phil: this is "dw news," live from berlin. a passenger planene skids off a runway in india and breakaks in. with nearlrly 200 people on boa, it slid off the runway in wet conditions internal. also in the program, grief turns to anger at lebanon's leadership following the deadly explosion that ripped ththrough the capit, beirut, on tuesday. a protest is planned on saturday. belarus locks of journalists

ahead of sunday's presidential elecection. president alexander lukashenko looks to extend his rule. a reporter sentenced to 10 days in prison. phil: i am phil gayle. welcome to the program. we start in india, where a passenger plane has skidded off the runway while trying to land in the southern state of kerala. at the 17 people a are dead and dozens injured, accocording to reports. the air indidia express flight s returning from dubai with nearly 200 passengers on board. let's go straight to the indian capital for more. dw correspondent manira chaudhary joins us. tell us about the passengers.

manira: this was one of the repatriation flights run by the indian government. since the coronavirus outbreak, these flights are to bring indians stranded who are facing issues like job losses because of the covid outbreak. citizens on the flight were reportedly indian citizens. many of them were traveling with families and even carrying little children along with them. phil: ok, a rescue is obviously underway. talk us through what is going on there. manira: our latest repoport suggest ththat the r rescue operations have been completed. whenen they were going on n thee were ambulanances and paramedics on the ground. now the operations h have been completed. all the people have been evacuated and they are being treated in different hospitals. among those who have died are two pilots one of whom was actually a former fighter pilot

in the air force. phil: what authorities saying? manira: authorities haven't pretty active. recently indian prime minister narendra modi tweeted that he is in touch with the local government. the avaviation minisrr saidd the incident will be investigated and t two investigagation teaeal rereach the seven state of f kea very soon. phil: manira chaudhary in delhi, thank you. let's pick up that point about the runway with a professor of avaviation in finland. steven wright, welcome to dw. tell us about this runway.y. steven: well, the runway ha been desesigned to reject water undeder extreme conditions. that is what they are making reference to your.

the short runway itself is going to be an added complication, because airports are designed to take off and land under normal conditions. but we know that the weather can be very intermittent, incremental from time to time. we then have problems where they may attempt to land in really quite challenging conditions. if the weather is such that it comes a large precipitation a lot of water on the runway itself, if the aircraft tries to land on the water, the wheels, the tires don't adhere. they don't stick to the runway. the aircraft will continue to travel, even though the pilots will be trying to press brakes and someone and so forth. it is known as a runway excursion. phil: this is when the sort of aquaplaning, as it were. it sounds like conditions where people are going to ask why

didn't they abort the landing and try and land at a different airport. steven: well, that is going to s some ofhe q questns thatt will bee raised and a asked by e investigation branch inin india. they are -- there investigation process will be to secure the maintenance records for this aircraft, and also look at all the background of the people flying and make sure everything is safe. then they look at the weather conditions, because if there has been horrirific amounts of rain and flooding, so wewe have hear, this will be a significant fafactor in itself. it will then build a picture to explain what happened, why thiss event has taken place, white it has gone so -- whwhy it has gone so very badly wrong. these are the answers we expect it will give us. phil: t this is a boeoeing 737,n aircraft many of us are familiar with.

tell us more about that. steven: well, from what i understand from it is a new- generation 737, , and it has que reasonablele safety recocord. this should not be cononfused wh the max aircraft that was grounded some time ago. this onene is going to be a 7800 type aircraft. it is not really a big story behind this because it is a gogd original aircraft. he doesn't have a bad -- it doesn't have a bad record. it is quite good. phil: when should we expect investigigative to fininish? steven: well, the i iestigationn will take plplace quite quickly. there was a loofof physical evidence available. the immediate effect is we know the maintenance records will let by the investigators. they will be removing g the blak boxes, the flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, analyzing those medially, looking at the air traffic control communicationons, becaue

that is recorded. it is going toto happen really quite quickly. phil: t thank y you for that, profsosor stevenen wright. now to lebanon, where the country's political leadership is facing growing anger over the deadly explosions they killed 150 people and injured thousands more. opponents accuse the government of corruption, and incompetence, and failing to avert and economic meltdown. a major protest is planned for saturday. reporter: an eruption of the anger mounting in lebanon the last few days. police fired tear gas to disperse a small but enraged crowd thursday night, with some throwing stones at the officers. a a return of the antigovernment demonstrations thahat have been ongoing bebefore the explosion f beirut's port. the call for change has been acknowledgeded by lebanon's president, a longtime member of

the country's scored d in -- s corned elite. "we are reconsidering our system, which is built on consensus, because it is paralyzed and incapable of swiftly executing decisions, whicich have to bebe consensuald go throughgh several authoritie" but the change the president is willing to promote is not enough for lebanon's this drop people. a major protest is planned for saturday in central beirut. as investigations into the cause of the explosion continue, the leader of hezbollah has denied any involvement. hezbollah is the main shiite muslim radical party, as well as a militant group and part of the lebanese government. the organization has been accused by different sides of bearing g response ability for e explosion. leader hassan nasrallah saiaid

neither weapons from expxpsives bebelonging to hezbollah were being stored at the port, describing all such accusations is false. at the blast site, workers are working in difficult conditions to locate those who are still missing, likely buried under the twisted metal and broken concrete. they are still hopeful of finding people alive three days after the explosion that shook beirut to its core. phil: let's go straight to the city of beirut, where we join our correspondent in front of the remainder of the grain silo which was destroyed inin the blast. welcome. i understanand they are still searching for survivors t there. reporter: y yes indeed. as y you can see behind me, whee the silos -- i dodon't know if u

can see closely -- that place, a team working r right nowow. ththey are searchihing for these people. according to my sources, they totold me that it is hard to fid anany missing g personal life do the hugexplosion right now. it seems that i it is hard to fd somemeone. phil: we heard in the report the president acknowlededging the nd to chahange the country''s paralyzed political system. what sort of action is likely to fofollow these words? bassel: let's s remember yesterday's visit of french president macron, one of his main demands for the polititical system will political authorities, to restructure the political system m after the cil war, the warlords at an agreement amongg themselelves to

reach the peace process. always -- all these are the politician of the state. it seems the need to disistractn its popolitical system, but l le mention somethingng i heard from those politiciaians, that the political reregime inn lebanon s one of the strongestst systemsmn the region,n, dueue to many rea. first of all, eight diffeferent sects, and e each one has s itsn ininterests and benenefits in te political l regime. it is very hard to restructure the system, and at the same time, refororms are hardly to be applied. the c coming days, i t tnk we wl witness a huge popolitical struggle and tensision between l thesee politicians due to these facts.

phil: and there is going to be a major demonstratition over the weekend. whatat will thosee people be asg fofor? bassel: thehey are asksking same demandnds that they asked before 17th of october, to take down the whole regime. theyey want to take down this -- to remove all this secure in politicians that -- sectarian politician that led to make lebanon failed state, due to all the crcrises it w witnessed political, economic, financially, even socially. today i was att ollne of the man districts in lebanon in downtown beirut that was deeply damage by the explosion. all the people over there, i askeked to them. they said they don't want any of those politicians anymore. yesterday it take two of the

current -- they refused to welcome beforthe former or currt ministers.s. whatever politiciaian, they refused to w welcome . the title of tomororrow's protet is day o of anger and day of judgment -- anger at t the currt politicall system and judgment f politicicis that led too this hugege corruption in lebanon tht made the investigation clear that due to the irresesponsibily and cororruption, these explosis took place four r days ago. phil: bassesel arididi in beiru, thank you wil. this is "dw news," live from berlin. still to come, photographs of atrocities in syria's prisons are showing families the shocking fate of the loved ones.

first we will take a look at other stories making news around the world. the e united states has impoposd sanctions on hong kong leader carrie lam and other leading politicians in t the territoryr. the moveve is in response to china's introduction n of a touh new security line the city. ms. lam and other leadersrs will have assets they own in the u.s. block. sri lanka's ruling party has one a landslide victory in parliamentary elections. they can now amend the constitution to expand powers for president gotabaya rajapaksa and to ensure that his older brother mahinda takes his job as prime minister. residents and tourists have been evacuated from an italian resort on the border with france. the heatwave has created water around 500 cubic meters under

the glossy at roughly the size of the cathedral. for the thousands of families who lost loved ones in syria's torture chambers, the truth behind their debts is coming to life. -- deaths is coming to light. photos were smuggled by a syrian army photographer. hundreds of victims have been identified thanks to a new effort to identify the bodies shown in thehe photos. many families are makining devastating discoveries. reporter: for this syrian mother, closurure didn'n't bring comfort. "that's him," she says. a photograph was all she was shown. "for years i waited by the entrance of my home, waiting to see him with my own eyes. until they showed me the pictures of him dead.

i wish i had died and not seen this picture.e. there is no one who was more caring then you." -- than him." now living in a camp in idlib, a photograph of his son was smuggled out by photographer also it was his job to record the debts in state run prisons. many families have learned the fates of love ones through a single image of a body with a number tag. >> the photos have shown us irrerefutable proof that the syrian government has detatained them. it has denied they have detained . also, it has tortured them to death. it gives an indication of what is going on in the hidden detention facilities that no one has access to. reporter: the devastation went far beyond syria's borders. here in germany, identifying her

son ended years of doubt for mary anne. "when i saw the picture, the situation was very paiainful, because this is what i compmpletely lost hope. all this time i still had hope that he might be alive." human rights groups believe the photographs will identify more than 6700 victims. most, like her son, believed to be tortured to death. many were detained in the early months of what became the syrian war. half a million people have been killed, and millions more displays. for the families, images are all that lie behind of their quest for answers. phil: protests in israel against prime minister benjamin netanyahu showed no signs of dying down. demonstrators have an taking to the streets for weeks demanding his resignation on alleged corruption and the government's

handling of the coronavirus pandemic. dw's correspondent join demonstrators in jerusalem who say the long-standing prime minister must go. reporter: "enough is enough," she says. she came from tel aviv to jerusalem several times to take part in antigovernment protests. she is fed up with the government and israel's long-term prime ministeter benjamin netanyahu. >> i personally don't like leaving, so i want him out. more importantly, i want a stable government for all of us. the world d is going n nuts rigt nonow. how are ththe people are supposd to represent us? they are not taking care of us. we cannot step back. reporter: the countries in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped a few hundred of visitors gathering outside the prime minister's residence. protests have been going on for weeks calling on the premier to resign over his indictment on corruption charges.

there is also anger at the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, rising unemployment, and erodiding demomocracy. "i've basically been againinst anything this government has done for a long time, and finally there is an awakaking, especially of the young generation.. i supportt thehem. i'm worried for my children's future." >> if you like many young people in israel and around the world feel like the whole democratic system and our politicians and government really, they don't -- it is not an ideological matter, it is a leadership matter. they really don't care about us. reporter: directly opposite the protests, some likud supporters show solidarity for the prime minister. >> i came here to support bibi netanyahu and to stand up against all this anti-democratic act, because bibi netanyahu was

elected in the democratic process. reporter: netanyahu has called the demonstrators and archivist -- anarchists and leftist. not everybody in israel supports the protests. for the younger generation, there is a lot more at stake. >> we are angry about everything. we are angry about having an insignificant government that cannot pass a budget bill on time. we are facing a forced election because they don't know how to runn the govovernment. they don't knknow how to takekee of us,s, or they are just not willing to. reporter: antigovernment protests likee this one have ben going on for we now. -- four weeks now. several times a week, not just in jerusalalem, but also throughout the country.. thisis weekend another big prott injuries on his expect it. -- in jerusalem is affected.

phil: belarus is getting ready to hold its most hotly contested election for years, and there are signs the government is seeking to quiet and control the media. rights groups say several reporters have been arrested, including freelance journalist alexander polakoff -- alexander polakoff, who reports for -- alexander burakov, who reports for dw for the alexander lukashenko is facing dissent over his handling of the covid-19 pandemic and human rights record. france and germany are calling on president lukashenko's government to ensure that the election is free and fair. dw's moscow bureau chief has more on the election and the push for change. reporter: tens of thousands of people have come to the capital, minsk,k, in recent days to cheer

onon aoman challenging incumbent presidident alexander lukashenk, who has become the face of the opposition here. >> i don't want to be silent anymore. i don't want to be afraid. are you also tired of staying silent? reporter: but she doeoe't wawant to be presidident. in case she wins, she has promised to relee e all politicacal pririsoners and then called new elelections. she's campaigning out of solidarity with her husband, who wanteded to run for the presidey himself but was not authorized. the had traveled across the country revealing abuses of power, corruption, and poverty, and was charged with inciting popular unrest. he has been in jail.

he is seen by some as a political prisoner who is a threat to president lukashenko. >> this is completely arbitrary. in our country they just eliminate the competition. >> it is unfair. it shouldn't be allowed. he was jailed over nothing. now they're are making him into an enemy of the people. it is a dictatorship. reporter: she is not alone in challenging lukashenko. other campaigners have disappeared from the political stage. one of them, a former banker, has been in prison since june on charges of money laundering and tax fraud. the other, a businessman, left the country, saying he feared for his safety. three other candidates have stayed in the presidential race with sviatlana tsikhanouskaya.

they all know they have virtually no chance of winning, but they are not giving up. >> in a dictatorship, victory does not mean winning an elecection. victory is mobilizing society to change things. reporter: sviatlana tsikhanouskaya believes that t e people of belarus are ready for a new chapter. >> i can literally feel the unity of my compatriots, their self confidence and pride i finally being a people that is ready for change. reporter: election on august 9 will show how much power the opposition really has. president lukashenko has ruled the country for 26 years, and

says he is confident of victory. he says sviatlana tsikhanouskaya has revealed herself to be a poor little girl who doesn't know what she is doing. phil: in sport, the champions league is back after a long coronavirus hiatus. by a munich was on saturday to seal their place in the quarterfinals. but could the bundesliga's success in which any quicker than other leagues and of hampering the german champions? reporter: time to get the champions league pulls back out again also -- back out again. buyer to return to the big stage where they played the first leg of chelsea way back in february. they were to take charge before the coronavirus spansion hit. bundesliga resumed in may, quicker than other european leagues.

they easily sealed another domestic double. but they have n not played d sie early july. mike the champions league the rearranged for august leave buyer and a little rusty? "we have always said that the next game is what we are 100% concentrated on. that is what is in focus, and everything that comes after that is not in our minds." chelsea's last domestic game was losing the english fa cup final last weekend. they may be more fit than bayern, but know they have a huge challenge to reach the mini tournament in portugal. a new b bayern signing is ineligible to play. but it is still a stretch to think the germans could let the lead slip. nevertheless, they want to get back up to speed quickly just in case. phil: this is "dw news," live

from berlin. our top story this hour -- a passenger plane e is overshot te runway while trying to lala in thsosouthern indndian city. reports say at least 17 peoplele are dead and dozens injured. the boeing 737 was carrying nearly 200 passengers. we will have more world news of the top of the hour. i will be back with "the day" in just a moment, looking back at today's event. have a good day. [captionining performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

this rescue teams sift through the rubble of beirut's blast sites lebanon's presidident rejects calls for an internatioional investigation with the head of hezbollah rubbishihing claims that his group stored arms at the polls. with hundreds of thousands left in need following tuesday's massive explosion united nations scrambles to respond. the international organization is not r released millions more euros. agency relief. the boeing seven three seven skits often indian run away and breaks into leaving at least sixteen passengers dead and one hundrered and