended from major social media platforms. one officer who was hospitalized after being attacked by writers lashed out at republican lawmakers, accused of downplaying the attack on capital. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful by law enforcement career prepared me to cope with some of the aspects of dick's experience. being an officer, you know, your life is at risk whenever you walk out the door, even if you don't expect otherwise, law abiding citizens to take up arms against you, but nothing truly, nothing is prepared. me to address those elected members of our government who

continue to deny the events that day. john henderson is live for us at capitol hill, john. so this is the 1st hearing of the specially set up committee. obviously a lot of anger there. that's right. there was anger, there was emotional testimony by all 4 of the officers there, sometimes wiping away cheers. one officer said that he was more afraid there than he ever was. when he was a soldier in iraq, he went on just a thought at one time. this is where i'm going to die, defending this entrance to the capital. you heard there from michael, for known, who talked about his own anger at the indifference of republican lawmakers to the plight of the police on that day. many of them saying things like it was just a bunch of tourists in the capital. you also heard from an officer who was the one famously at trapped between 2 doors. as his mask was pulled off and he was beaten,

he said he sustained a concussion. another officer, a black officer, said he had repeatedly been called the n word throughout that day and at the end of the day, he was so distraught he sat in the rotunda after everyone had been cleared out and cried out. is this america? so a lot of emotional testimony at the beginning, we heard we heard from the chairman of the committee. we also heard from liz cheney one of the 2 republicans who have broken with her party to be here. and to witness this testimony. she said, if there's not a reckoning for what happened on january 6th, a cancer on the republic will continue and it will happen every 4 years. so the, the testimony was emotional, but the emotions weren't just coming from the 4 police officers who were recounting events from which they all say they are still recovering. it also came from the panelists, themselves on the attack on capitol hill was obviously hugely divisive. even the

formation of this very committee to investigate it sort of became a part of an issue and it it did indeed the republicans just want this to go away by and large as a party. the minority leader kevin mccarthy, this morning, spoke to reporters and he called the whole process a sham. he said, democrats were just using this to make political, hey, you couldn't listen to those 4 officers without feeling the reality of what actually happened on that day. they were all very careful to point out that in the crowd, people were hearing trump flags, american flags were chanting. we want trump, so as to disabuse anybody of the false notion that some republicans have been claiming that in fact, there were other people there perhaps, and teeth are black lives matter people having been there myself. when that happen, i can tell you that was not the case. this was approach from crowded. these

officers were very clear to say that in for that reason, republicans who were still loyal to the former president do not want this to become a political issue. they know it's going to hurt them in the mid term elections in 2022 in. so they want this to either be dealer jim eyes or just simply go away. all right, thank you for that update there. john hendrick, live for us. capitol hill. the 1st person to be charged on the hong kong national security law has been found guilty. and one thing seen as a landmark ruling tongue in kits was convicted of in fighting secession and terrorism of riding a motorcycle into a group of police officers and displaying a banner called for hong kong liberation. adrian brown reports from the city. you know, the 1st 2020 and one of the last big protests in whom come a gathering held in defiance of social distance rules and sweeping new national

security law. the same law under which tonguing kit has now been convicted. it was the day disobedience accelerated, these images capturing the moment tongue drove his motorcycle towards a group of policemen attached to his machine, a banner proclaiming liberate home coma revolution. about times that was a cry heard constantly during the unrest. tones that pleaded not guilty to both charges on which he was convicted. his trial happened without a jury. instead, the verdict was delivered by a panel of 3 judges, appointed by hong kong chief executive carry, alarm. the reasons the judge gave their verdict runs to more than 60 pages, but in essence, they say the tongue fully understood that the words on his post has spanner acquainted to a call for independence. and that the slogan was capable of inciting others. he'll

be sentenced at a later date, but faces a lifetime. more than a $120.00 people have so far been charged under the national security legislation, including the publisher, jimmy ly, who was also in court on tuesday. like tongue, he 2 faces spending the rest of his life in jail. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong in cases of girl of ours that says to a record daily high in the whole city of the olympics, there being almost 3000 new infections in japan's capital. tokyo protests have been held against the games with concerns that'll become a super spreader event. by minister, you're sure he says he's not worried about the games, but has urged people to watch them from home. push as you do another day. under the circumstance, we again would like all our japanese citizens to avoid non essential and non urgent outings and watch the olympics and paralympics on tv. colonel carmano hang into the

tenant due to the limitation of vehicles remote working and all the efforts by citizen the movement of people is decreasing. so we are not worried thought a weeks as a professor of political science machinery university in tokyo. she says, the government insisted is trying to prioritize people's help. certainly promised to submit has made that his main claim throughout the time when we're talking about holding the olympics. i'm not holding the pix, and he did say his role is to ensure, you know, that the health and safety of the people. and i guess today is one example is a big test with 2800 people are now concerned about those. and i think if we didn't have the olympics here in here, we probably be having a similar conversations. i think the fact that the olympics with juice was being

held now would you to years is that is that extra layer will just help competition? should he should be responding to the medical advance, which is of course, always along the way being that we should prioritize people's health. and the overriding pressure that i think was dealing to from the international olympic committee that you know, the games must go ahead and the idea is, i guess the international committee has the athlete. them compete and be they bubble. and the wrist was here in tokyo to stay home and watch on television movie in l bubble. and, you know, hopefully the bubbles what kind of question burst upon each other so fast. the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to restore communication

channels and improve relations. it comes amid stoled attempts by the us to engage with north korea of appealing young nuclear weapons program. but mcbride is insult . so connected again after more than a year of silence and within 2 korean relations at a standstill. north korea cut the line last june in protest against defectors, launching propaganda balloons from south korea. relations hit such a low. the north destroyed the liaison office which had been set up with the south . but its been confirmed. the leaders of north and south of state in touch throughout exchanging multiple letters, none the young tongues on it. the 2 latest also agreed to work to regain mutual trust and foster progress on relations again. when jed also south korean president, moon j n, has made restoring relations with the north, a cornerstone of his administration. and with less than a year left in office,

he's determined to get dialogue back on track a sentiment. the south korean shared with the north. in this 1st phone call, since the inter korean communication liaison lines where restore today, i hope we can continue to deliver good news to the rest of the world. this announcement coincides with the 68 anniversary of the signing of the armistice. the brought fighting and the korean war to an end and event marked by north korean leader kim junglin. visiting a cemetery for his country's war dead. north korea has in the past use the cutting of the hotline as a way of showing its displeasure with its restoration. now it seems similarly upbeat on the prospect of improving ties, stating the whole korean nation once relations to recover from what it calls set back and stagnation. also motivating north korea could be the multiple crises. it faces in years of sanctions compounded by food shortages from damaging storms and

isolation because of the pandemic, provide compelling reasons. it seems to pick up the phone to its neighbor. robert bride al jazeera, so at least 5 policemen were killed in india when offices from to northeast in border states find shelter each other. a thumb and miss on states have long been it . but it's unusual for officials there to result vine to both sides of accused of inciting the attacks with thousands of others injured. the government has been trying to mediate the truth since 994 failed to achieve a breakthrough or more now on the flooding and india around 200 people and now known to have died in the state of my roster. 100 villages are under water and hundreds of thousands of people have been moved to safety. or india correspondent, elizabeth product reports from new daddy boats are the only way to get around much of mot. austria stays after. last week's torrential,

rain. 900 villages have been effected. $100.00 and now submerged. rescue teams have evacuated. hundreds of thousands of people, many from the rooftops of their flooded homes. go of a guy. we have evacuated a covered 90 patient from a dongle. village was oxygen levels and carried him towards the bridge. from there he'll be taken to hospital by ambulance. it's reported around 200 people have died in the flooding and lance lives and doesn't remain missing. what level do you did with 5 people in sight? my mother, my brother, his wife and my brother's 2 children, only the boys 40 has been recovered. the rest of the poor family members still haven't been chased. flooding and lance lives a common in india during the monsoon season. but scientists say the frequency and intensity of heavy rains has increased because of climate change. her mind could

even had astra has seen its heaviest rainfall. in the month of july, in 40 years, the district administrators said illegal construction along the rushes, the river and discharged from the cold water dam. court added problems and environmentalists agree to expire on the system of the really a job in the water which is not what any of the the tomato tristan lead it would have talkin. he has been visiting the worst effected areas and has promised compensation. but environmentalists say the government's priority must be to deal with the impact of climate change during the annual monsoon and to

stop human development from causing more disasters. elizabeth peron and al jazeera new delhi flash floods and sir dawn have displaced more than 2000 people. and hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the eastern states has got to reef people . they're angry about the governor's respond protest is have blocked the main road, the threatening violence. the government is warning of more heavy rain in the coming weeks. and this is morgan reports from our fall and those in the effected areas are asking for urgent aid. it's the 1st time in 5 days that neither of them enter this room in his home. he says he and his family were asleep when the waters came cascading his now trying to salvage what he can. and if i don't know his other more than we escaped with the clothes on our back and left everything behind the waters came from a valley in the east and kept rising quickly. it's only this morning that some streams that will belong when open and the levels have gone down

a bit. but water keeps coming. more than 60 houses in that neighbourhood have been partially or completely destroyed by the rising water as the result of heavy rain coming off the mountains and swelling rivers. people say it's the worst 15 years as it was then marty. this used to be part of my home, but the walls and ceilings have collapsed. my savings were in this room as well as important documents. all have been washed away along with some things i brought to sell people. official for at least 10000 people have been affected and more than 2000 have been displaced for dance. government says more flights are expected in many parts of the country during the annual rainy season in august. and has urged those risks to take the necessary precautions. while some families have up to stay in their homes despite the floods, others had no option but to leave the state of florida. these have been criticized for not acting fast enough. and as if only the thought of the rainy season,

it feared that more houses are in danger of collapse and that's more people will suffer. this school is where some families have sought refuge. many are still waiting for 8 days after the floods. and concerns are growing over lack of basic necessities. well, you know that there are elderly people here with us, and there are kids who need urgent care. they need food and medicine. the government needs to act immediately. others are also calling on ada gomez. ations for assistance at the fuel here with my id in the fluids approach with the snakes and scorpions, and we need an event in the trucks. we need information in addition to stupid and help before things get with the rain season continues. foul is one of the underdeveloped, rural areas in sudan, and now do worry, it will take too long before they get the help they need. he will morgan all to 0 and follow the body to them. still ahead on algebra, a large explosion,

both the chemical called west germany, florida issue and extreme danger warning and before the big win for a small nation. again. bad story coming up later. ah, by the edge of the monsoon range, i think is settled, dyer knows more or less this line. he has his rein in some parts of pakistan. without many i was fast cross from man than coming out of europe and across the black sea. this more active weathers going through georgia and down towards the north of iraq. now that's probably welcome relation the heater. it probably will also be fairly windy on the north side of the mountains upon which to run sit. if that is all quiet is still quiet. hotmail us, it was in turkmenistan, and that's the extent of the shabby rain in pakistan for really iran in the middle

east and levant. we're talking about hot, dry weather, which is fairly normal. temperatures have been as high as 51 for a couple days and parts of eastern iraq. so they're coming down a little bit about 46 in baghdad. the wind still strong and it's a dusty one that comes out of iraq and down towards saudi might in fact reach as far south as caps from the u. e. which means 45 will be a dry 45 or quite a dusty one all the time. this edge effect and sola and exceed a shadow here, means is overcast and drizzly on that coast of her mom. the sees no rains are suddenly picky up in the 4th sandstone to the if you, if in highlands, and also in southern sudan and further west. this is normal. they go through in clumps. the the journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villages.