Protests against his government will be live and had at it. And speculation is rife in spain after former King Juan Carlos left the country while the investigation for corruption. And sport the l. A. Lakers had secured top spot in the n. B. A. s western conference for the 1st time in a decade bron james his Team Clinching the number one seed with a win over the top. We begin with a Global Pandemic countries which are once had coronavirus under control and all struggling with a soaring number of infections and that is forcing governments to reimpose tough restrictions on their citizens in a fit of pain since capital manila and surrounding provinces have gone back into the lockdown public transport has been. Shutdown and some businesses closed and people now need special passes to leave their homes or hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help enforce isolation orders the state has introduced a number of measures to control its own break and the un secretary general is warning of what he calls a generational catastrophe as Education Systems worldwide go through the largest disruption in history we already face the learning crisis before the pandemic more than 250000000 School Age Children were out of school and only a quarter of secondary School Children in the developing countries were leaving school with basic skills now we face a generational no get us through fee that would waste untold Human Potential and their mind decades of progress and exacerbate interventions inequalities and well be discussing the education crisis to cover 1000. 00 shortly but 1st the gauge has been monitoring developments in the australian state of victoria and has this report. 2nd largest public transport normally filled with workers is now near empty tough measures including an overnight curfew are in place to slow the spread of coded 19 as the number of new delhi cases remains in the triple digits and the government is doing everything in its power to make sure people stay in their homes unless its absolutely necessary tough fines have been introduced for anyone breaching isolation apart from medical care there is literally no reason for you to leave your home and if you were to leave your home and not be found you will have a very difficult time convincing Victoria Place that you have. The government says nearly a 3rd of people with coded 19 who were visited by authorities werent too tall room which has been leading to Community Transmission now rules have been tightened people cant step out of their homes the only exemption Health Reasons hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to help Victorian Police in force the isolation order is some of the toughest restrictions on the movement of people the stray leah has ever seen weve had to smash the windows of people in cars and pull them out of there so i could provide the data because i went telling us where they were going it hearing to the chief Health Officer guidelines with more businesses closing in construction retail and other industries the states economy has stalled and thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs will be stood down victoria makes up nearly a quarter of the National Economy and with prescriptions to remain in place for at least 6 weeks some experts are warning that israeli is recession could now last year leaving little chance of an economic recovery any time. In the philippines officials of reimposed lockdowns in and around the capital manila president were prepared to turn to approve the new measures of a call from Health Worker groups who say the country is moving its fight against corona virus more than 3200 new infections were confirmed across the country on monday to me there and the organ has. To go is on his way home after is 12 hour overnight shift at the airport in manila taking the train is now out of the question the government has imposed another round of lock downs to stop the spread of coronavirus in manila and public transport has been halted for 2 weeks. Longer what makes this but. Is that the strain you see so no i havent slept and i am dead tired but i had to keep walking. Arts point is on his way to work in a Shopping Mall with a sprint they have been walking for 2 hours and need to be fast to make it to the Central Business district by 10 am. That they were they were allowed the exhausted and then our 10 hour work starts this is it we have no choice but to follow the protocols by the government and the hope this doesnt last forever the country recorded more than 5000. 00 additional infections and sunday the largest single gene crease since the 1st case was recorded months ago the total is now more than 100000 the 2nd highest number of Coronavirus Infections in South East Asia after indonesia thats forced the government to reimpose restrictions after losing quarantine rules for almost 2 months domestic flights are banned and International Air travel limited police have set up additional checkpoints across metro manila and people have to carry quarantine passes me. Many of the people weve spoken to here as they will now have to spend an average of 4 to 5 hours every day for the next 2 weeks just to go to work almost all of them are under a no work no pay status they cant even afford to stay at home they say they simply do not have a choice. Even before restrictions were tightened Public Transportation in manila was only allowed to operate at half its capacity and many businesses are still operating under a socalled modified enhanced Community Quarantine thousands of public transport workers up lost their jobs and some have turned to banking. Many workers as they understand that these measures are necessary but can only hope the government decides to help those who have little to survive on. Going on just 0 manila. The pandemic has affected nearly 1600000000. 00 students across more than 190. 00 countries at least 40000000. 00 children have missed their preschool year because of covert 19 restrictions 1250000000. 00 children were out of school before the pandemic now the u. N. Is warning nearly 24000000 more could drop out whole lose access to education the u. N. Says before reopening schools its important to control local transmission supply Adequate Funding and reach worse off students almost out of study is a senior fellow at. A policy think tank he joins us now from islamabad thank you for your time one longer term impacts will this missing out have on young people particularly in the global south and developing countries. I think you know its probably the most important question that needs to be asked you know there was a lot of focus on school re openings a lot of countries have tried to reopen schools some with some success others you know have had to go back to shutting them down but there was an anticipation here in pakistan that september 15th is probably the outer limit of how long government can sort of hold on before private schools especially low Cost Private Schools in particular are forced to open because many of them are going to go bankrupt but these temporal considerations ignore the question that you asked which as i said is probably the most vital the long term implications of the learning loss the long term implications of the policy momentum that has been lost in a country like pakistan where the estimates are that still over 20000000 kids are out of school kids that should be in school according to the constitution and according to any metric or measure of sort of human decency and yet the fact that schools have been closed as long as they have the number of bankruptcies in the low Cost Private School sector the learning loss impact especially on kids that are of a younger age all of those things combined with the exacerbated sentiment and awareness that people will have after this that the Digital Divide is no longer some conceptual old realm it actually deeply and it measurably effects the potential learning and Cognitive Development of young people in a country like pakistan in the whole south asia region not cross africa and i would say this extends even to developed countries but obviously in those countries theres much more money available to throw at the problem i think on something you mentioned there you know younger kids they have these incredible developmental jumps at that sort of a so if they know going to preschool of those early years of school is it a matter of not its not just you know failing to learn facts but actually failing to know how to learn and what impact that might have down the road. Absolutely theres a huge developmental challenge when we interviewed School Teachers that were trying to engage which with kids online what we found was that as the as the age goes up so at grade levels 56 and 7 when kids are 111213 its easier to manage a group of say 8 or 10 kids on a zoom call but when you when youre dealing with 5678 year olds even trying to do assume go with 3 of them at one time is difficult so theres obviously theyre learning loss impact of the developmental impact but also imagine the stress levels that many teachers of children who cant afford Digital Technology where have i pads or screens at home will have 4 g. Internet connections even in those cases the there is a developmental and learning impact on the kids but theres also a massively enhanced work hours and stress levels for teachers because theyre having to learn how to do this in a truly brave new world in which the rules havent been written yet. Thank you so much for your time wish our society theyre seeing a fellow at tab a policy think tank. Oil giant British Petroleum is reporting a record 16800000000. 00 net loss in the 2nd quarter as a result of the pandemics economic fallout the company has cut its dividends by half pay has already announced its cutting 10000 jobs 2000 of which are in the u. K. Along with major losses the company has announced new plans to increase investment in low carbon energy. But more ahead on the news hour including well have the latest on the devastation caused by south koreas longest monsoon rains in 7 years. The president of batteries faces mounting opposition as he tries for a 6th term in office. And in sports the former wrestler making a move into american football i would say with that story. Pakistans Prime Minister imran khan has told aljazeera his country prevented a military escalation between saudi arabia and iran he also spoke about last years border skirmish with india and new delhi is decision to revoke the autonomy of indian and misted kashmir the Indian Government rather than. Asking us for an explanation or watering proofs trying to prove that pakistan was involved in this sent the jets and bombed us we we had to retaliate one of the indian jets was brought down in pakistan we did turn the pilot because pakistan does not want an escalation and i repeat do Nuclear Armed countries you can order for an escalation because you do not want no ones. Going to small skirmishes starts you dont know where it will end up and thats why we tried our best to tell the indians the lets resolve this issue on the table we are willing to talk to them but that was only till 5th august last year and a curfew has been imposed in indian administered kashmir in anticipation of protests on wednesday the day marks one year since the Indian Government stripped the region of its special status the curfew is aimed at preventing any possible violence soldiers have warned residents to stay indoors and put up barricades along made brutes. Zimbabwes president. Is defending his government against allegations of renewed crackdown on dissent a local Human Rights Group says more than 60 people have been arrested since last week the government enforced a coronavirus lockdown just days before planned protests last friday the opposition says this was aimed at stopping its rarely calling for an gaga and the ruling party to resign well for more on this home in tulsa joins me now live from her so far what did president emerson and gaga say when he addressed the nation. Well after weeks of tension a race and in these human rights abuses president in muslim men god called for calm he said that his government is trying to find a balance between maintaining peace and security in the country while at the same time allowing people to express themselves when it comes to the economy turning around the economy he said that it has been an easy thing he came into power in 2017 he did his administration has been dealing with the case of drought with sanctions and now the covert 19 pandemic and then he said doc forces inside and outside the country are working to destabilize the economy but he didnt say who these dog forces are last week some senior officials in the rulings on if a party did waste in embassies who are in the country are working with off with the should groups and activists to try and undermine the authority of the government they think the American AmbassadorBrian Nichols and basically warned him to behave accusing him of funding protease of encouraging people to take to the streets now zimbabwe has been a hot topic on social media is the ticking the last few days with the hash tag. Trending on social media these are people who are mainly antigovernment who are upset and angry with the high rate of corruption in the country whos saying that the Public Health care system isnt a shambles they want the economy prove theyre tired of a raise they tired of these alleged human rights abuses and some of been calling for prison and got away and the ruling party if he had to step aside and allow someone else to lead her when we talk about this this clamp down on dissent just give us a snapshot of the human rights situation in zimbabwe running now. Well human rights lawyers are saying that dozens of people across the country have been arrested just before the friday protest and off the words theyre saying that some people mainly opposition leaders and activists have gone on social media and ive said that the too afraid to go home to be with home in case police come and arrest them they have been accused by Security Forces trying to plan last weeks friday and to government protests one particular story is that of a journalist who went to social media to narrate is the deal he said that when you heard the police were looking for him he didnt go home they went and hid somewhere else the police then went to his house they took some of his relatives when they couldnt find him and then a few days later they released his nephew who had been badly beaten hes now in hospital just one story of someone who says that they are scared for their lives because they speak out against corruption and against whats wrong with whats going on with the government the human rights lawyers saying that also right now trying to find people who are they to be missing theyre also trying to get people who are locked up in prison right now in jail trying to get them out on bail to maine people now the focus their attention the opposition to jacob gotti if we may who was a race to 2 weeks ago for allegedly organizing last week for those protests and a freelance journalist Hopewell Chin going on he was arrested for going on social media accused of encouraging people to participate in active government protests and inciting violence they are hoping to get bail on thursday at the high court thanks for that hermit also there live from her. Polls have opened to a president ial election in by the roosts where voters have 5 days to counts their ballots president alexander that has led since 9094 and is vying for his 6th consecutive term hes facing his strongest opposition in a decade protests against his leadership of been intensifying driven by a poor economy had his handling of the pandemic well president came to power in 9094 after leading an anticorruption drive in parliament a former soviet state farm director hes accused of controlling the media and stifling dissent by jailing opponents and independent voices a referendum in 2004 lifted the president ial 2 term limit making it possible for the code to leave indefinitely for years he has betrayed himself as a force for stability for the nation of 9500000 people and under his leadership belarus has been a staunch ally of moscow but in relations of recently solid to his Security Officials accused russian mercenaries of trying to destabilize the country ahead of the elections well joining us now from minsk is roman chuck he is president of the Scientific Research center thats a think tank thank you for your time just tell us how serious is the challenge the political challenge that is facing now. Its placing the most serious challenge in just 26 years hes facing multiple disruptions crises russia economy damage and for the 1st time he has lost public support to why. Was nobody and nobody no new birth 3 months ago now shes a leading force of the opposition and she is uniting everybody who is sick and tired of looking. When analysts compare the situation there about us now to ukraine in 2014 i was reading just given here the reports that some suspected russian mercenaries have been arrested in belarus and accused of plotting to destabilize the country what do you think are the potential geo political ramifications of this election. You can hardly abolish the russian regime which is quite strong with 33 person mercenaries from russia or a representative wagner group of course look at young guys using that t