Should stay in the white house for another 4 weeks. Nato and poland tell russias president Vladimir Putin to stay off the ballot who says political conflict. 200 dead many missing Dozens Injured as flash floods sweep south asia. Japans longest serving Prime Minister shinzo is stepping down he says its due to his poor health has long suffered from Ulcerative Colitis a balcony he addressed a press conference in the last hour. I needed to fight against the disease and be treated i was not really in the perfect state in terms of the Health Condition and still i have to make political decisions but important ones i cannot make any mistake. In terms of the important Decision Making the support of the public is have to respond to so im not ready to respond to the mandate by the public and i made a judgment i should not continue my job as a Prime Minister i decided to step down as a Prime Minister. I said it was a difficult decision to resign from office praga gupta takes a look back at his political career. Oh d 7 the for most of the century shinzo oppy has dominated japans politics he comes from an influential political dynasty his grandfather was Prime Minister as father foreign minister the conservative politician rose through the ranks of this liberal Democratic Party and became japans youngest Prime Minister since world war 2 in 2006 but thats didnt ended the full year due to ill health. 5 years later he returned if his 1st term was mauled by a political inexperience the 2nd had a renewed focus and agenda. Up in the midst of what became known as our economics was a series of a business reforms aimed at boosting japans struggling economy his vision of a well the a stronger japan came with a lifelong ambition to amend the countrys pacifist constitution which bars it from hostile acts except in selfdefense many japanese opposes constitutional changes but he did manage to repeatedly win elections as a result of the stability that he brought the fact that hes won 6 National Elections and basically been unopposed and really has shown no sign of losing his power really up until now it is a year. That japan has been well governed has been predictably and consistently govern for that period and he has managed to translate that into a much more visible role for japan in asia and global rbs trend in security entry ties with the u. S. Making japan one of its closest allies and despite total disputes he warmed up to regional superpower china but he stirred controversy by repeatedly visiting the Yasukuni Shrine which owners japans war dead among them convicted war criminals at japans wartime legacy led to renewed friction with south korea causing their worst diplomatic and create dispute for decades. The 2011 earthquake tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear disaster was a further test of his leadership another came in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic scuttled his plans to showcase japan on the world stage by hosting the tokyo summer olympics the worlds 3rd largest economy already on the slide since 20 teen slumped to a record low but they did succeed in being japans longest continuously serving Prime Minister even as concerns about his health resurfaced priyanka gupta. Of orissa law is out of the Prime Ministers office in tokyo was this the surprise. Pretty quickly but im wondering was this a surprise or were we expecting this to happen. Of course the big surprise yesterday everyone was it was new that. Premise that idea was going to held a press Conference Today at 5 pm sharp on time we thought that its one of his regular press conferences which he in which he was that telling the public about the procedures and measures against one of us when the next and the press conferences they started from marshall almost from the beginning of march and by the middle of june he stopped holding this press conferences and it wasnt a big surprise because the not so many big events were happening at the time but then last month magazine. Published an article saying that the but i missed it i was getting blood and the news was immediately spread among. The media and immediately the spokesperson out of the course of a School Dramas that ive been denied any way what is about his health but during. A visit to the hospital 2 times and during both times he denied that he has hes being facing. Threatening or a big problem that could prevent him from taking his duties until yesterday he announced the press Conference Today just one hour before the press conference we were starting to getting the news from top leaders of the liberal Democratic Party the ruling party in japan about. A phone call that they made to mayor many of the leaders in the by nice party and telling them that he is. The hes going to announce his resignation and indeed in the press conference. He announced that hes leaving his office because of medical issues and because he needs to go to the hospital and get the treatment. Ok thank you for that. Live for us in tokyo. Well jeff kingston is a professor of Asian Studies at Temple University also in tokyo he joins us on skype from man economy and japan thank you for your time. Stanley what do you think legacy is both good and that. Well i think that its a rather limited legacy you know he will be remembered as the longest serving Prime Minister but having been in power for so long with a super majority in the house of that he hasnt really achieved all that much and so you know maybe he has given stability in japan has been governed reasonably well but in terms of the ambitious agenda of a nomics he really has achieved very little said were going to increase. That hasnt happened were going to raise wages that hasnt happened households are not illegal and so generally speaking of economics is often criticized as the welfare for the wealthy because theres better significant increase in inequality an expansion of jobs and on regular plain bit low. Arrears what do you make of the timing of his resignation in the middle of a sleigh of the coronavirus pandemic. And public support has to be waning. Yeah spent a very tough year for me i mean hes become sort of be incredibly shrinking Prime Minister in 2020 from the beginning when the botched quarantine of the diamond princess cruise ship to the efforts to preserve the a lympics by suppressing testing and delaying ration of National Emergency that backfired on him postponed his summit which she was postponed so the public has been very soured on over his Pandemic Response even though the numbers in japan arent so bad but he has been seeing not to have contributed much to that and fonts and there have been just a cascade of political scandals corruption you know money for favors cronyism and the steady trickle of scandals the public turning on him for a lack of empathy over the pandemic you know its clearly left him tired figure and over the past 2 months hes looked really agard and i wasnt surprised by his resignation because i was here back in 2007 when he resigned the last time this time i think it was better signal to. The to business the hospital i think it left a lot of people expecting this announcement today. Some of what he hasnt seen being a little back you i mean he has been a very important large personality in the Prime Ministers office big shoes to fill and its really hard to look over the range of possible successors and see anybody seems that they will measure up to. What that was actually my next question what happens next and there are any names being televised is as possible. Well the only people who hold Party Elections so last time within a week the year out was going to succeed him so i expect that theyre going to quickly put together an election of the problem is that whoever takes over is inheriting an economy on the ropes and clearly pandemic countermeasures are the priority and now theyre going to have to be a lot more innovative than our base team has been thus far the names that pop out of our his chief cabinet spokesman. Also. One of the is former Prime Minister. A dark horse could be the current foreign minister motoki people are also talking about deputy Prime Minister. Or oconnor of those defense minister so there are few names be bandied about but the one person up they doesnt want to succeed him is a guide sheba and he she buys defied abbay over different issues and so theyre trying to change the rules the election that would favor diet insiders issue is extremely popular among the general membership and if they are voting in the election he is the person who holds best compared to all the other rivals. And interesting theory then thank you so much for your time to kingston arafat surveys and studies at Temple University thank you. U. S. President donald trump has formally accepted the republican partys nomination for a 2nd term he says novembers election will be a choice between saving the American Dream or allowing a socialist agenda to destroy it i watch house Correspondents Committee health it has. Never in modern history has a sitting President Campaign from the white house a political symbol that supposed to be for all americans i profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States. Like joe but donald trump has again broken with precedent as he accepted the republican partys nomination and attacked his democratic rival joe biden this is the most important election in the history of our country. Spoke for more than an hour painting at apocalyptic picture of a biden presidency he told voters his opponent was campaigning as a democrat but would assure in an ideology much further left than any other liberal candidate your vote will decide whether we protect law abiding americans or whether we give free rein to violent and our kids and agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. Tom how did what he saw as some of his administration successes in Foreign Policy i could not sit by. As career politicians let other countries take advantage of us on trade borders Foreign Policy and National Defense a domestic policy even as trying to score low marks from American Voters for his Pandemic Response with more than 180000 americans dead trump argued biden will not make things better instead of following the science joe biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country he shutdown would inflict unthinkable and lasting harm on our nations childrens families and citizens of all backgrounds as he spoke more than a 1000 guests most of them not wearing a mask sat shoulder to shoulder ignoring the white houses own social distancing guidelines earlier in the day democratic Vice President ial nominee Camila Harris hit back charging trump didnt do enough in the early days of the pandemic to protect americans all we needed was a competent president one who was willing to listen willing to lead take responsibility have a plan do their job. Paris also accused trump of stoking racial divisions absent from trumps speech was any mention of jacob blake the man shot in the back last weekend of wisconsin by a white Police Officer even though the incident has caused nights of protests and the shutdown of the countrys biggest sports leagues and in true trump fashion his speech and the convention ended literally with a bang. But in an attempt to drown out the festivities protesters marched through the streets around the white house demanding justice and vowing to do all they could to prevent trumps reelection but donald trump is undeterred by the push back in an effort to build momentum following his acceptance speech immediately hitting the campaign trail of friday hell travel to the u. S. State of New Hampshire to hold his 1st political rally since the Republican National convention kimberly health at aljazeera the white house. Still ahead on aljazeera european nations announce new restrictions are for a surge in the number of chronic virus infections. Every pushes back against israeli attempts to change the mandates if the u. N. Mission. Probably once again welcomes another look at the International Focus we have a developing a typhoon just to the east of the philippines little clutch of thunderstorms here now they will gather and bring some very wet and windy weather up towards the Korean Peninsula as we go on through the weekend to certainly something to keep an eye on a russia showers coming back in behind for the philippines those showers intensify somewhat as we go on through sunday and then across much of south asia is the usual case of sunshine and showers some of those showers in the heat of the day developing all the way down into indonesia now but from a spot it will be more sunshine than shallow as well sunshine the showers across much of australia weve had some very lively weather into the southeast and colder recently as this cold front made its way through violent winds on that storm actually got 135 Kilometers Per Hour in tasmania 150 Kilometers Per Hour in parts of victoria damaging winds that made their way through and they are not going across the tasman sea kwacha weather coming back in behind because of the area of High Pressure here and temperatures will respond quite nicely as we go on through the next couple of days so we get up to around 21 celsius in sydney on saturday picking up to around 25 by sunday often in. Thousands of children were removed from east timor during the indonesian occupation decades later one to one east julies members of the lost generation as they find head home. On aljazeera the deadline its drawing near ivory coast his rival parties to nominate their president ial candidates. Octobers election is likely to be a major test for the Country Security who will face the people in a run for the highest office i recall as president ial candidates on aljazeera. The. Door to aljazeera and all of our top stories this hour to bads Prime Minister shinzo is resigning says its due to his poor health the 65 year old has long been suffering from an intestinal illness he has to fans out longest serving leader. U. S. President donald trump has formally accepted the republican partys nomination for a 2nd term he says novembers election will mark the difference between saving the American Dream or allowing a socialist agenda to destroy is. A roadside bomb has had a mini bus in southern afghanistan killing 13 civilians that in the border district of spin boldak and kandahar province theres been no claim of responsibility. The head of nato and polands Prime Minister have urged russia not to meddle in the crisis in better use it comes after incentives claras signal yes that he is ready to use his forces to support the better rusian president sounded like a shank up on thursday police in belarus detained about 30 journalists covering antigovernment protests there have been more than 2 weeks of demonstrations against look ashamed as a landslide victory in elections critics say were a sham. E. U. Foreign ministers are discussing relations with russia as they hold a 2nd day of talks in berlin the meeting comes at a delicate time in europes relations with moscow as the e. U. Prepares sanctions against russias ally bellaver also be focusing on the blocks response to the coronavirus pandemic. Donna cain is live for us in berlin dominic just walk us through the factors at play here as the ball considers its response to whats happening in. One of the fact is clearly is that the European Union leaders as a bloc were expressing real criticism and condemnation in days of the election in belarus and they want to see a transition a peaceful transition away from the government of president lukashenko now thats one element of it another element is that the german chancellor Angela Merkel the french president Emmanuel Michel last week were calling on the west were phoning brother president putin in moscow to urge him to exercise restraint so you have that sense that that is an issue for the European Union in so far as rusher is concerned weve heard this morning from the foreign minister of luxembourg saying he does not want to see belarus turn into another ukraine given the fact that the European Union believes that some of the role of russia has played in ukraine is something that it has been critical of actually you can see how he is trying to make a parallel between those 2 countries and then one other factor regarding russia to throw into the equation is the current fate of the dissident politician aleksei now than he was lying stricken in a berlin hospital not far away from where im called casting from right now with a poison in his system which many european leaders have said that they wish to see the russian government independently investigate and prosecute those who were responsible for that poison being in his system so all those different factors are in play right now being discussed by the Foreign Ministers here in berlin ok dominic and do we are also expecting. A call to speak in a few hours time. Yes well shes going to be giving a summer News Conference as it were where the worlds media and germanys media of course are allowed to be in the building behind me the book this press conference its called in germany where she will its a total force as it were where she is posed questions by all manner of different journalists on all manner of different topics and here domestically the coronavirus is of particular concern certainly thats. Very clear in a meeting that she held with the Prime Ministers of all germany states yesterday because theres been an upsurge in cases of corona in germany the average around about 1500 new cases every day now for almost 3 weeks and there is concern in some states that the right that the requirements for people to wear masks is not being enforced as strongly as it could be so all sorts of pressures on angle americal right now and she will definitely be posed questions about all sorts of topics in the coming hours in the building behind me ok belen correspondent john mccain thank you. The wearing of boxes now mad a tray across paris after a surge in new coronavirus cases the estimated rate of infection in france has quadrupled over the past month face coverings are already compulsory outdoors in some of the cities france has recorded nearly 300000 cases of the virus and at least 30000 deaths. In lebanon is rejecting an attempt by israel to reform the Un Peacekeeping mission that protects their common border the Un Security Council is voting on friday to renew the agreement israel and the us want to push through some changes critics say already designed to pressure the Lebanese Armed Group Hezbollah that a lot of reports. Un troops have been in southern lebanon since 1978 1st to confirm an israeli withdrawal and then to keep the peace between enemies 14 years ago they were given an Additional Task following a month long war to keep the area south of the litani river to the Israeli Border free of arms and fighters other than those of the lebanese state. That was supposed to. Be and the limitation actually on the ability of the unifil forces with the support of the Lebanese Army to be a giant and effective from that time up till now things became really rather relaxed. And you were always the Prime Minister during the war between israel and the Lebanese Armed Group Hezbollah in july 2006 he tried to push for a greater u. N. Role to help the state impose its authority across the country Un Resolution 1701 brought about this is sation of hostilities but fail to give unifil powers to enforce authority despite increasing its troop numbers i look what to do unifil has to completely coordinate with the Lebanese Army and to operate within the mandate of the Security Council resolution this is our understanding offer a solution 1701 his will last wont accept any changes a lot of them the. Backed by the United States israel is now pushing for unifil to be tougher in the way it deals with hezbollah it wants the force to be able to search private properties and suspicious sites without prior permission especially those. Events happen crossing the line like the opening of the tunnels which really doesnt have an access yet to or the firing of missiles all around close to the blue line right now unifil is restricted. And some say it wants to go even further israel wants also to make sure that. That extension backs passion of the military role of unifil would extend to the Syrian Lebanese borders to make sure that there would no longer be a smuggling of arms to has been a Un Resolution 1701. 00 calls on the lebanese government to secure its borders and entry points to prevent the entry of illegal arms but the resolution lacks an enforcement mechanism. And the Security Council is the vital also political power is in the hands of hezbollah and its allies they have rejected any changes to unify those mandates and its numbers as well as the deployment of International Troops along the border with Syria International pressure has been mounting on hezbollah a group seen as an arm of iran but many believe pressure alone is unlikely to force a change so bad what. Flash cards in afghanistan and pakistan have killed at least 200 people dozens more injured and many a missing after a heavy seasonal rain swept through both countries wait a moment has more. Buildings reduced to rubble and cars overturned by the force of floodwaters not because of the moment it was a little heavy rains and flooding have swamped 13 provinces in the east and north of afghanistan this week residents living in the mountainous area of parwan recorded by surprise. When. The rain started it but not with the dangerous noise we try to get out of the harm but were stuck inside floodwater was everywhere. There are fears that many are still trapped under their destroyed homes yeah. We are missing one Family Member we are searching but look at the destruction. People are trying to recover whatever they can but the flood water and the filth it carries gets everywhere. You go those are doing really show we are going to and im going to 6 houses were flooded some have lost Family Members because of more electricity all those tried to escape in cars but were trapped. Families and rescue workers are searching through the wreckage for survivors at least 150 people were killed by buildings that collapsed some of the injured are being moved to the capital kabul for treatment. Was no authority to providing coffins for families who have lost loved ones. On the sun the sun. Relatives have taken around 75 dead bodies from the hospital because we provided them with coffins there were more dead bodies that were not even brought to the hospital and many people trapped under the rubble. The people here are calling for help afghan president ashraf ghani has promised that emergency aid will arrive soon including ground and air support. Heavy rains have also battered pakistans Financial Capital karate with which water floods the streets many are forced to live in makeshift tents shelters are being set up for the displaced. But could even determine what about all of the ridges were submerged in water we rescued them overnight and shifted them to a safer place it was a school. In. The region struggles every year with monsoon rains made worse by poor infrastructure as rubble is cleared families actually awaits news about the missing while others prepare for mass burials for him khalid al jazeera. Im kinda allendale how are the headlines on aljazeera japans Prime Minister shinzo alba has announced his resignation he says its due to his poor health 65 year old heard long suffering from an intestinal illness is japans longest serving leader. I needed to fight against the disease and be treated i was not really in a perfect state in terms of the Health Condition and still i have to make political decisions but important ones i cannot make any mistake in terms of the important Decision Making the support of the public i have to respond to so im not ready to respond to the mandate by the public. I made a judgment i should not continue my job as a Prime Minister i decided to step down as a Prime Minister. U. S. President donald trump has formally accepted the republican partys nomination for a 2nd term he says novembers election will mark the difference between saving the American Dream the longest socialist agenda to destroy it or your vote will decide whether we project law abiding americans or whether we give free rein to violent and our kids agitate and criminals who threaten our citizens. And this election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy a roadside bomb has had a mini bus in southern afghanistan killing 13 civilians it happened in the border district of spin boldak in kandahar province theres been no claim of responsibility. The head of nato and polands Prime Minister have urged russia not to meddle in the crisis and by the roots that of a person hinted he was ready to use his forces to support the president Alexander Lukashenko on thursday police and by the rules detained about 30 journalists covering antigovernment protests have been demonstrations ever since a disputed election earlier this month. Well as the headlines the news continues on aljazeera after 101 east the return of east timors children stay with us. Russia now seems to be going off to the main Economic Resource which is a story we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world live in the president s promise america 1st policy triggered a trade war that morphed into a technological war counting the cost on aljazeera. These people barely know each other. Separated a lifetime ago they dont speak the same language but their Families Together at last. 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