The rising tally of destruction in lebanons president says last weeks explosion in beirut caused more than 15000000000. 00 in damages. And the u. S. President ial hopeful joe biden and his running mate kaamelott harris make their campaign debut. In just 83 day so we have a chance to choose a Better Future for our country. Is the country with one of the Fastest Growing coronavirus outbreaks anywhere in the world today india has reported its highest number of infections in one single day the 67000. 00 new cases bring its total to nearly 2400000 official figures put the number of deaths at more than 47000 but Infectious Disease experts say the country is still months away from hitting its peak and its a serious correspondent elizabeth branom following that story for us out of new delhi liz good morning why are these numbers going in totally the wrong direction. Hello peter so yes yes again and now the single highest day rise and we also know that one of the reasons that the numbers are going up is because india is testing more than it ever has its continuing to increase testing as well as the single highest a rise on wednesday india also conducted its highest ever number of tests more than 800000 so that it has a better idea of the spread of the infection in the country because remember that needed to point confirmed cases is thought to be a fraction of the real number of cases the syrian logical surveys which have been done around the country show that the real number is many times the confirmed number now the big headline when it comes to coronavirus in the country today is that a man who shared a stage with Prime Minister in that interim or the last week at the inauguration of a temple that indias most controversial religious site in a place called. Where. Tore down the 16th century mosque in 1992 he has tested positive for the coronavirus he is the head of the temple and he was seen spending the whole day with Prime Minister that in there morty and some of the most prominent leaders political leaders in the country now it is because of this overall rise that were seeing that schools have remained shut we have seen many restrictions being eased over the last few months have remained shot and thats having a really big impact on the many millions of Indian Students who cant access learning online and there are some people who are trying to take education to those who cant access it online heres our story. Under this road building site is a makeshift Learning Center a stroll hot with the children of the impoverished east. The hood come for free classes. University student. Has been holding these classes in the 85 years he says lessons have become even more important since indias government shuts down its 5 months ago to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Went online classes. Many children didnt. And even if some had they didnt have the facility to charge those because this is about 526000 people live. Around 100 students regularly attend english math and science classes taught by south korea and 6 others who are helping him would be a teacher i really like the classes because i really like the teacher he teaches us very well but to me but they dont want to we wouldnt be able to study without these classes and our education would deteriorate our brain to. Such anger and the students are from one of the many neighborhoods of the capital where everyone lives in temporary shacks with little or no access to electricity some students have walked from other neighborhoods to attend these classes and thats because theyre from some of the 92 percent of indian homes which dont have Internet Connections and computers. Some states are doing better than others at bridging the Digital Divide the Southern State of catalan has set up temporary classroom for students who cant watch the local governments precourt Classes Online or on television are up at night these online classes are very easy to understand and if theres anything we dont understand then teachers here help and guide us we like it a lot. Classrooms are open throughout the state even and remote tribal regions which has always had one of the best Education Systems in the country is an exception. Experts warn that millions of children are going to be left behind because of the lockdown we are going to certainly create this Digital Divide much larger however. Extremely drastic emergency call on the need in the name of government and in the name of Internet Service providers and also in the name of device providers we need. We need subsidy on connectivity. And he says it shouldnt be up to the kindness of individuals to invest in the future of indias next generation. Now it may not seem like it when you see the surroundings that those children but theyre actually one of the lucky ones is continuing unfortunately we are now seeing more and more reports of children who arent able to go to school. Who are being forced ringback to help their parents to. Elizabeth thanks very much for on their reporting live from new delhi. The philippines is planning to launch Clinical Trials of the russian corona virus vaccine the president roderigo to the tests the soon as october and hopes to be inoculated himself by may the philippines has recorded the most covert 1000 infections in east asia over the last week from strict a lockdown measures in and around the capital. Is life 1st in manila jamila given the questions that are being raised about the efficacy of this russian socalled vaccine this may be a dangerous path for mr a to pursue. Well definitely and it also signals a desperation in the sight of the Philippine Government because as you know it has already implemented one of the worlds strictest and longest lockdowns almost 3 months where more than 56000000 people were forced to stay in their homes and if the government slowly open the economy because it is an economy under recession the number of cases continued to go up at this point over 140000 now this is not the 1st time that president will be good at their desk oaken about affinity towards turning to his favorite allies which is china and russia in fact about 2 weeks ago during the state of the nation address he admitted himself these folk into our xi jinping and he said yet appealed to him to make the philippines a priority if and when a vaccine from china has been made ready but the Statement Today from the department of health says that they are just about to meet to discuss the possibility of Clinical Trials here it is also something that even rolled out our gun is asian has not even officially approved but in the statement the president will be with the 3rd the last monday even said he would like to make himself a volunteer so the outback seen child be necessary he said he talked about the desperation of the government the fact that its still have what you do its a target to build quarantine and Testing Centers across the country but the company that the country is already in deep recession but what he hopes basically with this vaccine he said you remains hopeful that hopefully by december there will be a call with 3 philippines for the go on for the country to spend christmas that was the reaction there amongst people who were suffering anyway youve touched on the idea that the economy wasnt doing so well another living through the reality of the pandemic. Well there is a very strong sense of uncertainty and fear as you know almost 3000000 people have already lost their jobs over 100000 filipinos have already sent back these are overseas Filipino Workers were now without jobs here as well and around the 100000. 00 lead to be brought back so there is a concern over safety and security obviously because of the pandemic but growing concerns over the bigger problem they say is to be able to bring and provide livelihood for their families you know the current recession is possibly the biggest recession of the philippines for the last 20 years and the government itself despite being forced to put in the middle of the capital again theyre locked out admits that it doesnt have enough funds anymore to provide aid to those of loss of jobs those who are unable to work so this willingness this ability of the president basically and his offer to volunteer the philippines for Clinical Trials is actually a sign of desperation they can only wait for a vaccine to come they say because even classes wont meet face to face or in person up until he says a vaccine has already been Meeting Place ok jamila many thanks to an island in manila that. The cost of the damage and other losses from last weeks catastrophic blast in beirut is rising the lebanese president is sitting on more than 15000000000. 00 among the buildings damaged to hospitals and Health Clinics the World Health Organization says 3 major hospitals are out of action along with half of the medical clinics there the parliament is due to meet in about an hour from now to discuss calls to declare a state of emergency Bernard Smith joins us live now from a school in beirut damaged by the blast bernard lets just talk about the arithmetic of this you know this time 2 days ago we were saying 5000000000 and now its climbed up to 15000000000 that is an astonishing amount of money for a country to find from some place that was kind of on the Tipping Point into bankruptcy anyway. Yes and if parliament how this way which means behind me in about an hours time its going to take a very very long time to release the money that sort of foreign money that beirut needs to rebuild Parliament Session starts in about an hours time theyll be a lot of talk but not much action because the real action is taking place behind closed doors is taking place between the political elites the control those in Parliament Political elites i mean has and its allies and western allied parties they have to come to an agreement or more who is going to be the new Prime Minister of lebanon and who is going to form the new cabinet they all desire on the return of saad hariri he resigned in october and stayed in post until january after an economic crisis the collapse of the Banking System that led to the collapse of lebanons currency so it would be a remarkable return for him to have been another name in the frame no absolute he would have been more popular with the sort of opposition groups if you like but as an indication of what might transpire his name has been rejected by hezbollah and its allies now watch salaams that im not going to take this job. Unless im given a free hand so it will be a Long Time Coming before it could be a Long Time Coming before we see a new cabinet and a Prime Minister because its taken weeks and months in the past the only thing that might be pushing that this time is the International Pressure to come up with a sort of unity cabinet which can then be given funds to help rebuild lebanon bernard talking about the politics when we talk about mr hariri clearly there are dynastic overtones to his appointment if that happens but when you talk to the people of the route you get the sense that they just have to get on with doing this for themselves because they have to and theyre kind of not sidelining but theyre just ignoring whats going on in the political realm because the reality is they got nothing lots of got nothing left after that explosion in the port. Before last tuesdays explosion and people here had lost faith in the political system in lebanon so there was little faith left to lose weve seen this last week people clearing up themselves in the absence of any state assistance weve seen people having to turn to n. G. O. S and Foreign Charities for Health Care Assistance to give out emergency medication to get out Emergency Hospital treatment because there is no state provision to do that 3 hospitals have been destroyed important very badly damaged anyway but yes there is little faith here that people will get the progress they need parliament hasnt even agreed on an independent. Parliamentary commission to look into the glass is not even on the agenda here today all we will hear today is parliamentarians saying talking about the blast but there is an open session so it could go on for days they were half an hour each to speak but theyll be little actual concrete action from this parliament bernard thank you so much Bernard Smith respond with the live in beirut. Still to come. On this half hour of aljazeera will be used. To so short so far is how good she tourism is providing an escape from reality during the pandemic. Hello there is still plenty of warm weather across areas of europe but the changes beginning say place across areas across the west plenty of count in the last year as and also some fairly strong thunderstorms at times have been some particularly strong storms across areas of scotland that has produced some localized flooding but meanwhile the north coast of the netherlands. That you can see if i want to cloud up in the sky its warm and sunny down in tunis in Southern France and also down into Southern Spain this is also somewhere where we have seen some rain showers and some thunderstorms as well keep those temperatures. Than they have been but the rain is really pushing in an air pressure throughout the day this will work its way across much of france you could see some heavy rain at times it extends up into southern regions of the u. K. 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Are watching aljazeera coming to you live from doha your top stories india has now registered a record daily number of corona virus infections the 67000 new cases bring the total to nearly 2400000. The philippines is planning to launch Clinical Trials of the russian Coronavirus Vaccine president reagan to take once the tests to start as soon as october and hopes to be inoculated himself by may of next year. Lebanons president says the estimate of damage and loss from last weeks explosion in beirut is now more than 15000000000 dollars parliament is due to meet shortly to discuss calls to extend a state of emergency. To the u. S. Joe biden called the harris have appeared on stage together for the 1st time was running mates in the race against donald trump for the white house the democratic contenders presented themselves as the team to lead the u. S. Through the pandemic and the National Upheaval over racism mike hanna now from washington. Harriss life is about to change now in the media spotlight as she leaves her home in d. C. On her way to appear with joe biden my fellow americans and let me introduce to you for the 1st time your next Vice President i had state comma our problem. Florence you are. Coming to harris had built a reputation as one of the most formidable voices in the senate and she went straight on the attack against a president who she says has failed the country during this time a pandemic and whom she accuses of responsibility for the fact that an american dies of cope at 19 every 80 seconds this virus has impacted almost every country but theres a reason it has hit america worse than any other advanced nation its because of trumps failure to take it seriously from the start earlier there were harsh words from joe biden about President Trumps response to his nominee as Vice President don trump has already started his attacks calling commack wrote nasty whiny about how shes quote mean to his appointee she says its no surprise because whining is where donald trump does best better than any president American History is anyone surprised donald trump as a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board President Trump says he did not watch the briefing but again expressed surprise that joe bidens choice of someone who shopped he attacked him during the Democratic Party president ial primaries she said horrible things about him horrible things. And she mocked him openly mocked him thats why i thought that was a very risky pick because im sure that will be played back not necessarily by me but others it will be played back there would be president and his running mate have now got their Campaign Underway a campaign that in this time of social distancing and mitigation measures will be very different from any the 55 year old has run before. Mike hanna washington thousands of protesters who rallied in the capital bella reuss and other cities for a 4th straight night now it follows the death of a demonstrator in custody on weapons day at least 6000 people have been detained during often violent demonstrations against sundays disputed election theyre angry over the landslide reelection of the president Alexander Lukashenko despite claims of fraud at the polls his opponent spent lana taken off sky has now left the country shes in the few india. Well the u. S. Does remain both far the worst affected nation by the Global Pandemic in the past for more than 50000 new cases of khirbet 19 brings its total number of infections close to 5200000 nearly 1500 deaths were recorded in one day alone on weapons day and more than 165000 have died since the beginning of the pandemic france is seeing its highest infection numbers since restrictions were eased in may the Health Ministry says its recorded more than 2 and a half 1000 new cases at least 18 people have died in the past 24 hours new zealands dealing with a growing cluster of new infections there as well its confirmed 17 cases in its biggest city or current where tight restrictions on movement have been imposed until this week the country had recorded no locally transmitted cases for more than 3 months. And i break in the australian state of victoria does appear to be slowing its reported another 8 virus stance but daily infections a down more than half from their daily peak of 702. 00 weeks ago the state capital melbourne is under a 6 week lockdown. Well days after pakistan lifted its partial lockdown the Health Minister of sindh province says it was too soon speaking to al jazeera dr oz repeats said a 2nd wave of the virus could be worse for the economy than keeping restrictions in place a little longer so in basra the reports now from karachi. Even as the country went back to normal the people intrusted with safeguarding pakistans Public Health could not afford to drop their guard at a garage the control room this in the governments over 1000 Response Team is still in play their captain the provincial Health Minister her message its too soon to celebrate my concern is that because we have opened up everything people will take it as a sign that covert has disappeared yes and there is covert is still very much there in the community we also have the experience of for previous pandemic which was the spanish know and wish the 2nd surge happened because people thought the 1st that they were over the pandemic and the 2nd surge caused huge numbers of fatalities and that is a fear pakistans lockdown was never severe many never took it too seriously leaders disagreeing from the start did not help with public messaging and unconfirmed conspiracy theories going viral as they often do in this country made having coronavirus or seeking medical help for symptoms taboo. Conspiracies include tales of kill teams kidnapping and infecting people for money the whole pandemic being an american plot and a vaccine that will make people robots for china cutting through this kind of noise meant reaching out to individuals directly by. Anyone dialing a pakistani phone number has to listen to a Public Service message before the call is connected the recording warns people that the corona virus is still a threat and the best thing to do is to stay indoors if you do have to go outside wear a mask social distance keep your hands clean these health tips according to the message are still the best ways to stay safe and to save lives even Prime Minister in runcorn who described the virus as little more than a flu in the early days of the outbreak earlier this week extolled the virtues of remaining vigilant going to be brought into the dining in the country is still not completely saved thats why i want every pakistani whenever they go out to something new they have this mosque and every one in public or no what are you learning groups i see many people here im not reading mosque differently than a mosque. His audience would have noticed khan himself was not wearing his mask much like the rest of the world there is corona fatigue in pakistan people are sick of talking about it and sick of dealing with it part of the reason for that much like the rest of the world the coronavirus became a political football here as well but for sins Health Minister its important to keep the governments response apolitical because the virus is democratic she says it does not discriminate based on politics when it hills same but the old jazeera karachi. A state of emergency is in place in south sudan state of jungle eye after heavy flooding there more than one 150000 people have been displaced and 500 houses destroyed many communities there had already been suffering through sporadic fighting between armed groups the government issued an urgent call for humanitarian aid israeli jets have hit hamas talk as in gaza for a 3rd night is in response to balloons which cause fires being sent into israeli territory in recent days israel has already cost of fuel supplies to gaza reduced its fishing zone and can potentially shut the Main Commercial border crossing. France says it will increase its military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean the french president emanuel macro is pushing turkey to stop its oil and Gas Exploration in disputed waters greece says turkeys action is quotes in the eagle the standoff escalated this week with the arrival of a Turkish Research vessel accompanied by warships turkey and greece of competing claims to natural gas reserves in the eastern med us on orders not to. Organ is like a human skull with the risk of an accident when so many military assets are gathered in such a contained area the responsibility lies with the one who gives rise to to succumb instances where remained firm in our commitment to International Legality and the power of diplomacy to resolve even the most complex issues we will never be the one situation yet selfrestraint is only one aspect of our power no provocation will go on and said we have demonstrated that we will respond if necessary and we will do so again if it is required Turkish Police detained 25. 00 women during protests in the capital ankara its over the governments possible to call from an International Womens rights treaty a decision by the governing a. K. P. Is expected this week. The pandemic has disrupted International Travel and tourism but now technology and immersive tours are helping some people get as close as they can to a trip overseas Priyanka Gupta has a story. Japanese businessmen caught so i knew and his wife are traveling to italy 1st class except theyre not on a plane. Its a virtual cabin where passengers can look at floating clouds and fleeting landscapes projected right next to them the. Meals and drinks are served and then they are devoted should reality goggles in an instant rounded travelers in tokyo are transported to the sights and sounds of florence and rome either in the lawsuit or the hospital i often go overseas for business but i havent been to divvy although i saw it virtually my impression was rather good because i could get an actual sense of seeing things there 1st analyze a Japanese Entertainment Company offering these are most of to say their bookings have gone up about 50 percent since the coronavirus pandemic began of course i not think that it will give up their customers it chooses because they cant travel overseas due to coronavirus theyre also customers used to go to hawaii every year but now they cant do that so they came here to enjoy a trip to hawaii. We are live at all period accounts of it is so far safari in some countries like here in Kenya Technology such as smartphones and social media also being used to what are called so far safaris live streams that bring people closer to wildlife not just to generate revenue i know when is the conservation efforts but also to attract visitors in future Companies Say governments are also stepping in to use Virtual Reality for tourism the Tourism Industry or. A lot there are so people cannot really move around and then because theyre not generating income at the moment its difficult for that dish sort of technology in in they walk and i think that is where we are seeing that government is now stepping up so they are basically providing funds to do dish going to things to get people to do at this travel virtually at the moment the International Air transport Association Says 2020 will be the worst year on record for aviation with an alliance expected to lose more than 84000000000. 00 International Tourism numbers had already talked but 90 percent as of may Virtual Reality may not come close to a real destination but for some its as close as still get to holiday until they can travel again. Updating your top stories here on aljazeera india has registered a record daily number of infections the 67000 new cases bring the total to nearly 2400000 Elizabeth Braun is in new delhi. Yes again another single highest day rise and we also know that one of the reasons for the numbers are going up is because india is testing more than it ever has its continuing to increase testing as well as the single highest a rise on wednesday india also conducted its highest ever number of tests more than 800000 so that it has a better idea of the spread of the infection in the country because remember the 2400000. 00 confirmed cases is thought to be a fraction of the real number of cases the syrian logical surveys which have been done around the country so that the real number is many times the confirmed number. The philippines is planning to launch Clinical Trials of the russian corona virus vaccine the president wants the tests to start as soon as october he hopes to be inoculated himself by the month of may the philippines has recorded the most covert 1000. 00 infections in east asia over the last week an outbreak in the australian state of victoria does appear to be slowing it reported another 8 virus infections are done more than half from their daily peak of 702. 00 weeks ago lebanons president says the estimates of the cost of damage and losses from last weeks explosion in beirut is now more than 15000000000. 00 the Parliament Says you to meet shortly to discuss calls to ratify and extend the state of emergency joe biden and Camila Harris have appeared together for the 1st time as running mates in the race against donald trump for the white house the democratic contenders presented themselves as the right team to lead the u. S. Through the virus pandemic and the National Upheaval over racism thousands of protesters in belarus rallied in the capital and other cities for a 4th straight nights at least 6000 people have been detained during often violent protests against the disputed president ial election result up next its inside story im back in 28 minutes with 30 minutes of aljazeera world news i see that. If we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. Center magic a hand out is iraq bringing you the news and Current Affairs that matter to. Aljazeera. Its approved and called sputnik why russia says its the 1st vaccine against covert 90 but many governments are skeptical so what are russian scientists russia took at corners and is there significance of the timing of the announcement this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Since the outbreak of kobe had 19 theres been a global race to find a vaccine but scientists are worried some countries maybe are