A severe shortage of hospital beds one week on from the beirut blast cleanup efforts reveal be extent of the devastation. Reports of a social media post considered offensive to islam that sparked violent protests in southern india. And historic moment in american politics will play out in just a few hours from now the Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee joe biden will make his 1st joint parents with his pick for Vice President senator. She is the 1st black woman to be included on a major partys president ial ticket the 2 are expected to deliver remarks in wilmington delaware thats bidens home town just ahead of the event the biden heris campaign released its 1st ad since the announcement. I was raised to take action my mother knew that she was raising 2 black daughters who would be treated differently because of how they learned growing up whenever i got upset about something my mother would look me in the eye and ask so what are you going to do about it we are in a battle for the soul of this nation but together its a battle we can win we just have to take action. Us President Donald Trump took aim at harris at a tweet he said started strong in the democratic primaries but could not hold on to support went on to say that makes her the kind of opponent everyone dreams of. Joins us now live from washington d. C. Ellen so this event in delaware is not going to be your usual formal running mate introduction is it. No when you think about one i can remember with mitt romney doing it in naval base with paul ryan that was 8 years ago its not going to be that sort of thing theres not going to be a lot of supporters there is not going to be the hierarchy the. Major figures of the Democratic Party behind giving their endorsement this is going to be a lot more lucky because of covert there is going to be media but i would guess if i was running the campaign i would tell them to make their statements and then not take any questions you dont want your message getting muddled up on a deal like this by getting an awkward question from an awkward journalist who is going to be a lot more low key but its still important and significant and of course its important because the democrats can announce their Vice President ial candidate the republicans dont have an event like this because we are told that donald trump is absolutely stuck on mike pence being his Vice President going into the election so that wont change but it is an important day for joe biden for this campaign and for american politics as well as weve been saying. This is the 1st black woman to be included on a major partys president ial ticket this is historic but if shes seen as someone to unite the democrats what does she bring to the ticket. Well certainly the republicans are already trying to frame her as one thing and another just on my twitter feed in the last couple of hours i saw one republican senator saying oh wall street is going to love this appointment thats fantastic camelot is terrific is not great another one immediately underneath the chairman of the Republican Party chairwoman of the Republican Party ron mcdaniel seeing all the anarchists and the people who are on the streets and the far left are going to live the love this appointment as well so theyre kind of mixed in their message even though theyve had more than a month to prepare as we all had about who would be the Vice President ial nominee theyre going to see shes never pleased anyone in the Democratic Party but if you look at social media this has been an appointment that has been fairly widely. Appreciated and accepted many people saying it was important and in this moment in particular in the United States when civil rights as again very much i political hot potato it was an important decision for joe biden to pick a woman of color so i think she will bring more voters in than alienates but thats a question that will only be answered come november the 3rd thanks for that allen thanks there live from washington d. C. The uns human rights chief michel has condemned the violent crackdown by the belorussian government on protesters after 3 nights of unrest hundreds of women in the capital minsk have been marching to protest against Police Brutality antigovernment demonstrations show no signs of easing around 6000. 00 people are still detained it began after president Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of a vote that his opponents say was rigged lithuania latvia and poland are offering to mediate the family members of those detained say they still dont have any news on their whereabouts. He went for a bike ride in the evening at 8 oclock i called him and said my son have pity on me and dont go anywhere. I dont know where my grandson is he was taken away on the night weve been searching for him for 3 days and could not find him his father searches for him and i search for him steadfast and has more now from an. What we saw in the last couple of nights when the people came out at night protesting not knowing really what to do so there were different parts of the city now this is one group of women as you can see theyre all waving flowers they are also saying stop beating us and they get an enormous response from people around this area who see them there honking their horns as a sign of opposition and also they always think people are crying people are really emotional to see this act of defiance because these women are very brave if we consider what violence has been happening in the last couple of nights around 6000 people have been detained already of course they are now also risking arrest but so far police has left them alone i think the government to look at shanghai is completely confused what to do with this out poor of anger and this Opposition Force that has reached unprecedented heights he has never seen such a thing during his 26 years rule and the only answer he has found so far is to crack down on the ferry badly and hes been hitting a whole families women children men everyone has been hit by this so this has created even more anger and we see this women they may not want to accept this so you will need to find another solution there have been talks about negotiations with the opposition but the last comment we got from a president. That he wants to create jobs because he says all these protests protesters are criminals and they simply have nothing else to do. Here as secretary of state described the vote is neither free nor fair and said america was watching developments closely. We watched the action that we are we were very concerned about wasnt the way that was free and fair we care about that because we care deeply about the belarusian people this is i talked about the Czech Republic we want people della reese to have the freedoms that theyre demanding that they think are in their best interests lebanons president says more than 15000000000. 00 of damage was caused by last weeks massive explosion which killed more than 200 people a lot humanitarian effort is underway across beirut but the Health System is close to collapse the walls help Organization Says hof of the citys hospitals are not functioning and its with reports from beirut. Rich or poor the beirut explosion didnt discriminate 10 people died in the luxury Seaview Apartments that overlook the port and alice assads house. She and her 2 children had left home half an hour before the blast they raced back to find this. Alice pays a rent fixed in the 1960 s. The common practice here if the landlord cant afford the repairs or release the funds home will probably stay like this i now must soon i learned the most important thing is for the kids to have a place to sleep comfortably where with food we will not starve but we need our home back. Businesses too must find the money to rebuild if they think its worth it. This country was already enjoying an economic crisis after a shortage of foreign currency last year sent its currency into freefall i dont know 3 if you will be able to put more money into it i dont know we need. Not only also earlier everybody would. Need some 70000 homes and a so far uncalculated number of businesses were destroyed or damaged when 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded at beirut port last tuesday. A dozen schools also need rebuilding this is the citys oldest the school of the 3 doctors in the challenges huge explosion of the scale is exceptional before rebuilding you have to appraise the structure see if everything can hold up sometimes you have to consolidate sometimes you have to destroy to rebuild so it will take real building expertise. Every homeowner every business every Institution Needs glass and Building Materials a nearly all of that is imported. So they need dollars. But their money is locked in inaccessible Bank Accounts for many here its effectively stolen by a political elite thats been running the country for decades so the pressure is on parliament to appoint a new Prime Minister and a new cabinet and its been made clear to them that theyll be no International Funds for the citys reconstruction until the Parliament Ends the dominance of iran backed hezbollah and its allies french president emanuel macron says he wants to see progress by september the 1st Bernard Smith aljazeera beirut. Taiwans president has called on china to use dialogue instead of oppression in hong kong monday Hong Kong Police arrested 10 people including a newspaper and a high profile prodemocracy activist under the new beijing imposed National Security law sighing when promised her government would support the hong kong people say they even though we are once again solemnly called in the beijing authorities that when the people are taking a stand together and fighting for something the government should find ways to resolve disputes instead of oppressing the people and depriving them of freedom and human rights only by having a sincere dialogue with the people of hong kong can dispute speed result and can Hong Kong Society return to cam adrian brown has more now from hong kong. When you are leader of taiwan you have to do what you can to raise your International Profile because of course there are just 15 countries that recognize taiwan was dying when on wednesday was addressing the Hudson Institute thats a conservative think tank in washington and she had many themes to her through her addressed but i think the central one were her comments about hong kong she said that the world had been saddened to see that the beacon of freedom of been extinguished in hong kong she said that the ties between hong kong and taiwan go back many years and she also said and this was her only real reference to china without naming china she said that while some countries while the world has been distracted by covert 19 other countries have been targeting democracies around the world now why does all this matter well you know at the moment taiwan is a country which is basically regarded by china as a breakaway province to be taken back from by force if necessary president xi jinping had warned just a year ago that the people of taiwan had better accept that one day sooner rather than later they will be reunified with the motherland and the premier of china leak a chunk addressed the National PeoplesCongress Just a few months ago and he didnt refer to a peaceful reunification with taiwan he simply referred to a reunification so that is led to increasing speculation that eventually china will resort to force to take back this renegade province and in fact many analysts will tell you that the chances of that happening a greater now than they were 5 years ago. Still ahead on aljazeera a growing concern over russias coronavirus taxing germany says it must be tested promptly before being made public. Around the clock curfew 3 days of violence in Eastern Sudan having restrictions. So looking pretty quiet now across the middle east we have got some bits and pieces that tab want to sue situation he writes in your possible doubts was the fos outthought of the peninsula but for most its going to be dry and sunny the way in the sense that weve been saved driving their way out of iraq down to wards the ha they will start to ease as we go through the next couple of days but temperatures still getting up into the mid fortys less in the way of lifted dust and sand so something to be rather more cheerful about some a shall we say just around the caucasus in the black sea in the caspian sea still a chance of wanted to show us just around that western side of yemen where we have seen recent flooding showers continuing to herat across central parts of africa as one would expect at this time of the year so some showers just sliding out of uganda pushing down into were kenya should be dry now for somalia and at least the side of kenya any come further south watch it dry across a good part of Southern Africa temperatures at around 60 or 70 degrees support elizabeth and for cape town over the next couple of days further north but im sure a breeze could just bring one of 2 showers into mozambique a robbery with a top temperature of 24 degrees. Frank assessments saying back in yemen 60 percent of the relation. Between stuff is its an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the overall media region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after is a proxy because not the result of the interest of the if you do indepth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on aljazeera. Now watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee joe biden will soon make his 1st joint appearance with his pick for Vice President senator harris shes the 1st woman of color to be included on a major partys president ial ticket. The u. N. Human rights chief michelle has condemned the violent crackdown by the valor russian government protesters after 3 nights of rest of the 6000 opposition supporters have now been detained after sundays disputed president ial election. Lebanons president says more than 50000000000. 00 of damage was caused by last weeks quarter explosion which killed more than 200. 00 people the world health Organization Says half a retard spittles are not functioning. The German Health minister says hes skeptical of russias Coronavirus Vaccine on tuesday russia became the 1st country in the world to give Regulatory Approval to a covert 19 vaccine president Vladimir Putin even said his daughter was an ocular germanys schon says the vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and could be dangerous donna cane has more from the. Mr spann saying that the problem with rushing a vaccine out which hasnt been shown openly to be safe and to be effective against the corona virus is something which he fears he fears could kill off the efficacy of vaccines generally Going Forward the point theyre making therefore is that they need to be able to see the data upon which the russian government has based its assertions that this vaccine is good to go as it were contrast what the German Government is saying with what certain other governments are saying a suggestion that the governor of a large state in brazil is going to be in meetings on wednesday with the ambassador the Russian Ambassador in brazil about what might be able to be done there but even in brazil there are Certain Senior officials who have expressed grave reservations as i say about the haste with which the russian government is proceeding to marketing this vaccine as something that large chunks of society will be able to use anytime soon as i say the most important thing here is the germans are being very cautious they themselves have their own research into vaccines theyve put a lot of money in in towards it but they are saying what needs to be done here is proper Peer Research and open research where other scientists are able to analyze what the germans have done what anything to victim has done that says its found a vaccine so that it can be verified and falsified and because they say they havent been able to do that that explains the the caution with which they are viewing whats going on in moscow. The crowd of our spend democrat plugged the u. K. Into its deepest economic slump on record Gross Domestic Product collapsed by more than 20 percent between april and june the height of the lockdown the british economy is now officially in recession for the 1st time since the 2008 financial crisis there are already some signs of recovery g. D. P. Recovered slightly in june as restrictions were eased. We talking about this a few months ago i said hard times were coming and todays figures show that hard times are here hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs and sadly many more will but i will say to people although tough decisions lie ahead for all of us no one will be left without hope or opportunity 3 people have been killed in a Train Derailment in scotland the driv