To southwest china washing away crops and homes. And the philippines businesses are closing at record rates because of the coronavirus small town. And this book by sounds all my advice for the Champions League final plus a miserable start to the postseason for the l. A. Lakers the n. B. A. Championship favorites go down to portland and their playoff opener. Which are. The European Union has held an emergency virtual me she called the crisis and bella route where there have been more than a week of protests following the disputed election and the e. U. Is considering expanded sanctions following a crackdown on protests which sort least 2 of them killed the e. U. Foreign Affairs Minister just a brow says president Alexander Lukashenko lacks democratic legitimacy before that meeting the woman who challenged in the election urged the e. U. To rejects the result he was declared the winner in a landslide missed the question has lost all the legitimacy in the eyes of the nation and the war on the. Euro. I call and you had to support that. Russia which has in the past back to look at this says it sees no need to help militarily at this time and the foreign minister said that the election wasnt run perfectly well in the ground in belarus there have been sporadic protests on wednesday but in the capital security has been heightened now well speak to nadine barber about what leaders and russia have to say about belarus but 1st lets go to state fasten whos on the ground in minsk so state security is being stepped up whats happening there. Well to give you a sense of the mood here in the minsk at the shrine where one of the protesters was killed by Police Last Week and this has turned into a rallying point for thousands of protesters in the last week well its completely empty now theres also no home king of who are answer anymore of course because that was the opposition sign that has weve been hearing for the whole week at this nothing its complete silence it seems that minsk is holding its breath breath waiting to see whats going to happen next has announced a nod or correct down he has urged and ordered the interior ministry to stop any possible unrest and also has instructed intelligence to find all the organizers of a rally so people are staying inside of course is a huge worry for repression and repercussions happening after his words also interesting lead there was an interview with an employee of a state television here in minsk she said she wasnt allowed into the building because she participated in a strike and she said that instead of her and other employees now russian professionals as she described it are now taking place having their job this also comes when there are reports about a least one russian plane arriving in ming minsk last night and also returning again to moscow which normally is used by the head of the f. S. B. To States Secret Service in moscow its not clear what moscow is doing but there is an increasing feeling here that moscow is getting involved ok so thats the situation in the capital what about the rest of the country. Yeah there are still strikes going on in another part of valor thousands of people apparently are still brave enough to go outside despite also instructions by the government to fire everyone who is on strike so they would lose their salary but despite that fact that people are still trying to keep up the mood and go on with this National Strike in the mean time theres some kind of sort of parallel government in the making so to speak theres a Coalition Council meeting as we speak to talk about a Transitional Government well look at shank is very angry he said these people are basically committing a coup detat and he said he would take all measures possible to stop them so its definitely an increased tension here and been scared and the euphoria of the last week is completely gone ok steadfast and for us there in minsk we are getting some reaction from the kremlin on that unrest in belarus and a barber is live for us in london a team on salacious from the russians. For the russians seem to be pushing back against any. Calls for them to intervene in the situation in minsk and in the of election aftermath the kremlin on wednesday is put out a statement saying that there is no need for russia to help belarus and Sergei Lavrov the foreign minister as you were saying also said theres no need for outside mediation now you heard what line a taken off. The e. U. Foreign policy chief talking about the lack of legitimacy of. A well certainly the russians believe that look at is the legitimate president of belarus even though Sergei Lavrov said that the year actions could have been run in a better way how this follows on tuesday phone calls so the president Vladimir Putin by the likes of anger merkel of germany and france is president mccaw and he has he warned both of them not to interfere in belarus is internal affairs right now e. U. Leaders are meeting virtually theyre expected to come up with a new list of names of individuals who will face economic sanctions individuals in the belarus government who or administration who took who were involved in the the running of the elections and in the response to this the street protests that weve seen but at the same time key figures in the European Union including one top commissioner have stressed that bellerose is not europe it is somewhere between europe and russia and its accepting that it is in the sphere of influence of russia this is why the main thrust of their efforts is to persuade the russian government to get involved in mediating now so get leverage has said he hopes the opposition in belarus can will be able to enter into talks with the government thats not the same as saying that they will do anything to make that happen ok i think that their life in london. Lets go to mali now where military leaders say bell helped the country transition to a new government to prepare for fresh elections you know infant was made to president abraham was forced to step down the west African Regional bloc echo osce has condemned the coup but sending a delegation to the capital bamako the Un Security Council is also expected to meet legs up for the reports. Soldiers guard the residents of malis president. In the capital bamako. Prime minister who say say detained here and choose day as rumors of a coup spread president cater appeared on state television announcing his resignation. No blood to be spilled to keep me in power and thats why i would like to thank the 1000000 people for their warmth i am telling you that im resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced the dissolution of the assembly and the governor. To block ecowas responded forcefully to the coup isolating malise from border closures suspending financial flows and called for sanctions against organizers and their supporters speaking on state television coup leaders say they are acting in the countrys best interest money and money and people of mali we are not holding on to power but we are holding on to the stability of the country which will allow us to organize within an agreed reasonable timeframe general elections to equip mali with strong institutions which are able to better manage our everyday lives and restore confidence between the government and the government. Many millions welcomed the coup crowds frustrated with the president and his government spurred the soldiers on ransacked and burned government offices. We have come out today to call for the total resignation of president cater because we heard there were shots fired by the military and we come up to help our soldiers get rid of the president what are you doing. We are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government had a lot of the soldiers began their mutiny into base on the outskirts of bamako the same base that sword 2012 uprising would open the way to katies presidency heavily armed troops willing to siena schools in a vehicle believed to be carrying the president and. Were very happy because this is a liberation for the people of mali all of these people waiting for this day all of malis people waiting for the president and his men to allow us to breathe. Ok to has faced weeks of opposition protests calling for his departure of the disputed parliamentary elections earlier this year much of the country is already outside the control of the government struggled to contain an armed insurgency thats claimed thousands of lives for al jazeera. Well mali has struggled for stability since its independence from france a 960 when it became a one Party Socialist state and the president said he was ousted a coup within 8 years by a lieutenant musette who himself was pushed from power by the military in 1991 multiparty polls were held a year later making alpha canady mollies 1st democratically elected president the elections in 2002 won by amadou Toumani Toure a by allegations of widespread fraud he was forced out of the coup in 2012 that same year to read rebel seized control of northern mali and declared their own state with other are groups French Military intervention in 2013 helped to recapture major towns but ongoing violence and instability would eventually be a major factor in the coup against the most recent president abraham because well its big now too so j and by mccall he is a member of the Strategic Committee of the Opposition Coalition known as the m 5 r. F. E. Thank you for your time what contact if you had with military leaders about what happens next. Thanks for having me we have a meeting this morning and some of. The military men who send some or some of their member of those who to me thats. Meeting them tomorrow or more we havent. Yet. Decided except and. Then either tomorrow or ok how much did the opposition know about this coup before it happened given any sort of advance warning. No not at all i mean we heard it like everybody else on t. V. And if you station and im not saying that it would be any more or not anywhere close to this to them or to anybody else from the very beginning been very quickly we want the president who is signed his freedom of practically so were not we didnt take part in this and were not involved we learn of it on t. V. Like everybody else do you think that these military leaders will keep their word that they dont want military rule that theyre going to look ahead to elections at this point so i dont think they have a choice you know hes a Popular Movement that started a few months ago and for about 2 months now been out every 2 weeks out some sort of president who is on a new Management Team and so every time i go out there are tens of thousands of people on the streets im not sure limited people who are not on the streets again yesterday in their words that they did invite us to join them join them whether that means you know we have our own ideas about how things should be run so its too early for us to say whether they were expect there was or not but i think of people that were quite just like what the previous regime to make sure that poverty and bad governance would be a good thing the peaceful do you think that this is going to pave the way to address some of the protest is why the demands addressing in security the economy some of those began more systemic issues. Well you have the question the Big Questions are in our movement we got together because we made a decision that bad governance and us taken some some very dangerous steps and as youve said lots about it percent of our land and we only now have 20 Percent Security that where people are not afraid to go in and out so some of the issues that we talk about are also issues that well raise so we are confident that will be working on some of the issues but the main Sticking Point would be the role of the military in this with all of the democratic government and will keep doing so and to discuss with them what roles i would like to play games so when you go into these meetings with military leaders what will you be hoping to get out of it what will the Opposition Coalition be hoping to achieve we we are having our such a new Committee Meeting this afternoon so its too early for me to express myself on it because we havent talked about the different talking points we will be having with them but one things for sure what he wants Good Governance what we want is the fight against corruption what we want in the end the and what we want is to make sure that the resources of this country dont have a lot of resources but that. Might be used i reviewed it were t. And they mean a better life product citizen but that would be fighting to the end and i think they know about ok thank you for your time so its ok their member of the Strategic Committee of the Opposition Coalition regular. But more ahead on the news all including. The man to take on trumps joe biden is formally confirmed as the democratic candidate in the race for the white house. And we wont be seeing one of cyclings most illustrious styles at the most prestigious race of the year details coming up in sports. In nigeria the obdurate book has launched an attack on kuko a town thats in borno state there are reports of kidnapping looting and also and lets talk now to aljazeera and interests who is following the story from the capital well what can you tell us. Well what. Locals or another witnesses are talking about now is that broke out on fighters in at least 20 because raided the town remember. Where such bible koran most of its residents fled to the capital and other safer towers to live for years and until recently they have been in refugee camps or internally displaced persons camp and these were the i. D. P. s who returned home recently just a few weeks ago the attack happened Late Afternoon and they were like you said reports of shootings many people have been injured and many also have been killed but we dont have exactly the number of casualties locals are also talking about a many people missing at least more than a dozen women and goals were setup been taken away by the fighters but this is not confirmed yet with no state official statement from the army or the local civilian authorities in that region would recently weve seen how book has been operating in not only in nigeria but also across the border incoming rule and in charge and the basic thing to note in these attacks is the looting of food stuff probably theyre trying to stock up on depleted food stuff that they have and also such in raids on military positions to capture some arms and ammunition to prosecute there to continue to prosecute their fight. About interest there live for us thank you. The u. N. Says its ability to tackle the worlds worst humanitarian crisis in yemen has been badly hit by a lack of funding it says the shortfall has forced it to close or cut back hoff of its major aid programs they include efforts to prevent large scale famine and fight a cholera epidemic and aid conference in june raised just half of the 2400000000. 00 needed to cover operations until the end of the year. The Bloomberg News agency is reporting that a twitter breach 5 years ago is connected to the arrests of numerous saudi nationals who were critical of the government through twitter employees allegedly hacked thousands of accounts while acting as spies for saudi arabia the information was then reportedly used to harass or arrest critical voices the Arabic Network for human rights information says the timing of the twitter breach and the arrests indicate they are links libyas warlord holi for half hour has lifted a blockade on Oil Production that will allow the un recognized government to resume exports for the 1st time in several months from tripoli like trainer explains. On tuesday night the head of the Petroleum Facility guards under house arrest forces said that they will reopen the oil the oil closures will have to forces have been carried out since january according to the National Oil Corporation here in libya that has resulted in a financial loss of over 8000000000. 00 to the government now oil is the is the primary source of income to the government here thats how they pay the salaries for Government Employees and thats how they subsidize goods so its really important to the libyan economy also the oil closures that have have caused a lot of a lack of electricity or a lack of supply to the power stations of the national or Corporation Says that the power because our result of the lack of gas and diesel go. Feeding the power stations so so whether or not this is a permanent reopening of the oil is yet to be seen house or forces have in the past opened the oil but then again soon after close they put in conditions such as that the the revenue coming into libya will will go into a foreign account that that will that will be divided into both governments but whether or not this is a permanent reopening of oil is yet to be seen. And judge in lebanon has awarded several arrests over the explosion in beirut the blast killed more than 200. 00 people left of the city in ruins 30 of this month 25 people in total of facing challenges but many are calling for more accountability and one of a. Inconsolable the families of firefighters killed in the beirut port explosion say their goodbyes. They were among the 1st responders as the disaster unfolded 2 weeks on there are still more questions than answers on what caused the blast that destroyed lives in many areas of the lebanese capital which i dont most when they arrived they saw the whole of the smoke and they thought they needed more help from the Fire Departm