A year after repairing sharing agreement was signed. Facebook is accused of putting business interests ahead of its own hate speech guidelines to favor indias ruling party. About the russian president has told striking workers there wont be new elections until opponents kill him protest as across the country have made it clear they want Alexander Lukashenko out he said he may be willing to redistribute power but he wouldnt do it under pressure or how much im june reports. In the capital of bella ruse extraordinary displays of defiance by state Company Employees as mission visiting tractor workers in minsk president Alexander Lukashenko insisted there will be no new elections until hes killed while adding he may be willing to redistribute power. As thousands of striking state workers march towards the tractor works plant demanding the president step down because shank a flew away in his helicopter. All of this coming on the heels of a massive rally on sunday and as anger about the results of last weekends election continues to grow. While the official count of the august 9th vote gave 80 percent and his opponents felt lynott kind of sky only 10 percent the opposition says the result was rigged. Large scale protests continued even after to kind of sky left the country for lithuania last week which her Campaign Team said was made under duress she has in a new video message the Opposition Leader said she was ready to help lead bellerose during a transition period where. We all want to leave the slip that we found ourselves in 26 years ago i am ready to take on the responsibility and become the National Leader in this p. T. It was the goal of calming the situation and entering into a normal p. D. It feeling Political Prisoners and in the shortest time creating the conditions and legislative base to organize new president ial elections real honest and Transparent Elections that will be unequivocally accepted by the International Community even state t. V. Station workers joined the nationwide strike viewers who tuned into the morning show saw only an empty studio in poland ahead of an emergency Conference Call by European Union ministers on bella ruse polands Deputy Foreign minister said e. U. Funds should be spent to support villar ruse not someone used to join you were a child or a hand and that you also reaches out its head to bellows but its up to by the russians to decide which direction they want their country to go i have an impression that through these protests and by shouting out their disagreement they tell us what kind of been a ruse they for sure do not want and therefore we can in the press from it what better way they would like to have. Bella ruse find itself at a crossroads an embattled president refusing to end his 26 years in power versus committed protesters refusing to end their rebellion. And dizzier. As a Mass Movement. Until news in belarus European Union leaders will meet for an emergency summit on wed and stake their discuss the disputed election and the violent crackdown on protesters the European Council president Charles Michel tweeted that violence against demonstrators cannot be allowed the e. U. Is already drawing up a list of valid russian individuals to hit with sanctions how many canes in berlin and brings us more on the reaction from europe theres been a chorus of condemnation from across europes capitals to the events that have unfolded in mens ski and in yellow rose out of wider level in the last few days in the last week or so and in this capital city in berlin the government pressing for strong measures to be taken part of a raft of ideas that are coming from europe right now the polish government a view from the being that the european in damage for democracy should be enacted to help the situation in belarus and then it a paneuropean level from brussels the president of the European Council is calling a special summit Video Conference of heads of state heads of government for wednesday to discuss what more can be done given the fact that the European Unions clout as it were is political and economic not military so the European Union looking to try to ratchet up the pressure it can put in yellow rose to help the situation there remembering that one head of state the french president Emmanuel Mcconnell has said that the views of the protesters in belarus must be respected if you view things from that prism it explains how the European Union reaction is unfolding at the summit to be held on wednesday to discuss what more can be done russian vite says a security and defense analyst at wiki stride its a global Risk Consultancy and he says only russia can help look at shankar in this situation. The when way that. Russian president leftish and co could escape from what looks to be his likely downfall is to get the russians to intervene on his behalf and theres not a lot of and a lot of for loop in the kremlin so he has to sell this as look you know belarus is under threat from from nato if i fall the nato will take over the contrary and i think thats why you see the illusion of forces moving to the border because it helps them develop this narrative of what western powers are seeking are behind these protests theyre trying to overthrow mean moscow you need to save us or youre going to end up with another ukraine situation Democratic Party in the u. S. Will gather virtually in the coming hours for its National Convention the event will see joe biden officially named the democratic candidate for president ellen fisher reports and how he clinched the nomination. Before just as the primary process got underway if you would have banked on joe biden winning the democratic president ial nomination the idea he would be in a position to unveil a Vice President ial pick as he did last week would almost have been laughable he lost heavily in iowa he had little better in the next 2 contests but was saved by a win in South Carolina selecting just days ago the press and the politics are clear this candidacy yes that was a key moment when the Democratic Party saw him rather than Bernie Sanders as the money to be donald trump when im sure his convey was that theres no way that youre going to be able to get most of america to support. And as we saw that happen in the primaries the people that support support and war is just they do not show up at the polls before super tuesday was several states hold nominating contests key rivals drop. People in the club a show step deciding gave their support he won several states anough to make victory look inevitable and so closest rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders dropped out to joe biden had all but secured the president ial nomination i think joe biden won with experience also because they coalesced around joe biden because they realize donald trump didnt want to face Joe Biden Joe biden has already spent 8 years in the white house as Barack ObamasVice President hes been around politics for almost half a century but hes never had to Campaign Like this as a pandemic changes the face of president ial politics there are no big rallies no crisscrossing the country to speak with supporters its no virtually all virtual got on like democratic. Small gatherings the sea help joe biden to excel on the crisis has allowed him to highlight the president s actions something one expect believes helps the challenger he doesnt have to travel to. And travel to 4 and 5 cities and in one day hes able to kind of you know lay back and rest as a 77 year old man so i think that helps and in addition you know all the mistakes and show that President Trump is making you know that of course you know close 2165000 lives i think and counting i think that you know that helps joe biden 3 decades after his 1st president ial bid joe biden has arrived where he wants to be hes finally convinced his party hes the man for the job no he has 11 weeks to convince the country alan fischer aljazeera washington where the White House CorrespondentKimberly Holcomb is joining us live this is clearly going to be a very unconventional election one of the main things were likely to see in the early. I think the main thing is uniting the Democratic Party that had been fractured in some respects up to this point around one singular goal and that is defeating donald trump so expect that this week there will be a number of different messages from high profile members of the Democratic Party in the United States among them we know that we will hear in the coming hours from former 1st Lady Michelle obama as well as senator Bernie Sanders who of course ran for president himself not once but twice and also has been very successful in injecting a number of issues that are important to many of the progressive further left of the party in terms of voters so now it getting that message and all of that into one sort of solid argument in trying to defeat donald trump at the ballot box in november is really going to be the goal but in the midst of all of this the u. S. President has left the white house he is many would argue trolling the democratic National Convention usually president s or the other party would be silent well one party is holding its convention thats not the case donald trump is going to be hitting at least 4 different battleground states he will be in wisconsin as well as minnesota and potentially even i what today he says that hes going to be sort of painting a contrast in terms of his message contrast to that of joe biden the rival in november but at the same time u. S. President has a lot of work cut out for him because most polls suggest that he is behind joe biden by at least 9 Percentage Points unusually for a president ial election in the u. S. One of the central tenets of this is become the u. S. Postal service tell us whats happening with. Yeah the reason thats happening is because of coronavirus covert 19 Many Americans dont feel safe getting out and standing in long lines in november 3rd to cast their ballots so many states are suggesting that they would like to have mail in voting can replace some of those long lines up in person voting now this is become political like so much else in the United States the u. S. President is opposed to that he says that this will allow for fraud that other people could have personate when they dont have to show i. D. But at the same time whats also happening simultaneously is the u. S. President s appointee that has the Postal Service has also decided to pick now to streamline Postal Service operations and as a result have announced they may not be able to handle the volume of mail in vote so democrats are arguing that the timing of this is certainly unusual raising some eyebrows theyre also accusing the republicans of Voter Suppression the u. S. President defending all of this saying that he just wants to make sure that the election is not stolen and he is defending the actions of the postal postmaster general at the same time democrats are coming back from their recess on capitol hill to hold an emergency hearing in all of this to try and block any reorganization of the post office before the november election is complete all the talking to us from the White House Committee thanks very much indeed. Still ahead on aljazeera lifting one of the longest lockdowns restrictions begin to ease in santiago after more than a 150. 00 days. And a race to save the soul of beirut will look at the scale of devastation the explosion brought to Historic Sites in the lebanese capital. Hello there the rain still continues through most central and Western Areas of china plenty of case guys here as you can see in the last year as a Korean Peninsula improving conditions and indeed as they are across into japan but as i look at this this is the old west in china this dramatic landslide was captured thankfully the people who captured this traveling all the robot they actually a stopped theyd heard the warnings and there were several landslides along this particular stretch of road and just look how dangerous it is of course now trying to clear it so the highway can reopen all of this because of the rain has been extending through these northern Western Areas will continue to do so and choose day and really will stay out across the west on the southwest and areas as we go through wednesday to the east of there it is wholesome and dry time which is typically in the mid thirtys the rain back in the 4 call st northern sections of north koreas to go through wednesday but fine in drive to the south and a warm fine day in much of japan as well nigh meanwhile across into south asia the razor being very heavy again across into bangladesh so yes well flooding in the streets of dhaka as you can see of course bringing things to something of a standstill in the villages also well under water more rain as we go through tuesday very heavy falling up through the northern bad bengal and all the while heavy downfalls in central india. On counting the cost how powerful banking and political plans destroyed methadones economy controversy about trumps choice to oversee left americas recovering from the im deming Blossom Company awarded williams for a gas plant that wasnt even good. Counting the cost on aljazeera god of the crime for most that we hunger loving god we are the wild grappling the extra mile where are the media dont go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the russian president says a new election would be held after the country adopts a new constitution but Alexander Lukashenko warned earlier that there will be no new elections until hes killed thousands of state workers are on strike and say the president must go. As the Mass Movement continues in belarus European Union leaders have called for an emergency summit on weapons to discuss the disputed election and the violent crackdown on protestors. Democratic party in the u. S. Is gathering to formally nominate joe biden as its candidate for novembers election normally thousands of delegates would meet in person but its being held remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. In sudan its the 1st anniversary of the signing of the power sharing deal following the overthrow of longtime leader or model bashir but many sudanese complain the promised transition to democracy is too slow about more than reports will come to when sudans military and protest leaders signed a power sharing agreement in august last year millions of sudanese thought it as a new start after months of political turmoil but a year on Mohammed Abdul says not enough has changed what more could be thought of it to learn on when we started the revolution it was because of the economy and when the 1st massive fell the goal became justice for those who had lost their lives in this revolution we promised to hold those who killed civilians to account their main demand is not yet means they can be no moving forward if the main demand of those who took to the street is not achieved. His friend muhammad ali says the power sharing agreement between the military and civilian leaders is flawed. Anybody that the Political Parties did not have a long term vision they were in a rush to reach a deal they lacked a National Spirit and went into negotiations based on the interests of their own respective parties and leaders now its difficult for them to lead in the interest of the people at heart of the signing of the power sharing agreement known as the constitutional declaration came after months of negotiations following the fall of president obama and the coalition known as the forces of freedom and change which led antigovernment protests demanded a say on how the country would be governed the deal with the army paved the way for the creation of a Transitional Sovereignty Council with the military leading for the 1st 21 month and a civilian for the remaining 18 months it included articles to ground sudanese more freedom and prioritized ending conflicts in various parts of the country it also included steps towards democratic governance and stipulates that the executive power be granted to the Prime Minister and his cabinet and the formation of a Legislative Assembly theres still time to 7 months to go in the transitional period before elections are due but many of the provisions of the power sharing agreement are yet to be implemented a peace deal is it to be signed and there were still no Legislative Assembly that is supposed to oversee the transitional government. The military has ruled sudan for more than 50 years of the country 64 years of independence some analysts say its up to the International Community to make sure sudan completes a transition to democracy the story of the constitution declaration was a settlement to reach a political stability in this country its been a year since it was signed in the people who protested are still guarding their revolution and the International Community is one of the important factors that can make sure that no one hindrances this transition the u. S. Has sanctioned people it deems hindering the transition the International Community should now act as a safeguard to the deal that was signed last year despite how slow the 1st year of transition has been Mohamed El Galle says they still reason for. Optimism shabu seat patted me on your head the people have shown that they will have the final say in how they want to be ruled no external or internal force can compete with the will of the people a will that has brought an end to 50 years of president bush years rule those who protest that people continue campaigning until today and becomes a democracy people morgan out of their hearts on. The number of coronavirus deaths in the us now exceeds 170000 is the worst affected country in the world with more than 5400000 cases most of the recent fatalities have been recorded in Southern States of florida texas and Louisiana Health officials are concerned the coming change of season will see a surge in cases. India has hit another milestone in its corona Virus Outbreak with at least 50000. 00 people now dead last week the country overtook the u. K. To record the worlds 4th worst death toll some experts suspect the actual total is far higher because of low levels of testing indias council of medical Research Estimates that 28000000 tests have been carried out since january but there are over 1300000000 people in the country. Chile is expected to begin a phase lifting a one of the worlds longest coronavirus lockdowns on monday restrictions will be gradually east in parts of the capital santiago after more than 150. 00 days some latin american countries have begun reopening their economies since may despite the World Health Organization declared in the region the new epicenter of the pandemic well lets cross over to a latin america editor of the sea and human in chiles capital santiago see how are people reacting to the fact that they can now get out and about after being locked in for so long. This is the county of santiago and in the heart of downtown santiago which for the 1st time about 5 hours ago was released from what people here are calling their imprisonment ive spoken to people who are you know saying free at last free at last today dear old woman was almost in tears with joy because she could finally leave our house we saw a couple with twin baby girls who were less than a year old who had spent 5 months of their life already in confinement and so they were just amazing they were looking around and seeing things they hadnt seen but on the other hand were seeing as you can now have a look for yourself a lot of people out on the street in this pedestrian walkway for example theyre supposed to be walking in people are supposed to stay to their right and walk in opposite directions but everybody crosses each other every which way theres no respect for social distancing and despite what authorities have been begging people to maintain so its not working exactly the way that it was supposed to and that certainly could be a reason for concern there are thousands of people out here on the streets now with children of all ages taking advantage of the burden of the confinement measures which by the way are only partial because restaurants are still closed sports activities are still forbidding with public so this is just the 1st phase of what is supposed to be a 5. Step plan to be confined the whole the trip politan area but authorities have warned that if the number of infections goes up they will be confined yet again let me ask you about that because we have seen this pattern around the world for some economies there lockdowns and there has been a subsequent surge in infections are worried are people there that the same thing could happen since ya go. Some people are very worried about that i spoke to a woman who has a kiosk for the 1st time in 5 months she was able to open it up and take the dust off of the few products she has left but she says shes very concerned she could get infected again and that because precisely people arent as responsible about keeping their distance even though people here have to wear face masks but thats clearly not enough as weve seen in other countries and so there is a concern that if that there could be a resurgence remembered. Why is infection rate in the whole world and one of the highest death tolls from coal with 19 per 1000000 inhabitants also in the world so its no laughing matter. In america editor lucy in human in Chinese Capital of santiago. Lebanon is considering reimposing a lockdown because of a new Record Number of corona virus infections at least 439 new cases and 6 deaths were confirmed on sunday the damage caused by the blast in beirut is making social distancing more difficult. At least 60 Historic Structures that are at risk of collapse in beirut after the explosion the tore through the city nearly 2 weeks ago old homes museums and religious side sort of among the buildings damaged Stephanie Decker reports from beirut. So now were really entering the areas that were really the most damage jim asr is best known for its restaurants and bars and its beautiful historic architecture its actually one of the relatives of the rare case. Of hurt these buildings which completely collapsed. The catastrophic blast has caused an imaginable damage across the city especially for these fragile old homes the soul of historic beirut and 20 is part of a group called save beiruts heritage for years its tried to save these Old Buildings from being demolished to make way for high rises many owners cant afford to maintain them prefer to destroy them and sell the land which is highly lucrative we spent years trying to save this line of buildings from highway projects. And we managed to stop this highway. To freeze it at least and in a matter of a few seconds. More in danger than they were then they ever were artist henry lucianne has spent the last few years salvaging history from houses that the owners have demolished buying their beautiful discarded interiors to recreate the old within the new i wanted to have house like this. Possible to have it because the land is expensive and i collect all the parts of which i saw the original. Columns. When those. Roof. His home escaped the blast mostly intact a few scratches here and there for example this one is can be fixed it cant be fixed again because look its like candy than as a puzzle his message is of preserving beiruts heritage of retaining its beauty if its not the old one can be replaced with a new one similar. Nobody will notice. Then or they will know this one of the explosion very. Going to be born again for now its just the start of an uphill struggle to patch up the city to heal these deep wounds the enormity of what has happened is taking time to sink in for everyone small signs of hope unscathed she remains as she was despite the walls having crumbled the challenge now to rebuild beirut as it once was and to keep its character that is so loved by so many Stephanie Decker al jazeera beirut indias Main Opposition Party is calling for a parliamentary investigation into facebook and whats up for allegedly favoring the ruling b j p a Congress Party bases its allegation on a wall street journal report it said facebook ignored its own hate speech was to benefit a legislator known for anti muslim comments Facebook Says it in forces its hate but speech ban without favor to anyone b j p in turn is accusing facebook of censoring what they call nationalist voices it goes on the point it is the editor of the news website courts india she says the allegations against facebook are serious because of the platforms wide reach. India is very important to the we are a country of one going to be well nearly half of rich are on the internet and what did it leave has close to 250000000 users in india. To what that the numbers even higher so anything that speed and whatsapp might be doing in india in the indian internet they. Have all over major impact. A lot of young people in india you would be in what that negatively for the new movie or getting information to be an allegation the cannot be able to them to work one party are prepared to work doing that in the morning market or the party are pretty speeches and for a lot of indian face book is like the 1st window to develop its a very popular app in india one that is the most popular messaging app nearly every phone in india has whatsapp being stored when they buy it so it sort of you know beep into your day to day life into your need be functioning also you know the the fact that the book is going back to be with a lot of indian regional languages so its penetration is really high but the people who do not understand english and still active information on the web and want that because it is the backbone with their language and internet giant google has criticised a proposed antitrust law in australia which would force Tech Companies to pay news organizations for the content of those warning their free such service could be at risk and that uses data may be shared a cell is competition watchdog says the proposals would allow media organizations to negotiate fair payment for their journalists work. Portugals president helped rescue 2 young girls from the ocean on saturday their kayak overturned after it was caught in strong currents in the algarve president must have been at the sousa happened to be swimming at the beach he and another man helped rescue the 2 girls that swallowed a lot of water and was struggling to swim. This is on his ear these are the top stories the belorussian president says a new president ial election would be held after the country adults a new constitution but Alexander Lukashenko has warned earlier there would be no new elections until hes killed thousands of state workers are on strike and say the president must go and has more from the. Extraordinary scenes here all day already at the. National state broadcaster who has been accused of being a propaganda mouthpiece for look people here have been calling for the truth to be told to stop airing lice they have sat still shouting here behind me they were joined by also thousands of workers from other factories that are on strike here in. One of these factory said this morning and he wasnt really received as planned because the workers actually in front of him in his face which is absolutely extraordinary shouted also there for him to leave. The Democratic Party in the u. S. Is gathering to formally nominate joe biden as his candidate for novembers election normally thousands of delegates would meet in person but its being held remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Crowds in sudans capital have been protesting on the 1st anniversary of the signing of the deal to share power demonstrators in khartoum say the transition to democracy is too slow following the overthrow of longtime leader omar bashir. Indias Main Opposition Party is calling for a parliamentary investigation into facebook and whats up for allegedly favoring the ruling b j p the Congress Party bases its allegation on a wall street journal reports chile is expected to begin a phase lifting of one of the worlds longest coronavirus lockdowns on monday restrictions will be gradually eased in parts of the capital santiago after more than 150. 00 days. And those are the headlines the news continues here on in about half an hour after counting the cost of life in a. Hello im don jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week corrupt bankrupt powerful banking and political clowns have destroyed lebanons economy while people cant get access to their Bank Accounts billions have been moved out of the country President Trump wants to install his own man at the bank latin americas recovery from the pandemic but some nations are opposed to the moon